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I'm open to suggestions Usually I try to weed out the unrelated or at least compress it, though I've been on holiday this past week.

What a marvelous tangential thread this is ...I have superman undies :o

We effectively are "dual citizens". That is the nature of a Federal system. You are a citizen of the Commonwealth and of NSW. You are bound by both laws. Here's how it works. The Federal Parliament makes laws (for the whole of Australia) within their powers under the Constitution. The...

I think it's utterly disgusting. Even if you are staunchly in favour of the IR reforms you have to admit this is a gross abuse of the parliamentary process. Howard's excuse is "it's been an ongoing debate for the past 20 years." Well no, it hasn't. It has not been properly debated in...

How about you make your comment actually worth a little more than 2 cents and justify your opinion :)

Good to see people aren't blinded by stereotypes :rolleyes:

^ This is exactly why I think everyone should be forced to take a basic civics/society class in high school. States have different powers than the Commonwealth. Why do you think we have Federal and State elections? They are different parliaments.

They're in the back of the book But you'll never learn that way sonny!

Continued push towards mass privitisation of the university sector... I don't like it. Education is one thing that should not be privatised. There are obvious problems with perpetuating wealth disparities.

Because this thread had no direction or apparent point, I've added some guide points for discussion to the initial post -

He means a news source that isn't a religious group.

He's not an air-head nor is he following blindly. It was merely an observation.

I know, it's just sad. It feels like Beazley is betraying himself. But that's politics.

I just have an obvious qualm with that -- logic is not fickle. People may have applied it inconsistently from time to time (with observable results indicating how they were right or wrong), but there is no indication that there is not a core base of objective logic.

Sad, sad thing to see Beazley doing this. It may make him more popular but the facade is cringe-worthy.

No, the fact that you don't know what deductive reasoning is shows me that. Actually you implied that quite strongly:

Incorrect. I explained everything, as set out by various people posting in reply, above. Please acquaint yourself with deductive reasoning. You latched onto my first sentence and completely ignored the rest of my post, which explained how it was bad. I did not "coin" the bad logic phrase. I...

That only applies to the Commonwealth, not to the states.

I beg to differ. Faith is belief without proof. If Biblical faith is different, please explain how it is. Just because I would behave inline with the socially acceptable norm does not mean that there is any true right or wrong. I would recommend reading David Hume. He makes a very important...

Faith = belief without proof. If you wanted to declare that you believe in God without proof, (a) you have already done that, and (b) this is not the place. This is a discussion forum. No, faith is belief without material proof or reason. Faith is belief without evidence. Believing in something...