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TESTEMONAIL:  Right and Discordianism allows room for personal interpretation. You have your theories and I have mine. Unlike Christianity, Discordia allows room for ideas and opinions, and mine is well-informed and based on ancient philosophy and theology, so, my neo-Discordian friends, open your minds to my interpretation and I will open my mind to yours. That's fair enough, right? Just claiming to be discordian should mean that your mind is open and willing to learn and share ideas. You guys are fucking bashing me and your laughing at my theologies and my friends know what's up and are laughing at you and honestly this is my last shot at putting a label on my belief structure and your making me lose all hope of ever finding a ideological group I can relate to because you don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about and everything I have said is based on the founding principals of real Discordianism. Expand your mind.

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Started by Jenne, October 22, 2009, 02:59:18 AM

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Cain

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October 26, 2009, 03:21:52 PM
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned certain classical liberal economists (whose names escape me, except Hayek and Hume) have claimed this to be true.  But I don't remember if Adam Smith made the explicit claim, only that he was a lot more sceptical about the conditions under which a free market could operate than most modern advocates.

LMNO

#16
October 26, 2009, 03:33:02 PM
Cool.  I'll keep hunting.

Kai

#17
October 27, 2009, 12:17:13 AM
Talked to a frenchman today (was a visiting professor) about France's healthcare system. He said, "yeah, its great, but its bankrupt" and laughed. Apparently bureaucracy makes shit of even the best system.
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October 27, 2009, 06:53:58 AM
Quote from: Kai on October 27, 2009, 12:17:13 AM
Talked to a frenchman today (was a visiting professor) about France's healthcare system. He said, "yeah, its great, but its bankrupt" and laughed. Apparently bureaucracy makes shit of even the best system.

This. *nods sagely*

Jenne

#19
October 27, 2009, 01:46:26 PM
I'd rather the system be bankrupt (and really--the French are just the people to do it--ever untangled the skein that is their government spending?  yeah...just don't go there, it'd give you a coronary) than the people using it, just saying.

Which reminds me of the YouTube of Al Franken reaming some Hudson Institute fuck over saying that Americans would go bankrupt using a system like the Swedes and the French.  That was some good lol's.
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