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Ya, he repeats it over and over ad nauseam, yet he doesn't appear to be a singer/songwriter - so I'm not sure if it's just dementia or illusory truth. The bottom line is that you have to define mental illness and present evidence of neurological abnormalities present among specific groups of religious populations, otherwise we can just question the sanity of any protected class. For example - Are homosexuals mentally ill? How about transsexuals, perhaps they're just delusional? Are women that destroy their own progeny just bat shit crazy?

Agreed. Nor am I claiming they did. Ok, which is why your unwarranted assumption about how your comment on gonorrhea makes me feel all "sad and depressed" just doesn't follow, and is apropos to nothing other than your own glaringly obvious projection. Again, this is just more projection on your part. I simply posted some facts and let them speak for themselves in response to a misleading claim, so there is no reason for any anger, yet here you are getting all bent out of shape over it. Yes, in some cases it definitely can. When people preach that it's a "lifestyle" rather than lack of precautions that causes STD's, people get sick and die. I said nothing about a "lifestyle." This is just another example of you using my posts as a grindstone to sharpen your axe, dulled by somebody else's post from four pages ago. You said you weren't going to do that anymore. . . .and then on top of all that, you have the gall to say that I’m the one that’s angry over a claim you didn't make? C’mon man.

Another one of those "The USA is the world and the last few years are all of history" silly statements. "MSM, transgender women, and sex workers are disproportionately burdened with syphilis in all regions" "in Western Europe, the USA, and China, large increases in syphilis have been seen among key populations like men who have sex with men." Europe - "most cases of syphilis were observed in people older than 25 years and 58% of cases were reported among MSM." - "The proportion of total cases of syphilis was higher among MSM (58%) than heterosexual persons (36%). Among MSM, 34% of the syphilis cases had a HIV coinfection." More Europe (UK) - "data collected in sexual health clinics in England from 2005 to 2014 showed increased syphilis diagnoses among MSM and decreased syphilis diagnoses among non-MSM and women" - "From 2013 to 2014, cases of syphilis rose by 46% among MSM (2,375 cases to 3,477 cases) That increase is thought to be due to high levels of condomless sex, particularly among men who are co-infected with HIV. Just for the hell of it - Australia - "Overall rates of syphilis diagnoses have increased to 6.7 cases per 100,000 persons in 2012. Among the non-indigenous population of Australia, most cases of syphilis were reported among MSM. Those rates have increased by 20% from 2008 to 2012 among men aged 30 to 49 years" Extra Credit - "The recent introduction of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV infection is a new tool for HIV prevention, however, with reports of high incidence of syphilis among PrEP users, clinicians and public health researchers need to stay vigilant to ensure that PrEP for HIV infection does not lead to increased syphilis transmission " - "Because syphilitic lesions increase risk for acquiring and transmitting HIV infection, syphilis infections among MSM are of particular concern" - "Partner treatment is an effective way to manage syphilis outbreaks among heterosexual patients . Addressing partner treatment among MSM has traditionally been more difficult, especially due to the high proportion of sexual contacts that may be anonymous and facilitated by social media." More where that came from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089383/

Nobody here has made a misleading statement about homo/heterosexual women and gonorrhea, nor have they objected to your comment. Kallend on the other hand HAS made a misleading statement about homo/heterosexuals and Syphilis. I simply corrected it with facts, facts that apparently make you feel sad and depressed. I honestly don't think there's ever been a more conspicuous example of projection in the history of this forum than what you've just displayed here. Actually, oppression can make the problem worse. Odd that you would think it's oppressive to attack falsehoods with facts that actually identify the problem, but it's ok - it's probably just some personal shit you have going on that really has nothing to do with me.

Our relationship with homosexuals is none of your business.

"Most cases of syphilis in the United States are among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men." https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-msm-syphilis.htm That has nothing to do with Kallend's misleading statement about syphilis. . . .and I know what you're thinking, "progressives/liberals/democrats like me and Kallend get away with misleading statements all the time here in SC, why single out this one?" Well because Bill, it promotes a false sense of security among the homosexual community - but it's ok, I know you guys aren't really trying to mislead homosexuals. . .just conservatives. If that's true, and I'll trust your word Those aren't my words, just facts from the CDC. Here are more stats that Billvon apparently thinks are "fun facts" : "Even though men who have sex with men (MSM) account for only 4% of the U.S. male population, they account for about two thirds of reported P&S syphilis cases. The current situation is stark— reported syphilis among MSM increased 52% from 2014 to 2018." https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/CTAmsm.htm

"My balls are always bouncing, to the left and to the right" This reminds me of a thread that Shrop created almost 10 years ago:

Doesn't matter dude. Today, both liberalism and conservatism are package deals - join or die!

