How in the Hell do you forget how to build a Pyramid?

govols comments on May 30, 2019:

The one who had the last one built had all of the builders killed?

Today if you care too, can we explore the mysteries world of TRUTHS AND LIES.

govols comments on May 29, 2019:

Silence is a reasonable choice sometimes.

Modernists Defeated - So it should!

govols comments on May 29, 2019:

Feet, fire. Keep them there.

Well Godless Woman, let's get a conversation started.

govols comments on May 29, 2019:

The old testament has a modern scholarly translation in the form of The Jewish Study Bible. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OKPCRLG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8=1

Wrote another response to Uri Harris.

govols comments on May 28, 2019:

I think you put together accurate representations of both the current fundamental divide, and the nature of the alliance among classically liberal conservatives and progressives against the illiberal bane of identity politics and social justice. (There are no "liberals;" there are only progressives who go so far for a given era that they have to change what they call themselves from time to time to retain some place in electoral politics.)

Who made God?

govols comments on May 28, 2019:

Part of the reason there even IS a God is that we can't imagine the complexity of our experience without there being one (or more). God said, "I am." We humans can't really conceptualize that notion. Everything has a beginning, a cause, a purpose...to even pretend to imagine a form of being that exists outside of our own limitations is simply that: pretense. Some things are incomprehensible, and that's the simplicity of God. We say, "WHY am I here?" God says, "I am." That's the difference between complexity and simplicity, and a manner of being that we mere mortals can't quite wrap our heads around.

[youtube.com] Thoughts?

govols comments on May 28, 2019:

On atheism, yes, many have really struggled with the fact that belief is fundamental to western morality, and that practice of religious faith and traditions is part of how the culture has historically grown and propagated across time. The big question for atheists is "Yeah, and now what the hell do we do?" There are many atheists who are attempting to demystify morals and ethics in a way that can serve as a practical "cult" to stand in stead for faith. Whether God revealed Himself to the ancients or the ancients invented Him to explain the world and to instruct social norms, I'm not sure that matters where the above is concerned. I'm simply unconvinced that any of us are bright enough to outsmart God whether He's the real deal or the sum of the moral and pragmatic wisdom of thousands of generations of humans, being, together.

I ply or 2

govols comments on May 28, 2019:

Nuh uh.

Chuckle [youtu.be]

govols comments on May 26, 2019:

wow.

So spot on!

govols comments on May 26, 2019:

Oh, good lord. That's awesome.

Ok Powerful Men Tend to be Over Sexed?

govols comments on May 26, 2019:

It's not power but status. *Women of a certain type* seek high status partners even if it means persuading the high status individual to betray a current relationship. They want these high status partners because their own self-worth relies on the status they gain by counting coup against rival females. They're not nymphomaniacs, they're greedy, selfish, insecure, vanity driven whores. IMHO......

Tribalism is not only dangerous, but in the end, stupid.

govols comments on May 25, 2019:

I just have a sneaking feeling that most of us can't globalize very well. We don't have it in us to empathize with people from dissimilar cultures half way around the globe. It's just too freaking large a scale. Sure, some have it down to some degree, and yes, most of us have figured out how to identify with a broader community than just a small town or neighborhood, but even at the national level most places have their sectional, social, and economic divisions. I'm not saying we aren't equipped to deal with humanity on a broader scale, but most of us simply can't muster the emotional motivation to bother. Our preference is to live in as small an environment as possible, and the more people we identify with, the more complex our maps of the world have to be. All that said, nothing about being tied to smallish collectives of mostly shared identities and beliefs necessarily requires inter"denominational" hatred or malevolence.

Radio Host Rush Limbaugh and other Palm Beach, Florida residents to bulldoze nuisance sea turtle ...

govols comments on May 24, 2019:

Following law to logical conclusions?

Suppose someone had some spare money. What would be the best thing they could do with it?

govols comments on May 24, 2019:

Suppose someone had some spare money. Okay, now you're just making stuff up.

