Steven,
I can see that we could have some good debates. Why does this interest me?
Why does this interest me?
In any event, I am going to address all the posts to me thus far, and the rest will have to wait until tomorrow.
"I don't think you, or I, or anybody else knows what "the grand design of life" is, or even if there is one. "
Well, I can. Please look ahead a couple of posts. We can argue this, but what is the point. Life does not care. Maybe you have a religion, or think that I am promoting a religious view. In either case it matters not, because life does not care. Life has one single purpose for you, and that is to make more life. It does not care if you rob, or kill, or shoot herion in your views, or if you dedicate yourself to God, or to helping the poor. Life does not care. All life wants you do, is make more life. Life is just a big virus.
Now if "the grand design of life" relates to a master plan for our reason to be here, well I can say, without reservation, that I have not a clue. No one does that I have read or met yet. A lot of good ideas (and some real bad ones -g-), but nothing for sure. Who knows, maybe next year someone will figure it out.
"I would suggest that children be exposed to the reality of homosexual behaviour at the point where they begin using "faggot" as an expression of contempt."
Point taken. Much thought on how to address that problem. There are people that don't like me, and there always will be people that don't like me. Do I expend energy trying in vain to change them? Or do I just avoid them? I really don't have an answer here.
"Who said I was a democrat?"
Sorry, that was an assumption, a pretty safe one, but still one. What are you then?
"The Republicans have the same problem. Many who are drawn to the Republican party's fiscal conservatism and its stand on taxes cannot tolerate the attempts of the religious right to use secular power to impose its own intrusive morality. The religious right can't tolerate the views of the libertarian right on social issues. Most Republicans in the corporate world are all for free trade and multilateralism, but we see a lot of right-wing faces marching against the WTO, NAFTA, the IMF, and other organizations (organizations inevitably denounced in developing countries as tools of the corporate right) devoted to promoting free trade."
I cannot disagree with your basic premise. I would argue that there exists a vast difference in the degree. The fact is that Republicans can find enough to unify, and that the difference in specific issues is outweighted by a clear set of core values. The has been, and probably always will be, one of the parties greatest strengths. I have my problems with the far right, but at the same time I want to extend my line in the middle to include more. Of course those on the far right have issue with this. By contrast the Democratic party is without a center, and must pander to achieve its objectives. We Republicans pandered to one group too for a long time, that has ended.
Lol, yes the hounds are going to be a problem...but they will always be there. I would argue that our groups are not as separate as you might like to think. I know yours, and little more than a wind can knock one of the foundation corners down.
I am still waiting for the day the Democrats figure out how to really win. If they just did one or two things different, then the right could lose a lot of support. This will never happen, because one of the core groups in the party will not ever rise to the challenge. In the end a party is only as great as its people. We have our bad, and so do you.
HAGO
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