JoeWeber
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Jawohl, mein Frau. I was just tripping along imagining what it was like to have the world view of someone in a TV show who really was looking at you from inside the tube.
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I agree that anyone opposed to abortion should be able to draw a real line in the sand. Zero means zero and some requires specific boundaries. If someone is unable to specifically describe those boundaries or their boundaries are changing that's fantastic but don't mumble through it. Instead, join the rest of us in opposing restrictions on others on vague grounds because that's what your gut is telling you that day.
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Him?
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According to reports he was posting on a forum about abortion.
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Agreed. So is "people who are against abortion just want to control women." True in some cases - certainly not all or even most. I, for one, am pro-abortion thread.
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This post has had me cogitating. We haven't met in person but I am convinced you are a great guy who truly believes in treating people decently and living morally; the kind of guy I'd want to have a beer with even if you were scoping out my date. My discombobulation here is that you're a fetal heart beat guy when it comes to the start of life/humanness or whatever the definition is, if I have it right. How can you reconcile the views then? From a strictly moral/ethical perspective killing is killing and we're told that applies to unviable fetuses at any stage. If you believe that why would you then not strongly oppose Roe?
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Mommy! Mommy! Look at me! Look at me!!
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You heard right, I've been informed. Might be we need a National Aunts and Uncles Day, just out of respect.
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The idea that I'm floating idyllically on thousands and thousands of pissed away Christmas presents is making me a tad weepy.
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You only hurt your likes to posts ratio, which is already quite dismal, by doing that. I think Ken offers counseling.
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Negative. It is a health and equal rights issue dressed up as a humanity issue and politicized by some religious people. The science does not support the religious view. That requires intuition, gut feelings, and a lot of like feeling people to lean on.
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Which dropzone has the best weather (on average)?
JoeWeber replied to Marc K's topic in Events & Places to Jump
That's a fact. I ran Otters and Caravans at Otay for years and the load sheets tell that exact story. Also, the wind direction is very consistent. -
Now you're playing silly games. Look man, no one here faults what you believe if we don't need to be affected by it. With or without your coreligionists have a great time in your houses of worship. Just don't claim a subsidy or use that advantage to claim others to your belief. Do that and no one will say a word.
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It's not important to you that it makes me happy?
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The argument would be that taxes not paid by some are made up elsewhere to provide services all use, including the Church. They don't have their own roads, cops and fire departments, right?
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The parties of God long ago gave up any claim to political neutrality. It's not a question of anything else other than right and wrong. And it is damn wrong that they don't pay tax on their properties and income. Yes they do some good and should be applauded when they do but Tabernacles and huge Glass Churches aren't things the non-religious or others of different faiths should be paying for.
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Like the moon landing? NASA needed to spend 1/3 of their 10 year budget on Webb and that was only 11 Billion Dollars. For all the public was aware it might have as well been secret. Just imagine if we were secretly spending several billions a year on a destroyer rocket to send Slim Pickens into outer space to save the world, if necessary, and that was discovered by FOX News. Right. I have a better solution: hope it doesn't happen for at least 20 years.
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It never goes that way. We're in aggregation mode now. China has a big head start. India is huge but a disaster. The US/EU aggregation isn't really a thing in context. Everyone else are fodder.
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That's the misunderstanding about Meteor impacts, even big ones. The full effects take time. Compared to how long Humans have dominated the landscape, a lot of time. I'm not suggesting we're a species on the cusp of extinction at all, well in the near term that is. But how we organize ourselves as competing societies is most certainly in a change mode. Frankly, I don't see how democracy can survive in nodes larger than 400 million.
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So true and laudable, but it won't change the trajectory of things, I fear. It's not what I want but it is what it is and from my perch I'm seeing that it's all over but the crying. The world ahead will be anything but kinder and gentler. If I had kids I'd be preparing them for success in that world not the one we fumbled away.
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For many years I've said it's all about the number of rats on the rock. The next generations are in for rude awakenings, I'm thinking. All of the stuff we claim as our luxuries, like recycling bottles and hammering Brent, will be forgotten as the next generations look to navigate to a place of stability in an increasingly unstable and autocratic world. Humanity is the latest meteoric grade impact on the planet and, like actual meteor impacts, the time from event to extinction is a slow roll. Truly one of the most true statements ever made was "the end is nigh".
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The url was a more interesting thing, but thanks. Any chance you could post some pics of your friends?
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I hear you, brother, for sure. I do think the valuable lessons are in reverse order, however, which sort of negates the new second valuable lesson. At least I hope so.
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Is that how she explained it when you were 8 or later on when she felt bad? My dear Ma' had a much more concise and, then understandable, way of 'splaining why I was going.
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Yep. I had a wry sense of humor even as a wee one.
