How many people are we?

govols comments on Jul 15, 2019:

Here

[reason.

govols comments on Jul 15, 2019:

Is this person arguing that there is no "the people" and that there is nobody being harmed by a non-existent ruling elite?

Oh God, this is one of those jokes you need to look away from if you can't handle horrible jokes.

govols comments on Jul 13, 2019:

Oh, dear.

New Finnish Study Finds No Evidence For Man-Made Climate Change [www.

govols comments on Jul 12, 2019:

PDF to the paper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00165.pdf

What are your guys thought on State currencies rather then a inflated federal currency?

govols comments on Jul 11, 2019:

I won't attempt to master economics and monetary theory. I will say that the Constitution delegates to congress the power to coin money, to establish the value thereof, and to standardize weights and measures. It doesn't delegate any power to invent and then print paper legal tender notes and call it money. Nor to establish a national bank.

If the team is correct, the Apidima skull fragment adds to evidence that trickles of modern humans ...

govols comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Yep. Thanks for the link....

There's a story about a man who lives in a great house next to a verdant piece of land.

govols comments on Jul 11, 2019:

I still don't get it.

[ijr.

govols comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Now that was a post full of ways with words. Nice.

Another use for Duct tape!

govols comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Nuh hh!!!!! That just so wrong...........

[theguardian.

govols comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Beer is a sugary drink. Damn. I'm gonna die. I need a beer..............

Genesis Account (somewhat modified)

govols comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Now that's funny.

Superconsciousness Is the Universe a Conscious Mind? Is the Universe Alive? [youtu.be]

govols comments on Jul 11, 2019:

One of the things that pisses me off is the fact that I don't know. This here is one of those things. What's worse? Learning more about such questions does nothing to make you know more, but instead gives you enough information to realize how hopelessly ignorant you going to remain, no matter how smart you think you are.

Article about a quality Christian soccer player who was left off of the women's national team squad ...

govols comments on Jul 11, 2019:

I doubt it can be proven that she was cut due to her beliefs, but if she was it was in violation of law. Personally, well, I have no objection to discrimination except by government officers and agencies, but that's not the way we've allowed the law to be imposed.

In the US, 18 year olds can be drafted into the military.

govols comments on Jul 11, 2019:

I tend to think that all rights of citizenship, and all privileges of residency, should come in each State at the minimum age at which individuals may be legally tried for crimes as adults.

So Trump lost again in the courts, eh?

govols comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Yeah, this one sounds like it might wind up a loss to the giant tech censors.

[youtu.be] Clean Coal Burning?

govols comments on Jul 10, 2019:

All of that CO2 can be converted to gasoline and diesel fuel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5SqwSU8ns4 The video tells of a process that pulls CO2 from the air and catalyzes traditional liquid fuel. Here's a more recent look. https://earthbuddies.net/future-petrol-co2-gasoline/

Who is the Ijiit here...?? "Obama's decendents owned slaves." [explainlife.com]

govols comments on Jul 10, 2019:

Wow.

Just for fun google "pittsburgh synagogue shooting" and see what comes up.

govols comments on Jul 10, 2019:

I'm finding it takes creativity in search terms to find non-corporate content these days. All of the early returns seem biased toward major media.

Whatever the Truth turns out to be, I will believe it.

govols comments on Jul 10, 2019:

I hate you.

Check out the science of the small.

govols comments on Jul 9, 2019:

I've machined parts on manual lathes and mills to plus nothing, minus 0.001". I've welded shim stock down to 0.010" with a plasma welder. I've butt-welded (laser) dissimilar wires as small as 0.003" with weld zone tolerances of plus/minus 0.0005". I've spent maybe 10,000 hours over a microscope over thirty years.

It would be funnier if not true.

govols comments on Jul 8, 2019:

I hope he sees this post. I hope he tests it.

Whether or not mankind is changing the Climate, we know that it does change and that there are ...

govols comments on Jul 8, 2019:

I'm persuaded that human civilization can impact climate. I'm persuaded that modern climate "science" is entwined with progressive politics and global economic and population policy ideas. I don't trust the science funding lobby, the global industrial AND MARKETING powers, and the political activists to screw with civilization with climate as their bludgeon.

