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2024-01-08T19:15:03+00:00
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2024-01-08T19:10:07+00:00
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From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 April 1823 - Founders OnlineJesus tells us that ‘God is a Spirit.’ 4. John 24. but without defining what a spirit is ‘πνευμα ὁ θεος.’ down to the 3d century we know that it was still deemed material; but of a lighter subtler matter than then our gross bodies. so says Origen. ‘Deus igitur, cui anima similis est, juxta Originem, reapte corporalis est; sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum incorporeus.’ these are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen. Origen himself says ‘appellatio ασοματον apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita.’ so also Tertullian ‘quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus, etsi deus spiritus? spiritus etiam corporis sui generis, in suâ effigie.’ Tertullian. these two fathers were of the 3d century. Calvin’s character of this supreme being seems chiefly copied from that of the Jews. but the reformation of these blasphemous attributes, and substitution of those more worthy, pure and sublime, seems to have been the chief object of Jesus in his discources to the Jews: and his doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first verses of the 1st chapter of John, in these words, ‘εν αρχη ην ὁ λογος, και ὁ λογος ην προς τον θεον και θεος ην ὁ λογος. οὑτος ην εν αρχη προς τον θεον. παντα δε αυτου εγενετο, και χωρις αυτου εγενετο ουδε ἑν ὁ γεγονεν.’ which truly translated means ‘in the beginning God existed, and reason [or mind] was with God, and that mind was God. this was in the beginning with God. all things were created by it, and without it was made not one thing which was made.’ yet this text, so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the supreme, intelligent being, has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word λογος. one of it’s legitimate meanings indeed is ‘a word.’ but, in that sense, it makes an unmeaning jargon: while the other meaning ‘reason,’ equally legitimate, explains rationally the eternal preexistence of God, and his creation of the world.https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-3446
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2024-01-08T18:42:57+00:00
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"The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar!"https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ch06.htm
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2024-01-09T01:51:19+00:00
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Singapore hangs 2nd citizen in 3 weeks for trafficking cannabis despite calls to halt executionsKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore on Wednesday hanged another citizen for trafficking cannabis, the second in three weeks, as it clung firmly to the death penalty despite growing calls for the city-state to halt drug-related executions.https://apnews.com/article/singapore-death-penalty-drugs-execution-6f796226fb60d0313a5b63929c4fed59
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2024-01-09T01:30:17+00:00
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“Nowhere in the Gospel do we read that the Lord said: "I am sending you a Paraclete who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon." For He wanted to make Christians, not mathematicians.”https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
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2024-01-09T20:03:20+00:00
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"Now inflation is the cruelest thing and the cruelest tax on the poor, if we're taking sides as to who's for the rich or who's for the poor."https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/presidents-news-conference-7
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2024-01-09T20:28:45+00:00
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Free WeedsBy WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great. The laws aren’t exactly indefensible, because practically nothing is, and the thunderers who tell us to stay the course can always find one man or woman who, having taken marijuana, moved on to severe mental disorder. But that argument, to quote myself, is on the order of saying that every rapist began by masturbating. General rules based on individual victims are unwise. And although there is a perfectly respectable case against using marijuana, the penalties imposed on those who reject that case, or who give way to weakness of resolution, are very difficult to defend. If all our laws were paradigmatic, imagine what we would do to anyone caught lighting a cigarette, or drinking a beer. Or–exulting in life in the paradigm–committing adultery. Send them all to Guantanamo?https://www.nationalreview.com/2004/06/free-weeds-william-f-buckley-jr/amp/
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2024-01-09T20:19:34+00:00
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2024-01-09T20:16:24+00:00
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Drug War Confessional“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”~ John Ehrlichman, 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘕𝘪𝘹𝘰𝘯https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional
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2024-01-09T20:02:38+00:00
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The President's News Conference | Ronald ReaganNow inflation is the cruelest thing and the cruelest tax on the poor, if we're taking sides as to who's for the rich or who's for the poor.https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/presidents-news-conference-7
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2024-01-09T20:51:31+00:00
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"Boudica was ruler of a satellite kingdom to Rome, and by that measure, very probably a Roman citizen. After the death of her husband Prasutagus, the imperial procurator Decianus Catus seized all of his estate. When Boudica contested this, she was flogged and her daughters raped. To strip and flog a Roman citizen would have been anathema, but more than that, to gang-rape two princesses, who were most probably virgins, was even more unthinkable."https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Boudica-and-the-Slaughter-at-Colchester/
