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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  How to spot a Cedarite

  I thought their tiny withered wanking hand was the tell-tale sign?
  
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  Date of Adam's "Creation?

  by Slidin Fast in

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  how do jws resolve these conflicting facts.. 1. no matter how you spin it, bible chronology calculates to circa 4000 bc for adam's creation.

  i followed the trail many years ago and that's what it adds up to.. 2. the most cursory investigation of any branch of relevant science puts man's habitation on the earth as hugely earlier than that.

  it's now so well-proved that anyone disputing it is guilty of wilful ignorance.

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  WT has been stepping back from the 7000 year "creative day" doctrine for many years but bible chronology stubbornly remains out on an ever more dodgy limb.

  Good point - the WTS are young-earth creationists wether they like it or not. And the longer they keep at it the more whacky and evidence-denier they will appear.

  The only way they can get away from it is to claim the OT is just a story, and not real. But then it's the foundation for more belief built on top and the whole, already laughable, story and belief system comes crashing down.

  At some point you can reduce the entire thing to "we just like getting to dress up in suits once in a while, having a sing, and go knocking on doors".
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Other than that his personal life, he needs to STFU about. Its non of anyone's business

  jojorabbit: it is everyone's business for reasons stated many times already. You don't have to agree, but you don't get to keep repeating a debunked a claim or derail a thread with off-topic comments.
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  I'm Going To The Olympics!

  by Simon in

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  i can barely believe it.

  it's really a dream come true.. the culmination of years of training and hard work.. i'm going to the olympics and i'm going to win multiple gold medals.. i finally figured that if a man can identify as a woman and win a medal, then i can identify as a disabled woman, so i reckon i can absolutely clean up at the special olympics.. it's so liberating being woke..

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  I can barely believe it. It's really a dream come true.

  The culmination of years of training and hard work.

  I'm going to the Olympics and I'm going to win multiple Gold medals.

  I finally figured that if a man can identify as a woman and win a medal, then I can identify as a disabled woman, so I reckon I can absolutely clean up at the Special Olympics.

  It's so liberating being woke.
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

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  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  The senior officer on the scene decided to wait until the school janitor arrived with the keys because they thought that either "no kids were at risk" by then, or "no-one was living anymore".

  So the plan was to just wait till they were all dead? What kind of plan was that!

  I think he should be prosecuted. That is negligent manslaughter.

  Fire everyone else who stood around. Useless cunts.
  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  But I'm morbidly interested in watching as he flames out in public

  It is hilarious how he pours gasoline over himself, lights matches and then complains that it's other people doing it to him.
  
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

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  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  Did I miss something?

  I think they are still not telling us everything.

  There were reports he shot at people outside the school, and it was 10-15 minutes before he went in.

  Who was he shooting at and why? We need more answers but it seems like they are not being totally honest until they can't deny things any longer.

  The 911 calls by kids are damning.
  
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

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  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  I can imagine as a basic principle that if you are drawing the gunmans attention and fire, that's less time and shots being spent on victims.

  I think the school also bears some responsibility. They didn't lock the doors as they should.

  So between them, I think the school and police will likely be paying some compensation for their failures.
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  WHERE do I live? Some people call it COWTOWN

  by Terry in

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  where do i live?.

  people say: cowtown.

  i say: it ain't.. i've lived in fort worth all but ten of my seventy-five years.. nobody ever asked me why fort worth is called cow town.. i would guess it is self-evident.. how many of us who live in fort worth realize those two words are gleaming with history?.

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  We're in Calgary, also called "Cowtown" :)
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

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  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  Oh man, the police story keeps changing and it keeps getting worse and worse. Kids were calling 9/11 from inside the classroom while police loitered outside, not even going to get the key to get in...

  Fucking unbelievable levels of bumbling incompetence. I want to see some firings and pensions cancelled. This is unforgivable.

  Remember, when seconds count the police are only an hour and a half away. Pizza would have been delivered quicker!

  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61613177

  Police made the "wrong decision" by failing to storm a classroom in Robb Elementary School as a gunman killed 19 children inside, the chief Texas safety official has said.

  "If I thought it would help, I would apologise," Steven McCraw said during a heated press conference Friday.

  He confirmed a 40 minute gap from the police unit's arrival to when they entered the classroom.

  Pupils inside made multiple calls begging for police to come.

  The delay in response, now confirmed in a new timeline offered by authorities, has raised even more questions about why 18-year-old Salvador Ramos was inside the school for so long before he was killed - not by local officers, but by a tactical unit led by US border agents.

  The gunman crashed his car near the school at about 11:30 local time, Mr McCraw disclosed, and entered the school shortly after - but it was not until 12:51 that a tactical unit breached the door, entering and killing him.

  The delay happened in part because the commanding officer on scene believed the situation was no longer one involving an "active shooter", he said.

  The description is at odds with the disclosure that at least four emergency 911 calls were made from within the school - apparently from children barricaded inside the classroom where the gunman was firing - begging for police to come.

  Mr McCraw confirmed that as many as 19 police officers had gathered outside the classroom but they made no effort to get inside.

  They thought "no [more] kids were at risk" by then and "there was time" to get the classroom keys from the school janitor.

  After the gunman was shot dead, police found as many as 1,657 rounds of ammunition in his possession.

  They later ascertained he had forewarned of some of his actions in private messages to a Facebook friend.