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Originally posted by XXXN3O
Im surprised nobody has replied.
Thought id post again in case its buried, maybe its a useless topic?
Originally posted by ahnggk
Originally posted by XXXN3O
Im surprised nobody has replied.
Thought id post again in case its buried, maybe its a useless topic?
I think the most powerful weapon ever used against us is the tongue
We get lied to and been made to act and think very stupidly and there's no sign of improvement at the moment
Originally posted by Republican08
Originally posted by ahnggk
Originally posted by XXXN3O
Im surprised nobody has replied.
Thought id post again in case its buried, maybe its a useless topic?
I think the most powerful weapon ever used against us is the tongue
We get lied to and been made to act and think very stupidly and there's no sign of improvement at the moment
Woah ho ho. The tongue is a very good thing! I'm sure you know.
I'd say deceptive attitudes and lies, are the corruption, don't go tongue hating now.
For the other you said.
This is what creates two people.
Automatons.
Skeptics.
I'm a skeptic, my money may be worthless, but it puts food on the table, and well I like to eat.
I promises' though, I learned from childhood OP, always later turned out to have one or two fingers, toes crossed.
Edit to change: Word Association, wonder whats going on with me and that problem lately. Her, is not anywhere close to 'or'.
[edit on 16-8-2009 by Republican08]
Originally posted by jackflap
reply to post by XXXN3O
I do know what you are saying. I think. I believe you are saying that our money is a promissory note. When we give it we are promising that, that promise is worth what it promises. Is this correct?
The other thing that baffles me. The whole father of lies thing? What are you saying? I am not being disrespectful because if anything else I have learned that you are to be respected. You have one heck of a mind! I have learned quite a bit reading some of your stuff. You say the answer to my question lies in just that, father of lies. What's up with that?
[edit on 21-8-2009 by jackflap]
www.allacademic.com...
Accuracy and morality alike are on the side of the plain saying that “our word is our bond,” writes J.L.Austin in How to Do Things with Words. Many moral and legal philosophers likewise consider it unjust to break one’s promise. This chapter (part of a book-length manuscript on “How Legal Speech Acts”) explores the ways in which words do and do not bind us in law and more broadly. It takes its examples from contract law and from common law reasoning through precedents. In law as elsewhere, words may not always be binding. Even when inaccurate, immoral, or otherwise infelicitous, however, speech acts commit us, insofar as they are events that happen in the world, to particular possibilities for that world; they show us to be bound to the unfolding of its and our history and law.