Coreece

Atheists have been saying that for over 100 years. First it was materialism that was going to save you guys from religion, then it was science and education and the separation of Church/State and the removal of religion from schools. Then when that didn't work out, they took a more hands on approach and starting executing Church leaders and throwing people into gulags where they could "die a natural death." But none of that worked out, and you guys have been banging your heads against the wall of separation ever since. I doubt your predecessors would be impressed - they just seized Churches and turned them into public toilets. . .some were turned into atheist museums, tho I can't imagine there being much of a difference between the two. Never? He didn't say it in this thread, but he certainly said it in another.

1. Denial: "All my life I’ve lived by the creed that they are harmless and not to take it away from them." 2. Anger: "I can't wait for Christianity to DIE!" 3. Bargaining: "we don’t all go off raping and pillaging at every opportunity we get." 4. Depression: "I was/am wrong. They end up breeding terrorists and fucking up people’s heads. But I don’t know the answer" 5.Acceptance: "My only hope is that by our example we can show that it is possible to live and make sense of a world without god. Happily" Congrats on working through your grief! Given that Christianity has survived nearly 2000 years of persecution from the flames of Nero to the gulags of the fucking Bolos and Bezbozhnik propaganda of the LMA and other atheist goons, I think Christianity can survive your level of benign bigotry. Let's just hope you don't start acting on it like they did after growing weary of "waiting for religion to die." I mean, It's not like the soviets suddenly woke up one day and said "hey, let's kill tens of millions of Christians along with tens of millions of other people that are standing in our way of "progress."

If it was so obvious to you, then how was he supposed to see the humor and know that it was a joke? And why did you tell him to stop being so serious? To him you were simply making a false claim, and simply asked you to post a link.

John, I was joking. I knew you were joking - his insults typically aren't that direct. But you have to understand that "arsehole" is only funny to people that speak bastardized English. For Brits it's just another word.

The next time someone wants you to swear an oath, especially on the Bible, open it up to Matt 5 and read aloud verses 33-37: "Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.' But I tell you not to swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is His footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black. Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ Anything more comes from the evil one."

A pack of us used to run that canyon at night during the full moon. The shadows of scorched trees on the hillside always gave me the creeps.

Hopefully it will be cold and snowy, I have lots of snowboarding to do and the DZ goes into hibernation mode for the winter. Best time for surfing the Great Lakes as well - season starts next month!

Nigel was going on about rednecks and religious fundamentalists and how "life should be treasured and valued, regardless of race, creed or culture." Many of the quotes that I referenced in this thread are clearly inconsistent with that philosophy, but if it would make you guys feel less uncomfortable, I can package them all up and move it to a new thread if you'd like. Dekker made that post after he already started walking back his comment about Vietnam Vets with PSTD dying off soon enough, which is what DanG and Billvon were calling him out for. I only included it to give context to what Bill's quote was referring to. The quotes pretty much speak for themselves, and I've already noted that while some quotes may not be as offensive as others, they certainly contribute to this rather unhealthy mindset of looking forward to the deaths of certain groups of people. And as DanG said, If you can't see how that is inappropriate, I can't help you.

I'm not the only one that found the comments detestable: DanG "How would you feel if Ron said he disagreed with liberals, so he hopes they all die? If you can't see how that is inappropriate, I can't help you." "Obnoxious and un-called for." Billvon "I don't think the sentiment "the elimination of this group of people will solve the problem" has ever worked out." Dekker: "Old people die and with them their mentalities." Billvon: "That's true. But looking forward to that is pretty rude." I wonder what the reaction would've been if a conservative said they hoped Ginsburg died soon of cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's or some other "natural death" so that they can take over the SC and ban late-term abortion and all kinds of other progressive liberal shit. And it's fucking fascinating how some people here think that wishing for the "natural deaths" of others, as apposed to some unexpected tragedy, somehow reduces the effects of cognitive dissonance from which they're apparently suffering, as if hoping for someone to die of cancer is somehow less deplorable than hoping they die in a car accident.

Not at all.

Coreece, give it a rest. Hey man, I'm not the one trying to defend this shit.

Cross Laminated Timber  The video in airdvr's link talks about molten oxide electrolysis.

But that's not all he posted, is it? Nor is he the only poster I'm talking about. Here, this is what he said since you apparently can't be bothered to include the entire quotations: "Hope that they'll die off and humanity can improve once they're not holding us back." "I want to see those politicians and religion die natural deaths and then celebrate"

If they did, would it not be God's will? We're talking about those that wish death on other citizens that they disagree with just so they can get their way, because they're just too damn lazy and incompetent to do anything else about it.

Right, we waited for them to retire, for the most part. Wrong, only 8 months lapsed between the time you made that post and when SC legalized gay marriage. The were no deaths/retirements necessary within that time period to make that happen.

No, I meant that I think he was the only one on dz.com that ever used it consistently, even if others here used it once or twice. But all that was really beside the point anyway. He certainly wasn't the first person to use it on this site, and unfortunately won't be the last, apparently. . .

