And now who is insisting on keeping it here, it is not me. Others have found my statement more than suffice, you seem to be the only one who hasn't. It seems your concept of atonement is off and maybe you need to recalibrate. I know it is an insane thought that would ever need to change or evolve your stance.
A different perspective on what my reasons were for writing something and what I was saying when I wrote it? No Dave, I don't think my viewpoint on that is incorrect.
Ah yes, you can bring it to different threads, but I must stay silent. Sorry, but I don't accept that. I assure you, I will respond if you do it again (assuming I see it). I went back and reread that entire discussion to see how it "progressed" - from my perspective, the point it headed south was the point you joined in the discussion. And who was the one the flag reference was directed at: them or me (or all)? Who was the hollow "apology" directed at: them or me (or all)? Since you are incapable of doing the same, here is what soccernutter wrote (post 9977): Here is my summary (post 9971) that you refused to acknowledge: Your refusal to even acknowledge understanding these motivations and basic points does not do you service. You are not superdave - you are better than acting like him.
And screw Christians. At least the ones insisting on closing stores and forcing their views on me and the people who have shit to do today that don't require going to church.
My Muslim partner has said this too and rolls her eyes constantly when the kids have days off for Christian holidays but for them to take off for Muslim ones?
Bitd, I had to fight for a couple of my kids to have El Eid off. Of course, one of them just wanted the day off, but I was fighting for equal treatment. Mind, this was in Memphis and a lot of people hadn't even heard of El Eid.
A while back in the rugby chatroom this dude complained that in his part of Australia the liquor stores closed from Good Friday to Easter Monday!!
My life as professional introduced me to the Muslim calendar for Big Eid and Little Eid. Another profession made me aware of the Jewish calendar. Christians have a lot of days off for our faith.
France and other Catholic countries seem to have a lot more than the UK/Australia/NZ. The US seems to have the fewest of them all.
We should have Holi off, and celebrate it properly. But we are a Judeo-Christian society, so it's all doom and gloom.
Is that where this. Conservative hatred of entitlements come from or the idea of anyone getting something free a problem?
That’s one thing I like about where I live, not many places seem to close for Easter. Though getting decent Mexican food today would be pretty much out of the question.
Maybe just me, but I always thought crow and raven were kinda interchangeable names for the same basic bird, like dove and pigeon. Never did any studying of birds, so it never came up, but that's what I thought.
I was assuming that, here, as well. But needed to run a couple of errands, and...just went grocery shopping. With that said, the places which were closed were national chain places. Still, surprised me.
Also crows are more common in heavily populated areas, and ravens prefer more remote areas. And crows are usually in larger flocks whereas ravens you’ll only see two at a time in most cases (bonded pair). Ravens are badass, there’s a good reason the people of this continent revered them.
My general way of telling ravens from crows: Crows = a bit smaller, more curious. Ravens = bigger, "I ain't touching that! You think I'm stupid?"