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  1. dianaiad

    Your mind and life are like a ship on a rough sea

    I have always thought, when waxing philosophical and passing judgment upon others, that taking one's own advice is a very good first move. Which, come to think of it, is why I don't often wax philosophical or pass judgment upon others. Except of course liberals, but that's different.
  2. dianaiad

    Symbolisms and relationships of commonality #2

    Wow. That's an especially convoluted way of blaming the USA for the acts of Islamic terrorists who killed so many people on 9/11.
  3. dianaiad

    ‘It Is Utterly Impossible to Be Rich without Committing Injustice'

    This is true. Now if only I didn't run into so many people who think "Let him who has the most wealth cast the biggest donation, and I get to decide who, what and when, and by the way, some of that donating had better come my way...and ain't I special because I SAY that people (mostly other...
  4. dianaiad

    ‘It Is Utterly Impossible to Be Rich without Committing Injustice'

    Yep. Looked it up and everything. Seems to be a pretty universally accepted, and reported, set of stats up this way. Forbes, the IRS, pretty much everybody agrees that the percentage of taxes paid by the 'upper' 1 to 10% equals 40 to 90 % of the taxes. there's some argument as to the amount of...
  5. dianaiad

    ‘It Is Utterly Impossible to Be Rich without Committing Injustice'

    I get you. Really. I do. the problem I keep running into is this: I ain't rich. I don't have that sort of money. Never did, never will. I mean, I know what I would do if I ever won the mega lottery (the 250 million + one) that I don't actually buy tickets for. I would pay off my family's...
  6. dianaiad

    Early Dem State Voters: My recommendation at this point

    I don't really 'get' what Klobuchar is advocating for, frankly. What her platform is. Perhaps that's why I would lean in her direction. Or not. I'll probably hold my nose and vote for Trump, because unless Kobuchar is freakin' fantastic, there ain't any Democrats on the list I'd want...
  7. dianaiad

    ‘It Is Utterly Impossible to Be Rich without Committing Injustice'

    Is there a person or group of people whose moral character is so golden that they get to decide when someone ELSE needs to give away his superfluous money? Who gets to decide what 'superfluous' means? While I might personally think that someone else has too much money and should give a bunch...
  8. dianaiad

    Stone gets 3 year sentence Trump is saying he may

    Actually, the little schumck from Schenectady gets pardoned by his governor. He doesn't need to go to POTUS. And I'm a lot more disturbed by his commutation of Blog whatsisname....and that wasn't a pardon, but a clemency and 'time served,' with the two year supervised probation still in force...
  9. dianaiad

    Stone gets 3 year sentence Trump is saying he may

    Perhaps Trump will. Perhaps he won't. However, given that the left wing presidents have done a WHOLE lot more pardoning of people than Trump has, I don't see where any of you have any gripes coming....unless of course you think that the power of POTUS to pardon should be limited only to Democrats?
  10. dianaiad

    5G network, do we really need it?

    There's a lot of stuff we 'don't need.' Just ask the Luddites. Shoot, ask the guy who first invented fire and the first bronze ax. It's not a matter of 'need,' ever, when you come right down to things.
  11. dianaiad

    My Theory of Everything and the nature of God

    Oh. Dear. I've just been MAJORLY insulted. Hugely. As in, wow. Oh, I'm female. Just so you know. And your poetry is terrible, but then, I've always preferred stuff by Keats and Whitman. And I have nothing whatsoever against the homely arts, like sewing and quilting and knitting and stuff...
  12. dianaiad

    Mormon Church has $100 BILLION

    Where is your proof that it has not been? After all, isn't that what all the sturm and drung is about, the claim that somehow this money has not been taxed? There is NO evidence that the church has done anything illegal, and there is a lot of evidence that all the businesses it owns are fully...
  13. dianaiad

    Mormon Church has $100 BILLION

    Because the church, unlike many other evangelical organizations, doesn't attempt to put the businesses it owns into tax free status. Because the proof here isn't on the side of the folks saying 'prove that you paid taxes.' It's on the side of the church...and the IRS...saying 'prove that it...
  14. dianaiad

    Mormon Church has $100 BILLION

    If you think it is immoral enough to make a public statement about it, then you have a problem with it. I'm telling you that you don't have the right to 'have a problem' with the policies, beliefs and procedures of belief systems you don't belong to and which do not affect you, any more than I...
  15. dianaiad

    My Theory of Everything and the nature of God

    Oh, bother. Y'know, I have a fairly high IQ, even still, as measured by those who measure such things, and I honestly don't get anything you just wrote. I feel like that anecdote regarding Johnson, who refuted something similar (I think it was similar...I did mention that I didn't 'get' it...
  16. dianaiad

    Taking Bets On Trump Pardoning Roger Stone.

    Uh huh, like your favorite liberals have never pardoned anybody. Now I don't know whether Trump will pardon Stone or not. I think it will depend upon how fair the sentencing is, and whether Stone gets a new trial as a result of the foreperson of his jury being as blatantly politically biased as...
  17. dianaiad

    Mormon Church has $100 BILLION

    Yes they are. And I have NO problem pointing out the sheer hypocrisy of those who belong to religious organizations that also own businesses....and who go to professionals who teach them how to put the BUSINESSES into a non profit status so that they are not taxed...who criticize the CoJCoLDS...
  18. dianaiad

    Mormon Church has $100 BILLION

    Again. Not your problem. If WE don't have a problem, you sure don't.
  19. dianaiad

    Trump declares himself the "chief law enforcement officer of the United States"

    Ye ah, I think I read it. Your position seems to be that any swamp in need of cleaning would remain in need of cleaning, because the corrupt would stay unmolested. It can't possibly be that you are of the opinion that there was no corruption at all going on UNTIL Trump arrived. I mean...
  20. dianaiad

    Mormon Church has $100 BILLION

    Nope. Remember: 10% of nothing is....nothing. 10% of a little is...a little. I can tell you that...leaving aside the individuals in leadership, I have received a great deal more FROM the church, materialistically, than I have ever contributed, and frankly that makes me feel bad. As for the...
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