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June 17th, 2021 at 1:08:00 PM permalink
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 136 Posts: 20133	Quote: rxwine If you open it — close it If you turn it on — turn it off If you unlock it — lock it If you break it — mend it If you borrow it — return it If you use it — take care of it If you make a mess — clean it up If you move it — put it back Do you really need a sign to live, laugh, and love? War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

June 17th, 2021 at 1:21:35 PM permalink
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 202 Posts: 21269	Quote: AZDuffman Do you really need a sign to live, laugh, and love? Only if you're in prison. "Facts are whatever I say they are." - Trump

June 17th, 2021 at 3:01:16 PM permalink
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 136 Posts: 20133	Quote: rxwine Only if you're in prison. You missed it. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

June 17th, 2021 at 3:34:45 PM permalink
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 202 Posts: 21269	Quote: AZDuffman You missed it. Probably, as I don't know what you're referring to. "Facts are whatever I say they are." - Trump

June 17th, 2021 at 3:57:04 PM permalink
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 136 Posts: 20133	Quote: rxwine Probably, as I don't know what you're referring to. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

August 18th, 2021 at 10:54:16 AM permalink

rxwine

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I don’t know that I agree with this, but I thought it interesting.

Tragic optimism” is the search for meaning during the inevitable tragedies of human existence, and is better for us than avoiding darkness and trying to “stay positive.”

Because I don’t expect to find meaning in random tragedy. Now if I make my own…there’s something to learn.

"Facts are whatever I say they are." - Trump

August 18th, 2021 at 11:12:45 AM permalink

kenarman

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Quote: rxwine
I don’t know that I agree with this, but I thought it interesting.

Tragic optimism” is the search for meaning during the inevitable tragedies of human existence, and is better for us than avoiding darkness and trying to “stay positive.”

Because I don’t expect to find meaning in random tragedy. Now if I make my own…there’s something to learn.

Hey we agree on something again RX. Shit happens if you didn't cause it move on, if you did cause it don't do it again.

"but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin

October 18th, 2021 at 5:20:04 AM permalink

rxwine

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William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review, once confessed in private, "I wish to hell I could attack them without pleasing people I can't stand to please."

By "them" he meant the members of the conspiracy-mongering, anti-Communist, anti-United Nations, anti-civil rights John Birch Society (named after a Christian missionary who was killed in 1945 by Communist forces, making Birch the first American casualty in the Cold War). The people Bill couldn't stand to please, of course, were liberals.

And yet Buckley did eventually go after the Birchers, at first trying as best he could to denounce their leader, Robert Welch, without alienating the rank and file. Eventually, this needle became impossible to thread, specifically when Welch began insisting that President Dwight Eisenhower was a "dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy."

"Facts are whatever I say they are." - Trump

November 5th, 2021 at 8:25:10 AM permalink
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 202 Posts: 21269	Quote: A week after renaming their company Meta, Facebook has learned that there's already another tech company named Meta, and they won't sell their name for less than $20 million," Jimmy Fallon said Thursday's Tonight Show. "When asked why they didn't do their research, Facebook said, 'We did, we just did it on Facebook.' "Facts are whatever I say they are." - Trump

November 5th, 2021 at 9:18:18 AM permalink
JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 1050	Quote: rxwine If Facebook had approached the other company first, 20 mil might seem reasonable. Now that Facebook has announced the company name change it is dirt cheap. I guess you have to weigh greed against fear of Facebook’s lawyers. The mind hungers for that on which it feeds.

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