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frankster Many people know the right thing....yet do not do it- because they lack the courage to do it True That is true... Courage Still Remains the most importance....Courage being the most important does not negate wisdom or any of the other virtues use or necessity. The Virtues work in tandem....that is the best way. For whatever reason, you seem to be centered on courage being the most important virtue....lol. The Native Americans had courage. They were so brave that they were CALLED "braves" by White folks. But the White folks who came to this nation were SMARTER. Less courageous....but smarter. Look who has the upper hand today. Most everything.....except weapons and knowledge of war I don't know enough about Greek or Roman history to actively debate you on that one. But I don't believe it. No human being is free to do any and every thing....we are limited in many ways No human is TOTALLY free to do any and everything, however when you talk about freedom...the question is "free" in what regard? Free in speech? Free in behavior? Free in choice? Free in job opportunities? Free to quit when you want? Free to come home at any hour of the night you want? Free to do what???? Free to go where???? That freedom must be qualified. Freedom is limited by your Abilities Skills and Knowledge....etc Your freedom isn't limited by your abilities and knowledge....just your ability to EXERCISE it...lol. Though on this point I may agree with you....your reasoning has revealed a limitation Are you saying that a man is not free to become a true biological woman? It depends on the society. In the United States in many cases a man is free to become a biological woman IF he can get the right drugs and surgeries done to change his plumbing and make himself one...lol. In some nations, this is forbidden. So Now we not free....make up your mind which is it are we free or not? Generally speaking, we're NOT free...and I didn't say we were. We are free individually in SOME regards. Again, that freedom must be qualified. So there is a limitation to our freedom after all Thank you for making my point. There's no limitation to our freedom, because we're not free generally speaking. Trade is necessary for every country to develop. Especially one showing off the shackles of Neo-Colonialism Trade is also necessary for nations who's people are too lazy to produce for themselves. You have a nation that can produce anything. You can literally grown nearly every crop on the planet...yet you're begging Europe or Asia for rice and meat. Why? Because you're too lazy and disorganized or too busy riding around on mopeds with Ak-47 strapped across your back fighting with eachother -to actually farm and grow your own food. "Let somebody else do the farm work." Soon as soon as you get a little money, you give it to France, England, or Japan to send you some food to help you continue to fight...lol. The MENTALITY must change. Say what you want about the White racist colonists....but atleast they kept Black folks WORKING and too busy and tired to fight eachother, lol. When the White colonists got through working the shit out of them, they only had enough energy to make it back home and go to be before getting up early in the morning to go to work again.

frankster One needs Courage to Face or deal with troubling issues and or thoughts... Often people would rather Go into.....Denial Repression or Avoidance Courage is often necessary. But courage is more EMOTIONAL than INTELLECTUAL. Conventional wisdom says a person must LEAD with their intellect and use their emotions as FUEL to motivate them.

