Alas, poor Europe. I knew it well, Horatio.
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Or what about "Behold the lillies of the field"?
Any quote you come up with, I can counter with another.
The problem with the bible is you can take just about ANYTHING you want from it.
Sacrifice your firstborn son? Check!
Stone prostitutes? Check!
The tribulations of Job? (ie faith doesn't necessarily make you rich) Check!
The world will end with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Check!
Even the tennet that there is only one god...
"I am the lord THY God, thou shall not have strange gods before me"
Notice that there's no statement saying "God" is the only god. This was just Yahweh being PO'd that some Jews were beginning to worship Ba'al.
Trying to justify anything by referring to the Bible is about as useful as trying to nail Jello to a wall.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:AKA libel. You wouldn't know about that either, would you?
Originally posted by second:Quote:See the "Parable of the talents or minas"
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Or maybe the part that says . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_talents_or_minas#Interpre
tations
The angry poor white trash living in East Texas (Trumptards) have little understanding of the biblical laws forbidding adultery, stealing, giving false witness,
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coveting their neighbor's possessions, drunkenness, gluttony, etc. As Trumptards go through life, they think following rules is an abridgement of their Constitutional freedoms, but breaking those biblical laws, even one time, can throw a Trumptard into poverty. That never stopped the Trumptards I'm familiar with from breaking all the laws all the time. They handle the inconsistency between what the bible says and what the Trumptard does by lying about what the Trumptards have done. That strategy doesn't work well in real life for Trumptards or for Russians torturing prisoners.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Also, you- in your righteousness- are ok with being cruel and vindictive to people who disagree with you. But, as the Bible says
" 'Vengeance is mine' says the Lord' ". It's not up to you to "punish" people for the "sin" of disagreeing with you.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Winner: “What We Need Today Is Weapons”
The Intercept spoke with Oleksandra Matviichuk, who heads the Center for Civil Liberties. She talked about her group’s effort documenting human rights abuses that began long before Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, how the international community’s failure to hold Russia accountable for earlier crimes led to the invasion, and why countries that want to support Ukraine should provide military assistance. As she put it: “What we need today is weapons, and maybe it’s weird to hear that from a human rights lawyer, but I’ll be very honest with you: I have spent 20 years defending human rights, and now I have no legal instrument which has worked in this situation.”
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/07/nobel-peace-prize-ukraine-war-crim
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Quote:I thought you knew that I am not a Christian. I am Atheist, which horrifies the Jehovah's Witnesses in the family, so I don't mention that fact. By the way, my two sisters, who worked at Burger King along with me, same as my parents, are both members of https://www.jw.org/en/ . One is a nurse and a multi-millionaire. The other is a school teacher for the blind and she is also a multi-millionaire. Then there is me, the engineer and the merciless barbarian in the family.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Also, you- in your righteousness- are ok with being cruel and vindictive to people who disagree with you. But, as the Bible says
" 'Vengeance is mine' says the Lord' ". It's not up to you to "punish" people for the "sin" of disagreeing with you.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Then WTF are you even referring to the Bible, and saying that following the Bible will make you rich? You may as well be quoting the Boy Scout motto.
Originally posted by second:Quote:I thought you knew that I am not a Christian. I am Atheist, which horrifies the Jehovah's Witnesses in the family, so I don't mention that fact. By the way, my two sisters, who worked at Burger King along with me, same as my parents, are both members of https://www.jw.org/en/ . One is a nurse and a multi-millionaire. The other is a school teacher for the blind and she is also a multi-millionaire. Then there is me, the engineer and the merciless barbarian in the family.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Also, you- in your righteousness- are ok with being cruel and vindictive to people who disagree with you. But, as the Bible says
" 'Vengeance is mine' says the Lord' ". It's not up to you to "punish" people for the "sin" of disagreeing with you.
The Joss
You're splattering the board with your usual self-contradictory BS. Time to put you on"ignore", again.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Then WTF are you even referring to the Bible, and saying that following the Bible will make you rich? You may as well be quoting the Boy Scout motto.
