Yet Another Reason to become a Democrat
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SirGalahad67
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Right dearie....dream on 
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This is hilarious.
You really expect us to believe that ANYTHING that comes out of UC Santa Cruz is fair and balanced?
UC Santa Cruz is WAY more to the left than even Berkeley.
Please.
This is the equivalent of Todd quoting the American Spectator and asking us to believe it's fair and balanced.
You really expect us to believe that ANYTHING that comes out of UC Santa Cruz is fair and balanced?
UC Santa Cruz is WAY more to the left than even Berkeley.
Please.
This is the equivalent of Todd quoting the American Spectator and asking us to believe it's fair and balanced.
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This smells of bad science to me...
I'd very much like to see the experimental design for a study like this. The hypothesis being tested immediately raises a red flag as to the researchers motives. Very little makes me more upset than political activists dressing up their propaganda as science and presenting it to a non-critical public as objective truth.
Still, there's at least some intuitive truth to some of their conclusions. There aren't any more fearful philosophers with regard to the human condition than proto-conservatives like Hobbes and Macchiavelli. Hobbes argued that human behavior is primarily motivated by a fear of violent death and that the consequence of this fear being the universal human desire for power in all it's many forms. The desire for wealth, status, political power, social connections, love, and all other human strivings are all means of protecting one's self against one's fellow men (who are of course themselves all similarly motivated fear and striving for power to protect themselves as well.) Human society, in this light is really just a complex dance of defensive interactions between people each terrified for their lives.
It's definitely an unattractive, even a dismal view of the human condition, but try as I might, I can't help but see a good bit of truth in it, especially in the context of tumultuous periods of history and today's violent regions of the world, like Israel.
Perhaps there are ways of being redeemed from this all-encompassing fear. Maybe that's one of the appeals of religious faith. I don't know.
But I suspect that study was more than a bit politically motivated.
I'd very much like to see the experimental design for a study like this. The hypothesis being tested immediately raises a red flag as to the researchers motives. Very little makes me more upset than political activists dressing up their propaganda as science and presenting it to a non-critical public as objective truth.
Still, there's at least some intuitive truth to some of their conclusions. There aren't any more fearful philosophers with regard to the human condition than proto-conservatives like Hobbes and Macchiavelli. Hobbes argued that human behavior is primarily motivated by a fear of violent death and that the consequence of this fear being the universal human desire for power in all it's many forms. The desire for wealth, status, political power, social connections, love, and all other human strivings are all means of protecting one's self against one's fellow men (who are of course themselves all similarly motivated fear and striving for power to protect themselves as well.) Human society, in this light is really just a complex dance of defensive interactions between people each terrified for their lives.
It's definitely an unattractive, even a dismal view of the human condition, but try as I might, I can't help but see a good bit of truth in it, especially in the context of tumultuous periods of history and today's violent regions of the world, like Israel.
Perhaps there are ways of being redeemed from this all-encompassing fear. Maybe that's one of the appeals of religious faith. I don't know.
But I suspect that study was more than a bit politically motivated.
crystalhunting
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahhahahahaha
You'll fell for it!!!!
Suckers!!!!!
CH
You'll fell for it!!!!
Suckers!!!!!
CH
shadowsource
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Who has more & better sex?
I suspect that people are kinkier when Republicans are in power - a bit more decadent. Interesting....
I suspect that people are kinkier when Republicans are in power - a bit more decadent. Interesting....
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p_p_man said:
edited by p_p_man 11 July 2001 20.19 GMT
And right proud we are to have him too...
Keep him please! And why didn't you keep him when he was there during Vietnam?
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Who says
that you can't teach an old Democrat new tricks? You learned, and I'm proud of you. BTW congrats on the Review list thingy.
lavender said:It's a fucking joke people! Don't take me so seriously!
Look at the outside of the thread. I put a
Do you honestly think that I am naive enough to believe this shit?
that you can't teach an old Democrat new tricks? You learned, and I'm proud of you. BTW congrats on the Review list thingy.
SirGalahad67
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morninggirl5 said:
Yes indeed, I second that - have him stay in Europe by all means...hell, make him a citizen of your country and then elect him as leader if you think he's so damn great
You shouldn't mistake no conscience for a clear conscience.Originally posted by lavender
See it's true. Democrats have a clearer conscience.
And you even have the imprudence to be proud of it. The Europeans, it seems, live up to the expectations of Mr. Barnam.Originally posted by p_p_man
And right proud we are to have him too...
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