What has Trump done to this country?

schuylaar

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It sounds like we had a similar upbringing, my mother is Irish. I was an alter boy for 8 years and used to make money by serving on weddings and funerals. I went to catholic schools and I frequently questioned the hypocrisy of it all and it got me in trouble. The biggest bullshit scam is confessions. So people can do anything they want and all is forgiven with God, so long as you tell the priest what you did in a special box on Sunday morning.

I call bullshit on that.
parochial school second grade God and theory of evolution was when i realized God was like Santa.
 

schuylaar

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It sounds like we had a similar upbringing, my mother is Irish. I was an alter boy for 8 years and used to make money by serving on weddings and funerals. I went to catholic schools and I frequently questioned the hypocrisy of it all and it got me in trouble. The biggest bullshit scam is confessions. So people can do anything they want and all is forgiven with God, so long as you tell the priest what you did in a special box on Sunday morning.

I call bullshit on that.
i always wanted to ask the priest who do you confess to..i never had any shit to confess so i'd make things up..at 7 or 8..such a sinner.
 

CunningCanuk

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parochial school second grade God and theory of evolution was when i realized God was like Santa.
We don’t have all the answers and there are many things we don’t understand about the universe. I don’t believe an omnipotent being watches over us and casts judgments but I believe there is a spiritual energy that we don’t yet understand.

One thing we know for sure, we won’t have a definite answer until our death.
 

hillbill

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Parochial here, School Sisters Of Notre Dame, Franciscans and Jesuits, Pater Noster and all but serious education also. One of the priests was a freak and some of the nuns somewhat Sadistic. I later went through a fundie Protestant stage and know more “Bible” than most of them. I consider Protestant Fundamentalism the religion of Slavers and Segregation and Jim Crow and Voter Suppression and Misogyny.
 

schuylaar

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Looks like Wisconsin is getting ready to drop Trump:
so how did this 'formula' work out for them?:wall:

The Republicans have been remarkably successful in their economic messaging, not least in Wisconsin. Since Ronald Reagan, the Republican party has promulgated the idea that there is a simple formula for economic success: lower taxes, less regulation and smaller government. That message, repeated over and over for 40 years, helped Wisconsin shift from a bastion of progressive politics to a union-bashing laboratory for rightwing economic experiments led by Scott Walker, the former governor, and Paul Ryan, the former House speaker, and backed by the Koch brothers.
 
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DIY-HP-LED

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I asked a priest that question and he told me they confess to other priests.

I will reserve comment on your claims of having nothing to confess. ;)
They need to bring back camel hair shirts and self flagellation, that old time religion! Get guilty again Catholics, you shameless sinners, running around like a bunch of Goddam heathens! I'm a heathen and yer giving us a bad name! :lol:
 

hillbill

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In another life my Congressman was Dave Obey Senator Bill Proxmire in Wisconsin, shame what has happened there.
 

hanimmal

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DIY-HP-LED

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I consider Protestant Fundamentalism the religion of Slavers and Segregation and Jim Crow and Voter Suppression and Misogeny.
Faith over good works, squeeze yer eyes shut real hard and believe and you can be as big an asshole and hypocrite as you want. Same for the law, a literal interpretation of the founders wishes, not the needs of the present and living, the constitution a dead document. Don't look left and don't look right, just apply the letter of the law forget the spirit, feel free to insert your personal prejudices and biases too. If you have these literal interpretations of the law, it becomes an algorithm that can be gamed, judgement is actually removed, so is social justice and truth. It leads to the kind of law that Trump rode like a horse all his life, of endless appeals for the rich, each layer up offering advantage and above all delay and expense. Humans run RIU, algorithms run face book and they are gamed and manipulated all the time, any algorithm can manipulated, reality is dynamic.
 

schuylaar

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We don’t have all the answers and there are many things we don’t understand about the universe. I don’t believe an omnipotent being watches over us and casts judgments but I believe there is a spiritual energy that we don’t yet understand.

One thing we know for sure, we won’t have a definite answer until our death.
what's really weird is when it gets lit up it looks like we're inside of something organic..we know mathematically there are 11 dimensions.
 
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schuylaar

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They need to bring back camel hair shirts and self flagellation, that old time religion! Get guilty again Catholics, you shameless sinners, running around like a bunch of Goddam heathens! I'm a heathen and yer giving us a bad name! :lol:
once women were allowed to enter a church without head covering, there was no going back.
 
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