tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post8606992349263335170..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: Western Death WishesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-73837491550772171632014-07-24T00:30:49.080-04:002014-07-24T00:30:49.080-04:00Thank you, RevereRidesAgain, for the first class b...Thank you, RevereRidesAgain, for the first class bitch-slapping earned by Hancock. I didn't think anyone else was willing to wade through Hancock's whirligigs and mental gymnastics. The troll obviously assumes that I have some obligation to engage in an endless dog-chases-tail discussion with him in which he corrects me and I just shut up and crawl to a corner. Wrong assumption. Hancock is also of the Neil Nonpareil persuasion. Neither of them is welcome here. Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-51704713311800804692014-07-23T23:17:12.460-04:002014-07-23T23:17:12.460-04:00Hancock, shouldn't you be out of doors playing...Hancock, shouldn't you be out of doors playing with your floating abstraction balloons like a good little boy? You invalidate your entire argument the instant that you claim that followers of Islam have valid reasons for hating the West, even as you acknowledge that Islam is evil. Muslims hate the West because the Dark Age caravan raiding sand dune and camel dung spawned "theology" of the psychotic mythic figure known as Mohammed told them to hate anything that is not Islamic. And since that delusional child-raping murdering tyrant is their idea of the Perfect Man, they will continue to hate the West, the Jews, and anything else that made him foam at the mouth or might be projected to do so for all eternity. That you despise 21st century Jews on the basis of the Old Testament but give Muslim Arabs a free pass even to the extent of wringing your hands over the Fakestinians indicates a deeper level of hostility you're not willing to acknowledge. Maybe you should find a nice imam somewhere to engage in erudite debate with while waiting for the nuking of Israel you surely must await with a jihadist's fervor. <br />revereridesagainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443013401059011056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-40244927350457861242014-07-23T14:42:45.190-04:002014-07-23T14:42:45.190-04:00How dare someone disagree with my perfectly object...How dare someone disagree with my perfectly objectivist (if you ignore everything other than the narrow logic that I present!) argument!!! <br /><br />I'm perfectly right because I say so! There isn't possibly a contradiction in what I say because what I'm saying aligns with Rand's historical positions and my carefully curated list of facts supports me!<br /><br />A rational person expects to defend their position. You expect to be taken as Gospel and throw a tantrum when someone disagrees with you.<br /><br />Yup, everything that is wrong with Objectivism on one whining response Ed... *Sad* Now I'm done, because what I won't tolerate is people that won't actually respond rationally to critique and instead resort to just calling the person an idiot. If I'm wrong, prove it. Otherwise maybe you can learn something outside of the little box you put yourself in.James Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00691491559386497208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-71150448665182054152014-07-23T14:38:04.248-04:002014-07-23T14:38:04.248-04:00Hancock: If you have something to say, start your ...Hancock: If you have something to say, start your own website, and stop mooching off of mine. I don't much tolerate trolls. This is my last response. Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-42689302816024488782014-07-23T14:10:52.028-04:002014-07-23T14:10:52.028-04:00hahaha. Yup. So much for Objectivism...
Israel = ...hahaha. Yup. So much for Objectivism...<br /><br />Israel = good cause it's more like the United States dropping all rational thought about how evil the existence of Israel is given how it was created or what its based on.<br /><br />I've read your other posts on Israel. They all fail to understand the history of Palestine the creation of Israel at the barrel of a gun or why exactly Muslims hate the west (tip: It isn't about the Koran or Islam, it's about the Crusades, both 800 years ago and today.) <br /><br />You always fail to understand that an entire people were attacked by the UN (lead by the US) and force relocated for the sake of guilt (and money) after World War 2 and if you were faced with the same happening to you, I would expect that you would have a deep hatred (rightfully!) for your oppressors and would fight to get back what was stolen from you. (In fact this is exactly what Rand Advocated, all be it, peacefully.)<br /><br />Islam is evil, but only in so far as the exact same things outlined in the bible (there literally is not one tenant in the Koran that isn't also in the Bible or Talmud) are evil.<br /><br />You're differentiating on degrees of evil and dropping causation of events. Arabs hate America, not because it's great or free, but because America actively subjugates them and has been doing so since the birth if Israel and even more so since 1973 in Nixon's desperate play to link oil to the dollar in exchange for protecting evil tyrants from their own people. (i.e. the King of Saudi Arabia who has put down multiple revolts that would have lead to freedom and democracy if it wasn't for US troops helping put down said revolts... and this is the King that actively funded 9/11 but we do nothing because if Saudi Arabia stops selling oil in US dollars, the US dollar collapses and the evil socialist empire known as the United States of America falls just as surely as Rome did for the same reasons.<br /><br />I've been to the middle east. I've walked the streets and talked to the people. I've debated with an Imam, Christian theology from an Islamic perspective. (all the while pretending that I'm a Christian so that I didn't get stoned to death...) <br /><br />We are responsible for fanning the hatred, and for propping of the evil governments in the middle east and keeping them in business and even, perversely we've helped finance terrorist attacks on our own people, and yet people like you argue that we should be on the side of Israel when we should be on our own side and stop hurting our interests.... but that would require understanding the full history of events, which you clearly don't grasp, and addressing the real problem with American involvement in the middle east.<br /><br />At this point in the rot of the West I'm not exactly sure why you would even think that it is all that much better than Israel, as you accidentally pointed out, but it has nothing to do with people like me. It has to do with dropping of causality, and the enslavement of one group of people for the benefit of another through government either for religious justification (Israel and most of the middle east, only to slightly different degrees) or for socialist justification as the vast majority of the west does ("The greater good") <br /><br />It makes little difference WHY you're being oppressed and enslaved, only that you are. You can't change these people to be virtuous through convincing. It's both against their interest, and beyond their ability to understand. All you can do is act to protect yourself from their evil as best as possible at this point. To believe otherwise is both delusional and ignores all of human history.James Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00691491559386497208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-30297637480729251572014-07-23T13:49:49.065-04:002014-07-23T13:49:49.065-04:00I really don't want to bother replying to such...I really don't want to bother replying to such rubbish. You, James, have the not so enviable skill of raising everything about Israel out of context. At the rate things are going in this country, I'd probably want to move to Israel. Please, don't bother responding to my comment here. I have better things to do than instruct you in context-keeping. Read my previous pieces on Israel. Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.com