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Shiftless2 said:
"Just a year after Reefer Madness was released

MARIJUANA SEX-CRAZING DRUG MENACE - 1937 Physical Culture Magazine" S2 #81​

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Not fully clear to me why Drug War is so irresistible to governments.
But vice wars tell a grim history in the U.S., eloquent disclosure of our hypocrisy on the Creator endowed, Constitutionally enumerated, unalienable right of Liberty.

Too much history to disclose it all in a paragraph here. But
it's worth noting, police departments used to have "vice squads"
that policed the detrimental crime of gambling.

Detrimental until States found a way to get "a piece of the $action".
Their semantic fig-leaf was to substitute the euphemism "gaming" for "gambling",
and to run the operation themselves.

State, & multi-State lotteries are a $windfall for government, a "stupid tax".

And while President Trump's America, the U.S. federal government is still in gung-ho Drug War posture,
most of the States have enlightened up on it, at least a little.

February 29, 2024
  • 54% of Americans live in a state where the recreational use of marijuana is legal
  • 74% of Americans live in a state where marijuana is legal for either recreational or medical use.
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Most Americans now live in a legal marijuana state – and most have at least one dispensary in their county

74% of Americans live in a state where marijuana is legal for either recreational or medical use.
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Drug War is intrinsically hypocritical.
If use of a particular drug was as bad as the scare-mongering Chickens Little pretend,
then why must government augment the harm with drug war?
Drug use is bad, BUT not quite bad enough on its own?

Miraculous! An invisible fig-leaf !
Shiftless2 said:
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🌴 [palm plant]
 
Philosophers provide us useful insights:

"Ideas are not for believing. Ideas are for using." psychologist Joy Browne

"My job basically is thinking up goofy $#@!" George Carlin Toledo Window Box

"ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." James Baldwin

"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us." Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626

BUT !

Astronomers & astrophysicists seem to have an edge:

"As the area of our knowledge grows, so too does the perimeter of our ignorance." Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson

"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." Ferdinand Magellan

Corroborating that notion, a man whose name is synonymous with genius was an astrophysicist, Albert Einstein. Way to go Al !

“Gravity slows down time … speed slows down time ...” astronomer / astrophysicist / professor / author Bob Berman


https://citizenvoice.us/threads/for-my-canadian-friends.459/page-31#post-24089 S2 #601

Sad to see you go professor Seager.
 
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Shiftless2 said:
"You expect your institutions to be tax-exempt while enjoying public infrastructure" FB #89
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a) This religious tax exemption is congress' practical means of maintaining separation between Church & State.

b) This infrastructure issue may have seemed less of a burden before government elbowed its way into the good works territory of the Church.
In generations past the Church helped attending to the indigent.

This contribution by the Church has been undermined by our government.
 
Advocacy can clarify, or obfuscate.
Advocating against prejudice might seem intrinsically positive. In this case potentially not.
Shiftless2 said:
"If labeling children as Conservative, Liberal, Democrat, Republican, etc. is ridiculous because they don't understand politics, then you shouldn't label them as Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, etc. either because they don't understand religion." meme #91
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Clarification: these categories may indicate an ideological commitment. But these categorizations may be applied as an ethnicity rather than an ideology.
And in law, minors are the charges of their parents. If the parents are "Christian" and attend church each Sunday, their minor children may also attend.
But it's a mistake to conflate involvement with family routine with theological devotion.
 
https://citizenvoice.us/threads/for-my-canadian-friends.459/page-33 #660
Rigby5 said:
"I never knew that one either, and can't picture a women with red shoes having to have a red handbag?" R5 #660
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Not a confession, but a boast -
I don't know enough about the fashion rules of color-coordination to know if there's a "red" exception to the belt / shoes / handbag standard.
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But women operate in a more complex social matrix than men, with more subtle, more complicated rules.

It's stupidly complicated.
A lot of women's fashions don't come from straight women, but instead come from gay men. w t h !
 
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The history of marijuana in the US and its criminalization is almost completely race driven

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At the beginning of the 20th century, immigration into the U.S. was rampant, and many Mexicans were coming to the United States during the Mexican Revolution (Blaszczak-Boxe, 2014). With the immigrants, marijuana arrived in the United States for the first time, setting the plant up for a permanent negative connotation; foreign, unamerican, and a threat to the white American way of life. The drug was known as "cannabis" to Americans prior to this, but the Mexicans referred to the drug as "marihuana." The United States used this to their advantage and this name played a pivotal role in the demonization of marijuana, creating a foreign and new language. The media at the time was excellent at fear-mongering the public and looking down on the Mexican immigrant's way of life
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I did not know that.
 
Thank God (pun intended)

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A Pew Research Center study projecting religious change in the United States found that Christians could fall below 50% of the US population by 2070 under current trends, ending centuries of Christian majority status in America. In 1990, 90% of Americans identified as Christian. By 2026, that figure has fallen to around 63%.

The decline is driven primarily by younger generations leaving organized religion at significantly higher rates than previous ones, with the religiously unaffiliated, often called "nones," now representing the fastest-growing group in the country.

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Shiftless2 said:
Thank God (pun intended)

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A Pew Research Center study projecting religious change in the United States found that Christians could fall below 50% of the US population by 2070 under current trends, ending centuries of Christian majority status in America. In 1990, 90% of Americans identified as Christian. By 2026, that figure has fallen to around 63%.

The decline is driven primarily by younger generations leaving organized religion at significantly higher rates than previous ones, with the religiously unaffiliated, often called "nones," now representing the fastest-growing group in the country.

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Seems to me that Christians have always been a tiny minority in reality, since Christ was an Arab.
Those who think Christ was white are totally wrong and not really Christian.
 
We can further sidestep the squabble about who is Christian, already address by the slogan:
spending 90 minutes in church once a week doesn't make one a Christian any more than spending 90 minutes per week in the garage makes one an Oldsmobile.
There's more to being Christian than claiming the prestige of it.

Rigby5 said:
"Those who think Christ was white are totally wrong and not really Christian." R5 #97
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Wouldn't this depend upon whether they worship a skin color, or practice a theology?

Shiftless2 said:
"Thank God (pun intended)" S2
"Christians could fall below 50% of the US population by 2070 under current trends, ending centuries of Christian majority status in America." #96
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Not sure which is the dominant dynamic here,
- a decline in (or diversification in) religiosity, or
- an improvement in integrity.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Assuming he actually existed he was a Jew and would not have been white." S2 #99
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George Carlin said we created him (god) in our own image and likeness.

Is it naïve of me to define Christians by their adherence to Christ's teachings, rather than flesh-tone?
 
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