Random Politics & Religion #24

I read the Audacity of Hope I found it frivolous and self serving !

Once his library is finished you'll find him there every day, signing copies of his book for the low, low price of $400,000.

Who the hell goes to libraries let alone Presidential ones ? If I wanted to read I'd go on the internet.

Most content on the internet may be worthless tripe, but at least we recognize it as such (except for people that read the HuffPo, apparently). If you put words on paper between book covers suddenly you have a relic that cannot be destroyed without committing an unpardonable sin against the first amendment.

Its not only Pepperidge Farms that remembers, the internet remembers too.

Think you can delete stuff and it disappears or something?

Obviously you can.

I mean, people keep forgetting that Donald Trump won the election. They all seem to think that he assumed power by kicking Obama out of the white house.

Lol so the REAL story is that the media leaked a leak. That's enough spin to throw us out of orbit.

What is real though it is subjective...how do I know any of you guys are real anyways...

I so need an alt so I can rate that up again.

Considering the fact that outright lies have come from these so-called anonymously sourced stories just recently, why should we expect anything else? Do you actually believe that there is nobody in the MSM that would stoop so low as to completely make up a story under the guise of an anonymous source when there is zero accountability either way? It's not like any of these stories are verified before being reported anyway, so what's the difference?

Put it this way I trust some of the users here on FFXIAH to be more honest than the Washington Post. So there you go you guys could work for Jeff Bozo's newspaper.

Fox News retracts controversial story on Seth Rich’s death and alleged WikiLeaks contact
WaPo

TLDR: "It was facts I don't like"

Tfw you believe all the anonymous sources the media reports because you can't cope with loosing to Trump.

I have an anonymous source that Trump drinks pig blood to give him power.

So he consumes the blood of Bannon?

I'm sure many think this was a win against Fox, but think about this for a second. If Fox News, the poster child for biased news, has the wherewithal to retract a major news story based on a lack of evidence, what then does that make CNN, WaPo, MSNBC, etc. when they refuse to do the same? That's right, they're now at a lower level of journalistic integrity than Fox. Think about that.

That's got nothing to do with Fox retracting the story to avoid litigation from Rich's family.

How about Trump telling Duerte that we got two USN Subs off the coast of Korea? Somebody needs to tell Donny he's out of his element. Not to mention he made a big to do on the campaign trail that wouldn't do things like this.

Perception of reality is subjective, reality itself isn't.

Chanti could identify with a bird and her subjective reality is that she can fly, she jumps off the top of a thirty story building and reality asserts itself harshly.

Human perceptions of reality are illusions we maintain to comfort ourselves and hide behind because reality is far too brutal for people to deal with directly. All religions are created in order to help humans deal with this brutal reality. Progressive atheists, lacking a religion, have instead turned their political beliefs into a religion. They attribute meaning and actions where they don't exist in order to give their own lives meaning.

Or to put another way, if reality was subjective bridges would collapse, planes would fall out of the sky, the planet would fall apart, the sun would instantly explode and the universe would collapse into itself and cease to exist. The fact that people can read this website at all is unarguable proof that reality is firm and unchanging. Reality doesn't change, only our perception of it.

Nothing you do inside your brain will change the molecular properties or quantum state of anything in the universe. Only by working within the laws of physics, which are themselves nothing more then our feeble attempts to understand reality, can we effect a change on reality. The exact same laws of reality apply to every last molecule in the universe.

In other words, you are not special, unique or in any way different from any other collection of matter in the universe. You don't matter.

Blue daffodils so your wrong.

There are personal realities (things as they appear) and then there is the universal reality (things as they are). The problem is that people believe that a collection of similar personal realities determine universal reality, as if the latest manmade logic of the day is somehow unalterable truth, even though it changes constantly.

Today's enlightenment is tomorrow's ignorance.

This is a fun conversation. How do you know reality isn't subjective?

As Descartes would say the only thing you know for sure. Is that you are a thinking thing. Everything else is up for debate.

Video explains it with a British accent so you know it is legit:

As Nietzsche would say "There are no facts only interpretations" Meaning what is true for you isn't necessarily true for me.

Democrats are in real trouble.

Yougov poll reports that 55% of democrats believe Russia hacked the election (changed vote totals). A narrative that democrats and their media cohorts have created and pushed since day one. This is literally astonishing, give new light to the Regan quote:

"It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so."

What are these people gonna do when they ultimately find out there no "there" there? Why're gonna be pissed at the democrats, hopefully for leading them on and lying to them. Probably a big reason their fundraising totals are in record lows.

This 55% was 52% last December, meaning more democrats are believe it now than then DESPITE THE LACK OF ANY EVIDENCE in support of it. To me that means liberals love their media echo chamber and severely lack critical thinking skills.