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  Guns. Well said Mr President, if only your countrymen had the same courage to consider changing course.

  by nicolaou in

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  ive had to make statements like this too many times.

  communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times.

  once again, communities [were harmed] because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no problem getting their hands on a gun.. lets be clear: at some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Thanks, Simon and Morpheus for the info on tea. I've come to learn that there's always another side to history.

  There was supposedly a local "tea party" during the same time in history here in Maryland in Chestertown. Memorial Day Saturday has reenactments of this, complete with men in historic dress and burlap "bales" of tea being thrown into the river.

  Until the local college's history department undertook an effort to verify this historical happening and discovered that, in all likelihood, it never actually happened.
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  Guns. Well said Mr President, if only your countrymen had the same courage to consider changing course.

  by nicolaou in

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  ive had to make statements like this too many times.

  communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times.

  once again, communities [were harmed] because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no problem getting their hands on a gun.. lets be clear: at some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Hey, Simon, I've never heard the story where England reduced taxes on its tea making it cheaper.

  Could you give us a little more info on that story?

  The US never grew tea as far as I know. Was it available from somewhere else as well that the American colonists preferred?

  Would love to hear more.
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  Richard Dawkins talking about a Creator

  by FusionTheism in

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  richard dawkins admitted that information inside of dna, and the origin of life on earth, might point to intelligent designers, perhaps extraterrestrials.

  (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boncjbrrdq8 )richard dawkins further admitted, in a debate with francis collins for time magazine, that science might point to a creator existing, but that this creator might not be anything like yahweh:.

  time: "could the answer be god?

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  GrreatTeacher

  What was the movie where the guy asked the girl out and she said she was 99% sure that she would never date him?

  And he responds, "So, I have a chance?"

  Was it Dumb and Dumber?

  Anyhow, very funny!
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  Are atheists more likely to be morally good than Christians?

  by FusionTheism in

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  i have no problem saying atheists and christians are equal.. but some people seem to have the belief that atheists are more likely to be morally good, or more likely to change the world for good, than christians and theists.. but what evidence do you have to support this claim?.

  if atheism is what causes people to do great positive things for the world, then why weren't martin luther king, jr., william wilberforce, isaac newton, francis collins, barack obama, mother theresa, abraham lincoln, or john f. kennedy atheists?.

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  GrreatTeacher

  The human mind is an amazing thing. It creates our reality. No supernatural stuff needed.
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  No end to JW logic, Oranges can make you gay

  by James Mixon in

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  i was told that today by a jw...no more to say.

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  GrreatTeacher

  FTS, you've stumbled onto a great website!

  I'm so glad I now know that feeding infants soy formula is like giving them 5 birth control pills a day!

  How have none of the major scientific journals managed to learn about this? ;)
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  Being shunned only increases my certainty that the WBT$ is a cult

  by punkofnice in

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  well, i don't wanna rant too much but sometimes things cut you don't they.. a family member had a get together for the family, jw and non jw and of course i wasn't invited being da'd.. i understand why they couldn't invite me but it just made me think.

  in normal society this wouldn't happen.

  i'd have been there.. the shunning is so unnatural and damaging.

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  GrreatTeacher

  I've been out over 20 years and there are still tentacles that they have in me.

  I don't always realize it, either. Which is why I am here. I'm always putting together more pieces to the puzzle.

  My latest discovery is that my personality has still been split into the personal and public. My private personality has healed. But my public personality has still been in salesman mode. And, I think I've been trying to sell myself as a person rather than just be myself and allowing my authentic personality to draw and repel the appropriate people to / from my life.

  Over 20 years and I'm still picking up the pieces from my disfunctional childhood.
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  Boy, 7, taken away from his parents. Judge rules he has been damaged by his Jehovah's Witness mother's religious beliefs

  by snugglebunny in

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  i guess that's what a cult upbringing does to a child:.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3092457/boy-7-taken-away-parents-judge-rules-damaged-jehovah-s-witness-mother-s-religious-beliefs.html.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Malachi, just letting you know that judges in the US do not wear wigs.

  There's much I could've commented on, but I've decided to stop there.
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  Richard Dawkins espouses Militant Atheism: "Mock them, Ridicule them." Attack Religious People with Insults!

  by MagicMItchJensen in

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  richard dawkins has said frequently if we don't agree with religious or spiritual people we need to "insult them!

  " tell their their out of their "fucking gourds!

  " and make sure you really show them how stupid they are for believing in something they can't prove!".

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  GrreatTeacher

  Cantleave, yes, I would agree that I'm not agnostic regarding logic because it's in a completely different category than religious belief.

  Logic can be used to dismantle many different statements or beliefs other than just religious ones.

  Rationalism is not a religion. It's a way to test reality.
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  The incredibly white NAACP leader

  by Simon in

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  this is a bizarre story.. there is a woman who is the local leader of the naacp who is obviously trying to mislead people into believing she is black who is actually white.

  very white.. she obviously gets a tan regularly but looks more orange.

  yes, orange really is the new black!.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Yeah, I wonder. You can't be given a job or denied a job based on your race. But, yet companies track the race of their employees in order to prove to the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission that they are not discrimnatory. So, her employer knows her racial makeup (she claimed black, white and native) but cannot hire her nor fire her for strictly racial reasons.

  But, they might be able to fire her for lying on her application
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  A Hummingbird in My House

  by Oubliette in

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  we just had a hummingbird in our house!

  it flew in through an open door.

  i had been cleaning my back patio and left the screen open for a few moments when i was putting stuff away.

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  GrreatTeacher

  We have gorgeous irridescent green ones around. Kind of rare, but what a precious sight. They show up when my gladiolias bloom.

  Once had a bat fly down the chimney into the house, but that was nowhere near as exciting I'm sure...