Ser Scot A Ellison
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18 minutes ago, DireWolfSpirit said:
Yep im seeing lots of articles over Christians taking great umbrage over Trump hawking thier book like a greasy carni barker out for your pocket change.
Reminds me of the Martin Sheen lines in Wall Street to his son about not waking up with regrets because he didnt get in bed with a foul being in the first place.
Ah here it is-
I’m a Christian I’ve never been “in bed” with Trump. I know lots and lots of Church goers who have objected to Trump from the start.
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53 minutes ago, Wilbur said:
GE and Motorola had a lot of cross-corporate interactions. GE took Motorola's Six Sigma and turned it into a quasi-religion; GE adopted the Motorola Leadership Factory model where a high-potential employee who wanted to be a VP needed to spend a couple of years in Internal Audit learning the business, and Motorola took on Individual Dignity Entitlement from GE. IDE was Jack Welch's baby, and here is a post from a Motorola Alumni group where I am a member:
"Who remembers when stack rating IDE with its Needs Improvement ratings was explicitly implemented at Motorola? GE's Jack Welch is largely credited for the practice. I came across this quote on reddit: "If you and your teammates are put on a ranking which is required to have a high/middle/low distribution:
- You should stop helping your teammates.
- Your manager should always have a new bad performer who exists specifically to be fired to protect the better employees.
- You never want to go work in a team with great people you could learn a lot from because you'll just be the one at the bottom.
- You should never take responsibility for failure.
And so on and so on. You should be your worst lone wolf self, because anything else is punished by the system. It's basically sociopath training."
I got in a lot of very heated discussions about ranking my employees in this system, since it inherently assumes that you are such a moron that you somehow hired staff who Needed Improvement or needed to be fired. My argument was that if I did indeed have such ineffectives in my headcount, surely it was ME that needed to be fired.
Anyways, my point is that Boeing's recently-departed CEO was an acolyte of Welch, and Boeing also engaged in this sort of nonsense once he arrived. Now I know and interact with other guys who were Business, Group, and even one Sector VPs/Presidents from GE, and they are not all bad people. However, the ones I know are all either retired, BoD types, or run small businesses. The real sociopaths got out to infect places like Boeing, or else drove the various bits and pieces of GE into the ground.
See this article: Boeing's shakeup and GE's fall: 2 more black eyes for Jack Welch's legacy (yahoo.com)
No company can be successful without good people, and you can only retain good people if you treat them right, and you can only get the best out of good people if you remove obstacles to their success, not add to the stress and burdens of their lives. IDE rankings made the lives of all the staff hell, no matter how much glee it gave Jack Welch and his ilk.
Neutron Jack loved the idea of wasting the headcount, working the corporate accounting posture to its most aggressive position, and especially taking any action that the Wall Street investment banker analysts liked. Calhoun took that same stance at Boeing, and the company is lucky to be getting rid of him, before utterly destroyed and sold off the parts like Flannery and Immelt at GE after Welch, or like Sanjay Jha and Ed Zander did at Motorola.
Corporate culture is fucking insane.
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44 minutes ago, Loge said:
I object to calling the KJA books fanfiction. If the authors were fans, the books shouldn't be so full of deviations from Frank Herbert's Duniverse. It has been a long time since I last touched one of those books, but they felt as if the authors hadn't even read Dune.
Fair. I refer to it as “fanfiction” because it tends to piss off the KJA defenders in other locales. They are quite numerous in other online locations…
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39 minutes ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:
He lacks basic critical thinking skills from what you described.
He’s allowing his beliefs to override his critical thinking skills…
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Dune book discussion…
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Everyone here agrees that only Frank Herbert wrote “Dune” and that the fanfiction by KJA sucks… correct?
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5 minutes ago, The Big Stink said:
Texas just banned some forms of speech.
Link?
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10 minutes ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:
He's sincerely dumb.
No. But sincerely holds his very conservative evangelical beliefs. People can be, and are, incorrect without being “dumb”.
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8 minutes ago, Kalbear said:
That is the conservative viewpoint entirely. Attacking them for hypocrisy is useless as there is no such thing. Anyone can practice their specific evangelical Christian patriarchy, and that's all the freedom they want.
This fellow is more thoughtful than most and we’ve had these discussions over the phone from time to time. He’s sincere in his beliefs and sincere in how he interacts.
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8 minutes ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:
Taught in all public schools no less if the teacher believes in it.
Ya know, bring prayer back!
That seems to be his view… as long as it is a Christian doctrine (that he agrees with).
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12 minutes ago, Zorral said:
The ancient, volatile Christian ideas behind Trump’s obsession with blood - the persistence of blood as metaphor from medieval times to the present
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2024/03/29/trump-blood-medieval-getty/
It’s substitutionary attonment writ large. I dislike “substitutionary attonement”
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16 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:
Hum, why didn't you just take the cheap route of asking him whether he was in favour of Sharia law, too.
If you argue about rle of religion in laws, you might as well invoke the sharia.
I thought he would be more likely to see my point if a law was passed restricting religious practice generally.
