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American LGBTQ+ travelers banned from docking in Turkey during upcoming cruise due to moral standards

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They should just leave people alone.  I doubt LGBTQ travelers are walking around naked and effing in the streets.  Turkey is more moderate than a lot of Muslim countries but could choose to be more of a leader and set an example for others. 

None of it is real.  We still haven't figured everything out in terms of the universe.  I doubt anyone 2000 years ago knew all the answers and how life came to exist and how humanity started.  We know evolution is real ... you'd think the Bible or Quran or any ancient religion would have mentioned this, if they knew all the answers.  Even if there was a great flood and such, humans and related species that we interbred with, were around long before any great flood, which if anything were local events and not a global flood.  Ancient people didn't know what was going on worldwide.  They had no clue.  Even the Roman Empire only had distant relations with India and China. 

"The famous agnostic lawyer and defender of civil liberties, Clarence Darrow.Before his death in 1938, Darrow did not believe in an afterlife. However, he made a pact with his friends: if there was life after death, he would return on the anniversary of his passing to prove it.The Details:The Date: Darrow died on March 13, 1938.The Location: His ashes were scattered south of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago's Jackson Park.The Bridge: Friends and ghost hunters gather at the Darrow Bridge every March 13 to wait for a sign or to try and communicate with him.To learn more about his life, trials, and the famous pact, check out the Chicago History Museum for local history archives. You can also read more about the bridge's history from the Hyde Park Herald."

On its face, Noah's ark and many things in the bible cannot possibly be true.  There is no way possible for some person back in those times to build an ark and put all the animals in the world on it, so they survive a "global flood."

People didn't even travel that far from home back then and would have never ever encountered many of the animals that live all over the world, much less be able to capture them and put them on a boat.  You'd think Jesus and his disciples would have mentioned this, if they had all the answers. 

Did Noah rescue polar bears and penguins too and koalas and kangaroos and lamas?  He went to South America, Australia, and the arctic and rescued all of them on his boat?  If Jesus and the New Testament had all the answers, you'd think they would have mentioned that this cannot possibly be true.  With what we all know about the world today, it's common sense.

It's probably mostly what you grew up watching.  My dad was always really into Chicago teams.

The NBA is the one sport I don't care about anymore.  Nothing could match or top the Jordan years and living in Chicago-land.  I didn't watch baseball hardly at all until recently after the cubs won the World Series in 2016, too.  It was like a weight being lifted.  I remember my German great grandpa listening to games on his headphones and calling them a bunch of bums.  He still listened to them.

My sister was talking about his German singing club.  We used to go to the "German picnic" every summer where all the men would sing and we'd cook out.  I guess they went to Germany on trips and sang.

The cubs winning it all was like a generations of disappointment lifted.  Then of course, nothing lasts for ever, and you have to rebuild the team as guys leave or get old.  So, I hadn't been following or watching much baseball since they won it all.  At least they won one.  Anymore in my lifetime will be gravy.

Last I saw there's a big labor dispute.
That next year might start with a lockout

A momma bear and her two cubs crashed our 4th of July cook out. Photos aren't posting for some reason.

Magellan didn't event circumnavigate the globe until the 1500s, but supposedly Noah did it many thousands of years before, while picking up every animal in the world to put on his boat?  You'd think someone smarter than me, who claimed to have known how it all started would have mentioned one time in the new testament that this would not even have been remotely possible.

Too many just use their belief in fantasy books as an excuse to hate and persecute others too.

Noah's world was much smaller.

There was a flood that created the Black Sea. Noah is probably folklore.

Noah's world was much smaller.

There was a flood that created the Black Sea. Noah is probably folklore.

It's just layer on layer of folklore.  The whole thing is.

Even if the great flood was based on that, why add that he took the time to capture all these wild animals to put on his boat.  I could see farm animals and perhaps some birds landing on his boat.  If there was going to be a huge flood by me the last of my worries would be to build a monster sized wooden boat and then wasting time to capyure 2 of every wild animal near to me, lol.

I am not saying there are not some good teachings.  The honest truth is the only reason we are here is stupid luck and evolution.  We have thoughts how very simple life could evolve from chemicals, which is all life is at its basic level ... chemicals ... bur other than the big bang theory, we have no clue how the universe started or why.  The religious books are fiction and not based on science and what we do know today. 

It's not even people's fault hundreds or thousands of years ago that they believed this fiction.  We have learned all that we know today because we stand on the shoulders of giants.  Some people prefer to stand at their feet and belive this nonsense when they should know better today.