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Willfully Horn

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  1. Sucks to feel the refs tipped the scales. Wish Carr had fed Cunningham at the minute mark. Great season. Lots of fun to watch this team. 🤘
  2. Sucks to feel the refs tipped the scales. Wish Carr had fed Cunningham at the minute mark. Great season. Lots of fun to watch this team. 🤘
  3. ARNICA, gotdammit. They better be treating hm with arnica.
  4. Entering the stage where the refs try to steer the outcome of the game.
  5. This belongs here: “Texas Republicans propose creation of vigilante group to hunt migrants at the border pthat will have immunity from prosecutionTexas Republicans propose creation of vigilante group to hunt migrants at the border that will have immunity from prosecution The bill — House Bill 20 — would allow Texas' Department of Public Safety to hunt, arrest, and deport undocumented migrants. The group would be comprised of law enforcement officers and civilians under the direction of a governor-selected chief. The members of the group would also be extended immunity from criminal prosecution relating to their actions on the border. They will be directed to "arrest, detain, and deter individuals crossing the border illegally including with the use of non-deadly force."“ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-repulican-vigilante-group-migrants-b2307632.html?utm_source=reddit.com I have a question about the bolded sentence fragment. Is this the same immunity police already enjoy, or is this a trial balloon for the sort of immunity that would protect psychos who kneel on necks?
  6. Agreed for art. The song made serious money, though, and won an Oscar. “(Raindrops) hit hugely and sold about 200,000 to 300,000 records a day [and continued selling] for about three years.”
  7. Child predators are the smallest subset of folks who call themselves Christian but are not, in fact, Christian. Christian organizations do little to punish the predators, however, and deserve the opprobrium.
  8. Probably this belongs on another board. But I didn’t know this was a thing, nor did I know that competitive joint rolling is my super power. “With nimble fingers and years of practice, Ativat Janmuangthai beat other cannabis enthusiasts to roll a perfect, one-gramme joint in 43 seconds on Saturday, becoming the fastest joint-roller in Thailand's Phuket.“
  9. Seen outside the rally. There’s fungus among us sammiches.
  10. Jon Stewart’s latest episode on Apple TV focused on on the prison to poverty backend of that pipeline. Felons are completing sentences, and leaving jail owing tens of thousands of dollars to the state, for “rent” and health care, etc. Couple that with the restrictions placed on their release, like being excluded from health insurance and housing, and add the non existence of job opportunities while surviving in a culture flooded with guns. It is to the point where former felons who aren’t recidivists are the outliers. It is all so immoral it is no wonder it has become a powerful, and firmly entrenched, industry The USA, as Stewart states, jails four times the number of its citizens in comparison to Australia, which was literally conceived of as a prison colony. 100 million US citizens have a criminal record. Black and brown students end up in jail for skipping school. If we claim to believe in redemption, we are obligated to give these people an actual second chance.
  11. Congratulations, Coach Terry! 🤘
  12. I am conflicted. Makes sense, but money in tfg’s coffer is a non starter. “Mary Trump, the clinical psychologist and author who is former president Donald Trump’s niece, has called on Americans to flood her uncle’s campaign website with ticket requests for his 25 March rally in Waco, Texas, so tickets will be allocated to people who won’t show up for the event.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mary-trump-rally-waco-texas-b2307520.html
  13. Reporters who cover tomorrow’s rally in Waco ought bring armed guards.
  14. Is there a board here where you cannot get neg bombed no matter what you post?
  15. Understood, now. I don’t begrudge you any of your achievements. But, I do think taxes are too low, starting with my own tax bracket, but especially on incomes with more than seven figures.
  16. Really good post. I acknowledge the need, the absolute requirement, to share. But, the Quakers do the best communal worship, where they sit in silence. One only opens their mouth to speak what God has told them to speak. With such a bar, silence is the state of worship.
  17. Tough to figure you out. You had a fit when I did @ you, responding to a post of yours I chose not to quote. But, I will @ your mention from hence forward. Your second sentence makes no sense to me.
  18. I, for one, do not require the Bible to be the unerring word of God, nor expect myth to be literal to be true, nor even for Christ to be the only son of God, to consider myself a believer in Christ and in God. If the purpose of religion is, as Joseph Campbell maintained, to experience a connection to the divine, then experiencing love for mankind, imo the love at the center of Christ’s commandments (if you will be generous enough to allow me those words as a reference,) is exactly such an encounter. While I first experienced agape through the lens of religion, I do not think religion is the only path to enter that state, to connect with the divine and love the other as yourself. Off topic, not so csb, spoiler:
  19. Does the Bible claim to be the word of God? Other than the Torah, I mean. I don’t recall such a claim, other than John 1:1, which is much less certain in regards to words on paper. “The Word was God” is remarkably declarative. I do know there are folks, seriously religious folks, who view every other OT book after the first four books as heresy. These folks (are they called ultra orthodox?) answer Md’s question: yes. And I wonder whether the prophets (shout out to Ezekiel!) were seen in those U-O circles as subjects of grift, puffists, the dismal tide, or, what? Evangelicals are completely fixated on the third chapter of John, and they are here to tell those ultra orthodox unicorns, (successfully navigating life according to the Word) that Hell is the reward for relying on a book as the ultimate word of God. Even when it explicitly says so. The God of the Torah changed His relationship to Human. More than once. If the Bible is all your watching, you might miss the best season. The moon is holding Venus.
  20. Must suck for folks like flattie, forced to vote for proponents of such blight, in order to put a roof over his family’s head.
  21. Several years back a Dallas area teacher was fired for taking students on a field trip to an art museum, where the kids saw depictions of nudity. The complaining parent had signed a permission slip, and had given their consent for their child to go to an art museum. The teacher was fired. Kudos to this principal, that’s what I want to think.
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