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RE: Oregon Shooting - Guess why?
October 2, 2015 at 9:49 am
C'mon man, don't be harsh! It's not entirely his fault ...It was just that ...guns were pretty easy to get hold of!
No guns, 99% less gun related deaths deaths ... just ask Britain and Aus.
But we do realise this is a cultural thing, (like indoctrination). ...Therefore logic doesn't apply in an argument...
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RE: Oregon Shooting - Guess why?
October 2, 2015 at 9:50 am
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(October 2, 2015 at 9:46 am)Faith No More Wrote: Guns don't kill people. They just make it really easy.
With that, I cannot argue.
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RE: Oregon Shooting - Guess why?
October 2, 2015 at 10:38 am
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morni...cowardice/
But a murky portrait was emerging of a quiet and withdrawn young man who struggled to connect with other people, instead seeking attention online, and who harbored anger against organized religion.
Sounds like half of the membership here.
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RE: Oregon Shooting - Guess why?
October 2, 2015 at 10:41 am
(October 2, 2015 at 10:38 am)alpha male Wrote: Sounds like half of the membership here.
Was that a dig? 'Cause I think that was a dig... 
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RE: Oregon Shooting - Guess why?
October 2, 2015 at 10:49 am
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(October 2, 2015 at 10:38 am)alpha male Wrote: Sounds like half of the membership here.
Except for the part where he thought it was a good idea to kill people for it.
Go fuck yourself.
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RE: Oregon Shooting - Guess why?
October 2, 2015 at 10:53 am
(October 2, 2015 at 10:38 am)alpha male Wrote:
Sounds like half of the membership here.
... except for the "young" part.
You need to work harder on your punch-lines, if you want to keep being amusing...
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RE: Oregon Shooting - Guess why?
October 2, 2015 at 10:55 am
Guess where I work. We were only officially warned at 3pm today which was the first I heard about it.
Online troll ‘threatened gun massacre at Edinburgh Uni’
Quote:Hours before the Oregon killing an anonymous user - believed to be Harper-Mercer - used online message board 4chan to warn of his shooting spree.
But just hours after the Oregon rampage on Thursday morning another anonymous poster used the same 4chan board to threaten to commit a copycat shooting at Edinburgh University.
Mimicking the original threat, a new post appeared featuring an image of a shotgun and the words: “Hark, my brothers, the Beta Uprising is finally here.
“Don’t go to University of Edinburgh tomorrow.
Not that anyone is in the slightest bit worried. We have strict gun and knife control laws here in the UK. I think everyone's just distracted by the sunny weather here. "Ooh the sun god has returned to us! Burn another sacrifice!"
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RE: Oregon Shooting - Guess why?
October 2, 2015 at 11:31 am
(October 2, 2015 at 10:38 am)alpha male Wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morni...cowardice/
But a murky portrait was emerging of a quiet and withdrawn young man who struggled to connect with other people, instead seeking attention online, and who harbored anger against organized religion.
Sounds like half of the membership here.
Well, we're still under par from what I expected from the Christian fundies... but at least we're above zero. I'd hate to have my expectations completely shattered.
I can't think of one person here, even our angriest anti-theist, who fits that description.
Then again, I'm not an anti-atheist bigot, so maybe I'm just not imagining things enough.
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
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RE: Oregon Shooting - Guess why?
October 2, 2015 at 11:56 am
The news is now saying that the shooter was a Muslim convert. Anyone know if that's a spin -- anti-Muslim propaganda - - or truth? http://politichicks.com/2015/10/gotnews-...ld-muslim/
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RE: Oregon Shooting - Guess why?
October 2, 2015 at 12:48 pm
The guy was seriously disturbed, which developed a hate, which lead to a need to vent that hate that was eating at him, we do not yet know why he chose Christians though he did, it's sad he chose anyone though he did, and because he did innocent people died that should have been alive today, he is solely responsible for their deaths, not the gun or any other weapon he might have used. Today is a sad day for the families and friends of those who lost their lives and each of us here should be more concerned for them than any argument we perceive to be the cause, each of us should find in our own ways to take a little time and keep these people at heart, they are suffering greater than any of us as far as I know.
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God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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