I've seen that sort of thing, too. and I've seen people who are atheists talk shit about people who choose to have a religion.

Personally? I don't believe in the "Hell" that most western religions swear exists and that if people don't follow certain rules, that they're destined for that.

And as a counter-argument to the "Without religion, people wouldn't know right from wrong" bit? That's not true at all. I know of plenty of atheists who know right from wrong, because their parents taught them how to be good people, and they later chose not to believe in a deity or deities. Case in point: Penn Jillette.

I agree Moi, things like that are messed up and I don't understand people half the time anymore.

Yesterday I read about a pride march that people holding their jewish flags were told to leave because of the whole Palestine thing going on... And I'm thinking they were stupid as hell for asking those people to leave when they were proud of their religion and celebrating who they are religious wise and them being gay as well. I just don't understand people half the time. I understand the whole Palestine thing is bad but these people were only showing their religion saying their religion supports them for who they are and I don't see a problem with that at all.

I've been reading a bunch of bs lately in the news like the whole fun new health care plan that I guess isn't going anywhere. I wonder why lol.

Moi all I remember is it's just because they had the flags in their possession and they were told they can be considered to be triggers for people because of what is going on in Palestine. Nothing else was stated. Just that people might think they support the horrible things happening to the Palestine people. Not for any other reason which is what got me upset. I understand that bad things are happening to Palestines but not everyone is going to go around at a pride gathering and talk about something like that. I would assume people would go there and give the people shit for being gay and no other reason.

saiyouri wrote:Moi all I remember is it's just because they had the flags in their possession and they were told they can be considered to be triggers for people because of what is going on in Palestine. Nothing else was stated. Just that people might think they support the horrible things happening to the Palestine people. Not for any other reason which is what got me upset. I understand that bad things are happening to Palestines but not everyone is going to go around at a pride gathering and talk about something like that. I would assume people would go there and give the people shit for being gay and no other reason.

I saw a post protesting that, done by a Muslim group who happen to be LGBTIA* advocates, who had made a Pride flag representing their countries, and it basically boiled down to "So, you're banning the Jewish Pride flag. You'd better ban ours, too, in that case. You don't get to pick and choose who is 'Appropriately Gay'."

Wow Moi that is really sucky. Sad how people have to be now a days. On our discord server, there is a guy who said in game chat with my husband "nigerian slaves", no idea what he meant though but then as soon as he said "muslims" hubby said 'woah woah woah'. He hasn't said anything since and no idea what the heck he was going to say or what he did say after the word muslims was said. That's all I remember. Too hard to hear one person out of 6 guys playing a game together all in voice chat.

I know some are bad but for christ sakes not everyone. Hell ran into a cop today and we spoke to him for a bit waiting for a store to open and he was talking about bad media press for them, no one is really taking the tests to become cops, how bad the herion problem is in the areas around us. He seemed nice. At least from when we spoke to him. Doesn't mean he's like everyone else and thats not something I will think just because he's a cop.

I heard about those two stories. I couldn't believe the whole shot on a highway thing. I keep warning my husband to be careful because of road rage. And there are so many asses on the streets now a days. Thankfully we don't hear as much as we used to about road rage, but it's still a thing and I just don't understand why these losers still have a right to drive.

The whole food thing... I didn't read because the title sounded so stupid. Just... my god... stupid as hell.

I know what you mean about cops. Reminds me about an article I read a month ago about this one cop who responded to a call from a woman stating this guy had a gun, not loaded and wanted to die. Well he could tell that this man wanted to die badly and was willing to die by cop. He was talking him down but when another cop car comes up, he points his gun that isn't even loaded at them and they shoot him. He had the situation controlled but these guys just walk up and shoot according to the article. Thing is ... the good one... he was fired for not shooting the man and he's suing the police station (not sure what happened after he began the lawsuit, haven't heard a thing about that). He was really upset that a life was lost because no one seemed to want to calm this man down who was in a really bad place. He wanted the man to get the help he needed and couldn't understand why he was fired for not shooting him. He didn't want to hurt him.

Then another story that people had a field day over. A woman with mental problems, that the police knew about. Called saying she was robbed, they showed up but she had a knife pointed at them, and they didn't bring a taser at that time. She had 3 of her 4 kids in the house and shot and killed her. People were saying they had no right to kill this mentally distrubed woman. They should of left and been done with it... But barley anyone pointed out that she had her kids in the house with her and no cop can just leave her with a knife and innocent kids in the house alone. They bitched they should of brought a taser and just went on and on about how stupid and wrong they were. I was thinking the whole time that there were kids in the house and what would happen if they left with her in that state with a knife. I don't really care about them killing that woman. Only because of the fact she had 3 kids in the home. Yes she had mental problems, but kids in the house. Something could of went wrong. And they could of brought a taser but they didn't at that time.

There have been some cases of mentally disturbed people who have weapons and cops shot and killed and one at a Walmart, I felt bad that they killed the woman. Since she was really mental and had no idea what was going on. She was with her caretaker which means she can't be alone and care for herself, so she most likely had no idea what she was doing. That situation they could of tried a bit more to calm her and disarm her. It gets really complicated with people who have mental issues. Things always go wrong. And it's always sad too.