Notices by Bobby (robert_vinson@liberdon.com)

@br00t4c

@sun @augustus
"Those, however, who preside over rivers and seas (either demons or gods, as they call them), they would term gods."
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04165.htm

@sun @augustus

@augustus
"It is true that the earth was organized by three distinct characters, namely, Eloheim, Yahovah, and Michael, these three forming a quorum, as in all heavenly bodies, and in organizing element, perfectly represented in the Deity, as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brigham_Young

@augustus
"I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith,_Jr.

@augustus
"[T]he doctrine of a plurality of Gods is as prominent in the Bible as any other doctrine. . . . The head God organized the heavens and the earth. I defy all the world to refute me. In the beginning the heads of the Gods organized the heavens and the earth. Now the learned priests and the people rage, and the heathen imagine a vain thing."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith,_Jr.

@djsumdog @CONSERVATARIAN @gnu2
According to Gandhi the state represents violence. Why is violence necessary to accomplish anything besides violence?

@djsumdog @CONSERVATARIAN @gnu2
"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."
https://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/sense2.htm#google_vignette

@djsumdog @CONSERVATARIAN @gnu2
Oregon didn't legalize drugs, they decriminalized a small amount. Meaning drugs are still contaminated in the hands of criminals who are still reaping the profits instead of legal entities. Now cannabis profits go to law abiding citizens instead of drug cartels.

In some countries they just give addicts heroin in a clinic, that way drug dealers aren't fighting over profits and the addicts aren't injecting rat poison sold as cocaine.

@gnu2

@djsumdog @CONSERVATARIAN @gnu2
“"No!" Some soft-hearted visionaries will say: "No, it is possible! Possible by means of the ultimate perfection of humanity."

Is it necessary to point to the sentimental folly of this view? He who would found his hope for improved conditions on the ultimate perfection of humanity would indeed be relying upon a Utopia!”
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25282/25282-h/25282-h.htm

@CONSERVATARIAN @djsumdog @gnu2
"I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman

@jeffowski

@jeffowski
"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

@jeffowski

@courtcan @jeffowski

@sickburnbro
Socrates. Then we must do no wrong?

Crito. Certainly not.

Soc. Nor when injured injure in return, as the many imagine; for we must injure no one at all?

Cr. Clearly not.

Soc. Again, Crito, may we do evil?

Cr. Surely not, Socrates.

Soc. And what of doing evil in return for evil, which is the morality of the many-is that just or not?

Cr. Not just.

Soc. For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him?

Cr. Very true.
https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html

@sickburnbro

@sickburnbro

@sickburnbro