been lurking since early this year.
there are many of us out there (at least in this area, central u.s.) who are waking up and crossing the line to talk to each other about it.
in our area, several elders, ministerial servants and pioneers are actively and openly sharing info with each other daily.
Welcome to the forum de-opresso-liber. It's great to hear you and your wife have both made your escape.
In our area, several elders, ministerial servants and pioneers are actively and openly sharing info with each other daily.
That is really encouraging to hear. Best wishes.
harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.
we should all be committed to his success.
prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....
Sam Harris has denounced Trump over and over again in recent months. His criticism of Trump has been devastating and unrelenting. But on the one single issue of an awareness of the existential threat posed by Islam he has credited Trump for being more alert and honest than Clinton.
harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.
we should all be committed to his success.
prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....
The trouble with Harris is when he attempts to extend and smear Muslims in general and paint the whole religion as essentially evil
This from a man who claims to have read a great deal of Harris' work. Did you entirely miss the book he co-authored with Maajid Nawaz?
Islam is essentially evil. Individual Muslims who accept the humanist principles of freedom and democracy do so despite their religion.
harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.
we should all be committed to his success.
prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....
it is simply saying that Trump supporters act in the same way as those they criticize...
Indeed.
Authoritarianism on the right and the left.
If I am not mistaken Orwell's 1984 was a warning about the leftist version.
has anyone found any religion that makes more sense than the watchtower organization?
obviously catholics make even less sense than them so don't say that.... the reason i ask is because i still believe the bible is the word of god, but just that the jw's have twisted it for their own benefit, as most religions seem to do....
The reason I ask is because I still believe the bible is the Word of God
Why?
harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.
we should all be committed to his success.
prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....
Fuck you regressives. You got greedy. You messed it all up. Trump, and everything he does, is all your fault - Simon
I think there is a basic problem of supply and demand.
A whole generation of young liberals have grown up learning about the evils of racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia etc. Excellent! However the victories of the previous generation seem to have escaped their attention. There is a dearth of genuine social justice battles to be fought so they invent new ones. "Micro-aggressions" have been elevated to a level of moral atrocity equivalent to Jim Crow Laws of the '50s. Social Justice is the new secular religion with all of the irrational ideologies of a cult.
The Regressive Left have been indoctrinated with the ideology of moral relativism and equality: not equality of opportunity but equality of outcome. The algorithm is simple.
1 - Identify a field of human activity
2 - Observe that some people are doing better than others in this specific area
3 - Identify those doing less well as victims
4 - Label those doing better as over-privileged perpetrators
The majority have had enough of the whining. Some cultures are superior: vastly superior. There are significant biological differences between the sexes. Some belief systems are incompatible with human progress. Mass immigration is damaging to society.
Trump is what you get when you try to force the majority to suppress their common sense and believe impossible things.
harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.
we should all be committed to his success.
prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....
In the podcast Sam Harris compares the situation to a passenger taking control of an aeroplane after the death of the pilot. The vital thing is who the pilot is talking to in the control tower and whether he is taking good instructions.
It appears that Trump is determined to people as ignorant as himself.
harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.
we should all be committed to his success.
prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....
VI - Read the source. Harris is not discussing the practical details of international warfare. He is commenting on the dreadful fact that Mutually Assured Destruction is worthless if your enemy longs for paradise.
harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.
we should all be committed to his success.
prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....
He says using nuclear bombs on Arab civilians may be necessary,
Harris explored the hypothetical situation where an Islamic state obtained long-range nuclear weapons.
"What will we do if an Islamist regime, which grows dewy-eyed at the mere mention of paradise, ever acquires long-range nuclear weaponry? ... the only thing likely to ensure our survival may be a nuclear first strike of our own. Needless to say, this would be an unthinkable crime—as it would kill tens of millions of innocent civilians in a single day—but it may be the only course of action available to us, given what Islamists believe."
The terrifying logic is flawless. ISIS with an ICBM would have to be eliminated with a first strike. The consequences are appalling. That is the fault of Islam. It is an evil ideology.
harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.
we should all be committed to his success.
prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....
When people argue Islam is an especially evil religion they often point to verses in the Koran that promote killing non-believers or sexism or homophobia. But what about the Bible verses that do the same?
The bible is an evil book. Parts of the OT are worse than the quran
That's different they say because Christians don't take those verses seriously. Yet history shows they did
Yes.
and some still do.
Really? Can you think of a country where christian apostates are executed, or homosexuals are imprisoned or killed?
And on the other side you have devout Muslims whose religion moves them to peace and tolerance.
Yes, mostly Muslims who have never read the quran and hadith in their own language.
So if isn't the text and it isn't the bahaviour that sets Islam apart, what is it but pure bigotry?
It is the text and the behaviour. Read the stats on Muslims in the west who want to impose sharia law. The percentage who approve of killing apostates. The majority who treat their wives and daughters as possessions or who view non-Muslims as kafir.
Can you think of a Muslim majority country where you would want to take your wife, daughters and gay son to enjoy a better life? It is an especially evil religion.
