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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 6:57:47 AM   
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The sentence in bold is exactly why I'm still here. There are a lot of people here who put in time and effort to post knowledgeably. There are plenty of "others" who are here to antagonize and little else. I try to ignore those posters as best I can.


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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 7:06:20 AM   
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Most of the talking heads pushing for the rights of those that have been marginalized aren't pushing for equal rights, it seems. It seems more like they want to be "more equal" and to have those that haven't been marginalized (primarily white males) to pay for it. Can you even imagine how decimated straight white males would be if we had to pay it back for all the marginalization that happened to every group with some combination of being not straight, not white, and/or not male? Back in the early '90's, there was preferential entry qualifications for Physical Therapy schools against from white males. Non-whites, females, and especially non-white females were preferred over white males, as long as they were reasonably close in academic qualifications.

I just love how some people like to pick times in the past when their kind was "marginalized".. so you want to pick a time, 27 or so years in the past when women were given a chance at a few jobs.. how about we go back a few years before that when women could not even vote! talk about marginalized...
Personally, I dont think white men have anything to bitch about, women still get shafted, and blacks and hispanics get shafted even more than white women do.. its just the shafting is generally more subtle now.. so go boohoo all you want, the reality is that white men still have it better than anyone else.. the majority of the politicians, CEOs/Directors of large corporations and 1% are white males, they still have a tight grip (& make the rules) on the US & world economies, politics, banking, stock market, etc..

Why is it okay for someone who isn't as qualified to get a job or acceptance into a college program over someone who is more qualified?
Do you realize you are arguing that it's okay to discriminate based on gender and/or skin color?


How the hell do you get that??? I am not arguing that its okay to discriminate at all, but going back a quarter of a century to some snub you or a few white men may have gotten is ridiculous..


How? Can you not read your own post? You're poopooing discrimination based on gender and/or skin color. That's where I get that. And, yes, you are arguing it's okay.

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Women get snubbed every fucking day, we cant get access to the same money that men get access to with the same credit score etc, we are still discriminated, hell, even yer Prez has said he likes to hire women cuz he can pay them half what he would pay a man and they do twice the work as a man (plus he can grab their pussies)... That is discrimination today.. hearing white guys whine about how tough they have it is laughable.. especially when its white men that control the lending institutions, politics, laws & court system, major corporations, etc.. There will never be equality until white men stop discriminating against women, blacks, hispanics, the poor, etc.. and that starts with white men not turning a blind eye & letting other white men get away with pulling that shite..


What you can't get through your head is that I don't think it's okay to discriminate. Period. Full stop. It's not okay for any of the discrimination in the examples you posted. It's not okay for white males to be discriminated against.



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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 7:10:52 AM   
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The sentence in bold is exactly why I'm still here. There are a lot of people here who put in time and effort to post knowledgeably. There are plenty of "others" who are here to antagonize and little else. I try to ignore those posters as best I can.

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Practically a saint, aren't you


Thank you for demonstrating my point, Bosco.


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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 8:38:55 AM   
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I see illegal immigration as an invasion.

Most Asian countries do too! Like it's culture shock to even see the whole Trump Presidency and how the left promotes illegal immigration and calls people evil who wants to prosecute illegals.

But over here, illegal immigration is a crime. And like smuggling drugs into our country. Same type of crime. It's unanimously bad people who is breaking the law and disrespecting our country.


Greta there is no cut and dry left and right in illegal immigration despite what the radical rightists on this board would like you to believe. Both Reagan and senior Bush instigated the same policy that Trump is calling unconstitutional when it comes to undocumented children... they forget that.

The following is the policy of Bush II when he wanted to get the Latino vote for his re-election...." Undocumented Workers Must Learn English, Pay Their Taxes, Pass A Background Check, And Hold A Job For A Number Of Years Before They Will Be Eligible To Be Considered For Legalized Status." Imagine what Trump and his minions would make of that if it were a lefties proposal.

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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 8:59:40 AM   
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The following is the policy of Bush II when he wanted to get the Latino vote for his re-election...." Undocumented Workers Must Learn English, Pay Their Taxes, Pass A Background Check, And Hold A Job For A Number Of Years Before They Will Be Eligible To Be Considered For Legalized Status." Imagine what Trump and his minions would make of that if it were a lefties proposal.

