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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: Joseph Silent who wrote (93371)8/12/2012 8:38:33 PM
From: Robin Plunder1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 219567
 
"what a "real" statesman is. I don't. Any judgement would be subjective. No amount of information would suffice to help one make the distinction between real and unreal."

Perhaps this gets to the heart of the matter....are we really victims of some charming unscrupulous folks, who somehow dupe us into destroying ourselves...or are these folks just cashing in on the fact that 1) we really dont know how to discover the truth and 2) we are often guided by our own short term interests into making choices that are destructive of our long term interests? (and the psychopaths use these short term interests to aid them in accomplishing their goals?)

Does objectivity arise from intuition of a supernatural world, and do 'truths' derived from observation of this world lead to relativism? Can any of us describe how truth is achieved, based on facts observed from this world?

We take food stamps, social security disability payments, medicaid programs...because they help us achieve our short term goals....even tho in the long run they create a tyrannical government which destroys our rights to life, liberty, and property, rather than protect them.

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