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1. about 3 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   I don’t like Henry Ford’s politics. He was an avid supporter of the Nazis and an “America First” fan. However, he did have an interesting idea: pay your employees well, and they can afford to buy your products.

   They can also afford to buy other products as well. It’s an overall win for everybody and a slight loss for the CEOs and shareholders. But greed and gouging look better on the bottom line.

2. about 3 hours ago on Strange Brew

   In his book, The Art of War, Sun Tzu advises heads of states to pick generals and let the generals do their jobs. If a general doesn’t do his job, do not overrule him, but replace him.

   Lincoln had to replace numerous generals until he found a pair that could do the job.

   On the other hand, some political leaders think that they are smarter than the generals (even if they can’t tell the difference between agent orange and napalm). These are the dangerous kind.

   Hitler, for example, led the Wehrmacht all the way from Stalingrad to Berlin.

3. about 3 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   This does seem to be the prevailing attitude today. It doesn’t matter until it happens to someone I care about.

4. about 3 hours ago on Aunty Acid

   I tend to laugh when I hear certain politicians speak and then it hits me, “Wait a minute, he really means it!”

5. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Paul brought the teachings of Christ to the gentiles. Prior to that it was mostly restricted to Jews.

   Christianity, as we know it, was formalized by the Roman Emperor Constantine. He literally decided what is and is not Gospel.

   This leads to another theory of mine: Judaism and Islam are Middle Eastern religions. Christianity became a white man’s European Religion.

6. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Indeed, Christ was a first century Jew. The problem with the study of religion and history is that we read the back of the book and we know all the spoilers.

   To get a good look at either Christianity or history, we need to time travel back to when both were being made. People back then knew what they were doing, but didn’t know what the consequences would be.

   I am a first century Jew living in Galilee under Roman occupation. I’m a shop keeper or a farmer in town to pick up supplies. One day, this band of wandering preachers shows up at the well in town and starts talking with people at the market …

7. 1 day ago on Francis

   Indeed. But I will repeat what I quoted the other day.

   “Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.” – Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

   Do not return hate for hate. Despair is a choice. Hope is a choice. Choose wisely.

   Be a light to the world; LOVE.

   If you paid attention at Sunday School, then you know that you do not have to do this alone. Pray for the strength to hope, pray for the strength to love.

8. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   I am told that faith is a gift. If you have it, then you should believe. If you don’t then atheism is the only logical solution. I am OK with that. It’s not my job to explain WHY some people have faith and others don’t. I have enough problem trying to figure out things for myself.

   On the practical level of my physical reality, I’ve come to the conclusion that when all the trivia is stripped away, all we have left is ourselves and each other. One does not have to believe in a God or deny a God to buy into that.

9. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Are you familiar with a book called “Flatland” by Edmond Abbot? It’s a satire on Victorian values. Flatland is a two-dimension world in where one’s social status is determined by the number of sides one has. Triangles are the lowest class and circles are the highest. The only thing residents know are forward and backward and right and left. There is no concept of up or down.

   It’s also a fun mathematical exercise. Suppose the floor is flatland and a child drops an ice cream cone and instead for smashing when it hits the floor, it falls through it. What do the Flatlanders see?

   All of a sudden something appears from nowhere and grows. This sounds like the big bang, doesn’t it?

   It changes shape with respect to time, and the Flatlanders can get an idea of it’s shape by constantly circumnavigating it and measuring its cross-section with their universe.

   And then, as mysteriously as it appeared, it vanishes.

   The ice cream cone still exists, but no longer in the Flatland universe.

   We are three dimensional creatures who exists as a cross section with a four dimensional universe. The only way we can perceive it is by observing how it changes with respect to time.

10. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

    Logically and scientifically you are correct. Faith does not require proof. You don’t have faith so you need proof. There is nothing wrong with that. In my physical existence, I am a data analyst. My motto is “In God I trust, everyone else must bring data.”

    What we are essentially discussing is whether we believe in multiple levels of existence. Coexisting differences of reality. Call me schizophrenic, but I can see multiple levels of reality at once. Many or most see only one.

    What I don’t see the leap in logic where if you don’t have faith, a god whom you do no believe exists, is going to get you in the end. I certainly don’t make that claim and even if I did, it’s not my place to make it.