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- Mon May 06, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?
- Replies: 643
- Views: 41482
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? I disagree with the Supreme Court punting on this issue. I think that was a partis...
- Mon May 06, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?
- Replies: 643
- Views: 41482
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?
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?
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: War in Gaza
- Replies: 464
- Views: 82314
- Mon May 06, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: War in Gaza
- Replies: 464
- Views: 82314
- Mon May 06, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?
- Replies: 643
- Views: 41482
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...
- Mon May 06, 2024 1:30 pm
- Forum: Written Word
- Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1329
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"....
- Mon May 06, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?
- Replies: 643
- Views: 41482
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?
- Mon May 06, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: Written Word
- Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1329
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...
- Mon May 06, 2024 11:43 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: War in Gaza
- Replies: 464
- Views: 82314
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...
- Sun May 05, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: Written Word
- Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1329
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...