ProfD FBA/AfroAmericans were born in the USA. We are not staying with white folks nor were we adopted. This is our homeland. However we end up here in this relationship, the fact is the MAIN reason we as AfroAmericans enjoy one of the highest standards of living of any group of Black folks in the world is because of the White folks in this nation who made IT one of the wealthiest nations on the planet. Sure we had a role to play in it, but we weren't the only ones. So we shouldn't brag or wag the finger at Haitians, Jamaicans, or Africans who may be much poorer or in a more chaotic condition. Take the White folks out of America and watch the cards tumble...lol. .....place'll be looking like South Central Los Angeles in a month, lol. Reminds me of how murderers, pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, gang-bangers, thieves, drug addicts & alcoholics, etc find their way to Christianity or Islam when they've hit a brick wall. True. The rapper Mystical said sometimes you gotta get knocked down to GET UP....lol. A couple hundred years ago, white folks just jumped in a boat & sailed to pick a place & befriended the people & either indoctrinated them into their religious beliefs or killed them or both. True. Like the Mafia, they usually tried to buy them off or trick them with trinkets of wealth. If that didn't work, THEN they'd turn to violence. Amazing how the power of trinkets either monetary or materiel still captivates people into selling themselves out. Sure. Especially when YOUR OWN people don't have anything better or even equal to offer. A lot of Black people sell out simply because the options are better on the other side, or atleast SEEM to be. In the modern era, even the poorest people have access to information in some form. Enough people have managed to travel to & from every inhabited part of the planet. No human on earth is totally in the dark. That's how & why you see people walking around in FUBU shirts in remote rainforests.🤣 ....that, and the fact that many of these shirts and other clothes were used and discarded charitable donations and hand-me-downs they got from some Christian missionary organization who donated free shirts, pants, and shoes to them. -because they didn't have sense enough to make their own clothes. Information and it's availability may change overtime, but the thing that DOESN'T seem to change is the intelligence level of the people. The same percentage of stupid and average people seem to exist today as in the past. So it doesn't matter how much information is available or even presented to them.....if they don't have the intellectual ability to decipher it or figure it out, what good is it? You got a bunch of people in a building who just want to lay around arguing and smoking weed all day. Does it matter how many books you give them? Does it matter if you give them wifi and lap tops and tell them which websites to search to improve their lives? No. ...because they don't have the intellect or desire to move beyond what they're currently doing. The REAL problem isn't the availability of information, but the intellectual deficiency of those it's presented to and their inability to USE that information. Troy Your position has changed overtime. We had long debates over there being a genetic basis for race. Are you distancing yourself from that position now? No, I still maintain this. Race is simply man-made (socially constructed....if you will) CATEGORY SYSTEM used to place and group people with similar phenotypical characteristics. The categories aren't biological but the physical characteristics ARE biological. My positions didn't change. Perhaps your UNDERSTANDING of it did....lol. You also asserted a variety of characteristics to people of different so-called races. I remember quite clearly trying to explain to you that this was the very thing that Whyte racist did to show that Black people were genetically inferior. It doesn't matter WHO does it....truth is truth. Just because White racists do something or hold a position that happens to be based on a fact, that doesn't mean we should reject it. White racists may say that Black men are athletically superior. And use THAT fact to justify enslavement. Does that mean we should REJECT that fact and go out of our way to deny it JUST TO not associate ourselves with something they may agree with or use to justify an evil intention? frankster Haitians of African descent in particular....West Africans and the Congo in general Yes A lot of Haitians are DIRECT descendants of people from Congo and Rwanda. You can look at some of them and tell.

If you have a few minutes, check out this video from 1975 about South Africa and southern Africa in general and the fight for independence from colonialism back in the day. @frankster What got my attention was the role the Russians played, selling arms to some of the African revolutionary groups who fought against the racist regimes. It seems to support what you were telling me the other week about how weapons from them were used to help them gain independence.

The "deranged" part is understandable, but I've noticed and uptick in people in the media using the term "dark" and "black" in a negative way these past 15 years or so. During the 90s and early 2000s when our people were more conscious and unified, it had almost stopped. Now the shit is starting to happen again. Dr. Francis Cress Welsing warned us about using terms developed by the White racists. They use "black" day to describe an unfortunate day. Or "dark times" to describe a negative situation. A lot of us think these are innocent and meaningless terms but White folks KNOW what they're doing when they use them. It sets up a negative association with Black people in the subconscious mind. Not just among other groups but even with eachother.

Well it IS the job of the State and Federal Government to come to the aid of localities when they are hit with natural disasters. It's not a favor. That's what governments actually exist for. Black lawmakers should be making a fuss about this. On the other end..... You have a Black mayor over one of America's largest cities just 30 or 40 miles away who could shuttle manpower and resources over the state lines to help out a distressed Gary and get the power back up and running...if he wasn't so busy trying to help Latinos.

Look! I'll give you the SAME response I gave you the LAST time you tried to proposition me....get yo' RATchet ass out of my face!

