Uh, dude. It's their border, not ours.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in Uh, dude. It's their border, not ours.:

Gazans are not all inbred and developmentally disabled. An above average portion of them are. The ones who did the heavy lifting in inventing PVC rockets are probably very smart and capable.

The average IQ in Egypt is 76.

And the US took Wernher von Braun with open arms in 1945.

[Axtremus]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Uh, dude. It's their border, not ours.:

The average IQ in Egypt is 76.

Off topic … this promoted me to lookup average IQ scores by country: https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php

[Jolly]

War is a nasty business. There are no second place winners. At some point, as Ann Rand in the video I posted awhile back stated, nations can make rules, but most of the rules will be violated.

I think the Al Davis rule is most appropriate for war.

[Doctor Phibes]

Ayn Rand - the woman Christian conservatives turn to when Jesus doesn't make any sense?

[George K]

The Hamas Leadership.

How does one deal with this.

Another "leader" stated the civilian casualties are not their concern. The Hamas government has no responsibility to protect the civilian population. "That is the job of the United Nations."

[Horace]

Incubated, destructive, anti-social cultures given a warm hug by western saviors, do not have a promising history of righting their ships.

As good as it feels to offer the hugs, it's not a step in the right direction for anybody. I mean except the hugger, who gets to feel good about themselves.

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Uh, dude. It's their border, not ours.:

Ayn Rand - the woman Christian conservatives turn to when Jesus doesn't make any sense?

I've never had Jesus not make sense.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Uh, dude. It's their border, not ours.:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Uh, dude. It's their border, not ours.:

Ayn Rand - the woman Christian conservatives turn to when Jesus doesn't make any sense?

I've never had Jesus not make sense.

Ayn Rand sure as heck doesn't. Her philosophy is pretty much completely at odds with Christian ethics.

On the positive side, her books are unreadable

[Renauda]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Uh, dude. It's their border, not ours.:

Ayn Rand - the woman Christian conservatives turn to when Jesus doesn't make any sense?

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[Horace]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Uh, dude. It's their border, not ours.:

@Jolly said in Uh, dude. It's their border, not ours.:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Uh, dude. It's their border, not ours.:

Ayn Rand - the woman Christian conservatives turn to when Jesus doesn't make any sense?

I've never had Jesus not make sense.

Ayn Rand sure as heck doesn't. Her philosophy is pretty much completely at odds with Christian ethics.

On the positive side, her books are unreadable

Thinkers with lots of philosophical monologues. That's the russian novel tradition.

[Renauda]

@Horace

Thinkers with lots of philosophical monologues. That's the russian novel tradition.

My impression is that the Russian novel tradition was made of neurotics who obsess and moralize ad nauseum about the dismal nature of the human condition. Turgid stuff.

[Doctor Phibes]

If it’s a choice between Ayn Rand and P.G Wodehouse I’ll opt with the the gentleman every time

[jon-nyc]

Off topic but Ayn Rand is buried a mere 6mi from me. Her gravestone lists her as Ayn Rand O’Connor, apparently her choice as her husband predeceased her.

A few dozen meters from her lies one Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff.