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  Colorado Mass Shooting

  by Simon in

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  terrible news out of colorado this morning of a mass shooting in a supermarket leaving 10 dead.. missing from the homepage of cnn is any description of the shooter.

  that's because it's a muslim refugee from syria who was apparently anti-trump and not a "maga white guy" which would otherwise be included in every headline.. more kids in cages than ever before (but strangely, now no one in the media seems to care) and now this.. biden doesn't have the magic wand he promised after all, right?.

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  @Steel: there is no such thing as a civilian with access to “military style weapons”. Full auto and burst fire weapons have been banned in the US for nearly half a century.

  I have a 9mm, .22 and even air gun semi-auto that looks like a “military style weapon”. I’ve seen mods of both rifles and handguns to resemble the characteristics of the other type of weapon. What exactly are you going on about?
  

  A shotgun with slugs or buckshot and handgun would do a LOT more damage in an urban shooting than any rifle, yet the media only highlights these cases when long rifles are used and since it came to light it was a black/brown man doing the shooting, the case has all but disappeared from mainstream media front pages.

  Even a knife wielded by a somewhat competent lunatic can kill many silently. Bolt actions have also been successfully used, particularly in the Las Vegas shootings a few years ago.

  Other countries have more severe mass killings with knives (some with upwards of 100 victims) simply because their population nor their police have proper weapons. The US doesn’t even rank in the top 10 when it comes to mass shootings or in the top 20 when it comes to mass killings.

  Gangs in Chicago alone kill more innocent people per day than the average mass shooting and they have the most strict gun laws in the country. Same goes for DC and NYC, you can’t even carry a gun in NYC.
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  Complexity, Evolutionists Biggest Problem

  by Sea Breeze in

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  recently, some scientists modeled one of the simplest known cells - that of a bacteria.

  it took an army of 128 computers running for 10 hours to process the data required in the 25 categories of molecules that are involved in this "simple cells'" life processes.

  think about that for a moment - 128 computers running for 10 hours just to compute the data, not actually do it mind you; but just to model the known processes in one of the simplest known cells, which is many orders of magnitude simpler than a human cell.

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  @Sea Breeze: that is indeed the current understanding of physics. Time is a construct of the current laws of physics as a result of the interaction of gravity and space, it has not always existed.

  Although a lot of these things don’t make intuitive sense (we didn’t evolve to live in a place without time so it can be hard to understand) but the math is rather simple and easy to understand.

  Simple things can have complex results, for example the Mandelbrot set is easy to compute and define (z^2+c) but infinitely large, complex and “beautiful” to look at.

  Basically you have two proponents: infinite regression of more complex creators or the regression to zero of less complex things that create more complex things through simple processes. We have evidence to the latter, from zero you get virtual particles that eventually interact and create a Big Bang (which wasn’t really a bang but more of an inflationary period). For the former there isn’t much evidence, if any, nobody even amongst its believers agrees on the evidence. Arguing for more complexity as the cause of less complexity (turtles all the way down) is possible, just less understandable and not mathematically sound.
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  Watchtower fined in Belgium

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  jehovah's witnesses in belgium have to pay €12k fine for shunning policy.

  news.

  you have probably heard of the trial going on in belgium about the shunning policy of jws.

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  @JeffT: this case is narrowly defined. In your example, Grandma cannot preach to your children without your consent. However, if you say that grandma should be hated because she is a Christian, then that is a basis for hate speech regulation and yes, you can be fined and jailed.

  
  

  Again, in the US, we have freedom of speech, the EU has speech regulations. You cannot say you hate anyone in the EU for any reason without risking a fine. You can’t espouse hate for Jews, Islam, gays or other group identities in the EU without risking a fine. And yes, that means extremist groups are well visible in the EU society but remain officially non-existent. Political groups have likewise been persecuted for being “hateful”.

  You can for example choose not to associate with ex members of your organization or your family, but if I say everyone else in the family should hate that person, then that is indeed a hate speech violation. The Christians often say “hate the sin, not the sinner”, JW unlike other groups in Christianity claim you should “hate the sinner”.
  
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  Watchtower fined in Belgium

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  jehovah's witnesses in belgium have to pay €12k fine for shunning policy.

  news.

  you have probably heard of the trial going on in belgium about the shunning policy of jws.

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  You have to realize two things:

  1) this verdict is in the EU. The concept of free speech and freedom of religion does not exist anywhere in the EU. State religions de facto also still exist there. While we can debate the drawbacks of this, the State has decided it is in its best interest to tightly control the population with taxes and regulations.

  2) disfellowshipping is a form of psychological abuse. If it were true that, as the WTBTS claims, that its members have the freedom of association, that would be one thing covered by freedom of religion. But we all know lives are tightly controlled by elders and the organization and its members cannot exit without fear of physical or psychological reprisals by other members at the direction of its leaders.

  This would be similar to saying a victim has allowed their abuse by an abusive partner by staying in a relationship, even though it is true in certain cases the victim bears some responsibility of excusing behavior, it does not absolve the partner from further abuse.

  I personally agree that the organization should be able to qualify its own religious tenets without interference, but it should not be blanket absolved from the results of those tenets which have often qualified the tests for incitement to violent behavior.
  
