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POTUS 45.12: Dan, does it take courage when encountering the covfefe?

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rufus said:
At the very least, she demonstrated a completely unacceptable casualness and carelessness when handling and talking about such sensitive security issues. Two things we just cannot afford a president to be.
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No.
 
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leswp1 said:
What is real? What is reality? Some options because reality doesn't seem to be reality any more.

But what is reality? The more we probe it, the harder it becomes to comprehend.

http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/what_is_kabbalah/what_is_reality.htm

Who are you? What does it mean to be a person in this world? What is reality? These are the questions Neuroscientist David Eagleman tackles in his new book, The Brain: The Story of You, and the PBS series, The Brain. Source: David Eagleman, used with permission
Our common sense notion of reality is that our eyes, ears, nose, and fingertips pick up objective reality, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Smells, sounds, and colors do not actually exist in the outside world. The interaction between what’s “out there” and our sensory organs isn’t the whole picture, either. And the brain “has no direct access to the outside world. It’s locked in silence and darkness inside your skull,” says Eagleman. Our brains have never seen the outside world, and yet we experience it.
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In that case, if there is no reality, we have a deeper problem, because in the Thomistic view "Truth, then, is the intellect's conformity with reality."

If there is no reality, there is no truth.

And if there is no truth, it's all fake, and Trump would be right. :eek:

Are you sure you want to make Trump right by claiming there's no reality? ;)
 
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The Sicatoka said:
In that case, if there is no reality, we have a deeper problem, because in the Thomistic view "Truth, then, is the intellect's conformity with reality."

If there is no reality, there is no truth.

And if there is no truth, it's all fake, and Trump would be right. :eek:

Are you sure you want to make Trump right by claiming there's no reality? ;)
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If Trump is no reality then why do women still bleed?
 
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The Sicatoka said:
In that case, if there is no reality, we have a deeper problem, because in the Thomistic view "Truth, then, is the intellect's conformity with reality."

If there is no reality, there is no truth.

And if there is no truth, it's all fake, and Trump would be right. :eek:

Are you sure you want to make Trump right by claiming there's no reality? ;)
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Whether I want to make him right or not, he is convinced he is and living in his own reality already. I am currently hoping this is an alt universe because I cannot conceive of a world where there are really this many people who are stupid, amoral, self serving, willing to dismantle the country or willing to aid and abet.
It is beyond me how a system that has worked for centuries can fall apart because so many people are willing to ignore the Constitution so they can say they won.
 
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Jill Stein could die tomorrow and save the world. She is awful and dangerous.
 
Re: POTUS 45.12: Dan, does it take courage when encountering the covfefe?

The Sicatoka said:
In that case, if there is no reality, we have a deeper problem, because in the Thomistic view "Truth, then, is the intellect's conformity with reality."
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Well. Kind of. "Reality" for the Big Aq is a little more complicated than that. The correspondence theory of truth as interpreted by us is seen from the standpoint of Empiricism. Tom Terrific was arguing from a concept of Reality that was anchored in what he honestly believed at the time were unassailable "proofs" that God's existence is knowable by reason. He had five main proofs. All have since been thoroughly debunked. So really Thomists in general and Neo-Thomists (who didn't get the memo) in particular are arguing an extremely elegant and eloquent hocus pocus theory of truth.

The good news (see what I did there?) is, nothing can assail it because no matter what happens it's absolute anchor is an axiom, not an observation.

Spinoza did the same thing 400 years later, but he crossed out "God" and wrote "Nature" and, in fairness, fixed some of the other logical errors Tom made in his zeal to work backwards to an axiomatic standard of truth (recall how InfoWars works). Both works are extremely interesting metaphysics. They just aint the hard-nosed empiricism you're making them out to be.

Editor's Note: Even though there's a catastrophic logical error holding the entire Summa edifice up, it's a godd-amn (so to speak) cathedral of wonderful thinking, and none too shabby prose for that matter, so none of this is to in any way slam it. It's one of the truly finest works of fiction created by man.
 
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Handyman said:
Yeah...I mean he only gave out UNclassified info. (cause he unclassified it) And he would never be caught dead on a hackable Blackberry...he only uses the highest security non-government issue Android phones!
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Plus, those phones work really well as lighting sources in dimly lit clubhouse restaurants, when you're reviewing highly sensitive documents at dinner with the riff raff.
 
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rufus said:
Plus, those phones work really well as lighting sources in dimly lit clubhouse restaurants, when you're reviewing highly sensitive documents at dinner with the riff raff.
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And of course they allow you to tweet your inner most thoughts! Very handy when you do something wrong, your people defend you, and you wish they hadnt!
 
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Apparently Greta Van Susteren has lost her job at MSNBC already. I can't imagine why. They don't really look for big ratings in that slot. Seemed a normal enough show. She's well known.
 
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So behind a paywall, so i can't link to it, but apparently, a GOP opposition researcher was looking for people who could get him emails hacked by the Russians from Hillary's computer, and claiming he was working with Michael Flynn to those he was trying to recruit.

Furthermore, people familiar with US Intelligence are saying the Russia collusion investigators have reports from our intelligence agencies of Russians talking about how to get emails from Clinton's computer and then pass them on to Flynn via intermediary.
 
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That sounds...ummm...bad.
 
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OK, so Flynn and crew back-channeled to Russia. The issue still remains - "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" It's obvious they won't get him for obstruction. Republicans won't go for it even if they can build a strong case, because they are pussies who are too scared of Trump's base, even when they've got lawful evil Pence waiting in the wings.
 
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