How can we best do good? It must be better to strive to do good rather than bad ...

govols comments on May 24, 2019:

How can we best do good? Well, first you have to know good. Then you have to practice. Alternatively, you can know a whole lot about "not good" and practice NOT doing those sorts of things. It's all about practice, building the habits of doing and not doing as often and correctly as you can manage.

America has LESS racial prejudice under Trump [mrctv.org]

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

***Another theory is that Republicans and Trump supporters may actually have real concerns not based on race, such as the economy, healthcare, and taxes. But who knows. *** Gee...Ya think?

Would anyone be interested in explanation into the "deep under belly" (as I have named it) of ...

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

Sure, lay it on us.

Is anyone else concerned about the lack of skilled tradesmen in this country????

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

Very troubled that so much hand talent with good minds are shunted off to college and shoehorned into desk work before they ever learn what it feels like to craft good forms from base materials.

5G might kill municipal broadband [pagetwo.completecolorado.com]

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

Good post. Thanks.

When you can say what you want.

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

Yep. But nobody wants to hear that.

Labour Knew about the Muslim Grooming Gangs - YouTube

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

infuriating.

Did the Trump administration take the right step in the right direction, to try and protect free ...

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

I don't see any harm from it and any ideas on how we might make social-mass-internet-political-media less tyrannical will have to begin with information.

Hi everyone, here is a thought to pour into the mix.

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

I don't understand what you mean by genetic _ storm.

Would anyone want to do a mock interview with me ?

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

What do you mean by mock interview? Playing the other idiot trying to figure out how to accomplish the technical aspects of pulling it off?

Where is Ruth?

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

You've posted on this theme a few times. Have you seen reporting that she hasn't been attending arguments or something?

[digitaltrends.

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

I wonder if the National Aeronautics and Space Agency consulted with the team over at the US Geological Survey on this. Dumb asses.

Kushner replied 'on it!' after Manafort sought post for banker

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

So, are you calling out nepotism? Here? In America? Say it ain't so!

I joined this group for one reason.

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

What's a 12 to 6 elbow?

With the metoo movement slowing down from its media peak, some new results of its reach are starting...

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

The only hope I can muster is that at least in the linked article they referred "sexualization of women's bodies" instead of the latest SJW fad leading them to the language of "sexualizing of Female Bodies" or some crap. No, there's no hope. We're doomed.

Aloha Atheists of IDW.

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

We're in an audit today.

Something different.

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

Hard to tell...Is that paper swans on a stick? Looks cool...

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution was submitted 09/1789 and completed 12/1791, ...

govols comments on May 23, 2019:

Revised 1992?

What is you farvote pet? I like all animals. Horses all at the the number 1 spot for me. 😂

govols comments on May 22, 2019:

I've had a dog and hamsters. I feed birds. My outdoor spaces are infested with lizards. Cats show up and keep me. I don't have pets. I serve cats...

One Space or Two?

govols comments on May 22, 2019:

Since you're here, I saw an article that credited one person with words, and another with style. Does that translated to piss poor writer X, edited by Y?

Very interesting.....

govols comments on May 22, 2019:

I don't get it. I'm guessing they're playing with 50 millions cells in a fetus, trying to get people to realize how quickly a baby develops. Bad play. That suggests a clump of cells rather than a unified individual living and growing human, being.

Yup [youtube.com]

govols comments on May 22, 2019:

Yup. (Maybe.)

First Amendment In the US we have the standard of “clear and present danger” in illegal ...

govols comments on May 22, 2019:

Ya know, most of this sort of thing is easier to deal with once one accepts that the constitutional powers of the legislature have been allowed by the courts to be delegated to the executive. The legislature has a constitutional power to issue letters of marque, the CIA is a quasi-private global information and tactical company, and the president is delegated the authority by congress to order reprisals.

Moral obligation under the us constitution [morallaw.org]

govols comments on May 22, 2019:

I have a hard time finding any moral obligation within the constitution. It is a legal rather than moral document.

