anyone here into guns.
i know alot of the euros here hate the idea but i wonder if there are any other members who are collectors or who are into hunting, target shooti g etc.. no shame zone?.
I have a pistol, rifle, and shotgun for work. I bought my son a single-action .22 revolver. It's an expensive hobby.
I used to have 2 black powder cap-and-ball revolvers. They were a lot of fun. I regret selling them as they are now as expensive as firearms.
if somebody knocks on your door and wants to enter your home (for whatever reason) you are faced with a decision process based, in part, on your ability to suss out why you do or do not allow entrance.. agreed?example:.
"i'm being stalked by a madman--please let me hide inside" would be a strong emotional reason.
""i'm with a group of jehovah's witnesses, we want to brainwash you.
Our personal belief on the definition of what an "immigrant" is has no bearing in the eyes of codified statutes. When reading statute a definition of words is often provided.
In addition, leaving an impoverished, war torn, corrupt, violent country to come to the US illegally to make a better life for you and you family is not a defense to prosecution.
If a down on his luck man robs a bank to provide for his kids, the children don't get to keep the bank's money after he is arrest.
i know that some here detested him while others may have simply accepted the reality of who is president.. do you think he is better than you might have thought as a president?.
Separate the man Donald J. Trump from the President and my answer is -Yes.
President Trump is doing much of what he said he would do. If he talks about things that seem to contradict his election campaign it's because its part of a strategy. Case in point - DACA.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was not a law. It wasn't even an Executive Order as it was unconstitutional. Rather, it was a memo telling immigration officials not to deport criminal aliens brought to the US as children before 1987 if they registered with federal immigration authorities. Democrats in the US Senate refused to pass a continued resolution to fund the federal government (the US Congress has failed to pass a budget since 2009 which is why the US is not over 20 Trillion in debt) unless those effected by DACA were addressed.
To address this, President Trump asked for legislation to give a pathway to citizenship to some 800,000 that actually registered under DACA and the million+ more that chose not to in exchange for an end to chain-migrations, the VISA lottery, and for funding to build a border wall. This request far surpasses the demands to address DACA recipients. Senate Democrats won't approve it and Trump knows that. Trump is just exposing them.
In the end what really matters to individual Americans is "How are doing personally since Trump took office?"
My family and I are doing great. I got a 12.5% pay at work. I keep more of the money I earn as taxes went down. My retirement is solid because for the first time in history the Dow Jones Industrial market exceed 26K points and stock returns are averaging a 23% return. I just filed my income tax. I made more money in 2017, but have a larger return than 2016 because I qualify for the Child Earned Income Tax Credit again even though I am in a higher tax bracket.
I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, but I think I will in 2020.
if somebody knocks on your door and wants to enter your home (for whatever reason) you are faced with a decision process based, in part, on your ability to suss out why you do or do not allow entrance.. agreed?example:.
"i'm being stalked by a madman--please let me hide inside" would be a strong emotional reason.
""i'm with a group of jehovah's witnesses, we want to brainwash you.
Immigrants are not criminals as a result of their immigration. The went through proper channels to enter and stay in the country.
Criminal Aliens is the topic at hand. A Criminal Alien is a foreign national who enters a country without permission and may stay or even does stay until deportation. To commit this offense in the United States is a federal misdemeanor.
Illegal Re-Entry be a Criminal Alien is a federal felony. Its when a previously deported Criminal Alien comes back to the United States after being deported. Such a criminal offender faces a prison sentence of up to 15 years and most plead out to a 5 year sentence.
So, immigrants are not being framed as "criminals", but rather Criminal Aliens are being framed as "immigrants".
if somebody knocks on your door and wants to enter your home (for whatever reason) you are faced with a decision process based, in part, on your ability to suss out why you do or do not allow entrance.. agreed?example:.
"i'm being stalked by a madman--please let me hide inside" would be a strong emotional reason.
""i'm with a group of jehovah's witnesses, we want to brainwash you.
