Comments on: Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point? Anger Grows As Unemployment Benefits Get Cut

By: gjkenney .

gjkenney . — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 03:01:00 +0000

Not everything in science is provable, science is a method . . . unless you meant to say science is a structured method of establishing and testing the validity of theories based on observation . . . just saying. Perhaps you were excited; you seem intelligent enough from your posts so far. I really don’t give a rip one way or the other, I just like to work with facts and honesty. I work with scientists and engineers on a daily basis and they tend to stay away from things that defy a cogent theory . . . things like what is life, how does it animate the inanimate . . . these kind of questions fall into the black box located somewhere on their process block diagrams. Life is something that happens that will be consider later. What I see from your posts is you believe in science or the scientific method . . . that is a belief . . . no? The scientific method, when used honestly is extremely powerful. Simply because those that use it, to varying degrees of ability I might add, don’t find evidence of anything spiritual is clearly a result of their inability to establish a theory based on their observation. The life question is a bugger. A group of scientists creating some amino acid slime is not creating life. The closest thing I’ve seen to creating life is Craig Venter’s experiments in creating self-replicating bacteria. The are the real thing . . . that’s science . . . but I have not heard Craig say he understands life but he is the closest to getting there. The reason I am talking about life is, of course, it is the primary reason for considering spirituality. Starting to ramble now so I’ll close. Good luck with the science methodology fixation and the belief it answers everything . . . it only proves the validity of the theory being postulated . . . BTW where does thought come from . . . impress me and toss out a theory you can apply the scientific method to . . . I’m sure there’s an answer but I’m not certain humanity currently has the person capable of throwing down a theory that can be validated . . . that doesn’t mean we don’t think.

By: sarah

sarah — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 05:58:00 +0000

Civil War or Revolutionary War?

By: sarah

sarah — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 05:50:00 +0000

Perhaps you could travel more. Everywhere is not Delaware. Other parts of the country are in dire need of good paying jobs. Did you see in the newspapers J C Penny’s and Sears were now closing many many stores and laying off thousands of employees? People in many places have no money to buy nice cars and fancy groceries. Adults are missing meals so children in the home can eat. People are sleeping on the streets and in their cars if they still have a car. Things are really bad in some parts of America.

By: Fred Montgomery

Fred Montgomery — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:25:00 +0000

Most places refuse to pay anything resembling a decent wage. It is almost impossible to live on 7 to 8 dollars an hour. And they wonder why poverty has skyrocketed.

By: DiscouragedOne

DiscouragedOne — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:55:00 +0000

If minimum wage goes too high, there will be even less jobs and less consumers if things like fast food are more expensive. Otherwise I agree with you.

By: nekksys

nekksys — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:05:00 +0000

Are they like the Pastafarians? Not the Rastas… I know about them. I mean the Pastafarians who worship the flying Spaghetti Monster…

By: nekksys

nekksys — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:47:00 +0000

Ok, so you decry the wealthy who have no faith yet you, yourself, claim to have no faith…

So why aren’t you wealthy too?

Here’s the full deal: It’s in Ecclesiastes (can’t quote chapter / verse at the moment but it’s there…):

Does not God also make the sun shine on the just as well as the unjust?

Again, faith and religion don’t equal out to high living.

By: nekksys

nekksys — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:40:00 +0000

I, too, have read the various Apocrypha (the missing books of the Bible); some even in their original language. I have also read and translated the New Testament from the original Coine’ Greek. Here are a few things I can say for certain:

1) Without the historical framing as a basis for understanding some portions of the Bible, parts of it make little sense in modeen English.

2) English is a horrible language to which to translate any document. Our language is devoid of the conceptual words found in so many other languages. To use Greek in a simple example, the English phrase “I love you” can translate to 4 different Greek phrases each of which provides additional context by the concept behind the word used for “love” in each phrase.

Finally, to invalidate the existence of God simply because men are fallible, controlling, manipulative creatures is the same as refuting the existence of the Okapi because someone told you it was really a Zebra once. Your opinion doesn’t change the Okapi into a Zebra and neither does your position on the existence of God change whether He does or not.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 06:26:00 +0000

As I read the comments, Once again I see the thread and article has been hijacked by another religious debate. Is this a religious site or an economic site??? I understand that Michael is a Christian as are MANY on this site and that is fine but, the fact of the matter is that this site IS an economic site.
Maybe one day we could have some comments on the subject at hand or the article itself. Ya need to be thankful I am not Michael because if I were I’d delete all the hateful,argumenative crap about religion.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 06:15:00 +0000

The first thng we have to do is stop being so poltically correct. Notice who the kids were in these “Riots”. Blacks are disproportionantly causing much of the carnage by youth. However, socierty is so afraid of being fingered as a racist that NO ONE will even mention the obvious. The denial of the obvious is sickening. I agree much of it is due to the econmoic woes of the poor but, we need to first state obvious and the facts!!!!