@Admin or other group members. Does anyone know why I'd be listed as the originator of this group?

govols comments on May 22, 2019:

This is wonderfully comical.

Pro lifers are the biggest hypocrites.

govols comments on May 22, 2019:

Pro-choice and pro-life are both rhetoric; both are phrases intended to conjure emotional responses. This is one of those topics that can't be resolved. The topic isn't abortion or choice. The topic is fundamentally the question of life itself. Is human life sacred? Is each human individual as sacred as the next? At what point is an embryo a human life? I don't see agreement being negotiated on those questions.

QUESTION: PERSON A IS VERY ABUSIVE TO PERSON B PERSON C KNOWS OF SAID ABUSE.

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

Person B is responsible for her or his self. As is person A and C. Stand.

My Daughter's and dating.

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

LOL!

The Wave - YouTube

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

Okay, I'm 12 minutes in. This is messed up.

So yesterday, I sought out the Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson debate/conversation -hosted by Bret ...

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

These conversations are revolving around several broad ways of perceiving the world. Sam has this weird faith in human reason and the ability of science to eventually know the world well enough that we can reason our way to a moral truth that is almost physically real. Jordan and I disagree, I think in part because we both see that the human animal, given the reality of both bio- and psychological- diversity, a hell of a lot of us won't ever be able to pull off such a moral foundation intellectually. With Bret, the obvious reality that much off our moral landscape is adaptation, within both individuals and societies, to problems associated as much with the human-interaction-environment as with survival of the individual, community, and their offspring. I think Bret sees something I see. Jordan is right that the stories tell something important and that many people will need such stories as a short cut to reasoned ethic development. Sam is possibly right that universal ethical and moral thought might be able to enunciate the ideas better than ancient stories, but Bret and Jordan see a reality in which the only way such ideas could be widely disseminated and adopted would be through emotional (irrational) persuasion. There--a few thoughts to kick things off.

And now, for something completely different...

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

Reminded me of Ron White. "Roll em back up."

The name of the you tube channel is "Blue Collar Logic" - the content is always very well ...

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

There's some good stuff they've put together.

[quillette.com] The West is really bored, too much free time, whats next?

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

maybe some people should consider intimacy within a loving relationship

[gatestoneinstitute.

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

It's amazing how poorly the "west" managed the deconstruction of the empire era. The borders drawn seemingly with no regard for traditional lands and cultural cohesion is just crazy. I wonder if anyone understands just how messed up the whole region is.

I saw this article in Zero Hedge this morning and found it a bit alarming.

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

This is crazy. I would be soooo pissed.

“Socialism is not only, or even principally, an economic doctrine: It is a revolt against human ...

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

This I believe. Much modern "science-base" policy is based on a mistaken idea the humans have no built-in nature.

Question: can someone believe in both GOD AND SCIENCE when comes to things like, the earth's ...

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

Okay, I had to come back and readdress this question. I think some people are persuaded by science that the physical world is knowable, and that humans, as physical entities can likewise be known and understood. If one looks at the whole of current scientific theory across the abundance of fields, the connections and interactions already made or currently under study can certainly, with no small bit of faith in humanity, lend one to such a conclusion. For some, that conclusion and the faith required to reach it are enough. For others, a deeper faith is required. Some people look at the world and the human experience and absolutely require a deeper meaning beyond that which science can ever provide. For some of them, maybe it's music, or art, or Aristotle that gives them enough of what they need. For sure, for some, the material world of quantum Darwin simply isn't a meaningful enough story to make just work of the reality of the lived-experience. For some people, God provides. I know God people in science and engineering. For those with whom I've spoken in moderate depth, the deeper science digs into the world as it is the deeper their faith in God the Creator gets. It's like science is teaching us to read the Universe, and in learning it's language the reality of the Author becomes more excruciatingly obvious. If one works on his faith as fervently as he works on his other studies, science moves one closer to God, and the wonder of Creation becomes ever more profound.

