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Stupid Drunk Driving Law
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Agreed. Im not stating whether or not I think its fair on a personal level, only that is the law. I know that I can not get behind the wheel of a vehicle after I have been drinking, be it to pass out or for any other reason. If I had to do it, I would get in the back seat and lay down with the keys deep in my pocket or in my purse. Nowhere near that ignition. It becomes common sense really.
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Stupid Drunk Driving Law
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But they dont know if you plan on driving or not. Your vehicle can still be towed on private property. In fact it will be towed unless you talk to the owner of the bar. The owner of the establishment is not going to know what is going on or who that vehicle belongs to. He or she will just see a vehicle that has been parked there all night and is taking a spot that a paying customer could be. you are assuming to much so if he gets the bar owner to say he had permission to sleep there (which is probably a possibility)it gets thrown out and you still have not said when the thought of perceived intent would stop should the person buying rat poison be charged with attempted murder of the person they have been fighting with should the person with a fishing pole be charged with fishing without a license Well there is no point in arguing this back and forth. I see your position that it is unfair to some degree. At the same time, I also understand the reason for the law. Its very cut and dry. If you are intoxicated, dont get behind the wheel of an automobile to pass out. It does not matter what your intent is because there is no way to know exactly. Maybe you will sleep for two hours, wake up thinking you are fine and then get into a head on collision because you still had delayed reaction time and were impaired. That is the position law enforcement is taking. One of zero tolerance. Its not really a matter of is it fair or not. You could clearly make the argument that it isnt but that is not the position they are allowing you. |
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Stupid Drunk Driving Law
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But they dont know if you plan on driving or not. Your vehicle can still be towed on private property. In fact it will be towed unless you talk to the owner of the bar. The owner of the establishment is not going to know what is going on or who that vehicle belongs to. He or she will just see a vehicle that has been parked there all night and is taking a spot that a paying customer could be.
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Topic:
Stupid Drunk Driving Law
Edited by
Alverdine
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Sun 04/05/09 08:30 AM
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I guess the police expect you to make arrangements when you plan on drinking to excess. Either call a cab and if you are on private property, make arrangements with the owner of the business not to have your vehicle towed. Or have a designated driver in which case you would still have to make sure your vehicle was safe until you can pick it up the next morning. I think when people are drunk they tend to just feel sleepy and they think by getting in the vehicle, they can protect it from being towed. But then you are intoxicated behind the wheel of an automobile.
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Topic:
Stupid Drunk Driving Law
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Its also a ticketable offense to be sleeping in your parked vehicle anyway, drunk or not. Its not a motel room. Its your vehicle but if you are parked on pubic property, it can be dangerous. What if you did that in the middle of winter and there was a parking ban because the plows have to get through? Yikes.
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A new day for U.S. atheists?
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Obama is against gay marriage.He has said this many times. 
Well not so fast there. President Obama opposes same sex marriage but he also is in opposition to a constitutional ban on it. That was my understanding but I might be wrong. I have not looked recently to see if he has changed that view.
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Stupid Drunk Driving Law
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Well Im glad no one was injured. Have you ever watched any of those "Wildest Video" programs? They have shown people who pass out at the wheel with the car running but in neutral with their foot on the gas. Chances are your friend will be fine but it will be an expensive lesson for him to learn and go through. He wont see any jail time hopefully but I also dont know what his past record looks like. He needs a lawyer.
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Jesus, of course. He's had experience in being resurrected, and it would clear up a lot of confusion once we found an interpreter. Agreed. There are some passages allegedly spoken by Jesus that are a bit conflicting in tone. Like for instance: Matthew 10 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. Evidently Jesus was not all brown rice and granola.
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I would agree that we dont have positive documentation affirming what George Washington's religious views were one way or another but that is because he was a very private man and not only where his spirituality was concerned. He did not attend church however like his wife Martha and he would wait outside for her while she went in on Sunday morning. At his death bed he wanted no clergy or minsters present. He was also a Freemason.
