CO2 emissions will keep climbing, and climbing and climbing, because
rational people want PROGRESS, not the backward leap towards unreliable sources that can only exits by government mandate.
What most
rational people want is equality that is not defined by YOUR religious beliefs!
Not exact matches
«A
rational person thinking through this might say «I
want them to take this money and spend it on programming, not on a gift,»» Meer said.
No — I
want those
people to be SANE,
RATIONAL HUMAN BEINGS.
They're doing what any
rational person would do who
wanted something but couldn't get it - won't let anybody else have it either.
The problem is that very few
people what to have this
rational discussion — they
want to have an emotional arguement and play a game of «my god is better / kinder / bigger / badder than your god.
This is why arguments about what god
wants are as discredited as arguments about who
people were in their last life or what Xenu
wants amongst the
rational.
They
want a
rational chronology of events that make
rational sense and there is an obvious pattern of one
person being the wrong doer.
You can call me a coward and say I «ran away» or whatever your malicious, childish mind
wants to make up to make yourself feel better, but I prefer to actually have adult conversations with
rational people who can articulate their opinions based in reasonable,
rational thought.
If
persons were only intelligent organisms with finite
wants, the problem of adjusting demand and supply could in principle be easily settled by
rational calculation.
First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become
rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious
people, but if they still
want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)
You can call me a coward and say I «ran away» or whatever your malicious, childish mind
wants to make up to make yourself feel better, but I prefer to actually have adult conversations with
rational people who can articulate their opinions based in reasonable,
rational thought ========= Apparently, since you are still addressing me, I must be «adult» in my conversation and displaying
rational thought.
I do nt
want to end up being like you, a drone who looks incredibly silly to
rational thinking
people speaking on and on about their invisible man even in situations where its simply not
wanted or warranted.
If you cling to the irrational belief that it's the literal word of a diety, and you read it and actually decide you
want to follow it, be self - aware enough to understand when
rational people question your morality and intelligence.
If you
want to convince
people of the truth of Christianity, the best way to «argue» it today is not through reason and and
rational propositions, but by becoming more and more like Jesus in everything we do.
In deciding what enhancements to make generally available, it make sense to say, Mehlman goes on, that «The government decision - maker might look to John Rawls» notion of «primary goods» — those that every
rational person should
want.»
«Some
people want Jews to walk into gas chambers,» I offered, «and we can have a
rational and civilized debate with them.»
@Willowspring — if you don't
want rational people to think your beliefs are absurd, you shouldn't believe absurd things.
It's great for winning others to the side of reason, of course — but I assume you
want to slow the flight of
rational people from Christianity rather than making them flee so as not to be associated with the nutters.
We need
rational level headed
people in public office if we
want our problems solved, not deluded cowards clinging to death denying fairytales.
Just as some
people relish the idea of a beef tongue sandwich and others are repelled at the notion, many consumers
want to avoid pink slime for reasons both
rational and irrational.
Common Cause executive director Susan Lerner said that «any
rational person doesn't believe these things happen in isolation,» and said there are «inherent conflicts of interest, either in campaign contributions and taking other money from entities who
want something from state government.»
Micah, I see that others have answered your question, but I just
want to say that DL's don't have a lot of power, so even if she did nothing, I'd be fine with that, because she is such a smart
person and a
rational, sane leader when so many of them are wackos.
It apparently didn't have the effect we
wanted it to have, but it was a little known part of the effort that
people who worked at Los Alamos put into trying to get a
rational decisions made about where we go from here.
Hope to meet someone special here... Lets see what happens... Looking for honest, respectful, kind hearted
person... Someone who knows how to be fair, reasonable and
rational... They
want me to keep writing more here....
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«Some
people are highly
rational and just
want cash back,» she says.
My basic view is that
people should have a perfectly
rational fear of missing out on the experiences they
want to have, while trying to assuage that fear with respect to a particular deal or particular opportunity is far more likely to lead to expensive (or at least time - consuming) errors.
LCD: The reason we
want to categorise
people and put certain labels on them is because it gives us a secure and
rational way to deal with them.
Bottom line: I fully understand the need to «communicate» but I just
want to remind
people that if we
want people to make
rational assessments and come to a
rational understanding of situations, and thereby make solid decisions, we can not just follow «communicators» guidelines because these are not about rationality.
If you
wanted to fly from New York to London,
rational people would likely make sure they bought a seat on a plane with a highly qualified expert Pilot.
If you
want to make it an issue, find
people in the center who speak in tones like this — who can sit across and not yell and not throw out invectives and not even use language like
people like me create — but have a
rational, common - sense dialogue over the challenges of what changes in climate could be doing, are doing, and what is the best way to deal with it.
Stanley Milgram
wanted to understand why so many apparently
rational, kind, normal
people got taken in by the unmentionable Austrian lance corporal.
It's easy to see why — no one
wants to think about death,
people may find their options confusing, and they think that life insurance is a gamble and they're «wasting money» if they don't die — but for many
people it's not the
rational decision.
It is a very real example of what happens when
people look for scapegoats, aren't
rational and just downright
want to lay blame on anyone but themselves.
I, however, think the
rational expectation that mortgage rates will increase in the future will cause many
people to
want to buy sooner rather than later.