Question: can someone believe in both GOD AND SCIENCE when comes to things like, the earth's ...

govols comments on May 20, 2019:

I don't see a conflict between science and belief in God. The big problem (to me) is those who have a belief in Settled-Science , as if what the experts today think they know can easily be demonstrated wrong or incomplete.

I am curious how many in this community in the United States have read the Bill of Rights and with ...

govols comments on May 19, 2019:

Amendments can't really conflict; they're constitutional by definition. Are you meaning laws?

Groups you would like to see here that are Not political or religion

govols comments on May 17, 2019:

Keeping classic cars, and maintaining and improving a 20-40 year old home.

Since coming to this community, have you been able to release yourself from fb Answer in comments

govols comments on May 17, 2019:

I don't understand the question.

What common ground do you think that the Left and Right still share?

govols comments on May 17, 2019:

It really should be simplicity itself to pop off half a dozen fundamental ideals that everyone agrees on...I got nothin'.

Leftists can’t smell their own gas.

govols comments on May 16, 2019:

Thank you for getting these thoughts out so well.

Jesse Lee Peterson's IRRATIONAL "Love Everybody" Mantra [youtube.com]

govols comments on May 16, 2019:

Is that an accent or a speech impediment?

Can overthinking cause brain stress, clouded vision, or brain damage so say?

govols comments on May 16, 2019:

Overthinking causes brain freeze, and it would be nice if it hurt like when icecream does it. Then we'd know when we were overthinking.

OPINION: The word 'Islamophobia' and its definition are not fit for purpose | Jewish News

govols comments on May 16, 2019:

"-phobia" is being misused all over the place. It's quite tiresome.

is anyone having problems trying to reply to comments within posts?

govols comments on May 16, 2019:

I can comment to opening posts, but the buttons in comment boxes aren't working.

The Left-leaning media like to create and champion underdog stories where an identity-based victim ...

govols comments on May 16, 2019:

**jneedler 6 replied May 16, 2019 0 @govols Hmmmm.... your verbiage is argumentative, but I don't see what you are disagreeing with me on. I only used three sentences - which one exactly do you disagree with?** The reply button isn't working, but I wanted to respond to the above... I apologize for what was a piss-poor attitude yesterday. I wasn't quite disagreeing, but poorly attempting to suggest that the victim theory doesn't quite get to the heart of it. I know they use the victim narrative, but I don't believe they feel like victims. The minions really feel like they're *warriors* . The only victims among the players of identity are those who wear it as a shield against being shunned for not toeing the SJW line.

I could've been a contender.

govols comments on May 16, 2019:

Pretty good.

John Ward IS funny [youtube.com]

govols comments on May 16, 2019:

wow.

It will be different this time! Sen. Tom Cotton on war with Iran. [foxnews.com]

govols comments on May 15, 2019:

Please Lord, Congress, President, Secretaries, make this not happen.

Viability always a challenge. How would you debate this one?

govols comments on May 15, 2019:

I would go with the notion that frozen and neglected is exactly the same as discarded, but frozen and vested with hope for potential is viable. Left as is, the frozen will eventually become non-viable. Left as is, the one in the womb will continue becoming a person from the human it already is.

found this last year thought some of you might like it Opinion Rhapsody [youtube.com]

govols comments on May 15, 2019:

This one is incredibly well done.

In the process of making my air freshener a thought came to me I have not went over my most prized ...

govols comments on May 15, 2019:

Yep.

Damn...and its out of warranty!

govols comments on May 15, 2019:

Really?

Biden eating his own foot yet again

govols comments on May 15, 2019:

We should remove both his his legs at the pelvis, shove them simultaneously down his throat feet first, just to see it over with once and for all.

