You are kidding, I wish. What is an enhanced DL?

Hi Ed.
I understand what you meant by "showing your papers"...thankfully, it's something we don't yet have to do to cross state lines.
However, recently, government regulations now require either a passport or enhanced driver's license, just to fly on commercial aircraft, even domestically.
I was truly shocked when I heard that.

Hello khalling,
I noticed that right off. Now, who do you suppose gave you that 2nd point? I'll give you one guess. :)

Have a great weekend and I hope you feel better soon,
O.A.

Hello Herb7734,
The terror war is being won... just not by us.
If they are true believers they pose a threat to reason and everyone possessing reason enough not to bend to their will.
Regards,
O.A.

As long as there are people whose premises are flawed, who believe in ghosts, who are suitors to power and wealth that's not created by them, there will be problems. Mankind is a very young species that has enormous power. The dinosauers prevailed not for hundreds or thousands but millions of years. They lasted through many climate changes but only evolved to match their environment. If Man survives and lasts even half that long, the future is beyond imagination. But, during that time, Man's greatest enemy is Man. We multiply into the billions and kill each other by the thousands. The only evolution that will have meaning for the human race will be what evolves between it's ears.

I wholeheartedly agree.

That is quite an analysis. "Every dictator is a mystic." The more I think about it, the better I like it. I'm beginning to think of all Muslims as a nest of vipers. Just because there's one that tried to bite me, there's no sense in believing that the others won't try. And perhaps succeed.

The subject is relevant and important. The same for the linked video. But I was reluctant to react since I don't know "where you disagree"!

I have 68 comments a two likes! you are all lucky that I have flu and cannot come find you in the world and smack your ass!!!

Hello khalling,

"A mystic is driven by the urge to impress, to cheat, to flatter, to deceive, to force that omnipotent consciousness of others. “They” are his only key to reality, he feels that he cannot exist save by harnessing their mysterious power and extorting their unaccountable consent. “They” are his only means of perception and, like a blind man who depends on the sight of a dog, he feels he must leash them in order to live. To control the consciousness of others becomes his only passion; power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims—as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force—he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason. Reason is the enemy he dreads and, simultaneously, considers precarious; reason, to him, is a means of deception; he feels that men possess some power more potent than reason—and only their causeless belief or their forced obedience can give him a sense of security, a proof that he has gained control of the mystic endowment he lacked. His lust is to command, not to convince: conviction requires an act of independence and rests on the absolute of an objective reality. What he seeks is power over reality and over men’s means of perceiving it, their mind, the power to interpose his will between existence and consciousness, as if, by agreeing to fake the reality he orders them to fake, men would, in fact, create it." Galt's speech

Whether you are initiating force or you do nothing to combat it when cognizant of its imminence, you are either an Attila or an enabler aiding and abetting, though your emotions and fear of retaliation are overruling your reason.

Of course many Muslims are undoubtedly victims of the brutes among them and their inaction is a product of fear. They fear the force of the brutes will be directed towards them. They are paralyzed.
... "A simple example would be a gunman who says; 'I don't care what my prey thinks. I just want him to hand over his wallet.' Force in this aspect makes a man act against his judgement. The victim still sees what he sees, values what he values, knows what he knows. The forcer, however, bypasses the victims cognition, making it useless in practice. When the gunman threatens; 'Your money or your life.' the owner still knows to whom the money belongs. But if he does not choose to risk death or physical harm, the threat is the factor that has to determine his action. His own conclusion---however is clear, logical compelling---becomes impotent." pg. 313, OTPOAR.

Those few Muslims that do stand up and denounce these barbarities are the exceptions. They are able to overcome their fears and face them. We must allow for them, and encourage them; for there is still hope for them and to do otherwise is to pass a collective judgement and do them injustice. Underneath the indoctrination and conditioning of their upbringing, can there be any doubt that many are not true believers, but are putting up a facade and simply going along to get along? I would still suggest that they take a good look at their own and or their associates beliefs in mysticism particularly since Mohamed-ism, is not a "religion of peace" for many of its followers. Its foundations are the product of a tyrannical miscreant. It has had no reformation. Nonetheless, those that do not speak out, but sit idly by while atrocities are committed in the name of their beliefs deserve not our sympathy or consideration.

Respectfully,
O.A.

Dido. What the American people need to understand is that the fight against Islam is a fight for freedom.

I argue with myself all the time. It's highly entertaining. My wife just asks me why I'm muttering to myself and whether or not she needs to get that white coat with overlong sleeves we have hanging up in the closet... =D

I wish I could argue with you but I cannot.

"based on the Koran, they are obligated to say anything, including lying"

A valid concern: taqiyya. But I have to refer back to innocent until proven guilty. I have to respect the ideas of probable cause, warrant, arrest, prosecution via trial, etc. I don't quite have the ability to read people's minds - a fact my wife laments often. ;)

"Personally, I don't think we should let any of them in until the war is long over."

And that could be when one side no longer exists.

Do you know which religious book this passage is from?

"If a prophet or someone who has dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you, and that sign or wonder he has promised you comes about, but he says, ‘Let us follow other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us worship them,’ do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. ... That prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has urged rebellion against the Lord your God ... You must purge the evil from you. ... If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and worship other gods' (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God. ... If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, 'Let us go and worship other gods' (gods you have not known), then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock. You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt."

That may be me since I did not see either of those 2 things in her message. Personally I think this is our worst crisis to be dealt with and there are no easy answers.

I totally agree there is no easy answer. I just don't want the American people to give up more freedom than they already have.

I would mostly agree but based on the Koran, they are obligated to say anything, including lying to get along until they are in a position of power. Based on that alone, will we ever be able to trust what they say? Personally, I don't think we should let any of them in until the war is long over.

These are not the same kind of papers I am talking about but even if it was we make a choice to show them for the intended purpose.

I think the overarching principle is that of loyalty: is the individual loyal to the Constitution of the United States. If they are not willing to swear to that and instead say that there is some other higher law (ie Sharia), then that answers the question for me and they should get shipped out of the US without further adieu - citizen or not.

Don't remember, but I appreciate the thought. Thanks for the post! Keep up your thoughtful and insightful messages!

What is discrimination? Definition: choosing to differentiate between two things. People are absolutely NUTS not to differentiate. IMO, It is not the act of seeing reality for what it is (separating different items in reality from each other) that there is any problem with. It is choosing to irrationally associate one thing with another that is the problem (black person = inferior, etc.). It is a matter of false consequent rather than false antecedent as it has been painted.

I don't have a problem with anyone in this nation that wants to uphold the principles upon which this nation was built: respect for competing thoughts, right of assembly, right of self-defense, right of self-determination, etc. It is infringements upon those that I object too - whether they were born here or not. It matters not to me if you are an imported terrorist or a politician.

ISIS

You think that you don't need to show your papers?!? Try voting, or cashing a check, or getting a job, or using a credit card, or getting a driver's license, or.... Just because most transactions aren't governmental, doesn't mean that your "privacy" isn't being invaded. Technology has rendered privacy moot. You're already used to "show me your papers."

Careful - The Old Testament instructs you kill infidels as well. (Although in modern printings that word has mysteriously disappeared) Also, the original "do not kill" commandment said that they should never kill another Israelite, everyone else is fair game.
And...ever heard of the Crusades? Which religion is more violent is a hard one to answer.