Then just market it as such. Personally I think the whole "green tech" marketing scheme has hurt "green" tech. If you're gonna go it that way, then just market them as gluten free EV's. XD. . .

"Most cases of syphilis in the United States are among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men." https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-msm-syphilis.htm

Ya, cause people like you're still stuck in the 60s and it fucked up your heads.

Ya, I've been telling you people what the problem is, but you won't fucking listen. . .

Try some of that kava and you won't even care anymore. I'll immediately be evicted from your head. Oregon Kava Bars

Try some Certified Noble Kava imported from Fiji - Loa Waka. One of the side effects is apathy. After about 2 weeks, your anger issues will still be there, but you won't feel angry - and might even resort to using humor to express it. After about a month, the apathy kicks in full effect - Not giving a fuck is awesome.

Right - you are assuming that anonymous claims from a friend of a vile and disgusting pedophile enabler are true. I'm not assuming anything. He retracted it, didn't he?

lmao

It's still going - but yes, thank you. Starting the new year the same way you finished the old one I see. But this time I really was just joking. . . .or was I?

Sssssshhhhhh. This was going to get good. Figures. . .finally some bullshit that could've actually united the country for once and Jakee had to fuck it all up.

"Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed."

Thanks Nigel, me too! This certainly seems to exemplify your thoughtfulness and sincerity that many here have attested to recently, so thanks again. I think this is the idea that you were attempting to convey in a post back in October, albeit in a much more verbally barbed manner. I think it was there where I began harboring much of my resentment for your posts, culminating in my acting out in the solstice thread and maybe even some others. When we were discussing the whole Proverbs 26 thing, I asked if I had deceived you - but what I've come to realize with further reflection of those verses was that the only person I was deceiving was myself in the sense that I was pretty much convinced that I was moreso joking than I was angry - and yes I realize that others in that thread were trying to point that out as well. Anyway wrt your you quote above, for me it's more about how it helps to endure through it, rather than making sense of it. And btw, I can also understand your concerns for all the negatives of organized religion as well. I have many myself, but I'm not going to go into them right now. We're getting ready for the big celebration of 2020 - hopefully the year of clarity for us all. Everyone please have a Happy new year whether you want to or not, be safe, and thanks for putting up with me. Cheers. . .

Do you find it risible when I say the name Biggus, Dickus?

At this point I don't think there's any other way to look at it, nor should we. For whatever reason this one just got to me. Maybe the late Elijah Cummings was wrong about us. . . Victim's daughter speaks out: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/daughter-of-deacon-shot-and-killed-during-church-service-speaks-out/2283486/

You seem to confuse communism with atheism and want to call Stalin's murderous regime a religious battle. Rather than making something up just to make it seem like it's what I said, why didn't you just quote something that I actually said on the subject? Probably because this is just another convenient programed response from liberal atheists any time the subject comes up without having to address what was actually said - It's likely just an attempt to dismiss the content hoping that others didn't actually read it or that they're just too ignorant to understand it. Here's a series of responses from just a couple months ago on this particular subject that might help satisfy your objection: Edited in Q&A form: QUESTION: Equating people who happen to be atheists with the political dogma of Stalinism? Come on man. ANSWER: No, I'm talking about atheist rhetoric of today and it's similarities with anti-religious propaganda, even before Stalin. After the Bolos took over, there was still a fierce debate over how the "opiate of religion" should be handled. Those on the right felt that that religion would just die naturally with the influence of science, education and anti-religious propaganda, especially after the elimination of religion in schools and the public square. Those on the left felt a more militant approach was necessary. As they grew weary of waiting for religion to die, the full might of the leftist's militant approach was realized. QUESTION: You just throw out some actions by the Communists in the Soviet Union and pretend that that's how ALL atheists act? ANSWER: Nah, I've already mentioned how some atheists were sickened with how the religious were being treated, and opposed a militant approach, but history is full of examples of relatively good, well intentioned people finding themselves in precarious situations and doing very bad things. QUESTION: Didn't those in power in the USSR do everything they could to stop anyone and anything that threatened their power? ANSWER: Absolutely, but they obviously had a special kind of hard-on for eliminating religion, especially when they got tired of waiting for it to die off after the Russian civil war like they had hoped, which is why they amped-up production of strictly anti-religious newspapers and designated various groups like the Militant Godless and other atheist goons to promote atheism by any means necessary. “Militant atheism is not merely incidental or marginal to Communist policy. It is not a side effect, but the central pivot” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What is it that you think I thanked him for?