VIDEO: Boy Prays to Obama
Truly, combined with server other instances caught on video, this is the cult of personality. It seemed like this kid was coached by someone off camera, an unfit parent?
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Yes, I can make and have made a strong argument that anything other than capitalism is pure evil (like the devil).
The young are so impressionable. There is a reason we do not let them vote. They are so easily manipulated by propaganda... so easily caught up in things...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHoxl8IK7...
September is right around the corner... "Jupiter's %&*# Spartacus is coming!
Well in only in the way we perceive objective reality. The difference between an Objectivist and a Relativist, is we know that the universe is objective and not based on our perceptions, to Relativist reality is based on their perception ie: "a persons perception is their reality" which is truly nonsensical.
"We can't really tell what the world is. Your earlier statement shows that to be contradictory."
Your right we can't, I wasn't debating that, but how we interact with it and react to it is, it is with a degree of subjectivity, and that was my point. We try to minimize our subjectivity and use controls to negate it, but we can never really be free of it totally.
"That humans can be subjective is irrelevant to the argument. "
Not sure what the point is here, if it is 'irrelevant' then we might as well end the discussion, we are humans after all and we have to deal with what we are given, calling something 'irrelevant' doesn't necessarily make it so. Also it isn't that humans can be subjective, it is that they are subjective. We can even take this to a logical conclusion, if humans are subjective that becomes an objective truth and something we have to account for in anything discussion of humans and Objectionism.
http://youtu.be/-ijOlAR3zs8
they have Jack White written all over them. I enjoy them . provocateurs- good old fashioned engaging entertainment
Their song Pressure and Time is as solid as it comes.
I think that you just did "A Post Too Far"...!
;-)
Nobody has ever been in any danger being baptized, except perhaps John the Baptist...he lost his head over it.
1. why can't you dip your own head and body
2. why do you have to do it in a large body of water
3. how are you changed? NOT
4. what's the upside?
5. and babies are just as pure after being dribbled with water as they were before
Full bodied baptisms are easier in large bodies of water...they're also done inside churches (I know this personally) but it takes a lot of water to fill that tank up and someone has to make sure it's drained and dried and cleaned and recovered....the lake is easier... not as clean, however. The baby baptism has always bothered me too... If God isn't going to let in a baby then I'm not sure you're a good God. Oh...and you have to have some ordained minister person officiate the baptism, so you can't dunk yourself... that's just swimming.
I happen to look at both and I think you do as well.I just wanted to address this specific example and put it into perspective. The message sent to the little boy by his parents should not be argued as blasphemy and perversion. It should be the content and substance of the values behind his "prayer." It is substance-less. Elevating a man to a deity is irrational.
To suggest what you know to be impossible would be irrational, would it not? As to your statement that man is an irrational being, from Galt's Speech:
"Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking—that the mind is one’s only judge of values and one’s only guide of action—that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise—that a concession to the irrational invalidates one’s consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality—that the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind—that the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one’s consciousness." -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
That has nothing to do with anything except my perception of it. I think your jumping to many conclusions without determining why I said what I said or where my thinking was coming from.
Nice speech, so your going to quote from what a book tells you over what a book tells me?? I wonder if you see the irony.
Sorry but I find that confusing at best, you asked a question;
"have you ever forced your kids to say prayers or go to church? "
Not a personal opinion.
"It is relevant and on point. "
How so? You never tied what you were saying with what I stated. You did assume a lot.
"and this is an Atlas Shrugged site last time I checked,"
So you thought you would quote from the book to support your view? Does this mean that we can only base our discussion on what is in Atlas Shrugged?
I have to be honest all though I see a lot of validity in Ayn Rands book, I do not believe in everything she has stated, after all she is basing much of what she has written on her personal experience which is different for each of us.
RE: "... she is basing much of what she has written on her personal experience."
This is actually not the case blaze. Rand was not a "Subjectivist." Everything she wrote was based on the acknowledgement of an Objective Reality first. Rand's point-of-view is actually irrelevant. And, that's actually the point of all of her writing in general - a subjective point-of-view has no bearing on the truth.
Rob
He is doing it wrong. Where is the sacrificial lamb?
Despicable...
Maybe he could take a self defense plea, since he is being trained to be a victim?