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by Bootstrap
Mon May 06, 2024 4:54 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?
Replies: 636
Views: 40661

Re: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?

Ken, I think you are mostly saying:

1. You disagree with the Supreme Court decision, and
2. You wish Congress would act to disqualify Trump

Is that right? And you are mostly giving reasons you wish that would happen?
by Bootstrap
Mon May 06, 2024 3:52 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 418
Views: 78037

Re: War in Gaza

Robert wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 10:19 am Interesting perspective.


Any evidence that this is true? Something we can look at? He makes a lot of very concrete claims. Should be easy to show the proof if they are true. He says he actually looked at the evidence.
by Bootstrap
Mon May 06, 2024 2:17 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 418
Views: 78037

Re: War in Gaza

Josh wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 12:15 pm
Ernie wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 12:04 pm but on the same scale as Gaza?
The operation in Iraq was much larger scale. Of course, it didn’t work in the long run.
How are you measuring scale?
by Bootstrap
Mon May 06, 2024 1:42 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?
Replies: 636
Views: 40661

Re: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?

Now lets get back on topic. Could you please clarify what the topic is, and what is on or off topic? A few pages back, I suggested that the topic of this thread is "Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?", which the Supreme Court seems to have settled. Is that the topi...
by Bootstrap
Mon May 06, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 33
Views: 754

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

I don’t think pointing out someone is of poor character is “as hominem”. Basically. I don’t think people of poor character and with a fundamentally anti-Christian worldview are the right place to go for either the truth or facts. Actually, I think this the very definition of "ad hominem"....
by Bootstrap
Mon May 06, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?
Replies: 636
Views: 40661

Re: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?

Now lets get back on topic. Could you please clarify what the topic is, and what is on or off topic? A few pages back, I suggested that the topic of this thread is "Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?", which the Supreme Court seems to have settled. Is that the topic?
by Bootstrap
Mon May 06, 2024 12:36 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 33
Views: 754

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

But I think there's a deep skepticism that facts exist at all. I think absolute truth exists and is embodied in Jesus, the Logos. I also think “facts” exist as a subset of this. I agree with you about truth from a biblical perspective. But I think the Bible also talks about false witness and gossip...
by Bootstrap
Mon May 06, 2024 11:43 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 418
Views: 78037

Re: War in Gaza

For anyone with the time, this is a really good piece on the moral dilemmas in this war and just how hard it is to do anything right. There's an auto-generated transcript on the Youtube version. Benjamin Wittes on Israel, Gaza, and Implications for U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policy On April 24, Lawfa...
by Bootstrap
Sun May 05, 2024 6:39 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 33
Views: 754

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

Facts are not about building partisan loyalty. They are the opposite. That's the point. To discuss facts, we first have to stop reframing every fact in partisan terms and telling everyone what we think of all the people involved. We have to stop playing the games associated with the lower levels of...
by Bootstrap
Sun May 05, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 33
Views: 754

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

Let's be clear about who these people are. Some conservative Mennonites (such as myself) like to point out inconsistency, like I used to do when people would endless complain about Obama back in the 2014 era. I did it back then, and I continue to do it now. I don't think this is about whether peopl...