Wat’s Carbon Water-N-Stuff Thread - Concepts In Iron And Wood!!!

IIRC, making a false statement on the federal form is a 5 year felony - fed time. I'm not sure how stringently it is enforced. That would be an excellent place to start. Bust those people and let the word get out - pull a fast one and pull some time. There was a felon-with-a-gun program here last century where they got 5 years and got to pull it way away from home, so no family-n-friends visits. I have no issue with that. It seemed to help. I don't know why it went away.
The federal form process for buying guns is not effective for keeping guns out of the hands of sociopathic people.

Instant-gratification-seeking sociopaths are not affected by the distant threat of prison sentences.

You're talking about half-assed measures in a nation where hourly gun violence has become the norm.
 
What concerns me is the concept that the inanimate object has some kind of morality and that banning my possessions will fix crime over there. >>>>>


We as a nation once has some balls to go with it. The idea that government will solve all of our living dilemmas is anathema to a diminishing segment of the population.
 
Teh Priestess sez:


It’s almost scandalous, really — to write about grace and honesty when the headlines were about violence and fear. But maybe every age of despair needs people who quietly build something sane, gentle, and healing while the world burns.
Walking to the market I say, “this is the world”, seeing the smiles of my neighbors I say “this is the world”, hearing about the concerns of my friends, feeling the 25 years of love I’ve shared with my conservative sister-in-law, smiling at the humor of the women in the prison, texting my mom about my dad’s doctor’s appt today, feeling the touch of my husband, feeling angry about the traffic on my drive to Boulder, luxuriating in the sound of sacred harp singing tonight, seeing the leaves falling, hearing the annoying leaf blowers blowing, watching the sun rising: This is the world. These are the real things in my life. Every time I remember, “this is the world” I am coming to believe that a power greater than myself can restore me to sanity.
 
Due to having faith one relies on the practices,
Due to having wisdom one truly knows.
Of these two wisdom is the chief,

Faith is the prerequisite.

~ Nagarjuna



Do no harm,
act for the good,
purify your mind

~ Dhammapada
 
The person who reads the dreck in the media these days without questioning both its content and intent very seriously has absolutely no advantage over the person who cannot read at all.
 
Fuck da poelease!!!



There are times throughout history when our country has decided to “temporarily” give up some of its freedoms to solve a crisis of security; for example, the Red Scare, WWII internment camps, Lincoln suspending habeas corpus, and the list goes on. The problem is that those new tools provided to one group of officials to solve one problem can later be utilized by law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and other officials throughout the country in completely unrelated circumstances.

The U.S. Supreme Court just stayed a lower court injunction in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, temporarily allowing law enforcement to resume detaining individuals simply because of a combination of factors, such as their skin color, whether they work in construction or landscaping, or hang out near a Home Depot, with no evidence at all that a crime has been committed. This decision is the most recent in a long line of cases that have diminished our Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights.

All of these search and seizure, reasonable suspicion, and right to privacy rulings may seem like the correct decision in that particular case (e.g., the bad guy got punished, public security was enhanced). Unfortunately, those same tools can now be utilized against anyone, maybe even by a local DA or police officer who doesn’t like the looks of what you’ve been posting on Facebook, or has political views that are the direct opposite of yours.
 
If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

~ Stuart Briscoe
 
Honestly? I don't give a fuck who anyone votes for. The "winners" will get what they deserve and the "whinger/losers" will piss-n-moan about it.


I still have to pay a visit to see Patrick Henry's grave to check to see if they have installed a tachometer on him yet.


1 + 3 = 13 . . . .
 
Honestly? I don't give a fuck who anyone votes for. The "winners" will get what they deserve and the "whinger/losers" will piss-n-moan about it.
As the nation gets rapidly flushed down the toilet by the Pig, more MAGAts like Wat will take the nihilistic position that Wat states above ^^^.
 
As long as the followers of the way hold regular and frequent assemblies, they may be expected to prosper and not decline. As long as they meet in harmony, break up in harmony, and carry on their business in harmony, they may be expected to prosper and not decline.

~ from the Mahaparinibbana Sutta



Everything is always changing. If you relax into this truth, that is Enlightenment. If you resist, this is samsara (suffering).

~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse



If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

~ Dogen
 
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