Posts by cappytan

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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

by WingCommander in

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anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.

bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.

i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.

cappytan

And, of course, this thread had nothing to do with gun rights until someone opposed to those rights decided to bring it up.

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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.

bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.

i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.

cappytan

"...people in America shoot each other..."

SMH People all over the world shoot each other. This isn't an American problem. You just hear about it more often because the American media has the motto, "if it bleeds, it leads."

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FAVORITE DRINK....

by brandnew in

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me personally.....i think....if it was meant to be mixed ...it would come in the bottle that way.. that said...bacardi gold.

cappytan

Old Fashioned for me.

I was drinking Old Fashioneds before they were cool again.

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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.

bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.

i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.

cappytan

Dannnng.

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Buddhism Anyone?

by LaurenM in

so, i have recently been delving in buddhism and i must say it all makes sense!

like, the philosophies and ideas are what i've always believed but could never put a name to.

for example, they don't believe in god, they teach acceptance of all faiths, that peace can be achieved - not by changing other people - but by changing yourself, that everyone has goodness in themselves, that happiness can be gained internally (not externally as a gift from god), and that life is temporary so we should enjoy it!

cappytan

Cofty's comment is exactly why I say I'm a secular buddhist, if people ask me.

I agree with the tenets of the philosophy...but I don't agree with the supernatural stuff the traditional buddhists believe in.

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Does Good exist?

by Bugbear in

atheists, deists, or believer.....basic philosophic ground .

either good exist, or has never been, or is dead.

those are he the three basic premises that we all humans must take a stand to.

cappytan

Good is occasionally a matter of perspective.

Like I would say that ending the war in the pacific (WWII) was a good thing.

the inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would likely disagree.

Or take another example. In Texas, we have been experiencing a drought for quite some time. This year, we had so much rain in the spring that it was a huge help in getting the water table and wells filled up. The drought is over for now. So the rain was good.

However, the rain also brought flooding and some people lost their lives. Those people and their surviving families would likely disagree that the rain we had this year was good.

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