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They're probably ALREADY using them. Tactical ones.

Troy Not for me, a foul woman will lose all her sex appeal. A smart, nice, kind, funny woman will become more attractive in my eyes. I think this is true for any mature adult. You didn't read what I said up there carefully. I said they will remain BEAUTIFUL, not necessarily ATTRACTIVE. There's a difference. You're not attracted to every beautiful woman.

Troy Man, you sure are getting snippy in this conversation......lol. Dude relatively speaking the government comes down much harder on small business than they do the likes of an am*zon. You don't have to look any farther than our tax code. And who's fault is that? Is it the fault of the so-called monopoly...or the fault of those who made the unfair laws and enforce them unfairly? Seems to me you should be more angry are the LAWS and those who made them than at the businesses who are taking advantage of them. Did Amaz0n make the tax code? Or were the made by corrupt politicians in order to take advantage of those who didn't have the legal support and knowledge to get around them? I support FREEDOM. I think the government should STAY OUT of people's economic affairs one way or the other. A flat tax across the board of no more than 10% and minimal regulations and licensing. And unlike Republican conservatives who just CLAIM to believe this but legislate otherwise, I really DO believe this is the best model to promote business growth. If a sista wants to start a hair braiding business in her basement, all she needs is a couple hours class on properly sanitizing her equipment and a EIN number and she's ready to start making money.

Troy I suspect most flat-earthers are white too put then in them same buckets as those who have been anally probed by ETs. I'm not sure if most so-called "flat-earthers" really believe that the Earth is flat or if that's a belief PROJECTED upon them in order to discredit their other beliefs. I've only met a few people so far who truly believe the Earth is flat. That does not mean they aliens don't exist. Consider why you are so predisposed to believing conspiracy theories. Because I'm a Black man in this society and have sense enough to KNOW that conspiracies exist after seeing plenty of evidence of it. The AfroAmerican community has been a VICTIM of racist conspiracies since being brought here by Europeans. YOU probably believe conspiracies too but just won't admit to it because then you'd have to admit you can do little about it. It is a societal trend, so you are no unique. BWT are you an antivaxxer? Yes. I hope YOU are too.....unless you're making your own. Let me ask you a question..... If conspiracies are silly and don't exist, why are there entire LAWS about conspiracy in the Federal and State legal books? People get charged with and end up going to prison over "conspiracy"? The government obviously believes in them, even if YOU claim you don't.

Troy Speaking directly to a higher power would also be considered miraculous. I would consider speaking directly to a RIGHTEOUS Higher Power, miraculous. You have some Higher Powers Who are not so righteous. If a person is "possessed" by One, they may go around speaking directly with them also. Do you believe in miracles? Yes. I've experienced them many times. However I don't conflate the two. Miracles can happen without communication (atleast back and forth) with a Higher Power. For example...... You pray to God to get a Miracle and get it, but God didn't necessarily assure you you would or Say something to you afterward. But you do get what you asked for. Some would say that survival of any ADOS in this country is a miracle. Perhaps. And others would point to those who DIDN'T survive and say, "Ask them if it was a Miracle". What is a miracle anyway? Are they doled out by some higher powered based upon the most impassioned prayers, do we create our own miracles, or are miracles simply a way to explain favorable occurrences we can't otherwise explain? I would agree with definition 1 and 3, not 2. Not at this point atleast. I don't know enough about Spirituality to say WE "create our own Miracles". I believe we as humans can do a lot more for ourselves than we currently do, however Miracles often work OUTSIDE of the laws of Nature and most humans don't have the knowledge to control most forces outside of nature. We can ASK a Higher Being to do it for us. But WE...usually....don't do it ourselves. This is one of the reasons people pray for them. For example..... A person has a child with stage 4 cancer. They don't know how to kill the cancer that has spread around the body or remove it without harming their own child. The doctors can't or won't do it either; so they pray that it get's removed. A Higher Being knows how to work around the laws of physics and nature to remove that cancer and does so....sending it in remission.