Butch

Which was precisely why I am not a fan of Bush. But his sister in law is from Mexico. So I get his policy, it was personal.

Gosh imagine if Jeb was President now!!

But many legal immigrants from Mexico is actually against illegal immigration too as it's very unfair to their own legal migration.

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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 9:08:17 AM   
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The following is the policy of Bush II when he wanted to get the Latino vote for his re-election...." Undocumented Workers Must Learn English, Pay Their Taxes, Pass A Background Check, And Hold A Job For A Number Of Years Before They Will Be Eligible To Be Considered For Legalized Status." Imagine what Trump and his minions would make of that if it were a lefties proposal.

Butch

Which was precisely why I am not a fan of Bush. But his sister in law is from Mexico. So I get his policy, it was personal.

Gosh imagine if Jeb was President now!!

But many legal immigrants from Mexico is actually against illegal immigration too as it's very unfair to their own legal migration.


I am not denying it is a problem... just that it is not just a lefty one that the Trump's of this world are using to split America... Hypocrisy reins in the White House and with gullible rightists.

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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 9:08:59 AM   
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but ad hominem is a personal attack, instead of dealing with subject matter, yeah? Completely different than what you're doing here, right?


Actually, I was not attacking you. I was "attacking" your initial premise. As I said earlier, the tone of your post was "Look at me! I'm reaching out!"


You have your perceptions, but I know my intentions. We'll let the audience decide, k?

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Accusations like this don't really help matters, and we're seeing them on every front from both sides. This is exactly why I say that it seems that there are far too many that seek to cause even more strife among us.

Bosco, you're perhaps one of the most ironwilled right wing posters around. When you can avoid making the knee-jerk hateful response, and present a clear headed post free of talking points, you're also one of the most well-spoken. I hope that you can do that in this thread, so that an open, respectful dialogue can happen.


There's what I was talking about with your "moral high ground" attempt. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone on this forum can claim the moral high ground.


And again, it wasn't an attempt at a moral high ground. A post doesn't have to be positive to be constructive. And I did give Bosco a sincere compliment. And as you say, I did make the thread. So a bit of coaching as needed to try to keep people focused isn't completely out of line, nor does it go against anything I said in the OP. I never said this thread had to all be rainbows and butterflies.

Most importantly, nothing I said in those quotes was inaccurate.

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As for name calling. I do recall you starting it by calling me Alfred. In fact, I had multiple messages on the other side asking me what that was supposed to mean, which I could only guess. Then you took my use of a movie quote as a personal attack, somehow thinking I had renamed you Blanche. I tried to explain the pop culture reference to no avail. So let it be. It is absolutely your choice to continue to be offended.


Well, that's interesting, indeed, that you remember it that way. I have a much different perspective, but that's almost to be expected.


I remember it that way because that's precisely how it happened.

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If there were prior instances, they weren't noteworthy to me. But I'm sure you have screenshots or thread links.


I do. I do, but do we wish to re-hash or do you wish to keep on with this newly turned-over leaf? I mean, I can provide them, if you wish, but why?


Was rehashing not your entire point nearly every time you've posted in response to me this entire thread? See, I know myself to be a fairly calm, rational person. And it's not in my nature to go on the attack unless I'm provoked. I think at least a few others here would agree.

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And again, either I have been completely oblivious to any attempt of even civility on your part, or it just wasn't there. I've been told that I have Resting Bitch Face, which along with a bit of a furled brow depending on pain levels make me look extremely pissed off a lot of the time, regardless of my actual mood. Maybe you have a similar disorder with your posting style. It may be helpful if you warned me when you're trying to be nice, so that there are no mixed signals.


Part of that would be based upon your own bias, but more importantly, I didn't feel the need to make a public announcement about it. I did it. It didn't work. Fin.


And yet, in this thread, I did state explicitly that my goal was a conversation without all of the personal attacks, or slurs based on party. So you did know, and made no attempt to stick to an issues-driven discussion. That's on you.

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I do hope you feel better, now that you've gotten all of that off your chest.


There was nothing "on my chest". I saw some inconsistencies in your initial premise and your subsequent thoughts and I pointed them out.

