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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Absolutely. But you were an evangelical at one point, and I’m assuming it left you with things that you are still processing.
  2. One of the reasons I recommend that book to former evangelicals in particular is that I think it gives them a more authentic understanding of Christ’s gospel for what it actually is, which seems to help disentangle “Christianity” from the trauma they experienced. But I always recommend some Alan Watts along side it, because it’s important for you to understand that atheism or other forms of explicit rejection are also a form of evangelism, as Watts jokes in the video above that the atheist proclaims “there is no God and I am his prophet.” So it’s not a question of “going back” to God or Christianity or whatever, but seeing and accepting the reality that there is no meaningful distinction between without and within, and thus realizing that alienation is a fiction. Tat tvam asi. Thou art that. It’s true across time and people and teachings. The true religion is the religion of no religion, where things are one. That’s the promise, or heaven, or enlightenment, or nirvana, or whatever you want to call it. Whether we look to Revelation where it says that Heaven and Earth give way to a new Jerusalem, or in Buddhism where the there is no longer any temple or any gong, because the temple has become the whole world and the gong is all around.
  3. What they say they want: What they really want:
  4. The tree of liberty is really thriving, though.
  5. Funny thing/Nightmare fuel about that Tec-9, since I’m going to assume that most of you are old enough to remember the issues associated with that gun.
  6. Do you listen to the music of Addison Rae, Tate McRae, or Peso Pluma?
  7. I'm rereading this thread and it's really good. I also realize I made the same recommendation about Pope Francis and Alan Watts, but that was before JD Vance killed the pope and after he killed Watts (maybe) so it hits different.
  8. Two things that this thread makes me think of: More acutely @Clintonaldo: Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence Strongly recommended. And for those who reject Christianity coming from from a protestant fundamentalist background, this offers a very practical and easy to read understanding of how most non-fundamentalists see Christianity and the role of Christians in ther world. More generally - on religion: If you have time to read this thread this is also worth an hour
  9. Fair! It was in the most Tec-9 condition possible when I got it, see below
  10. Wordle 1,530 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  11. Good. They need to take out the trash at 1600 Pennsylvania
  12. These guys are really good. They somehow made my Tec-9 slightly less shitty. I had not realized they moved from Pond Springs until a couple of weeks ago. That's where I picked up that SP5 Really? Where are they now?
  13. Almost certainly not, but it would be a very attractive option that would absorb additional demand more cost effectively and increase overall productivity. it’s a shame there’s such a leadership vacuum in this state. Once upon a time Texas was a destination for people with big ideas, it was a place that celebrated achievement and big things. We, Texans, literally tamed the western frontier and then immediately turned around and put a man on the moon. But now we’re dominated by these myopic, cheap, fearful old men who live in terror of cities and wind up spending lots of money subsidizing shit that doesn’t work very well like the I-10 expansion while chaining the future to their prejudices.
  14. Do you not understand that the existence of a high speed rail line would not prevent you from driving?
  15. Yeah, you have the order backwards. Also, you seem unaware of the history of both urban and intercity passenger rail in Texas. The cars followed the zoning. But again, that’s fine. The rail didn’t stop because of auto competition. It was taken out of service and new lines were prevented. But, sure we can always just build more roads, because right of way is free, highway construction is cheap and fast, and and once we build them
  16. You roll back regulatory barriers and bureaucratic bloat, and let the market due its thing. Yes. That’s because rail obstruction is designed into the law. Good grief. You realize that the additional option of rail won’t take away your car, right? I’ve been to Europe. They have cars! Asia has cars. Not if you have anything to say about it, right? We aren’t going to make rail easier and cheaper to build because rail is too hard and expensive to build. Come on man. What you don’t seem to understand is that when we used to have trains running regularly between the major Texas cities, they didn’t fail. It’s similar to our public school system right now. They were slowly squeezed to death by economic interests that benefited from their demise. Now look, I have no confidence in the political system to make things better in Texas. But there’s no reason why you should just accept a broken status quo. We don’t have to be dead last at everything.
  17. Guys I’m not a repeat offender here and I wish he didn’t, but the fact is that this president happens to have a pretty enormous real time impact on the Fed and the markets, moreso than any president since 1974. That’s not a deranged statement. Sorry if that makes your nethers feel sandy.
  18. I’m not going to type a short history of the American transit and transportation infrastructure here, but the statement that “our entire national infrastructure was originally designed on roads and air travel” is false. Like that’s just not true. It became more reliant on roads and air from the 1950s-1990s as rail lines were decommissioned and policy barriers to new rail were put in place, even as land use policy changes were made at the federal level to explicitly promote automobile infrastructure and suburbanization. Along with the occasional light criminal conspiracy. As for the California example, it’s a an example of regulatory capture by economic interests opposed to high speed rail supported by unwitting accomplices in the environmentalist movement and the NIMBY-industrial complex.
  19. You should tell the people at Bloomberg, FBN, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Marketwatch, etc.
  20. I’m sorry, but that’s a very silly way to think about infrastructure. What percentage of American road and freeway construction “covers costs”? That’s false. About the strongest thing you could say is that our logistics system is reliant on roads and air travel, but that’s not really a problem because it scales fairly well and rail sits underneath roads and air in most of the stack anyway. Holy strawman!!! Most of which is unnecessary bureaucratic friction supported by incumbent interests.
  21. Come on man. It’s one thing to maintain an indefensible position. It’s another to believe in things that are demonstrably untrue. Do better.
  22. Currently considering: Talarico- it’s not clear he wants it. Joaquin Castro- the political equivalent of “Free Beer Tomorrow” Beto- is Beto Possible Dark Horse- Bill McRaven
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