JoeWeber
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I'm not sure we're ready for TransBlack as a race. But you go, girl.
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I chose Edward as my Confirmation name at the Church of the Transfiguration in San Jose, CA. In accordance with the deal with my Mother, and enforced by my Father, once confirmed I could quit. I never set foot inside again. But it's ever been thus: religion comes on your mothers knee or at the point of a spear (or a cuff on the ear). It wasn't without valuable lessons, however. I was especially inspired, and very much took to heart, the concept of the collection plate. I just decided to ask for a minimum donation of $23 before each service.
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Just another computer virus. They're endemic now, you know.
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There's always the long game of staying relevant. People don't often quit religion, or change their faith system, because their current faith angered them. Mostly they just scoff, hang in there, and do what religionists have ever done: cherry pick what they like and enjoy the camaraderie. Don't forget that Catholic pretzel twisters are the same happy bunch that jailed Galileo, shunned Darwin and now teach that evolution is compatible with the bible.
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I agree that the Catholic Pope, certainly there is no shortage of Popes, is simply pandering. Like the Southern Baptists, Presbyterians and all other politicians he needs a voter base to keep his party in power.
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Okay.... so sometimes things accelerate too slowly to perceive. It's still reasonable, before you hit the lamp post, to hit the brakes, right?
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Sure but today and now isn't then and your experience. The book banning and school curricula problems today are reality and manifest, just look at Texas. Todays evangelicals may not want Muslims deported, I'll take your analysis, but they want them marginalized as they do LGBTQ folks. And, the active opposition to abortion issue is nontrivial enough to be a stand alone reason. It's the fundamental tenets of the beliefs that pervade the religious culture that are the problem, not the individual believers who often as not have no clue what their participation emboldens.
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That is the rub, I'm thinking. Even when religious adherents are benignly passing out food baskets and rebuilding our barns they are too often still pursuing a broad agenda that includes the diminution of rights for certain people, controlling the contents of our libraries and school curriculua and, lately, the filling of our emergency rooms with the unvaccinated. There is much more, for sure. Yes, we atheists shouldn't get a free pass to be jerks at every opportunity but we also shouldn't be chided for taking exception to certain irrational impositions that do affect our lives and the lives of those we hold dear. Maybe while we're calming down a bit and searching for ways of understanding the religious can look for ways to understand why the entire construct of their "culture" can be a real life problem for others.
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1000 likes here and 10 bucks gets you a beer most anywhere.
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Nope. I've just been along for the ride all these years.
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The real "God Particle" will explain how gravity works. On that happy day they'll change the name of the Large Hadron Collider to the Large Hardon Collider and all believers on both sides will go home happy.
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Sure, every Sunday on the hour starting at 9:00AM.
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Most predictions of the collapse of democracy in America lately are focused on 2030-2050. Seems to me that the only way for that to be wrong is to advance the date a little. I don't know but I believe In President AOC Sound off.......
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We'll see. How do you suppose he'd fare against an AOC-Jayapal ticket?
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I'm good. Your push back is sufficient.
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Which dropzone has the best weather (on average)?
JoeWeber replied to Marc K's topic in Events & Places to Jump
Hi there, too. Depends on your pleasure, really. Do you consider dust devils, high humidity, and sub VFR cloud clearances weather? -
Just disable your javascript, upload Codec v.2, and adjust your HVAC. No problemo.
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You having cold flashes again?
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Pointless is what we do best and any pretext is good. I'm thinking we simply claim self defense against those damnable polar vortexes you keep attacking us with.
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Attack Canada and we'll send a loud and clear message to the world: this is how we treat our friends. Do not fuck with us!
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Typhoon Joey, I am.
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Yep, that too. Poor bastards.
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Excellent point. I can state as a fact that a number of people, actually quite a number of people, caught the bug to skydive, fly airplanes and scuba dive after coming in close contact with me.
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Being given authority often breeds the belief that you are an authority. That combined with free audiences is both validating and intoxicating. With most snake oil salesmen the receipts in the drawer eventually cause them to believe that the shit they are selling really is good shit. Rinse, wash, repeat.
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Say the happy campers from the failed state of Happy Valley.
