Goddess

How do you even know what to believe anymore? Top stories in the news today: 1. Quebec's QR vaccine passport is perfectly safe and praised as the example all provinces should follow. 2. Quebec's QR vaccine passport system gets hacked.

Scary. If a man whose authority you personally believe in tells you to beat or kill a woman for not wearing a hijab, you will do it. **blink blink** Got it.

Wow. If you don't get the jab, you will be denied employment, denied restaurants, denied access to basic living. B.C. to introduce vaccine card for activities and restaurants as COVID-19 cases climb (msn.com) And no one here thinks this is fishy?

Maybe you should ask to see the vaccine passport of every employee, every other patron before you agree to eat there.

I am currently working for Canada's #1 survival prepper, who has a large YouTube following. We just got a call from a guy who is desperately trying to get his 24 yr old Afghani intern out of Kabul. She has ties to the US political scene due to having a surgery in the US. He is in sporadic contact with her, she is terrified. Trying to get into the Kabul airport, hoping a letter from the Kennedy family will get her on a plane. He says she will be either publicly executed because of her ties to US political figures (he mentioned Bush and Kennedy families) and because she is not a virgin or else married off to a 70 yr old man. He was asking for any suggestions on how she should act and prepare for a possible 5-10 day stay at the airport. It's heartbreaking. I fear for all the girls and women there. If I could get all of them out, I would. ?

The fact that the country fell so quickly, I suspect the whole 20 year war was not about democracy at all - it was about lining the pockets of those who are part of the big war machine.

I'll try to find another one. As I said, I've been reading both sides and the rebuttals to both sides. What I'm finding is that, any doctor or scientist or study who speaks or writes about the vaccines NOT being 100% safe or pushing for everyone to get vaccinated, is immediately silenced and the article or video disappears. I'm sorry/not sorry. But I find that disturbing.

I've already seen that video, but thank you.

I just showed you the video. Did you watch it? I'm tired of people here asking for proof of statements and then paying zero attention to it.

And how many will die in the years to come? The vaccination destroys the mechanisms to keep cancers and other issues in check. What will you be saying 5 or 10 years from now when the ICUs are overrun with cancer patients? "Well, at least they didn't die of covid." But they also may not have died from cancer, if they didn't have the shot. I'm not saying NO VACCINES. I'm saying there is something fishy about the rate and pace that this is being forced on the public. I'm saying it's a choice each person needs to weigh individually.

Exactly. Which is why there should not be forced vaccinations.

It was on quite a few sites but this is the first one I found and I don't have time to search for the one I saw. This is the same video though. A PATHOLOGIST SUMMARY OF WHAT THESE JABS DO TO THE BRAIN AND OTHER ORGANS (nutritruth.org) This is just a friendly discussion. You don't need to threaten me.

It's heart-breaking. The people of Afghanistan are going to suffer. Especially the women and children. There is a generation of girls (20 years now) who have grown up being able to go to school, play sports and leave their homes. This is going to be much more than a rude awakening for them. ?

Unfortunately, this won't show long-term effects of the vaccine on children. So far, the tests have shown a 16% decrease in fertility in trials with mice. I've said from the beginning that if I was still in my child-bearing years, I'd refuse the vaccine.

Same thing applies here. Yes, our culture is to compromise and get along but there are some things we should not be compromising on - the status of women in society is an important one. I really hope you are not suggesting that women's status, which has been hard fought for and still has a ways to go, should be compromised in the name of freedom of religion and to get along with people who cling to stone-age religious beliefs.

Freedom of religion is a wonderful principle. Sometimes there are other principles, such as women not being owned property, that should override another principle.

Indigenous bands are also deeply troubled by greedy, self-serving chiefs who steal federal funds and leave their own people living in squalor. Trudeau gave over any governmental checks and balances to the natives themselves and this has not gone well. They need more chiefs like Chief Clarence Louie in Osoyoos, BC.

There are good points made on both sides here - yes, trauma can and does affect a family for generations. It takes a lot of work to pull oneself out of those circumstances. Some Natives do pull themselves out, using the resources provided by the government. I do feel more of them could do more to help themselves. Case in point - a friend of mine who grew up on the Fort McKay reserve in N. Alberta. I met her in college when we were both in our 40's and we got to be good friends until her death last year. She told me that growing up - she knew she did not want a life on the reserve, did not want to raise her children there. She said, as soon as she was able (age 18), she got out, went to college and worked for 15 years on site in the oilsands as a heavy hauler. She met and married a non-Native, had one child and adopted a child from Nunavut. I met her in college when she was again using her indigenous rights to education to make a career change. At no time did she feel she had to give up her identity as an indigenous person to achieve any of this. It can be done. I just feel with all the "perks" offered by the government to Natives - why aren't more of them taking advantage of it? If I was offered free education, I'd be on that in a heartbeat. But again, not everyone has the determination and self-awareness to pull themselves up. I'm glad my friend did. I miss her strength and wisdom a lot.

Having re-entered the dating scene about a year and half ago, I concur. I'm mid-50's but people tell me I look at least 10 years younger. I'm finding that most men in their mid-fifties look at least 10 years OLDER than they really are. I don't know if it's just the dating sites, but it seems that men in my age group do not look after themselves these days. They look haggard, tired, don't appear to care about what they dress like, and have a lot of very unhealthy habits. Haven't dated in a while now because I love being on my own and don't want to slow down my life to be a nursemaid to a man who hasn't looked after himself.

No. No.

I didn't deny the role of education. I just pointed out its limitations. If education was all it took, then the rate of decline would be more than 30%. But yes, yay for the 30%

Meh. Religion has had a very big hand in the mistreatment of women since time began. I get what you're trying to say though....I recently was told by someone who doesn't believe in God that men have one less rib than women.....? Last vestiges of a religious upbringing. To his credit, he googled it and found I was right.

I agree. And especially when it comes to religious ideas and actions. If a person believes that men have been given the right by God to rule over women, you can talk feminism til you're blue in the face. Honour killings and FGM occur in countries where it's against the law and they know they will be prosecuted - it doesn't stop them. When a person thinks God commands something - it's rare that human reasoning can overcome a belief like that.

OK.

No, I just don't re-interpret what they've said. Probably because I don't believe that criticism of Islam = demonizing ALL Muslims or that the person criticizing wants to kill them.