Walking back was a poor way of saying it.
#11 | Posted by BellRinger

Just admit that, on some level, words mean nothing to you, nor being held accountable for them.

I haven't heard her name for a long time, and I feel worse hearing it now.

Just her name. What an irritating human.

I think she reminds me of too much of a wing of my family. The irritating ones.

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I've seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers once. My sole memory is a closing shot of a zombie running a floor waxer. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth.

Kinda like the DR sometimes.

Same type of dreck that goes through people's medicine cabinets at parties.

Oops. My bad. The Rodman factor.

She has been said to be the driving force behind the development of her brother's cult of personality, modeled after that of their grandfather, Kim Il Sung. Thae Yong-ho, a North Korean defector and former diplomat, said in 2017 that Kim Yo Jong organized all major public events in North Korea. She was said to have encouraged her brother to present an image of a "man of the people" with, for example, rides on fairground attractions and his friendship with basketball star Dennis Rodman.

his "very good relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

I'd like to put Trump in negotiations with Kim's sister, about whom there is not even agreement on her birthyear.

Long after the initial infection, the child becomes clumsy and forgetful, then experiences headaches, fevers and seizures, loses motor control and finally becomes bedridden and dies.

Other than that, Mom, how was the birthday party?

Doesn't discuss manuscripts that came in, were never published, and maybe the authors received a visit or two during the mid-60s.

Well, Amazon started out in the business of trying to put booksellers out of business. Might as well cut out the warehousing now that people are the product.

For books that will end up being rare, authors can always publish their diatribe on the "Create Space Publishing Platform" or whatever they call it now.

I cannot imagine vanity publishing now where no human is involved.

Then again, there was the Vantage Press of NYC, which I'd always heard was a CIA front for bizarre manifestos, but AI has been programmed to ensure me I am wrong about that.

There is no evidence that Vantage Press was a CIA outlet or a front for intelligence operations. Instead, it operated as a traditional "vanity press" -- a commercial publishing house where authors paid the company out of pocket to edit, print, and bind their books.

More: Declassified CIA reading room archives contain copies or reviews of books printed by various independent publishers, including Vantage Press, simply because those books touched on historical or geopolitical topics relevant to intelligence history.

Uh-huh.

It's the New World Order.

1. Everybody else.
2. The United States.

"If he's used it elsewhere."
"evangelical"

damn

Pointyhead.

Sorry, wrong Caputo. I'm always messing up the name. John Caputo.

Using "White Christian Nationalist" as a catch-all label is like claiming that two or three initials can adequately define an entire segment of America.
As if people who are Nationalist are all white or all Christian.

BillJ

"White Christian Nationalist" is not a catch-all label. It describes people who are white and evengelical/fundamentalist Christian and nationalist in the way that they want to impose their lifestyle upon everyone else. Hardly a free approach to the USA, speaking of three initials that used to work.

What do you think of the Seven Mountain Mandate, Bill? Thumbs up or down?

169. Okay, but [Pascal's wager is] not faith.

To me it is. It's faith that the higher power that seems to be hardwired into human consciousness and that is something I discount is a correct belief, for me. I can't see that absence but I feel it and believe it, which is faith, no?

And it's an abdication of moral responsibility. It's the same mentality as the only reason I don't murder people is murderers go to hell. It's just packaged better.

Nonsense. It's complete acceptance of moral responsibility, with the knowledge that might not mean squat to anyone ever anywhere. It's doing the right thing for no other reason at all. I've referred to my problems over the last year. My Millennials had to tell me, often and repeatedly, "Dad, this isn't the world you grew up in. Things don't always work out for everyone who do things the right way. And justice isn't on your side anymore, even though you're white and older."

My take on faith, religious belief, what have you: If it gets you through the day and it doesn't harm anyone else, more power to ya.

Of course.

My comment on panentheism was a bit off base. I just finished a book by US philosopher Peter Caputo, and he uses a phrase that I'd like to repeat here, but if he's not used it elsewhere, I'm screwed. As close as I can get:

The universe is a movie that runs without a reason. I'll add, and not necessarily in one direction.