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Place to put my Nonsense Thread.

They're classified as a a 501 c 3, just like all of the rest of the non-profit organizations. Should we tax non-profit organizations just the same?

The money collected has all been donated. Paid clergymen have to pay taxes on their salary. You do realize that, right? The only thing that isn't taxed are what's used for overhead, supplies and activities. So, pretty much a non-profit in that sense.
Seems like a business to me. Especially the mega churches.
 
Religion to me was always more of a set of morals to follow moreso than having a definitive higher power that controls all. The stories imo were meant to showcase how to behave and act as a society.
I agree with everything who makes others feel better. Thinking religion is pointing and laughing is a little funny to me.
 
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Actually reading the scriptures, for starters.

Engaging in an active discussion on religious topics would also be helpful. I think you can find plenty of interesting religious forums online. I find it tremendously helpful to talk about an idea and gather thoughts from others, re-evaluate, and refine those thoughts a little more. In some regard, I tend to think we're all like the blind men trying to describe to the other what the elephant is. The elephant is too large too handle - too large to understand for a blind person. We're simply trying to pursue truth. Still lots of digging to uncover.

For someone like yourself though, honestly, I think the best course of action would be to get through the Jordan Peterson lecture series on the Bible. He's not trying to prove anything. Merely present it from a psychological/secular point of view. Posted this earlier, but it's worth a look. Quite a few atheists and agnostics find themselves saying something like, "Okay, that actually makes sense." He's got at least 14 of these bible lectures online. There might be more. This is the first one.

Religion is based on a collection of stories to provide a moral compass. I don’t have a problem with that. How religion has been used to wield influence is where I have beef. And that’s not to say religion hasn’t also benefitted people and society as a whole.

There’s that and then there’s God. As a practical matter, it’s unlikely God exists. From my perspective, it’s more likely that specks of something came from nothing and smashed together to make more somethings than a creator at the beginning of everything who indeed created everything, much less a creator concerned with the tiny specks walking around on a tiny speck in a vast universe (or universes).

I would like for there to be a god. I don’t think there is. It’s one of the few arguments humans have which will never produce evidence one way or the other. We’ll be extinct before we approach an answer. And that might be why religion has endured.
 
I think believing in the moral guidelines is just fine, but when people start taking parables and stories from the Bible as absolute truths, it gets a little scary to me.
This.

The Bible and other regions source texts were meant to serve as the first social contracts. They were teaching barbarians, more or less, how to get along and do less murder and rape.
 
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An alarming number of people are dangerously misinformed because of people like you.

Does that make us even?

The Ministry of Truth has spoken!

Don't pass on the words of world-renowned pathologists, Nobel Prize-winning virologists, the most-published doctors in peer-reviewed journals, respected immunologists, people who were involved in the invention of mRNA technology, or former VPs of Pfizer.

Dangerous misinformation!
 
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What’s he doing to strip your “freedoms” again? Curious.

Does the freedom to refuse an experimental vaccine without losing my job count?

How 'bout the freedom to post vaccine injuries on social media?

Freedom of privacy? Anybody care about that anymore?

Just to name a few. Life will only get more restricted from here.
 
Does the freedom to refuse an experimental vaccine without losing my job count?

How 'bout the freedom to post vaccine injuries on social media?

Freedom of privacy? Anybody care about that anymore?

Just to name a few. Life will only get more restricted from here.

Employment in most states is ‘at will.’ Employers don’t need cause to terminated an employee.

Social media is run by private companies and not a government regulated/protected utility. They can do whatever they want and censor whatever they want to censor.

You’re free to keep your vaccination status private. Businesses and people are free to act however they want (within law/reason) to your decision to keep your vaccination status private.

So, what freedoms are being infringed upon?
 
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Does the freedom to refuse an experimental vaccine without losing my job count?

How 'bout the freedom to post vaccine injuries on social media?

Freedom of privacy? Anybody care about that anymore?

Just to name a few. Life will only get more restricted from here.
Freedom of privacy went out the window when you bought your smart phone and or signed up for any type of social media platform. As for your job, that’s your works decision, and if you don’t want to get it, you have the “freedom” to look for a different job. This sounds like more of a you problem if anything. First world problem at that.
 
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Freedom of privacy went out the window when you bought your smart phone and or signed up for any type of social media platform. As for your job, that’s your works decision, and if you don’t want to get it, you have the “freedom” to look for a different job. This sounds like more of a you problem if anything. First world problem at that.
Suckers. So glad I don't have a cell phone That's how they get you.
 
