TulsaSooner78

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- H1Bs are more qualified than you are to hand out Zyn packets at the gas station

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This one made me spit my coffee.

:rotflmao:

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Why did you suggest Russia?

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There are a lot of hot chicks there who are not self-absorbed, or so I'm told.

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Don’t know much about this but I would imagine he prob claims PTSD or something and that’s how he gets it?

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Most likely.

My daughter-in-law just left the Navy with a medical discharge: PTSD

Same with a gal that lives across the street from me. Former Navy, Discharged with PTSD.

I worked for a company that performs disability claim verification exams. I know that our business boomed a couple of years ago after they added some new diagnoses to the list that can be claimed.

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It was a money endeavor for certain people in our government.

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The dreaded Military Industrial Complex.

I was told that fossils are simply a deep fake perpetrated by God to test our faith. Have I been misinformed?

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I know there has already been debate about AI CP being considered 'not CP' because it is AI.

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Exactly. If someone creates porn where the participants appear to be underage, but they are actually not, or they are just artificial creations that have no real age, can it be classified as CP? Great legal question to debate.

In this case, however, the victim is a real child, so there is no question in my mind.

My gawd, she is so stupid.

We really dodged a bullet.

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why hasn't CAIR and the DSA been raided and shut down?

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If you have evidence that they have committed any criminal acts, you should report them to the FBI and ICE. Have you?

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So you admit that it didn't start as a religious concept and In fact didn't really become one until 3800 years later. So in the term of time marriage being religious is relatively new.

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Actually, I never set a time frame on it initially. I only did so in response to your reply.

My original comment was:

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Marriage is a religious concept.

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Note that "is" means in the present, as in today.

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Marriage actually started as more of a business contract than a religious one.

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OK, yeah, I agree with that when you are looking way back into the past.

But marriage was described as a religious exercise in both the old and new testaments.

In the Middle Ages, the Pope had to approve of any marriage involving members of the European royal families, and the ceremonies had to be blessed by priests. That was one of the things that led to the split between the Catholic and Anglican churches.

In the minds of puritanical / evangelical and Catholic Americans, ALL marriages are supposed to be blessed by their god, otherwise they are not legitimate. And because those people have been politically dominant for the past couple of hundred years, they instituted their religious rules as laws overseen by the state.

My view is that the religious and civil aspects need to be completely separated. Let the churches define marriage however they want.

And if 2 or more people of either gender want to enter into a civil arrangement, the religious folks will just have to accept it.

That means same-sex and communal (multiple men and women) unions should be legal as long as the rules are documented in a contract between all of the involved parties.

I know that would blow a lot of people's minds, but that is how it should be.