From: Dudley Hanks on

"LOL!" <lol(a)lol.org> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:27:04 GMT, "Dudley Hanks"
> <dhanks(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>>I'd be more likely to believe a government source... ;)
>
> Brainwashed: 101
>
> LOL!!!!!!
>

Government = brain washing...

Quoted from: "Logic Made Easy," LOL, 2010, Catchemnapping Press
Unlimited...

Take Care,
Dudley


From: krishnananda on
In article <xaPTn.7373$Z6.2057(a)edtnps82>,
"Dudley Hanks" <dhanks(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote:

> "tony cooper" <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:54fv16tt82anrmuhdm8i7ban52hiop6ol6(a)4ax.com...
> > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:58:45 -0500, Jane Galt <Jane_G(a)gulch.xyz>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>Well I guess the camera thread here is officially over, co-opted by smears
> >>from the far left loons.
> >
> > Interesting take. Addressing those that don't agree with your
> > position as "Comrade", "Serviles", "Marxist", "Pathetic idiot", and
> > "loons" isn't a smear, hunh?
> >
> > However, you are correct. The camera portion of the thread is
> > officially over. Feel free to leave the building.
> >
> > --
> > Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
>
> It's all good fun till somebody gets hurt, then it's a sport...
>
> Take Care,
> Dudley

Neo-Platonists like our esteemed Ayn Rand devotee always crack me up.
They are so sure that they are the absolute cream of the intellectual
crop that they deserve to be the philosopher-kings dictating proper
behavior to the little people.

They seem to base their entire worldview on a few really poorly-written
romance novels written by a Russian immigrant (!). Everyone else is to
be spat upon, disdained, called epithets like "Communist", and generally
derided for daring to voice an opinion different from theirs. So much
for their cynical championship of individual achievement.

For that is the crux of these Neo-Platonists: by their own definition
everything they say is the absolute truth and everything anyone else
says is laughable. Disagreeing with them is tantamount to mental
retardation, treason, nazism, communism, or worst of all: small "D"
democratic.

And it all comes down to these lousy romance novels like Atlas Shrugged.
Neo-Platonists seem to regard these texts as fundamentalist Christians
view the bible or fundamentalist Muslims regard the Qur'an: every word
is true and applies to the entire population of the world, whatever
their opinion. Once you have heard the "Good News" of Libertarianism you
have the obligation to believe it wholeheartedly.

I knew a guy in high school, long ago, who's parents named him "Roark"
because their last name was "Howard". Roark was a really nice guy and
didn't deserve to be burdened whth that name.

Of course now, in the "Tea Party" we have [Ayn] Rand Paul, who seems to
live up to his name pretty well.

Ironically, Neo-Platonists hew to their invented utopia stronger than
any good and proper Stalinist ever did.
From: Dudley Hanks on

"krishnananda" <krishna(a)divine-life.in.invalid> wrote in message
news:krishna-902547.21505921062010(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> In article <xaPTn.7373$Z6.2057(a)edtnps82>,
> "Dudley Hanks" <dhanks(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote:
>
>> "tony cooper" <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
>> news:54fv16tt82anrmuhdm8i7ban52hiop6ol6(a)4ax.com...
>> > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:58:45 -0500, Jane Galt <Jane_G(a)gulch.xyz>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>Well I guess the camera thread here is officially over, co-opted by
>> >>smears
>> >>from the far left loons.
>> >
>> > Interesting take. Addressing those that don't agree with your
>> > position as "Comrade", "Serviles", "Marxist", "Pathetic idiot", and
>> > "loons" isn't a smear, hunh?
>> >
>> > However, you are correct. The camera portion of the thread is
>> > officially over. Feel free to leave the building.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
>>
>> It's all good fun till somebody gets hurt, then it's a sport...
>>
>> Take Care,
>> Dudley
>
> Neo-Platonists like our esteemed Ayn Rand devotee always crack me up.
> They are so sure that they are the absolute cream of the intellectual
> crop that they deserve to be the philosopher-kings dictating proper
> behavior to the little people.
>
> They seem to base their entire worldview on a few really poorly-written
> romance novels written by a Russian immigrant (!). Everyone else is to
> be spat upon, disdained, called epithets like "Communist", and generally
> derided for daring to voice an opinion different from theirs. So much
> for their cynical championship of individual achievement.
>
> For that is the crux of these Neo-Platonists: by their own definition
> everything they say is the absolute truth and everything anyone else
> says is laughable. Disagreeing with them is tantamount to mental
> retardation, treason, nazism, communism, or worst of all: small "D"
> democratic.
>
> And it all comes down to these lousy romance novels like Atlas Shrugged.
> Neo-Platonists seem to regard these texts as fundamentalist Christians
> view the bible or fundamentalist Muslims regard the Qur'an: every word
> is true and applies to the entire population of the world, whatever
> their opinion. Once you have heard the "Good News" of Libertarianism you
> have the obligation to believe it wholeheartedly.
>
> I knew a guy in high school, long ago, who's parents named him "Roark"
> because their last name was "Howard". Roark was a really nice guy and
> didn't deserve to be burdened whth that name.
>
> Of course now, in the "Tea Party" we have [Ayn] Rand Paul, who seems to
> live up to his name pretty well.
>
> Ironically, Neo-Platonists hew to their invented utopia stronger than
> any good and proper Stalinist ever did.

