Posts by redvip2000

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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?

by blondie in

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i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.

i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.

it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.

redvip2000

The answer to the riddle is not binary. This is not a decision between mental illness or guns. The answer is obviously both.

Let's assume that there is a small percentage of people in the country who are crazy enough to want to kill dozens of people. The question then becomes how easy should it be for them to have access to a gun.

If you have a mentally unstable person living with you, and you leave a gun on the kitchen table and go to work, only to come home and realize this person went out and killed 25 people, you can't just shrug your shoulders and say ... " well it's not the gun's fault, it's the mental disease". Of course it's the mental disease, but you made it incredible easy for this to happen and that's part of question.

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Is Global Warming One of the Most Important Issues To You!

by minimus in

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just curious..

redvip2000

No, it's all a hoax.

The science community is conspiring against humanity. Also scientists who study these things all their lives, know much less than you and me about Global warming.

Bring back "clean coal" jobs, since evidently that is the future. Also there is no evidence that carbon increases the temperature of the planet. It's a Chinese hoax, and the Chinese are paying off all scientists in the world about this.

Also Trump never lies, and Putin is a great leader.

Happy now?

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The "Hate Crime" mob stirring things up again!

by The Fall Guy in

staff in a takeaway were offended by two lesbians' full-on kissing and expressed their opinion about the behaviour.

the lesbians complained to police that a "hate crime" was committed.. homosexual or heterosexual - do it in private, it's not a spectator sport or a public statement.. minority groups can invoke police action if they are "offended," but society in general cannot do likewise.. why has "being offended" been turned into a hate crime in the uk?

who is pushing this agenda?.

redvip2000

Minority groups can invoke police action if they are "offended," but society in general cannot do likewise.

Anybody can invoke police action. It's up to the police to determine if action is warranted.

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Evolution or Creation Poll

by Vanderhoven7 in

evolution is how we got here.. demonstrate that you believe that all species evolved from a single cell over/within 3.5 billion years by tapping "like" below.. demonstrate that you believe in special creation by tapping "unlike" below..

redvip2000

roughly a third of Americans reject microbe to man evolution as well.

No doubt. This is one of the reasons we know that a good chunk of Americans are morons.

Once you establish that the United States is probably the most religious of all the developed countries, it then follows that a good portion of the population is bound to believe in the fairy tales that religion teaches.

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NOAH and his impossible struggle to refute Math Physics & Earth Science

by Terry in

alice laughed: "there's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things.".

"i daresay you haven't had much practice," said the queen.

"when i was younger, i always did it for half an hour a day.

redvip2000

Isn't it funny how after months of drifting in a massive rain storm, the Ark somehow ends up again in the middle east on top of mt Ararat.

How could it be different? The peasants that made up that story didn't even know there were other lands in the world.

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"Armageddon is imminent!"

by nowwhat? in

remember top shelf tony da turd broadcasting that world wide 2 years ago at the end of the convention?

well 2 years later do we see the slightest hint of the nation's declaring peace and security or going after religion?

so how was it imminent?

redvip2000

It's really too bad that the Org doesn't commit to a date like they used to do. They can just play this game of hanging the carrot in front of JWs with this endless notion of the big A being just around the corner.

In my last discussion with my JW sister, i asked what she thought a reasonable amount of time is for the big A to happen and after some pressure, she said that 10 years is a reasonable amount of time. The problem is that 10 years go by and people barely realize time flying by. Before they know it, they will be 80 years old and their entire life was spent waiting. How sad.

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NOAH and his impossible struggle to refute Math Physics & Earth Science

by Terry in

alice laughed: "there's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things.".

"i daresay you haven't had much practice," said the queen.

"when i was younger, i always did it for half an hour a day.

redvip2000

Since only a handful of fish are euryhaline, it would seem that the majority of the fish species would have died off in the flood.

So what? God was totally fine with killing 99.99 percent of all land animals. I'm sure he would be ok with doing the same with the fish.

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Greenland For Sale

by Poztate in

the donald has recently suggested that he would like to look into buying greenland from denmark in the same manner that alaska was purchased from the russians.

i think the danes would be smart to look into selling it as it is costing them money every year with very little returns for their investments so far.. the alternative might well be that donald declares greenland a national security threat and invades them so that the world remains safe for democracy.

i would suggest to the danes that as any other real estate transaction that they put it on the open market and see how much russia or china are willing to offer .

redvip2000

I suspect the buffoon-in-chief is not only helping to destroy our planet by denying climate change, but is actually going a step further by trying to profit from it, by trying to purchase a land mass that would eventually be devoid of the ice mass that is in the way of reaping its resources.

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Why do we see only brown-colored people in USA detention centers?

by Wonderment in

why are for the most part brown-colored people held in detention centers?

where are the rest of illegal immigrants?i think the question is valid -- as one website noted: "the u.s. government does not maintain reliable demographics of who is in immigration detention..." (https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/detention-statistics).

a canadian woman not too long ago said to me (spontaneously - i did not bring up the subject) the following words when she heard the live tv news broadcast, which dealt about the immigrants being held at dozens of detention centers in usa: "i am canadian, and i have been living here illegally for 29 years.

redvip2000

The difference is that the MAJORITY of Europeans, Asians and African people come here legally or are truly refugees and then their status changes

Exactly. That is actually the answer to the original post. The United Status enforces the law really only at the border or within 100 miles of the border. Immigration agents are not really combing the streets looking of illegals.

So because they only apprehend people at the border, in this case the southern border, it's normal that the detainees will be from Central America.

Illegal immigrants who are white, typically arrive via plane, and have a visa that let's them into the country, and then end up staying illegally. As far as Canadians, same thing. They don't need a visa to get it, so they just get in and end up staying illegally.

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WT / JW Doctrine ,Satan cast out of Heaven in 1914 ? He has always had access to the earth ? Since Eve .

by smiddy3 in

this doctrine / belief that jehovah`s witnesses have , surely raises a few questions that they do not address.. 1.this spirit being challenged god by questioning his authority and offering eve an alternative making himself satan.. and this took place on earth ,the garden of eden.

so he who became satan had access to the earth.. 2. all throughout the old testament , the hebrew scriptures do we find examples of satan interfering with gods plan of things either by himself or his followers .. 3.their are just too many examples to list individually ,however a few key ones would be , the nephilim , job when god in heaven asks him where he has been , and his reply , from roving about on the earth .

, etc.etc.. 4.and of course in the new testament , where jesus is taken up into a mountain to be tempted by satan for fourty days ?.

redvip2000

And why exactly does God needs to acquiesce to Satan's challenge, especially if this means it will cause suffering and despair? This is what JWs teach... "Oh Satan challenged Jehovah about the ability for humans to live their lives without God"... so what?

If you have a kid and I go up to you and I challenge you that your kid cannot be fed, clothed and taken care of without your help, will you then throw your kid on the street and tell him "Sorry son, someone challenged me about your ability to live without me. Have a nice life. See ya, and prove me right".

The whole thing is incredibly stupid.