Look, guys.... if i was given a choice to live in a community or city where no guns were allowed versus one where guns were allowed, I would take the former. Police, and now drones, can respond quicker than ever to reports of criminal activity. I can dial 911 faster than getting a safely stored weapon ready to fire. Gun ownership is all about ego and feelings of power....
@BritishTechGuru@Runyan50@bigheadtales We had a ban before and things were just fine. As for taking them away, we'll, we all saw how well taking drugs away worked....
@BritishTechGuru Sorry.... that's just not true. There are zero eyewitness accounts. The historians of the time never recorded any such thing, only some afterward and as passing references. Now, if some random rabbi named Yeshua was killed back then, well, no big deal. A lot of people were killed back then for any number of reasons. It was a common name. The idea was to create another deity after the fact. Something the Romans and everyone else did a lot of....
@BritishTechGuru@Floppa Those are after-the-fact references that look to be forgeries because they are rando references. None of it backs up the bible.
@BritishTechGuru@Floppa This is the point... the whole thing is rests with errors, forgeries, and deliberate lies. Josephus makes two references only. The first appears out of nowhere very suspiciously worded, except if you're an apologist, and the other is referring to a rabbi that was named Yeshua and was the brother of another guy, with a different life and lineage.....
You get it @Floppa And unfortunately, @BritishTechGuru does not. No big deal. I will say, though, that the differences here seem to be that those who believe he existed demand volumes and volumes of proof of not; while these same people are satisfied with one or two random references thrown in usually well constructed histories to say see there it is. We know a lot about many historical figures, yet this supposed guy we have two things. A few poor references, followed by a lot of blatant lies.
@BritishTechGuru@Floppa Again, which man? What was the population of people named Yeshua back then? How many of them were rabbis? How many of that population had radical views? It seems to me you are trying to regress to one person as the source of Christianity; however, the problem is that the origin of Christianity was not from one guy. There were all manner of competing cults back then. Those in power needed to take control of it, so they needed some rando name to pretend with...
@BritishTechGuru@Floppa It's ashame Yeshua A was the man, and Yeshua B was not. Oh wait, we know there were no deities back when inventing them was fairly regular. Holy Hercules, Batman; it was Bill. Let's kill Bill....
@ThomHartmann The thing is, and I don't know how my fellow Mastodonians feel, I would never vote illegally because I would never go to jail for a politician. I tend to think anyone who would vote illegally as a premeditated act has to be the biggest fool on earth. Go to jail for a politician? Really? No way, Jose. Not even for the ones I like!
So, they want to shut the government down. Biden should use some of that newfound immunity from SCOTUS to order the DOJ to arrest Mike Johnson for the fun of it and say so!
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