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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:01 AM Original message |
Holy carp, people: SYMBOLS ARE IMPORTANT. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
1. Exactly. Symbols matter. |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
2. The Rick Warren complaining is equivalent to the flag pin garbage. |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. You've got some reading to do, then, because human beings think in symbols. |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:28 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I don't care. "I" don't put stock in symbolism. Other people have and will but I don't. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:44 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Thanks for your support, Pookie |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 10:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
19. Then, why not invite David Duke or the leader of the Aryan nation? |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 11:56 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. I don't like Warren buts a very out of proportion comparison... |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 12:19 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. That's wrong |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 01:03 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. So popular anti-war figures are responsible for other more radical anti-war people becoming violent? |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 01:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Wow -- please go take a logic class before embarrassing yourself any more |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 01:37 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Don't get smarmy because I spotted flaws in your logic that you are unable to see... |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
3. Obama doesn't think that way |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Nope, sorry, I don't get it. |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:32 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. an example from your OP |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:44 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. But yet he gave this guy a stamp of approval -- why? |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 12:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
27. politics |
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Maven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 10:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
16. Obama is the one who said words matter. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
8. I agree. I can't agree with Obama on this call. |
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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
9. Except that if there wasn't all this hysteria... |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 10:29 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. exactly. Now Warren is front page news! nt |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 10:53 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Silence = Death |
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gravity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
12. What about Barack Obama being associated with Bill Ayers? |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 10:27 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. that by definition is not a symbol. |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
13. Is the symbol of Rick Warren more important or less important than the symbol of Dr. Lowery? |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
14. Thank you. K & R. nt |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
18. symbols are important. but that doesn't make them substance. |
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Prophet 451 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
21. Misogynist? |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 11:28 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. VERY much so -- he believes women should subjugate themselves totally to their husbands |
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Prophet 451 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 11:52 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Yeeeech |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 11:57 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. I agree 100% -- and I'm not Xian either |
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