Tag: kill
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Weakness
It’s said that a person who cannot choose violence is only weak and that only a person who can choose violence but does not deserves to be called gentle. I have been meditating on my own weaknesses today. My health is average so I can’t claim any significant physical advantage if I were forced to…
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Asking the Government
The USA is conducting the largest mass deportations in the country’s history. Children of illegal immigrants are being rounded up to be sent back “home.” Home is in quotes because many of them have never lived anywhere but the USA. And yet they are here illegally. There’s a political principle I picked up over the…
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Choices We Can Make
I am a believer in the concept of moral agency. This is primarily a religious view. The freedom to choose is baked pretty deeply into Mormonism. But another secondary reason it that it seems counterintuitive at best that humans would have evolved a sense that we have freewill if it were only an illusion. That…
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Cats and Mice
This morning Stephanie went to let one of our cats out and stepped on something by the front door. She let out a tiny panic noise because it was a dead mouse. Well technically it was half of a dead mouse because the cat who had killed it ate the head. Much to her chagrin…
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A Game of Cat and Mouse
I have heard and even used the phrase “A Game of Cat and Mouse” most of my life. I had a vague idea of what it meant most of that time. But part of my impression came from the Cartoons of Tom and Jerry. Jerry Mouse always won. He usually didn’t end up dead at…
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Two black cats
(to the tune of Three Blind Mice) Two black cats Two black cats They killed the mice that had got inside Though the monsters tried to hide Have you even seen such a source of pride As two black cats
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A Dead Mouse
One of our cats brought a small dead mouse upstairs to my bedroom. Magic was standing over it and sniffing it so it might have been her. On the other hand maybe Cosmos killed and delivered it and Magic was just trying to figure out what had happened. At any rate this is the first…
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Bandit Lairs
You probably already know I play a lot of video games. Lately it’s been Skyrim. The gameplay has me thinking of all the things that would be illegal in real life. One in particular is walking into bandit lairs uninvited and heavily armed. They try to kill you sure, but they’re kinda right. If someone…
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I Swore An Oath
Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you? When I was about to graduate high school I went to a Military Inprocessing Center (MEPS). Before I left my father absolutely forbade me to sign anything there. But I was 18 and if I wanted to join the Army I was going to join…
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Defending the Constitution
Today I am thinking of the oath I took when I joined the Army. I vowed to defend the Constitution of the United States against its enemies both foreign and domestic. I specifically consented to the power of the Congress to raise and support armies. I was trained to kill in that cause. I am…
Latter Day Sinner 