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#3111084 2-Aug-2023 14:52

johno1234:

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Yes, and unlike the right-wing politics want you to believe, it's not drag queens doing it.

Right wing/left wing is meaningless these days as the economic or social meanings are not connected at all. I would call what you are referring to social conservatives. There would be plenty of economic conservative or libertarians that agree with you whole heartedly.

True.

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#3111085 2-Aug-2023 14:54

The fact that tradies just up and leave when they're done without saying anything. You can't say thankyou, you don't know that it's OK to go and close/lock doors and whatnot again, and if they missed a bit there's no way to tell them without having them come back again another day to fix it.

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#3111099 2-Aug-2023 15:50

Cats shitting on my lawn and in my garden.

Some days it's smaller than others.

But generally toxoplasmosis is microscopic so it suits this thread.

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#3111101 2-Aug-2023 15:58

cddt:
Cats shitting on my lawn and in my garden.

They don't cause any damage but they sure sting, discouraging repeat visits.

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#3111103 2-Aug-2023 16:09

floydbloke:

This isn't small and it makes me livid.

Although I don’t believe in a personal god, which is a silly idea, I don’t reject the possibility of some kind of cosmic consciousness. It is impossible to know.

I do utterly reject organised religion, which has done so much more harm than good through the ages by acting as a cloak for every kind of intolerance, violent inclination, and depraved behaviour. Somehow, religions, especially christian religions, have succeeded in acquiring a veneer of respectability that has enabled them to achieve positions of trust they never should have been given. Just because someone bows and prays, or dresses in black and white, does not make them better people. The reverence they are accorded is foolish and misplaced. Of course there are genuinely good people who do outstanding charitable work on behalf of organisations that bear religious labels, but this does not justify the evil done by their opposites. Religion should be tolerated on the basis of free speech and thought, but on the basis of principle and past performance, it should not be entitled to any form of special consideration whatsoever. Religion is the tobacco of the soul, an unpleasant addiction better relegated to the shadows, well away from the temptations of any children.

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#3111115 2-Aug-2023 16:45

I have mixed feelings about religion.

I don't personally believe.

Religion has been the cause of more intolerance, war, death and misery than just about anything else.

On the other hand, religion has been the cause of more tolerance, survival, hope and happiness than just about anything else.

It was a lynch pin for the beginnings of civilisation, social collectivism, law and order, and the escape from prehistoric life through the formation of organised society. It was also a formative point for mankind's greatest art. It has also been home to history's worst despots and predators.

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#3111245 3-Aug-2023 08:39

johno1234:

I have mixed feelings about religion.

I don't personally believe.

Religion has been the cause of more intolerance, war, death and misery than just about anything else.

On the other hand, religion has been the cause of more tolerance, survival, hope and happiness than just about anything else.

It was a lynch pin for the beginnings of civilisation, social collectivism, law and order, and the escape from prehistoric life through the formation of organised society. It was also a formative point for mankind's greatest art. It has also been home to history's worst despots and predators.

I'm with you on this. It's something that gives many people in a helpless/hopeless situation something to cling to. It's also a good place to harbour intolerance and bigotry etc.

Anyway - what I found annoying this morning was dropping my son off to the bus station as the buses outside were all cancelled.

It was barely 2deg outside and there was ice on my windscreen.
Add to that, there's roadworks in our street, so the cone clowns had put cones across our driveway, which I had to move before getting on the road.

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#3111251 3-Aug-2023 08:50

floydbloke:

This isn't small and it makes me livid.

On the other hand, it's great that damning is involved. Almost makes you want to take up religion.

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#3111259 3-Aug-2023 09:09

Rikkitic:

Religion is the tobacco of the soul, an unpleasant addiction better relegated to the shadows, well away from the temptations of any children.

Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people." Although he was referring to it as a construct by people to calm uncertainty, your addiction analogy is certainly also appropriate.

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#3111266 3-Aug-2023 09:22

Handsomedan:

I'm with you on this. It's something that gives many people in a helpless/hopeless situation something to cling to.

I'm not sure that giving people false hope is ever a good idea. Especially when it's the people in charge of the religion that has caused the people's hopeless situation in the first place.

It's also a first-rate device for justifying anything the wealthy and powerful want to do, in the guise of holy wars and Calvinism and saving souls. If you 100% believe in an infinitely good, infinitely long heaven, any earthly killing and suffering is infinitely small by comparison.

As an example, Lauren Dickason justified killing her 3 children because it meant they would go to heaven and not suffer any more.

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#3111282 3-Aug-2023 09:58

The other idol the motor vehicle. The average global death toll +/-2.3 million per annum. Food for thought.

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#3111299 3-Aug-2023 10:30

Behodar:

Scheduled a courier pickup (a couple of days ago) for today. The courier didn't turn up. Tried to schedule it again and the site refuses to let me because the package already has a pickup scheduled.

A week later, the site was still refusing to let me reschedule. I contacted the courier and asked them to "reset" the waybill number so that I can reschedule it. I just got a response, "sorry for the inconvience, I've scheduled a new pickup for today". That's not what I asked for, and I'm not there today, so we're just going to go around in circles. The sheer incompetence here is astounding.

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#3111301 3-Aug-2023 10:39

cddt:

Cats shitting on my lawn and in my garden.

Some days it's smaller than others.

But generally toxoplasmosis is microscopic so it suits this thread.

Yeah that is bloody annoying. Nothing worse than a big fresh one in the middle of your freshly planted veg garden.

The smell is terrible! You are weeding away and then you put your hands in it!@#$

I think planting plants that they don't like the smell of would be a good idea.

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#3111387 3-Aug-2023 12:33

Election Hoardings once again blotting the landscape!

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#3111398 3-Aug-2023 13:08

msukiwi:
Election Hoardings once again blotting the landscape!

I agree. I don't want to politicise this thread there is enough of that in the politics section horror show.
I would love to see limits placed on the number allowed, maybe 5 per electorate and limits on the size. I would love to see a time limit say two weeks prior election eve only.

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