NeuroTypical

For me: - Who else gonna do it? - Who else has 50 years as a target, forcing them to come up with more and more creative ways of getting them before they get you? - Wouldn't be a false flag, it's not obvious enough. - If we're thinking Hezbollah is next after Hamas, it's the sort of pre-game stuff you'd expect to see. Maybe it'll force a forfeit and Israel won't have to invade. - If it swims like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's Mosaad.

Did you have grapes too?

I knew I couldn't be the only person thinking that stuff.

Huh - this guy self-published a long-winded rambling rant about things on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ukraines-Unwinnable-War-Abandonment-Citizen-Taiwan-ebook/dp/B0BX4W9XKT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HW4JESS08TO5&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9oekltnjhB_mF0p6HiOh0A.JuXILKr2twxV3pSvzPT_CI_uqsUaNI0nxsPnBUrQPRM&dib_tag=se&keywords=Ukraine’s+Unwinnable+War%3A+The+Fatal+Flaw+of+Democracy&qid=1726513858&sprefix=ukraine+s+unwinnable+war+the+fatal+flaw+of+democracy%2Caps%2C100&sr=8-1

Oh, I'll still be here Zil! I'm good at being the last person out the door. The bottom has sort of fallen out of the discussion forum market in the last several years. Not just this board, or even LDS boards. But social media in general has taken a lot from forums like this.

I get it now! I think the butter-owner might be the person needing the correction...

I'm missing it. I see butter, and muffins, and hands. I don't get what they're doing.

We just added a new hymn with a lyric that goes "Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me." As a duly elected representative of the world's wretches, as the son of a heathen, and someone who regularly is delegated someone else's important but not urgent tasks, I'll take this scripture over any of y'alls fancy charts: [H]e inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile. I guess another way to put it, can you point to any part of any of your charts where a person living right there cannot come unto Christ? If not, then why bother having a chart in the first place?

*sigh* Good to see Wikipedia keeping up with the current news:

Whelp, 2nd possible assassination attempt on Trump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Club_shooting https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/politics/trump-shooting-golf-course.html Upcoming press briefing: https://www.10tv.com/video/news/authorities-provide-update-after-shots-fired-near-florida-golf-club-while-trump-was-golfing/530-97ab0717-15b8-415b-a4aa-fc2e4fd0fca7

I keep trying to reign myself in from arguing with you, but I still need to argue with you. Dude, you and your posts have had a personal positive impact on me across the years I've been reading what you write. I'm talking about more than learning about kimchee. I've learned about how humans work from you. And I know I'm not the only one. Online, people almost never notice when an active poster goes dark. But you had people not just notice once, but twice. So here's my latest argument: Yeah, I call BS on your claim that you never have an impact. I'm thinking you just don't SEE the impact. Or what you see tells you there wasn't one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_theory The US military has probably saved more lives by not fighting, than any other nation or group of people in the history of the world. It has presided over the post-WWII years of unprecedented peace and economic expansion without equal. And I know of no serious argument against the notion. So yeah, all the politicians from the US say this. Unless it's an election year and they can get votes by being seen as anti-US military spending, or something.

No, but this girl I was dating once took me to the dog training place where she worked. She made me lie down on the concrete floor in the middle of the arena, and released what seemed like two dozen Rottweiler puppies. Who immediately found and swarmed me. (It was probably only like 5-6 puppies.) (I married that girl.)

And just look at how you turned out! Seriously though, the use of animals in therapy, rehab, in cancer wards and prisons, very cool stuff.

This guy is obviously the best Mormon:

Done. The very first result takes us to a 52-study metaanalysis published in the NIH National Center for Biotechnology Information that literally concludes the exact opposite of what you're claiming. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8990101/ The second result takes us to a 2023 retrospective study that demonstrates holy crap the Lupus patients should be given the vaccine, because it's safe and Lupus patients die of COVID a lot. In other words, another study claiming the exact opposite of what Traveler is claiming. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11926-023-01110-z No really my friend, you really do need to learn how to cite your sources. Before your post, I didn't have a clue about Lupus and COVID. But after googling like you told me to, now I know some things that are the exact opposite of stuff you're claiming.

Lol my cousin named his son Reagan.

