And now for something weird...

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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The Council estimates that the costs of repairing the coffin are probably well under £100 ($128). "We still have the piece and specialist adhesives will be used to repair the coffin," explained the spokesman. "Fortunately we have an in-house conservator who will carry out the careful repair."

Amazing how a damaged piece of history can be repaired for so little...
 

spinnaker

Joined Oct 29, 2009
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The Council estimates that the costs of repairing the coffin are probably well under £100 ($128). "We still have the piece and specialist adhesives will be used to repair the coffin," explained the spokesman. "Fortunately we have an in-house conservator who will carry out the careful repair."

Amazing how a damaged piece of history can be repaired for so little...

Thing is it will never really be repaired because of a couple of morons.

Modern coffin or irreplaceable historical artifact. How did these two freaks think this was a could place to take a photo of their child?
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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http://www.greatfallstribune.com/st...-allegedly-reports-bad-meth-police/609315001/

"I do meth three times a day every day and have never had this reaction before," Margery Ann Dayrider told the police officer who arrived at her home, according to court documents.

Dayrider reportedly called 9-1-1 on Aug. 25 to report medical issues from injecting meth. When officers arrived at her home, Dayrider said she had injected her self at 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. that day, according to charging documents. She also produced some meth from inside her bra and handed it over to police, who later tested the crystals and confirmed they were, in fact, methamphetamine.
 

spinnaker

Joined Oct 29, 2009
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What a sad, horrible life that woman must have... what a waste

What is really sad is there are many, many more just like her. And it doesn't need to be drug use or even alcohol use. Just take a walk down the streets of almost any town in the USA and see the huge number of people just wasting their lives away doing nothing. We are unbelievably blessed in this country and not near enough people take advantage of the blessings that are right within their reach. It really pisses me off. :(

And I don't know what this lady's problem is. She may have been a very nice hard working lady that had an accident and later succumbed to opioids during pain treatment, later devolved to a meth user, which is another very sad story that is happening to too many.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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We are unbelievably blessed in this country and not near enough people take advantage of the blessings that are right within their reach.
Just as I was saying to my son a few nights ago... we're living in a period of history that will probably be remembered as "the generation of the ungrateful entitled"
 

BR-549

Joined Sep 22, 2013
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It's all part of the plan gentlemen......and it will get a lot worse. Freedom(what is now called civil rights) without responsibility and standards is always perverted and destructive. Freedom can not exist without morality.

Freedom can not be separated from morality. Morality does not come from man. Man has none. And of course the academic line is that freedom only occurs without morality. Satan's lie.

This is all financed by the prosperity of the American worker. For the children....just not your children.

The spoiled children that run the country off of our labor. The root, seed and force is our academics. IT IS NOT GRASS ROOTS OR FROM THE PEOPLE. The people are against this. But the people no longer matter.
 

BR-549

Joined Sep 22, 2013
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Yes indeed.......Max........our history backs that up. We are a loving and caring race aren't we. Why our morality has made us gods, hasn't it.

We should be very proud of the world we created..................and we are. The results are very impressive.

And all due to the inherent morality of man. We are the greatest. And now.....we have the scientific data to prove it. From an impartial source too. We all look at ourselves honestly anyway.

Yes sir.......the truth of science puts my mind at rest. The future of man is secure.
 

MaxHeadRoom

Joined Jul 18, 2013
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There is another part of the equation, however and that is something we may never be rid of, that is our inherent evolutionary trait of Tribalism.
I was very interested in a recent interview by Leslie Stahl of Ben Ferenz, now in his 90's, but the young Jewish lawyer that was put in charge of the Nuremberg trials.
She asked him what he thought of the young SS officers that he tried that made Jews march in to the trench they had dug and shoot them, row on row.
He said that in any other normal circumstances they would normal law abiding German citizens that would probably have lived out there lives out without incidence.
He also referenced the crew of the planes that evaporated Hiroshima & Nagasaki and drew a similarity between the two.
The interview is still out there and worth a look.
Incidentally Paul Tibbets (pilot Enola Gay) expressed no regrets before he died at 91..
Max.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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There is another part of the equation, however and that is something we may never be rid of, that is our inherent evolutionary trait of Tribalism.
I was very interested in a recent interview by Leslie Stahl of Ben Ferenz, now in his 90's, but the young Jewish lawyer that was put in charge of the Nuremberg trials.
She asked him what he thought of the young SS officers that he tried that made Jews march in to the trench they had dug and shoot them, row on row.
He said that in any other normal circumstances they would normal law abiding German citizens that would probably have lived out there lives out without incidence.
He also referenced the crew of the planes that evaporated Hiroshima & Nagasaki and drew a similarity between the two.
The interview is still out there and worth a look.
Incidentally Paul Tibbets (pilot Enola Gay) expressed no regrets before he died at 91..
Max.
Anthropology has shown that humans are born with an elementary moral compass, even a marked tendency to believe in a higher power. This basic morality is then expanded (or destroyed) by culture and personal experience.
 

MaxHeadRoom

Joined Jul 18, 2013
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Anthropology has shown that humans are born with an elementary moral compass,.
I agree, but if you look at the social behaviour of our close relatives that share most of our DNA , the apes, their social structure mirrors ours almost exactly .
Check out the total loss of life due to all Human conflicts that occurred Just during the 20th century (it has been recorded, it is mind boggling), I can find none that were caused by anything but tribalism, as it has been down through history.
Just that the weapons are getting a little more advanced!:eek:
Max.

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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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I agree, but if you look at the social behaviour of our close relatives that share most of our DNA , the apes, their social structure mirrors ours almost exactly .
Check out the total loss of life due to all Human conflicts that occurred Just during the 20th century (it has been recorded, it is mind boggling), I can find none that were caused by anything but tribalism, as it has been down through history.
Just that the weapons are getting a little more advanced!:eek:
Max.

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Yes, tribalism is a determinant factor in our species' behavior. One only has to walk down the street to notice its sharp grasp on families, groups of friends, and gangs... hell, even sports teams take advantage of this human characteristic (I won't call it a flaw, though) ... thing is, tribalism has become more of a hindrance in this modern urban society ... and now our accelerated technological advances has made tribalism extremely dangerous to our own survival.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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Incidentally Paul Tibbets (pilot Enola Gay) expressed no regrets before he died at 91..
Max.
I know of no Jews that were designated military targets like Hiroshima & Nagasaki. The actions of Paul Tibbets and others associated with the atomic bomb saved far more Japanese lives than those lost directly because of the bombing.


The ruins of 1945: Tokyo, left, and Hiroshima, right.

The Tokyo firebombing (and more than 60 other Japanese cities) was before the atomic bombing.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-09/tokyo-wwii-firebombing-remembered-70-years-on/6287486
US Air Force general Curtis LeMay, the man who ordered the raids across Japan, once said the US military "scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night ... than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined".

He acknowledged that if he had been on the losing side, he would be charged with war crimes.
 
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BR-549

Joined Sep 22, 2013
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That has to be one of the most perverse rationals I ever heard. That is not intellect. Trying to equate the motives of those events is pure political propaganda. Don't care to watch or read it.

Tribalism and nationalism is the ONLY environment/system that diversity can exist in.

Nationalism is the result of peace....a result of diversity/differences.....not the cause of war.

Edit: Tribalism IS diversity. Where does the diversity come from. A planetary distributor?
 
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