Re: What did you do during the Covid-19 pandemic dad?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 7:12 am
Well, this is now a great "laffs" debate.
Thanks for the chuckles guys!!
Thanks for the chuckles guys!!
have fun, relax, but above all ARGUE!
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All roads lead to Popper in the end. "[H]uman beings tend to intolerance" - is the corollary of "me against my brother; my brother and me against our cousins; our family against the village; our village against the town; our town against the city; our city against the country; our country against the world." I can't say it better than the intro to the Wikipedia piece on the Paradox of Tolerance: The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that, "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." The paradox of tolerance is an important concept for thinking about which boundaries can or should be set.MajGenl.Meade wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 5:58 amI think you mean that human beings tend to intolerance (perhaps even of religion) and that lack of understanding is a common trait among people.
As one who preaches and knows many who do, I reject your blanket simplifications. I hope you work out your deep-seated trauma one day
Arse. (He wrote affectionately).
Unless of course it's true. The intolerance then is from those who don't believe and who reject. But you are in error in "acknowledge". What is to be believed is that he died in our place - the essence of compassion and charity - and healed the division between man and God. It's not a matter of "acknowledging" him - any more than it's a matter of "acknowledging" the life-guard who just save you from drowning."I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." How very Trumpian! You are nothing without me and you will get nowhere! Only those of you who acknowledge me are worthy. That to me is the essence of intolerance.
Choosing not to believe in a superstition is not "intolerance".MajGenl.Meade wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 3:01 pmThe intolerance then is from those who don't believe and who reject.
Meade, hostility? You read way too much into what I pointed out. I only appear hostile to you because I don't agree with you. You may be younger than me but I get a definite stern father vibe from you. I find it arrogant and annoying yet easy to tolerate. I am hostility free -- that's who I am.MajGenl.Meade wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 6:19 amI understand why you are so bitterly obtuse. If you read with comprehension you would note that your paragraph above exactly proves my point.RayThom wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 4:59 pmAs for us atheists, trying to lump us into a nefarious, murderous, class that includes Stalin is just plain christian fundamentalist preaching, doom and gloom, bullshit. 99.99% of atheists practice benign, live and let live, humanism. More than you can say judging by christian history -- now and then. All varieties of religion, and religious cults, for that matter.
1. In relationship to atheists as a "nefarious, murderous class that includes Stalin" i wrote this:We agree. So much for your "just plain christian fundamentalist preaching" bullshitDoes that sound right to you? It doesn't to me.
2. To the contrary, you are the one constantly bitching, broadcasting your prejudiced blanket aspersion that "religion" consists 100% of evil people doing their best to destroy everyone else. You just don't see that the one position is as blindly stupid as the other, do you?
I judge by the history of people and it's people who make life worse or better, and they will use politics, faith, lack of faith, hatred of the other, covetousness and any excuse to be the people they are and achieve their selfish ends. Non-religious leaders have caused more death and suffering in the world than religions have ever (yet) managed. But I don't allege that all atheists, nor yet most atheists, nor yet the huge majority of atheists espouse such behaviour. So, lay off the insulting hostility eh? Remember, Jesus wants you for a rainbow
See what I mean? You can't help yourself, grandpop.MajGenl.Meade wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 6:07 pmFine, Ray. You stop making smug generalizations and I'll stop pointing them out. xoxo
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/0 ... /24182438/The mayor of an Oklahoma city amended an emergency declaration requiring customers to wear face masks while inside businesses after store employees were threatened with violence.
Stillwater Mayor Will Joyce announced the change Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the declaration took effect.
“In the short time beginning on May 1, 2020, that face coverings have been required for entry into stores/restaurants, store employees have been threatened with physical violence and showered with verbal abuse," City Manager Norman McNickle said in a statement. "In addition, there has been one threat of violence using a firearm."
MajGenl.Meade wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 2:11 pmBunch of cowboys live there, no wonder.
Stillwater Mayor Will Joyce
A couple were fined for breaking the coronavirus lockdown rules by making a 135-mile round trip to a coastal resort "to smell the sea".
The pair were caught by police after travelling from Boston Spa, near Wetherby, to Whitby.
Police said it was "not a reasonable excuse to travel into our area and they were told to return home immediately".
It comes after two motorcyclists were fined for travelling 200 miles to buy fish and chips in the seaside town.
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Ok, I'll bite. I've had some dodgy brews in the past, but how is this so lethal?A couple who made up a batch of home-brew beer to get round South Africa's tough alcohol ban during lockdown died in agony after drinking one bottle of the ale each.
Tony Hilliar, 54, and Alida Fouche, 42, had run out of their own supplies of alcohol and decided to make their own brew with no end of the controversial restrictions in sight.
It is believed both collapsed at their home in Port Nolloth in Northern Cape province after sampling the homebrew and that estate agent Tony made a desperate call for help.
The rest of the batch which had not been drunk was also seized and taken away for laboratory testing.
Close friend Tommy Cockcroft, 52, said: 'They both liked a drink at the end of the day which is typically South African but thanks to this poorly thought out government ban there is no alcohol.
'Everyone is making their own beer so Tony did as well but it seems something went terribly wrong with the brew and that they both collapsed and died very senseless deaths.
'This alcohol ban is just beyond total belief and there is no sense whatsoever in it and the sooner people are treated like grown ups the better' he said.
Yes, that's a distinct possibility. Apparently crocodile bile is another additive that might crop up (although not in Mozambique)ex-khobar Andy wrote: ↑Sat May 09, 2020 2:52 pmThere have been a number of incidents in which someone added methanol to beer or wine in the belief that alcohol is alcohol and it's all good.
Brewing beer at home has a much less serious effect (vs. distilling alcohol) but is still cautioned against. There are no known toxic microorganisms that can survive in beer but your drink can become contaminated. Contamination can easily occur at every step of the home brewing process.
Two natural causes of contamination are wild yeast and bacteria. Bacteria such as Lactic acid bacteria and Acetic acid bacteria can be found in homebrewing materials like grain, hops, additives, vessels, tubes and other brewing equipment.
In 2015, 69 people died and 196 were admitted to hospital after consuming contaminated Pombe, a traditional Mozambican beer, at a funeral in Mozambique. A report from a multi-disciplinary team from the National Health Institute revealed that the beer contained the bacteria Burkholderia Gladioli, not crocodile bile as was first reported.
Signs for a contaminated batch of beer include:
– foul smell
– foaming bottle
– mold floating on top
– a bad taste that worsens over time.
The safest thing to do in this case is to abstain from producing your own alcohol during the lockdown. Your stomach and liver will thank you.