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I cannot believe we are debating Coronavirus
Is it just me, or does the world have a problem with facts? Especially America! What is going through your heads that you believe Trump has said ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY FACTUAL about Coronavirus? We get all the news from you, all the time. We know what's happening in your country more than some of you 🤪.I'm quite concerned.
Sadly, I have to agree that nearly half of the U.S. has gone batshit crazy. However, don't, please, turn on the rest of the U.S.! We are fighting TWO viruses, Carona19 AND TDS. We are on the verge of curing the latter, (hopefully N.Y. and a few other states and countries will finish that project)! The former is also in a more hopeful place.
We have had too much intensity on "personal freedoms" now for several years (generations, really), and we have to get back to reality! President Eisenhower put our problem in a nutshell when he said: "People who place their freedoms above their principles soon lose both." That's our problem, too many feel THEY should be free to do whatever they want, fuck the next guy! Yep, batshit crazy.
We have a chance, now, to get America back. We need encouragement, not criticism. This is likely our LAST chance and if we don't succeed, the rest of the world will also suffer. Authoritarianism will win.
We have a chance, now, to get America back. We need encouragement, not criticism. This is likely our LAST chance and if we don't succeed, the rest of the world will also suffer. Authoritarianism will win.
I think that's a pretty accurate assessment, although I'm unfortunately very pessimistic. I don't see how 74 million people can be de-programmed. Especially when part of their programming is always to believe they are right. We are looking at successive generations which have fallen victim to propaganda, so those generations reinforce their own bias with each other. Sons with fathers, mother with daughters and uncles with nephews.
No, the world is going crazy because some people are listening to the toddler Trump instead of listening to the thousands of qualified professionals in their field both in and out of America.
Yet again, I wasn't talking about Christians. Maybe you should stop posturing and start reading. I'll say it again.
People need to listen to the advise of qualified professionals in their field, both in and out of America, and stop listening to an orange man with a sharpie.
I disagree. People need to think for themselves, and have liberty.............................................................................................................
People should think for themselves, yes, but that privilege stops when people ignore or disregard actual evidence and the advise of medical professionals, at the cost of other's lives. Example: If you want to go out and swim in a flooded and swollen river that's fine, but don't drag unwilling people with you just because you think you won't get swept away. You don't have the liberty to put innocent people at risk just because you don't like the evidence that what you want to do may not be good for you.
Freedom of thought is a right, not a privilege. People have the right to freedom, of thought. I do not have the right to walk in a mosque and force my Christian faith on Muslims, but I am welcome at a Christian church. I'm sorry to bring up religion, but that was an analagy, for you.
As Mint Tea already explained, it is not your right to endanger other people by ignoring factual reality. Other people have rights too Dana, which is the concept you seem to have so much difficulty getting through your head.
I do not have the right to walk in a mosque and force my Christian faith on Muslims, but I am welcome at a Christian church
Dana, you force your Christian faith onto everybody you come into contact with. You can't shut up about Yeshua for longer than five minutes.
I have the absolute right, to freedom of thought. I am not forcing my beliefs on others, but I do have the right to preach the Gospel, like Yeshua, said.
No you don't you stubborn mule. Listen to what other people are saying for a change instead of just repeating what you believed in the first place. You don't, for example, have the right to believe fire is healthy to bathe newborn children in, because that thought endangers others around you who have rights too.
You are simply impossible to reason with. Impossible. All I hear from you all day is Yeshua this, Yeshua that, and how everything is your "right". You sound like a spoiled, entitled 12 year old girl.
I have the right to talk about Yeshua on a public debate site because He is Faithful, religious liberty is a right, freedom of thought is a right, and free speech, is a right. You have the right not to read my posts, you have the right not to reply, YOU are the one playing the victim.
I have the right to talk about Yeshua on a public debate site because
Because nothing you selfish idiot. A conversation is a two way street, and if I don't want to talk about your ridiculous imaginary friend then you have no right to force that topic of conversation onto me. Roll the shutters open covering your ears and understand that you are not the only person in the world with rights you psychopathic moron.
Dana, shut your fat lying mouth you stupid, dishonest oaf. I did not say that you'd said you were the victim. Things can be implied without being said outright. For example, it is implied that you are talking to a human. I do not need to say it outright in order to believe it is true. If I write enough nonsense you might even discover I hold that belief without me explicitly saying it.
Don't speak to me, like that. I have the right, to not be abused.......................................................................................
And just for the record, when you tell everybody that you meet you have been raped before they even know your first name, then it is pretty clear you see yourself as a victim.
You have a right to think what you want. That privilege ends however when you harms others because you think you're right even when science, the majority of qualified professionals, and fact say's otherwise. Your analogy doesn't quite match that.