I think most of the people on television who were promoting this garbage DID know better. They were just taking advantage of the simple minded and scared. First they fill you full of fear about the society collapsing or the economy collapsing....often tying it to a greater GLOBAL collapse. Then they scare you with Armageddon talk. But then give you the impression that YOU can be the last man standing with your gold coins and weapons somewhere in a bunker. As far as the crop circles............. I'm not sure if they are fake or real, I'm not there when they were being made. However PRESUMING they are real, I'd have to again ask.....what are their purpose? And how does it benefit me and Black people in general? Whoever made these crop circles, surely they know the problems going on on this planet. Surely they know who's causing it. Now are they HELPING those who are causing the problems, or are they OPPOSING them?

Ofcourse I don't "know" because I'm not in the Israeli government. The average American citizen can only speculate based on what they know of history and what they see in the media. In order for me to actually KNOW how the Israeli military get's it's power I would have to have personal access to Israeli government and military knowledge.

Actually it's the opposite. I think the claims of many White people on E.T.'s are real and legitimate. It's too far wide spread, detailed, and logical for them all to just be "making them up". My question is why ISN'T it happening more to Black folks? Why do THEY get the privilege of meeting with these particular Beings and getting knowledge and technology from them to further their civilization?

You weren't the only one.....lol. I saw the crypto currency scam 25 MILES away and called it out. People looking at you with their eyes bucked open staring around the room as they whisper to you about how bit-coin was the way to go because "the government" can't track it and doesn't know about it. I ask them, how the hell do THEY know about it but thinks "the government" doesn't???? This scam was brought to you by the same right-wing liars who got people to invest in fake gold coins a generation ago because they said the dollar was on the verge of collapsing.

Probably because it needs no explaination....lol. We all know that the UNITED STATES backs Israel and gives it it's military power.

But are they really? Or have THEY been given access to places and information that we aren't privy to? And again, regardless to their actual validity.....why are the vast majority of those making these claims Caucasian????? There are a lot of crazy Black folks. No shortage of Black folks or Native Americans who are bi-polar, or schizophrenic, or on crack. Yet THEY aren't talking about having sex with or being abducted by aliens!

ProfD A monopoly keeps other businesses from getting off the ground. It runs counter to a free market system. EVERY business is a monopoly when it's the first or only one initially, before another one is established. Is it the monopoly itself that prevents other businesses from getting off the ground.... or is it the EXCESSIVE LAWS and FEES and LICENSING that prevents other businesses from getting off the ground because they can't afford to cut through the excessive red tape? The government (state, local and federal) provides jobs and housing and other benefits but it doesn't start businesses. IOW, government doesn't produce and sell products, goods and services. It buys from the free market like everybody else. So the public housing authorities in most major cities around the nation wasn't started by and owned by the government? The public transportation systems in major cities around the nation weren't started by and owned by those governments? The U.S. military ITSELF is a business. Literally. It buys and sells items and services. Come on man..... As I said before, the government does INDEED start businesses when they WANT to. NOW it mostly buys and contracts out from already established businesses as a way to avoid affirmative action and anti-discrimination laws. So many right-wingers and Republicans were complaining about the amount of Black folks in government jobs; they found a way to get around it by just contracting services out to PRIVATE companies who don't have the same diversity standards. But that's by CHOICE. That's why it's important that Black folks become more self-sufficient and vertically integrate in order to lift each other especially in order to build generational wealth. While you're absolutely right..... Black individuals can't WAIT on it and put their own personal success on hold. ......sitting up here waiting on Black folks collectively to "get it together" and start lifting eachother up to build generational wealth. Lol. You gotta eat TODAY. The rent is due TODAY. If you need work and have talent and there are no Black businesses available for you to express your gifts....you should be able to put in an application for a corporate or government position and make a good living.

