Was Your Health Affected By Covid? - no.
I've now had both my jabs (AZ). I did experience flu-like symptoms after my first jab. But I was fine after my second.
I guess my body now has the antibodies.
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Was Your Health Affected By Covid?
by minimus inother than adding 20 lbs over the last 15 months, no known health issues during covid.
i’ve taken 8 lbs off so far and i am within goals.
thank goodness nothing serious here over the pandemic.
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Mulholland Drive (2001) - what do you make of this movie?
by LoveUniHateExams ini first saw mulholland drive (2001) about a month ago.
i bought it second-hand from the local market.. it's kinda weird, it's a david lynch film, lol.
i've seen half his movie output (5 films out of his total of 10).. in addition to this film, i also own eraserhead (1977), the elephant man (1980) and blue velvet (1986).. plus, i remember watching dune (1984) on tv years ago.. mulholland drive is definitely strange.
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@Phizzy - yeah, giving it another watch is a good idea.
After I first watched it, I was like 'hang on, what happened here' but after seeing again I kinda sussed it out.
Lynch isn't my favourite director but I admire him for making the films he wants to make.
As such, his films have great rewatchability, even if it's just to figure out the plot, lol.
Plus, yesterday I bought a second-hand dvd of The Straight Story (1999), so I now own 5 of his films and have seen 6, but there's no way I'd buy Dune (1984). Dune's crap, lol.
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Mulholland Drive (2001) - what do you make of this movie?
by LoveUniHateExams ini first saw mulholland drive (2001) about a month ago.
i bought it second-hand from the local market.. it's kinda weird, it's a david lynch film, lol.
i've seen half his movie output (5 films out of his total of 10).. in addition to this film, i also own eraserhead (1977), the elephant man (1980) and blue velvet (1986).. plus, i remember watching dune (1984) on tv years ago.. mulholland drive is definitely strange.
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I first saw Mulholland Drive (2001) about a month ago. I bought it second-hand from the local market.
It's kinda weird, it's a David Lynch film, lol. I've seen half his movie output (5 films out of his total of 10).
In addition to this film, I also own Eraserhead (1977), The Elephant Man (1980) and Blue Velvet (1986).
Plus, I remember watching Dune (1984) on TV years ago.
Mulholland Drive is definitely strange. Lynch has stayed silent on what the film actually means. He did the same with Eraserhead - I think it is Lynch's view that the film means what you want it to mean, leaving the viewer to work out the plot.
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Poll: Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty, but most Christians favor it
by Disillusioned JW insee https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
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@Diogenesister - ok, I agree with your comments and your point. There should be a reform of who we send to prison and how prisons are run. Some people are clearly in prison when they shouldn't be.
Now let me give another story. You tell me the answer ...
In the late 70s in northern towns across England, multiple young women were found dead. Some had been sexually abused. Some had been mutilated. Some had been discovered in humiliating poses. Some had suffered blunt force trauma to the head.
Nobody knew who the killer was - this was before DNA could catch criminals. One or two women survived being attacked and said the guy had a Bradford accent. Later on, an anonymous tape was forwarded to the police. The man's voice took responsibility for the crimes, signing off as 'Jack'. Trouble is, this guy's accent was very distinct. He clearly came from the North East, from Sunderland. Eventually, in 1981, police caught the killer. He was with his next victim and was stopped routinely due to a concern about number plates. The police later found the hammer that the killer had discarded to cover his tracks. Peter Sutcliffe, a lorry driver from West Yorkshire, admitted to the murders of 13 women. And that's just the known victims. There could be others.
What do we do with a guy like that? You tell me!
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Poll: Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty, but most Christians favor it
by Disillusioned JW insee https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
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It is better to prevent a violent crime in the first place than it is to punish it after it has occurred - I actually agree with you this. But, again, some people will always commit serious crime. That's reality, I'm afraid.
The countries with fewest people in prison are the countries with the lowest rates of violent crime - this may be true. But violent crime still needs to be punished because it can't be prevent entirely.
Prisons don’t prevent violent crime they make the problem worse - I agree they don't prevent crime … not sure they make the problem worse. Maybe when offenders get out of prison they are likely to reoffend. Perhaps this is a problem with the way prisons are run, rather than prisons failing as a concept. And, of course, if the really serious criminals were locked up for life they wouldn't reoffend at all.
btw I think that’s me out of posts for today (I only get 5) listen to the podcast on abolition - sorry, Slim, today I don't feel up to wading though anything put out by Novara Media, lol.
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Poll: Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty, but most Christians favor it
by Disillusioned JW insee https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
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Prisons don’t prevent or cure violent crime - yes, because that is beyond their remit. The purpose of prisons is to punish criminals who commit serious crime.
Seeing as there will always be a minority of people who commit serious crime, if we abolish prisons we must think of another way to punish them.
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Poll: Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty, but most Christians favor it
by Disillusioned JW insee https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
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Then concentrate on programmes that prevent violent crime happening in the first place - well, that is the claim but whatever programs are started after prison abolishment, there will still be people who commit murder/rape/etc.
They would still need to be punished.
How?
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Poll: Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty, but most Christians favor it
by Disillusioned JW insee https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
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Slim, Slim, Slim, lol …
Just read your link.
It's pretty much standard leftist fare - 'prisons are bad, prisons only punish ethnic minorities and pot-smokers, the rich get away with it', blah blah blah.
The author of the article doesn't address this simple question: if we abolish prisons and someone commits a serious crime - rape, murder, terrorism, etc. - how should society punish that person?
No mention of an alternative punishment.
You could free all BAME prisoners, free all pot-smokers in jail, free all mentally-ill prisoners … and some people will still be bad enough to commit murder/rape/etc.
When someone commits a serious crime like murder, that person must be punished. The death penalty was abolished in Britain with the insistence that life would mean life. If you abolish prisons, how will serious criminals be punished?
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Juneteenth
by minimus inare you ready to celebrate??
it’s such a big holiday that the local electric company will be closed in order to celebrate.
only emergencies will be dealt with on that day.. what are you doing for the holiday?.
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I think celebrating the emancipation of slaves is a good thing for Americans to do.
It certainly beats all the crappy SJW talk of reparations and sh1t like that. #NoReparations
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Does the GB direct cult members to burn old books?
by mickbobcat ini was told but can not find anything concrete that the cult gb directs cult members to burn old cult books and literature.
is this true.
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The WTS does everything but burn books.
The GB: "We are God's one true organisation on Earth. We give people The Truth. But our truth has a time limit on it. Only apostates read and quote from our older literature."
Yeah, whatever you say crazy guy …