Lol, that so-called debt to China...like the National Debt itself...is FUTILE. They'll never call in the chips and demand the U.S. pay up...lol. It's nothing but a big Ponzi scheme or trick designed to distract the masses and used as a convenient excuse by politicians when they DON'T want to spend money on something. Notice how the national debt and deficit doesn't matter when they want to do something like to go war with Iraq or Iran or Afghanistan? Notice how the money we supposedly owe China doesn't matter when it comes to enacting tariffs on them? What about the land/U.S. soil that China supposedly owns? They say China owns billions of dollars worth of bridges and farms and other properties in the U.S. Let them try to pick it up and take it back to China then...lol.

ProfD The Haitians must have f8cked, er, mixed up Voodoo & Catholicism really bad because it's been 222 years since they gained their independence. 🤣 FBA/AfroAmericans have only been free for 161 years but seem to be better off. That's because we're staying with White folks....lol. For us to brag and laugh at the Haitians for living in poverty while we're living among wealth would be like Arnold and Willis chiding their friends back in Harlem because they're living in a Penthouse with Mr. Drummond...lol. Their wealth and better living standards aren't exactly THEIR doing....lol. They were simply fortunate enough to be taken in and adopted by a rich White man. Considering that many Black folks have already chosen a religion, I would imagine only a handful of Black folks will practice African spirituality. Some are, some are practicing modified forms of it, and some wouldn't go anywhere near it and think it's Satanic. Many Black people turn towards African based Spirituality as a "last resort"....only after Western religion and Western science has failed them. Others will only consider it IF White people legitimize it by accepting it first, lol. H8ll, most of the Africans I know are Christians themselves. They are running preaching & singing just like Black churches here in the USA. Most Africans are Christian and Muslim. And many of them are more strict in Christianity and Islam than AfroAmericans who claim these religions. But as I said, many Black people ultimately turn to African Spirituality anyway after seeing how foreign religions and sciences often fail them or fail to get them what they desire. White folks have done a masterful job of spreading their religions around the planet through missionaries & sh8t. One of the chief ways they spread their religions is through WEALTH and TECHNOLOGY. You can preach Christianity or Islam all you want, but what most Africans are looking at is how much wealth you're bringing to their village as a European or Arab. If they're living in a dirt hut, suffering from some sort of a disease, and are hungry and malnourished riding on nothing more than a bike....and as a Christian missionary you come rolling in in an air conditioned SUV, with a pretty wife, and plenty of money preaching the gospel of Jesus. It's not the gospels itself he's really interested in but YOUR WEALTH and how you achieved it. Most poor people take on these religions with the either conscious or subconscious assumption that if they adopt these religions they will also adopt the success they see of those who introduce them. Others see the advanced weaponry of Europeans and assume that Whoever the Europeans believe in and are worshipping obviously is more powerful than Who THEY are worshipping.

You're right about abstract thinking not being one of my strong points. I tend to think linearly and clearly....straight to the point. Not a lot of poetic "in the clouds" "try to figure out what I really mean" verbose from me. However you're giving me a little too much credit...lol. I'm not nearly as devious or mischievous or you TRY to paint me as. Actually I DO get confused, but only for a VERY BRIEF period of time....before I stop allowing myself to be, lol. Neely Fuller Jr. taught us that one of the chief weapons of so-called "white supremacy" is CONFUSION. Whether it's at work, at school, in the government, or even in sports....White people purposely make thing overly complicated and confusing, counting on their subjects (people of color) to not be smart enough to figure it out and untangle the web of deception and mess that keeps their communities in a state of chaos, disorder, and subjugation. That being the case, I decided to no longer subject myself to confusion regardless as to where it's found. If something gets too confusing for me to understand, I opt out of trying to figure it out and demand clarification or just move on if it's something not very important to me.