Let me ask you Dana: what do you think happens to people who have thoughts that the Devil is talking to them and demanding they kill people? Are they left alone to have those thoughts once other people find out, or are they put on medication and/or perhaps sent to a psychiatric facility?
That's not what I said, and not the issue. What I am refering to is, what religious beliefs you have, political, philisophical, and so on. You need, to tell, the truth.
I'm really not sure what part of what I'm saying is going over your head. Thought leads to action, the two aren't mutually exclusive. As I've said repeatedly, people should think for themselves, but you don't have the liberty or freedom to put innocent people at risk just because you don't like the evidence that what you want to do may not be good for you.
I'm really not sure what part of what I'm saying is going over your head.
I think it is more like bouncing off her head. She will not change her mind about anything and simply pulls metal shutters over her ears whenever you challenge what she believes. The more logical you become in trying to explain things, the more irrational she becomes in response.
You're still not picking up what I'm putting down. I enjoy yoga and meditation so while I do some of that, how about you try reading what has been posted again since you still aren't getting it.
Yes you did. You implied I had argued that thoughts always lead to actions, when in fact I had done no such thing. At best you deflected the point, and at worst you misrepresented what my argument was about. Either way you're a fallacious bitch.
Don't waste, my time. You, are boring, me....................................................................................................................................
It's true, now I'll like to make an example, those who their family members or loved ones have died from the Coronavirus believe it's real and you can't tell them any different but those that are yet to experience it will keep saying it's fake. I don't just get why people prefer listening to what they want to hear than facts they're listening to Trump because he's telling them what they want to hear not because he's right.
....people prefer listening to what they want to hear than facts they're listening to Trump because he's telling them what they want to hear not because he's right.
That's exactly the problem. They want to stay in their own little safety bubble so they refuse to listen and understand what they don't want to hear. It's basically either intentional ignorance or confirmation bias.
I don't just get why people prefer listening to what they want to hear than facts
I'll give you the short answer. Capitalism and Christianity.
What these ideologies have done is provide a reward structure for the emotional side of the brain, at the expense and neglect of the rational side. What we are seeing are the results of the emotional side of the brain dominating the rational side.
Exactly, they're not paying any attention to the rational part of the brain telling them the truth rather listening to the emotional side but deep down they know it's real
What these ideologies have done is provide a reward structure for the emotional side of the brain, at the expense and neglect of the rational side. What we are seeing are the results of the emotional side of the brain dominating the rational side.
Yet those on the left use more emotional appeals and are convinced more by emotional arguments. You're claim couldn't be more untrue, and in fact is dead wrong. You're history of being dumber than a used condom would explain that.
Yet those on the left use more emotional appeals and are convinced more by emotional arguments.
Yet that is quite obviously a steaming hot bag of lies. I challenge you to not turn factual reality upside down for even a single sentence.
You're claim couldn't be more untrue
Your claim.
If you are going to argue with me at least have the courtesy to learn the basics of your own indigenous language, you hilariously stupid case study in narcissistic personality disorder.
You're history of being dumber than a used condom
Ahahahaha!! Twice in two sentences. That obliterates any hope you had of passing it off as a typo. You are literally so stupid that you can't speak English, Bronto. 😆
Specific scenarios were selected for the six studies relating to current events in Israel, mainly surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and possible steps towards its resolution.
So they chose the most emotionally charged subject for liberals that they possibly could. Had they selected specific scenarios for whether the election was a fraud or whether liberals are evil, then clearly they would have obtained different results.
You are such a first class retard Bronto. Science Daily isn't even a science website. It simply aggregates press releases from other sources.
Explain why you always ignore everything which disagrees with you? Like:-
Conservatives Anticipate and Experience Stronger Emotional Reactions to Negative Outcomes
Also, I would like to encourage people to understand that liberal capitalists are still capitalists. There is simply no rational reason why you would respond to my comment by attacking liberals, other than of course because you are a crazy partisan retard who still thinks Trump won the election.
Is it just me, or does the world have a problem with facts? Especially America!
Definitely not just you. America has gone crazy. Their system is falling apart. Hell, half of them thought Donald Trump was the answer, so what does that tell you?
I believe that Trump is the one leading them astray so even when he claimed the election was a fraud, I was shocked beyond control to see some people believe and still fight for him even after all he had done. When will people learn?!!!
I believe that Trump is the one leading them astray so even when he claimed the election was a fraud, I was shocked beyond control to see some people believe and still fight for him even after all he had done. When will people learn?!!!
Never underestimate the depth of human stupidity my friend. It is like a bottomless pit. Even now, as Trump works to undermine and dismantle democracy at every possible juncture, these idiots are chanting about freedom.