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Free Speech
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I think the issue of free speech is fairly clear cut.
We need a marketplace of ideas. Only when people can challenge the beliefs of peers and government can any form of representative government wo... |
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ElectionsRon Paul for President
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This thread is open to all points for and against this candidate and any other you may feel is better or worse than Paul.
There is slander and misinformation abound about this candidate and I would... |
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Oliver Brave
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Mr McAllister was a sallow, grim looking man. He was of average height, a thin build, and had a penchant for brown tweed suits and high socks pulled up over black polished shoes. His thin, greying hai... |
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ChristianityCellphone VS Bible
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What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
Then you wouldn't have room for anything useful.
What if we flipped through it several time a day?
Then you would get constant rem... |
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Free Speech
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I am not sure I am understanding your point?
the very thing which we are discussing: free speech and the want to be heard.
I see Free Speech coming from our more primitive culture, I was watching th... |
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StoriesChronicles from the Gutter.
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Attempting to find ultimacy to Gods existence or its inexistence is similar to a dog running around its tail, a merry-go-round to nowhere.
There's always going to be something refuting it and shakin... |
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PoetryEchoes
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Abuse
Sickness
Causes silence
Causes violence
Causes
"Its not, its not true."
I've come to
See
That I can feel it
In my blood
And in my youth
Prick, ow
My life.... |
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Can't we just hold it?
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Can't we just hold it?
Accept or reject are not the only options one has. The most important and generally overlooked, especially by the young, is the option to 'hold'.
It appears to me that m... |
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Rant OnRANT ON ABOUT ANYTHING!!!!
124 Posts • 33433 Views
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Behold, It is now eight-thirty at night, and I have nothing better to do than sit here at my keyboard and tap away at these little annoying keys. I have decided to vent my anger today in the form of a... |
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ConspiracyTom Coburn and The Franklin Cover Up
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I heard about that grand standing - how sickening *yuck*
Maybe I'm reaching. But McVey went to the Gulf during the golf war and earned an Army Aichiement award. They don't give those thi... |
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Life & DeathTips and Tricks of Life?
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Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
-Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's 13 Virtues
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but... |
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GovernmentWhat has the US become?
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Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-2002
"People demand free... |
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Religion & HumanityReligious views: are they really a reason for argument?
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I went to bed early last night so about 1:30 AM, I woke from a dream . . . rather a nightmare?
Strange stuff the elements of a dream. Some how I found myself some where? I didn't know how I came... |
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Just A Few Thoughts About War
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"The Price of Honor"
The warm sunlight comes streaming down
Above the final resting place
Of the dead soldiers whose renown
Could not be given to them face to face.
They lie there i... |
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FuturologyRevolutionary path to Enlightenment
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Revolution
Revolt for Change. Revolutions happen in our world, proven throughout our history. We revolt against many things, which effect people. The revolution I speak for is a change in our cons... |
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SocietyBoycott GE
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Contact GE and let them know your intention:
https://www.ge.c om/contact/contact_form.html
I am outraged that your Network NBC has refused to let Kucinich in the Las Vegas presidential debate. I... |
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Tear me apart
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Perhaps this thread should be called...
Put me back together.
As it seems the tearing has been done.
I didn't see the brilliance of the thread as Decius did, perhaps due to my own lack o... |
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BooksBook dissection
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My favorite paragraph from G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy:
"Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. And as I close this chaotic volume I ope... |
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GovernmentCould Bush Be Right? (part 2)
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http://service.spiegel.de/cach e/international/0,1518,343720, 00.html
Der Spiegel, a far-leftwing German newspaper, had to acknowledge the difference between Bush's reaction to Putin's anti... |
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My Visit with the Madman and the Hermit
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One day I came to a grassy glade near a flowing stream with a small cottage in the clearing. And upon a bench near the cottage sat two men: a madman and a hermit. I sat down beside them and the madman... |
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Vegetarian or No?
58 Posts • 13734 Views
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Just popped my head around the corner to see if the wounded beast/giant was still snarling and spitting teeth…
(They say hell hath no wrath as a woman scorned, but I think this beastie proves t... |
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BuddhismThe Dala Lama
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According the latest issue of Ode magazine, The Dala Lama is the most admired person in the world, and guess what, he doesn't have a web site, but I did find this, his message for 2005.
1. Ta... |
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God in ReligionProving God Existence
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Im pretty sure that entanglement theory is finding that a particle can exist in two places at once.
http://library.thinkquest.org/ C005775/Observations/particle. html
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Sex & Lawsex age
27 Posts • 16308 Views
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In our area (concerning sex education) its the government - parents don't much get involved.
This may not be the palce - but here it goes:
The Bush Way or The American Way
My mother alwa... |
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Poetry*Smiles with in Solitude*
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I've lost her.
No death involved; no ending of time.
She was taken from me; I was five at the time.
A dark figure, from the shadows arose.
Without warning I lost her, I've never felt so alone.... |
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