Lakhota
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- Jul 14, 2011
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Here is a time saving hint for you, Keys. If you just make:
"Your concession is duly noted and summarily accepted"
as your signature, you would not have to type this in after virtually every post. Patting oneself on the back for imagined victories has been known to result in sprained wrists and disjointed shoulders.
Well, that wouldn't work, as such would not specifically indicate that I am noting and accepting the concessions of the individual at issue, as a result of their having fled the standing point, through one obscurant means or another.
I realize that watching your most closely ideas fail in the arena of ideas is hard on your fragile ego, but I would suggest that instead of weeping and gnashing your teeth about the unsustainable nature of your ideas, you find some ideas of the sustainable variety.
Here's one ya might like:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. ..."
Nature came up with that... it declares principles that cannot fail! Give 'em a try... I think you'll enjoy the change of pace.
Holy shit, now you're plagiarizing?