And this Jack ass who think he is an Orator just because he change of intonation here and there and ...

govols comments on Jul 8, 2019:

I think that's the guy who called Jordan Peterson a mean mad white man. Dyson?

A Spanish magician says he will disappear on the count of 3.

govols comments on Jul 7, 2019:

Really?

[nationalreview.

govols comments on Jul 5, 2019:

I can't figure integration out. I can understand differing views when I try, but I can't figure out how to see the world from vantages other than my own. Still, on some level, in trying to understand more about differing views I think my own vantage moves...even if I'm stuck with my previous conclusions. I see history as that which caused the present, but I don't really see the present as shaping the future so much as contributing to the past that will shape the next present. I can't make the future, but I can do today what will make the history that does. I don't see the world as what might be, but instead see the present as the opportunity to build on the past that becomes what will be. The idea of tearing down or reinterpreting history is one I can't integrate. The past defines what we are. Living up to the accomplishments of those who made us contributes to the past that formulates tomorrow.

DHS Officer of Inspector General reveals squalid conditions in border detention centers ...

govols comments on Jul 3, 2019:

Overwhelming a system has impact. Promising DACA, health care, amnesty, refugee status to economic migrants contributes markedly to the effort in place to bring down national borders.

Ignorant Professor Preaches Hate Before the 4th of July Holiday

govols comments on Jul 3, 2019:

They fabricate fictions and present it as knowledge. It's really amazing to behold in practice.

Is it just me or is Trump's monologue on homelessness in this interview reminiscent of the ...

govols comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Do some of our cities have problems related to the effects of policies that fail to promote or actually dissuade utilization of basic public hygiene? Has basic public health become an issue in some cities? Just curious. I avoid dense populations.

What is the ecological importance of humans?

govols comments on Jul 2, 2019:

We're here to provide competition to the top end of the food chain. And to see the view from perspectives unavailable to any before us. And to utter the words, "hey! watch this!"

Can some of you history buffs tell me when "our" government became "the" government?

govols comments on Jul 2, 2019:

It started with the war between the Union and the Confederate States. Before the war the United States are; after the war the United States is. That distinction is where it began and it got reinforced through Reconstruction right into the Progressive Era and the administrative leviathon that followed.

How much does TV/Movies affect your opinions? [dailywire.com]

govols comments on Jul 1, 2019:

I think we're all affected, and probably more than we realize or would like to believe. I know for a fact that I get reinforced in my negative views when I see obvious sjw efforts, over-representation of minority groups, poor representations of fathers, etc. Basically, movies and TV have moved me from disinterested, through disapproving, toward loathing for a lot of social and political ideas. Where my father mellowed in his years toward my own previous outlook, I'm growing ever closer to actually being the sorts of "-ists" that he or I never really was at heart. I've spent decades learning to experience my emotions and biases from as far from my behavior as possible, and now I'm glad for my progress. I can manage rage, disgust, and even something close to hatred without it prompting external reaction. A friend used to laugh at one of my cracks and tell me I'd say anything. I used to answer, "you should hear what I don't say." Anyway, yeah, we're all affected. Many of us in completely unintended and undesirable ways.

I have been in discussion lately with a couple of Christians.

govols comments on Jun 29, 2019:

Have you ever discussed to agreement what moral and ethical is?

I have been in discussion lately with a couple of Christians.

govols comments on Jun 29, 2019:

What behavior?

Forget nuanced positions.

govols comments on Jun 28, 2019:

I believe there will be blood and fire, and through them we will sort ourselves.

Hardcore Partisans Don't Understand Each Other (and it's worst among educated liberals) ...

govols comments on Jun 28, 2019:

I've read enough on this topic that I'll pass on the article, but I'll toss out an idea as to why: The more you know, the less rational a traditional framework seems, and the more ridiculous leftist theory proves to be. I crawled all into the privilege/power/oppression theory and find it lacking reason, research and evidence; it isn't "theory," it's "theology." Traditionalism shares much of that, and needs always to face inquiry, but at least it has proven to mostly function as a way to stave off the abject horror of existence most humans endured throughout the pre-modern ages, the lunacy we enjoy today in the post-modern age, and even mostly mitigated the difficulties of a human condition not at all yet adapted to difficulties of modernity.

