I feel so much better now

Not if you remove faith based contributions. The statistic simply throws in an 800-pound gorilla that skews the results. You know this. It isn't the first time I have told you this. It all depends what you consider charitable giving. Why not throw in the money liberals want our collective tax money to be used for like the poor and the RW don’t? Like I said, it all depends on what you consider charitable giving.

 

Simple, taxes are not voluntary and "faith based contributions" are. That is the 1000 pound gorilla!

 

Keeps me on my toes and active. Gives me a ladder out of the rut. Keeps me considering and thinking.

 

How about this - that doesn't work. It never has and never will. This thinking is what put us in the sad spot we are today and in all the other panics this nation has suffered. That horse is dead, bloating and stinking. Quit whipping it.

 

You are great at spouting animus. Is there anything you say that has a remote possibility of being something related to supportable facts?

 

Instead of looking for sound bites to make your point, you might try reading history.

P.S. I could say you sit around picking out threads of details without considering the
'big picture,' but I won't because I'm such a nice guy.

 

But you can do that by being inquisitive and engaged in life. Why do you rely on anger? How do you think that relying on anger affects various aspects of your life?

 

The anger shows only, or mostly, in debate. I am so passive and easy going in real life that my wife likes it when I do get angry. She's a lot tougher than I am, but then she's a third-worlder.

 

So.....how do you make life better? Creating generational poverty hasn't accomplished anything other than securing a dimocrat voting bloc.
And whose responsibility is it to "make life better"? How about encouraging personal responsibility, weening them off the public teet & showing people how to make their own life better? Break the cycle!

 

There you go. I you can't refer to democrats without changing it to dimocrats why should I take anything you say seriously? The public teat was pulled a long time ago by Mr. Clinton. All that's left now is aid to children. Why not a public teat? Why does this outrage you so much? I am believe in personal responsibility myself. My inhouse critic, fem major, says I won't ask for help if I'm dying. I don't, however, expect others to live by my standards. I am not the judge or arbitrator. And if people can't or won't be self sufficient, what then? Do we just let them die or kill them quick?

 

It has been the only thing I have seen in your posts worth commenting on. The rest has nothing of merit except how to twist history.

 

Yes, I twist history. Can't help it. Being unbiased is a myth. My mindset, character, personality and experience determine how I process information and hence how I develop opinions, my version of the truth. When I was a newspaper reporter I made objectivity an obsession for straight news. In my editorial writing, features and columns the lines were less strict. And I came to realize it's impossible. A human being cannot be unbiased. It's impossible no matter how hard you try. I try to speak the truth but must admit it's my truth 'twisted' by the way I look at things.

 

So, everything with which you disagree is a myth?

 

No, but try to take a clear headed look around you. We live in an ocean of horse shit on every side and of every belief and the best we can do is paddle around trying to make a little sense of it. You've done a little twisting there in what you said. I have never said that anything I say is absolute truth or that everybody disagreeing with is just ignorant. I do claim that I actually think about things, but I make no claims about the quality of that thinking.

 

If that's how you feel about life, I feel for you. What a sad worldview.

 

When I published my book 'Dancing The Maze' POD at Pretend Genius Press it got exactly two reviews, both emphasizing how negative it was. One said that no one else had taken readers farther into the abyss. They also commented on my brutal honesty. I try to look at reality without bumpers and buffers and refuse to put on a happy face.

 

Then you will always be angry and unhappy. Honesty does not need to be misery.

 

The life of the mind, no matter how feeble the attempt, is not a comforting one, but I would also add that happiness is over rated. Happy people don't do much. Satisfaction is an early death.

 

Is happiness over-rated because you have been happy and have not achieved much when you were? Or is it that you find it's difficult to achieve happiness? One does not need to be happy all of the time, but the brain and the body continuously seek equilibrium, which is not possible in a state of constant agitation.

 

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