As a blind guy out walking around, if I get a bit disoriented and look like
I could use a helping hand, it's interesting that Muslims, or at least
people who come across as Muslims, are the ones most often to offer help...
One day, I must have looked hungry in addition to lost, so this elderly
Muslim fellow, even offered to share his lunch with me...

Then, I come home, get on the internet, and how do the fine "white folk"
come across? Well, if I'd let the crazies on this group sway me, I'd head
for the nearest Mosque and look into joining...

Take Care,
Dudley


From: tony cooper on
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:38:14 -0500, Jane Galt <Jane_G(a)gulch.xyz>
wrote:

>tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote :
>
>> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:13:01 -0400, "David Ruether"
>><d_ruether(a)thotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I will add that I don't think Glenn Beck is either
>>>stupid or misinformed. He knows exactly what he is doing, which
>>>is rabble-rousing-for-ratings. He risks the wellbeing of the nation
>>>(and of its people) for his own financial gain (as does Rupert
>>>Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, and far too many others).
>>
>> Of course he's not stupid. He's studied the ways of the snake oil
>> merchants of old and built a fortune on those techniques: it doesn't
>> matter what's in the bottle, it's the hype that you use to sell it
>> that brings in the money.
>>
>> Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity and others of that ilk have taken a page out
>> of Sen Joseph McCarthy's book and packaged their snake oil around the
>> spectre of Communism under every bed.
>>
>
>PLONK you too.

The PLONKing has begun. When Ms Galt cannot come up with a copy/paste
macro of someone else's words to meet the situation, she does the
Usenet adaptation of sticking her fingers in her ears and going yada
yada yada: PLONK.

What you might expect from someone who relies on others to form her
opinions.


--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
From: Dudley Hanks on

"tony cooper" <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:0l2026pjhotndq6e9beu37692vs895bnim(a)4ax.com...
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:38:14 -0500, Jane Galt <Jane_G(a)gulch.xyz>
> wrote:
>
>>tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote :
>>
>>> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:13:01 -0400, "David Ruether"
>>><d_ruether(a)thotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I will add that I don't think Glenn Beck is either
>>>>stupid or misinformed. He knows exactly what he is doing, which
>>>>is rabble-rousing-for-ratings. He risks the wellbeing of the nation
>>>>(and of its people) for his own financial gain (as does Rupert
>>>>Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, and far too many others).
>>>
>>> Of course he's not stupid. He's studied the ways of the snake oil
>>> merchants of old and built a fortune on those techniques: it doesn't
>>> matter what's in the bottle, it's the hype that you use to sell it
>>> that brings in the money.
>>>
>>> Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity and others of that ilk have taken a page out
>>> of Sen Joseph McCarthy's book and packaged their snake oil around the
>>> spectre of Communism under every bed.
>>>
>>
>>PLONK you too.
>
> The PLONKing has begun. When Ms Galt cannot come up with a copy/paste
> macro of someone else's words to meet the situation, she does the
> Usenet adaptation of sticking her fingers in her ears and going yada
> yada yada: PLONK.
>
> What you might expect from someone who relies on others to form her
> opinions.
>
>
> --
> Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

Just the kind of mature, level-headed woman we'd all feel real safe around,
knowing she's packing a pistol...

Take Care,
Dudley