The human species has been slaughtering itself over tens of thousands of years with no end in sight. Every known culture has participated in the practice of enslaving others and the practice goes on to this very day in some form or another. None of that has any bearing on a sovereign nation's right to secure its borders or decide who can and cannot step foot on its soil.
if somebody knocks on your door and wants to enter your home (for whatever reason) you are faced with a decision process based, in part, on your ability to suss out why you do or do not allow entrance.. agreed?example:.
"i'm being stalked by a madman--please let me hide inside" would be a strong emotional reason.
""i'm with a group of jehovah's witnesses, we want to brainwash you.
Situation C:
Someone sneaks into your house without your permission. Your neighbor tells you that you have to let them stay because you have such a nice house that even has a spare bedroom. You point to your neighbor that if he wishes to help the trespasser that he should accept him into his house. Your neighbor refuses stating that he shouldn't have to because you are financially better off and tells you to stop being greedy. Also, you just don't want the trespasser in your home because you're racist.
if we put on our western cultural (you know, the ones that say jesus made the world) eye-glasses we will 'see' prostitution as something bad.. the 'christian' influenced view is that prostitution is a criminal racket run by gangsters, and the women (and sometimes men) have either been bullied by their pimps, or drugged until they become addicts and forced to work in brothels.**.
some of that is likely true (at times), but is it always 'truth'?.
australia's government owned abc media network, has an article that invites us to take off our western cultural eye-glasses and see the world as it really is.
"I've paid for every piece of ass I have ever gotten." - My jaded friend
Marriage is a horrible institution that has no place in a modern, free society. That's a different subject.
Two consenting adults get paid by a third party to have sex while being filmed - legal.
One consenting adult pays another consenting adult to have sex - illegal.
It has nothing to do with prostitution. It has to deal with human trafficking and compelled prostitution. Much like the "War on Drugs", if prostitution were regulated there would be no issue.
something occurred to me today.
quite randomly as i was working away at my desk i remembered an illustration from the bible teach book in which satan claimed he knew better than jehovah about ruling mankind.
here's the illustration from chapter 11 of that book:.
Based on this Watchtower analogy, Jehovah should have told Satan that if he could do a better job to do so. Jehovah should have created a parallel universe, transported Satan to it, and told him to run it for a few thousand years. At the end of that time they could compare results. Everyone liking the prime universe gets to stay and everyone liking Satanville gets transported over there.
so i've been watching the show and really enjoying it.
great to see a trek tv series finally get a reasonable budget.
beautiful costumes, sets, cinematography, action pieces, etc.. really my only complaints are how cg all the ships look and there's a fair bit of stiff dialog from time to time.. what do you guys think of the show?.
I must be getting old. As time passes I seem to like only the original more and more.
Same with Star Wars. I've come to the conclusion that Rogue One, A New Hope, and The Empire Strikes Back are all that are worth watching.
because of this site i realized that there were many people who were active jehovah’s witnesses really didn’t believe in god at all.
i’m curious how many people believe in god?
i’m not interested in debating why you shouldn’t have a belief in a god or should.
The question "Who still believes in God?" is grammatically incorrect due to it being intellectually dishonest.
"Who..." - "Of all living humans..." This is grammatically acceptable as well as intellectually honest.
"Still..." - "After examining all the evidence..." This is grammatically acceptable as well as intellectually honest.
"Believes..." - "Holds an opinion that is not necessarily based on facts..." This is grammatically acceptable as well as intellectually honest.
"In..." - A better choice of words would be "the existence or past existence."
"God" - Here is the biggest problem. "God" is implied to be the YHWY, Jesus, Allah of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic faiths. To accept the existence of one of these 3 you must accept the existence of the gods of all faiths exist. The factual evidence used in an attempt to prove the existence of "God" also proves the existence of all "gods".
So a the better way to word the questions "Why still believe in God?" would be -
"Who among all of us, after examining all the evidence, holds an opinion that is not necessarily fact based that there exists or there has been in existence the gods of human religion?"
