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Jan 31, 2018 23:37:40   #
Blade_Runner wrote:
Where did you get your PhD in Christian theology? Were you ordained as a minister of the Gospel?

So are you saying that only PhD's in Christian theology or ordained ministers may talk about the Bible?
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Jan 30, 2018 21:07:09   #
Nyla wrote:
Maybe you have an answer to this question or any one else? Can anyone tell me if it was evolution as Darwin states, then why do the apes, monkeys that are still presently existing have not evolved into human beings ?

I googled your question
and got this as a first answer:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/10/04/3331957.htm

Some excerpts:
"This is a question often encountered by evolutionary biologists," says Dr Paul Willis, palaeontologist and Director of RIAus.

"But the question itself reveals a couple of fundamental misunderstandings about evolution and how it operates", he says.

Firstly, humans did not evolve from monkeys. Instead, monkeys and humans share a common ancestor from which both evolved around 25 million years ago.

my cousins if my cousins and my grandparents are still alive?," says Dr Willis.

"The answer is of course that your grandparents had more than one child and they each went off and started their own families creating new branches of your own family tree."

The same thing happens in evolutionary families. A species can split into two or more descendant species and they can split again and again across the generations.

I hope this clarifies things for you.
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Jan 27, 2018 14:15:24   #
no propaganda please wrote:
Just what does an i***t look like? Maybe the clouds are saying "that looks like a bunny rabbit, and that looks like a cat chasing a mouse." Or do you think that clouds are smarter than people and much wiser?

From:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/i***t

i***t Has Greek Roots
The Greek adjective idios means “one’s own” or “private.” The derivative noun idiōtēs means “private person.” A Greek idiōtēs was a person who was not in the public eye, who held no public office. From this came the sense “common man,” and later “ignorant person”—a natural extension, for the common people of ancient Greece were not, in general, particularly learned. The English i***t originally meant “ignorant person,” but the more usual reference now is to a person who lacks basic intelligence or common sense rather than education.
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Jan 21, 2018 20:43:03   #
working class stiff wrote:
Hypocrisy and political correctness has more than one side. The right also engages in its own version...

http://newmatilda.com/2016/11/23/the-other-side-of-political-correctness/

Interesting article. I appreciate how it equates politically correct with appropriate public behavior.
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Jan 21, 2018 18:54:21   #
ldsuttonjr wrote:
The Hypocrisy of Political Correctness
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2018 | By John Grimaldi

WASHINGTON, DC – A professor at NYU was shunned by his colleagues because of “the content and structure of his thinking.” That’s right, the “thought police” were after him. They didn’t like the fact that he was using social media to expose the hypocrisy of political correctness on campus.

Because he exercised his right to free speech, Professor Michael Rectenwald claims he was the target of defamation and harassment by his colleagues. And so, Rectenwald recently filed suit in Manhattan Supreme Court. The New York Post reported that “the politically incorrect NYU professor accused of ‘incivility’ by liberal colleagues and put on leave is now suing the college and four fellow profs for calling him everything from a drug addict to Satan.”

The suit sheds light on what is going on in college and university classrooms these days. Is it a movement by the left to create a generation of v**ers who could eventually have the numbers and ideological resolve to turn the United States of America into the Soviet Socialist Republic of America?

The irony here is that Rectenwald describes himself as “a c*******t.” Yet he says he is an ardent advocate of free speech on campus. As he put it in an interview last year: “Every time a speaker is booed off campus or shooed off campus because they might say something that bothers someone, that just feeds the notion that the left is totalitarian, and they have a point.”

I don’t think Rectenwald is switching teams anytime soon. Left is left and right is right and never the twain shall meet, the exception being those with a left of center political preference.

Wh**ever his bent, the Professor seems to believe that schools are places that should be encouraging discourse and a diversity of ideas, not “mindless indoctrination.” And, he believes that if there is a sinister motive behind the PC movement, it will not succeed. I believe that, too, because our kids are smarter than that, for the most part. They were brought up in a free society and it will take more than l*****t propaganda to make them give it up.

In the old Soviet Union, the c*******t culture was built on systematic indoctrination that brainwashed the citizenry into believing that the l*****t elites and their apparatchiks who ran the “Evil Empire” had their best interests at heart. The American Revolution, on the other hand, sought to allow the people to become individuals with a collective lust for freedom and justice.

And, what fuels that lust is knowledge, the kind of knowledge only available in an institution of learning that fairly exposes its students to all sides of any argument, whether it be scientific or political.
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I don't think John Grimaldi saw a followup report in the post telling of Rectenwald's promotion.
https://nypost.com/2016/11/13/nyu-awards-promotion-and-full-time-gig-to-deplorable-professor/
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Jan 6, 2018 17:00:12   #
ron vrooman wrote:
Since in common usage, the term `person’ does not include the sovereign, statutes employing the phrase are ordinarily construed to exclude it.” U.S. v. General Motors Corporation, D.C. Ill, 2 F.R.D. 528, 530: In ”common usage the word `person’ does not include the sovereign, and statutes employing the word are generally construed to exclude the sovereign.” Church of Scientology v. US Department of Justice, 612 F.2d 417 @425 (1979): “the word `person’ in legal terminology is perceived as a general word which normally includes in its scope a variety of entities other than human beings., see e.g. 1, U.S.C. § para 1.” In the 1935 Supreme Court case of Perry v. US (294 US 330) the Supreme Court found that: “In United States, sovereignty resides in people... the Congress cannot invoke the sovereign power of the People to override their will as thus declared.”,

The state of Oregon is the legal fiction, Oregon State is the one of the several states. I am private without mala in se crime.

NO. Usurpation is a nullity.
Since in common usage, the term `person’ does not ... (show quote)


Previously, ron vrooman wrote, "I am not a person! I am a natural person; known as one of the people, a flesh and blood being, a private man on the land, Oregonian. Not just a person."

And paraphrased from:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/330/
Wherein we find, "8. The sovereignty of the United States resides in the people, and Congress cannot invoke the sovereignty of the people to override their will as declared in the Constitution. P. 294 U. S. 353."

Asking, "What is the legal definition of nullity?"
I got, "Legal nullity is a phrase used to refer to any entity which might theoretically be of some legal significance, but in fact possesses no identity or distinct structure of its own. Examples of this are counties which are wholly subsumed by the municipal government within their boundaries."

Asking, "What is the meaning of the word usurpation?"
I got, "Usurpation means taking someone's power or property by force. Locking the teacher outside of the classroom and taking charge of math class is a form of usurpation. ... When Shakespeare's Macbeth k**ls King Duncan and replaces him by usurping the throne, that is an act of usurpation."

So, are you asserting that you, being one of the people, Congress has no legal authority to take any of your power or property?
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Jan 6, 2018 15:50:02   #
ron vrooman wrote:
Have you read Fruit from the Poisonous Tree ??? The 16th was never ratified. Withdraw from the public corporate world, deal in the private world of trade.

Before any of you decide not to file income tax returns based on any assertion that the 16th isn't US law, you might want to read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_Sixteenth_Amendment_arguments

Maybe when ron vrooman and eagleye13 get appointed to SCOTUS things might change, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Jan 5, 2018 21:42:31   #
kemmer wrote:
Who are you ragging on this time?

Not ragging on anyone in particular, just making observations of our legal system. I once mentioned "our justice system" to a lawyer who corrected me saying, "The legal system isn't meant to bring justice, it is only meant to settle conflicts."

I didn't mean to imply that prosecutors often suppress exculpatory evidence, only that it has happened.
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Jan 5, 2018 17:05:27   #
Blade_Runner wrote:
You poor little babies, always being "suppressed". Is your nanny keeping your diapers clean?

Trump didn't freak out because he lost the popular v**e. Why? Cuz he won the e*******l v**e and therefore the presidency.

FYI: 9 months of finding nothing is a hell of a start.

Mueller’s Special Counsel Team Punking Public

No surprise that 9 out of the 16 witch h****rs on Mueller's team donated to Obama and/or Hillary. Some donated to the DNC. One donated to two Republicans in non-p**********l races in addition to giving more money to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and a string of Democrats.

Funny thing is Lady Justice is supposed to be impartial, objective and fair. She is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. Her attributes are a blindfold, a balance, and a sword. Justice is blind? Mueller's mob flushed that concept down the s**tter right out of the gate.
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Regarding: "Lady Justice is supposed to be impartial, objective and fair."
Prosecutors are just one part of our judicial system and in our adversarial system they seem to have little interest in establishing innocence, rather they try to establish guilt sometimes to the point of suppressing exculpatory evidence. Sometimes prosecutors get their hands slapped when they do that.
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Jan 5, 2018 16:51:39   #
Larry the Legend wrote:
And be succeeded by Mike Pence for yet another 8. It all just makes so much sense.

I think this is highly unlikely given past v****g patterns in the US.
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Jan 5, 2018 16:48:15   #
Larry the Legend wrote:
Consider this. What would happen if they held an e******n and no-one v**ed? Not just a low turnout, but no v**es at all. How would that play out? Would you then go on to describe all Americans as 'un-American i***ts'?

