Christian Family Values?

kudzu said:
You really don't understand it?

The Jester's job was to keep his ruler from folly. All jesters used humor to point out shortcomings or limitations in judgment of the ruler, before the ruler could make a mistake. Humorous jokes kept the ruler from uppitiness or errors of judgment costly to the realm.

Circumstances are humanized by the court jester to allow the ruler to see things as they really are and jesters fended off misapprehension, miscues, and misquotes and prohibited cultural misunderstanding.

The jester was often called upon to be a global player, acting as diplomat or ambassador because of their charm, gaiety, and sound judgment. He was often used as a translator between cultures, people, habits, and institutions because he was viewed as highly intelligent and held the gift of prophecy.

Viewed at court often as the king's right-hand man, the jester's bauble was sometimes equated to the ruler's scepter. "Jesters in China, Europe, the Middle East, and India aimed their humorous arrows at the same targets—religion, self-important scholars, venal officials...
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I couldn't care less of the explanation of his silly riddle.
I want to know why he/she/it thinks they're my superior.
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello RB 60,



Well done. I wish you many years of health wealth and love.

I just don't get the ones who have it made, but they never quit working. As if the pursuit of wealth, and wealth itself, is the end-all be-all.

It is dismaying to see people so obsessed with wealth that they forgo their own health in the pursuit of wealth. Then, when they finally retire, they can't enjoy life because of health issues.

President Trump totally doesn't get it.

Once you're rich, there is no more point in trying to get rich. More money does not equal more happiness.

When one has enough to have all their needs met, they are already as happy as they are ever going to be.

Happiness must come from a fulfilling life. It cannot be purchased.

And once your body is 'used up for life,' all the money in the world will not buy you another one, nor bring back your youth.

Trump will die still trying to get rich.
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My father worked into his 80's part time at an orchard and had a small honey business. Not for wealth, but because he enjoyed it.
 
Hello kudzu,

kudzu said:
You really don't understand it?

The Jester's job was to keep his ruler from folly. All jesters used humor to point out shortcomings or limitations in judgment of the ruler, before the ruler could make a mistake. Humorous jokes kept the ruler from uppitiness or errors of judgment costly to the realm.

Circumstances are humanized by the court jester to allow the ruler to see things as they really are and jesters fended off misapprehension, miscues, and misquotes and prohibited cultural misunderstanding.

The jester was often called upon to be a global player, acting as diplomat or ambassador because of their charm, gaiety, and sound judgment. He was often used as a translator between cultures, people, habits, and institutions because he was viewed as highly intelligent and held the gift of prophecy.

Viewed at court often as the king's right-hand man, the jester's bauble was sometimes equated to the ruler's scepter. "Jesters in China, Europe, the Middle East, and India aimed their humorous arrows at the same targets—religion, self-important scholars, venal officials...
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Where is Trump's jester?
 
PostmodernProphet said:
have you ever looked at the philosophy of the Social Democrat party in Germany?......
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" A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism."
 
PoliTalker said:
Most people will work hard if they feel their efforts are appreciated and they are paid fairly.
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Including most young people. My kids all worked their way through college. The kids I currently go to university with are doing the same. Every generation tends to think that the one behind it is lazier, feels more entitled, and won't amount to a hill of beans. lol
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Including most young people. My kids all worked their way through college. The kids I currently go to university with are doing the same. Every generation tends to think that the one behind it is lazier, feels more entitled, and won't amount to a hill of beans. lol
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We must then assume you're speaking from your vast experience of conducting interviews/hiring along with your knowledge of working with said "kids." Correct?
 
kudzu said:
Totalitarianism is conservative whether they are socialists or capitalists.. There is a reason the Nazi flag was mostly red. Currently. Italy is undergoing a Fascist revival.
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socialism and communism have both given us examples of totalitarianism.......nazis in Germany, the USSR, China are all examples.......can you give me an example of a conservative nation that became totalitarian?......by the way, Italy had the only communist governing party in Europe for decades.......
 
kudzu said:
" A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism."
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USSR......Communist China......Cuba.......recently Venezuela......have any other examples?...
 
PostmodernProphet said:
socialism and communism have both given us examples of totalitarianism.......nazis in Germany, the USSR, China are all examples.......can you give me an example of a conservative nation that became totalitarian?......by the way, Italy had the only communist governing party in Europe for decades.......
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Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Italy would all be considered conservative.
 
By liberalism I mean the original political philosophy called by that name—the one espoused by John Locke and embodied in the Bill of Rights.

Liberalism is based on the hypothesis that people ought to be maximally free, with the government intervening only to the extent required to protect their freedoms against abridgment by their compatriots or by enemies abroad.

This was a radical idea in the eighteenth century, when few people had much education and the general public was routinely slandered as ignorant and untrustworthy. Locke himself feared that the public was so mired in “passion and superstition” as to be apt, as Voltaire put it, to act irrationally and “speak without thinking.”

Sharing such qualms, many of the American founders described the newborn United States as akin to a scientific experiment. “No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1804, “and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.”

Liberal democracy—the form of government in which a majority can elect leaders but not constrain human rights—has survived innumerable social experiments to become the choice of more than a third of all humanity and the stated preference of most of the remainder.
 
kudzu said:
Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Italy would all be considered conservative.
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and?......does this mean you are also making the claim they are totalitarian?......

do they fall under this description?
centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
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If so I am surprised the EU hasn't chucked them out.......
 
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