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Re: To those who are in favor of accepting any and all Syria refugees..
Did you ever hear the tale of the Indian chief who found a rattle snake dying from the cold at the top of a mountain. The snake pleaded with the chief to carry ...him down the mountain so he could get warm and recover and live. The good hearted chief took pity and took the snake down the mountain. There the snake gave him a deadly bite. The chief asked the rattler how he could do such an evil thing. The rattler replied "you knew I was a rattle snake when you picked me up"! Morale: compassion should not out weigh common sense.
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(11-21-2015, 08:01 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Re: To those who are in favor of accepting any and all Syria refugees..
Did you ever hear the tale of the Indian chief who found a rattle snake dying from the cold at the top of a mountain. The snake pleaded with the chief to carry ...him down the mountain so he could get warm and recover and live. The good hearted chief took pity and took the snake down the mountain. There the snake gave him a deadly bite. The chief asked the rattler how he could do such an evil thing. The rattler replied "you knew I was a rattle snake when you picked me up"! Morale: compassion should not out weigh common sense.
To use that tale: We are talking about carrying all kinds of animals down the mountain...and some people calling the bird and the cub and the cat and the dog all snakes.
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(11-22-2015, 02:12 PM)GMDino Wrote: To use that tale: We are talking about carrying all kinds of animals down the mountain...and some people calling the bird and the cub and the cat and the dog all snakes.
If someone gave you 10,000 M&Ms, and told you that 10 of them were poison, how anxious would you be to put a handful in your mouth?
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(11-22-2015, 07:46 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: If someone gave you 10,000 M&Ms, and told you that 10 of them were poison, how anxious would you be to put a handful in your mouth?
Are trustworthy is person telling you?
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(11-22-2015, 07:46 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: If someone gave you 10,000 M&Ms, and told you that 10 of them were poison, how anxious would you be to put a handful in your mouth?
To make this more comparable to refugees we would need to spend time using chemical analysis to attempt determining which ones were poisoned first. But, you know, that doesn't fit the narrative.
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(11-22-2015, 08:04 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: To make this more comparable to refugees we would need to spend time using chemical analysis to attempt determining which ones were poisoned first. But, you know, that doesn't fit the narrative.
You want to chemically test refugees? Is that before or after their religion test?
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It shouldn't be a bad thing that the majority of Americans do not want these refugees.
Everyone has the right to be cautious about who comes into this country and their communities.
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(11-21-2015, 08:01 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Re: To those who are in favor of accepting any and all Syria refugees..
Did you ever hear the tale of the Indian chief who found a rattle snake dying from the cold at the top of a mountain. The snake pleaded with the chief to carry ...him down the mountain so he could get warm and recover and live. The good hearted chief took pity and took the snake down the mountain. There the snake gave him a deadly bite. The chief asked the rattler how he could do such an evil thing. The rattler replied "you knew I was a rattle snake when you picked me up"! Morale: compassion should not out weigh common sense.
So all Syrian refugees are terrorists?
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(11-22-2015, 07:46 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: If someone gave you 10,000 M&Ms, and told you that 10 of them were poison, how anxious would you be to put a handful in your mouth?
Depends on how credible the person was who told me 10 were poison. Especially if I had eaten a million of M&Ms from the same exact source over the last decade and none of them had been poison.
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(11-22-2015, 08:54 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: ..
So much fail I don't even know where to begin.
Yes, Cops are criminals when they break the law.
Yes, Criminals are victims when they have their rights violated.
Yes, we live in a country that supports the disadvantaged instead of making them starve and live in ghetto conditions.
Yes, cross dressers are heroes when they tear down barriers of discrimination.
Don't agree with calling a Sniper a coward.
George W Bush negotiated with terrorists.
We have not disarmed our own citizens.
People do not want to make more flipping burgers than soldiers make.
And finally, "Yes" a lot of the financial problems as well as the current problems in the Middle east can be traced directly to policies of the Bush administration.
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(11-22-2015, 08:24 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: So all Syrian refugees are terrorists?
They don't necessarily have to be terrorist for me not to like them. Because female circumcision, stoning, etc.
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(11-22-2015, 11:36 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: They don't necessarily have to be terrorist for me not to like them. Because female circumcision, stoning, etc.
But your story implies that all Syrians are terrorists (rattle snakes).
Also, I'm not sure how familiar you are with Syria, but female circumcision and stoning are not prevalent in Syria.
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(11-23-2015, 12:08 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: But your story implies that all Syrians are terrorists (rattle snakes).
Also, I'm not sure how familiar you are with Syria, but female circumcision and stoning are not prevalent in Syria.
If there are people living under Sharia Law, you can believe that it is taking place.
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(11-23-2015, 12:12 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: If there are people living under Sharia Law, you can believe that it is taking place.
Not necessarily. As it was explained in another thread by Matt, Sharia covers a wide range of issues and the majority of countries that implement it do not implement all aspects of it. Also, those trying to enforce stricter applications of it are ISIL, the terrorists whose rule most of these refugees are trying to escape.
Female circumcision also takes places in the US but we do not have Sharia Law.
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