the price is dropping hard once again i think that it means that after some time it will reach huge heights

I guess the mufti realized that if people playing chess, they will inevitably start thinking. A wahhabi who is thinking...?!? That would be the end of the world as they know it .

When policy-makers can rely exclusively on a monopolization of force, the policies they make tend to leverage this advantage eventually.  One need not be a raving paranoid to look with discomfort at a society which is rapidly expanding a heavily armed domestic paramilitary while simultaneously dis-arming civilians as fast as possible in spite of the social strain that the project entails and the statistically insignificant nature of problems that the action claims to address.

I, for one, do not believe in the 'American exceptionalism' and certainly not that such a thing gives us a magic shield against the types of misfortune that have befallen the Soviets under Stalin, the Chinese under Mao, the Cambodians under Pot, etc.  For my part, if I had to choose between a civil war and a totalitarian dictatorship, I would consider the first to be the lesser of two evils and a tunnel which has light at it's end.  A realistic balance of power seems to me the best way to avoid having to make that choice at all.

And in a more here-and-now sort of a way, communities like mine are kept remarkably peaceful by citizens having the ability to protect themselves.  The minimal levels of state sponsored law enforcement serve a back-office function of dealing with criminals when time is not a factor while the front-line duties are handled quite effectively by law abiding citizens.  It is very efficient and works quite well.

Execution if they left the city before the term set for them was over. Probably there were a few who went outside and were never executed alive. Probably there were some who remained in, and were found to be murderers later, and were executed.

I accept warning. Why not warn people when they are headed for Hell? You don't want them to burn, do you?

Don't you have any pleasure in life at all?

If you lose an arm in a car accident, where can you get another? Nowhere. God gave you your arms and hands for free. Is this what an asshole does?

You think God is an asshole? If somebody calls you an asshole, do you like that person? Maybe you have trouble in life because you call God an asshole. I mean, He feels hurt when you call Him and asshole just like you do when somebody calls you an asshole.

However, aren't you a little bit scared to set yourself against God? I mean, it is God that holds you alive. Aren't you scared when you try to fight Him... at least a little?

Question: Why did you ask me to define "loving" and then "love" for you?
Answer: That's a point. Best regards.

Can anyone decipher this for me?

Why do cops and soldiers need to be armed with guns? I thought the whole idea was to feel safer. I feel a lot safer when we don't have anyone running around with guns.

All you need to do is look at what Stalin and Mao and Hitler did to their own people who didn't have guns. And what about Pol Pot and many others?

I would certainly rather have a fighting chance than not.

Oh the putin pr fraction is stronk in this one.

Putin is like bush just with better PR.

And most of you ppl are idiots to support him.

life is not fair.
those very rich people got their money by harboring third world employees and paying them some cents. they even work on lowering the minimum wage in these countries through these corrupted governments

How are you going to force the guns out of the hands of the bad guys? You are going to use guns, right?

I suppose a mob of unarmed cops could rush a bad guy with a gun. A bunch of the cops might get killed. But they finally could wrestle the gun away from him.

If the cops are armed... well just look at all the police brutality in America alone. Google it... "police brutality" and see how many millions of hits you get. They can't all be criminals posting this stuff. So, if the police have guns, and nobody else has guns, the bad guys still have guns.

With all the guns around, and with all the knowledge about how to make guns, you will never disarm the world completely. The best bet is to arm us all so that we can protect ourselves from everyone, including the bad cops.

I nailed it again. Im starting to see bitcoinwisdom as neo sees throught the matrix, maybe I should start trading

It´s easy to have double standards.

For example there is much talk about Russia having violated "international laws" by re-uniting Crimea with Russia and supporting the self-determination of people in the Donbass. Why aren´t those alleged violations brought before the international court of justice? That´s how it goes when laws are broken, courts of justice deal with that. But of course those here who talk about international law don´t give a flyin eff about that in their endless wars on false pretenses. They don´t care about human rights and regimes killing their own people if the scumbags belong to their team. It´s total hypocrisy.

I guess those violations can´t be brought before a court because there isn´t any case. And besides there are tons of precedents that the defense could point to.

in my opinion, i prefer the citizens not allowed to own gun

because a lot of accident has occured because of the gun, there is a teenager stealing her father's gun and then shoot somebody

there is a gang robbery using gun, so i dont see any of advantage of owning a gun

Maybe. Anyway, the United States government has no qualms at all about executing people here and there extra judicially by robots and the same goes for their British colleagues so it´s total hypocrisy when they accuse others of the same.

Another Holocaust/democide (prerequisite: gun control) denier, I see. /ignore

He was not killed for opposing the president. He was killed for passing on strategic Russian military secrets to the British agents. There is a big difference. Even if he was a British or American citizen, the governments there would have taken him out if he was doing the same to them. So don't blame everything on Russia and Putin.

From the beginning of the period you said, ancient greece, they already had lots of alternative explanations for what they saw in daily life. Atomism like I said for example. That's back in the 5th century bc. India had something similar to atomism around that time too. Before that there were explanations for natural phenomena like lightning, earthquakes, the sun, etc without gods. Maybe those ideas weren't more talked about because of connections to atheism and the risk of death or exile. Or maybe it was more difficult to spread those ideas because they didn't have the practical applications they have today. So it didn't matter much if gods were doing things or if it was something natural. But choosing to believe the more complicated explanation of gods doing things needs faith.