Go STRAIGHT to Hell Google.. [youtube.com]

govols comments on Jun 27, 2019:

I've spent some time trying to cross some of the content youtube has deleted with other platforms like bitchute, vimeo, dailymotion... I lot of the content is lost to the fact that very little cross-pollination has thus far existed.

Although I oppose the ill perceptive that the MGTOW philosophy brings to a man, I think this brings ...

govols comments on Jun 26, 2019:

This guy has about as punchable a voice as I've ever heard.

More about Google's bias.

govols comments on Jun 26, 2019:

I hate google. The article so misrepresents Peterson that I wonder if the author's philosophy includes any thoughts on the idea of truth.

Neoliberal Corporatism: The global concentration of power in the hands of a few (powerful ...

govols comments on Jun 26, 2019:

I honestly can't figure it out. It feels like a giant conspiracy but the very idea seems preposterous. It feels like a bunch of "ruling elite" are actually trying to build a global hegemony of a uber-rich corptocracy, a minimal middle class consisting of the equivalent of agreeable middle management, and then a lower class of debt-ridden consumption slaves. The thing is, I think it might just be the natural progression of civilizations that aren't eventually conquered; they fall to their own decadence.

Post modernist zealot Angela Saini has published a book "Superior" wherein she espouses the ...

govols comments on Jun 25, 2019:

Even if all of our perceptions are social constructs, all of our values and social expectations are constructed, they're suggesting they can devise better constructs based on (less than) a century of Theory than were developed over thousands of generations of applied human interactions?

Justice: "FREE TO CHOOSE" Do you support libertarians' argument? - Very interesting!

govols comments on Jun 25, 2019:

26 minutes in, I'm noticing that a significant portion of Asians in the audience seem fairly rapt, and many whites seem to be uncomfortable.

This is just too rich.

govols comments on Jun 25, 2019:

Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose got some fake papers published in academic journals. Title and abstract of one such paper: Going in Through the Back Door: Challenging Straight Male Homohysteria, Transhysteria, and Transphobia Through Receptive Penetrative Sex Toy Use Abstract To date, very little research literature exists concerning receptive penetrative anal eroticism in straight men. Of particular interest are its impacts upon other factors relevant to masculinities, sex roles, and the study of sexualities. Several co-consti- tuted features of masculinity are likely to be relevant to straight-male anal sexuality, including masturbatory play with penetrative sex toys. Specifcally, this study seeks to explore, “Do men who report greater comfort with receptive penetrative anal eroticism also report less transphobia, less obedience to masculine gender norms, greater partner sensitivity, and greater awareness about rape?” This study uses semi- structured interviews with thirteen men to explore this question, analyzed with a naturalist and constructivist grounded theory approach in the context of sexualities research and introduces transhysteria as a parallel concept to Anderson’s homohyste- ria. This analysis recognizes potential socially remedial value for encouraging male anal eroticism with sex toys. Keywords Sexuality · Receptive anal eroticism · Sex toys · Homohysteria · Transphobia · Transhysteria https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=kVk9a5Jcd1k

The gender pay gap is total bullshit.

govols comments on Jun 25, 2019:

Have you looked at the purse for the two events?

Income inequality and loss of the middle class vision of advance since 1990 in part got Trump ...

govols comments on Jun 24, 2019:

It isn't about the tax rate. The problem is the regard we hold for those who do the jobs we think are beneath us. 16% of us are too dumb to "learn to code." Dirt cheap consumer goods produced overseas isn't made up for by re-distributive tax and welfare policies here at home. A decent respect for the efforts of the ditch digger, the septic pumper, the lettuce picker, the cooks and the wait staff... I make x/hr. I don't want to rent a pump truck, dig up the pump port, and spend two weekends trying to fix the fact that there is shit in my bathtub. Why do I begrudge the septic pumper his x or 2x wage if he has my shit rolling downhill in a few hours time while I sip beer and watch. I decide this day I don't want to cook and then clean up at home. I bitch that it takes an hour or two of my own pay to pay for a meal? Why? It ain't about tax rates. It's about having a decent regard for your neighbors and making sure that decent local jobs are available to work up to for those who work hard at the shitty ones that always remain local. That means maintaining an economy of locally made things and well paid services for those who aren't quite up to the tasks required by the economy of ideas and information.