Maybe with women, not with men. If a woman is PHYSICALLY beautiful in the eyes of a man.......she will REMAIN that way unless her looks are changed in some way. A man may loose his ATTRACTION to her and may even indeed come to HATE her, however he won't deny her beauty even in the realest talk. It'll just be a "but" behind it......lol. "Yeah man she fine...BUT....that girl crazy as hell. Had to leave her alone"

Troy is right, it doesn't. It was a stirring testimony though. A great example would be an Angel or other superior Being standing on that motel balcony next to Dr. King maintaining an invisible shield that caused the bullet aimed for him to bounce off leaving him totally unharmed. .....or better yet ricochet back to the assassin and kill him instead!

This is great news. I hope the brother goes on to have many successful terms in office. Infact, he should lead the charge to help keep Trump off of New York's Presidential ballot.

Troy My position remains the same. I don't want the Government (Federal, State, or Local) breaking up or limiting businesses PERIOD. The only thing they should be doing to companies is making sure all products are safe and making sure all contracts are honored. THAT'S IT. Other than that, stay the hell out of people's business. The same laws they're using to "punish" Amaz0n or Walmart or Cheveron can be used against YOU. ...and with far more devastating consequences since you don't have the money to ride it out like they do. Let companies grow as they wish and let the consumer decide as they wish.

I don't know. But if I NEED to know please LET me know!

As a scientist....Dr. Tyson focuses on FACTS.....not SPECULATION. So he's doing exactly what he's suppose do to, which is talk about what he KNOWS.

Didn't read the book but I remember the T.V. movie and T.V. show that followed. Oprah Winfrey was in one of them....or maybe both I thought it was pretty good. Has a decent mix of social issues and attractive women. What I really liked about the T.V. show was how the bruthaz would come on singing acapella at the opening of every episode. One of the episodes (or was it in the movie series??) that stood out was Oprah Winfrey's character getting angry and rounding up a bunch of women to knock down some wall...lol.

Being with the same spouse for over 70 years indeed says something about both people. Personally..... Except for my Mother, I haven't found a woman yet that I would want to be in a committed social relationship with for over 5 years....lol. I'm sure one is out there. Haven't found her yet.

frankster You could look in the Black Baptist Churches or Vodun. And I do! Troy well, they were off your people and you can only play so much waste with slingshots and clubs. They had bows and arrows and spears around the globe for THOUSANDS of years.....lol. Those can do some....as they say on the Westcoast....HELLA damage. Seriously, to suggest that is on the same scale is hyperbolic. It's not the SCALE that should be focused on but the INTENT. If your argument is that war and mass bloodshed is a product of Western civilization citing the sheer AMOUNT of blood shed in Western conflicts as evidence of this....then a counter-argument would be that the DESIRE to shed just as much if not more blood was there among some Indigenous groups if only they had the technology to do so! So that would make them just as war like....minus the technology to express it. when was the last time you were in a Black church? It's been a while But as I said before, I'm after the TRUTH. Not simply what someone READ or thought they felt. But if someone had an actual encounter with a Being they actually thought was Jesus or a Saint...I'd love to hear the story.

