Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    DanManjt

    I would have to say that an objective person would most likely find that out of all the posters at JT, I was the most agreeable disagreer of us all.

    Posted in: How to disagree agreeably

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    DanManjt

    The Saddleback Church in California is not conservative. Its non-partisan and socially progressive.

    Many "Evangelicals" are not conservative. They are liberals.

    Posted in: Obama, McCain reach out to Christian voters

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    DanManjt

    I can't really see the benifit to me of having an affair.

    When I was younger, well, i didn't get married because it was all about me. ( I suppose its not unusual for a young man to be so) As I have aged, though, I get a larger and larger satisfaction, and happiness, providing for my family and others.

    The satisfaction I get for getting what I want is somewhat shallow in comparrison to the deep sense of gratification that I get for providing. Its a temporary alleviating of immediate need (food, fast cars, fast women) as compared to lasting fullfillment of a deeply personal motive -- the love of a good women, my family, community and county,

    So, you see, I can't really see the benifit to me of having an affair.

    And I really don't want to loose all that my wife and I have worked toward.

    But that's really no more than a personal thing to me. I really don't feel comfortable extending what's good for me and my wife to all of humanity. IF these salarymen want to have affairs, well, they have every right to do so and little concern to me.

    Posted in: The do's and don'ts of having an affair

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    DanManjt

    Seiharinokaze

    I notice you have yet to respond to my question to you:

    So let's try again:

    It is unclear to me how your post addresses Orwell's, and my, point. I posted that quote to drive home the point that Japan, along with her ally Nazi Germany, fought for bad, that US fought for good.

    And that makes all the difference.

    So let me ask you:

    Do you think that makes all the difference?

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    Ossan

    Were you holding an Imperial Naval Flag with the name of a kamikaze sub unit on at the time?

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    To borrow from another poster on another thread from the other day:

    In response to "David (Australia)"

    Textbook example of trolling 101.

    User's first post on the message board? Check. The required "Shucks, I'm just a foreigner, but..."? Check. Adding minor criticisms of Imperial Japan as smokescreen? Check. Use of standard revivionist talking points? Check. Dismissive tone towards fear of the Japanese Right? Check A Dog Whistle line, " Regardless of whether the war was right or wrong, those men died, in service of their country. ""? Check. Ending with version of "Japan has learned its leason"? Check.

    So the preliminaries are in order.

    This next one takes the cake:

    "Visiting Yasukuni Shrine doesn't, in and of itself, make anyone a Nationalist."

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    woops

    So let me ask you bluntly:

    Do you think that makes all the difference?

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    Seiharinokaze

    It is unclear to me how your post addresses Orwell's, and my, point.

    I posted that quote to drive home the point that Japan, along with her ally Nazi Germany, fought for bad, that US fought for good.

    And that makes all the difference.

    So let me ask you bluntly

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    undecidedbout08

    describling.

    Imitation is the highest form of flatery.

    UsernameTaken

    Very funny. And thanks.

    Posted in: Anti-Obama books are best-sellers

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    DanManjt

    BrightEyes

    Imperialist!

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    What's the difference?

    They fought for bad. We fought for good. As your countrymen wrote in 1945 in the wake of the our triumph over the Nazis:

    *one must recognise that some causes are objectively better than others, even if they are advanced by equally bad means. [Knowing the difference] is essentially a moral effort. *

    George Orwell

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    woops again

    Because saying " war is bad" is not an argument. All civilized men recognize that war is hell.
    So what are you trying to say? What does you dyed-in-the-wool pacifism offer we civilized peoples in our struggles to make the world a better, safer and more just place?

    Do tell. I really want to know.

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    woops

    But on second consideration, after rereading your posts and responses, I am finding it difficult to discern an argument. To be sure, you make a lot of points, but I really can't see any logical connection anywhere.

    May I humbly offer a suggestion: Perhaps if you were to boil down all that you posted, reflect upon it and come up with, y'now, an argument. It may prove helpful.

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    Hello Cleo

    I notice you failed to respond to my earlier posts. Perhaps you missed them. I will repost:

    Now that BrightEyes has done us the favor of exposing the myth that history is written by the victor, I wonder if you have any comment on the implication of that on your argument -- seeing as how you predicated much of your argument on that canard.

    and

    In the fog of war, only the truth is relevant.

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    Ha ha,

    Describe.

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    And Cleo

    In the fog of war, only the truth is relevant.

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    Cleo,

    Now that BrightEyes has done us the favor of exposing the myth that history is written by the victor, I wonder if you have any comment on the implication of that on your argument -- seeing as how you predicated much of your argument on that canard.

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    The Right's getting even more shrill, even more insane.

    They are so despairate

    Posted in: Anti-Obama books are best-sellers

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    DanManjt

    BTW

    It is true that violence often solves very little in this world.

    And just as often it does.

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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    DanManjt

    BrightEyes

    Oh, so now you're gonna tell us Hirohito wielded power, the White Men did have a Burden the Civil War was about Slavery...

    Posted in: Yasukuni

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