Professor Hanson posted a list of classical literature to read dealing with the nature of man, war, ...

govols comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Keep reposting it from time to time. It's a great tool for all of us.

‘We need a rational left’ (who is liked by conservatives :))

govols comments on Jun 24, 2019:

I like Bret and many other liberals but I really want all of those playing at IDW to get on with their disciplines and making presentations of their subject matter instead of so much time at politics and speech.

Glacier National Park Quietly Removes It’s gone By 2020 signs [zerohedge.com]

govols comments on Jun 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4R5-y0Dc1s

CNN Makes Combination YouTube / Gab Hit Piece [youtu.be]

govols comments on Jun 24, 2019:

I'm wondering if we shouldn't just ignore CNN from now on. Efforts to offer up critical content serves only to validate CNN. Reject and ignore seems most appropriate.

Charles Murray laments the lack of investment in the intellectual elite where 0.

govols comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Where did you find lamentations over a lack of investment into the cognitive elite? Most of what I've read or heard from him laments the cultural isolation they enjoy due to the fact that the system is so effective at finding them and bringing them into the intellectual fold.

What is the intellectual justification for replacing the proper word "men" with the fabricated ...

govols comments on Jun 24, 2019:

A few things come to mind: The need to publish something new in an industry established to create doctrine and citation/reference it into "knowledge" requires each grad student in grievance studies to invent or expand on bullshit. Tens of thousands of new papers are published each year in the attempt to make the grievance narrative "normative." The more linguistic bullshit that can be invented and implemented to describe socially accepted norms, the more easily "normal" can be expressed in babble-garble language that allows "Allies" to signal to the multi-cult tribe that they are a part of the multi-cult in spirit if not through any thus far approved victim status. Being fluent in the language of the multi-cult allows one to participate in it's signaling rituals, and helps isolate the worshipers from outside ridicule by causing non-believers to self-identify by using phrasing not ordained through use in the sacred texts. The priesthood of the multi-cult, and their acolytes, use the high holy dialect to shroud the multi-cult in a sort of mysticism that calls to the gaping hole in the souls of the multi-cult laity. Sermons delivered in the language of the sacred texts during prayer services stimulate in the laity the passion to participate in the call and response chants practiced at such worship rituals as Women's March, Pride Fest, or OrangeManBad gatherings.

This is what a mentally unhealthy neighbor threw out into the middle of our cul de sac because she ...

govols comments on Jun 22, 2019:

Finder's keepers?

Tremendous progress was made today welding the complex fore and aft spars on the Seawolf.

govols comments on Jun 21, 2019:

What do you mean by cope? I haven't done it in a while but I remember machining titanium to be fairly easy if turning or milling, but sort of gummy if trying to tap. I remember it as far more like aluminum than stainless or hasteloy where machining is concerned. How is the welding going? Do NOT grit blast anything if welding is to follow. I've forgotten more than I remember, but I have notes and coworkers. If you have challenges post them up.

[foxnews.com] But....but....but....it's all made up. No historical accuracy at all.

govols comments on Jun 21, 2019:

Does anyone really think there's no historical accuracy? I'm not a faith filled believer, nor an atheist. I'm not a credentialed scholar. I'm freaking astounded by history, culture, and religion. I've read enough and watched enough lectures by very learned people to know that the bible would be considered a HUGE contribution to our potential understanding of ancient history, poured over by scholars for centuries if it had been lost and then dug up sometime in the recent past by archaeologists. All of the most modern methods of critical interpretation would be deployed to try to sort the history from the lore, facts from traditions, truth from moral and cultural instruction. Whole departments would be built aimed at deconstructing and sorting the text, each chunk of new information directed toward literature, philosophy, history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, etc. Well, maybe.

The New Society (I believe that we are on the cusp of a new, unprecedented and largely ...

govols comments on Jun 20, 2019:

I'm interested in your project, but every time I think about diving into it...like, really since some our earliest interactions... Damn. It's big.

Do you think i should add 2nd moderator to this site if so who and should it be ? Thanks folks

govols comments on Jun 20, 2019:

Why do you think one might be needed?

From one of my sons.

govols comments on Jun 20, 2019:

I don't get it.....

