Good Old Neon

Has anyone offered a coherent picture of what the

Well, no, not especially

With the exception of Jules, the other free market, anti-socialized-anything members of this board seem to be conspicuously absent from this thread.

Isn

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No, if anyone wants to further this discussion, we should probably start a new thread, or discuss it in the preexisting Wilco/Atheist one.

I don

Not really (imo)

Interesting (way?) aside

It would appear as though there is a correlation

I received one of these as a father

It's certainly open to debate. http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm

This sounds about right (from the section, Was Jesus a Real Person):

Yet again, Salon's Glen Greenwald nails it on the head: What is more intrinsically corrupt than allowing people to engage in high-reward/no-risk capitalism -- where they reap tens of millions of dollars and more every year while their reckless gambles are paying off only to then have the Government shift their losses to the citizenry at large once their schemes collapse? We've retroactively created a win-only system where the wealthiest corporations and their shareholders are free to gamble for as long as they win and then force others who have no upside to pay for their losses. Watching Wal

Well, a full accounting would crash not only this server, but the whole fucking internets. Do yourself (and everyone else) a favor, pick up a book and read it every now and again, please. Your library card has grown stale and moldy - apparently.

No, unfortunately, we

- though, more often than not, I use my fingers...when I type, I use my fingers when I type.

Yeah, I've sort of made prickishness a virtue.

Yeah, I'm more of a Mahayana man myself - but yeah, I understand that not all buddhists are vegetarians - of course, I know a bit more about it now than I did 20 years ago (which, probably still isnt' all that much at all really). In actuality, my personal beliefs w/r/t the sacredness of all life are probably more closely alligned with Jainism (stripped free of all the mysticism and such) than Buddhism - for what it's worth.

I'm wishing you a very conservative, pragmatic birthday.

Bookworm

Well so yeah and but the sentiment is mutual - but yeah, I've been looking forward to something a bit more substantial, and I got it soooo.... thank you.

Yeah, it

Beautifully said (I'm thrilled to see you finally wade into this discussion) -