I thought I did so, fairly civilly. You might disagree, of course, but you'll notice that there was no name calling or personal attacks. It was all about the flaw in your initial premise. Attacking that, in the way I did it is called (in fairness): "contradiction"; not "ad hominem" or "name-calling".



I could think of a few other things to call it. Spiteful and mean-spirited come to mind. But your discrediting comes without consent. There are a handful of people here whose opinions matter to me, people I've come to like and/or respect, but you aren't one of them. And since this behavior on your part has been consistent for at least a few months now, I am long passed concerned about proving myself to you, because I don't think you're capable of 'getting' me. My random pop culture references are lost on you, you don't understand when my posts are funny, and usually appear to have no concept of the points I try to make.

With that said, I believe I've given your opinion of me more than enough of my time and attention. The subject is now closed for debate.

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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 9:13:10 AM   
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With that said, I believe I've given your opinion of me more than enough of my time and attention. The subject is now closed for debate.


Agreed, but still open for comment, when the situation merits it, right?

I spent some time, looking at some old links (2-3 years ago). I saw a couple where I complimented you and (quite a while) after one of those compliments, but on the same thread, you chose to indulge in ad hominem, at the least and gave a head-fake toward name-calling.

I get your point of view appears to be that your shit doesn't stink, but your farts give you away.





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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 11:41:13 AM   
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Now think about this for a moment: if HIV/AIDS were first discovered in heterosexual people in the US, how different would our government's immediate reaction have been? How soon would the CDC have been brought in? Impossible to know, but certainly a prime example of how dangerous 'otherism' can be.

Actually the real question why is aids more easily spread through anal sex than normal sex?
And why are gay men always having unprotected sex.
The fact that is was first found in gays, it is also like, it's a sign!


Information about the risks of HIV transmission through various activities is widely available online. This is a good place to start: https://www.poz.com/basics/hiv-basics/hiv-transmission-risks

You'll notice that vaginal sex is now the most common method of transmission, regardless of potential risks of anything else.

Why are alcohol and suppositories so effectively administered anally?

Most men I know simply do not like condoms. I certainly don't. Gay sex carries no risk of pregnancy, so condoms as birth control isn't necessary. If condoms have only been explained to you as a form of birth control, then you don't even know you need them. In the early days of HIV, most other STD's were curable with antibiotics, and there wasn't enough information available about any that weren't. Condoms cost money, most of the time. Being responsible enough to always have condoms readily available isn't really a thought for most guys, and in the heat of the moment, it's usually too late to run to the store and grab a box of rubbers. Alcohol and drug use also lower inhibitions and blur judgment.

There's also a bit of arrogance involved for a lot of guys. Either they think they can look at a guy and tell if they have HIV, or they think they're invincible and untouchable anyway.

Bleeding while receiving anal sex is a bit easier than receiving vaginal sex. Lubrication is obviously different too. But mostly, I think the prep work before penetration is much less common. Less oral and digital (finger) stimulation happens to prepare the receptive partner for anal sex than happens for vaginal sex, and then penetration itself can be much too vigorous too quickly.

For tops, there's already lower risk than being penetrated, but that risk is further reduced for guys that produce copious amounts of precum, although it increases the receiving partner's risks.

I honestly don't know what you would believe it to be a sign of. God's wrath? A Nazi-esque CIA lab experiment?

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If it was first found in heterosexual, sex education on protection will be alot stronger than today. Just like when any infectious disease happen. Like Sars, like Zika, wide spread of full educational information about how to prevent it non-stop. But because it begin in gay people, they didn't aggressively educate the whole population about it.


I agree. And that seems like a blatant violation of the equal protections clause of the 14th Amendment to me. Very unAmerican. We lost so many great minds; artists, musicians, poets, writers, actors, dancers... Because of a lack of empathy from our own government. The Nazis killed about 15,000 gays in WW2. HIV/AIDS has been a holocaust of it's own.

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And yes, in some States, you can be legally terminated from your job for being gay. In some States, you can be denied service at some businesses if you're gay too. I'm sure you remember the cake thing.

The cake thing, I felt was legitimate. If gay people bought off the shelves cake from that bakery, he would have sold it to them. The baker just does not want to design a cake that celebrates gay marriage which his religion is against. That to me is not discrimination. It's like telling a Muslim to sell me pork. Or make me a pork pie. I mean we got halal pie shops, and if I went in and ask the Muslim to custom-make me a pork pie for my birthday, they would refuse me 100% and I would understand. As it's against their religion.

