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It's become harder for sure. I used to be able to talk

Posted on: June 16, 2019 at 21:22:33 CT
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politics with people on the other side, like debating what happened in a ball game or something, but people are so emotionally invested now. I had a professional colleague who was a city Democrat, African American, but he was a Mizzou fan so we would talk Mizzou and politics. We talked about the Todd Akins fiasco in a detached way, about how stupid his answer was and how easily it should have been to sidestep that question that Jaco threw at him, for an example. No emotion, no argument. It was what it was.

I don't do a lot on facebook anymore, but one of my own sisters unfriended me shortly after Trump's improbable election because I liked a pro-Trump post. Normally I avoid politics on facebook but just liked a page. We hadn't conversed until another sibling died recently and we got along alright, didn't talk politics.

Religion was another aspect of that deal but I'll leave that alone for now. Suffice to say I was the only one, except for one maybe, who didn't go to Catholic schools who is for sure a believer today.

Edited by MUTGR at 21:29:25 on 06/16/19
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Matt, i have a question that i believe you will answer: You - hokie VT - 6/16 20:54:41
     dont most religions tell their followers - meatiger MU - 6/16 21:13:18
          No sir. Only one of the major traditions does that, the very - raskolnikov MU - 6/17 08:30:50
     I know no other person in my circle of family and friends - TigerMatt STL - 6/16 21:09:11
          Where do you get the idea homosexuality is a sin?(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 6/17 08:32:28
          I appreciate that but frankly don't understand it. I for - hokie VT - 6/16 21:15:48
               Religions all teach the same basic values - raskolnikov MU - 6/17 08:39:52
               I understand it but not your view. I have no - GA Tiger MU - 6/17 07:22:00
                    Yet...without knowing them - meatiger MU - 6/17 08:20:35
                         You know that how? I RARELY use the word "all". - GA Tiger MU - 6/17 09:29:53
               Why would I cut off someone for differences in belief? - TigerMatt STL - 6/16 21:27:25
               It's become harder for sure. I used to be able to talk - MUTGR MU - 6/16 21:22:33
               Interesting - meatiger MU - 6/16 21:19:03
                    I figured when you came to the discussion it would end. - hokie VT - 6/16 21:21:03
                         LOL - meatiger MU - 6/16 21:24:39




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