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2024-01-09T19:56:36+00:00
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2024-01-09T19:53:16+00:00
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𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘌𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘺-𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳 - WikiquoteWe are the priests of power. God is power. But at present power is only a word so far as you are concerned. It is time for you to gather some idea of what power means. The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual. You know the Party slogan: "Freedom is Slavery". Has it ever occurred to you that it is reversible? Slavery is freedom. Alone — free — the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge himself in the Party so that he is the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal.https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
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2024-01-08T19:19:29+00:00
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2024-01-08T22:27:52+00:00
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Comment, July 1961 - Gore Vidal on Why Ayn Rand Sucks and Literary CriticismAfter first admiring Brammer's skill in recreating the political scene, Prescott starts that old familiar hissing noise. He expresses wonder that young politicians commit adultery, have premarital intercourse, get drunk and otherwise behave even as people did back when Albert the Good mounted Victoria glumly to birth the Age of Gilt. Then Prescott exclaims: "Men who never dream of being faithful to their wives, who enthusiastically seduce the wives and mistresses of their friends, are faithful to standards of political conduct." He pretends to be stunned by this paradox, and that brings us to the main issue: To the average American the word "morality" means sex, period. If you don't cheat on your wife, you're moral. It is part of our national genus to have no tradition of public morality. We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually. Cheating the government of its taxes, and one another in business, is not only natural but necessary to survival. Now I would suggest that a man's relation to society is a matter of greater moral urgency than his sexual dealings which, after all, are a private and relative matter. When a writer convincingly shows us, as Brammer does, young politicians devoted to right action, I am profoundly moved and morally edified. Prescott misses the moral point, preferring to dig for sex.https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4595/comment-0761/
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2024-01-09T19:22:13+00:00
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In Some States, Drug Felons Still Face Lifetime Ban On SNAP BenefitsJividen can’t get food stamps for herself because she’s a drug felon in West Virginia. Increasingly desperate, she started shoplifting and writing bad checks she said were for food. Then one morning last November, she walked into a Piggly Wiggly, ate a sandwich in the store and tried to kite a check. Police said she had blank checks that didn’t belong to her, and they charged her with forgery.Then, she walked back into jail.“I said several times, ‘Mom, if they just gave me food stamps I would not have to do this,'” said Jividen.https://www.cpr.org/2018/06/20/in-some-states-drug-felons-still-face-lifetime-ban-on-snap-benefits/
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2024-01-07T03:59:37+00:00
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"The Kardashian family (/kɑːrˈdæʃiən/ kar-DASH-ee-ən), also referred to as the Kardashian–Jenner family, is an American family prominent in the fields of law (through Robert Kardashian), entertainment, reality television, fashion design, and business."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashian_family
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2024-01-09T20:29:52+00:00
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"Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great. The laws aren’t exactly indefensible, because practically nothing is, and the thunderers who tell us to stay the course can always find one man or woman who, having taken marijuana, moved on to severe mental disorder. But that argument, to quote myself, is on the order of saying that every rapist began by masturbating. General rules based on individual victims are unwise. And although there is a perfectly respectable case against using marijuana, the penalties imposed on those who reject that case, or who give way to weakness of resolution, are very difficult to defend. If all our laws were paradigmatic, imagine what we would do to anyone caught lighting a cigarette, or drinking a beer. Or–exulting in life in the paradigm–committing adultery. Send them all to Guantanamo?"https://www.nationalreview.com/2004/06/free-weeds-william-f-buckley-jr/amp/
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2024-01-10T06:05:30+00:00
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In Some States, Drug Felons Still Face Lifetime Ban On SNAP BenefitsJividen can’t get food stamps for herself because she’s a drug felon in West Virginia. Increasingly desperate, she started shoplifting and writing bad checks she said were for food. Then one morning last November, she walked into a Piggly Wiggly, ate a sandwich in the store and tried to kite a check. Police said she had blank checks that didn’t belong to her, and they charged her with forgery.Then, she walked back into jail.“I said several times, ‘Mom, if they just gave me food stamps I would not have to do this,'” said Jividen.https://www.cpr.org/2018/06/20/in-some-states-drug-felons-still-face-lifetime-ban-on-snap-benefits/
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2024-01-10T05:12:08+00:00
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The Spy Who Said Too MuchKiriakou met with Graham in her office, and, by his account, he vowed to tell the Washington 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵 about an unorthodox agent-recruiting operation that she had allegedly approved, which included a night out with strippers and prostitutes.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/01/the-spy-who-said-too-much