But for it to be legitimate to refuse to sell things to gay people, I mean, normal things like you just browse the shop and buy whatever is on display there? That is unacceptable and I will be surprise if that is legal over there, because it's not legal over here, even though sodomy is against the law.

But custom-made things. A Buddhist can refuse to bake a Jesus Cake. That's okay. As the Jesus cake is customised design. No crime commited. As it's against their religion.


Custom made things can include a pizza with extra cheese, needing tailoring work to have a suit fitted before you buy it, and even having a house built to suit your needs or having a kitchen remodeled. Do you believe any of those things should be denied to anyone that can afford to pay?

Where is the line?

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As for bestiality and marriage to my cat. I love my cat to death and I love sleeping with them and hugging them and kissing them. That's the extent of my "physical interaction with them". I also only have female cats. So my cats already love me and cuddle up with me, and lick me. My cats even love to lick my breasts, and my lips and my cheeks, I didn't train them to do that. I am always naked in my home, so when I sleep, they climb on me and lick me.

It's genuine mutual love for each other. I don't harm them. They don't harm me.

I mean there are ALOT of "Others" harmless type of love that are banned from marriage. That's what I am saying. So when only gay and lesbian couples get legalise, to me it's seen as special treatment. And not a win for marriage equality. There is no logic to this special treatment except this special group fought the loudest for their special rights and in the end, this is life.


That's anarchy isn't it? Yet, there are other laws that can prevent any of the marriage examples you give. How old are your cats? Legal age of consent is still a factor. Are they capable of giving legal testimony in court? Capable of saying their wedding vows, or even their own names? Can they sign their name on any legal documents necessary, such as an application for a marriage license? Do they have a proper birth certificate and a State issued photo ID to prove their identity? We can't have you marrying an illegal immigrant cat thinking that will give them citizenship. Might be Taliban.

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If you really want something, you gotta fight for it. They got it. But is it fair? Is there truly equality? No. Because alot of out of normal heterosexual relationships are banned from marriage. Especially incest. Which I feel like animals themselves, cats and dogs, hamsters, rabbits, lots of incest happen if you leave them all un-neutered and naturally together. It's just made abnormal by humans.

But seldom do you see a gay cat or dog or hamster.


You realize that without being denied the ability to marry any of your furry friends, you have no legal basis to present a case to the court, right? Especially as a non-citizen living outside the US. You also have no actual interest in promoting interspecies love that I'm aware of. While I admit it is often fun to think outside the box, any of these issues would have to be dealt with by the courts when someone with a valid right to file a claim does so.

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When it comes to incest, not all couples are heterosexual too. So not every couple can have kids naturally. And gay and lesbian incest couples can definitely have kids, without incest defect, since they need a sperm or egg donor anyway.

I am always like, treat ALL equally with a fair logic encompassing the "whys".


Courts can only decide that current laws are unjust when given appropriate evidence, after someone with an actual claim of personally being discriminated against files that claim in court.

They don't deal in theoretical justice, but actual justice.

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Like being terminated at a job for being gay. I would fiercely fight against that bullshit. Being gay does not hinder their ability to do a fantastic job. If any shops or restaurant put out a poster which says, "No gays allowed in here", I would also fiercely object to that! As gay people can be good customers too.


We are fighting, and things have gotten a lot better in much of the country. But it ain't over yet.

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But refusing to customise a cake to celebrate a gay marriage which is against your religion. That is fair. If we want to respect a person's religion, we shouldn't force them to bake customise cakes to celebrate something against their religion.

It's like forcing a jew to bake a hitler cake. Forcing a Muslim to bake a pork pie. It's just not right. That specific cake case really does not sit right with me. I do not think it's fair to the baker to condemn him for his religious beliefs.


No. It's really not. Like, at all.

It's like requiring a Catholic-owned bakery to bake a wedding for a Buddhist.
Requiring a Jewish designer to create a gown for a Muslim actress to wear on a red carpet.
Requiring a Baptist contractor to build a home for a Mormon.

It's almost like requiring that people in business actually do the job they're in business to do, for anybody that can afford them to do it.

