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I went into a Religious Bookstore once, in Virginia Beach, asked about the Baghavad Gita. They said they weren't sure what that was, but it wasn't in stock.
Asked about books on Wicca. Nope.
Norse mythology? They finally said by 'religious' they meant Christian.
"Okay, so Joseph Smith's prophecies..."
"Yeah, i think you need to leave."
I think the Trump vendor will last about two questions.
But would suggest "You got that map of the border? With the sharpie to mark completed parts of The Wall?"
And, "Got any of them upside-down bibles for photo ops?"
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From my State Farm Homeowners Insurance Policy, Section 19 (e) "Items Not Covered."
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I have a tiny quibble. The effort to discharge a nuke is so very, very complicated, with so many interlocks and safeties, that an accidental blast would be less warlike, and more of an ACT OF GOD. But they probably won't cover THOSE either, so it's a wash.
Yeah, you'll find similar language in all homeowners insurance.
I don't think an accidental nuke detonation is at all out of the question. A terrorist device with an anti-tamper. While we have no reason to build such a device that doesn't mean others wouldn't.
I think the military personnel bit applies to the previous sentence, not to the nuke sentence.
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It clearly excludes only warlike acts by military personnel. It further categorizes a nuke as a warlike act. Therefore, civilian nukes detonated accidentally are covered.
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Great one, but funny, not so much.
"You poor old sod, you see it's only me..."
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Sure; But good luck showing in court that the weapon was accidentally triggered by a civilian, when all the evidence and all the witnesses have been vapourised.
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Great one, but funny, not so much.
"You poor old sod, you see it's only me..."
I never said it was funny! As the thread title goes, it was an image that made me laugh. Sometimes we laugh when things aren't funny, as in "if I don't laugh, I'll cry".
I repped your post, and complimented the image in my post. I was offering commentary, not a complaint. I assumed you agreed the image is not funny, and I appreciated the irony of posting it in this thread.
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Great one, but funny, not so much.
"You poor old sod, you see it's only me..."
My first reaction was to think of the phrase, 'there but for the grace of g*d go I', or 'giving is receiving'? Or more cynically that the guy on the left is giving to make himself feel better. Or is it that the beggar has worked out a good strategy to get people to give? I wasn't sure what to make of it, but I thought it was clever and interesting.
"There but for the grace of God, go I" is what came to my mind, too. It's a great saying, although it would be more realistic and accurate to say, "There but for the grace of ordinary reality, random chance, and a slew of other events and influences that I can't control and most of which I am not aware of to begin with" but that's not nearly as eloquent.
It's true, though. In a very real sense, we are all each other in terms of what we might do or what circumstances we might find ourselves in. It's mainly just Republicans who don't understand this.
At least until they go to jail or lose their job or get sick with no health insurance and there's no rich daddy to take care of it.
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"There but for the grace of God, go I" is what came to my mind, too. It's a great saying, although it would be more realistic and accurate to say, "There but for the grace of ordinary reality, random chance, and a slew of other events and influences that I can't control and most of which I am not aware of to begin with" but that's not nearly as eloquent.
It's true, though. In a very real sense, we are all each other in terms of what we might do or what circumstances we might find ourselves in. It's mainly just Republicans who don't understand this.
Do you mean this?: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
"There but for the grace of God, go I" is what came to my mind, too. It's a great saying, although it would be more realistic and accurate to say, "There but for the grace of ordinary reality, random chance, and a slew of other events and influences that I can't control and most of which I am not aware of to begin with" but that's not nearly as eloquent.
It's true, though. In a very real sense, we are all each other in terms of what we might do or what circumstances we might find ourselves in. It's mainly just Republicans who don't understand this.
Do you mean this?: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
Not really, no. Regardless of laws or beliefs or status, every human being has the capacity (not necessarily tendency) to be or do or experience any possible human behavior or experience. Under the right conditions, any of us could have been Hitler or Jeffrey Dahmer. The conditions would have to be very precise and very different from what most of us actually do experience, but if met, yes, any of us could be the worst murderer you can imagine. So no matter what you can criticize others for, even stuff you've never done yourself and never would, it's humbling to realize you're not especially good in not having done that thing, and they are not especially bad in having done it.
It's not a magical concept like believing a god will punish the bad and reward the good, or the Western idea of karma, a magical force flowing through human behavior that gives everyone exactly what they dish out. Murderers and child rapists might go to their graves never having been held accountable. That's just life. The universe doesn't give a shit what we do. Life wants us to live. Death wants us to die. The moralizing domain is ours alone. We are the only ones we are accountable to, and we screw that up a lot even as we strive to do better in matters of justice. But like it or not, we are accountable to each other and no one else. So understanding the previous paragraph has the power to temper our judgments on each other and doesn't instill victim blaming mentality, all while allowing that sometimes we do have to blame and shame to prevent further damage by abusers.