So, let me get this straight.

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38. Right on y'all, I too refrain...

I'm an early voter, so I've actively avoided those scenarios. I also actively refrain from goading and/or intimidation in such situations, anytime that they've occurred. As you've said though, each to their own.

The majority of my combat victories within life have been achieved by realizing my options, and picking my battles. I never display a weapon unless I'm pulling the trigger. To date, I'm fortunate to say that I never have.

Caddo Parish was the last stronghold of *The Confederacy*. It still is, but it used to be too...

So, being fortunate enough to have escaped our Christo-Fascist rearing, I've got less than zero desire to get in a shooting match with the Y'all Qaeda Christo Fascists. I never display a weapon unless I'm pulling the trigger.

Caddo Parish is a cesspool of delusion, despair, drugs and violence.

I've never forgotten what's it's like to be a hard-core believer hymned in by shame.

It's incredibly difficult to break free of one's undying love of fellow hardcore believers, one's unshakeable faith in the fools and the dreamers, a holy devotion to sins of the ages. The reason it's incredibly difficult is because delusion only begets delusion. Faith rejects doubt, and in so doing rejects reason.

Until I embraced doubt, I was beat to hell by it, so to speak. Once I embraced doubt, I was saved by it, so to speak.

May reason rule!