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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 12:15:29 PM   
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With that said, I believe I've given your opinion of me more than enough of my time and attention. The subject is now closed for debate.


Agreed, but still open for comment, when the situation merits it, right?

I spent some time, looking at some old links (2-3 years ago). I saw a couple where I complimented you and (quite a while) after one of those compliments, but on the same thread, you chose to indulge in ad hominem, at the least and gave a head-fake toward name-calling.

I get your point of view appears to be that your shit doesn't stink, but your farts give you away.



No no. That's false. I refuse to shit in my bedroom's attached bathroom because of just how bad my shit stinks. I make excuses to go to a convenience store if I'm visiting someone in order to use the bathroom because of how bad my shit stinks.

It's difficult to prove just how the back and forth started by using only one thread, when on any given day there are multiple thread active that either of us will post in. I do understand that you believe I started it, but I'm not convinced. Maybe seeing the thread in question would jog my memory, and explain just what a "head-fake toward name-calling" is. Because again, it may have been meant as humor and just wasn't received as such. And I'm absolutely not denying the possibility of intentionally starting shit with you, but I don't believe that to be the case.

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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 1:15:12 PM   
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So this is about choosing country over party, making an attempt to ignore my own knee-jerk reactions, and having an honest conversation about wtf is going on. Mostly because I don't have the energy to hate or disapprove of so many people all at once.


to me this line alone is worth talking about.

I don't tend to think "party" so much as I do principles and for good or bad, those principles are often tied to particular parties.

to me your statement about choosing "country over party" sounds too much like a compromising of principles. when I look at the principles I have, I also hold them as being the best for the country.

someone else comes along, with competing principles, and believes likewise.

how then shall we live?


Then we talk and see if there are ways to find common ground, understand other points of view, etc.

But that is hard to do when people are so partisan that they regard anyone not of their party as the enemy.


See. You get me.


um no---waywards response to you is totally in keeping with my response to you, after which you told me I am missing your point. we're pretty close to saying the same essential things. im going to suggest you're not understanding me as opposed to the other way around. ive taken your point and ran with it.

im not necessarily interested in "picking a topic" and discussing it. when that goes on, we're all ultimately talking at the surface level and never get to the heart of the matter, which is that we think differently and value different things and believe about life in contrary ways. im more interested in what undergirds us. what truck does an individualist have with a collectivist? for another layer of difficulty, now add in Christian and atheist.

and for the most part, I reject the notion of "common" ground. as ive said before, some, maybe even most principles are not reducible to compromise. there is a reason I suppose that politics is called "the art of the possible"

I don't wholly buy the notion of that we are more similar than different in this regard. yes we're similar in that we all live, breathe and die. we have families we love, jobs we toil at, hobbies we engage in, dreams we pursue, but when it comes to how we practice political/societal life, those commonalities ultimately wash away and disparity reigns.

if you want to have a challenge, pick some meaningful topic with the goal of exploring exactly what a "common ground" would look like. abortions a good one. school choice is a good one.



He is correct. I do get him. I understand what he is saying and I think it can be done, if people are willing.

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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 2:21:18 PM   
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and explain just what a "head-fake toward name-calling" is. Because again, it may have been meant as humor and just wasn't received as such.


Well, you're a sports fan, yeah? "head fake" is a "move" in football, when a guy's running with the ball. He just kind of dips his head down and in a slightly different direction and then, moves in an entirely different direction all together.

The way I was using it was to mean: that it was definitely an instance of ad hominem and could have been name-calling, depending upon your intent (thus; "head fake")

Since you seemed to be okay, earlier with handling this in private, I will send something (well, a bit long) to your inbox.





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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 2:32:06 PM   
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um no---waywards response to you is totally in keeping with my response to you, after which you told me I am missing your point. we're pretty close to saying the same essential things. im going to suggest you're not understanding me as opposed to the other way around. ive taken your point and ran with it.


Ok, I'll re-read and try to see it that way.

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im not necessarily interested in "picking a topic" and discussing it. when that goes on, we're all ultimately talking at the surface level and never get to the heart of the matter, which is that we think differently and value different things and believe about life in contrary ways. im more interested in what undergirds us. what truck does an individualist have with a collectivist? for another layer of difficulty, now add in Christian and atheist.