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  Good News Everyone!

  by Anony Mous in

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  2. scandals

  the non-profit organization behind the jehovah's witnesses in kraainem, belgium has been convicted of inciting discrimination and hatred or violence against former members who chose to leave the community.

  the court in ghent has fined jehovah's witnesses eur 12,000 but due to the indexation adjustment, the actual payout to the victim will be (at this point) 8 times higher.

  the multiplier seems weird to us, for those familiar with us law, the eur 12,000 is the statutory fine, taking into account the devaluation of currency, the court system sets an indexed multiplier for fines, currently at 8 - similar to how fines in the us were set in the 1800's at $100 would now be several thousands of dollars.. it is likely that the jehovah's witnesses will pursue this case to the european court.. according to the prosecutor, this case is therefore mainly about recognizing the malpractices within the community, not so much about sanctions: “in our opinion, this is a blatant violation of the discrimination law.

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  The non-profit organization behind the Jehovah's Witnesses in Kraainem, Belgium has been convicted of inciting discrimination and hatred or violence against former members who chose to leave the community. The court in Ghent has fined Jehovah's Witnesses EUR 12,000 but due to the indexation adjustment, the actual payout to the victim will be (at this point) 8 times higher.

  The multiplier seems weird to us, for those familiar with US law, the EUR 12,000 is the statutory fine, taking into account the devaluation of currency, the court system sets an indexed multiplier for fines, currently at 8 - similar to how fines in the US were set in the 1800's at $100 would now be several thousands of dollars.

  It is likely that the Jehovah's Witnesses will pursue this case to the European court.

  According to the prosecutor, this case is therefore mainly about recognizing the malpractices within the community, not so much about sanctions: “In our opinion, this is a blatant violation of the discrimination law. I hope this can be a signal. This is an extensive, fundamental matter. They target a certain group and they isolate them socially and damage them psychologically. ”

  The lawyers of Jehovah's Witnesses stated that the non-profit association is only a legal entity that is used by the community. How the members deal with their religion is not the responsibility of the association. Basically they are saying that the organization is not responsible for the way members treat each other after disfellowshipping, an argument which due to the documentation and harrowing stories submitted, the judge saw through.
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  What is your most favorite politically incorrect film

  by mickbobcat in

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  since all the leftist idiots are trying to cancel films they don't like i am buying some dvds of my fav.

  pi films.

  my favorite top pick is animal house.

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  I would say the Monty Pythons as well if you’re looking for irreverence, I love Airplane! and Team America.

  There isn’t much of that in recent movies “The Platform” often interpreted as anti-capitalist criticism think-piece flick, when the protagonists try to implement a version of socialism, they end up murdering everyone in the place.
  
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  Do You Get Easily Offended By What People Do or Don’t Do?

  by minimus in

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  does using uncle ben’s food products offend you?.

  are you offended if you see a flag?

  what about a confederate flag?.

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  @oppostate, as said earlier, what you think of as the confederate flag is not the confederate flag, people understood that for centuries. Only in the last 2 decades has it become “offensive” because ignorant people declared it as such.

  There is nothing offensive to me about waving any flag, it lets us know where you stand. Whether it’s the white power raised fist (which has been pretty much eradicated from view) or the black power raised fist (which is now everywhere in BLM imagery), whether it’s Nazi or socialist-anarchist flags (which is now everywhere in Antifa imagery), so-called confederate, US Northerner or actual Southern battle flags, your freedom of speech trumps my right to be offended.

  if you’re offended about racism, then you don’t understand humans. All humans are flawed, some are racists, some are evil, all are ignorant about some things, education, not persecution is the best way. It’s what MLK taught about freedom that the majority of people have forgotten. Racism from either side, whether it’s KKK white supremacy or BLM black supremacy is evil, whatever flag they fly that under is not important, the way of thinking, that you are somehow better or some people are worse than others because of your or their skin color is an evil in and of itself. White supremacy has effectively been eradicated since the Democrat party morphed itself in the 60s and 70s from being the party of the KKK against Civil Rights into a socialist welfare party. Black supremacy is making a comeback, this pendulum will swing.
  
  
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  A Tale of Two Diversities (interesting video)

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  interesting little video from aussie youtuber independent man ….

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ydnu4ky2xo.

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  @love: I think he was being sarcastic.
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  Do You Get Easily Offended By What People Do or Don’t Do?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  does using uncle ben’s food products offend you?.

  are you offended if you see a flag?

  what about a confederate flag?.

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  Note that what we know as the confederate flag is not the flag the South fought under during the Civil War. Just small facts but they matter.
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  Rotator Cuff Surgery: Anybody Have Experience?

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  my husband is going in on tuesday to have surgery to repair a badly torn rotator cuff on his right shoulder.

  he is right handed.. he's 51 and is great about exercising and staying in shape.

  however, while doing push ups, his shoulder just snapped.

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  It can take a while to recover and as others said, don’t move the arm which may be up to 3 months, they may do PT during that time, but that doesn’t mean you can move the arm outside the PT office. I have a family member who just went through this, they had to retrieve the tendon way down the arm and stretch and reattach it, so she is planning on having full motion after ~1-2 years of physical therapy. If they have to redo it, or reconstruct, she could have lost full motion.

  Stick to the no-motion plan and then do the daily exercises physical therapy prescribes.