Possible terrorism in Manchester UK?

Don't go there. Insurrection is a valid reason as well. Eject!!!!!

 

I'll add desecrating Buddha's or the bishop of Canterbury' good names whilst visiting Palestine to my bucket list....

 

You can put more effort into trolling than that...

 

You're going to need to be more specific who it is you're talking to. There's at least a half dozen trolls in this thread.

 

You might warm up a bit by climbing to the top of a tall tree in a thunderstorm and calling Thor a pussy.

 

Quite possibly the dumbest thing I read all week, not surprised tho, you must be drinking out of the same well as Mongo lately.

"Political overlords", "crimes du jour", "threat of force", "outright force"...........couldn't you get even more melodramatic for us??? I'd say your FTP rating is amongst the highest in here lately, keep at it, you might actually make the top rung.

If LE "knowingly" avoids hiring 'the best and brightest' in your neck of the woods, I'd say break out the air tank, fill up those tires and drive your home to a more upscale area. I've worked beside a lot of people with some impressive degrees here.

Thank you, it's kinda weird but beginning to enjoy it.

 

I have been told by a VERY senior official in an extremely respected law enforcement agency that one of the things they consider when hiring is the likelihood that this person is too smart/educated for the job. Simply put, if you should be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc, they're probably not going to hire you because they figure you won't work the job long enough to justify the cost to train you. It doesn't mean they won't hire intelligent people, just that it may work against them in the hiring process.

 

Don't understand the whole FTP issue. In general my relationships with the police (usually on the wrong end of a speeding ticket, mind you) have been professional even lenient. I've found them to be better than the average person I've met out and about. Respect gains respect. I've started buying them lunch (anonm0usly) if I run across a small group at a diner or such. Figure that instilling a little good will will pay off for someone down the road. Maybe I'm just counting on karma...perhaps.

 

Read: I'm white.

 

White privilege.

 

I don't think I've ever met an FTP'er that wasn't a douche who was just mad/jealous because at some point in their life they've either been arrested, or they regularly do something they should be arrested for.

 

you are just wrong. the koran and the bible are not similar. they are not the same. the koran promotes the violent distruction of infidels....anyone who doesn't believe in islam. Christianity promotes love and non-violence. the fact you can say "but for whatever reason, most Christians and Jews aren't running around trying to instigate Armageddon" and not understand that it is the teaching that is different, boggles my mind. IYC stated in correctly in post #529. there is NO moral equivalency. comparing how people acted in the 1st centry, 10 century etc to now is not helpful, nor reasonable. we live in today's time. the followers of islam were not suddenly dropped into today's world. they are choosing to continue to promote and follow a violent existence. Christians are not. Jews are not. I don't even know of another religion that acts even slightly similar to how muslims act. please stop trying to somehow rationalize the irrational.

 

What were the Jews doing in the Old Testament? All those battles that God helped them win? Those people that were dying were followers of other religions who did not want to give up their territory to this new upstart religion. Nearly every religion is spread via violence. The followers of a particular religion wish to expand their territory, so they move in and conquer a people. The newly conquered people eventually assume the customs and religion of their conquerors. Christianity is equally guilty of this. The only difference between what we're seeing now with Islam and what various peoples were seeing 500 1500 years ago is that the muslims have much more effective weapons.

And I'm not rationalizing it one bit. I'm attempting to explain it from a non-bias (maybe equally-bias would be a better description) point-of-view.

 

Old Testament doesn't count.

 

Have you noticed you always have to compare Christians from 1000 years ago with Muslims to try to make your point?
That's because your argument falls apart when comparing apples to apples.

 

they were NOT trying to exterminate every other religion. they were NOT trying to convert every non-believer. welcome to islam.

what are Christians doing TODAY? what are Jews doing TODAY?


EDIT: muslims today: http://www.wsmv.com/story/35523742/egypt-gunmen-attack-christians-killing-at-least-24