this year independence day , the 4th of july, went mostly unnoticed.
the weather didn’t help for many but besides that, the day was looked upon by news media and politicians as very negative.
there is nothing wonderful about america that should be celebrated!
My take is pretty well summed up by this comment I read elsewhere.
By every estimate the US has more than 390 million guns owned by civilians. Yet none of them are held to the heads of the anti-Americans who protest and riot about how terrible this country is, as a threat to prevent them from leaving and moving to any other country they feel would be better!
ok, i would like to submit to the forum the following question: in abstract, do you think that there is a right to not being exposed to ideas that you don’t like or disagree with?
please think it through and its implications on both ends of the spectrum.. it’s not the right to conscientious objection to do something you vehemently disagree with; it’s not about the liberty to chose which ideas you want to embrace or advocate.
it’s something different.. given that, as exjws, we understand the importance of being exposed to different opinions in order to form our own opinion, should someone claim the right not to be exposed to opinions or ideas that they don’t like?
I actually mean a LEGAL right
That implies that government gives/permits/or enforces that particular right.
A LEGAL 'right' to not be exposed to ideas that you don’t like or disagree with would give rise to censorship of ideas that any particular group of people deemed they did not like at the time. It would be a 'right' that would have no meaning as it could be changed with whatever politically correct/woke goofiness was popular at the time.
So no, I do not think people should have the LEGAL 'right' not to be exposed to ideas they do not like or agree with. They do have the inherent personal right though to make their own choice if they wish to continue to listen or not.
as a youg man this stunned me when i studied the original "youth" book 97% had done it so i thought soo that's pretty much everyone i guess the 3% were witness youth!
also "awake" claimed 90% of students had accessed porn at some time.
everyone is doing it i guess 10% are the witness youth...how dumb was i?.
Masturbation is pretty much as natural and common as blowing your nose.
If I remember it was George Carlin who said, "If we were not supposed to masturbate, our hands would be where our shoulders are!"
do you think he could get reinstated as president?
do you think trump will run again for president or do you think he will just be a force for the republican party behind the scenes?.
I would like to see Trump make a comeback, just to watch TDS sufferers heads explode.
Otherwise I personally think he is a crude, boorish person I would not choose to associate with. But he did do some good things for the U.S.
I sometimes pray to a milk jug.
I get the exact same answers doing that as when I prayed to God.
1. No.
2. Yes
3. Wait
This is what convinced me that prayer DOES NOT WORK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ILZAaAMI&list=PL1B903F401EAB5207&index=1
are 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?.
As a white male I love fried chicken and watermelon. I hope that doesn’t mean anything negative
So do I. And there we go, engaging in "cultural" appropriation again.
i have been to the city hundreds of times.
i’ve always loved the vitality of the city and no one could ever say that you could get bored in nyc.
i regularly went for business during the day and in the evenings go to local bars and restaurants as well as the village.
Everything good in the U.S. just has to be in NYC. . .nothing good has ever come out of that s**t-hole. IMO
i realized that teenagers and young witness adults were getting away with murder per my daughter.
she told me that all these exemplary young people featured at assemblies and conventions were not real good examples.
after she got married years ago to a “ worldly “ man, she told me about all the kids who were fornicating and getting drunk and high, including elder’s kids.
Where was Holy Spirit???
Perhaps in the privy?
back in the day, tons of witnesses were brought in the “back room “ to be counseled by elders because of their dress and grooming.
some elders frowned on mustaches or hair that went past a certain point on a male.
women were regularly harassed because their skirt was too long or too short or had a slit on the side.
A mustache that looked "like the Marlboro man", side-burns longer than the part of the ear called the Tragus (that little flap of cartilage over the front of the ear canal), western boots that were bone colored with caramel colored lizard wing-tips, a two-door sports car, a four-wheel drive pickup, livestock.
I was always on their radar as an adult because I did not scrape and bow to the eldurrs.
have you ever had to deal with these crazy intrusive people flipping out on you?
just curious.
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I am fee to kick them in the rear end.
Just be careful that you do not hurt their head.
