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There was another shooting at a high-school this morning.WTF?!!

I have been in gunfights. You cannot have too much ammunition. Especially with multiple assailants. (PS I won them all.)

My firearms are secured in safes when I am not using them, excepting one bedroom gun.

Maryland's gun laws did not have anything to do with the school shooter. He was stopped by a cop with a gun.

Yes, safe storage is important. Places like Canada went overboard so you cannot possibly access a gun in time to defend yourself with it.

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We should make this a secular site.

But how would you define proselytizing?

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The things I enjoy most, that I define myself by, are contradictory.

In any case, welcome back!

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I've just rescued an owl

I think he will be enrolled in a mandatory defensive flying course!

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Are Meyers-Briggs types supposed to be permanent?

No human being can design a "test" to determine what you should do in life.

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I've just rescued an owl

He seems to trust you 1000 percent!

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Most likely, she still has a bedbug infestation and still has head lice. She needs a medical intervention.

This is the great failure of our society. Refugees come knocking at our borders, and we do backflips to get them settled, to have an adequate income and to help them find jobs. But our OWN people we just let languish into whatever gutter they fall in. I'm really sick and tired of it!

And the CHURCHES need to be performing charitable works instead of just raking in donations and building more church annexes!

Did you talk to any Episcopal priest?

I hate to say this, but too many fundamentalist Protestant ministers and congregations believe that if somebody is suffering misfortune, it is because they offended God and are now the subject of divine punishment. That is total BS and goes against everything Christ taught!

At one time this woman was a productive member of society. She probably had a family and was a respected member of the community. Misfortune overtook her and she is now suffering like someone in a Russian gulag. She was forced to live in squalor and now has become the host to bedbugs and head lice.

Government social workers are probably too lazy to help her--but try. And try that Episcopal priest. There IS a way out there to help her!

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Check with a local Episcopal church. They know about all of the programs for the homeless and needy.

Does she have ANY family?

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I'm doing okay I just want to share something.

A lady friend once gave me a copy of Joyce Meyer's book, "Approval Addiction." Meyers had some great advice about how to get over the perceived need to always win approval from others. Here's a link to what she said: https://joycemeyer.org/everydayanswers/ea-teach...

Joyce, as a child, was *****raped by her biological father--so, as you might imagine, she had a number of ISSUES with which to contend. But she found God and got the help she needed.

My own belief is this: our relationship with God is the most fundamental relationship of our lives. We get this one right, or none of the other relationships in our life will work.

We get this one right--and it doesn't matter who likes us or who approves of us!

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We should make this a secular site.

When a person tells me that he or she is an agnostic, that is something I can accept.

But when a person tells me that he or she is an atheist, I conclude that he or she is following the religion of atheism. And, of course, it is a religion in its own right. It presupposes that there is no God. To make such a pronouncement, one would have to be a deity him- or herself--able to traverse all the dimensions of this multiverse, able to travel through time, able to pierce the darkest corners of the cosmos--but even more, that person would have to be able to exist outside of time and outside the known universe--where God would exist. You cannot KNOW there is no God unless you are on the SAME LEVEL as the deity you claim does not exist--which, of course, would require YOU to be God.

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