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Your thoughts on the protests
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Jesster
Your friendly neighborhood heathen  Religious Views: I am the creator goddess. Prove me wrong. RE: Your thoughts on the protests
November 10, 2016 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2016 at 12:23 am by Jesster.)
I guess there are riot police blocking the protests here now... right next to me. Lovely. So much for civility.
I get the expression of raw emotion, shock, and anger. I won't be joining any, because I don't see the point.
The Evangelicals sold away every bit of integrity they had, and they doomed the GOP for it forever by legitimizing the white supremacist movement that is happening within Trump's supporters. I am most angry about that.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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November 10, 2016 at 12:32 am
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2016 at 12:34 am by c172.)
Oh, and now protests in our downtown section. We'll see how this goes. Survivor still on.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/An...?????ksadf ETA: This is an event posted to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1696855647295720/
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
 (November 10, 2016 at 12:18 am)Aroura Wrote:(November 10, 2016 at 12:15 am)Whateverist Wrote: Ugg. Civility was supposed to be what separated the two camps. Oh well. Well that is good news. I guess I got the wrong impression.  RE: Your thoughts on the protests
November 10, 2016 at 12:37 am
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2016 at 12:38 am by Anomalocaris.)
(November 10, 2016 at 12:15 am)Aroura Wrote:(November 10, 2016 at 12:11 am)Jesster Wrote: There's a large protest going on right next to my house on Rt. 66 (and a really noisy helicopter hovering right over me). I think the protests are ridiculously dumb at this point since all they will do is raise the tension that is already through the roof. This one at least is not at all violent, but it still isn't helping anything. I was trying to go on a walk to calm my own anxiety and everything around me just made it worse. It seems they were in precincts that didn't vote trump. How would you suppose they should have mobilized BEFORE Election Day? Their only deficit is they suffered from the common misconception that on average Americans elsewhere were mostly not unusually indecent. 
About the only valid reason I can see to go out and protest is that Hillary, Gary and Jill didn't receive participation trophies.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
A day late and a dollar short.
RE: Your thoughts on the protests
November 10, 2016 at 12:59 am
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2016 at 1:00 am by Anomalocaris.)
(November 10, 2016 at 12:41 am)vorlon13 Wrote: About the only valid reason I can see to go out and protest is that Hillary, Gary and Jill didn't receive participation trophies. How about to make the country as ungovernable under republicans as the republican would wish to make the country had it been the democrates who received the mandate, bequeathed by this very self same rickety system and debased electorate, to govern? 
As long as they're peaceful, I support them.
I have five daughters, and not one of them understand how a sexist racist bully could be elected President. They don't understand how we've not yet had a woman President, and they don't understand how people could have selected this bully. One of them said that even they know not to vote for a bully. I'm glad to see some people are willing to protest the Presidency of a bully--so my children know that a lot of people don't support bullies. I think it's important for them to see that.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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