White teenager shot in back

[Mar]

Semp it distills down to, love others as you love yourself, forgive others as you ask to be forgiven, and love the sinner but, hate the sin. None of us get off this ship alive in the end.

It's been 2000 years since this was first spoken, and still these three states of mind are the hardest for humans to achieve about those not their family, tribe, or race. And barely at times towards the aforementioned. Condemnation becomes the coin of the realm.

Most people do not understand the original language source for two very important admonishments or laws from the original Hebrew.

"Judge not lest ye be judged" was really "Condemn not lest thy be condemned.".

"Thou shalt not kill" was really "Thou shalt not murder.".

You judge every moment of your day to make choices. Condemnation is permanent and reserved for someone else who can condemn you for eternity versus you as a human cannot actually condemn someone to anything in this life but physical death. As long as you are alive you can judge your circumstance and make changes. You have the right to kill to save your life or defend that of others. No one has the right to murder another, which was what many Kings in Europe up to and past King James did to force obedience and worship of their power. Or be condemned to physical death.

Short of a mental defect, anyone can be trained without knowing it visa poor life choices, or willingly like a soldier, to respond without conscious thought with violence. If it is not impaired by a mental defect, you can also choose to train that out of yourself by conscious effort and the help of a professional. Or by choosing to walk away from the original bad choices and life style. Everyone knows someone who when young was a criminal who now is a family man with kids.

The real miracle is that we can changes these things by exercising our power of choice.

Good stuff right there!

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Good stuff right there!

QFT

[Changeup]

My favorite on man...and his decisions

"Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature man, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?"

de Montaigne

[Guppy35]

It will be 10 years ago August 28th that I lost my oldest son and youngest daughter in a car wreck.  The only 'gift' I got from that horrific event was the understanding that in the end all that matters are the people.

You don't go to your grave with power, or the most stuff or with a kill board for your conquests.  You do go knowing how you treated those around you.  That's why it drives me nuts some times when I see how so much of what we're told is important is based on power, greed or conquest. 

It should be what have we done to make life better for all of us, not just ourselves.  But of course that makes me a socialist and that's bad

[Changeup]

It should be what have we done to make life better for all of us, not just ourselves.  But of course that makes me a socialist and that's bad

Sometimes being tough on people or helping people make difficult decisions is making life better for them.  Its not all about gifting or legacy programs.  Teach someone to fish...that's not socialist but if you've never fished before, it'd sure be easier to let someone else do it.  Instead, you have to fight through the failure.  Is life better for the person who can now fish for themselves?  Yup.  But it wasn't necessarily easy.

You aren't a socialist until you gave them fish everyday and the address and cell number of the fishermen in the event you were out of town, lol.

[zack1234]

I am gonna say this nice and slow so you who are heard headed can understand....

not that you will....because you guys of course know it all and back one of the most crooked governments to ever exist.



after hundreds of years of rape murder and abuse....people have had enough....they are pissed...

they have no clue how to express that anger...or what to do to change the way they are treated.....

if you cant see the condition of this country is straight in the toilet...you are blind.


and if you think the Tea party was only about taxation.......


you probably think Christopher Columbus was a great man.



here drink some more koolaid.

Ink why are you saying such things it very cruel to upset the dream.

Its North Koreas fault, well next month it will be.

Funny that Greece and EU not collasped yet?

Paranoid is the new pie

I think they should ban guns as well in the US especially those in the midwest

My constipated rights and that.
B

[Mar]

Zack rules. 

[mbailey]

I am sorry, sometimes I am a little slow. Just so that I understand, you are saying that under certain conditions a civilian can own a machine gun (something that fires off some number of bullets in a burst) if the gun was made before 1986 and that a licensed civilian can own any full auto gun.  Yes? No?

Yes as a generic answer.   

[Meatwad]

Ink why are you saying such things it very cruel to upset the dream.

Its North Koreas fault, well next month it will be.

Funny that Greece and EU not collasped yet?

Paranoid is the new pie

I think they should ban guns as well in the US especially those in the midwest

My constipated rights and that.
B

Banning guns in the midwest would make us resort to having to run all our food over instead of shooting it. Coons and possums get boring for supper after a while

[guncrasher]

Ink why are you saying such things it very cruel to upset the dream.

Its North Koreas fault, well next month it will be.

Funny that Greece and EU not collasped yet?

Paranoid is the new pie

I think they should ban guns as well in the US especially those in the midwest

My constipated rights and that.
B

zach it basically comes down to this, you arent here, we are.  you think you know, but you dont really know.

the turning point for me was watching this movie "the wild geese".  when a south african  guy comes to term with a black man.  they both realize the need each other to survive.

prior to that even though I had never seen a black guy, I hated them, based on what my family had taught me.  they had never seen a black guy either.  that is sad isnt it?  hating a group of people you had never even seen just based on what others told you.

first time i had interacted with a black person was in 1985 when I got a job at this insurance company.  then I found out they were not different than me, I dated this beautiful black girl.  she was Golly-geen gorgeous, then we broke up.  it just happens she was just full of herself, things happens.

we are all different in a way.  but we better stick together or we are all screwed.


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[PR3D4TOR]

I love that movie Semp.

You were taught to hate black people? For what?

[craz07]

black women may be not what ur used to but i know and they are a lot to handle, similair to white chicks now that i think about it

[danny76]

I would guess that this, to some degree I hope, helps answer your question.


Justice Department Will Investigate Zachary Hammond's Police Shooting Death

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/justice-department-zachary-hammond_55cbc046e4b064d5910a6f3b?utm_hp_ref=crime&ir=Crime&section=crime&kvcommref=mostpopular

I would expect an investigation, the 'unarmed' kid was armed with a 2000lb metal blunt instrument, I have no issue whatsoever with him getting nailed. Rightly or wrongly the US standard LEO response to having a vehicle driven towards them is to open fire, and that's fine. My rules of engagement on active service said the same thing, that I could open fire without warning if someone was "deliberately driving a vehicle at a person and there was no other way of stopping him/her".

Every police shooting is investigated,, and officers either punished or exonerated. My OP was merely suggesting that because in this instance the backstop was a white guy, there would not be collective mass indignation from the white community, followed by rioting and more deaths.

[NatCigg]

Good stuff right there!

+1

I we all owe bust 20 bucks .

[zack1234]

zach it basically comes down to this, you arent here, we are.  you think you know, but you dont really know.


semp

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semp

We invented the system in Scotland and used it to make the British Empire.

That Ferguson scene has not affected the IMF.