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TheKentuckian

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22. 1. Fascist doesn't mean failure to accept random definitions knitted out of thin air and pretending
Sun Feb 10, 2013, 06:29 PM
Feb 2013

said definitions are the sole operative ones in existence.

Not only the failure to pretend and accept but the unwillingness to refrain from challenging such.

See no one is stopping you from saying or believing anything, there isn't a consequence being forced on you nor threat of injury to life, limb, or ability to resource you are being challenged and questioned on such not curtailed.

Sounds like a tantrum brought by irrational logic.

Who knows what your definitions are to know if one fits them or not since definitions are whimsical bits of flotsam drifting in the wind meaning what they mean to who they mean it to when they mean it that way on that given day, in that particular place, applied to that particular one...maybe...one can never say and who could be sure if they did but surely things are working out for the best, otherwise how could they be? Though certainly things aren't perfect and perhaps much awry, but who knows and setting things straight may put weight on toes and that can't right, best to leave well enough alone, the universe will change the tone.

Which one is Orwellian? [View all] patrice Feb 2013 OP
Hum! If 'Responsible collaborative empirical analysis and evaluation' is applied before it goes down freshwest Feb 2013 #1
Good point. But I am assuming that that is part of our responsibility, i.e. to create the political patrice Feb 2013 #2
OMGawd, I'm not ready for that on an empty tummy. But in passing, and I will try to work on it; freshwest Feb 2013 #4
BTW, did you see the World drought projection maps posted here earlier this week? patrice Feb 2013 #3
TPTB aren't ignoring it. Check their actions to see what's up. freshwest Feb 2013 #5
My guess is about everything thing we see on an international scale IS about those drought maps patrice Feb 2013 #12
I suspect their push for global etc. comes from this. Anyone unwilling to change, won't make it. freshwest Feb 2013 #13
Thank you, freshwest! You help me get balance. It's so hard to describe how I'm not patrice Feb 2013 #14
neither BainsBane Feb 2013 #6
If Orwell wasn't writing about something extracted from human experience, inferred like lots of patrice Feb 2013 #8
no, it means I see no relation BainsBane Feb 2013 #9
That's okay, nevermind. nt patrice Feb 2013 #11
(IMO) BainsBane is correct Motown_Johnny Feb 2013 #15
You have a right to IMO & so do I that is unless I am an unperson & you are a fascist. FOUR fingers! patrice Feb 2013 #19
So, you're only for collaboration that agrees with you? Why is that NOT fascism? Please tell me. nt patrice Feb 2013 #20
. Motown_Johnny Feb 2013 #21
The traits that you quote, in bold type above, can also be the same traits of ANY patrice Feb 2013 #25
False dichotomy. You'll get a lot of passes on this I think. Glassunion Feb 2013 #7
Facts always are what they are or they would not be facts. They can, however, be viewed from patrice Feb 2013 #10
I think you increasingly like to grab words, redefine them, and operate from the perspective TheKentuckian Feb 2013 #16
Make of it what you will. & Accord to me the same right to make of it all what I will. FOUR fingers. patrice Feb 2013 #17
And if you can't do that, perhaps you should consider explaining why your aren't a fascist. nt patrice Feb 2013 #18
1. Fascist doesn't mean failure to accept random definitions knitted out of thin air and pretending TheKentuckian Feb 2013 #22
We agree about more than you realize, except for disrespect, the hallmark of fascism. FOUR fingers. patrice Feb 2013 #24
This thread and another come to mind with this same word. TheKentuckian Feb 2013 #26
Neither. nt bemildred Feb 2013 #23
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