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Dec 27, 2024
10:39:39pm

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So you're saying the most likely killer you have to worry about is

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DirtyWater

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Last login: Dec 28, 2024
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Gladiator II. Good movie. A little bit gory. Wow. If that’s how things

ybecausethatswhy

Dec 27, 10:18pm

By nearly any objective measure…this is the most civilized, free, highest

macdizzle

Dec 27, 10:22pm

We have a very different set of issues. Technology leading to isolation for many

gwalker

Dec 27, 10:25pm

Men's hearts shall fail them.

DirtyWater

Dec 27, 10:29pm

How does that compare to legal slavery, institutional racism, feudalism,

Dec 27, 10:56pm

I wasn’t saying it is worse. It is different. And, from a spiritual perspective,

gwalker

Dec 27, 11:20pm

I’m curious what is getting worse?

NYCougz

12:46am

If you look at America, certain addictions/drug problems are on the rise. Mental

gwalker

11:12am

I agree with a lot of what you are saying. We are facing new challenges.

NYCougz

1:32pm

You are statistically more likely to commit suicide than be murdered.

NYCougz

Dec 27, 10:31pm

So you're saying the most likely killer you have to worry about is

DirtyWater

Dec 27, 10:39pm

Do you know how the suicide rate now compares to the dark ages?

Dec 27, 10:57pm

I have not

NYCougz

12:44am

Sorry, I didn't read you entire post. I thought you were making the case

12:45pm

Humans have been around for a few hundred thousand years. For 99% of that time

macdizzle

Dec 27, 10:44pm

Very true. We have so much that we can contemplate our existence now.

NYCougz

Dec 27, 10:51pm

Yep. Medicine was barbaric up to about the 20th century. The treatment of Joseph Smith and his brother Alvin for…

Brisco

Dec 27, 11:38pm

Better times in the 50’s and sixties. Neighborhoods and society was far more safe

KYU

Dec 27, 11:24pm

Not entirely true. Domestic violence is FAR lower now than the 50s or 60s.

macdizzle

Dec 27, 11:32pm

I can promise you that growing up in that time was a lot safer than it is today.

KYU

Dec 27, 11:55pm

How so?

NYCougz

12:48am

In some ways yes. In others, the data disagrees.

macdizzle

11:18am

Before the civil rights movement? Seems like it would be a better world after

NYCougz

1:50am

It was more safe for blacks and other minorities? Or only if they

1:04pm

Yep the veil of ignorance test. If you don’t get to choose who you get to be in

NYCougz

1:30pm

Viewed through a secular lens you are correct. Viewed through a religious lens you're not correct. The trends away from

HarlemCoug

12:11am

Wouldn’t God be happy we are doing better?

NYCougz

12:49am

What good doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul

HarlemCoug

4:58am

Why would people be losing their souls becoming better people?

NYCougz

11:04am

Because we have easier lives and we clear the low bar of not killing each other

gwalker

12:18pm

It’s way more than that. We care about others more. We want more people to

NYCougz

1:28pm

I watched for the second time today and liked it better the second time. It was

Dec 27, 10:34pm

Yeah if a BoM movie was ever made, it’d be a hard R

macdizzle

Dec 27, 10:45pm

Woah easy with the “hard R” /s

Dec 27, 10:59pm

With dudes like Shiz running around laying waste to the land? Hard R for sure.

Nakedbootleg

Dec 27, 11:08pm

Movie goers would never stick around for Shiz. They’d walk out during 2nd Nephi.

Brisco

Dec 27, 11:40pm

Ether 15:31 would definitely get the R rating.

1:23pm

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