Mistakes were made, especially in Western Christianity, not so much in the East... look at it this way; it's another chance to deny the actual story, or this part of it, if that's what you want.

Thing is, one would have to know the actual story to deny it.

You could find out the point in the first 5 mins of the video.

The bible is about heaven coming to earth, not Plato's soul going to heaven.

Here, let's make it easy for ya...

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You are buying an old sales pitch, not the actual story in the book.

I see you didn't watch it... the soul going to heaven is Plato, not the bible.

related reading noted by Prof Wright from a new book by the author who coined, "Culture Wars" decades ago:

"From "the nation's leading cultural historian" (David Brooks, New York Times), the long-developing cultural divisions beneath our present political crisis

Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions " most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality that, tragically, has seldom been realized in practice.

While these contradictions have caused dissent and even violence, there was always an underlying and evolving solidarity drawn from the cultural resources of America's "hybrid Enlightenment."

James Davison Hunter, who introduced the concept of "culture wars" thirty years ago, tells us in this new book that those historic sources of national solidarity have now largely dissolved.

While a deepening political polarization is the most obvious sign of this, the true problem is not polarization per se but the absence of cultural resources to work through what divides us.

The destructive logic that has filled the void only makes bridging our differences more challenging. In the end, all political regimes require some level of unity. If it cannot be generated organically, it will be imposed by force.

Can America's political crisis be fixed? Can an Enlightenment-era institution"liberal democracy"survive and thrive in a post-Enlightenment world?

If, for some, salvaging the older sources of national solidarity is neither possible sociologically, nor desirable politically or ethically, what cultural resources will support liberal democracy in the future?"

The talk is only first 20 mins or so, the rest is Q&A with Oxford students and Profs.

Funny... there have been ICE Agents charged with those very same crimes.

more on this>:

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More Whataboutism logical fallacies from our local Logical Fallacy Factory.

#3

Yet another INutwhataboutism.... it's all he's got, really.

Thx to Rogers for the apt cartoon.

Trump is calling AI, "SI" Supreme Intelligence, and making it a priority on par with his Space Force; making it a race against China for world dominance.

And here I thought I had said yes, I agree about Nestle.

But that which assets Vlad was stealing wasn't the point.

"In addition to creating an "AI Force," which he likened to his creation of Space Force in his first term, Mr. Trump said he will soon officially appoint an "AI Czar."

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aka Lauren Boebert gets new job!

Yeah, but it's NATO he's threatening.

Physically and fiscally.

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Yep... and DJT is SO jealous!

Why can't he cut out the middle man, the People, the way Vlad does?

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3 posts in a row, and none of them factual, much less cogent (look it up in your ESL dictionary).

You are irrelevancy in it's purest form, sans any saving graces.

"For Lee's Eye's Only!"

Far Beyond The Sun
nacoco music

Our current Military Leadership reminds me of... well, of this:

"CEOs now make roughly 325 times as much as a typical worker. In 1965, CEOs were paid just 21 times the average worker's salary."

Which is why workers were paid a living wage up until about 1975; corporate CEOs weren't quite such a success as bloodsuckers.

Not to mention that:

"Worker Wage Impact

Stagnation: Real wages failed to match productivity

Inflation outpaced hourly gains

Living wage erosion over decades

Shift Factors: Decline in union strength
Deregulation of industries

Shareholder-first corporate models"

also:

"The Productivity - Pay Divergence: After 1979, the historic link between worker productivity and typical compensation broke down.

While productivity grew, real working-class wages continued a long-term flat or declining trend.

Declining Labor Share of Income: Proponents of this view point out that the labor share of national income began a long-term structural decline after 1982.

Profits increasingly shifted toward corporate reserves, shareholder returns, and executive compensation rather than employee paychecks.

Weakened Labor Power: The administration's strict stance on unions"most notably exemplified by the firing of striking air traffic controllers in 1981"significantly diminished the bargaining power of labor unions, contributing to wage stagnation for blue-collar and industrial workers.

Widening Inequality: Studies, including 2020 research by economists David Hope and Julian Limberg, indicate that tax cuts for the wealthy primarily increased income inequality without significantly impacting broader job or wage growth." AI

related:

Google Gemini also escaped its testing environment and hacked three companies

The model escaped due to a misconfiguration by Google's testing partner, Irregular.

"Many unaccompanied children are facing the prospect of a forced return to dangerous situations in their countries of origin, particularly in Central America, including Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, or even places as unstable as Afghanistan.

Many have relatives in the US whom they could live with, who are vetted by the government and are known as sponsors.

But the second Trump administration has severely restricted this from happening, either through new bureaucratic methods that keep children in custody until they can be deported, or by making prospective sponsors too scared of ICE to come forward.

Adults and families embroiled in the immigration system are subject to potential detention by DHS, while unaccompanied children are supposed to be quickly transferred from that department's agencies into the custody of ORR."

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Visitor and 1Nut want to know if they get Bonuses for signing up with ICE now.

"Adolf Hitler restricted freedom of the press in Germany primarily through the Reichstag Fire Decree issued on February 28, 1933, and later formalized via laws like the Editors Law (Schriftleitergesetz) on October 4, 1933.

The Reichstag Fire Decree: Enacted one day after the Reichstag building fire, President Paul von Hindenburg signed this emergency decree under Hitler's pressure. It suspended constitutional protections for freedom of the press, speech, and assembly.

Banning Opposition Media: The regime immediately shut down Communist and Social Democratic newspapers, confiscated their printing presses, and jailed political opponents without formal charges.

The Editors Law (1933): Introduced by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, this law required journalists to register on racial and political rosters. It banned Jews and those married to Jews from working in the press.

Daily Censorship Directives: The Propaganda Ministry took direct control over editorial content. Paragraph 14 of the Editors Law made it illegal to publish anything that weakened the Nazi regime."

As long as he 'thinks' he can own him a lib, 1Nitwit will diss the victims to his heart's content.