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  1. bicker

    What do you think of the new UUA logo?

    I love the new logo. The old logo was substantially inferior visually. The vibrant color and modern aesthetic touches of the new logo communicates the vibrancy and vitality of a living faith far better than the stuck-in-the-past logo which at this point almost looks like something our Coming of...
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    What's the criterion for "an active" member of the congregation?

    I spent a year on the Membership Team and we took great pains to research each member that dropped out of sight, from our team's standpoint. There is a good cross-section of folks on the Membership Team, and if the member was someone involved in something, one of us generally knew about it, but...
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    Where do you stand with regard to retirement?

    Hence my use of the word "arguably". That's a good dividing line: If your "independence" affects others, then it really isn't independence but rather an assertion of privilege. True independence is literally unnoticeable.
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    Where do you stand with regard to retirement?

    And is a quote that can arguably be regarded as paranoid, schizotypal, and narcissistic. I was searching for some commentary on that quote and found a discussion thread within which folks were taking a personality assessment and posting their results. It was rather interesting to me that the...
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    Where do you stand with regard to retirement?

    There is no question that life would be so much better if what we wanted to do and enjoyed doing paid a living wage. However, if you are fortunate enough to achieve financial security, the personal satisfaction from doing good work you do well becomes more important than the money.
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    Where do you stand with regard to retirement?

    What about making and bringing meals to the disabled in your community?
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    Where do you stand with regard to retirement?

    I think you need to differentiate from "work" and "industry". I can be very productive and useful without doing the jobs for which I can get paid a good salary.
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    Where do you stand with regard to retirement?

    I participate in a number of personal finance forums, but there you get a really biased view of how things are since everyone is clearly focusing on money issues, especially saving for retirement. I'd love to hear from a different set of people about these issue. Of course, folks interested in...
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    The 2nd Amendment

    I was just answering the question asked of me. Regardless, one person cannot choose to converse.
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    The 2nd Amendment

    Ditto.
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    The 2nd Amendment

    How convenient that whenever people make points you don't want to reply to that amazingly it was they who did something wrong. Very convenient. I'd rather converse with people who don't make excuses for trying to distract attention away from points they don't like instead of directly replying to...
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    The 2nd Amendment

    Sounds to me like you complain whenever someone disagrees with you regardless of how they disagree with you.
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    The 2nd Amendment

    They're not ad hominems. They're labeling your rhetorical tactics, not you. They're pursuing a different angle of the issue with you, a level on which you evidently you feel you can hold your own. I would like you to address the issues I've raised, as well, but I respect your wish not to do...
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    The 2nd Amendment

    Let me rephrase: The question is whether you are supporting the insistence that your preference is somehow privileged over what we, as a society, decide collectively. In other words, are you saying, "I wish most people would agree with me, but if they don't then I guess I'll have to do without...
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    The 2nd Amendment

    The question is whether or not you are insisting that your preference is somehow privileged over what we, as a society, decide collectively. Precisely. And the point is that that is a decision that we make as a society together. The constitutional right to bear arms has nothing to do with it...
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    The 2nd Amendment

    Instead of making up self-serving nonsense to try to distract attention away from the very strong point I made, how about actually either admitting I was right or providing a substantive reply. More directly: Explain how what I replied to is distinguishable from a self-serving rationalization...
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    I have a questions to americans

    No not just mine.
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    The 2nd Amendment

    I don't care. I'm talking about here and now; today; you and me and our neighbors. I'm talking about a representative government; not a monarchy. Minority rights are protected, but minorities don't get to enslave the majority. A perspective that would be indistinguishable from a self-serving...
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    The 2nd Amendment

    The presumption that a citizen or group of citizens has any right to take action against other citizens or the government, without the assent of the majority of the citizens, is nothing less than self-serving nonsense. That entity that ascertains and reflects the manner of assent of the citizens...
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    The 2nd Amendment

    So you expect everyone out there to know you well enough to know who your friends are, and to perceive your tone without any indications thereof? Okay... I'm sorry that I don't measure up to your standards in that regard. Regardless, you can read my reply as supporting and underscoring the point...
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