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" . . However, this little book is meant for everyone, including you, dear Sir. Yet we can hardly expect you to condescend to such an inclusion. On the contrary, your strongest confidence and self-assurance comes from the certainty that no one will dare to think of you when the simple word 'ev...

. . I don't think it's hard to identify . . views [that] . . are highly polarized by race. Both whites and blacks seem to be talking about completely different issues . . Much better, Zack, and while I agree that we are divided socially on any number of moral/ethical issues, I doubt Ferguson boils ...

I never claimed to have the ability to solve this problem. I'm just amused by the fact that you think Chris Rock skits and out-of-context Bill Cosby quotes are the final word on race relations in the United States. Tell me, do you think Chris Rock and Bill Cosby share your opinions on the Ferguson ...

Zack Morris wrote:. . It seems to me . . no one on this forum possesses the brain power and moral strength [to illuminate a way forward].

Except you . .

. . white people aren't all that comfortable with . . Tell you what, Zack, . . are you white?—try teaching school in an Alaska bush village . . . are you a Yankee?—move to the rural South . . etc., etc., etc. . . I'm with CS on this . . the knee-jerk filtering of issues through the "prism of r...

Zack Morris wrote:Then pray tell what is Ferguson about . . ? . .

Get a clue, Zack, get a clue.

Regardless of how one wishes to spin the context or spin the aftermath, Ferguson is about one person's decision to play whup-ass . .

Let's see now . . Ferguson is the fault of 1) discrimination against non-whites, especially Blacks; 2) a militarized constabulary; 3) sinister orchestration; and 4) problem-creating Philosophers.

Gotta go . . way too goofy for me . . .

Zack Morris wrote:Sorry, Marcus, but . . You might want to be lazy and pretend . . I think I get the mentality now. . .

You ain't even close, Zack . . you don't get jack . .

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I love how the same people who would spend hours in the Philosophy sub-forum debating whether reality is or is not and arguing passionately over how many angels could fit on the point of a needle are totally incapable of so much as entertaining the possibility that black people might have legitimat...

kmich wrote:. . What do we really want?

"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you." —St. Augustine

Patience . . . Solzhenitsyn's prayer was answered at Calvary . . . Patience, yes. A complacent passivity, no. The Reformed Faith is anything but complacent . . Ecclesia Reformata, Semper Reformanda . . . ". . They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gl...

. . Is there no hope? Does history have to run its course in just another ho hum decline and disintegration of another once “great” civilization? Solzhenitsyn’s prayer is for something very new and different that could be a fundamental turn in history. A radical clearing of the ground of our lives ...

. . this is about good people . . in positions of . . anonymity, . . . . this is a much larger issue. We are mostly good people, but good people can act evil when given . . anonymity. Are we in danger of becoming a national variation of the Stanford Prison Experiment? Are we there? . . Are we there...

Look, let's not beat around bushes here there are 2 problems here that are "SYSTEMIC" - all civilians are armed to the teeth .. all kinds of armament .. phony excuse being "recreational" or protection against criminals .. both phony and rubbish .. Police must protect against thi...

. . Individual incidents result from lack of training, error and hiring the wrong people. . . So what are you saying? That incidents like Ferguson are simply the result of poor cop training, bad cop judgement, and the wrong people working as cops? If that's what you're saying, Nonc, you sound like ...

. . So what am I missing here? Not a lot, Nap, I think you've pretty well nailed the problem. Personally, I'd like to see some of these namby-pamby types put their lives on the line for what . . 70k a year? No helmet, no flak jacket, just a blue uniform and your 9 mm. Catch a rock to the head, watc...

I have no idea, Nonc, and unless you were there, neither do you. There's a huge difference between an accusation of poor or questionable judgement—in one's own opinion, of course—and an accusation of deliberately inciting to riot. I am 100% positive, Marcus. The police in riot gear were part of a p...

Everyone on the police force dressing in camo, driving around in an MRAP, hauling out an MRAD, everybody carrying rifles and pointing them at unarmed people, everyone deliberately not interfering with looters. Do you really think there was not someone in charge ordering these actions? That this was...

. . Sending waves of overarmed and overheated cops into a crowd of protestors with rifles drawn was planned. So was the decision to not have the cops interfere with the looters. . . But how do you know this? Were you privy to the decision-making in Ferguson? Did someone issue a news release to that...

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Marcus, have to admit, neither lived in America nor stayed for long, just occasional (many) trips .. in that sense, can not validate or not what I see & read in Western (and non western) foreign media In a nutshell, what you saying above, is, those all white city council was elected because vas...

. . how can a city 2/3 black have all white "city counsel" and a white police chief ? ? .. forget how that "City Council" was (supposedly) elected, but, a "city counsel" NOT reflecting the 2/3 black community would not care about those blacks, resulting in high unemplo...

Doc, it ain't Azari, .. this thing not going away .. it is SYSTEMIC .. Keep in mind that a cop lays his life on the line every time he goes to work. And you're right, it is systemic . . but maybe not the systemic you have in mind . . some of this victim-crap has been going on a long, long time. We ...

Heracleum Persicum wrote:With all due respect, kmich, you guys no communicating with G_D, rather the DEVIL whispering into your ears . .

With all due respect, speak for yourself, ALI . . .