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I usually vote democrat with the more progressive side of the party.

That said I think  possibly the most important issue is election reform. We need to abolish the electoral college, enact score voting and enable a party list for the house. Mandatory election day holiday(perhaps make it a sunday), vote by mail in all 50 states, and automatic registration to vote when 18. Regulations on media to be facts based and less biased. I could go on and on lol.

I don't really think any party in the united states really closely resembles my views, I greatly agree with the pirate party of iceland and democratic socialism in general.

I think the right section should be somewhere between philosophy and self-help sections.

Religion is what stops stupid, violent people from ruining the world. Sometimes it backfires but I think it has value in general. When any religious institution has too much power the wrong kinda people become attracted to those institutions, but I feel that can be said about any institution with too much power.

I'ma ramble about my religion/spirituality for a bit, so feel free to ignore the rest if that bores you. Sorry if the writing gets a little clumsy, I tend to get over-exited when I write about this stuff. I'm ignostic. This basically means "god" is very complicated concept that means different things to different people, and in general that debating about the existence of god is pointless. But what does exist is the idea of god. Some people fear god's punishment(heaven/hell, karma for example) and that leads them to do good deeds.
I truly believe one of the most unique aspects that separate humans from animals is the ability to create metaphors. Language is a metaphor. The actuality of the entire universe is simply beyond what the human mind can process, so in an attempt to understand(and stop existential dread) humans have created many metaphors for what the hell is going on in this world.
While I am a believer in science before anything else, I believe the universe is god. Just going from an abrhamaic point of view God is omnipresent:the universe is everything. god is all knowing: the universe contains and is made up of all things that know, therefore all knowledge had, is had by the universe. god is inside of us: we are not separate from the universe, we are a living part of it. Life(and humanity) are gifts of the universe(and therefor god) because the laws of physics(god) made it possible here on earth. From the first cell to now life is a legacy that we are apart of(god connects us). The legacy of life is evolving complexity and understanding. Once humans evolved we gained the ability of language which allows us to pass understanding from one to another. Writing allowed us to store information without what our minds are capable of, and now computers boost our ability to understand and remember more every day. The story of humanity beginning with the very first single-cell organism has been the universe(god) trying to understand more about itself.

You can think of god as the universe, big and all-encompassing. The holy spirit can be life itself, the fact that all things are related and well, alive. Jesus is humanity, life today in 2018 is easier because of the sacrifices made by our ancestors. All the major conflicts and discoveries of history have given us a world nicer than the world of the past. and even today people are working hard at new technology that people will take for granted in 100 years. At the end of the day I think almost all religion boils down to "there is a big picture than your individual life".

I say all this because while I disagree with serious religious people in many ways I find the fact that they understand there is something bigger than us as a way to connect to them. I cannot tolerate those whose religion justifies actions bad for humanity or life. The "fix" for these toxic people is not poking fun at them though, they clearly have some form of convictions that can be appealed to, even if they have lost a lot of reason/logic.

yes, that was never a question.

No, I claim opinions can't be wrong because that's what an opinion is. If someone believes something something that is objectively false they are simply wrong, they do not have an objectively wrong opinion. Opinions can be morally wrong but morals are subjective.

You have provided no real evidence of this, if something is objective it is no longer an opinion.

people believe the world is flat, there is scientific evidence it is not. these people do not have objectively false opinions, they simply believe something objectively false. you can disagree with evidence for something, but that's a belief not an opinion.

I don't think anyone is defending hitler directly. The argument you are trying to make is that there are some objective opinions saying hitler being evil is an example of an objective opinion.

The thing is there is no such thing as objective right and wrong. Humans certainly have some form of morals hardwired into us but they are relatively flexible. I am a pacifist but I would kill in self defense. An honest man would steal if that was the only way he could eat. Society shapes and codifies our morals through social norms and laws. While Hitler's opinions are more or less 100% unacceptable in our society today, he was almost successful. We have no evidence that what he was trying to achieve wouldn't "work" for the people who got to stay in his territory. There are many(crazy) people today who advocate for a "white nation", they truly believe that if they had a country free to themselves they could create a utopia.

See to people who disagree with hitler like you and me his actions are barbaric, but to people who believe in a "white nation"(or in his time a unified germany) it was a sacrifice that had to be made for prosperity of his people.

While it's hard to say the end justifies the means to something you disagree with, the history of any powerful country in the world will show you that the road to prosperity is usually through the destruction of another people.

To end let me just say that I am a jewish, gay disabled, and a socialist. I would have been killed 4 times over in nazi germany. I do not agree with anything hitler did. The more I learn about the world the more I think the way for humanity to prosper is to remove the things that divide us rather than divide ourselves. I just wanted to post this because you seem to be misunderstanding the point the other guy was trying to make.

I completely forgot to mention I just started cooking wars which is stupid and hilarious. I'm trying to get back into anime and it's pretty good so far.

I'm not sure if we were dating back when I knew you guys. My husband and I got together early 2012, married in 2014 I'll have to post a pic of us sometime

Hey guys! How's life been? Life is a wild ride. I got married!

It's really crazy to see that EE is still around, and cool to see that you guys have stuck around for so long,