The Left-leaning media like to create and champion underdog stories where an identity-based victim ...

govols comments on May 15, 2019:

Part of what's happening... Many on the left have been exposed to a deconstruction of every idea of the good that might have existed within the culture in which they were born. European culture colonized and oppressed foreign lands and indigenous peoples across the globe. European culture itself was an oppressive regime of class dominance and imposed inferiority complexes that spanned generations and reduced whole populations to gradated positions of "place" within the power structure. They've been made to feel shame, resentment, or both over most aspects of their heritage. They have been stripped of any pride of place or past, their entire society condemned as a vile scheme designed by their ancestors to impose a domineering or inferiority station upon all within it. That shit is traumatizing on some deep fucking psychological level in a way that undermines any faith in the goodness that might be proposed among traditional cultural accomplishments. They're not snowflakes, they're the heirs to an empire of evil and are guilty by association of either the original sin of oppression, or of the other sin of presenting historically inadequate resistance. Given the depth into history that the modern theorists have dug, the criticisms levied against culture back even to the ancients, what identity might an individual derive from their heritage but one infused with a guilt so profound as to warp the sense of connectedness in such a way that the ties that used to bind us as people are now thought of as the chains that bear us into the very hell our own societies deserve. I ask you, can such a rearing result in any possible outcome but a collection of disoriented generations who share very damned little cultural cohesiveness beyond PTSD and a deeply seeded need for repentance and forgiveness? The identity politics masses are experiencing the real and actual symptoms of trauma, and the identities they're embracing are an expression of a reasonable desire to share their trauma with those who have experienced and who understand the pain of realizing that the entirety of their reality is a manifestation of historic fucking EVIL committed by the very culture that marginalizes their lived experience even into the present here and now. There ain't no Kriptonite for that kinda mindset.

A piece of American History [youtube.

govols comments on May 15, 2019:

The story is one I'm familiar with. The film I'd never heard of. Thanks.

This is the smartest idea I've heard from any government in a long while.

govols comments on May 15, 2019:

This is a necessary process, I think. The main thing is to once in a while integrate with a single enactment a set of codes that aren't a giant gaumed up kludge of compounded stupidity.

Elizabeth Warren Turns Down Fox News Town Hall, Calling the Network a ‘Hate-for-Profit Racket’...

govols comments on May 14, 2019:

I'm so fu@king over the "Hate" narrative.

Week 1: Chapter 1: General Thoughts Rule 1: Stand up Straight with your Shoulders Back ...

govols comments on May 14, 2019:

1. Aristotle's Ethics laid out courage and justice--among others--and insisted that practice, practice, practice is required of an individual in order to develop the character required to stand up straight and both know and do the right thing.

Is Kavanaugh following in the footsteps of other conservatives on the supreme court trying to win ...

govols comments on May 14, 2019:

I'd have to see the specific cases. It's helpful to recall that the "originalist" interpretation of the constitution and many laws can be pretty radically liberal at times.

[youtube.com] Dr. Jordan Peterson Explains the Meaning of Life for Men – Animation

govols comments on May 13, 2019:

Okay, this is so, so very wrong. The difference between men and women is that men saw the overlapping distribution of agreeableness at about 1:30 as ta-tas.

Just listened to Ben's interview with William Lane Craig.

govols comments on May 13, 2019:

Play a mental game. Imagine a space, infinite or not--but just an empty space with no matter or energy or time, an empty space with no content whatsoever--just imagine a space. Now, imagine no space. Now, if you can pull that off, imagine something arising from that nothing.

DEATH BY EUTHANASIA FOR ORGAN TRADE TREADING READY TO BE NEXT?

govols comments on May 13, 2019:

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/doctors-induce-twenty-five-percent-of-dutch-deaths/

How to Diagram Sentences I wonder if any schools teach sentence diagramming anymore.

govols comments on May 12, 2019:

I don't remember what grades, but I do remember diagramming sentences. I'm fifty, no kids. I have no feel for what is currently taught, but can say that into the late seventies and through the eighties it was still a thing.

