One of the most impressive things about YOU, fellow Kossaks, is the breadth of knowledge YOU have accumulated. Smarts spanning from aardvarks to Zymurgy. If you ask a question on Dkos, ANY question, it WILL be answered`at the very least with a link or a clue!
The Daily Kos is truly a cornucopia of information. So much so that it can be like Sipping from a firehose ! I don't want to try to tell you how to use it!!! So here is Not buhdydharma's New User's Guide to dKos! The best guide to Dkos ever written IMHO! And for a list of GOOD series on Dkos have a look at part of the FAQ Yes dkos is Wunnerful and with these few extra gems of wisdom in hand, you may peruse its pulchritude at your pleasure!
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PLEASE REMEMBER, THIS IS A COOPERATIVE EFFORT!!! MAKE SURE YOU TRY TO ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS WHILE YOU ARE HERE!!!
BTW 42 is NOT the meaning of life, my favorite color is blue, no, green (I'm still here!), and tying fruit of any kind to swallows is indicative of a very peculiar and rare psychosexual disease....seek help! While speculating on the airspeed of UNLADEN swallows is a far milder form....I still urge you to examine your soul! For those who have no idea what I am talking about I urge YOU to ...Ask A Kossak!
What Now?
There is no question that there are many many moral people in the world. For morality at its deepest root is a feeling inside of each individual. A feeling that cannot be fully put into words. But since it cannot be put into words, that feeling has proven to be highly manipulable. It is subject to propaganda and emotion, it is subject to confusion. As we see the strife around the world and hear all of the various sides argue their cases, .....
Tonight's First Question: How do we decide what is and is not moral?
Tonight's Second Question: IS there a standard definition of morality?
Tonight's Third Question: Is that definition subject to change?
Tonight's Fourth Question: How?
Tonight's Fifth Question: Who decides?
Tonight's Sixth Question: Is there anyway to establish a planetwide definition of morality that beneficially crosses all boundaries of religion and philosophy?
Tonight's Random Answer: Each human life is sacred no matter the circumstances.
Tonight's Silly Question: How do we get from the awful here....to the utopian there?
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Tonight's Sound Track
Is canceled thanks to another new "not allowed" section of the embed code, dammit! If you want the soundtrack, you can find it in the Docudharma version
Tonight's Beauty Shots:
Oh and speaking of morality....you can help restore a bit of it (unless of course you believe torture is moral) by...
One first step is....
Signing The Citizens Petition: Special Prosecutor for Bush War Crimes.
Joining the Facebook Group.
And going to Change.gov to support having this question answered.
"Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor - ideally Patrick Fitzgerald - to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?"
-Bob Fertik, New York City