In most threads, there's a news event involved, and so the comments are reactionary. It's almost as if we can't have a discussion on anything on a normal day when the media doesn't tell us we need to care about it today. I find that quite limiting.

My core principles and beliefs don't change day to day. Not without a real intervention of new facts and views being added at least.

And worse, by focusing on the events themselves, we're distracted from considering reasonable solutions, and how much effort would really be involved. Not to mention fielding proposed 'solutions' that go against our uniquely American values and the Constitution.

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and for the most part, I reject the notion of "common" ground. as ive said before, some, maybe even most principles are not reducible to compromise. there is a reason I suppose that politics is called "the art of the possible"

I don't wholly buy the notion of that we are more similar than different in this regard. yes we're similar in that we all live, breathe and die. we have families we love, jobs we toil at, hobbies we engage in, dreams we pursue, but when it comes to how we practice political/societal life, those commonalities ultimately wash away and disparity reigns.


Then the discussion becomes how we live in peace, and respect each other's personal freedoms while protecting our own. And that, my friend, is compromise.

Every problem has multiple solutions available, with each of those possibly creating more problems. Lincoln didn't just set the slaves free and make everything right in the world. Killing bin Laden hasn't ended terrorism. But these have been deemed as necessary steps toward the final goals.

And your problems might be different than mine. You may not even be aware of something I'm outraged over, because it doesn't apply to you, or doesn't come up in your daily life. I can't just be mad because I just got bit by a mosquito, and you act like you don't even care.

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if you want to have a challenge, pick some meaningful topic with the goal of exploring exactly what a "common ground" would look like. abortions a good one. school choice is a good one.


See, neither of those interest me enough to lead the charge one way or another. No woman I've personally known in my life has every had an abortion, and I haven't ever needed one personally. School vouchers don't effect me either, and wouldn't have when I was actually in school anyway. Plus, I'm in a very rural county.

Now I can talk about gay cake infused with medical marijuana all day long. That's like my SJW trifecta.

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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 6:03:27 PM   
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You'll notice that vaginal sex is now the most common method of transmission, regardless of potential risks of anything else.

Yet somehow, up till today, incidences is still highest in homosexuals.


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I honestly don't know what you would believe it to be a sign of. God's wrath? A Nazi-esque CIA lab experiment?

I personally think anal sex is unnatural. I don't understand why men likes putting their cock into a poop holes. I know in BDSM many men likes to do that to women too, it's not just gay men. But I think the fact that it was through anal sex that this horrible disease happened, is just a sign supporting how unnatural it is and people experimenting with something unnatural end up with consequences. I believe in alot of natural things, including no body modifications, no make up, and basically just living naturally.

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I agree. And that seems like a blatant violation of the equal protections clause of the 14th Amendment to me. Very unAmerican. We lost so many great minds; artists, musicians, poets, writers, actors, dancers... Because of a lack of empathy from our own government. The Nazis killed about 15,000 gays in WW2. HIV/AIDS has been a holocaust of it's own.

It's not really discrimination. They simply assume percentage of gay men is a tiny population and gay men won't sleep with women for women to spread to straight men, and those straight men to spread to other women. So they believe it isn't gonna be an epidemic and was contained. When it first came out, they didn't have a full understanding of it yet.

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Custom made things can include a pizza with extra cheese, needing tailoring work to have a suit fitted before you buy it, and even having a house built to suit your needs or having a kitchen remodeled. Do you believe any of those things should be denied to anyone that can afford to pay?

Where is the line?

The line is simple. Does putting extra cheese on pizza tresspass Muslims or Christian religious beliefs? No. Does putting bacon on Pizza trespass Muslim religious beliefs? Yes, so a Muslim will absolutely refuse to put bacon on your Pizza. And that's okay. We won't make them do it.
Anything that is custom-made. Seriously, the craftman have the right to refuse for whatever reason. Like remodeling a home, many a times, some contractors can tell you what you want to do, they can't do the job, for whatever reasons, they just don't want to do it. Maybe they think your idea and design is an insult to their craft and they don't want it in their portfolio.

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It's like requiring a Catholic-owned bakery to bake a wedding for a Buddhist.
Requiring a Jewish designer to create a gown for a Muslim actress to wear on a red carpet.
Requiring a Baptist contractor to build a home for a Mormon.