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I continue to argue with a friend and fraternity Brother who appears to believe there is nothing wrong with using religious justifications for statutes passed on the State or Federal level. He doesn’t see how a law using Christian justifications for its restrictions and criminal sanctions is a violation of non-Christians “Free Exercise” rights.
I’m trying a different tact. I’m asking him if he would object to an atheist legislator proposing to redefine child abuse to include religious education of people under the age of 18. He hasn’t responded yet.
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5 minutes ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:
Well to answer Scot's question, you can identify these people because they both say they're devout Christians and think Jesus is too woke. Because that makes so much sense.
The ones who do full body contortions to claim “what you do unto the least of these you do unto me” doesn’t mean what those whiney lefties want to claim it means?
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3 minutes ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:
It's always funny when you hear, albeit rarely, someone say that Jesus was an American. My guess is their Jesus also caries an Uzi with him wherever he goes.
Do they have “yes I’m ignorant” tattooed on their foreheads as well?
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22 minutes ago, Zorral said:
Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — and that's exactly why MAGA will eat them up
Faith without morality or theology, much less that "soyboy" Jesus? Sign MAGA Republicans up!The teachings of Jesus Christ were always a poor fit for Republicans. They're just way more into decimating Social Security than they are into loaves and fishes. What Trump offers when it comes to Christianity is what he offers his followers in every other aspect: permission to stop pretending to be good people. His gift to them is his shamelessness. Through Trump, his followers can realize their fantasies of being unapologetic bullies. This is the same schtick as MAGA members who claim to be "patriots" while attacking the rule of law and democracy. Trump tells them what they want to hear: You can be a Christian without compassion.
The complete contradiction of supporting Trump and being Christian is incredibly disturbing to me. Yet… on it goes.
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40 minutes ago, Wilbur said:
He felt that the Russian person who was a Christian would need to hate Russia and love America. I could never convince him that this idea lacked intellectual consistency.
:facepalm:
”Patriotic Churches” always seem contradictory to me. Christ wasn’t an American. He didn’t (per our beliefs) come to save only the US and its citizens. Yet… it seems like many Evangelical Christians think just that.
:facepalm:
(thank you for the link I plan to read)
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12 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:
I am, but only on Safari.
I closed the site and then came back. Haven’t seen it sence doing that.
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27 minutes ago, Zorral said:
I was about to link to this too --
Regarding the discussion here regarding religious affiliations or not --
Shared/gift link -- lots of graphs, etc.
The conclusion of the piece:
I got blocked by an Evangelical Trump supporter last night who refused to believe I was Christian because I stand firmly behind the idea that the “Free Exercise” clause necessarily protects the right of people to be free from compelled religious beliefs.
He seems to believe it means he should be free to force people to worship as he does because that is his “belief”. The idea that it protects all beliefs went right over his head and really pissed him off.
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10 hours ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:
Well that begs a question, do you view Nazism in Germany as a religion? Or in general similar systems that have overlaps with a loose understanding of what could be a religion? Not saying I necessarily do, but cults also have a lot of religious tendencies even if they do believe in a higher power that isn't human while rejecting traditional understandings of how god or gods work.
That’s a somewhat different situation. People adding cult like religious aspects to various philosophies happens. That in no way justifies a person of faith insisting that atheism (the antithesis of holding religious beliefs…) is “in fact” a religious belief.
I maintain that is demeaning, insulting, and ridiculous. Believers do not get to determine what non-believers “really believe”.
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2 hours ago, Werthead said:
Ah, the hit on the Kherson barracks was carried out by stand-off French-supplied AASM-250 Hammer bombs, with a range of about 45 miles. Very difficult to intercept.
Perun on the challenges faced by defending the Baltic States:
With Finland and Sweden in NATO doesn’t that make defending the Baltics a more realistic prospect?
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6 minutes ago, LongRider said:
I used to listen to Thom Hartman on the radio and he pulled that shit, and it was one the main reasons I quit listening to him. Having been raised Catholic, I know the difference between religious and atheist. So good on ya Scott, for being sensitive to that.
It’s bullshit. It is an attempt to deny choice to people who sincerely don’t believe. It’s wrong…
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2 minutes ago, The Anti-Targ said:
It's a belief, and it's not science, and some people are even trying to organise it (like having atheism camps for kids), and it has its evangelists and fanatics writing books and giving sermons on the internet. It has a lot of the qualities of a duck, but maybe it's just a decoy, not a real duck.
The lack of religious faith… isn’t itself “religious faith”. I say that as a church going Christian. It really bothers me when people of my faith, or any faith, try to tell an atheist that they are “in fact religious…”
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10 minutes ago, TrackerNeil said:
Heh...some Mormons were stalking the neighborhood last summer, and one day I was home early and opened the door at their knock.
Me: "Sorry boys, but you are barking up the wrong tree. I'm a gay atheist."
Them: "All right." (pause) "Do you have any neighbors who aren't gay atheists?"
They were very polite, though, and one of them was cute, so all in all it was a pleasant interaction.
Tracker,
You saw my rather pointed criticism of my friend and co-religionist who claims “atheism is really a religious belief”? Or so I hope.
US Politics: A democratic election Prospect Theory and practice
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But not enough to claim that all Christians, by virtue of being Christian, are jointly responsible for Trump.