chrysostom

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I'll probably stay away from COVID-19 subjects for awhile. One of my other forums took exception to some of the language I used when someone falsified (Photoshop'd) data from the 1918 Spanish Flu to support an unsupportable position. I know a bit about viruses having read numerous books on the subject and building several level 2-3 bio-hazard labs while I was a project engineer/manager. But I'm still a member in good standing even though I ruffled a few feathers including some friends. I am embarrassed for not being more diplomatic in the language I used.

As an engineer, I am now retired (at age 69, I'll be 71 in October). My memory is still pretty sharp but my temperament might be a bit different due to the side effects of certain meds I now have to take. I have a strange form of epilepsy which affects my sense of smell. I'm also a type 2 diabetic now but the good thing is I lost 30 lbs. in about 6-8 weeks just by changing my diet. It was a choice of alcohol or coca-cola (1 per day). I wasn't much of a drinker but I do miss my coca-cola. I drink a lot of water now which I needed to do anyhow since I've passed numerous kidney stones. I was able to pass them after an ER visit with the help of copious amounts of water and Vicodin. But the death of my dogs has hit me the hardest of anything. I loved my dogs like they were members of the family. My wife and I can't talk about them without choking up.

On a happier note, I'm glad you're still here and may God bless you.

Most all of us fail at diplomacy from time to time. :chuckle: I'm glad you're here, it doesn't seem like you were gone so long, the time goes by so fast. I'm so sorry about your dogs, it's such a hard thing to lose a pet, especially when you were capable of such love for them. The grief is as great as the love. Keep taking good care of yourself, please, so you can enjoy the good things that come with being retired.
 

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let's talk about the supreme court

replacing ginsburg?

how about killing babies?

abortion?

killing babies

it's a choice

killing babies is a choice?

we get to choose who replaces her

we will now see how important killing babies is

it's just one issue

the democratic party has just become a one issue party
 

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why is a seat on the supreme court so important?

killing babies

who could be for that?

they don't call it killing babies

what do they call it?

a choice

who would be against having a choice?
 

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‘You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby’

you may not have a man or even children
but
you have a career
or
at least a job
and
you have the ability to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy
it will continue to get better as long as the democrats are in control
 

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You're trying to make it a different conversation than what I started with. I'm talking about civil war.

And I'm saying that you're talking about the symptoms rather than the disease.

A divided nation is the result of that nation's rebellion against God.

You can't cure the disease simply by addressing only the symptoms. You must address the root cause to cure the disease.
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civil war
noun

Definition of civil war
: a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country

I'm well aware of what the definition of civil war is, thank you.

Also, please use "Paste as plain text" if you're copying from a formatted page, otherwise it causes formatting issues. You can find this by right clicking and selecting "paste as plain text" in the list. Or, if you're on mobile, long press and select paste as plain text.
 

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White privilege is being taught that it's wrong to judge someone based on the color of their skin.

Income inequality

Jesus asked is your eye evil because He is good, in reference to a man paying different employees different wages.

Corporatism

Could you provide an example of this?


Example?

Government corruption

Maybe the fact that we're a democratic republic has something to do with that... :think:
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Christian nationalism

Such as?

White supremacy

Which is just one form of racism, addressed above.

What must we do about racism?

Parents must teach their children that man was made by God, not evolved from apes, and that Acts 17:26 is true.
 

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I'm curious. Did you talk to them in person?

"Defund" is a loaded word, with multiple interpretations. I think I'm in the majority when I don't think of defund as disbanding.

You probably know this already, but "defund" means "to remove funding for [something]."

By removing funding, you remove the ability for the police force to perform its assigned functions.

I don't think it's the best word that could've been used because it strikes fear in the hearts of law and order middle America. But on the other hand, as a way of getting their attention, it certainly worked. It's a word that sticks.

Broadly sketched, I agree we should at the least: review and reallocate funding.

Why?

Fund less police hardware, fund more community-supporting social outreach.

Because there aren't enough of those already, apparently...

Demilitarize.

You want to remove the polices ability to stand a chance to be able to defend themselves in the literal warzone that some American streets have become in the past months and years (and especially this year)?

When criminals are killing people, the police, via the government, has the authority to use deadly force against those criminals. If they don't have the ability to do that because some pansy limp-wristed liberal thinks they had too much equipment that hardly gets used, first, consider that simply having them is a deterrent against such criminal actions, and second, not having them means they, unwilling to put the officers' lives at risk with inadequate equipment, will be unable to deal with such crime should it arise.

Even Espy said it bothered him that the police looked like the military.

When it's a warzone on the streets of America, the police need military-grade equipment.

It bothers me a lot that we look like a police state.

In what way do we look like a police state?

We need way better police training in de-escalation, we have to weed out the white supremacists.

So what happens when that training, which is more than enough, when put to use, fails to de-escalate a situation?

The only option at that point is to use an escalation of force appropriate to the situation. And you want to limit the police's ability to do that?

There needs to be more transparency, more accountability.

Because there isn't enough of that already?

For starters. We need to reform the justice system,

Not just reform it.

Toss it in the bin and remake it.

Preferably using do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not commit adultery, and do not covet as its foundation.

stop privatizing prisons,

Not only that, but stop USING prisons.

Return to restitution, flogging, and the death penalty.

end stop-and-frisk,

Wait, what?

Why end that?

fix the bail system,

"...fix remove the bail system [along with prisons]"

There, that's better.

reform sentencing guidelines.

Right, to go along with getting rid of prisons and returning to restitution, flogging, and death penalty punishments.
 

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You demonstrate the very issue that makes BLM necessary. What *they* want is no different than what YOU want. To not have theIr skin color determine how the police treat them. You have wifffully chosen to pretend there is no difference because you can’t be bothered to care.

The police don't treat them differently to begin with.

https://youtu.be/UQCQFH5wOJo
 
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