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@ roadwhorerecordsWell, we have an estimated 5 million dead presently with the virus surging in Canada, the US, western Europe, Russia, eastern Europe, etc, with the potential for new more transmissable and virulent variants that could bring the numbers much higher yet. This thing is anything but contained. Be careful when you consider eschewing the jab, it could come back to bite not just you but eveyone you come in contact with including your immediate family. A news item on CBC the other day identified a 40 year old physician who was quite well known and apparently quite popular in his community and by appearance at least, quite healthy. He had decided against vaccination for himself and he recently contracted the virus, was hospitalized, put into an induced coma, intubated and died. |
No, a word well chosen or a concept could be mightier than a sword or an image in a mature discussion perhaps not in a schoolyard for sure... Sorry... A emoticon or an image is just something to underline a point in a discussion at best... Save if we mix hypnosis,mantra repetition, surprize gesture, destabilization of an interlocutor etc with the like of a gesture instead of an intellectual move... Perhaps they are children moves, but not Socrates moves for sure...Strawman argument must not exist and had no real power save for a few seconds in sound discussion.... Emoticon and images must be used sparsely for HUMOR only ... My humble opinion... Images used like a point in a discussion hide the essence which is in the brain or the heart not in the gut feeling reaction pushing toward a selected image for answering a point argument.... I prefer drawings and schemas....Cartoon images repeated especially, save very good one, are annoying... Sorry to speak my mind but....i dont want to swim with a bunch of children throwing cartoons instead of brainwork...
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Artemis_5 ... thanks. I think the answer to most of your questions... Is CONTROL. They love the control. I suspect many of them behind our noveau fascism were noseplug kids who felt slighted and powerless when they were young.
This type of person is wired differently.... they think they are smarter than the rest of us...remain blindly committed to good intentions in spite of overwhelming outcomes to the contrary...they love the idea of people but can’t seem to get along too well with real ones...and most damaging in my opinion, their end ALWAYS justifies their means.
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+1 nonoise and others. Opinions, sure, pick one. Facts, however, are stubborn things which don't change just because you refuse to accept them. Refusal, as COVID has been proving for nearly two years, can be fatal. Many people are willing to die, have died, are dying, for their counterfactual beliefs. Docs and nurses all have stories of people diagnosed with terminal COVID whose last words were "it can't be COVID, COVID is a hoax." So I guess their dying is ok, seeing that they have nobody but themselves to blame. |
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