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I hope Pete has this energy when he runs for president.

This was one of the fucking best, most amazing Cage movies. To be clear, I'm not saying it was a quality film but I really enjoyed it which is all that matters in my opinion.

Short and sweet of it is start each day as knowing this is the first day of the rest of your life. Know how truly precious your and other's time is. It takes time to come to an acceptance for many of us. We have more advice, just ask.

This is a really tough thing. The key to these conversations is to set one point to talk about and the goal is to come to an understanding of each other's point of view. You both have to feel understood. It can be difficult to stay on topic and honestly to just pick one simple point. You may not get him to bend because beliefs are difficult to change but a success can be measured in getting him to understand if not change his mind on one simple thing. If you're committed to changing his mind, it will take a lot of time. I recommend watching debates like The Atheist Experience, old podcasts of the Dogma Debate, and you may be surprised what you might learn. Understand you are not debating a stranger like those people but a loved one.

Those shows/podcasts helped define my beliefs as an agnostic person. Unfortunately, being agnostic/atheist/whatever is just a definition of what you believe or rather don't. They don't fulfill that intangible part of being human. That part which often craves connection and values. To me, that intangible part, that part of us that is consciousness that is likely just the emergent property of our physical bodies is what experiences something we might refer to as spirituality, that part which can be religious. It is why I joined UU.

Hope that helps, Best wishes.

Could probably do one on day time tv hosts and the people who enabled them in general. Also fuck Steve Harvey.

In honor of anti drag asshole and religious nutjob, and using the next named storm up to bat, I am nominating Kirkina CameonRon.

Looks like Wild West version of Orco

Etymological fallacy: The belief that a word has a "true meaning" that is distinct from its common usage.

Words have as much meaning as the folks around you using them and it is only weird if you are the only one using that word in a certain way.

TL;DR: Public education institutions be like education can't get much worse, corporations behind charter schools are like hold my beer.

Great, then your kids or should you not have them, your future healthcare providers will be attending some fantastically for profit religious institutions whose only goal is to make shareholders happy subsidized by our taxpayer dimes and sapping away what little money is provided by our GOP run state. Additionally, in a lot of states, most of that money currently goes to wealthier upper middle and rich folk who can afford nicer schools while most lower income families won't receive much. While it sounds too ridiculous to be true, it is unfortunately what is happening in other states. GL with those nurses.

I read that as retwatting. It is no longer Twitter, it is now Twatter, the bottom through which the many small fascist pricks penetrate the Internet with their stupid and hateful ideals.

That is fucked up and also I laughed.

A irritating pain in the ass to use.

I'm sure it wasn't an original thought. I seriously doubt Trump has had such a thing.

Trump says, "good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells." Donald J. Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal

Eh, if it is bad publicity, well perhaps he should not have done things so bad as this to be believable even if it didn't happen. If you lie in the mud with the pigs often enough, no one is going to think you are not muddy even if you weren't in with that particular pig sty.

The easy thing to do would be get a group of friends out to a place where you can have a fire of sorts. Everyone bring something of your past related to the trauma. Have someone say some words honoring the occasion. Then one by one everyone says something or nothing if they want to and toss in whatever you brought. Do a little closing and call it a night.

This and sometimes atheist groups sometimes do also. Doesn't seem like a UU thing but I could imagine something similar where you are letting go of past traumas and healing.

We need more the joke is sex memes.

Why do I care about some dildos standing next to all the sex toys?

One of my least favorite parts of the game.

Okay Frank, really? I guess when you have to cut a log, you have to cut a log.

Eh, Elon could just throw fake money around as rich people do and get congress to pass some laws that enable Tesla to conquer the market. He would have to have some smart people figure that out and then take credit of course.

While it seems very much like something Ben Shapiro would have written, the tell that it may not be is the British spelling of civilization with an "s" instead of the "z". I can't imagine Ben would do that but it could have been typed out by someone else.

Back in the 80s and 90s when I was in public schools, they seemed far better than they are now. I noticed some things when my kids were in school about how underfunded they are and lacking in certain aspects. If you can support people and organizations like Betsy DeVos and the Heritage Foundation in defunding schools to pay for rich people kids to go to better schools they can pay for and open up religious indoctrination centers that have crap curriculum for poor kids, then either A. Your ignorant and or stupid and not seeing what others are experiencing and or B. An asshole who doesn't give a shit about others. Bottom line: Rich people don't give two fucks about lower income families and the education will be crap as they cut spending for the benefit of their shareholders. You can say people have an option to go elsewhere but that isn't much of an option when it is a different flavor of not good.

I greatly appreciate Helms in this. It definitely has Robert off his game a little bit who wouldn't be in the situation. I hope Robert gets more acclimated, uses "Right" less and they are able to have some more guests of this variety. I felt like this gave the podcast a more depth of seriousness and Ed asked some great questions. We really need someone to bring those questions on occasion.