In my country, the way we approach respecting religious beliefs, is, it would be extremely nasty of someone, or even rude to ask a catholic-own bakery to bake a wedding cake for a Buddhist. Because what if we want the picture of Buddha in our wedding cake to bless our wedding? How can we expect a Christian to do that? Like it seems to be completely against their religion to create images of other gods and idols. That's awful and disrespectful to them and their religion. Like we may ask politely but if they say no. We don't make a big deal about it. Because it's just respecting their religious beliefs.

That's why I always say with this gay cake case. Look, I think all religion is bullshit. But we either agree we are gonna entertain religion in this world and give weight to their beliefs.

Or we believe screw them and their beliefs. It's our way or highway! Which I will be very happy to, which means we can ban burkas and force Muslims to serve pork. And I can accuse Muslims of discrimination IF they refuse to bake me a pork pie for my wedding.

And Christian bakeries will seriously seethe to death, if they are force to bake cakes for our Chinese religions to celebrate every idol birthday. There is a gazillion heresy idols, beyond Buddha that we love having images of in our cakes! There is Monkey God, God of Happiness, God of Fertility and God of Wealth etc and Goddess of Mercy who is transgender by the way and that will kill Christians to celebrate her birthday! That's why Buddhists is so tolerant of LGBT.

Buddha's birthday happen to be a public holiday here and is celebrated!


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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 7:28:38 PM   
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Now I can talk about gay cake infused with medical marijuana all day long. That's like my SJW trifecta.


gay cake (no marijuana necessary this time around) is not a bad one, when it boils down to the tension, seemingly, of religious liberty vs discrimination.

you mentioned the word "compromise" earlier. when I see that word, I tend to think "both sides give up something and meet towards a middle."

if im right in that, whats the compromise here in which one side's principles are not violated?

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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 7:45:02 PM   
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Now I can talk about gay cake infused with medical marijuana all day long. That's like my SJW trifecta.


gay cake (no marijuana necessary this time around) is not a bad one, when it boils down to the tension, seemingly, of religious liberty vs discrimination.

you mentioned the word "compromise" earlier. when I see that word, I tend to think "both sides give up something and meet towards a middle."

if im right in that, whats the compromise here in which one side's principles are not violated?


Here's one idea. Could start a useful discussion.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/theres-a-simple-compromise-to-the-gay-wedding-cake-fight-does-anybody-want-it-though

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RE: An American dialogue - 12/4/2017 8:28:02 PM   
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So they are suggesting limiting to just venues of uber religious worship. But the christian cake shop may have no problem celebrating heterosexual marriages of any religion and even of atheist. As their religion supports heterosexual marriages.

And the christian cake shop has zero issues selling off the shelves cakes to gay people. He just didn't want to specially create a custom one in celebration of a gay marriage. Which could include two gay people statues on it as shown in the link that a potential gay cake could look like.

I mean what if the cake shop says, they gonna bake them a plain cake, like with layers and everything and design of their choice. It's their own problem if they wanna put gay statues on it, so that part themselves! But it's against their religion to support or promote gay marriage so they will not put any ornament on it indicating it's for a gay marriage. Would that be a better compromise?

But then again, it's branding too. They do not want their cakes seen at gay marriages as it's against their beliefs especially after knowingly know it's for a gay marriage. Like I totally understand that from a religious view point, the way I understand why a Sikh must wear a turban and why a Muslim woman must wear a ninja suit and why a Muslim avoids all pork products.

I feel so bad for that cake shop. I tell you I totally got beef with Muslims. But if a Muslim owned sandwich shop won't make a BLT sandwich for me. I ain't gonna get upset.

And here is the other thing. Coming to think of it. A Muslim person would never EVER get a cake from a non-Muslim cake shop, because it's not halal and against their religion.

That limits their cake shop due to their own religion. But end of the day, that's the way religion works.


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RE: An American dialogue - 12/5/2017 12:41:35 AM   
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I read the Beast article and there's a little issue the author left out of it, although he did hint at it.

He says progressives are ultimately going to win this battle and, depending upon how he's defining "win", he may be right and that's what's scary.

