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Thank you for admitting that we can continue to have a conversation :-) Honestly, every article that I’ve read that you cited did not support your argument. Now that’s not saying that I’ve read every article that you’ve ever posted. I’m just reiterating your words calling in a Coke bottle doesn’t change the meaning it just helps you see how ridiculous what you’re saying sounds.

Yes, thery make the form interesting. But, like you, they actually make the forum POSSIBLE.

Lol More later after I read your sources.

You must be playing. You get me a personal anecdote about some guy you know, yet the data is available to tell you that covid deaths amongst the incarceration was significantly higher than people who were not locked up. Surely you've read this but have chosen to reject this information as it conflicts with your world view. Obviously there is nothing I can say, 'cept I hope you don't get a diseases or illness that a vaccine would have prevented. I gather you have never been to the west Africa, as there are many shots required and recommended.

Oops, I better change my position. Come on man we can agree from time to time. ;-) That video you just shared is silly… well at least to me. The little video got 4.5 thousand likes. So YouTube‘s algorithm showed it to a lot of people. Did you find the video funny? Do you think it was a sideways promotion of subway I think that’s what he said was good? It is fascinating how Google has created an incentives for people to create an upload silly videos like this. But going back to your point for sharing it, sure if people wanna spend their checks creating videos like this, fine. I don’t have to watch them. There are a lot of man-babies doing silly things.

@Pioneer1 OK I know darn well you didn’t watch that entire video and you are sharing it here solely because of the sensational title. Assuming there has been an increase and cancer among kids under 30 that could be a wife variety of reasons for that. I know the Covid vaccine is a boogie man divorces have increased. It must be the Covid vaccine. There’s a decrease in Reading and it must be the vaccine. My old lady just left me. It must be the vaccine whatever…

No, that’s not what happens. The alcohol simply affects your ability to retain memories of your experience when you were in that state, but in the moment you know exactly who you are and what you’re doing you simply don’t remember it. It doesn’t. Because what you’ve just described doesn’t happen there is no document in case of someone speaking a language. They knew nothing about fluently. You are taking stuff you’ve seen in movies or things that cranks have put out on the Internet as if it’s true. First, the likelihood of that happening is about the same as a Scientist saying Santa Claus is real. But if science made that discovery, and it was backed up by peer verification. I would have no choice, but to believe even if it conflicted with my previous beliefs. Why do you equate science with the white man? Man, you will believe anything! You know, people have vivid imaginations and are able to make up stories that are only only thinly related to reality. Just like your belief that Santa Claus is based upon Satan. It’s not but hey, you’re willing to believe anything so there it is. As far as spirits being captured in a bottle. That idea is too nutty to even take seriously. If a non-corporeal entity like a spirit exists do you think it could be captured and trapped in a plastic ginger ale bottle?

OK, show me evidence to support that statement. Yes, and that a lot was learned from that mistake. I guess if it’s up to you, great numbers of people would still be dying from smallpox. So you would rather believe that there was a grand conspiracy to hide Covid depths. Do you even believe the vaccine saved lives on the order of millions. Hyperbole only weakens your argument. Do you believe in the effectiveness of any vaccines? do you believe the MMR vaccine causes autism? You’re probably not old enough to remember polio and organizations like the March of Dimes. You probably have no clue how terrible many of these diseases were that have been virtually eradicated before you were born… maybe that’s the problem with anti-VAXXers they have no frame of reference to understand the seriousmess of these diseases. Then again you saw the millions of deaths from COVID 19… I don’t know this reasoning stumps me.