I think Jakee is the only one that used to use that term consistently, but he did it sparingly enough that it still held it's desired effect. Now it's just cliche. And BTW, it's Amirite, as in "a bluish green semiprecious stone found predominately along the coasts of Khazekstan said to give it's holder complete mental clarity and the ability to think you are correct, all the time."

Grue on conservatives, christians and other religious types: "Hope that they'll die off and humanity can improve once they're not holding us back." "I want to see those politicians and religion die natural deaths and then celebrate" He definitely trolled at times, but I don't think I'd say he was a pure troll. Either way tho, he certainly seems to have made a bigger impression with his 800+ posts compared to grue's 6000+ posts. Skinnay: "The only way for society to progress is for conservatives to get old and die off." "But seriously, it will be great when this "anti green" crowd gets a bit older and dies off." Regardless of whether or not he's a troll, his sentiment is shared by others within the progressive liberal movement, some even on this site - he's not the only one. Ron: "I belong to a dying breed" SteveBabin: "We can only hope" And as I've said, there are also active posters here that have shared similar sentiments: "My hopes and prayers are that enough of you die soon enough" "Personally, there are people I hope to see die soon" "Ron's getting pretty old now, it IS his personal end times." "Don't have to tell them they are wrong. They'll die off soon enough." I think this mindset is rather indolent, hatefully hypocritical, dangerously ignorant and unhealthy for such a vast, ideologically composited democratic and supposedly secular humanistic society. It's also interesting that liberals didn't call out Candace Owen until she decided to join the very group she hoped would die off: Candace Owen - "The good news is, they will eventually die off (peacefully in their sleep, we hope), and then we can get right on with the OBVIOUS social change that needs to happen, IMMEDIATELY.” And, while the following quotes don't necessarily convey hope for certain people to die, they demonstrate how terribly flawed such a mindset can be: Arvoitus - "When that generation dies off then I believe pot will be legalized pretty naturally. I have a gut feeling that in roughly the next 15-20 years most western countries will legalize pot as the crumpy old people go extinct. skydyvr - I used to think old-testament minded politicians would eventually "die off", paving the way for more sensible drug laws, but I'm thinking now I was wrong, or at least off by a few generations." Billvon on the GOP and gay marriage - "it looks like they will have to wait for some of the party's more extreme members to either retire or die off before they make any progress on that." The last I checked, gay marriage is legal in the U.S. Pot is also legal in most states for medicinal or recreational use and it continues to grow, so no, we didn't have to wait for them to die off. Same thing when it comes to women's rights, abortion and the growing acceptance of efforts toward mitigating the effects of climate change.

Your comment crossed my mind, but that's not really what I was referring to. Even I shared a similar sentiment in the past. (Tho in context, I was making a point about how gen X&Y is likely more conservative than older republicans/conservatives give them credit for.) No, I was referring more so to comments from people like Grue and Skinnay. There are also a couple of active posters that have made similar comments as well, but I don't feel it necessary to point them out and put them on the spot, especially since people like Quade, Billvon and DanG have already called out such posts as being "Obnoxious, rude, tacky and uncalled for."

Yes, there are packaged THC vaping solutions in legal marijuana dispensaries that contain that Vitamin E acetate that we were talking about. People can also buy dilutants online that they then mix with their THC concentrates for use in a modified vaporizer.

An entire edition of Time Magazine perhaps? I found them to be more biased when compared to other "reliable" liberal/left-leaning news outlets.

And you may believe that, but apparently that sentiment isn't shared by some liberals that have either directly or indirectly expressed hope for the deaths of older conservatives whose world view hinders their twisted and hypocritical liberal agenda. Even some here have aimed such attacks directly toward Ron, and it makes me fucking sick.

It's not so much frightening as it is an appreciation for taking the whole "think of the children" thing to the next level. . .

Interesting that it references the sicknesses and deaths but says nothing about about the chemicals used in some THC vaporizers (not nicotine e-cigs) that have been linked to those same sicknesses and deaths. Again, no mention about the THC vaporizing chemicals linked to those sicknesses, but it is somewhat satisfying to watch some liberals slurp up Trump's vomit when it suits their own bias. Easy solution there: don't let pushers of addictive substances into your schools to educate kids about their products - you gotta be fucking kidding me. In the end tho, it's just another example of the Streisand Effect, and so it will be with this banning as well. I'm somewhat torn on this. I'm in advertising so I understand the long-term effects/influence our ads can have on children even if they aren't directly targeted. I've had a rather lucrative opportunity to promote e-cigs, and I declined - but a the same time, I can see the benefits such ads can have on adult smokers. No, they don't. Perhaps "target" was the wrong word, but they are certainly influenced/effected by ads targeted toward adults, especially since that's what they hope to be someday. Adults that buy into these ads further influence the minds of their children, practically ensuring generations of brand loyalty. There's a reason that scripts are geared toward an eighth-grade reading level, and tho that reason isn't necessarily meant to target children, they are nonetheless influenced by it.

Wallowing in mud to stay cool?