... faith in government issue looming, ever larger, here in America ~

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  1. asjoseph

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    ... sobering sight, damage the Bush-Obama-Biden years have done, to 21st Century America:

    https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-04-20_08-48-10.png?itok=3IC8wsOP

    Not a hot key on your keyboard you can toggle, to fix it, no elected official in U.S. history proved himself more corrosive, more deleterious to the democrat political party than, Joseph Biden:

    Confidence In Democratic Leadership Sinks To Record Low As Party Implodes | ZeroHedge

    Damage done by Bush/Obama-world/Biden people, irremediable. Our nation plundered asunder by crony kleptocrats, America's best days well behind her, indeed.

    Nothing left for our democrat friends, but hitting out, beating up little old ladies in electric cars, to make themselves feel good -


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    Happily, we are now well embarked on an adventure to make all previous administrations look like paragons of virtue.
     
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    take it away ernie, it's going to be a bumpy ride!

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    It seems I have become an atheist.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Haven't met many of those.
    I know a great many agnostics - which I consider to be a very honest belief system.
    Some of my prods think that atheism IS a religion.
    I'm not one of those either - but it DOES require a rather non-scientific.....um.....'belief' and here in the US atheism IS protected as if it WERE a religion.
    Probably BETTER than most. ;)

     
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    I knew a rather hard-nosed atheist once who insisted that anyone identifying as agnostic is really atheist but too mealy-mouthed to say so.

    I would counter that the atheist is really talking ontology and the agnostic is talking epistemology, so they're really talking about different things.

    I remember the hard-nosed atheist at least once saying something like "I'd believe tomorrow if I were shown adequate proof", to which I think a predictable agnostic response would be "ok, how are you deciding what's adequate proof?".

    I also think it's neat that while 'atheist' is a really old Greek word (your neighbors could look down on you as an atheist for not believing in Zeus), 'agnostic' is a coinage in Greek form but only made in 1869 by Huxley, and has a cute pun built in.
     
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    ... faith in government issue looming, ever larger, here in America ~
    I needed to put a sarcastic smiley face.
     
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    My favorite smiles aren't the sarcastic ones.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Your avatar sorta sets the tone..... ;)

    Back before Danny became an absentee landlord, we were imploring him to develop a sarcasm font......
     
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    This one is rather deep. but a good watch, listen and think about. From the boss you have no idea how they got there because you can see they don't have a clue, the person that seems to be in charge within a group or neighbourhood, all the way through to the top job .....
    Please watch it through to the end and leave your biases out of it



    T1 Terry
     
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    there are some good leaders though, and it is clear how and why they got there. just not enough