Originally posted by second:Quote:I thought you knew that I am not a Christian. I am Atheist, which horrifies the Jehovah's Witnesses in the family, so I don't mention that fact. By the way, my two sisters, who worked at Burger King along with me, same as my parents, are both members of https://www.jw.org/en/ . One is a nurse and a multi-millionaire. The other is a school teacher for the blind and she is also a multi-millionaire. Then there is me, the engineer and the merciless barbarian in the family.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Also, you- in your righteousness- are ok with being cruel and vindictive to people who disagree with you. But, as the Bible says
" 'Vengeance is mine' says the Lord' ". It's not up to you to "punish" people for the "sin" of disagreeing with you.
The Joss
You're splattering the board with your usual self-contradictory BS. Time to put you on"ignore", again.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Yeah. Second is always quoting the bible. Incorrectly too.
Second is a fuckin' idiot and his opinion on any topic is isn't worth the bandwidth he used to dispense it.
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Quote:I'll quote the PM of Finland, although I am not Finnish: "The way out of the conflict is for Russia to leave Ukraine. That's the way out of the conflict," Sanna Marin said.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Then WTF are you even referring to the Bible, and saying that following the Bible will make you rich? You may as well be quoting the Boy Scout motto.
You're splattering the board with your usual self-contradictory BS. Time to put you on"ignore", again.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/finland-sanna-marin-ukraine-russ
ia-war-us-joe-biden-2282410-2022-10-08
By the way, Signym, I'm not Indian but I got that quote from India Today. Are you completely confused about "self-contradictory BS" because I would quote people and sources that are not native to my home state of Texas?
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Quote:Europe should look at hard rationing and price controls for natural gas
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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This is it boys, this is war
Matthew Yglesias
4 hr ago https://www.slowboring.com/p/europe-should-look-at-hard-rationing
Europe has a problem this fall and winter as the temperature drops — now that supplies from Russia have been largely cut off, there is a shortfall of natural gas.
This is really a threefold problem because gas is used in three major ways. On the one hand, it’s an important source of home heating fuel. On the other hand, it’s an important source of electricity generation. And on the third hand, it’s used for direct applications in industry, especially related to chemical manufacturing. The electricity itself is then split into household and industrial use, with something like the competitiveness of European metallurgical companies closely linked to the price of electricity.
Last but by no means least, it’s worth recalling that the growth of renewable electricity does not really offer an exit from gas’s relevance in this sphere. When people calculate the levelized cost of an offshore wind facility, what they are doing is taking what it costs to build the thing and then dividing that by the amount of electricity it generates over the cost of its useful life. But the way an electricity grid works is that you need to generate enough power to meet all the demand or else the grid breaks. So if wind is meeting 90 percent of your needs on average (more than that on the windiest days, less on the days when wind is light), gas is still the source of your marginal megawatt. The price of electricity in an unregulated spot market is going to be the price that matches the marginal supply of gas to the marginal demand for electricity. So a sudden shortage of gas is going to create very high prices as long as you are relying on gas to balance your grid. Switching at the margin to more renewables creates less pollution and sends less revenue to gas-producing countries among other benefits — but it doesn’t escape that bind.
In response to this crisis, lots of European governments are breaking out the subsidies. That’s been part of the fiscal crisis in the U.K., but we also see the German government moving to roll out extensive subsidies. Then there are concerns that German subsidization is only going to push prices even higher in other European countries that are less able to afford it. By the same token, much of the gas that’s no longer flowing to Europe via pipeline can’t get out of Russia through any other means of egress either. Europe is replacing as much of it as they can with imports of liquified natural gas (LNG) which is pushing up prices throughout the global LNG marketplace. In the case of New England, that’s a problem. But in the case of poorer countries, it’s going to be a disaster. As with the food crisis of the past spring, Russia is trying to hurt its antagonists with this commodity warfare but the sharpest pain is being felt in non-aligned states.
But this all points to the fact that in my view, Europe really needs a different approach to energy this coming winter — one that relies less on a mix of market mechanisms and subsidies, and more on explicit rationing and price controls.
A bad idea whose time has come
Back in May, when Elizabeth Warren and others were blaming inflation on “corporate greed” and pushing legislation that would empower the FTC to ban excessive price increases, I wrote a post arguing that “Greedflation is Fake.” I also made the case that Warren’s effort to back us into an economy driven by price controls would necessitate creating a big rationing system, and responding to a rise in grocery prices by creating a system of rationing and price controls would be destructive overkill:
Warren is correct that it’s not a law of physics that a surge in demand needs to lead to a surge in prices.
When Ben
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