So, I get this too, but I don't get suffering about it. Ever see Flushed Away? The claymation movie about the upper-class pet rat that gets flushed into the sewers, where he falls in love with Rita the working class rat? There's a lovely scene with Rita and her little brother Liam, while dude gets all mad and leaves the house. Liam: He's gonna steal your boat. Rita: He's not gonna steal my boat. Liam: He's stealing your boat. Rita: He isn't stealing... Liam: He stole your boat. Rita: WHAT?!???!? Liam: He's like Robin Hood in reverse. See, it's only a problem for Liam if he gets all codependent on his sister believing him, or thinks his worth as a rat is somehow dependent on whether he stops the boat theft. Dude knows some things about agency and stewardship that are worth knowing. Carb, your carpool story would be funnier if a bunch of the youth all ended up stranded somewhere bemoaning their fate, all of them crying out in despair "oh woe is us, if only there had been someone else who had volunteered to drive us!" Ooh - and it would be funnier still if the visiting GA had somehow ended up stranded. See? Such things can even make Eeyore give a rare tiny grin. You're not delighting in the suffering of others, you're laughing at how stupid things can be sometimes. There's a difference.

Heh - I can empathize. My '40's was basically spent learning that a big chunk of the stuff I used to do for family, they didn't really care about. Sometimes it hurt and was frustrating. I found several principles to hold on to. "Sometimes service blesses the giver more than the receiver." "Stop trying on stuff that nobody has ever appreciated." I found that some things I liked to do, whether they were appreciated or not. Or even noticed or not. I also found that I was doing things I didn't like doing, and nobody wanted me doing them in the first place, and we just sat there and got more ticked off at each other across years. Ooo - I just thought of another starfish bit. Dude could have found the starfish who had strived his whole life to make it to that beach, wanting nothing more than to lie in the sun and transform into a gift that someone would give to their daughter.

I started seeing them pop back up here in Colorado last year. Just yesterday I saw a brand new newbie one of 'em. He was coming to grips with the reality of physics, where if you stick flags on your truck and drive fast, the wind whips them around and eventually destroys them. No, they won't be going away any time soon.

I get it. It's a difference between the left and the right. The left is more about 'the people', and talk is about the groups and organizations, less about figureheads. The right is often more leader-oriented, and therefore it's a common tactic to identify a republican nominee by his whackiest or evilest followers. And while you're not doing it here, I've found it's also common to try to lump anyone on the right into those extreme camps. I've lost track of how many times I've been called a bootlicker or a nazi. Here's my favorite, after I had been told I was a "cultural marxist": For me and my house (and 99% of the conservatives I know) we're not 'true believers' of any human. I'm automatically suspicious of zealous devotion to any individual. When you push those people as "his base", I think you do a disservice to the vast majority of folks who support him. Heh. This criticism is sort of the dying embers of the original "Trump keeps refusing to condemn white supremacists" claim, pushed hard by the left media from ~2015 until J6. I feel him at 0:22. "I disavowed David Duke all weekend long. On Facebook, on Twitter. And obviously it's never enough." I think about when Buzz Aldrin punched that guy who showed up with a bible, demanding he swear on it that he walked on the moon. As far as "heavily armed extremists" goes, I've also been called one of them. The first time I was associated with violent bad guys was in 2009, when the Clinton administration was blaming right wing radio for the Unibomber. Hillary kept it going with her "clinging to their guns and religion" comments. Then came the smears and fearmongering against so-called patriot militias. The left's panic over "heavily armed extremists" rivals the right's panic over "evil schoolteachers pushing porn books on our children and pushing them to transition in secret". Full disclosure: I honestly don't give a crap about the black-nationalist NFAC (Not F-ing Around Coalition). If people wanna arm themselves up and march down main street in a show of force, I'm not opposed. If they break the law, then it's a problem. Not before. Anyway, it's still nice to have you here @Phoenix_person! It's important for the different sides to keep talking to each other.

It dawns on me that my perspective on Eeyore has changed over the decades. The first half of my life, I thought he was wrong to be sad. It seemed so obvious to me that he just needed to cram a little optimism into himself, and he'd be much happier. The 2nd half of my life, I did a 180. I can now appreciate his take on life. I no longer think he's broken and needs to be fixed. In fact, I've moved a bit towards his perspective on life and people. Just a bit. I figure I remain overwhelmingly optimistic, but the pragmatic and practical and skeptical elements in me grow as the years pass.

Want to make sure I'm not putting words in your mouth. Are you saying you think he earned the calls of fascism and the comparisons to hitler which fed that bullet that almost took his head off? Again, I'm not saying that's what you're saying. I'm asking if that's what you're saying.

Love it. Actually, I have a grim looking steampunk Winnie the Poo sticker at my desk that says "no bothers given".

But, that's not what happened. Or if it did, you don't have the tools necessary to determine that. It's not on us to decide who will and won't be exalted. You got an entire family back to their church - why aren't you celebrating? What's with the depressing funeral dirge being played in the background of your posts? "destroyed"? "ship blew up"? "land on a pitchfork"? You might be happier if you didn't engage in such unrighteous judgment. So you didn't get folks baptized into our church. Have you considered when you kneel at your Savior's feet and He reveals what happened to that family through generations and time because of you, He might very well be smiling?