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RE: Indiana's Govenor Signs 'Religious Freedom' Bill
April 13, 2015 at 4:34 pm
(April 13, 2015 at 2:51 pm)robvalue Wrote: One of the reasons I've decided never to have kids is because there's too many people already, certainly not too few. So you can stone me along with the gays.
Gays can still have children of course, but I guess that's a mystery to some people.
See, I look at it as the world is full of Heywoods so why not even it out with my own kids that I can raise to be unprejudiced?
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RE: Indiana's Govenor Signs 'Religious Freedom' Bill
April 13, 2015 at 4:35 pm
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I can understand that perspective, sure. Personally I would adopt, help one of the kids already in need of a home. If I could stand kids, which I can't. Reason number 2!
Personally I find the idea of a little thing that looks quite a bit like me to be freaky as fuck. I'd rather it didn't.
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RE: Indiana's Govenor Signs 'Religious Freedom' Bill
April 14, 2015 at 5:40 am
(April 13, 2015 at 4:34 pm)Faith No More Wrote: (April 13, 2015 at 2:51 pm)robvalue Wrote: One of the reasons I've decided never to have kids is because there's too many people already, certainly not too few. So you can stone me along with the gays.
Gays can still have children of course, but I guess that's a mystery to some people.
See, I look at it as the world is full of Heywoods so why not even it out with my own kids that I can raise to be unprejudiced?
That is the smartest thing you said in a while. Children is an excellent way to leave your mark upon the world.
Faith No More, if you think you are unprejudiced.....you're deluding yourself.
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RE: Indiana's Govenor Signs 'Religious Freedom' Bill
April 14, 2015 at 9:40 am
(April 14, 2015 at 5:40 am)Heywood Wrote: (April 13, 2015 at 4:34 pm)Faith No More Wrote: See, I look at it as the world is full of Heywoods so why not even it out with my own kids that I can raise to be unprejudiced?
That is the smartest thing you said in a while. Children is an excellent way to leave your mark upon the world.
Faith No More, if you think you are unprejudiced.....you're deluding yourself.
Everyone has prejudices, Woody. It's how we act on them (or not) that determines if we're bigots (or not).
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RE: Indiana's Govenor Signs 'Religious Freedom' Bill
April 14, 2015 at 10:13 am
(April 14, 2015 at 5:40 am)Heywood Wrote: That is the smartest thing you said in a while. Children is an excellent way to leave your mark upon the world.
As is the case with all but a very minute percentage of us, once those who personally knew us die our mark goes with them. Certainly you might be brought up in the future, but only abstractly; i.e., there was a man that was my great-great-great-great grandfather. Only those with an intense interest in genealogy would care enough to know your name or the handful of life-facts that attend this hobby.
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RE: Indiana's Govenor Signs 'Religious Freedom' Bill
April 14, 2015 at 11:32 am
Funny how these religious freedom bills never include a clause about the state no longer recognizing subsequent marriages to the first if the first was ostensibly performed in the Christian format . . .
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RE: Indiana's Govenor Signs 'Religious Freedom' Bill
April 14, 2015 at 11:36 am
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RE: Indiana's Govenor Signs 'Religious Freedom' Bill
April 14, 2015 at 3:35 pm
(April 14, 2015 at 9:40 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: (April 14, 2015 at 5:40 am)Heywood Wrote: That is the smartest thing you said in a while. Children is an excellent way to leave your mark upon the world.
Faith No More, if you think you are unprejudiced.....you're deluding yourself.
Everyone has prejudices, Woody. It's how we act on them (or not) that determines if we're bigots (or not).
Why did you choose to respond to me when Faith No More is the one claiming he can raise children free from prejudices?
Cause you're acting upon your own prejudices.
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RE: Indiana's Govenor Signs 'Religious Freedom' Bill
April 14, 2015 at 5:08 pm
Still waiting to hear the explanation why corporations are people with the right to refuse service to whomever they wish and keep the government out of their damn business but women are just baby machines and you feel no shame about intruding upon their lives and making important decisions for them because you know best.
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RE: Indiana's Govenor Signs 'Religious Freedom' Bill
April 15, 2015 at 12:04 am
(April 14, 2015 at 3:35 pm)Heywood Wrote: (April 14, 2015 at 9:40 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Everyone has prejudices, Woody. It's how we act on them (or not) that determines if we're bigots (or not).
Why did you choose to respond to me when Faith No More is the one claiming he can raise children free from prejudices?
Cause you're acting upon your own prejudices.
Well, that may be, but at least I'm not allowing my prejudices to make a bigot of me.
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