Doug Stanhope on the Pledge of Allegiance and liberty part 1

Doug Stanhope a great social critic strikes again.

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[Master7770]

I pledge allegiance to myself, and the united souls of humanity. And fuck the government, of which we stand, evil assholes, that cause misery and inustice for all.

[Jack95912]

@lmemry You are acting as if the two are mutually exclusive. Anyone who supports our constitutional republic is a federalist. Small "L" libertarianism is a philosophy, not a type of governmental structure. He's a libertarian, small L. He is a federalist as well. And what's with the cussing? Why do some people spew so much anger and hate with Ron Paul? I mean the guy is about as inoffensive as you can get, as is the philosophy, yet some people seem to come loaded for bear when he comes up.

[ChainGangPictures]

Good commentary!

[sanriver12]

@bweazel If we were to apply that premise to all claims, we'd be unable to develop any useful picture of reality, since every claim would then have to be accepted as true (until it is disproved a burden which is especially difficult when dealing with supernatural claims) No sane human being would seriously claim that because we have not disproved the existence of leprechauns or unicorns, they must therefore exist or must be assumed to exist.

[sanriver12]

@bweazel kind of sad how you claim i believe things i never wrote. is that how you win arguments? one cant say unicorns dont exist since no one can prove that, is that being prideful? (oh no but they are well defined, that makes it different lmao) i say souls dont exist because i am informed of how the brain works. you are a mental midget.

[bweazel]

@sanriver12 It would have been much easier for you to drop your poor excuse for pride, and just admit you have no idea if there is something bigger than you that ties everything in this universe together, which people have mischaracterized as a "soul" or a "god". That's why I asked you to prove it. Since you can't, stop smarting off to other people like you have all the answers, you don't, and by your responses to me, you appear to not have any answers at all, just another regurgitater.

[bweazel]

@sanriver12 That's exactly the point. You don't seem to understand how I'm arguing with you, I'm not saying there is a God or a soul, I'm simply telling you that you have no idea if there is, so for you to say "there is no soul, dumbass" is just as wrong as if someone were to say "there is a soul", definitively.

No, I don't care what other people say a soul is, since they really don't know either, I'm asking you. I'm not avoiding anything, that would be you who is dodging questions.

[sanriver12]

@bweazel whats the point? you claim these concepts are not easily defined and somehow this is an argument for their existance? want the definitions? go to wikipedia. im still waiting on how you justify believing in something that "cannot strictly be proved or disproved one way or another" but since you are now avoiding issues and getting into other different, i'll asume we are done here.

[bweazel]

@sanriver12 So you're not going to define for me what a soul is? And you're not going to define for me what the truth of the universe is? Hmmm... how come?

[sanriver12]

@bweazel "thus cannot strictly be proved or disproved one way or another" therefore any rational, intelectually honest individual would dismiss its existance, clearly you are either. we clear?