The alliance of bastards: central planners, do-gooders and population control

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Skybird

However, 7 billion people on the globe is always too many, no matter how you look at it. And if man does not find a way to take care of this, than nature's ways will - without any sentimental scruples man is so proud to have.

Yep. But they are here to stay.
And if anyone wants to lower that number, he can start with himself

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Betonov

And if anyone wants to lower that number, he can start with himself

Do some thing useful first. Become an organ donor.

[Jimbuna]

Soylent Green anyone?

[Tchocky]

Can't hear you over the sound of THE SKY FALLING

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

Can't hear you over the sound of THE SKY FALLING

Sky Falling Bird?

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Sky Falling Bird?

Sounds too native american, might be offensive.

[Skybird]

As I recall it, SKYFALL ended pretty nasty but had some great lines by Tennysson in it:

We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are. One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Skybird is plugging a Ludwig von Mises cult member again I see. Though North seems to combine his von Mises dingbattery with demands for rule by a Christian theocracy. So much for 'libertarianism'.

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Soylent Green anyone?

It's made from poor bastards.

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

It's made from poor bastards.

Yep. It's a bastard mix of bastards.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by u crank

Do some thing useful first. Become an organ donor.

Amen

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by u crank

Do some thing useful first. Become an organ donor.

Done that.
Prime cuts Don't smoke, rarely drink, constantly hiking and even a low cholesterol level. I'm quite fit for an overweight person.

Let's bid on one of my kidney ??

[Skybird]

AndyWest, I have not quoted/posted a link to just any text by North or to Christian Reconstructionism, but just and only to the one text that you can find in post #1 in this thread. This text and nothing else, not more and not less, I refer to. Either you have something to say on that one text and its points, or not. Its not about the man, its about what he says on the issue addressed in that text.

Beyond that text, I am not that much interested at all currently. Honestly said, I do not know that guy too well at all. What I am about is is the argument and thought expressed in this text. This text, and none other.

Reminds me a bit of some people implying I were a general admirer of Ayn Rand. Heck, I have not read any of her books beyond Atlas Shrugged, both fiction and non-fiction, and my sympathy expressed is sympathy not for her general work (that i do not know in general), but this one specific book only, the only one that I have read by her. And that one book is brilliant no matter her other books. That makes me a fan less of Ayn Rand, but more of Atlas Shrugged. Even if the rest she wrote would be total nonsense, it would not devalue what she has written in Atlas Shrugged.

Same with that article by North. Which makes no reference to religion, Christianity and Reconstructionism at all, btw.

You may consider that to be invalid doing, or opportunism. But then you also should not listen to music by Wagner, because of his later sympathy for the Nazis, or should not read Heidegger, because although the basis of his philosophical work was formed before Hitler, he later openly supported Hitler and his ideas, or you should ignore Arendt, for she is accused of quoting and refering antisemitic authors and material.

Lets keep the one and the other thing in all these cases separated. North's arguments in that one text do not support and are no assistance to any positions claimed by or pushed for by Reconstructionism. His remarks in that text stand for themselves, therefore.

Skybitrd, what I have to say on that text is that it is vacuous blather from an ignorant bigot.

And I suggest that you actually read articles before posting them in future - contrary to your assertion that North "makes no reference to religion", he not only links to his "1985 commentary on the Book of Exodus", but quotes from it.

[Skybird]

Okay, so when asking whether a calculation is correctly done in a formula or not, "vacuos blather" form now on qialifies as a valid mathematical argument.

Thanks for your enlightening contribution. My understanding of maths will never be the same again.