I had forgotten that song, haven't heard it many years, if not decades. 🤣
I wake up with songs in my heart. I don't know where they come from. I think the name is earworms.

Every single day I have a song in my head. the wife will ask as an ongoing joke.
 
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Employment in most states is ‘at will.’ Employers don’t need cause to terminated an employee.

Social media is run by private companies and not a government regulated/protected utility. They can do whatever they want and censor whatever they want to censor.

You’re free to keep your vaccination status private. Businesses and people are free to act however they want (within law/reason) to your decision to keep your vaccination status private.

So, what freedoms are being infringed upon?

Maybe you haven't seen the proposal to fine employers $700,000 for not complying with vaccine mandates.

You think that it should be within Facebook's legal right to censor someone solely for discussing an injury?

I suppose if Facebook were owned by KKK members, you'd be okay with them banning/censoring minorities?

I was talking about general privacy. Of which we've had none since 9/11.
 
Freedom of privacy went out the window when you bought your smart phone and or signed up for any type of social media platform. As for your job, that’s your works decision, and if you don’t want to get it, you have the “freedom” to look for a different job. This sounds like more of a you problem if anything. First world problem at that.
It's not your work's decision if they fall under the guidelines of Biden's mandate and are only enforcing it because of that. If we're fine with the federal government mandating vaccines in the private sector, what else are we going to be fine with them mandating? There is a reason why there is a private sector free of the government's rule. And so many people are okay with that being thrown out one mandate at a time. Wake up and see what's really happening.
 
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It's not your work's decision if they fall under the guidelines of Biden's mandate and are only enforcing it because of that. If we're fine with the federal government mandating vaccines in the private sector, what else are we going to be fine with them mandating? There is a reason why there is a private sector free of the government's rule. And so many people are okay with that being thrown out one mandate at a time. Wake up and see what's really happening.
Sorry man, I’m just not buying the “stripping our freedoms” bs from the right. No freedom is being stripped. It almost reminds me of “they’re taking our guns”. Lol no, they’re not.
 
Maybe you haven't seen the proposal to fine employers $700,000 for not complying with vaccine mandates.

You think that it should be within Facebook's legal right to censor someone solely for discussing an injury?

I suppose if Facebook were owned by KKK members, you'd be okay with them banning/censoring minorities?

I was talking about general privacy. Of which we've had none since 9/11.

A proposal and a law are different things. Anyway, fines for workplace hazards aren’t new.

It’s within Facebook’s right to censor whatever they want to censor on their platform. If they want to censor pictures of puppies, they can censor pictures of puppies.

There are probably KKK websites that ban and censor all kinds of people.

If the NSA wants to see the porn I’m into, they can have at it.
 
It's not your work's decision if they fall under the guidelines of Biden's mandate and are only enforcing it because of that. If we're fine with the federal government mandating vaccines in the private sector, what else are we going to be fine with them mandating? There is a reason why there is a private sector free of the government's rule. And so many people are okay with that being thrown out one mandate at a time. Wake up and see what's really happening.

There is no private sector ‘free of government rule.’ A private sector without government regulations and oversight would implode in a day.
 
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Sorry man, I’m just not buying the “stripping our freedoms” bs from the right. No freedom is being stripped. It almost reminds me of “they’re taking our guns”. Lol no, they’re not.
They are literally intervening in the private sector. It's not just something that might happen, it's actually happening. We're so worried about our healthcare system being overwhelmed, yet yesterday Thousands of healthcare workers were laid of due to this policy. We're in the middle of an employment crisis that is putting a major strain on the supply chain and the service industries. We're losing first responders at a time where they're most needed. I mean, what has to happen for some of you to step back and say, hey there's something wrong with what's going on?
 
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It sounds like if you get vaccinated you don’t have to worry about getting fired from your job.

Seems like a no-brainer if you enjoy making money.

Am I missing something?
 
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Sorry man, I’m just not buying the “stripping our freedoms” bs from the right. No freedom is being stripped. It almost reminds me of “they’re taking our guns”. Lol no, they’re not.

So a vaccine mandate isn't stripping freedom?

No freedoms have been stripped over the last couple decades? They're not trying to take guns? Haha...Even the CDC director is coming after guns now in the name of a "public health crisis."

This shit is hilarious.
 
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So a vaccine mandate isn't stripping freedom?

No freedoms have been stripped over the last couple decades? They're not trying to take guns? Haha...Even the CDC director is coming after guns now in the name of a "public health crisis."

This shit is hilarious.

There are more guns in America than people..
 
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