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  2. What’s the last movie you watched?

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    10 hours ago, anatess2 said:

    End Game

    Had to watch one last MCU movie because my sons begged me to.  It was good but not good enough to get me back into the MCU.  I won't spoil the movie for you but this line was said twice in the movie:  "I'm done with doing what I'm supposed to be.  I should be what I am."  That statement has no place being uttered by a Hero, let alone a Superhero.

    I saw that last night.  It was pretty good.

  3. Life extension and amortality

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    That sounds fun.  However....

    The longer we live the worse the overall population looks.  Will this new gene be the playtoy of the rich & famous?  That, and along with the population stuggles, the environment, I disagree about Star Trek.  Instead, likely Logan's Run.  Now, they want to live forever.  Well, maybe not everyone wants to, but then those that do will soon exceed those that do because those that die of old age will be replaced by the children and grandchildren of the rich & famous that had their genes "fixed".  Then at some point that gene will mutate back into what God wanted (maybe by God's doing, though I think likely by natural causes), and will hit the amortal like a brickwall.

     

  5. An Ethical Proposition....

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    I'm with Anatess and Fether.  Your philanthropic endeavors are certainly admirable, however, you have far more pressing needs at the moment, i.e., you.  Build a customer base, build a sustainable reputation, build capital, THEN start on your Africa project.  Sure, you can still donate however much you wish to donate before hand.  Just remember though, you still gotta pay your rent and feed your family first.

  6. Quote search

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    A little while back there was a discussion about God, intelligence and I forget what else.  There was a couple of quotes used, and I not only can I not find the thread but I cannot find or remember much about the quotes.

    One was something about the greater the distance, education/technology-wise, between two groups would make the more advanced group appear God-like...or something like that. 

    The other was comparing more advanced technology to magic.

    Does anyone remember these?

  7. Taking the Free Speech Argument a Step Further

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    One of the most precious freedoms, so precious yet so overlooked that the Constitution missed it completely- the freedom of thought...now endangered.

    If they can control your thoughts, they can control your life.  If they can control your life, who are you then, but a simple machine?  So easy, to turn on and turn off.  No longer a sentient being, so many rights you would now no longer deserve.  If they don't need you, they just throw you away.  You are, after all, just a simple machine.

    And when you start looking at things that way, when you look at population control, it makes it so much easier to stomach the crimes Hitler violated.  You know....gas chambers...ovens...you name it.  Because you are just a simple machine with no life and no rights.

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  14. Sterling Van Wagenen, pedophile.

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    Child molester, yes.  He admitted to that.  But...pedophile...?  You do know what pedophile means, right?

    I have a friend that was convicted of being a chimo.  It destroyed his life.  He spent 20 years in prison.  Then five or six years later, the truth came out- the girls lied.  Guess what?  His life was still ruined.

    I am not saying the chimo in the article is innocent, because he admitted to a previous encounter.  I just know from my experience s what I have seen.  It is so hard to look at someone and say "absolutely guilty!" because of my friend.

    And just because he has admitted to it before, does not mean he did it again.  I only pray that our Lord in Heaven sees to justice being done correctly and judiciously. 

  16. What’s the last movie you watched?

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    I saw Shazam, and left really disappointed.  Necxt, maybe tonight, is Unplanned.  We'll see how good that is.  I remember seeing an undercover video that was part of a story b one of the networks on Planned Parenthood, and to see this man bartering aborted baby parts like car parts from a junkyard is nauseating. 

     

  17. 8 Reasons Gasoline Prices Are Going Up in America

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    4 hours ago, unixknight said:

    I'm not sure parts interchangeability would be the fix, though I don't see that as a bad thing.  Also, they can be privatized and regulated.  No reason we can't have the best of both worlds.  It's also worth noting that because of such tight regulation, nuclear power plants actually result in less radiation release into the atmosphere than coal burning power plants.  It's true.  Coal plants often burn coal that contains radon gas, which isn't regulated by the EPA or the  NRC because the radon is naturally occurring.  The coal is burnt in the plant and the radiation is released into the atmosphere.  To switch from coal plants to nuclear plants would result in less radiation released into the atmosphere.  My source on that?  A conversation with a former engineer at a nuclear power plant in my state.

    -snip-

    *The reason Chernobyl happened and why that can't happen here is in the design of the reactor.  Soviet reactors were just scaled up versions of the reactors used in their nuclear submarines.  One feature of their reactor cores is they use carbon to absorb stray neutrons from the reaction.  The Chernobyl power plant was running a safety test with the reactor improperly configured.  As a result, the carbon caught fire and the pressure from the heat caused the reactor to blow apart.  It was not a nuclear explosion.  Carbon burns really really well, and the burning carbon released all the trapped radiation into the atmosphere in a very dirty cloud of smoke.  What do we do in the U.S.?  Instead of carbon to absorb trapped neutrons, we just use water.

    And more radiation & acids & others chemical nasties, are released by volcanoes.  Volcanoes makes mankind look like an amateur in chemical pollution.

  18. The End Is Nigh!!!

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    If you want to do something positive for the kids' sake, then I suggest you tackle dealing with helicopter parents.  These kids don't even know how to live because their parents are so afraid their kids are going to have the horrible childhoods they had, failing to realize THAT is exactly what helps kids learn and grow is to have horrible events, unplanned of course, happen in their youth.  That is the only way to learn and to grow into a better person.

  21. Is your child really brain damaged?

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    17 hours ago, Mores said:

    This is kind of the point I was making.  I'm glad you picked up on it.  While (CH3)2Hg is much more deadly than elemental mercury, that doesn't mean elemental mercury is completely non-toxic. 

    Don't go around telling people to drink mercury, ok?

    Exactly.  Except for the drinking part.  Hey, if they can snort condoms and inhale cinnamon, why not drink Hg?  Just remember who's leading us in 20 years.  Scary.

    15 hours ago, anatess2 said:

    Pardon the threadjack but this is interesting.

    So, are you saying we can't all be Einsteins because some are autistic?  Or are you saying we can't all be Einsteins because some people aren't taught they can be Einsteins?

    The latter of course.