If no one v**es then the v**e count is tied and various locals resolve ties differently. In Virginia they resolved a tie by drawing a name from a ceramic pot.
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Jan 5, 2018 12:16:21   #
Loki wrote:
IN 2016, 58% of eligible v**ers v**ed. That means slightly less than 30% of eligible Americans v**ed for Hillary. That figure t***slates to about 21% of all Americans. Majority. Right. Must be common core math.

Some might say that failure to v**e makes one an un-American i***t (in the original Greek sense of the word). If one is un-American, can one still be considered to be an American?
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Jan 5, 2018 12:07:57   #
ron vrooman wrote:
I am known as one of the people. I have incontrovertible evidence that I am an American State National on Oregon. An Oregonian man. I am not a US citizen. Therefore, by definition I am a Constitutional Republican. I have documentary evidence fro two care providers at the VA I am competent. My status is filed into the public record I am private.

Yes look up person, then look up people. then look up the definition of a name in all caps. I use B****s Law sixth edition. Look up Private Membership Association, I am pro se, suie juris, in propria persona and:
Ronald Charles Vrooman Private Attorney Generals by the United States Congress 42 U.S.C.1988 and18 U.S.C.1510 and 18 U.S.C. 1512 and to be known as “One of the People” also “Qualified Criminal Investigator” and “Federal Witness” and by unrebutted affidavit. Status identified and unrebutted. Others to be named and added later.
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If the state government of Oregon passed a law declaring that every American State National on [sic][?] Oregon is a US citizen, would you be a US citizen?
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Jan 4, 2018 14:56:15   #
ron vrooman wrote:
wordsmithing. maybe we should have a lexicon for OPP. ignorant, stupid, moron , cretin, democrat could all be synonyms.

Oooh! More words. Let's look at some origins.
ignorant
late 14c., from Old French ignorant (14c.), from Latin ignorantia, from ignorantem (nominative ignorans), present participle of ignorare "not to know, to be unacquainted; mistake, misunderstand; take no notice of, pay no attention to," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + Old Latin gnarus "aware, acquainted with" (cf. Classical Latin noscere "to know," notus "known"), from Proto-Latin suffixed form *gno-ro-, related to gnoscere "to know" (see know ).

stupid
1540s, "mentally slow," from Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus "amazed, confounded," literally "struck senseless," from stupere "be stunned, amazed, confounded," from PIE *(s)tupe- "hit," from root *(s)teu- (see steep (adj.)).

moron
1910, medical Latin, from Greek (Attic) moron, neuter of moros "foolish, dull, sluggish, stupid," probably cognate with Sanskrit murah "i***tic." Latin morus "foolish" is a loan-word from Greek. Adopted by the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-minded with a technical definition "adult with a mental age between 8 and 12;" used as an insult since 1922 and subsequently dropped from technical use. Linnæus had introduced morisis "idiocy."

cretin (I really like this one)
C18: from French crétin, from Swiss French crestin, from Latin Chrīstiānus Christian, alluding to the humanity of such people, despite their handicaps

Here we'll look at the definition. Since you did not capitalize, I'll assume you meant all democrats and not just members or supporters of the Democratic Party in America.
democrat
1. an advocate of democracy.
2. a person who believes in the political or social e******y of all people.

So, given that most of the terms that you have suggested as synonyms for democrat are to some degree derogatory, I (assuming you to be not particularly humble) think you would not consider yourself to be a democrat. If you aren't a democrat, then what are you, a supporter of plutocrats, of oligarchs, of despots, of tyrants...?
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Jan 4, 2018 13:55:30   #
slatten49 wrote:
Interesting follow-up, Acknowledgeurma...except for the fact that many, if not most, replies on this forum are ad hominem in response to others comments. Ad hominem attacks, by definition/description*, are of a personal if not private nature when exhibited on a public forum...such as calling anyone an "i***t" on OPP.

*Ad Hominem (Abusive), also known as: personal abuse, personal attacks, abusive fallacy, damning the source, name calling, refutation by caricature, against the person, against the man.

Description: Attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself, when the attack on the person is completely irrelevant to the argument the person is making.

The reality in modern use of any given word is likely of more immediate relevance than historical roots and meanings of that word
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I agree "that many, if not most, replies on this forum are ad hominem" attacks (attacks on the person, not the argument). But if one's intent is to sway an audience in one's favor, if there is little to support one's argument, it is often effective to attack and belittle one's opponent. The attacks, though of a personal nature, still serve a public (political) purpose. The intensity of one's ad hominen attacks may be an indication of the weakness of one's argument.

I also agree that "modern use of any given word is likely of more immediate relevance", but I think it is often good to step back and get a wider perspective on things; not that stepping in for a closer view is not also good.
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