Was the introduction of abstract art a sign of the complete disconnection of man and spirit?

govols comments on Jun 19, 2019:

Google "venus figurine" to see what abstract art is capable of offering the human spirit.

If you have seen this one before it may be worth seeing again, it's that good. [facebook.com]

govols comments on Jun 19, 2019:

I find him really hard to tolerate when he has a script.

To start things off, here's a podcast link from May 21st, 2019 Defending The West From The West - ...

govols comments on Jun 19, 2019:

We (from other cultures) can take your material innovation and raise it, because we don't have to bother with your ideas of individual sovereignty and liberty.....

[youtube.com]

govols comments on Jun 19, 2019:

We (from other cultures) can take your material innovation and raise it, because we don't have to bother with your ideas of individual sovereignty and liberty.....

Thunderbolts Project (archive) [youtube.com] Say, what's your take on Electric Universe theory?

govols comments on Jun 19, 2019:

The video doesn't play. what was the title?

America’s Forgotten History of Illegal Deportations - The Atlantic

govols comments on Jun 18, 2019:

Articles so flagrantly biased are poor presentations to offer if reasoned consideration is to be hoped for. But, that's not the intent; the intent is to stir an emotional reaction from those already persuaded to the ideology being promoted. Alas, and so it goes.

Camille Paglia @ Lafayette, "Gender Issues in Ancient Art," Full Event [youtube.com]

govols comments on Jun 18, 2019:

Thanks. The trans teacher on South Park is like her antithesis. M'kay?

Have you confronted an anti-semite?

govols comments on Jun 18, 2019:

I've never confronted an anti-semite because I don't understand the phrase. Semite is a word associated with language, and many peoples share languages with common origins. If one means anti-Jew or anti-Zion, say it.

I came across the statement that Islamophobia and antisemitism are words that prevent the criticism ...

govols comments on Jun 18, 2019:

Those words don't quite prevent criticism, but they *are* used to marginalize the ideas expressed and to demonize the person who presents them.

Eat the weeds is a web site that helps in identifying plants that used to be a part of the diet of ...

govols comments on Jun 18, 2019:

Very cool idea. Thanks for the link.

OK, I think that we need a NEW platform to express our ideas and have conversations.

govols comments on Jun 18, 2019:

Do you have a new site? All of the platforms are different, used for purposes they're best at. Are you suggesting some new integrated site or what?

Psychological Barriers to Evolutionary Psychology: Ideological Bias and Coalitional Adaptations, ...

govols comments on Jun 17, 2019:

What a refreshingly comprehensible abstract.

Speak of the Devil: How Demonizing "Whiteness" Spreads White Nationalism | Bret Weinstein - YouTube

govols comments on Jun 17, 2019:

There's something like depth that's missing from both the ideas underlying intersectionality, and the understanding that most people have of those ideas. The understanding that a lot of us have is the whole Oppression Olympics thing that's so easily mocked. I'm not sure many people know the story of where the notion came from. The basic cause that prompted the concept was a lawsuit regarding workplace discrimination. A black woman sued GM? Ford? because she wasn't hired. The ruling was that no discrimination occurred because the company employed blacks, and the company employed women. The take away, given the notion that the company was obviously guilty of some sort of oppression, was that a new way of describing the oppression was required. The company was willing to enslave women into one sort of job, and blacks into another sort of job, but was then yet unwilling to enslave black women specifically because they suffered from a special sort of special. Black women are especially oppressed by not just the patriarchy, and not just by systemic racism, but by a combination of both as a result of their lived experience of being both women and black. The special form of oppressive victimization they experience from society arises at the "intersection" of womanhood and blackness. The entire theory is an attempt to innovate a legal tactic. The strategy is to use novel interpretation with and against the existing legal structure in order to re-imagine the meanings of law and order themselves. White men aren't the targets of the theory; the status quo of the rule of law is the target. That sometimes white men become the victims is but a happy coincident. The underlying idea is that the entire legal system is a product of those with power in previous generations handed down a system that inherently designed to keep in power their own posterity--at the expense of everyone "not them." The framework of intersectionality isn't the idea of overlapping forms of privilege and victimization, but instead that law and order is a product--and the form--of oppression. The Critical Legal Theory from which intersectionality derives is that tactics must be innovated to serve the strategy of reinventing jurisprudence itself. Very much like it matters less who is allowed to vote than it does who counts the votes, it matters less who makes the laws than it does who interprets and fabricates the language used during adjudication.

