Alan

  • It seems then that your view aligns with most of ours and you are referring more to awe and fascination than anything. Which is very admirable. I highly recommend ditching the term spirituality. I’m yet to read a single text, book or comment referring to spirituality in a secular sense that didn’t confuse or overcomplicate things. Nothing is…[Read more]

  • Davis posted an update in the group Group logo of Atheism and SpiritualityAtheism and Spirituality 6 years, 9 months ago

    I think the word “spiritual” is damaged good. It comes along with too much baggage, including highly religious rituals, some fairly dangerous forms of spirituality like hyper-fasting and mental manipulation (not always so safe) and the practice of alternative medicine (which can even be deadly). I think what you’d be wise to do is simply do the…[Read more]

  • Zheesh. No pussy blues. It seems that asking again and again and not taking no…the only logical solution is to keep stalking the person with more and more invasive and elaborate proposals and when all else fails…wail out your frustration so the whole world can hear your unique and unheard of not-getting-laid-pain. If you are a guy and you face…[Read more]

  • Will Incels volunteer to support a straight pride parade or will they feel compelled to organize their own? See the video in this link to share in the excitement of the day 🙂

    Can you imagine the kind of spectacle an incel pride parade would be? Would they play Chopin’s Funeral March in the background and give away all their unused condoms to all…[Read more]

  • It’s not a culture war, it’s one side insisting on and ensuring their right to equality in society and a minority of loud shitheads reacting to this with a persecution complex. A culture war would imply mass engagement, mass agreement and mass conflict. It’s just not there. It’s a minority on one side fighting for everyone’s rights (which should…[Read more]

  • Secular democratic countries with an open society (think humanist ideals) have been the most successful nations ever seen on Earth. Especially those which have incorporated many Marxist ideals without the hopeless Lenninist/Maoist style nightmare qualities. They win in just about every category imaginable: personal rights, health, education,…[Read more]

  • While trying not to sound too conspiratorial I suspect that many of the “violent agitators” are actually under the control of Chinese intelligence.

    You’d be pretty naive if you don’t take this claim, at the very least, quite seriously. Most activists and democracy campaigners, as well as the media (indirectly) pretty much take Chinese gov…[Read more]

  • I admire what the protesters are doing in Hong Kong very much and they are bloody idiots if the give up now. China is a growing menace. There was a time when one thought China was doing things extremely intelligently with a slow inching towards more freedom and openess. Their semi-control of the economy was extremely well managed, responsibly with…[Read more]

  • Davis replied to the topic Is it just me? in the forum Small Talk 6 years, 9 months ago

    I don’t accept the excuse that prisoner abuse and police incompetence can be justified through a series of lame excuses. Yeah bad things happen because of bad management and bad policies. It also happens because of some rotten people and just about every good uniformed officer who cover up for and defend their colleagues who do horrendous things.…[Read more]

  • Davis replied to the topic Is it just me? in the forum Small Talk 6 years, 9 months ago

    In any case, whether some would find a humiliating trial a horror or a joke, if confronting your abuser would be cathartic or hell I still think it is pretty irrelevant compared to the most important aspects:

    1. A public trial forces the issue out in the open, boys and girls are easily enslaved for sex, thrown from one rich scum-bucket to the…[Read more]

  • Davis replied to the topic Is it just me? in the forum Small Talk 6 years, 9 months ago

    No him committing suicide is mostly avoiding justice. He won’t sit in court and listen to the endless evidence of his crimes. Victims telling the court in devastating detail how they suffered and their lives will never be the same. He won’t go through the public humiliation (which is not important to me but is for those Americans clanging to see…[Read more]

  • Davis replied to the topic Is it just me? in the forum Small Talk 6 years, 9 months ago

    How do you see his suicide?

    It is an extreme injustice for several reasons. The biggest being: we finally have an extremely strong case against a high profile sexual-abuser and a chance to draw attention to the extremely serious problem of sexual assault/harassment etc, and before he even has his day in court…boom he is gone. No justice for the…[Read more]

  • Ivy…the point of my post was to hi-light the level of crime in the USA. It is enormously high and the rest of the developed world sees nothing like it. One of the most often quoted excuses people have for “needing” guns is the tired meme of “protecting their family”. That doesn’t necesarily mean it’s true, but that’s part of the narrative. I…[Read more]

  • I’m not sure even where to begin to unravel that mess.

    In my masters degree I studied American human rights and the justice system writing my masters thesis on the American prison system, the relationship between poverty in the US and levels of crime, (especially compared with other countries) and the death penalty.

    Why don’t you begin with j…[Read more]

  • Well said and so very true. But why is it like that?

    It comes down to a different mentality per law and justice. America is extremely unique in many ways. There is an almost fetish for people in uniform (“thank you for your service”, public police funerals, virtual impunity for police abuse, respect of authority, admiration for personal…[Read more]

  • It’s not just insensitive and stupid (and yes I agree the insensitivity is besides the point but it does show that he was doing this for an ironic disingenuous kicks and not a concerted effort to evaluate a constitutional law). It was extremely dangerous (people get hurt and even die during panics and stampedes and police shoot innocent people…[Read more]

  • I don’t give a toss that he had a gun with him, because if a state wants to have a law where people can walk around with weapons of murder on them and the inevitable accidents and rampages that happen, that is their business. Whatever. But what he did was extremely reckless and potentially lethal. Stampedes happen all the time. He also very easily…[Read more]

  • It really depends on the state law. Which I know nothing about in the US let alone Missouri. In Spain he’d be arrested for terrorism and not a soul would have the slightest sympathy for the stupid arrogant idiot. I know that in other countries knowingly causing a panic (when it can easily be avoided) is a crime. He was also wearing body armour and…[Read more]

  • I cannot confirm all of this information because regulations vary from province to province and state to state. But the idea is correct, that it is one of President Suck-face’s more deplorable actions: diverting attention away from weapons of murder to video games. He’s just playing from the new Republic playbook…dirty tactics and unashamed…[Read more]

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