Recent content by Lerxst

??? I make a fairly objective reply and I get 2 responses that assume things I didn't say... That's it. I'm done with this place. Have a nice life.

Racism, xenophobia, etc. can all be traced to one cause 90% of the time - ignorance. When the attacks on 9/11 happened, for instance, I was immediately looking for a country to move to. I wasn't afraid of the attacks, I was just afraid my politicians would have their typical knee-jerk reaction...

Here's a fact for the anti-terrorist-Islam group: ISIS declares all Muslims that are not of their strict code, to be infidels. They consider them to has strayed from the path of Islam and have targeted them as much as they have any other person in the West. Anyone ever think that part of ISIS'...

"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble." ~Buddha~ Looks like hunters fail this, miserably.

Muslims used to be peaceful, perhaps tolerant, of Christians. Then the Crusades came and Christians invaded them repeatedly for a couple hundred years. Then the Spanish Inquisition happened and many were killed. Fast forward a couple/few hundred years filled with more of the same and we have...

https://youtu.be/Vo3JznMhpWc https://youtu.be/1w7OgIMMRc4

Conservative idiocy aside... remember the movie "Fierce Creatures" back in 1997? https://youtu.be/fU9zV8gdEUw

Gun control aside, your attitude is the type of sick reasoning that causes mass shootings. "Someone else has it, so I need it" is one step away from "someone else may kill me, so I must kill them". If people like you won't willingly admit yourself for psychiatric treatment, the least anyone can...

I'm a Buddhist... just not a very good one (yet), since I have a strong sense of right and wrong and a stronger desire to fix what's wrong. I consider myself a student of Thich Nhat Han who was also an anti-war, peace activist Vietnam Monk, in Vietnam during the war. I'm just not even a fraction...

But here's a question: What if their ability to empathize makes them pick a side. How many times do people do things in God's name, thinking they're being pious and doing his work or by killing, they're actually saving people? What about KKK members who act on the ideals that they are doing what...

Actually, you just proved how shooting and killing isn't part of our, human being's, natural response to a situation. We've learned the behavior and then become over-confident in out ability/technology, dating back to pointy sticks and rock slings. Then again, human society is pretty much...

Huh? I haven't met any Canadians, other than the rich ones, who want to have anything to do with America... and I was born and raised one state on other side of their border. Japanese - Have a strong economy and come here in the droves... as tourists. They visit the sites, take pictures and go...

There was a news piece that I can't find at the moment - It was a staged class the students thought was real. They showed a class of students, some experienced with guns their entire lives, others not, that were taking a concealed weapons class. A "fake" shooter walked into he room and started...

As a person who changed parties from the Green to the Democrats in order to vote for Sanders, I'm not that concerned with his ability to change things. The state he's a senator of has a large Conservative faction - the sane ones, the ones who realize LGBT issues don't really matter too much and...