Speak of the Devil: How Demonizing "Whiteness" Spreads White Nationalism | Bret Weinstein - YouTube

govols comments on Jun 17, 2019:

One of my big objections right now is the entirety of the left "power/oppression" and "zero sum" view of the world. If the world is as they view it then they are, by definition, attempting to take over the use of power in order to impose a new distribution system upon the previously privileged. Given their continuous insistence that the power to present has been privileged toward the hetero-normative cis-gendered white male ruling class for which all whites are assigned some level of blame, they've actually, for real, without question, declared war on the straight white male and all of his kin. It's all right there in their own damned "Theory."

The Seawolf was designed to solve the 7 main technical problems of Seasteading: 1) Corrosion - ...

govols comments on Jun 16, 2019:

What is an upright spar type structure, and have current titanium vessels been publicly inspected for any issues you're saying the material eliminates?

This Father's Day is tough.

govols comments on Jun 16, 2019:

I believe human is a set, and person is a subset. I have no moral or emotional attachment to the set of all humans. There are millions of both men and women among the set of persons, all of whom I regard as largely decent and worthy of trust. The set of humans who have demonstrated personhood to me number in the dozens and include both men and women. The rest I assume to be animals until I know them well enough to develop a mutual trust. It fits my experience.

At a risk of starting a massive debate, I will say in advance that I will NOT be discussing the ...

govols comments on Jun 16, 2019:

I think you're framing it unfairly. Both sides agree about making choices regarding the getting of pregnant. It's the matter of how pregnancy ends where objections arise.

Father's Day is rough.

govols comments on Jun 16, 2019:

A topic I know nothing about, and am frankly quite uncomfortable with. Still, if I could manage empathy I would offer it. You're going through shit that no parent should face and I wish none were. You're in my thoughts.

Hello.

govols comments on Jun 16, 2019:

I don't see it. Maybe you and other more active members just tend differently in conversation and purpose, but since the most frequent postrr9 are, Well, the most frequent posters, they're who you hear from....

I feel this video creates a great visual of how rage travels through those whom fail to acknowledge ...

govols comments on Jun 15, 2019:

The video fails to play.

What are some of your thoughts on the United Nations 2030 project, and also the tribute song devoted...

govols comments on Jun 15, 2019:

The song was impossible to listen to.

Apparently only Dems can collect opposition research on candidates from foreign governments.

govols comments on Jun 15, 2019:

Yep.

Beware of the Trolls Alert - Every now and then we all run into one of these, appealing to a group ...

govols comments on Jun 14, 2019:

My biggest problem with people online is the ones with whom I share no apparent interest. They sometimes make my scrolling finger sore.

Black Pigeon Speaks BANNED From YouTube - YouTube

govols comments on Jun 14, 2019:

It's back on now...or was an hour ago.

Transcript of 14th Amendment to the U.

govols comments on Jun 12, 2019:

No commentary?

In an attempt to expose academic fields corrupted by postmodern ideology

govols comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Is there wealth enough among us that fuck it money might be raised to support such lights of truth?

I need help.

govols comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Totally rebutted by a meme? https://idw.community/idw/images/posts/23663_8ws99erv7kfbn97_full.jpeg?v=2

Is science-denialism the same on the Left as it is on the Right?

govols comments on Jun 12, 2019:

This topic pisses me off. Science is about exploring and explaining, but is always about skepticism. People don't deny science; people question conclusions and inferences. Such questioning and skepticism isn't denial, but science.

Is science-denialism the same on the Left as it is on the Right?

govols comments on Jun 12, 2019:

I'll stipulate that science seeks fact, but not that it seeks truth.

Will President Trump be able to drain the swamp?

govols comments on Jun 12, 2019:

There will be no swamp draining. The administrative state and the managerial class are millions strong, fairly wealthy, and enjoy both great power and position security.

I disagree with Andrew Yang on many things.

govols comments on Jun 12, 2019:

It's kinda crazy that political preference has come down to degrees and directions of hatred, eh?

