the watcher

That looked easy lol

Got some breathing room now

Woli !!!

Invoking God after you have decided to go to war is quite different than than having religion start a war or be the root cause. Yes a greater percentage of the Middle East wars have religion at the core but not all. I guess I could make a list but I'd lay a fair bit of coin on my argument and I'm not a betting man. Many mistake what they hear about religion in a war with what caused the war. Religion would be well behind greed for land and wealth , fear ( possibly #1) , poverty, racism....

" I don’t take medications': Marjorie Taylor Greene says " The 1st thought through my head : " But Marjorie, you really, really need to " .

This is a pretty interesting article. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/26/vladimir-putin-yevgeny-prigozhin-russia-wagner-ukraine

Well said Tracker. Christianity like most religions has very good guidelines for life at the heart of it. But I have always said that you can pretty much prove anything you want by using the Bible if you want to believe it word for word. Reading about the history of the current Bible and the history of the Christian church would really benefit alot of people. What I find helps is to look at the real core, of the stories of some of the greatest religious figures, Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu.......how they acted,how they spoke, what they did...and you will find goodness and perhaps a belief system that benefits both yourself and those around you. Edit: Good on you for starting this thread Mark H. I had thought of it a couple of times but wasn't brave enough lol.

Dan 38 said. " Temples were either destroyed outright or made into Churches. This is a very common thing when a particular culture is replaced. If really came home to me when I was in the York Minster in England. Touring below ground you can see it is built on an Anglo-Saxon church, a Viking temple, and a " pagan site. So, if you want people to come to your church and embrace your religion ( which helps you control them ) then you put it where they are use to going. It's not a thing that is discussed much but it seems to be a common practice.

I hear this often but I totally disagree. In my opinion MOST wars aren't started over religion but rather the combatants invoke God on their side once a war has started for other reasons.

Sooner or later this kicks our ass. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/ecological-tipping-points-could-occur-much-sooner-than-expected-study-finds

Everyone here, myself included assumed the Bombers would easily win the West. As did most fans on every other team. As did the media. And apparently so did the Blue Bomber players. It looked like the idea that they would cruise easily back into the Grey Cup had crept into their mindset. Well they and we just got served a huge slice of humble pie. We've got some stiff competition. There is nothing like a good old ass whooping to open your eyes. They've got some work to do. Let's see how they respond now.

Someone pissed in the football God's Cornflakes obviously.

Holy crap

Need to answer that with a TD

That gets them out of a hole !

Boom !

I believe DeSantis is worse. I think he actually believes the crap he spouts and spews. Trump on the other hand had a belief system started and ended himself. Whatever stoked and stroked his ego was what he promoted. The only saving grace with DeSantis is maybe he won't sweep the masses along with him.

So true.

It's ignored alot. Or as I've heard from their very lips, " I don't care I'll pay the fine " . A neighbor of mine lost a long rented half section of land 4 years ago. He was renting it as pasture as it had 4 or 5 separate sloughs on it. All drained. Farmed corner to corner now. I have lots more examples.

Mark F said 40000 acre farm seems not good to me. Hard for me to understand the economics of it. I guess most of it is leased would't you think? Personally I see no redeeming features or any benefits to society to have huge farms. It benefits the owners and that's about it. They can be extremely hard on local economys and local communities in general. Environmentally I find them worse if for no other reason that if they are run in an environmentaly damaging way it effects a larger area. It's very comparable to a small company vs giant corporation situation. I'm not sure if this particular farmer rents/ leases alot or not. It's pretty hard to tell. Edit: I'll add this in . When land/ farms sell around here you end up in most cases with some beautiful yards generally in the 2 to 10 acre range that can be subdivided from the farmland and sold in the $150 to$ 300,000 range. Its really awesome as it seems the acreages are often bought by young people with families which is exactly what is needed to keep small communities alive. Most small to mid range farmers jump at the chance to do this. BUT often the big aggressive farms won't do it. Basically they would rather farm the land square than have a couple of acres out of it. It's crazy but a quarter million dollars means less than having no obstacles to drive around. Lol, when I write it out it sounds like BS but it's true. Another factor would be that don't want non farmer eyes watching what they are doing

And yet millions and millions would still support and vote for the crooked lunatic. Trump is what he always was. What a country.As I've said before Trump is a symptom of a diseased country.

As a small organic farmer I'm a bit torn by this. Kudos to him for going organic but 40,000 acres ? Even by Saskatchewan size that's ridiculous. It's 2 townships . I'd love to know if he is environmentally friendly in other ways ( drainage, tile- draining, land clearing.....) . I have a neighbour right close to me who is moving into organics. He is also one of the group of farmers who remove every tree and drain every wet land and is currently tile draining ( my greatest environmental concern )every acre of his 8,000 acres farm. This article makes no mention of his general treatment of the environment just economic advantages for him.

Exactly what was needed

Man it's great to be hitting these kicks . But I think I've got PTKSD from last year.

Brady looks like a freight train once he gets rolling