Re: Friday Five May 2
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I haven't heard of any in the last two weeks - but news coverage is very flaky.? The situation I was speaking of is with regard to previous actions - not future ones.? Though enforcement of
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mrvnchpmn
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#3126
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Re: Friday Five May 2
Marvin,
I remember the Kent State protests in 1970. I lived in Ohio, so I was a lot closer to them than you were. The May 4 Massacre was a tragedy that didn't need to happen. Gunfire just wasn't
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a1thighmaster
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#3125
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Re: Friday Five May 2
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1.? Did the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the US for mineral resources surprise you?
A little, but not a lot.
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2.? Do you support students on college campuses
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mrvnchpmn
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#3124
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Re: Friday Five May 2
A little, but not a lot.
Who says they're disrupting classes?
Loss of their visas doesn't have to be the only alternative.
It's possible given the likely effects of the tariff war.
Well, it's a
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a1thighmaster
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#3123
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Re: Friday Five May 2
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1.? Did the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the US for mineral resources surprise you?
Not really - lately nothing surprises me.
2.? Do you support students on
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mrvnchpmn
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#3122
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Re: Friday Five May 2
*1. Did the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the US for mineral
resources surprise you?*
Yes. I thought Ukraine was going to dawdle forever. I know they are in
existential mode, but since
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Darrell King
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#3121
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Re: Friday Five May 2
1. Did the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the US for mineral
resources surprise you?
No, it was in the cards and is only symbolic anyway.
2. Do you support students on college
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Ed Lomas
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#3120
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Re: Friday Five May 2
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1.? Did the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the US for mineral resources surprise you?
2.? Do you support students on college campuses disrupting classes protesting for
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mrvnchpmn
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Re: Friday Five April 25
Ah, David. By "educated" I am referring to mindfulness practice. Medication
and introspection. The human mind does not come with an owner's manual, yet
it is more complex than a supercomputer (last I
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Darrell King
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#3118
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Re: Friday Five April 25
// David said: "People instinctively want peace and order and civility."
And Darrell agreed: Yes, the human mind is basically a tool to extrapolate future possibilities from past learning in
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five April 25
*David said*: "People instinctively want peace and order and civility."
*And Darrell agreed*: Yes, the human mind is basically a tool to
extrapolate future possibilities from past learning in pursuit
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Darrell King
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Re: Friday Five April 25
// I feel there are too many people for this diversity to ever coalesce into anything that resembles a single culture. It is a closely packed sea of colonies and I expect it to continue in the
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five April 25
Okay, I think I see some of it. It may well be that we are viewing the
question from different cultural perspectives. My father's sire died when
he was young and his mother while I was very young. My
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Darrell King
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#3114
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Re: Friday Five April 25
Lots of kids without ancestors, no? Multiple fathers and multiple mothers don't make clear lines of succession. It sounds to me very messy, Darrell. I suppose it seems fine and normal to you, and
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five April 25
I guess my confusion is that I do not see that families are no longer
breeding generation after generation. Or I am misunderstanding. I had two
children with my first wife. My present wife has two
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Darrell King
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Re: Friday Five April 25
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Well said
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When families no longer breed generation after generation, there are no more ancestors. ?There is no history. ?The seed of this was planted with the contraceptive pill (and
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mrvnchpmn
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#3111
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Re: Friday Five April 25
When families no longer breed generation after generation, there are no more ancestors. There is no history. The seed of this was planted with the contraceptive pill (and the other devices using the
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five April 25
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1.? What affect? with the death of the Pope have on the world?
Don't have a clue.? Francis was an interesting individual - at times I thought he was an idiot and at times I
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mrvnchpmn
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#3109
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Re: Friday Five April 25
Long, long time ago a dude called Buddha said the root of human suffering
was desire. The human mind was accused of creating endless self-stories
around what has gone wrong and what might go wrong
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Darrell King
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#3108
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Re: Friday Five April 25
I do not feel that procreation has ceased, David, although I do not have
peer-reviewed RCT's evidence to back this feeling! I do, however, know many
families who have intentionally bred children from
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Darrell King
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