Churches and Christians in general misinterpret this Biblical passage. I mean, if you're loving God with all your heart and all your soul, you shouldn't love yourself or your neighbor at all. But then the Bible is a great race war story that alarms your typical Christian.

Joseph Smith wasn't wrong, Biblically speaking.

I am well! How are you?

Apparently I am "some bitch." I relish this.

Perhaps I too need the caps lock. I feel uncool. 😬

I am sorry to hear that. I hope you're not in too much pain. Yuck.

Is this a poz cum in my anus type thing?

Too bad you didn't wipe out the cop.

That sounds extreme but perhaps in a fun way.

@Mother Don't get too comfy up in Yankland. We're going to make a Southerner of you yet.

I know Stillwater. It is a nice place. Austin, however, is an absolute hole.

Hear, hear!

I admit to being partial to the South but I can definitely see the allure of Colorado. Boring detail: you might consider investigating the tax burden of each state. It can be a game changer in some cases.

Women can be especially nuts. We do seem to parrot the party line a little too much. I'm sorry you had to experiance that.

TN got rid of all their personal income tax earlier this year. No state income tax is quite nice. And I think they have a low sales tax, too.

@Mother That is nice. Building codes are often Soviet. Look at the UK. They're constantly having to tear down beautiful buildings that someone made themselves, by hand, because they're 2 inches too close to the street or some nonsense like that

@Mother It is a lot to figure out. We're thinking about these things too. I especially like the idea of an Earthship. Self-sustaining is the way to go.

@devolved Hello! Have we met?

@Mother Perhaps. I'd like to be more social. I'm just terrible at it.

@Mother Besides, why should @diversity_is_racism have all the fun?

SODOMIZE THE WEAK.

It does bring a couple closer.

@devolved I've actually been spotted out in the real world too. But not very often.

Excellent! I appreciate your discretion.

Did your friends dress up like a horse, perchance?

Too funny.

Yes, a horse. There was much parental confusion.

I believe it was a Mr. Hands reference.

@devolved LOL

@Mother He doesn't need my permission. LOL But the asking is appreciated! I suppose I can spare him for a while one of these Friday nights.

@Death Strike's Bat I'd rather people die as a result of their shoddy workmanship than strangle people with endless regulation. We have got to stop protecting people from everything

Can you imagine what it would be like if people actually had to face the consequences of their crap decision making? Heaven.

@Death Strike's Bat I imagine after the first lawsuit that ruins the lives of the offending builders or maybe some prison time, people might rethink their bright ideas for home improvement. It takes a tragedy.

I shed no tears for Grenfell Tower.

Agreed.

But now they will live in opulence at the taxpayers expense.

Wait until the government payouts for the fire start.

Really?

Surely there are lawsuits yet to be filed?

I can't believe that lawsuits aren't the one thing these foreigners have adopted.

Since they are all on government assistance and were placed there by the government that approved the shoddy construction, I assume there will be no end to the handouts expected.

Really? I didn't know this.

Oh, I doubt they'll lose.

Isn't the cladding against some UK regulation? I thought it had been banned.

Ah.

Well, too bad this incident didn't at least slow the influx of "economic" migrants into the UK.

I like the idea of, Come here and we'll house you but you might die. That's a message I could get behind.

Fuck Parliament. What a mistake.

I've been enjoying watching them capsize in the Mediterranean en route to a better life.

Who says fire is the great equalizer?

LOL

I like the idea of a wall but -- and not to sound like a bleeding heart liberal here -- I do wonder about the effect on wildlife. Don't they need to be able to cross the river and migrate or what have you? I admit I prefer a rattlesnake to a Mexican anyday.

True.

But they are the closest and the most prevalent in Texas.

We should reclaim the Panama Canal and push them all to the other side of it. That would be better than a wall.

Send the Mexicans back to Africa.

@ҜҜҜỮØŘŦĦØŇ Agreed.

I know this is CNN but it has video of Trump calling out Antifa has "very violent."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/15/politics/trump-charlottesville-latest/index.html

I know. Bless his heart.

@diversity_is_racism Turn about is fair play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWoIx16B1ko

@diversity_is_racism The boogers made me feel a little retaliatory.

@Mother I agree.!

I also can't punctuate.

@Mother I've heard it happening but I haven't heard the actual podcast and its content.

@Mother What's your next topic? Do you have one?

@Mother This has been a crazy week. I guess the topics do kind of provide themselves sometimes.

I hadn't noticed the interesting slip that Trump made in aligning himself with the alt-right.

It's good to change it up. I think it's beneficial to hear people discuss difficult topics in a conversational format. It's sometimes more accessible than essays.

But with everything that's just happened, I can see a change being necessary.

There is definitely a shift occurring.

I agree with that but I do see a change in the alt-right concerning leadership and public perception.

The fall of the Catholic church didn't begin with Bergoglio and it won't end when he dies.

So are Protestants.

Reformed Protestants are the sanest of the Protestant denominations at the moment. But even they get some things seriously wrong.

Perhaps Christianity isn't meant for Western peoples.

We had our own religions before Christianity ever showed up.

We've done all we could with Christianity but I think it's not compatible with who were are.

And this from a person who considered herself Christian.

I don't need a Middle Eastern religion with its martyr for a hero. This lends itself to a conquered mindset.

No, he was a martyr. If winning is through the sacrifice of one's life, then this seems to be the definition of a death cult.

No. Odin.

Mohamed is a slave mentality.

Islam is for people who lack a moral compass and must be told what to do.

The Mormon church sounds heretical.

Agreed.

@TendieLord I'm currently reading Alain de Benoist's On Being Pagan. I highly recommend it. He discusses this very topic.

@TendieLord I think I found a free pdf version somewhere. I'll see if I can find it but I know it's out there.

@ҜҜҜỮØŘŦĦØŇ Thanks for posting the link. My internet mojo is rather granny-like today.

I've found that one's results with the MBTI change with age.

Hmmm. Aren't results and type tied together?

My experience has been that as I matured and changed the quality of my thinking, my behavior changed and so did my MBTI results.

One thing that doesn't seem to change are a person's aptitudes. I've taken the Johnson O'Connor tests and those still hold true today.

@fallot I don't even remember anymore. I've jotted them down somewhere. I took them a number of years apart and promptly dismissed them.

I may trust planets that have been around for billions of years and their influence on me before I trust the MBTI.

@fallot It is very interesting, I'll give you that.

Truth be told, I remember being impressed with the accuracy of the MBTI.

I don't, however, think it is some permanent assessment of me and my thinking.

Wait. It's a gender determiner?