How to Diagram Sentences I wonder if any schools teach sentence diagramming anymore.

govols comments on May 12, 2019:

Is "diagramming" an early example of verbing a noun?

Would you say that the IDW is for "social justice" but not for the warrior part of "social justice ...

govols comments on May 12, 2019:

I wonder if we're not reexamining the differences between Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau...We're renegotiating the social contract, on one level, and reevaluating the merits of appealing to (and imposing) authority. I think we're in a contest to set about determining where philosophy made its wrong turn. I think it might have been the left at Albuquerque; it just feels right given the Loony Tunes we're dealing with.

What are your How To resources?

govols comments on May 10, 2019:

Forums on topic are outstanding resources. Examples...rv.net, mytractorforum, many jeep forums, etc.

What are our thoughts on Joe Rogan endorsing Tulsi Gabbard? [youtube.com]

govols comments on May 9, 2019:

I'm probably going to pull a Dem ballot for the primary next year. I'm not going to make a decision until I see who's left at that time. If Joe thinks she's the best person running then I'm all for him saying so and voting accordingly.

Great quote:

govols comments on May 8, 2019:

I wonder if we wouldn't be well served by a board intended for just this idea: steelmanning the other side. One of the great dangers of putting yourself into the heads of the other side is that you might find yourself being persuaded.

Im looking to find out if people would be interested in a group about how broken the medical system ...

govols comments on May 8, 2019:

I can't say I'm all that interested, but you hit a peeve of mine. GP's and "family doctors" are no longer up to the task that western health care most requires. What our modern western systems need most is a new position called "care coordinator." This position would be someone with "survey" knowledge of general practice, various levels of coverage, a wide array of specialties, and very importantly, treatment interactions and customer well-being and satisfaction. Patient Advocates. It's a role that could be greatly assisted by artificial intelligence. Most of the people I've watched "go down hill" have been subjected to conflicting treatments by a variety of specialists who seem never to know what the others are inflicting upon the PERSON who most of them see only as subjects under treatment.

Has anyone noticed a pause in the "Identity Politics" rhetoric in the news lately?

govols comments on May 8, 2019:

I can't say I ever really noticed a whole lot of it except when brought to attention for purposes of mockery. If its public presentation is declining it's because the earlier runs were trial balloons. When it turned out that the backlash wasn't surrender of the guilt-ridden but instead a rise of white-identity, they pulled the balloon down. Not well enough marinated for the fire, yet.

Paradigm Shift on the Right?

govols comments on May 8, 2019:

I wonder at present if we even understand what the problems are. It seems like all of the chattering classes are simply trying to frame reality in ways that point toward all of the same old solutions. It seems like the more we try to scale up "classical liberalism" the more problems are created for the working classes of the nations that created and first established the ideals.

I came across this interesting biblical question today: Did Jesus want organized religion?

govols comments on May 7, 2019:

I have no idea what he wanted, but it can be reasonably assumed he expected it.

I’ve been studying postmodernism more in-depth since hearing more about it from many of ...

govols comments on May 6, 2019:

I've gotta jump in here, God help me. There is a misunderstanding among anti-Left detractors of postmodern"ism." I'm not saying that postmodernism isn't a real thing...er, well, yeah, I kinda am. If one really wishes to get into the heads of SJW and ____ studies types, an open mind is helpful. The claim is that the age of faith was killed by the age of reason. The Enlightenment gave us the "Modern" age, but left us bereft of the sort of meaningful existence previous generations were given by cultural traditions. Modernity granted those of us within it a landscape of abundance, a mostly post-scarcity lifestyle, and a "keeping up with the Jones" sort of consumerist mode of being. Postmodern theory suggests that most of us are oppressed by the system itself. The modern age has produced a collection of wage slaves dependent on wage-per-hour subsistence occupations. Most of us work bland fucking jobs with no real control over our efforts in order to accumulate some brief periods of respite in the for of leisure time. Said leisure time is spent, usually, engaging in approved activities, activities promoted by the very oppressors as best use of "public engagement" time. The correct online time, the right movies, infotainment, follow the shepherd and seek out the grooming gate if you're lucky...the slaughter gate if current demand necessitates it. The sophisticated postmodernist sees the MODERN world as an enslavement camp for the masses. Postmodernism, for these guys, is an effort to liberate the masses from the drudgery of modern toil- for-subsistence wage-slavery. Liberation from the sort of consumerism that gives us widget-spinners and three cars in the driveway. Postmodernism, to these guys, is an effort to enunciate the idea that even given our abundance, we're servile to the machinations of a controlling system we're barely aware of that imposes upon us an existence under which a vast majority of us serves as little more than economic units...cogs in the machine. The theory of postmodern social and consumer juxtaposition has some validity. Intersectional oppression competition, not nearly so much.

