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by Bob Butler
Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:06 pm
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1193
Views: 507899

Re: Truth

You're agreeing with Tom. He says that there's "only one truth." You refer to the "real objective truth." Those are the same. The attitude difference between being an extreme partisan and understanding any number of partisan positions is quite different. If you are seeking the alleged real objectiv...
by Bob Butler
Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:31 am
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1193
Views: 507899

Re: Truth

You're agreeing with Tom. He says that there's "only one truth." You refer to the "real objective truth." Those are the same. The attitude difference between being an extreme partisan and understanding any number of partisan positions is quite different. If you are seeking the alleged real objectiv...
by Bob Butler
Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:20 am
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1193
Views: 507899

Truth

Truth and lies are often mixed together. Hence the need for discernment. Plus each individual has his own worldview, his own perspective, thus his own criteria for whether something is true or not. For many, either something matches a particular worldview or is false. Fall into that trap and you ca...
by Bob Butler
Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:56 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: Generational Dynamics World View News
Replies: 13898
Views: 8088622

Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

Also, as some have pointed out, there are only 2 seasons a year when the PLA can pull off an invasion due to sea conditions. Oct/Nov and Apr/May. I don't think they have things in place for current Oct/Nov, so I view Apr/May as the most likely option. Out of curiosity, have the US and her contain C...
by Bob Butler
Sun Oct 10, 2021 10:28 pm
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1193
Views: 507899

Wolves and Lamb

"two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch" An example of the rights of the individual trumping the will of the majority, assuming wolves and lambs vote and have rights. at least under a Democracy. In an autocracy, the wolves would decide lambs do not have rights regardless of numbers. At le...
by Bob Butler
Sun Oct 10, 2021 10:18 pm
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1193
Views: 507899

Liar John

Bobby Bish? Explain who this is, please. It is one of my nicknames. Cool Breeze and John choose to respond with name calling rather than logic and facts. That's a lie. I've never called you "Bob Bish." I prefer to refer to you as "Baghdad Bob Butler," which is more accurate. It is still relying on ...
by Bob Butler
Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:51 pm
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1193
Views: 507899

Truth, Lies and Discernment.

Truth and lies are often mixed together. Hence the need for discernment. Plus each individual has his own worldview, his own perspective, thus his own criteria for whether something is true or not. For many, either something matches a particular worldview or is false. Fall into that trap and you ca...
by Bob Butler
Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:45 pm
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1193
Views: 507899

Re: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective

Guest wrote:
Sun Oct 10, 2021 10:30 am
Bobby Bish? Explain who this is, please.
It is one of my nicknames. Cool Breeze and John choose to respond with name calling rather than logic and facts.
by Bob Butler
Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:35 pm
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1193
Views: 507899

Re: Authoritarianism, Tribal Thinking, Human Rights and Democracy

That is democracy, not authoritarianism. Authoritarianism can come from democratic regimes, you know. Words can be redefined to mean anything. If you have won both houses of Congress and the presidency, or their equivalent in other countries, it would take a strange definition to make authoritarian...
by Bob Butler
Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:38 am
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1193
Views: 507899

Re: The Old Values

As soon as Covid is "cured," the next virus will come... Double post? It wasn't worth reading the first time... Covid is a once a century pandemic. It will pass, assuming the Reds wake up, which they have resisted doing to date. It will be a while before something similar happens again. Meanwhile, ...