Recent content by Clete

Monarchy is an entirely different issue. You can have a capitalist economy in several types of government. A constitutional monarchy would work great with a capitalist economy. The question is only what the laws are. If the laws are just then there would be no conflict with a free market economy...

Crony Capitalism is a term assigned to our system mostly by leftists. In actual fact, it is the only sort of Capitalism that has ever been tried for any lengthy period of time and it, as imperfect as it is, has produced a society with the highest quality of life the world has ever seen, by...

If Capitalism is likened to the game of football, the free market is the field on which it is played. A free market is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for capitalism. Capitalism is when private parties, whether individuals or corporations, produce, own, and distribute the goods and...

Umm, it's only the 13th of May and yesterday was Wednesday, not Thursday.

Well, a rose by any other name, right? So, I actually got interrupted yesterday and failed to finish making the point I intended to make. That point being that if a capitalist society were actually allowed to mature out of its initial stages, you wouldn't be able to draw it as a pyramid at...

The point of your graphic is well taken and survives the following point, however... There has never been a mature, truly capitalist society. The closest world history has come to it was the first 100 years of America and it was barely out of diapers before the socialists had their hooks deeply...

There's no question that they are the worst ones! It's madness!

I get accused of hostility at the drop of a hat! Totally innocuous posts of purely logical arguments that don't begin to touch anything that could remotely be considered personal in any respect are responded to as if I was screaming mad and calling people Nazi and other N words. Christian...

Excellent example!

People used to be able to speak in generalities as a matter of course and people simply understood that it was a generality. Now everything has to be so explicit. Then when you're explicit, you're get accused of being hostile. Our society is disintegrating before our very eyes.

If that were the case then all of those objects would still have whatever electrical charge that they had when they left the planet. Where would that charge have come from?

I watched a video a few years ago where Thornhill did a whole presentation on "Electric Gravity". It wasn't very convincing. I mean, he makes some good points but he seems to think that just because main stream science has holes in it concerning gravity that his theory is therefore plausible...

Hehe! So, it works as long as you use it. Is that what you're saying? Why do you answer in the affirmative and then qualify it with something in a different category? Is it that hard to simply affirm that there is no such thing as an irrational truth? Where does the instinct to qualify such a...

Well, there is a lot there that could be responded to but responding directly to each point is not called for here because I think I get the gist of your position. Let me just ask you to respond to few points which I think are central to this particular topic.... Would you agree with the...

The truth is not a matter of opinion. So, this right here is the reason I asked the question. You claimed that "the point is not whether the interpretation suits one's doctrine, but whether the interpretation is true." Yet when asked how such truth is to be determined, you immediately appeal to...