Obviously, there are a number of lefties who pile onto every thread and spew juvenile rhetoric, but these folks are just infiltrating the community and posing as lefties in order to tarnish the image of Democrats. Are there any "real" Democrats on this board, or are we limited to righties and righties who pretend to be lefties in order to make Democrats look bad?
Are There any REAL Democrats on this board?
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I am a liberal, but not a Democrat.
And I am not a liberal, but am a democrat.
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Today's 'real democrats' are anarchists. They're everywhere.
You've heard of "Jinns"?**
ASURA [A-SU-RA]
Monier Williams states:
Asuras are "evil spirits, demons and opponents of the gods". Asuras connote the chaos-creating evil.
The sixteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states that pure god-like saints are rare and pure demon-like evil
are rare among human beings, and the bulk of humanity is multi-charactered with a few or many faults.[12]
According to Jeaneane Fowler, the Gita states that desires, aversions, greed, needs, emotions in various forms
"are facets of ordinary lives", and it is only when they turn to lust, hate, cravings, arrogance, conceit, anger,
harshness, hypocrisy, cruelty and such negativity- and destruction-inclined that natural human inclinations
metamorphose into something demonic (Asura).[12][13]
Asko Parpola traces the etymological root of Asura to *asera- of Uralic languages, where it means "lord, prince".[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asura
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**Jinn is an Arabic collective noun deriving from the Semitic root jnn (Arabic: جَنّ / جُنّ, jann), whose primary meaning is "to hide". Some authors interpret the word to mean, literally, "beings that are concealed from the senses".[7] Cognates include the Arabic majnūn ("possessed", or generally "insane"), jannah ("garden"), and janīn ("embryo").[8] Jinn is properly treated as a plural, with the singular being jinni.
The anglicized form genie is a borrowing of the French génie, from the Latin genius, a guardian spirit of people and places in Roman religion. It first appeared[9] in 18th-century translations of the Thousand and One Nights from the French,[10] where it had been used owing to its rough similarity in sound and sense.
Pre-Islamic (Jahili) Arabia[edit]
See also: Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
Archeological evidence found in Northwestern Arabia seems to indicate the worship of jinn, or at least their tributary status, hundreds of years before Islam: an Aramaic inscription from Beth Fasi'el near Palmyra pays tribute to the "ginnaye", the "good and rewarding gods",[11][12] and it has been argued that the term is related to the Arabic jinn.[13]
Numerous mentions of jinn in the Quran and testimony of both pre-Islamic and Islamic literature indicate that the belief in spirits was prominent in pre-Islamic Bedouin religion.[14] However, there is evidence that the word jinn is derived from Aramaic, where it was used by Christians to designate pagan gods reduced to the status of demons, and was introduced into Arabic folklore only late in the pre-Islamic era.[14] Julius Wellhausen has observed that such spirits were thought to inhabit desolate, dingy, and dark places and that they were feared.[14] One had to protect oneself from them, but they were not the objects of a true cult.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn