@divegeester said
Well they are, in their thousands every week.

That a EU country has opened their boarders, refused them asylum and turns a blind eye to them travelling across more borders is another failure of the EU.

It’s going to lead to bloodshed.

Is that much the same as refugees leaving Britain to go to Ireland, then?

@divegeester said
What is your holy EU doing about it?

Just because the EU is less corrupt than the UK, does not make it holy.

@torunn said
I think it's all about disagreeing and arguing - a lot of posts saying nothing really.

I disagree.

@kellyjay said
The point of acknowledging design doesn't prove God, it proves design over a mindless process nothing more. God can only be known when we seek God and God calls, but even there we can suppress God's call, just as we can suppress evidence by refusing to acknowledge what we see to avoid philosophical ramifications evidence points to.

You managed to miss my point entirely.

My point is that you cannot prove God OR "intelligent design" and that is BY design.

You seem determined to prove design and then ask why people don't have faith.

If something is proven, then it is fact. One cannot believe a fact by faith. It is, or it isn't. No faith involved. You want your cake, and to eat it, too.

@kellyjay said
Highly improbable is a grandiose understatement when it comes to both the universe and life, when you see the number of things that "ALL" had to fall into place simultaneously at the origin of the universe, then just as improbable maintain that delicate balance from the on set. Making each instant where it is maintained a miracle of balance and precision, knowing what we kno ...[text shortened]... ke the ramifications of something being true is not an evidential choice, it is a physiological one.

How do you think Creation happened? In six 24 hour days by God just "poof"ing things into existence, fully formed? Or perhaps there was a creation process whereby the universe slowly built up over time, guided slowly and carefully by the hand of God?

You're always attacking evolution. How do you know evolution wasn't God's method for creating all life?

You creationists always give God incredibly short shrift. He can do anything, but you reduce him to a parlor magician.

@drewnogal said
You’re asking me if I mind that PT’s fanbase is thumbing me down; a fanbase that approves of his hypocrisy and self perceived righteousness? Well I don’t.

A loud ringing in my ears woke me up at an ungodly hour.

I hear you! And if I were to speak as the misogynist divegeester does, using his words, I would say that you are talking like an "old woman."

On the other hand, speaking for myself, I would just say that you are speaking foolishly. Foolishness is not gender-specific, although age can have a bearing on it.

If there is any righteousness in me, it's only the realization that we are all hypocrites, more or less, and we live in a world full of hypocrisy. The problem is that many will not admit their own, and merely point the finger at others. It's impossible for anyone to point out others' hypocrisy and unrighteousness without being those very things oneself. It's just impossible.

Thumbs are specific fingers, as it need not be the index finger to make a point, and any finger will do, as the situation warrants.

At a cost to myself and to my image, I only point out those I care for and love. I must love the world, more or less, since are all full of it, more or less.

If you are an old woman, you probably liked this song a lot more than you "like" me.

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@averagejoe1 said
Z just exemplifies how beautiful it is that THEY are bringing THERE HERE. wonder what his point is. He may know something that we don’t.
Why do they like HERE so much. I know of no person who plans to travel to, or, god forbid, Live In, Romania.
Anybody here got an object in their house from Romania? Hey Z, is your place cluttered with Made In The USA? (Too many emojis for that…….)

I've been to Romania. I gave a lecture in the opera house in Iasi years ago.

Funny thing - they translated all my slides into Romanian without telling me, so they came up on the screen and I was like, "Uhhh... I think this says..."

So yes, I have a knick-knack or two. Interesting place.

"This morning, Time magazine published a cover story by Eric Cortellessa about what Trump is planning for a second term. Based on two interviews with Trump and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisors, the story lays out Trump’s conviction that he was “too nice” in his first term and that he would not make such a mistake again.

Cortellessa writes that Trump intends to establish “an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world.”

He plans to use the military to round up, put in camps, and deport more than 11 million people. He is willing to permit Republican-dominated states to monitor pregnancies and prosecute people who violate abortion bans. He will shape the laws by refusing to release funds appropriated by Congress (as he did in 2019 to try to get Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to smear Hunter Biden). He would like to bring the Department of Justice under his own control, pardoning those convicted of attacking the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and ending the U.S. system of an independent judiciary. In a second Trump presidency, the U.S. might not come to the aid of a European or Asian ally that Trump thinks isn’t paying enough for its own defense. Trump would, Cortelessa wrote, “gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.”"
Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-30-2024
Notes:

https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/just-security-clearinghouse-manhattan-da-trial-motion-for-contempt-order-april-30-2024.pdf

https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/trump-hush-money-trial/trump-removes-all-9-social-posts-cited-by-judge-109798916?id=109760957

https://time.com/6972022/donald-trump-transcript-2024-election/

https://time.com/6972024/donald-trump-fact-check-2024-election-interview/

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-courts-secrecy-lobbyist/powell-memo.pdf

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bothsidesing-bothsidesism-new-words-were-watching

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-quietly-deletes-hunter-biden-mock-trial-special-following-lawsuit-threat

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/04/30/a-proclamation-on-law-day-u-s-a-2024/

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@Mott-The-Hoople
Oh? It's a lie Trump said he would be a dictator on day one?
Trump didn't say ingest bleach, kills covid in minutes?
Trump didn't talk about our colonial soldiers protecting the airports?
You just categorize anything democrats do as bad and anything Trumpites do as golden.

@AverageJoe1
I want an end to the idea of republicans starting coup's again. I want fair and uncontested elections. I want people to be treated equal in education, housing, employment and medical issues. I guess that puts me out on the fringes of society in this fukked up century.

@AverageJoe1
OMG, MIXING CULTURES? HANG THOSE SOB'S. We want only WHITE American values, FUK those subhumans taking over our American jobs.
Of course there is the pesky problem that American students are way behind and that leads to America losing ground in the world of science and technology that drives advancement but hey, no bid deal right? Who needs all that stupid education anyway?

@Cliff-Mashburn
Of course. You will do FINE in the upcoming dictatorship and the end of democracy here in the US. Just suck up to your god, you will be one of those dishing out revenge and nobody has to worry about that pesky policy thing.

@AverageJoe1
You get more fringe by the hour. Tell me how the NY trial of your god is going, way too corrupt, right?

@averagejoe1 said
Is it OK if we do? The posts of liberals on the RHP Forum appear to not think so. What is their underlying theme of posts?

It would be weird if it were the same dream, eh?

@very-rusty said
moon,
I am trying to mellow out, now don't get me stirred up! 😛 🙂

-VR

OK, Rusty. Now mellow out, or I'll break your arm !