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The Future of Religion
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Topic:
Stupid Drunk Driving Law
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Yes this happens fairly often. If he lawyers up, he should be alright. Generally it will be thrown out. Another problem is those remote started vehicles. People get drunk and they attempt to "fall asleep" in the car but they sit in the driver seat and then they remote start the vehicle so you can be charged without a key in the ignition if the vehicle is running. Just watch out and pass out in the back seat with your keys in your pocket or give them to a friend so you dont do anything with them.
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The Future of Religion
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You could just post the link also...If its easier.
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oscillating
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Topic:
Religion breeds peace
Edited by
Alverdine
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Sat 04/04/09 10:10 AM
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The only example I can think of that comes to mind is the Jews during the holocaust. Not exactly that it "bred peace." It was a little too late for that but I mean religion itself enabled a people to withstand the unimaginable. So in that sense religion is not all bad and evil. Im sure the Jews were able to maintain their identity through prayer while they were imprisoned in those camps.
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Topic:
good and evil
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"Good" and "Evil" is subjectively based. Depending on where you are in the world it will depend on several factors. One only needs to glance through an issue of National Geographic or watch that show "Taboo" to understand this.
People also find themselves in difficult situations where split second decisions have to be made in the interest of self preservation. Generally "good and evil" is not a top priority in those moments. I refuse to use "evil" as a noun. People are not "born evil" in my estimation. Actions can be evil, people can have a high propensity to allow or commit evil acts but there is no such thing as evil people or motivations to act out of evil. |
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The Future of Religion
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Interesting Note: A person who practices Islam is called a Muslim. The Arabic term Islam means "surrrender," which provides a strong indication of the fundamental underpinning of the faith. A believer, a Muslim, surrenders to the will of Allah. Well all three of the world religions follow this tradition of submission to their Lord/god. |
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The Future of Religion
Edited by
Alverdine
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Sat 04/04/09 04:07 AM
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But Smiless you do religions a huge injustice by beginnning with Christianity. Christianity is not even an origianl religion, it is a sprout from various other beliefs. You begin the history in the middle and omit how it all started. Of all the world's current and past GREAT religions, Christianity is the greatest bloodsucker of all. Even how it spread from its origins demonstrates that its greatness was not achieved through belief, but through mandatory compliance and WITH the assimulation of other religious practices. You really should reconsider or at the very least begin from it's beginnings - the Hebrews and Judaism. I'm doing well, thank-you. I've been by now and then to visit, and was very please to see you are still posting Personally I think if you started with the begining of history by the time you got to christianity, you would be less likely to accept any of it. That sure did it for me, though I don't remember half of what I have learned to this point, it's just enough for me that I got away from it. Yes that would be interesting. Maybe another thread? Christianity has so many denominations it becomes overwhelming and they begin to just run together. At least for me that happens. The earlier pagan religions are a little more distinct. |
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My Favorite Bible Verse
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“Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.” – Numbers 31:17-18 If "keeping them alive for yourselves" translates to rape, then is god not just condoning rape, but rape of child females also? According the New Living Translation: 17 So kill all the boys and all the women who have had intercourse with a man. 18 Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves. It would certainly sound that way and wasn't that Moses himself telling them this? It really is not very "righteous" nor "just." Im assuming they wanted to kill the women who had "known men" because they could not tell which ones were pregnant. Its a disgusting passage. |
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Topic:
My Favorite Bible Verse
Edited by
Alverdine
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Fri 04/03/09 05:01 PM
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My fave is "Judge not lest ye be judged" yet people judge others everyday.... It seems Jesus intended to impart that you should not judge people simply because you do not have the right. It opens yourself up to subsequent judgment. Thats what I always interpreted it to mean at least. Otherwise why even bother making the admonition in the first place if people will simply rationalize when it is permissible to pass judgment on others?
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My Favorite Bible Verse
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Matthew 7:3-5 3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." Ahhhhhh, my eye! Read this one out loud, it sounds REALLY funny. Its like an SNL skit almost. 
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