| 6/4/2014 12:21:49 PM |
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art_kills_mics
San Pedro, CA
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Do you feel that the modern society is on a path for destruction or is it going in the direction of success?
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| 6/4/2014 7:27:03 PM |
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_us4love
Salem, OR
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(this post has been flagged as inappropriate, sorry.)
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| 6/5/2014 8:01:52 AM |
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jrbogie1949
Ventura, CA
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we're on a path of 'what's not to like'. 
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| 6/18/2014 1:37:41 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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Do you feel "entitled"?
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| 6/19/2014 8:56:19 PM |
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cowboy4672
Lillian, AL
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Amazing How the Big "They" controls your life. 
The sooner you learn to say "I" instead of "they" you will live life!!  
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| 6/27/2014 12:52:28 AM |
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apb4y
UstWellington
New Zealand
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Do you feel that the modern society is on a path for destruction or is it going in the direction of success?
Both. This is called "change" and is normal in any society.
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| 6/30/2014 11:05:13 PM |
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_us4love
Salem, OR
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(this post has been flagged as inappropriate, sorry.)
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| 7/1/2014 10:57:02 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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Society isn't on a path ... society is a condition of the times.
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| 8/8/2014 7:00:59 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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Can someone define for me what a Moderate is when it comes to politicson this site?
Thank you.
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| 9/10/2014 6:56:47 AM |
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kingarmor9
Independence, OH
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Society today is weak. Stop all the pc bullcrap! Not everyone gets a trophy for participating. Only the winners do. Not everyone makes the team. Only the good ones do. Every little thing offends someone then the will of a few is projected on the many. Stop the bs with team logos and names. They've been like that for as long as I remember and it wasn't until the last 10 years that people have been crying about them. Stop handing people stuff. What happened to work for it? Just my thoughts and opinion.
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| 9/10/2014 10:25:57 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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The OP has left the building.
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| 9/11/2014 5:47:23 PM |
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johnnyfee
West Haven, CT
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The OP has left the building.
The minute you posted
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| 9/29/2014 9:44:15 AM |
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legendary_j420
Los Angeles, CA
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It can be either or, nobody knows the future but the way things are looking it's going to get worse before it gets better.
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| 10/12/2014 12:07:14 AM |
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myrealme
Nampa, ID
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| 10/19/2014 9:57:26 AM |
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chitowngirl78
Oak Lawn, IL
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Society today is weak. Stop all the pc bullcrap! Not everyone gets a trophy for participating. Only the winners do. Not everyone makes the team. Only the good ones do. Every little thing offends someone then the will of a few is projected on the many. Stop the bs with team logos and names. They've been like that for as long as I remember and it wasn't until the last 10 years that people have been crying about them. Stop handing people stuff. What happened to work for it? Just my thoughts and opinion.
 Thank you, sir.
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| 10/22/2014 10:10:39 AM |
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cowboy4672
Lillian, AL
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You cannot join if you do not participate.....you cannot win if you don't enter the race.
Non sequitar statements are a product of an untrained/skilled mind!!
Society isn't weak..........Just look how much Warren buffet and the Koch brothers have made!!
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| 10/23/2014 5:16:15 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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Modern society.
Isn't every generation the modern society?
Who can say that the current modern society will be any different or any worse than the future modern society?
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| 11/1/2014 12:06:59 AM |
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starr_so_happy
Perry, IA
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No
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| 1/13/2015 7:13:02 PM |
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gamangodawgs
Ringgold, GA
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why was gods laws taken out of court houses a place of law
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| 1/15/2015 8:40:25 PM |
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cowboy4672
Lillian, AL
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why was gods laws taken out of court houses a place of law
Which "God's" law are you concerned with not being in the court house, Shiva, Buddha,
Ra, .......??????? 
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| 1/16/2015 12:51:08 PM |
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deneez
Rochester, MI
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You mean you haven't found HIm yet cowboy?
C'mon now, time isn't on your side. How can you look at all that beauty out west there, and at least not ponder it. Sure looks nice. Especially in -25 degree weather.
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| 1/18/2015 12:17:32 AM |
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kashum
Boiling Springs, PA
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Do you feel that the modern society is on a path for destruction or is it going in the direction of success?
Are you a pessimist or an optimist? Is the glass half full or half empty? Look at all the good stuff that happened in the last 100 years or so. We've come a long way from what we once were.
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| 1/18/2015 10:48:10 AM |
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jrbogie1949
Ventura, CA
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a glass that's half full is also half empty. simple really.
