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Swamy Maximus
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 Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject: I'm New Here. What an Awesome Site!
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This place is great! I discovered it over at Infidels.org last night.
Many of the books here I've read, so I know I share much in common with many of you.
What I don't share in common-- as is the case over at infidels-- is a veneration of left-wing political ideologies.
I look forward to dialogue here.
--Swamy Maximus |
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Chris OConnor 
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Mr. Pessimistic
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: I'm New Here. What an Awesome Site!
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Chris:
Are you really proud of Bush? Even a true conservative, what Bush is not, should be concerned with him...not to mention an atheist and freethinker.
Mr. P.
P.S. You guys brought it up. The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.
The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"
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Chris OConnor
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: I'm New Here. What an Awesome Site!
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| We should probably not debate this in his thread - unless he opts to. No, I'm not happy with Bush, but I do get sick of the Bush-Bashing. |
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Swamy Maximus
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject: Re: I'm New Here. What an Awesome Site!
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Chris, I share your exact sentiments, right on down to being unhappy with Bush. We sound like kindred spirits.
I've read almost everything from Pinker, Bloom, Riddley, Shermer, and Harris. Those are just the ones I saw that were on here last night as I was looking around.
I don't want to turn this into a political thread. How naive of me to think it would turn out otherwise.
I will make a seperate thread sometime in the near future about the marriage of the rational (i.e.,science, atheism, and academia in general) with the irrational (i.e., hysteria and knee-jerk left-wing fundementalism). |
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Mr. Pessimistic
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject: Re: I'm New Here. What an Awesome Site!
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Knee jerk left-wing huh...nothing about knee jerk right-wing...
Sad.
Mr. P. The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.
The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"
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Swamy Maximus
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: I'm New Here. What an Awesome Site!
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"Knee jerk left-wing huh...nothing about knee jerk right-wing..."
Perhaps you forgot the said context-- atheism, science, and academia. No, there isn't much knee-jerk, right wing hysteria in those areas.
You honestly disagree with that? |
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Swamy Maximus
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject: Re: I'm New Here. What an Awesome Site!
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"But I do not see much knee-jerking...just honest concern."
Here's where we differ. I see hysteria all over the place: Theocracy, environmentalsim, conspiracies re Rove and Bush, anti-Americanism, etc. Infidels is full of Marxists, for example. THAT'S radical.
"BTW...WELCOME!!! I just jumped in to the fray without saying hi!"
Thanks, and no problem.
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As a registered Republican I'm a bit more than frustrated with the concentration of liberals in the freethinker world. Every conversation seems to involve bashing Bush - no matter what the topic.
