What is a devil's advocate?
noun
unpunctuated: devils advocate; noun: devil's advocate; plural noun: devil's advocates
a person who expresses a contentious opinion in order to provoke debate or test the strength of the opposing arguments.
historical
the popular title of the person appointed by the Roman Catholic Church to challenge a proposed beatification or canonization, or the verification of a miracle.
The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help. Several factors contribute to the bystander effect, including ambiguity, cohesiveness, and diffusion of responsibility that reinforces mutual denial of a situation’s severity.
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In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram's electric-shock studies showed that people will obey even the most abhorrent of orders. But recently, researchers have begun to question his conclusions—and offer some of their own.
How is prison labor legal?
Penal labor in the United States. Penal labor in the United States, a form of slavery or involuntary servitude, is explicitly allowed by the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This form of legal slavery is only allowed when used as punishment for committing a crime.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The 13th Amendment states that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"The devil is in the detail" is an idiom that refers to a catch or mysterious element hidden in the details, meaning that something might seem simple at a first look but will take more time and effort to complete than expected and derives from the earlier phrase, "God is in the detail" expressing the idea that whatever one does should be done thoroughly; i.e. details are important.
The children's' prison parents labor-pool development
Francis Scott Key is the author of the famous words “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” He wrote those words in 1814 and, ever since 1931, they have been sung as the national anthem of the United States.
What is the Lucifer effect in psychology?
The Lucifer Effect. ... Thus, Zimbardo derives this title to explain how good people turn evil. Zimbardo's main assumption on why good people do terrible things is due to situational influences and power given from authority. The Lucifer Effect was written in response to his findings in the Stanford Prison Experiment.
The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.
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List of school shootings in the United States
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What does it mean to call someone a pill?
It will be a bitter pill to her.” Since the middle of the 19th century, writers have been using “pill” to refer to people who are hard to swallow for one reason or another. A person might be called a “pill” for being unpleasant, foolish, boring, weak, or otherwise difficult to take.
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Idiom: a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).
hard pill to swallow (plural hard pills to swallow) (idiomatic) Something that is difficult to accept. That my own son could have done something so horrible is a hard pill to swallow.
A shareholder rights plan, colloquially known as a "poison pill", is a type of defensive tactic used by a corporation's board of directors against a takeover. A social justice cause of advocating a land of brave and free people is a challenge for an attorney, an attorney perhaps named Moses, who may have some kind of blues brothers' mission from God, to let his minority people free, from all the prisons in the United States, because Charlton Heston as Moses beats the pants off him being Yosemite Sam bullet brain celebrity provocateur and promoter, as if a bullet banker company man to the Nazi party from New York-based Union Banking Prescott Bush days.
What does it mean to swallow hard?
If you swallow, you make a movement in your throat as if you are swallowing something, often because you are nervous or frightened. Nancy swallowed hard and shook her head. 3. transitive verb. If someone swallows a story or a statement, they believe it completely.
(the Devil's staircase) In mathematics, the Cantor function is an example of a function that is continuous, but not absolutely continuous. It is also referred to as the Cantor ternary function, the Lebesgue function, Lebesgue's singular function, the Cantor-Vitali function, the Devil's staircase, the Cantor staircase function, and the Cantor-Lebesgue function. Georg Cantor (1884) introduced the Cantor function and mentioned that Scheeffer pointed out that it was a counterexample to an extension of the fundamental theorem of calculus claimed by Harnack. The Cantor function was discussed and popularized by Scheeffer (1884), Lebesgue (1904) and Vitali (1905).
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swallow something hook, line, and sinker
Fig. to believe something completely. (These terms refer to fishing and fooling a fish into being caught.) I made up a story about why I was so late. The boss swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. I feel like a fool. I swallowed her lies hook, line, and sinker.
What was the main purpose of the Palmer Raids?
The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, and deport them from the United States.
Golden parachutes are contracts with key executives, and can be used as a type of anti-takeover measure, often collectively referred to as poison pills, taken by a firm to discourage an unwanted takeover attempt. Benefits may include stock options, cash bonuses, and generous severance pay. Serenity Sells!
What were some of the ramifications of the Palmer Raids?
The Palmer Raids were caused by the Red Scare which was the anti-radical and and anti-immigrant hysteria and fear that anarchists, socialists and communists were conspiring to start a workers revolution in America. A bomb damaged the home of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer who instigated the 'Palmer Raids'.
All the states have unconstitutional aristocratic courts, as their constitutions and/or unconstitutional "lawyer systems" require judges to be lawyers, creating a RULING CLASS, which is FORBIDDEN by Article IV, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution, the 13th Amendment and Article I, Section 26 of the Texas Constitution.
Luke 11:52
"Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."
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Jesus says in John 14, “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:1–3).
Howdy John 14, meet the 13th Amendment bystander apathy over the devil's staircase into the Stanford Prison experiment Lucifer effect.
What inspired Francis Scott Key to write and the flag was still there?
On September 14, 1814, U.S. soldiers at Baltimore's Fort McHenry raised a huge American flag to celebrate a crucial victory over British forces during the War of 1812. The sight of those “broad stripes and bright stars” inspired Francis Scott Key to write a song that eventually became the United States national anthem.
I. AS PER THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT;
A. The practice of Law CAN NOT be licensed by any state/State Schware v. Board of Examiners, 353 U.S. 238, 239
B. The practice of Law is AN OCCUPATION OF COMMON RIGHT!
Sims v. Aherns, 271 S.W. 720 (1925)
Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners,
353 U.S. 232 (1957)
Sims v. Ahrens, 271 S.W. 720 (Ark. 1925)
II. The "CERTIFICATE" from the State Supreme Court:
- ONLY authorizes,
A. To practice Law "IN COURTS" As a member of the STATE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.
B. Can ONLY represent WARDS OF THE COURT. - INFANTS
- PERSONS OF UNSOUND MIND SEE CORPUS JURIS SECUNDUM, VOLUME 7, SECTION 4.
- A. "CERTIFICATE" IS NOT A LICENSE....
A. To practice Law AS AN OCCUPATION.
B. Nor to DO BUSINESS AS A LAW FIRM!!!
III. The "STATE BAR" CARD IS NOT A LICENSE!!!
A. It is a "UNION DUES CARD"
B. The "BAR" is a "PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION."
- Like the Actors Union, Painters Union, etc.
- No other association, EVEN DOCTORS, issue their own license. ALL ARE ISSUED BY THE STATE.
C. It is a NON-GOVERNMENTAL PRIVATE ASSOCIATION. - See Attorney General Dan Morales' letter.
- As per this letter; the State does not issue licenses and they are not issued by his office!
IV. The State Bar is;
A. An Unconstitutional Monopoly, Article 1, Section 26, Texas Bill of Rights.
B. A ILLEGAL & CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE;
C. Violates Article 2, Section 1, Separation of Powers clause of the Constitution.
D. There is NO POWER OR AUTHORITY for joining of Legislative, Judicial, or Executive as the BAR and SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS are doing. ALL MEMBERS OF BOTH ARE MONOPOLISTIC BAR MEMBERS!
E. In violation of the RIGHT TO WORK LAWS of Texas.
V. State Bar Rules. . . at Article III, Section 2. . .
Enrollment in the State Bar: "Each person who becomes licensed to practice law is REQUIRED TO ENROLL IN THE STATE BAR WITHIN 10 DAYS "BEFORE" OR "AFTER" RECEIVING A LICENSE TO PRACTICE LAW.
ENROLLMENT IN THE BAR AND LICENSE ARE NOT THE SAME. THE BAR CAN NOT LICENSE ANYONE!!!!!