child murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.
what is new is their institutionalization.
but even that isn't totally new.
Sometimes I think that choosing a side and shutting your mind comes from information fatigue.
There's just so much information available at our fingertips now that strong partisanship becomes a heuristic.
Thus, paradoxically, the advent of the net and exponentially larger bodies of information has helped create the hyperpartisanship we see now.
the latest controversy over the confederate flag just sums up to me the state of dysfunction that exists in american society.. in summary: a white supremacist nutter shoots 9 black people dead in a church.
he's clearly inspired by the messages of others which the confederate flag is often a symbol of.. it seems like a no-brainer to remove it.
not only isn't it removed, it isn't even lowered at all as a mark of respect.. and of course now there are the people who want to defend their right to have it.
Meh. The Gadsden flag is taking over the place of the confederate flag now it seems. More politically correct.
I'm beginning to see "Don't Tread on Me" and coming to the "all I need to know about someone" conclusion as well.
child murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.
what is new is their institutionalization.
but even that isn't totally new.
i'm having problems identifying a small cyst that i get every once in a great blue moon.
i like to call it a lollipop cyst because it looks like a really small lollipop.
so, it's basically a small cyst at the tip of a really small shaft (not my penis).
They tend to form in places where there is friction, so the inner elbow makes sense. Also, under breasts or where your underwear elastic rubs.
I've known people to just snip them off with manicure scissors and they say they don't even bleed.
every second our watch ticks, thats frequency of our current time.
the frequency will hit our reality every 1 second.. same method for rainbow frequency.. this is where i need your scientists.
need confirmation of change on fact of time.. and this... is truth of jehovah.... under sugar water, blue light will appear on left side.. under salt water, red light will appear on right side.. this concept is same for our heart.
got to thinking about this the other day.... you know how the wts uses a scripture from ecclesiastes (ecc.4:12) to say how important it is to have jehovah in your marriage -- that a two-fold cord is easily broken or pulled apart, but a "three-fold cord is not easily broken".
they then go on to define exactly who and what jehovah is and what exactly this love & marital arrangement means and how you properly show and demonstrate it, and blah blah blah and all the things jehovah (through his organization) says are so necessary and important for a happy marriage (from their special bias and agenda, the preaching work!
- and meeting attendance & preparation, and studying the bible together and the husband taking the lead, and all that jw filler which they define and obligate for others to do -- they define every term and behavior and expectation to the nth degree.. then it occurred to me, that the scriptures simply and always say, "god is love.
Muddy, I have always hated the way they apply that verse, too.
I am busy enough just dealing with the two of us who are in this marriage without worrying about anyone else.
my wife and i are planning on taking a year off and taking a jeep and a camper through all the 48 contiguous states and alaska and some of canada.. living in florida, i have always had guns and a concealed carry permit.
but researching for our upcoming retirement vacation, it seems to me that i might not be able to legally carry firearms on my upcoming expedition.. it seems every state has different laws and licenses.
what does a camper from florida do when he goes to new york or california?
Yeah, the DC area is a miserable place to travel. It's got the worst traffic, only behind NYC and LA. Drivers get pissed off and have been known to threaten others with weapons.
The problem is the driving culture between Virginia and Maryland. In Virginia, you'll get pulled over for going 3 miles over the speed limit. Virginia cops are everywhere and will pull you over for anything. Therefore, traffic runs slow.
Maryland traffic is fast! Cops will not pull you over until you are doing at least 10 mph over the speed limit because judges will throw out anything less than that. So, traffic travels at about 10 mph over the speed limit. Never drive less than the speed limit in Maryland or people will get extremely pissed off. The traffic is horrible and people want to get home from their long commutes, so, people can get aggressive if you get in their way.
Though it is just south of the Mason-Dixon line, Maryland was a union state in the civil war, so, even 150 years later, culturally, Maryland is a northern state and there is a difference from southern culture starting right around DC, specifically, that the speed of life is FAST! People drive faster, talk faster and you're expected to work faster! Don't hold people up in the drive-thru, either, because those workers are supposed to get you in and out in a certain number of seconds! New York is even worse. The north is not for sissies!
Good luck on your trip. It sounds like a retirement dream!
my wife and i are planning on taking a year off and taking a jeep and a camper through all the 48 contiguous states and alaska and some of canada.. living in florida, i have always had guns and a concealed carry permit.
but researching for our upcoming retirement vacation, it seems to me that i might not be able to legally carry firearms on my upcoming expedition.. it seems every state has different laws and licenses.
what does a camper from florida do when he goes to new york or california?
Just a travel suggestion...
If you want to hit every state, here's a suggestion for Maryland and Virginia. Stay away from Baltimore! If you're coming up 95, turn east and visit Maryland and Virginia's eastern shore. Take route 50 east through Maryland. Visit Assateague Island which is an uninhabited barrier island on the ocean. It is wild and natural and they have wild ponies!
Then go south into Virginia and visit Chincoteague Island and from there cross back over to the Virginia portion of Assateague island to see their wild ponies. This is the home of Misty of Chincoteague, the pony of the children's book of the same name. You can stay in the town of Chincoteague. It's a quaint little town where in July, they have the pony swim and sale which manages the herd and benefits the local fire department.
This is a unique slice of America and you avoid the big cities. Plus, you cross two states off your list at the same time!
my wife and i are planning on taking a year off and taking a jeep and a camper through all the 48 contiguous states and alaska and some of canada.. living in florida, i have always had guns and a concealed carry permit.
but researching for our upcoming retirement vacation, it seems to me that i might not be able to legally carry firearms on my upcoming expedition.. it seems every state has different laws and licenses.
what does a camper from florida do when he goes to new york or california?
I believe, in general, that a shotgun would be less problematic than a handgun, and if you're using it for wilderness protection, it may work for you.
Keep in mind that in some states if you get pulled over, you must immediately disclose that you have a firearm to the police. And, I know that in the state of Maryland, you must carry your firearm unloaded with the ammo in a separate compartment of the vehicle. Not sure if there is an exception for a concealed carry permit or if Florida's would be considered acceptable in MD, but it's nearly impossible to get a CC permit in Maryland.
Also, you are not getting into any sensitive sites like the White House or other museums in DC with any kind of weapon if you're planning on visiting them or other cultural sites.
In general, the north does not take kindly to weapons, especially handguns, and they are highly regulated. I would research every single state before you travel through it.
i have been frustrated by the inability of most jws to escape their bondage to the kh, despite repeated exposure to negative information about their religion and belief system.
perhaps it's due in part to something called normalcy bias- a definition i have found is:.
normalcy bias is part of human nature and, to some extent, we are all guilty of participating in it.
Zimunzucz, I also read The Orwellian World of Jehovahs Witnesses from my college library in the mid 90s.
I was already out simply because the whole thing felt wrong, but reading that hit me like a ton of bricks. I could really see the parallels to Orwells 1984. Eerie.