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| 1/18/2015 10:50:29 AM |
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jrbogie1949
Ventura, CA
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why was gods laws taken out of court houses a place of law
court houses are a place of federal, state, county and municipal law. not god's law. like these easy ones.
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| 1/28/2015 10:03:12 AM |
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jennaymart
San Antonio, TX
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Destruction
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| 2/1/2015 7:35:15 PM |
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alphawolf4u
Millsboro, DE
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For a detailed explanation of cultural decline, I heartily recommend:
Oswald Spengler "Decline of the West" Knopf, ca. 1937.
Or Intergang does Abendlandes.
Out of print , but downloadable free on-line.
Many college professors find this book utterly esoteric, thus proving its central thesis of cultural decline.
Consider that Spengler's predictions were made on the eve of WW 1.
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| 2/7/2015 7:14:44 PM |
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alphawolf4u
Millsboro, DE
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Some may find it esoteric but it is worth the time..
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| 2/7/2015 7:31:05 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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Modern society is no different than any other society; only not as experienced in its newness.
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| 2/7/2015 8:23:29 PM |
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alphawolf4u
Millsboro, DE
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Correction***
Untergang des Abendlandes.
This auto spell check can really screw up messages.
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| 2/7/2015 8:40:16 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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Yes it does .... 
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| 2/8/2015 8:56:53 AM |
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cowboy4672
Lillian, AL
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Any body that bases there Ideology on Spengler's 1937 preamble to Mein Kampf is really living in the wrong time and place.
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| 2/8/2015 9:44:05 AM |
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alphawolf4u
Millsboro, DE
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You are taking the original work Decline of the West out of context as it was written decades before.
Similarly Wagner and Nietzsche are taken out of context. This is due to a totalitarian regime's attempt to legitimize itself.
Ideology is for blind followers and it is a dead end. We are on the verge of a post-political , post- ideological paradigm shift.
The sooner that most voters leave the D and R parties in favor of more innovative, constitutional and freedom seeking parties, the better.
Spengler basicly pointed out that all cultures carry with them the seeds of their own decline and that history is cyclical and not linear. It is tragic that history and science are not taught properly in the public school system , but that is just another symptom of cultural decline that seem to accelerate the process.
In short, free thought trumps ideology any day of the week.
There are constructive alternatives to the two-party BS we have been fed over the last 120 years....
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| 2/8/2015 10:41:00 AM |
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alphawolf4u
Millsboro, DE
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Besides, Ostwald Spengler died on 8 May, 1936 , so how is there 1937 preamble to any other book?
What is your source?
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| 2/8/2015 10:23:29 PM |
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cowboy4672
Lillian, AL
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You speak in circles:
The children aren't taught right in school, but "free Thought" is the true way to be enlightened.
So they should be Taught regimentally but allowed "free expression" within the established guidelines. (Who Establishes the Guidelines??
We should abolish the Dem and Repub parties and vote for a ruling class based on a book the surmises all societies are doomed and therefore we should be happy with a benevolent authoritarian to lead us thru the bad times and avoid the decline. Using what guide is this leader to use?
Sorry but Spengler was totally wrong......Witness the stock market and the flock of billionaires created by the Cyclical nature of societies.
The decline is nothing more than the beginning of a renewed and invigorated society.
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| 2/9/2015 9:10:31 AM |
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alphawolf4u
Millsboro, DE
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You are equating stock market / economic cycles with cultural cycles. You are free to do so, but it's at a different level of reductionism and emergence.
Nobody is talking about abolishing the D and R parties , but they are in evolutionary cultural decline as they are bought and paid for by pseudoelite special interests at public expense and will eventually go the way of the Whigs and Federalists as they no longer reflect the will of the people.
Free thought happens in spite of the educational system as it does an abysmally poor job of developing human potential.The problem of education reform is largely one of minimization of interference with constructive personal development.
The IPoD is based on creative synthesis -- not on a single book as you assume.
Consequently, the original essay "Limits to Politics" raised questions that raised questions based upon key concepts of Oswald Spengler "Decline of the West" and Thomas Kuhn " The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ", together with the Nietzschean question of culture vs. politics.
I could have thrown in Gibbon " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire " , but had a limit of three pages of text and one page of footnotes for the sake of brevity.
It was merely intended to raise questions -- not dictate final answers...
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| 3/17/2015 8:03:56 AM |
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belphegor1943
Austin, TX
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Do you feel that the modern society is on a path for destruction or is it going in the direction of success?
It's interesting how everyone says destruction contrary to the evidence all around them. Declining war, violent crime, disease, and increasing life spans.
But hey, it's more Hollywood-esque to be living in 'rough times' or the 'end of times'. We're all doomed.
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