frankster First as in of primary Importance....not in Order. Oh come on man.....lol...now you're playing games. In Order Wisdom is First Wisdom tells you the best action to take.... Courage gives you the will and power to take the Action that Wisdom dictates. True. But like you said, Wisdom tells you the best action to take. Don't you think KNOWING what to do is just a tad bit more important than having the courage to do it? You might be courageously and bravely do the WRONG thing....lol. They had neither more advance tech or better urban infrastructure.... Yes.....What they had was more weapons and better knowledge of warfare..... What did the Greeks have that was more technologically advanced than the Romans? Romans pretty much EVOLVED from Greece; which means they took the best of what Greece had and improved it...lol. It sure is.... Yes....there are degrees to freedom as there are degrees to liberty. The "dom" in freedom alludes to that limitation Freedom is simply the state of being free. It's not a measurement or level of HOW free somebody is. Again, there are no limitations to actual freedom. Not only are there degrees of freedom....they are different perspectives on what constitute freedom It may SEEMS that way, only because people are often confused and don't know what true freedom is. Just like people in THIS society may have different perspectives on what it means to be a man or a woman, because they have been confused about the true definitions of these terms. That's what I am posting.... You the one wanting to trade it in from sums of money and women Are you now changing sides? No, I'm clearing up the confusion. First of all, we AREN'T free anyway. We are under the control and authority of this government to various degrees. ...that being the case, all talk of what you're willing to give up for "freedom" is merely theoretical at this point. Let's hope they do not have to.... I hope the nation lives in peace and prosperity under a just rule. Maybe they have what you need....so you must get close to get what you need. Either that, or stop snuggling up to your oppressor and learn to DO FOR SELF. Whatever White nations have to offer Burkina....Burkina has the raw material to manufacture herself. Including her own weapons. African nations need to start manufacturing their own goods instead of shipping so much of their natural resources to Europe and Asian just to be polished up and given back to them for a high price.

'All we can do is pray.' Thousands without power nearly 2 weeks after Indiana storm As thousands of northwestern Indiana residents remain without electricity nearly two weeks after a violent Aug. 11 storm, officials have taken to social media voicing frustration over the lengthy restoration delays. Roughly 9,000 customers in Gary, Indiana, remained without electricity on Aug. 23, Gary Mayor Eddie Melton said in a video posted to the city's Facebook. "We’re at Day 12 and 12 days is too long for families to be without power," Melton said. "Twelve days is too long for parents to worry about their children and for businesses to lose revenue and for families to wonder when the relief is finally going to come. I want you to know I share that frustration." 'All we can do is pray.' Thousands without power nearly 2 weeks after Indiana storm Why....is a relatively large city within a mega-metropolitan area in the world's wealthiest nation going without power for nearly 2 weeks now in 2026? Shouldn't we be far more advanced than this by now? While they're spending HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars shooting up the deserts in Iran, you have Gary and even cities in southern California experiencing rolling black-outs on the regular because of shitty out dated infrastructures.

Cynique As usual, one big ball of confusion. 1. I know that this is a AI search engine called Gemini, but you didn't make that clear in your original post. You spoke of some statement from "Gemini" and ridicule being invoked in the Corporal Possession thread which LED me to believe that you were speaking of an actual poster with the handle "Gemini". 2. My "jive ass nonsense" comment wasn't in reference to your statement about possession. It was in reference to Troy jokingly associating our names together....lol. You and Delano belong together because he often makes confusing posts like this where the statements are all nuanced and circular to the point that you'd have to be a psychic genius to figure out what kind of point he's making. You guys can't just say, "I"m going to the store." No, that's too linear and easy to say....lol. You have to lament about what you don't have in the fridge, how much time you have on your hands, what's on sale at the supermarket, what's not on current FDA list of food borne illnesses....and from all of this...one would have to INFER that you're planning to go to the store. Troy, Mel, and perhaps ProfD are all well educated college graduates so perhaps they have the mental energy to untangle the shit you two be saying sometimes and figure it out. I'm not going to try.

Always some weird ass nuanced, "not this but that" with some of you around here, lol. Most people experience a level of sleep paralysis when they start feeling like that, but you're an exception. You're able to get up and do jumping jacks.....lol....OK.

Either I forgot it....or it never happened, lol. Because I searched my Corporal Possession thread twice and didn't find that exchange or any poster named "Gemini" in it. Nor do I recall joining with Troy to gang up on you to dismiss some experience you had. I don't feel like going over a 2 page thread with a fine toothed comb over and over again looking for something that may or may not even be there.