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Old 06-18-2018, 05:12 PM   #16
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Old 06-18-2018, 06:33 PM   #17
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Old 06-19-2018, 10:18 AM   #18
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God must have one hell of a sense of humor, or he’s just plain evil
If God controls the land and disease,
Keeps a watchful eye on me,
If he's really so damn mighty,
My problem is I can't see
Well who would want to be
Who would want to be such a control freak?

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Old 06-19-2018, 10:30 AM   #19
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This thread is weird.

When you ask what unites us, are you asking for opinions on which we all agree? You won't find many of those.

Aside from that, a common will to survive. The times when the US was most 'united' came when there was a true existential threat out there. Nazi Germany and Japan. Great Britain during the revolution. Russia's cold war threat, particularly during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

We were divided during wars with enemies that didn't represent a true existential threat to us. Vietnam. Iraq. Some could see the logic in being there, others couldn't. But nobody felt the United States's very existence was ever remotely in jeopardy.

A common will to survive. That's the only thing that truly unites us. We don't have that much else in common with one another - speaking broadly.
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Old 06-19-2018, 10:39 AM   #20
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Well we'll always have the Redskins at least.

Don't want to stray off topic though, even though I can't think of anything ATM I like this thread Cred.
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Old 06-19-2018, 01:10 PM   #21
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Until everyone is willing to listen to each other and have a willingness of intellectual curiosity....I don't see much change.

Also need to keep an open mind to the fact media and social media companies are attempting to generate revenue by sensationalizing emotional issues to get emotional responses. They knows what works.

The idea of protesting someone's different viewpoint at Universities and Safe Spaces which allow for discrimination...what are we teaching kids? Run away or don't listen? This isn't progress when you have to buffer people because your so sensitive to a viewpoint.

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Old 06-19-2018, 01:53 PM   #22
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There are going to be the occasional issues where the vast majority of people agree. But to even get 90% to agree on something is rare.

But that's the great thing about this country, you can be one of those other 10% who just don't agree, and you're free to speak your mind, even if you make no sense.
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Old 06-19-2018, 03:09 PM   #23
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If God controls the land and disease,

Keeps a watchful eye on me,

If he's really so damn mighty,

My problem is I can't see

Well who would want to be

Who would want to be such a control freak?



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Old 06-20-2018, 12:01 PM   #24
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Billboard on I-40 asking 'liberals' to leave Texas goes viral | KVII

Type of thing that generally does nobody any good and segregates ideas. This is the type of thinking that worries me
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Billboard on I-40 asking 'liberals' to leave Texas goes viral | KVII

Type of thing that generally does nobody any good and segregates ideas. This is the type of thinking that worries me
Yup.
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Old 06-20-2018, 12:49 PM   #26
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Say someone I strongly disagree with on multiple levels of about everything, Bernie Sanders. There is a need for him as a voice of dissent against me for this thing called murica to work. I respect and recognize that his ideas matter. I think most would agree but just don't actually respect or practice this thinking in the long run.

Plus I like Bernie’s hair and delivery, even though he is a communist

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God must have one hell of a sense of humor, or he’s just plain evil
I thought this when I had my third and final child and like the first two it was a girl!
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