Jake Johnson

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  1. Trolling is somewhat a matter of perspective. I was accused of trolling while only seeking insight.
  2. https://www.newsweek.com/stop-blaming-biden-afghanistan-hes-cleaning-trumps-mess-opinion-1622049?utm_source=PushnamiMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1629760714506&subscriberId=5f0ca88323994a6b871dca15
  3. Yesterday I got my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, three weeks and one day after the first dose. Again the only after effect (so far) being some soreness in the upper arm where the vaccine was injected.
  4. I got my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine yesterday. The only side effect being some soreness in my upper arm were the injection was given.
  5. I will be getting my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Tuesday. I think you have to wait two weeks for the second shot. I will ask the pharmacist.
  6. And now it looks like I will get a vaccination soon: David Muir says the FDA has approved the Pfizer vaccine for those age 12 to 15. I will be 15 in 16 days.
  7. My parents both got the Johnson and Johnson vaccine a little over a week before the story about blood clots broke. It has been 5 weeks since their injections and neither has shown any ill effects.
  8. You are really saying that all is imaginary. I tend to think that psychedelics are simply causing your brain to internally produce things that are not really there.
  9. Life pretty much sucks no matter who you are.
  10. I tend to think that psychedelics are simply causing your brain to internally produce things that are not really there.
  11. I have heard some claim that it is possible to get all the vitamins needed through diet and use of multivitamins can result in an excess: more vitamins then the body needs or can absorb and so turn toxic in the kidneys - the function of the kidneys being to remove toxins from the blood, thus the kidneys become overworked and in time will fail.
  12. "Conservative talk radio does not sound very nice." No it doesn't. I suppose I should have said appealing or good sounding. Examples of what I am talking about would be Thomas Sowell claiming 'it amazes me that it is considered greed to want to keep your money but not greed for the government to take your money.' At the surface level that sounds just. However roads, bridges, fire and police protection, military defense all cost money. Expecting to have all of them without paying anything for them is indeed greed. Rush Limbaugh defended Reagan's tax policies by pointing out that when Reagan took office the top 1% of earners paid about 18% of total tax revenues but by the time Reagan was leaving office the top 1% were paying a little over 20% of total revenus. At surface level that sounds like Reagan was fair to all and didn't favor the wealthiest. But with a little thought you realize that it means the exact opposite. If you have A x B = C and B decreases considerably yet C increases it means A shot through the roof. Reagan reduced B, the tax rate on the wealthiest 1% from a maximum of 70% down to a maximum of 28% yet C, the taxes paid by the wealthiest 1% as a percentage of total revenues increased. The obvious explanation being that A, the incomes of the wealthiest 1% shot through the roof while the incomes of the rest stagnated or even declined. Conservative rhetoric consists almost entirely of such half truths and speciousness.
  13. I have heard Libertarians described as republicans who like drugs, abortion, and the LGBT community. That means their economic positions are the same ones that have given us disaster after disaster. Conservatism does make nice sounding (surface level) rhetoric but disasterous results.
  14. If they do exist and had in mind exterminating us and taking over earth it stands to reason that they would have done so when we were in the bow and arrow days. They certainly wouldn't wait till we have intercontinental ballistic missles armed with nuclear warheads. That is why it is called a UFO: unidentified flying object, meaning it isn't known what it is. It could be anything. Much uneccessary hyperbole occurs because anytime someone says they saw a UFO everyone takes it to mean alien spacecraft when all they are saying is they don't know what it was ie., unidentified.
  15. That is why it is called a UFO: unidentified flying object, meaning it isn't known what it is. It could be anything. Much uneccessary hyperbole occurs because anytime someone says they saw a UFO everyone takes it to mean alien spacecraft when all they are saying is they don't know what it was ie., unidentified.
  16. None the less Raptorsin7 got it right. Not long ago I was on the receiving end of abuse (beaten up) by a girl. It usually goes unknown to others. Out of embarrassment guys won't let anyone know. The make up lies - got the black eye when someone opened the door as I walked by, or other explanations. Guys are not eager to reveal such things as getting beat up by a girl.
  17. The Johnson and Johnson vaccine does contain heavy metals? If so which ones? Mercury and lead? I hope not!
  18. It does seem to be waning slightly in my region (Schuylkill county PA). I still haven't gotten a vaccine as right now they are limited to those aged 16 to 64 or with underlying conditions.
  19. I find the very concept of heaven and hell to be a difficult pill to swallow - the idea of reward and punishment when it seems clear that we are what our brains were born as. In the 19th century a railroad construction foreman named Phineas Gage suffered a trumatic brain injury when a premarture detonation sent a tamping rod through his left frontal lobe. Miraculously he survived but became a very different person. Prior to his injury he was an upstanding sort of guy; honest and forthright. Afterward he became prone to violent mood swings, cursing, and even cheating people out of money. So Phineas Gage should go to hell for eternity because someone else's mistake caused him personality and behavioral changes? No? But someone else should go to hell because by accident of birth they entered the world with the left frontal lobe that an accident in adulthood created in Phineas Gage? In seems that who we are is to a fair extent out of our hands.
  20. I have experienced this myself. I pleaded with my parents till they finally gave in and let me do home school through self study which seems to be the only way I can focus enough to learn anything. Put me in a classroom where I have to sit passively like a bump on a log while someone else gets to do the active process of the subject and I am off in a daydream inside of two minutes. Not that I am totally focused on my books 100% of the time but far more than a classroom lecture and if my mind does wander the written page is still there unlike the spoken word. I find self study to be far more effective. You may have ADD. Ask your doctor to refer you to a specialist who can give you a diagnosis and prescription. I am not sure what maladaptive daydreaming is but maybe we both have it; what you described sounds very much like myself: "Hehe, yes, I realise I’m not listening, then I start thinking about the fact I’m not listening, then I end up focused on that and being in a daydream." Yep, just like me.
  21. This wacko simply has no business being part of such an institution as the United States Congress. https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/marjorie-taylor-greene-mark-of-the-beast-090016763.html