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Heh, a friend I know is complaining about all the "Trust in Jesus to get through the Day"  "Believe in God to carry you forward" messages that are filling up his social media.

So he then slapped up :

 

"You can have all the faith you want in spirits and the afterlife, heaven and hell, but when it comes to the world, don't be an idiot, because you can tell me that you put your faith in God to get through the day but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways."

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"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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God helps those who help themselves I always say.

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"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

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That place looks more like a shelter. Tigers and other wild animals are often confiscated from regular people who try to keep them as pets and they can't return to the wild. A shelter at that point is their only option. 

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That place looks more like a shelter. Tigers and other wild animals are often confiscated from regular people who try to keep them as pets and they can't return to the wild. A shelter at that point is their only option. 

 

That would explain the ton of cats and dogs.

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The Radical Freedom of Dungeons and Dragons: http://reason.com/archives/2018/04/07/the-radical-freedom-of-dungeon

 

A little long but a very interesting and well done article.

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"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

-Rod Serling

 

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This one is still my favourite Swedemason one;

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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

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For those who have trouble making up their minds. Or like to keep their options open: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6006554/transgender-sex-robots-curious-couples-experimenting-porn/

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I break the glass push the handle and move the tie down. Roll for success.

I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"*

 

*If you can't tell, it's you. ;)

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I break the glass push the handle and move the tie down. Roll for success.

 

I don't think the cable loop is long enough for that to succeed. It is already close to taunt, so the handle would need to go down to a 90-degree angle from the rest position for the loop to pass the bottom of the handle; possibly more.

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I break the glass push the handle and move the tie down. Roll for success.

 

I don't think the cable loop is long enough for that to succeed. It is already close to taunt, so the handle would need to go down to a 90-degree angle from the rest position for the loop to pass the bottom of the handle; possibly more.

 

I realize that, considering how close the window is it is quite feasible if a bit slow.

I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"*

 

*If you can't tell, it's you. ;)

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They REALLY should have applied for a patent! 

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

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I'm not entirely convinced that solution isn't vulnerable to a breaking the window and using a bolt cutter. Or if you have a lot of ammo, just spraying into the door until you can physically break through it.

 

But most school shooters seem to be opportunistic rather than determined, so it'll probably work 9 times out of 10.

I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man

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I'm not entirely convinced that solution isn't vulnerable to a breaking the window and using a bolt cutter. Or if you have a lot of ammo, just spraying into the door until you can physically break through it.

 

But most school shooters seem to be opportunistic rather than determined, so it'll probably work 9 times out of 10.

I have to think someone in the locked room will have the good sense to break the arm sticking through the window trying to cut the cable lock.

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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