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Bill Wiltrack wrote:We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly… Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider…

Really? What about people living in the United States who are considered illegal immigrants? They aren't considered outsiders?

And that's before we get to the excluded demographics who are living quite legally.

Nice equivalence. Tax evasion is a political misdemeanor now?

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There is an inscription on a plaque at the base of our Statue of Liberty. I would like to remind you of it...





The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus, 1883




We are all one under her golden lamp.

Send them all, send them all to me.










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When are you opening the border with Mexico?

And where its heading -




Now who was it who last had a fence like this!?

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Does it strike you...that your question is directed towards a few hardworking people, the exact same people who made America the beacon of hope, the miracle of the world's modern middle class?

When as far as citizenship is concerned, isn't there more important philosophical questions that could be directed towards the citizenship, the responsibility of multinational corporations, and their development as a sort of legal person-hood?


Are you are of such a class that you are a betrayal to yourself and to fellow human beings?

The nature of your question. The nature of the blind... Of Pontius Pilate and of the symbol of the Christ....









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Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), Antonio Ciseri's depiction of Pilate presenting a scourged Jesus to the people of Jerusalem.







Thank you for your questions. It was a treat answering them.

You completed this thread.




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Bill Wiltrack wrote:Does it strike you...that your question is directed towards a few hardworking people, the exact same people who made America the beacon of hope, the miracle of the world's modern middle class?

Are these the same exact people whose taxes are paying for this fence? Looks like the 'beacon of hope' is now a guard-tower searchlight. I also thought it was the 'poor and huddled' you were talking about not the middle-class?

When as far as citizenship is concerned, isn't there more important philosophical questions that could be directed towards the citizenship, the responsibility of multinational corporations, and their development as a sort of legal person-hood?

Are there? Why with respect to your piccy's?

Are you are of such a class that you are a betrayal to yourself and to fellow human beings?

Are you actually doing anything about any of what you post other than salving your conscience upon the internut?

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Do not be frightened. I will not hurt you. I come here as a surgeon. A personality surgeon.


I have come here to cut away the the chains that bind you. I have come here to relieve you of the cancer that encases you.


I am here to free you of the false mask, an avatar, that allows you to say things that you would not normally say while speaking in your own legal name.


As philosophers, one of the things we must do is search for the truth. In order to search for the truth you must respect the truth. To search for truth you must begin with the truth. And even then, with all our efforts, the truth is difficult to become.



Continue to post and begin threads. I will be with you always.




You no longer need to be frightened. You no longer need to hate.



I have spoken.




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Twice apparently?

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I have come here to cut away the the chains that bind you.




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Thrice apparently.

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This is what a man looks like;

http://www.cigarclubnews.com/wp-content ... Bardem.png





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Barking mad!

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I'm going to give this thread a bump out of respect for the late GREAT Dr. Martin Luther King.


I thank you Mr. King, on the date of your birth.


You started again ahead of us. I wish you all the strength and will of a giant in your recurring and important life.




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Bill Wiltrack wrote:I'm going to give this thread a bump out of respect for the late GREAT Dr. Martin Luther King. I thank you Mr. King, on the date of your birth. You started again ahead of us. I wish you all the strength and will of a giant in your recurring and important life.

Wasn't he a philanderer? Also, a recurring life sounds creepy, like a zombie.