The 60 Minutes piece was very interesting. The swine flu. Vaccine was ultimately pulled. The next video is propaganda. The guy called the vaccine “Gene therapy.” indeed he went on to emphasize that it was indeed gene therapy. It is not Gene therapy. This is something that antitaxers assert incorrectly. He also said that they were 39,000 deaths from the Covid vaccine, which is just crazy. The same people who pulled the swine flu vaccine determined that death from the COVID-19 vaccine are rare. But even if that number was 100% accurate, the covid vaccine saved tens of millions of lives. There was an actual pandemic we all know people who have died from or suffered from contracting Covid; suffering and death that could’ve been avoided if they had taken the vaccine. The guy also mentioned the 60 Minutes video using it to scare people i from taking vaccines. Methods had greatly improved in the last 50 years and a lot of lessons were learned from the swine flu vaccine But to use the swine flu vaccine to scare people from taking MMR and other vaccines is very dangerous and outright stupid. All of this has led to an anti-VAXXer running health and human services and an administration that hobbled the center for disease control The inmates are running insane asylum.

Considering it is the military sharing the most compelling UFO videos, that blanket explanation seems unlikely.

What!? @Pioneer1 here too you’re a reasoning, escapes me. You know there are actual black, billionaires people like Robert Smith and others who have not been taken down as part of a white racist conspiracy. Maybe it is because they’re not beating drugging, and raping women? I think it’s pretty well known that J Edgar Hoover caught MLK in an affair—so what? Adultery it’s not a criminal offense, but raping and assaulting women is. The media is reflection of culture based on a system of white supremacy, this is indisputable However, when we behave badly, we can’t blame the media you’ll never ever find a video of me kicking a woman’s butt up and down the hallway of a hotel You will never ever hear of me, drugging a woman and having sex with her And I’m pretty sure it’s the same for you guys too because it’s true for most normal human beings. Being a black celebrity shouldn’t give you special privileges any more than being a white one does, but it does. I believe Tiger Woods is a billionaire. You don’t think that if you or I crashed as many cars while under the influence of drugs that we wouldn’t be in jail—tiger gets special privileges. All of those guys do by the time their trash hits the media. It is already egregious. I suspected these guys were treating your daughters like that. You wouldn’t be so willing to give them a pass or claim it was white racism, trying to bring a black man down 🤨

Well, it’s not likely she’ll get sent to prison for life. But getting one psychopath with a gun off the street might for a few years show her better way then again it might make her situation even worse. Honestly, I have no idea what the right punishment is for her. She made an egregious mistake taking that guy’s life. We have no idea what he knew prior to going over there. She may have been catfishing him.

Well, I believe in UFOs—we’ve actually seen those. Belief in Santa Claus by a child is understandable, especially when parents tell the kids to believe in him. Now, after a certain point children figure out the truth. I figured it out through reason as a little kid. My apartment in the projects didn’t have a chimney. Possession is just another one of those things. There are more reasonable, explanations like schizophrenia or epilepsy. The law of parsimony applies.

Do they still have insane asylums? Perhaps you can visit one and get a firsthand account. I don’t think I’ve had a nightmare since I was a little kid and even then it was only once or twice. The nightmare gave me this feeling that I was gonna die, and it stuck with me for quite a while. I saw the movie the exorcist in the theater when it first came out. I was nine years old and I remember it scaring me. I watched it again for the first time in maybe 50 years and I have no idea why any adult thought this film was scary… I don’t equate being drunk with being possessed by some demon. Dude goes to the bar drinks too much gets behind the wheel of a car causes an accident in which someone is killed and not remembering any of it; that’s just being drunk. Oh brother, OK no they don’t call alcohol spirits for nothing, but it has nothing to do with possession.

What?! Dude, the woman shot a young man in the back of the head for no good reason. What is he accused of doing, entering a home he was welcomed into? Tell me you have never went over to a girl’s house when the parents weren’t home. Do you think death is the appropriate response? Oh, I missed the part that said the guy was 20 but still 20 years old is not old enough to buy a drink. For all we know the 13-year-old was schoolin’ the 20 year-old guy. Maybe they didn’t have sex at all! I can’t imagine anyone would think death is warranted for that situation. Yep. The only one I blame for the murder is the woman and to a lesser extent a culture that allows basically anyone to own a gun. Obviously, the woman needs help. My only guess is that she lived in entire life in poverty under stress, probably abused or any number of conditions that would’ve resulted in someone murdering someone else in this situation. I don’t blame the daughter and I definitely don’t blame the dude. How could he have known what kind of hell scape he was getting himself into. If he was indeed slow that only makes things worse.