Why are only right-leaning people being called "Conspiracy Theorists" as they're being banned from ...

govols comments on May 6, 2019:

The funny thing is, most of what the "Left" calls conspiracy theory is nothing of the sort. Consider the popular "conspiracy" at present: Marxist academics over the last several generations took over educational and governmental bureaucracies in order to influence the socialization of young people in an effort to change western culture. The Left calls that a conspiracy theory, but it's not. It's simply observation of the published works of 20th century cultural theorists; the programs and policies instituted among governmental agencies associated with social regulation and welfare; the ever growing ____ studies curricula promulgated within academia; the sensitively trained HR policies among an ever growing number of corporations...Pointing it out isn't espousing a conspiracy theory. Pointing it out is simply presenting the actual published recommendations presented in published writings and lectures by the established modern executors of the cultural positions of influence.

Do you think a State should be allowed to change what is on a Federal Election Ballot

govols comments on May 4, 2019:

There are no federal elections. Our elections are generally locally run affairs, overseen at state level, selecting district or statewide representatives to serve in federal offices. Even presidential elections aren't federal, and votes aren't cast for given candidates, but instead for electors to represent the state(s) at the electoral college.

I'm reading Aristotle's Rhetoric this morning and this quote struck me given our current political ...

govols comments on May 3, 2019:

Today's political animals are natural sophists. Most wouldn't thoughtfully consider the above if the three of them crawled up their collective political butt and exploded.

Why do we respect the dead more than the living?

govols comments on May 2, 2019:

For example?

Mazie Hirono is an idiot

govols comments on May 1, 2019:

Yes, she is. Or she plays one on TV.

Universal Grammar I see it all over the place.

govols comments on Apr 30, 2019:

I wonder if the new grammar will sort of arise out of a critique and deconstruction of the danged Power/Privilege theory that's tearing at the previous "Universal Grammar" that you spoke of.

Being is Worth While

govols comments on Apr 29, 2019:

"Being" simply is. Yes, while it be, it can be of value. Yes, it can suck. The fact is, though, "becoming" is what we have available to us, and the more important consideration. Being is a momentary thing; becoming is what we experience and what we actually participate in.

I llke a good orator And this young man express himself well. therefore I share. [youtu.be]

govols comments on Apr 28, 2019:

This young man covered a lot of ideas in just a few minutes, and made a good case for slowing the heck down for conversation and consensus.

So tell us a little about yourselves. What are your hobbies and interests?

govols comments on Apr 26, 2019:

I like roaming back roads, visiting small breweries, and exploring rabbit holes. I have a love/hate relationship with tech but I'm too lazy to build a Luddite homestead out of my little three acre patch of East Tennessee. I'm fascinated--obsessed, maybe--with how screwed up society is, why, and what might come of it.

Is there any evidence that licensing regulations actually benefits public health and safety?

govols comments on Apr 24, 2019:

Regulations are created because consumers have incurred harms and sought redress, because producers desire restrictions on who may enter the market as competition, or because bureaucrats and accrediting agencies seek rent. It's almost never the case that regulations are honestly evaluated by disinterested parties for efficacy regarding actual general welfare.