All killing is murder, states are just gangs big enough to have a PR team and the ability to indoctrinate the youth into following their rules.

Good on South Carolina for making that more plain.

I have a copy of that book gathering dust, thanks for the motivation to continue

That’s how Pirate’s codes were written, a deck swabber gets one share of the loot, a cook gets two, officers get three, and the captain gets five.

And if the crew isn’t happy with the captain they could vote him out and elect a new one.

Yarr

You might enjoy this read, then

https://medium.com/words-of-tomorrow/was-stargate-sg-1-a-psyop-13f5af628f8a

(It’s a joke, to be clear … or is it?)

Maybe, but satellites are expensive. According to the documentary Third Eye Spies, the program didn’t cost more than a dozen people’s salaries.

The specifics would be classified, but the program ran from 1977 until it was leaked in 1995, and was funded on a yearly basis based on the performance of the past year. 18 years is a long time to fund a program that apparently amounted to nothing.

And according to the civilian researchers that were part of it, it didn’t really end, they just ditched the civilians and kept going.

If anybody wanted to check out the files: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/stargate

Fun fact, it’s at least partially based on the CIAs long-running (and successful) remote viewing program

That’s a great way to see it, thanks for sharing.

That’s how I view different religions. Each one has one part of a big picture and a bunch of extra fluff. The trouble is that people tend to think that the extra fluff is just as important as the core message, and religions as a organizations encourage it.

The receptors for psychedelics aren’t there for no reason, heavy prayer and meditation can trigger similar effects. Substances are just a shortcut, that’s why religion don’t tend to like them. Personally I think that as long as it isn’t used as a crutch it’s totally fine to buy a day pass.

Yeah

The Quakers are pretty based, to put it in a term they wouldn’t understand. They also are pacifists and don’t let priests tell them what God actually meant to say.

Christians would have to get a lot more serious about the commandment to swear no oaths

What’s “Ovement?”

That, and good thing there isn’t a new pandemic brewing in birds and livestock.

And if you’re desperate, the back of a shampoo bottle

Not yet. I guarantee she’ll die some day.

I’m still using both, but I’m sure with the changes in administration I’ll be getting banned soon. I already got a warning for saying that self-declared kings are liable to self-declared regicide

It’s the same as with his incredibly long ties, he has his own opinion and doesn’t let anyone else’s opinions sway him.

Life has as much meaning as we give it, humans think life has inherent meaning, ergo life has meaning.

Let’s start thinking that cooperation has meaning, that the divine plan is for us to realize that everything around is what life should not be and that all of it is a choice we make every day