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stovebolts
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Seattle still is hippie friendly but the old school hippies live in Oregon.
jasonc
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Oregon ,depending the parts,Portland ,blah ,way toi whacky ,also they charge a fine if I were to buy property there and move.3000 bucks .
I have been to Portland twice
stovebolts
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My first wife lived in Vancouver, right across the bridge to Portland. Lived there for a few years and it wasn't too bad.
Most of the hippies I knew were around Eugene because the mushrooms were / are abundent in late September, early October.
There was a cult in the 70's in the middle of the state. Guru had like 50 Rolls. I've been by it a million times, but he started his own city. I think his name started with an R or something. That all came out of the hippie era.
jasonc
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some one i know is tied to a tiny town that shares her last name. i cant remember the name. i just remember the post.
jasonc
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what a loon, in away reminds of the less violent and whacky kashi ashram cult er ranch here in roseland. bat x crazy, vegans but later on after the death of the their founder became a bit more open and reached out to the veteran community. i warned the vets who werent from my county or didnt live in the county long enough about their past. it wasnt ignored just some that did meet with them did notice the attempt to draw them in and how they are a bit different.
i never had any respect to start with
stovebolts
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I always give everyone the benefit of the doubt until I see otherwise.
Son of Israel
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Psa 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
Psa 46:2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, And though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas
Psa 46:3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Isa 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
Isa 57:21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Psa 46:2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, And though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas
Psa 46:3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Isa 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
Isa 57:21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
I don't know much about Black Lives Matter so this is very educational for me. I did love Martin Luther King. Every group has a fringe element, people who go off the deep end. I base my opinion on these racial issues on a case by case basis. This man in Detroit obviously needed to be put down. I do hope that BLM do not get military like the far right neo-nazis. They are gaining momentum and I would hate to see that lost because of the looters and fringe element.
In the Black community where I live there is a lot of paranoia. They say that a lot of the over-the-top BLM people are planted to make them look bad.
There is one thing I believe in strongly and that is to not generalize. In each organization there is diversity of opinions. Left, right, and middle.
This afternoon I watched the movie Suffragette. For 50 years the women in Britain marched peacefully to get the vote. Finally they turned to civil disobedience and were granted the vote. So many people, not me necessarily, believe that sometimes there is a just war needed to bring about equality. The American Revolution was was such a case.
I am going to support the part of the BLM that supports civil rights legislation and community policing like they have in Oakland.
The world in in chaos right now and it really scares me until I remember that God is watching and will intervene when he is ready. The most important to me in my old age is my faith. I do not know what people do without it.
In the Black community where I live there is a lot of paranoia. They say that a lot of the over-the-top BLM people are planted to make them look bad.
There is one thing I believe in strongly and that is to not generalize. In each organization there is diversity of opinions. Left, right, and middle.
This afternoon I watched the movie Suffragette. For 50 years the women in Britain marched peacefully to get the vote. Finally they turned to civil disobedience and were granted the vote. So many people, not me necessarily, believe that sometimes there is a just war needed to bring about equality. The American Revolution was was such a case.
I am going to support the part of the BLM that supports civil rights legislation and community policing like they have in Oakland.
The world in in chaos right now and it really scares me until I remember that God is watching and will intervene when he is ready. The most important to me in my old age is my faith. I do not know what people do without it.
One of my concerns of BLM is they are using similar tactics of indoctrination to LGBQTI. Getting the kids while they young. "Educating" kids in the classroom with their ideology. An ideology of hatred it would seem. The police being the target. Keep that up and no one will want to be a policeman
There will be no police force. Vigilante protest groups will rule. Equals chaos.
There will be no police force. Vigilante protest groups will rule. Equals chaos.
King Dan of Great the 1st
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Some people label and labels are division.
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Debp*
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It is those groups themselves that label themselves.
stovebolts
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True. Labels can be very destructive. Personally, I have a distaste for labels as it can remove the individuals personal responsibility away from themself and direct it toward the label.
stovebolts
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I was listening to Detroits NPR station this morning and they had a black gal on talking about how Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite for not freeing the slaves and how he was part of the problem because he did not live out what he wrote in the constitution. I e all men are created equal. She wanted his statue removed and you could feel her anger.
jasonc
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He lived in the times,leftist deciept here.he couldn't free his slaves per the legal status of which one he owned and also families would be broken up.
But well reform seldom comes in tidal waves but slow creep . the left ,I can post their hypocrisy,America bad ,chairmen mao,they gush about .I,have the article on,that opinion at home
I think it needs to be kept in perspective that slave trade and ownership at that time was the norm so to label him a hypocrite might not be quite accurate. His slave ownership was a result of his marriage as he inherited 135 slaves from his father-in-law.
Due to the laws at the time, which I don't fully understand, he was unable to free them although he wanted to and did free some. In fact, he was an open abolitionist and worked to change the laws to put an end to slave trade and slavery in general defining it as a "moral depravity" and "hideous blot."
He also believed that slavery, with part of America in favor of abolition and part of America in favor of perpetuating slavery, could only result in a civil war that would destroy the union. This prediction came true in 1861. At the same time, he viewed black people as inferior and part of his plan for ending slavery included deporting freed slaves either back to Africa or to Haiti so he was not totally without prejudice.
The statue was not erected to honor him as a slave owner/trader but in recognition of his work on gaining independence from Great Britain.
In my opinion being the norm is not an excuse. It was the norm at one time to kill the early Christians. It was the norm, until 1920, to not allow women the vote. Things change as people become more enlightened and we should go with the flow unless it contradicts scripture. This is why we have the Holy Spirit; to enlighten us.
Trying to increase your profit with low wages is still the norm in many places. In many U.S. cities waiters are not given a wage and must live on tips. Many nationalities have been taken advantage of to get cheap labor. The Chinese built the railroad and then were deported. Hispanics reap our harvests and live on low wages. See the movie, "The Harvest of Shame."
This is not a racial or cultural issue to me. This is about the love of money being the root of all evil.
Trying to increase your profit with low wages is still the norm in many places. In many U.S. cities waiters are not given a wage and must live on tips. Many nationalities have been taken advantage of to get cheap labor. The Chinese built the railroad and then were deported. Hispanics reap our harvests and live on low wages. See the movie, "The Harvest of Shame."
This is not a racial or cultural issue to me. This is about the love of money being the root of all evil.