There will always be folks who are unproductive either because they’re incapable of being productive or they are simply not inclined to be. I don’t think we should be wasting time and resources trying to make them otherwise. We should care for the ones who are incapable of being productive, and the ones who don’t want to be productive should just be encouraged to stay out the way of everyone else.

She needs to be facing life. Her reaction was beyond unreasonable. Her fast little daughter, invited him over and let him in the house him in the house. The guy had time to gather his things walk out the house and she shoots he in the back of the head and he dies in the front yard! There are too many people with guns that should not have them. This is a black woman shooting who is almost certainly a young black male. Terrible.

@ProfD yeah we’re on the same page there.

What do you mean by worse? Do you mean more people of prime working age dropping out of the work force? If those people are pursuing things that they enjoy doing, or educating themselves maybe they will be contributing in other ways that benefit society. Just because someone doesn’t have a 9 to 5 doesn’t make them useless or bad for society. There was a time in New York City, where Poets artists, musicians and others could afford to live and they gave the city It’s culture and made it a great place. today those people can’t afford to live in the city and the city is worse off as a result. I think it’s great if we shared some of the tremendous prosperity and financial gains more evenly rather than allowing it to be concentrated among a handful of people. If that means some people choose to live a life of leisure great. Again, most of us will choose to do something productive. I could sit around all day and smoke weed the way @Pioneer1 describes so many people out of work. I haven’t worked at 9 to 5 in almost 20 years and I’ve never sat around doing nothing — most of us wouldn’t.

I was born in the racially segregated north, so I too, was born and raised among only Black and Puerto Rican people. But I considered at a disadvantage, unlike other racially segregated group groups, particularly during the Jim Crow era. I only grew up around lower middle class and impoverished people. It wasn’t until I got to college that I got to know some upper middle class Black people. Prior to college I really thought all Black people were poor. differences in class can create more distinctions than differences and so-called race. I had more in common with a phenotypically white Puerto Rican, than a phenotypically Black upper middle class person back then. At some point, we’ll find out what happened to the young man. If God forbid we find out he was part of some satanic ritual or some racist initiation or just some shot taking that got outta hand, that will be beyond unfortunate but I wouldn’t indict an entire ethnic group because of that incident. All of that said, one of the reasons I left corporate America was because I was tired of being around a bunch of people I had little in common with and who give two shits about you. Sure I had more money then, but I enjoy working with my people trying to make a difference.

So who in this conversation actually believes in possession, like in the film the exorcist?

@ProfD right, but you believed all that before you read the article. What I’m trying to understand is what in the article supports your belief?

I rediscovered this post looking for something else and figured I would post the current list of the "Black" BISAC codes: https://aalbc.com/african_american_bisacs

France is struggling. If it were not for its former African colonies, France would be a 3rd world country--and those countries are pushing back as we speak. Look at "Great" Britain today the sun set on their empire long ago. France, Germany, England, and the United States are thrashing right now. Maybe the Chinese will emerge as the world's leading superpower. Maybe it will be Elon Musk or AI who knows.

Maybe he just loves the grueling schedule of the profession. Maybe he enjoys the high level of competition. Maybe basketball defines who he is, and a life not playing competitively would be too hard to bear. Maybe it is the money. All I know it I were him, I would be everything but playing in the NBA. But I learned long ago you can't expect anyone else to do what you would do in a similar situation. Really? I'm surprised you did not share a photo. If it is cool for a Black woman to have bleached blond hair without blowback, why can't she lighten her skin? It will be fun to see a Knicks-Sixers rivalry again :-)