Troy Then you may have been too young to appreciate the implications of their monopoly. If they were not broken we would still be paying $100 for a 20 minute long distance phone call and be using corded phones with rotary dial’s. Come on man, lol. They had cell phones and touch tone phones as far back as the 70s. This was well before the forced break up of Ma Bell in the 80s. As a result of the break up, telephone calls are FAR less expensive and technological advances took off overnight. I’ve never encountered anyone who thought monopolies were a societal good It's not about being "good" for society or bad. It's business. Money is like energy.....it...in and of itself...is neither good nor bad but how you USE it. If Comcast or Bell or any other company actually made laws PREVENTING other individuals from entering the same businesses as them...that's one thing. They're not. They are doing what they are SUPPOSED to do which is grow as big as they can and get as much money as they can. Again.... If the government doesn't like it then THEY should provide and alternative. I said the same thing during the Obama Care debate. People hollering and crying over how the insurance companies are ripping people off and not providing good coverage, but they don't want to support "government" healthcare or Universal Health Care. Instead of telling private companies what to do and OVER regulating them, just provide and alternative and let people CHOOSE. ProfD The US was built on capitalism which has its good and bad. Facts. The US government doesn't start businesses to compete with a free market system. That's why there's no universal healthcare. A. The government actually DID start businesses to compete with the private industry.....back in the Roosevelt Administration. They were call the New Deal and WPA and they provided JOBS for people with GOOD PAY not only to help people but to provide healthy competition to the private sector who were working the shit out of people with little pay. They also built housing for free and at affordable rates to compete with the private housing sector who wasn't meeting the needs of the people. So the government CAN and DOES start businesses and industries when it WANTS to. B. There's no Universal Healthcare in this nation for two reasons: 1. The insurance companies are PAYING the politicians to keep it off the table. 2. Most White folks don't like the idea of Black and Brown people getting free healthcare with "their" tax money. "What's the purpose of trying to KILL OFF the niggers if we're just gonna to pay for 'um to go to the hospital and get well again? Geeeeez!" There's a difference between a publicly traded corporation (stock exchange) and a public entity. Shareholders have a say but not the average person. G88gle is still privately-owned. The local library is publicly owned. Citizens have a right to sit in the library all day without paying as much as attention. Thanks for reminding me of the difference. When talking about corporations I keep mistakenly conflating the share holders with the general public. BTW...lol...what's with you encrypting "Google"????? Asians and Latinos have entire enclaves of businesses that belong to them. Chinatown is a great example of it. Yes. Many of them have their own neighborhoods and businesses AND they apply to work for predominately White businesses as well so they can learn how they operate and bring that knowledge back home to their communities. Black folks don't have to self-segregate in order to be self-sufficient. Many of our people have been dependent on the system of racism white supremacy for so long that they wouldn't know how fish if it was a video on their smartphone. Lol.... A lot of Black folks don't learn how to become self sufficient until they are FORCED to. Let being abruptly fired or layed off from a job they've held for 30 years. Or having such a bad criminal record that nobody will hire them so they're FORCED to get out and "do for self" as best they can. ....and discover they actually do better on their own! Black folks have been trading their labor and intellectual capital to enrich others for way too long. Too many of our people are still slaves to wages. While you're right and a lot of Black people know this, they also understand WHY this is too.....lol. They've come to realize that while a lot of our people have the TALENT and SKILL, many don't have the DISCIPLINE that comes from working under White folks. Oh yes, they may be EXCELLENT cooks, tailors, builders, musicians, CPA's, computer programmers, etc... But don't want to get up early. Don't want to make appointments or keep the appointments they do make. Don't have good customer service skills and quick to cuss somebody out over something minor. Nicca don't have a bank account. Like Fred Sanford, he does his financial trading at the corner LIQUOR STORE. How many Soul Food joints you've been to where the food was so good it gave you an instant erection....lol...but every other time you went there they were OUT of the food you love!!! Or they were CLOSED 4 days out of a 7 day week....lol. How you go be running a fish and seafood joint....but steady OUT OF FISH every weekend????? But the Chinese are almost NEVER out of the food you want! Notice that? Go to any Chinese place and order the craziest thing on the menu....and they GOT IT and will have it ready in 5 minutes! Plenty of talent....but no discipline. Just not fit to own their own business. Need a White man standing over them with a stick in his hand to keep them in line....lol. If you understand THIS, then you'll understand why so many multimillionaire Black entertainers often end up dying BROKE while their White agents and producers who make far less money often end up not only dying wealthy but have wealth to PASS DOWN to future generations.

ProdD Most of these rappers and other entertainers are smart. They have to have a certain amount of intelligence to be able to remember their lyrics while rapping on stage in concerts or acting. Same with most world class athletes. Most of them are smart and can remember their plays, think fast to deliver their moves, etc.... I remember listening to Michael Jordan during his interviews and how remarkably articulate and intelligent he sounded when talking. Look at 50Cent and how he's trying to build his own little empire. No matter how stupid and goonish these brothers may PRETEND to be in their performance, most of them are geniuses (genii???) in their field.

Since so many people are in agreement with what I just wrote, I suppose the wise thing to do is stop while I'm ahead and not post anything else in this thread.......lol.