Jimmy Kimmel is a racist, misogynistic,homophobic, bigoted, straight white man! Oh and a hypocrite ...

govols comments on Jun 11, 2019:

Thanks....

Get out and see the sunshine, it is far better the virtual world.

govols comments on Jun 11, 2019:

Yep. Been there, done that. Now that you mention it, though, think I'll go piss off the back porch and see it again.

Any thoughts [medium.com]

govols comments on Jun 11, 2019:

I doubt the sanity of the author.

Most atheists believe in the supernatural.

govols comments on Jun 10, 2019:

I have less difficulty with God than with generic good/evil or spirit world type stuff. For now my opinion of the nature of humans as animals is sufficient to explain evil, and his nature as conscious as sufficient to explain good.

Third Discrimination Suit Filed Against Masterpiece Cakeshop No matter how many times you win, the ...

govols comments on Jun 10, 2019:

This is bull crap. The proper ruling for some case at some point needs to be to acknowledge that custom art can't be forced from someone against their own morals for the purpose of making them express on your behalf political, social and moral views with which they don't agree.

Faith or Works?

govols comments on Jun 10, 2019:

Faith. I think it was Aristotle who said all human actions are aimed at "some good," but also pointed out that a great deal of practice is required to either apprehend the nature of the actual good and its component parts, or to act toward it consistently and intentionally. A really bright person with incredible moral and ethical insight, vast reserves of self-discipline, might manage on his own to earn the positive judgment of God. The rest of us need faith in the grace that God might lend us if we can but manage to seek his will and follow it as best we can discern it. We're too flawed to perform in the world as though in the image of God. Still, even non-believers, given faith at least in the idea of moral good, can seek the strength to follow it toward good actions, practice at least NOT DOING wrong. Even the determinists among us, through faith in free-won't, can practice some free will no matter the chemical biological demands of out behavioral response to stimulus.

To find out 100% facts

govols comments on Jun 9, 2019:

Depends on the sort of information you're after. Google is good if you go to multiple sites. The key is YOU being open minded and looking for truth. Sometimes it hurts.

Is this real, American folks? Sounds crazy.

govols comments on Jun 5, 2019:

Yes, it's real. It isn't about a nutter judge here or there, but about the fact that all of the precedence is in place such that every court that rules according to current established law would apply the additional phrasing as it was applied to previous rulings to prior phrasing.

I finally get it!!! The Leftists call anything and anyone who supports their nation over another as ...

govols comments on Jun 4, 2019:

The single issue of current times is globalism. It isn't left/right. The global left and global right frown on any ideas that tend toward local, national, regional, sectional...non-global thinking or attitudes. There is a collection of monists across the left/right spectrum that seeks to globalize solutions to to the human condition. Some want global merchantilism, others global governmental structures, others global environmental policies... The common thread is a certain "one world/one human condition and experience" sort of belief structure. Well, that and empire sorts of thinking.

assange is having “health issues”. Legit?

govols comments on May 31, 2019:

The Russians did it.

[youtube.com] Ask yourself....do you really want to know just how deep the rabbit hole goes?

govols comments on May 31, 2019:

One of the biggest points he's trying to make is the need to prioritize the value of citizenship and to weight that value against the need to increase the value of shareholder ownership. His view, it seems to me, is that the purpose and nature of a functional NATION is to worry as much (or more) about the value to the shareholders--stake-holders--of the nation itself, as is worried over the value of global corporations. Nationalism is about sustainability. A nation has to be able to provide great opportunity to three sections of people within it. No matter the status of an endeavor's value to human achievement, the very fucking good, the adequate, and the "you suck at that but try this" categories have to all be aimed toward a common greater good of general prosperity at every level of both ability and achievement. The scientist might look a bit down at the engineer, who might look down a bit at the technician; everyone looks up to the septic tank pumper when the toilets back up into the bathtubs and sinks.

[youtube.com] Ask yourself....do you really want to know just how deep the rabbit hole goes?

govols comments on May 31, 2019:

This video has more ads than any I've seen.

Hillary is waiting in the wings .

govols comments on May 30, 2019:

I have no doubt she is currently running. She may never announce, but she is actively seeking the nomination.