the fault lines that have always existed in america were laid bare with the current multiple crises facing our nation.
this explains in part the polarizing tribalism that cannot get the horse back in the barn of decency and common sense.
if you want to read up on this history check out this article .
We are divided. We are fu**ed. Thank you Trump, Fox News and talk radio. You have created the biggest cult.
I used to dislike Democrats, but compared to the new breed of anti-science, my-way-or-the-highway, angry Republicans, they look much more appealing now.
i’ve heard from a few trump voters that they are getting tired of the whole trump thing.
one person yesterday said he lies.
another person said she hears from her clients in her business that the constant drama and push back from all sides against trump is fatiguing.. i remind people that before this worldwide pandemic, we had the best numbers in jobs.
The only issue that I see with Trump is he is narcissistic to the extreme. He cares about nothing or no one, but himself. He is willing to do anything, including destroying the U.S. as long as he gets worshipped by someone, anyone, even himself. That has to me a minor little issue that his followers can overlook. Vote Trump and lapdog Pence in 2020
i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).
you can't write this stuff.
right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..
Hey Stan,
Did I miss something?. Often I am out of the forum for days, even weeks so i miss many stories. I feel that I missed the start of the "top shelf Tony" story. What is that about?
if you've wondered what tony morris' original last name was, or if he really served in the military, i put up a youtube video today summarizing many of these details.
my goal is not to doxx him or his family, but to put some meat on the bones of his life story article, using available public records.. thanks to the community here that gave me the impetus to dig into this.
and i can definitively say that, contrary to popular opinion, his last name was not esposito haha.
Thanks for the great research.
Now I can make the connection to his Macallan drinking. Cut Tony some slack, he may have PTSD that has to be drowned with hard liquor. Being Jesus' brother may not be enough to make him immune to traumas from bad memories, even after 50 years.
i never post on here.
i am sanchy's wife.
i posted my coming out story about 3 yrs ago.
Clever hoax?? No, if it were a hoax, I wouldn't describe it as just clever. It would be absolutely flawless and perfect. So perfect that even Tony would think the video was real and he would scratch his head and wonder when he did that.
No Stan, no computer created video, no hoax. I can bet you a grant.
climate change ... who doesn't believe it?
crazy fools and science deniers ... right?.
it seems like it's become the new religion, the new orthodoxy, that must be accepted and believed as gospel and preached to all.. is it ok to be skeptical?.
I am skeptical of both sides. However, regardless of the exaggerated doom and gloom headlines on the majority side, we humans have definitely altered the composition of the atmosphere in the last 250 years in an unprecedented ways. We have to be cautious not to be complacent with a position that could hurt coming generations the most. So, yes I am all for reducing emissions as much as it is practically possible.
so now whites are to blame for pollution.
lol these idiot libtards are pushing trump for the win every day.
so all whites are to blame if one factory owner is white but a black who runs a drug cartel whites are still to blame.
"Blacks need to stand up and be responsible for their own actions and choices and quit relying on the Government to bail them out every time they fuck up."
Easy to say and I actually may have said the same thing some years ago. The only little problem I see is that if a kid is born to a drug addict mom and dad is in jail, well, that kid does not have much of a choice. does he??. In fact, the odds are stacked overwhelmingly against him. He is quite an innocent victim of history.
It should not be a black or white thing. It should be a human thing. There's something useful from the conservative argument and there is something useful from the liberal argument. However, conservatives don't get it and liberals don't get it either. The former expects everyone to perform the same because the opportunity is equal to everyone, but it is not. Liberals, on the other hand, assumed equal performance if it weren't for the oppression by one group over another, but that's is rarely a factor. The reality is that many have been dealt a great hand in life, while many others have been dealt a lousy hand. Requiring personal responsibility can be useful as long as some compassion is added. Toby, you and I were quite lucky, many others weren't.
l sat in church on sunday listening to this sermon by ray , one of our lay readers , thinking " l wish that the good folk on jwn could hear this , they might be quite surprised " then l thought " why not share it ?
mark 13:1-13.
" l wonder what you make of this reading from mark .
Regarding Mark 13:1-13, please consider the strong possibility of Vaticinium ex eventu. I am confident that's the case, as I am of most so called fulfilled prophecies of the Bible. Few were right because they were easy predictions. Those predictions were as easy as my predicting that a recession is coming. I know I will be right eventually.
l sat in church on sunday listening to this sermon by ray , one of our lay readers , thinking " l wish that the good folk on jwn could hear this , they might be quite surprised " then l thought " why not share it ?
mark 13:1-13.
" l wonder what you make of this reading from mark .
"A joker suggested that it might have been that God was using him for target practice "
This made me laugh hard. Thank you. The piece would have been perfect (for me of course) if you had cut it in half. That's how far I got before I lost interest. I am glad the joke was at the beginning.
The only people who can make good predictions are scientists, on natural phenomena only. And even they get it wrong sometimes. Social studies subjects are too complex to use them for predicting the future so the moment I hear the word "prophecy" I get turned off, unless it means what it meant 2,500 years ago, a warning from God of punishment if bad behavior continued. Christian came later to turned that word into the modern meaning of gloom and doom. That's one of the reasons I can't stand fundamentalist Christianity.
i have been studying with jehovah's witnesses for approximately two years.
initially, i liked the studies and felt that i was growing closer to god.
however, as the studies progressed, they seemed to become increasingly negative and i did not like what i was being taught.
Maria,
Be concerned about your mental health first. Don't worry about your conductor too much. What the bible study conductor has done for you is more out of obligation to recruit more members than concern about you. They are loyal to the governing body, nothing else. They know no friendship or family love unless the governing body approves it. It's a very unhealthy religion. Be glad you saw the light before you got baptized. If you still worry too much, maybe a little research on the religion will give you the power to break loose from .... well...it's been said already, a cult