While he pays a little "lip" service to religious liberty, he does so in a "this will make the conservatives happy for now" kind of way. He does make a derisive statement or two about the "war on Christianity", but that is sort of the point.

In the UK, right now (I believe it's still going on) a couple is suing all of the UK churches to enable them (or other same-sex couples) to marry.

There was a lawsuit filed here against the Catholic church, but that was turned away by the judge.

"So, Michael, what's your problem?"

Well, my problem is that somewhere, some judge will eventually let one of these suits go to court. Other than the trickle down effect, I don't necessarily care if it happens in other countries. If we're going to respect the rule of law and freedom of religion, the courts shouldn't even be involved in this.

Just the action of bringing a lawsuit in this issue, "involves" the government and that's a big "no-no".

So, I agree with the author that a compromise is doable. I just don't think he's got the right one.

I'm not going to re-hash my solution, here. The last time I did, people didn't bother reading what I spent a lot of time typing and frankly, I'm done, having people "demand" something of me and then, ignoring it. My health and time constraints won't allow that, anymore.





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RE: An American dialogue - 12/5/2017 5:26:04 PM   
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Now I can talk about gay cake infused with medical marijuana all day long. That's like my SJW trifecta.


gay cake (no marijuana necessary this time around) is not a bad one, when it boils down to the tension, seemingly, of religious liberty vs discrimination.

you mentioned the word "compromise" earlier. when I see that word, I tend to think "both sides give up something and meet towards a middle."

if im right in that, whats the compromise here in which one side's principles are not violated?



Ugh. No. My phone is fucking up on me too much to really say what I need to on that issue tonight.

Anyway, the case is already being heard by our high court, but Justice Kennedy seems like he's ready to throw it back to Colorado for a do-over maybe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/us/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-cake.html

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Instead, Justice Kennedy seemed to embrace a distinction pressed by Mr. Phillips’s lawyers — that Mr. Phillips has nothing against gay people but objected to same-sex marriage because it was at odds with his religious beliefs.

“It’s not their identity,” Justice Kennedy told Mr. Cole. “It’s what they’re doing.”

“I think your identity thing is just too facile,” Justice Kennedy said.


Now let me explain why I disagree with this. "What they're doing" is what other people have been allowed to do for the entire history of our country, as long as those people were of opposite sexes. So it is not the act that is being discriminated against, but the people engaging in it.

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RE: An American dialogue - 12/5/2017 5:43:45 PM   
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I read the Beast article and there's a little issue the author left out of it, although he did hint at it.

He says progressives are ultimately going to win this battle and, depending upon how he's defining "win", he may be right and that's what's scary.

While he pays a little "lip" service to religious liberty, he does so in a "this will make the conservatives happy for now" kind of way. He does make a derisive statement or two about the "war on Christianity", but that is sort of the point.

In the UK, right now (I believe it's still going on) a couple is suing all of the UK churches to enable them (or other same-sex couples) to marry.

There was a lawsuit filed here against the Catholic church, but that was turned away by the judge.

"So, Michael, what's your problem?"

Well, my problem is that somewhere, some judge will eventually let one of these suits go to court. Other than the trickle down effect, I don't necessarily care if it happens in other countries. If we're going to respect the rule of law and freedom of religion, the courts shouldn't even be involved in this.

Just the action of bringing a lawsuit in this issue, "involves" the government and that's a big "no-no".

So, I agree with the author that a compromise is doable. I just don't think he's got the right one.

I'm not going to re-hash my solution, here. The last time I did, people didn't bother reading what I spent a lot of time typing and frankly, I'm done, having people "demand" something of me and then, ignoring it. My health and time constraints won't allow that, anymore.



We are going to win, eventually. Because it is the right and necessary thing. But Colorado has made that decision for themselves already, by putting the protections into place. Not all States have. So the case before the court now isn't as big a deal as it's being made out to be.

In the gay marriage decision, Justice Kennedy wrote that there would need to be a great deal of discussion about what that decision would mean for people of faith. I don't think the Court would believe that enough time has passed yet. If anything, I think the Right jumped the gun on pushing this case so soon.

The current case has nothing to do with a wedding ceremony at all, since the couple had to go to Massachusetts to get married at the time. Yup, this incident occurred before 2015's gay marriage ruling. This cake was simply for a reception after the fact.

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