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I've been educated by a firearms instructor. In fact, I was instructed by the guy who trained the sharpshooters for our local police department. That was almost 20 years ago now. I earned my Rifle and Shotgun merit badges in the Boy Scouts the following summer. I've since shot a few dozen different types of firearms, from boring old Barettas and AR15s to more exciting Dragunovs and M98s. Mostly at targets. Occasionally at nuisance animals, including a 6' caiman who now lives on as a belt (caiman are hard to kill with a .22, by the way).I know a bit about guns. I can capably handle a gun. I enjoy shooting guns.Also, I support the Parkland kids. Because one time, in my early twenties, I was on my way to go see a movie in the Trolley Square Mall in peaceful Salt Lake City and was informed that there was an active shooting in the mall. The people killed were strangers to me. It wasn't even a tragedy for me personally. I just knew that if my day had gone a bit differently, if I'd decided to go the first rather than the second matinee showing that day, it could have been my last. And so I learned something that day: not everyone can be trusted to safely and responsibly handle guns.I'm fine with mandatory background checks. I know I can pass one. I'm fine with mandatory mental health screenings. I know I can pass one. I'm fine with waiting periods. I'm in no rush. I'm even fine with banning ARs. They're lousy weapons for home defense and hunting, and I'll probably still be able to rent them at a range if I really get the itch. So go for it Parkland kids. I've got nothing to lose except maybe having to fill out a few more forms.Maybe the problem isn't the Parkland kids’ lack of gun knowledge. Maybe the problem is their opponents’ lack of empathy. Maybe instead of asking them to walk a mile in your shoes, you should thank God that you don't have to walk a mile in theirs.

The best sport for you to learn will be something you want to do.Depending on how overweight you are some things would be ill advised, like running for example due to the high impact on the joints, that is before we even consider hip and knee alignment and your running technique.Swimming is fantastic, a low impact but if you want it to be, a very intense form of exercise.The two key questions are as follows; are you wanting to use the exercise purely as a hobby, or to help assist weight loss, and second, have you had a health screening beforehand to ensure you are not putting your health at risk.If you are looking to use the ‘sport to aid weight loss, counting your calories is key, don't do some crazy diet, just monitor what you are consuming and work out your daily calorie allowance online. Just Google TDEE calculator, and follow the instructions.Good luck, and enjoy what ever you decide to do.Ed

No, Consciousness is the ‘screen’ on which thoughts appear. Giving us the ability to experience thoughts.Consider a computer as an analogy. The program instructions are running in the CPU. These are like thoughts. But without the screen you cannot experience the output. The thoughts take on ‘form’ on the screen. You see a ‘female character’ on the screen. This does not mean the female character exists inside the CPU. It manifests in color and shape which is perceivable to your senses and is then interpreted as a ‘female’.The instructions and screen are separate things. But since the screen is the only thing we ever come in touch with - it is easy to confuse the two. This mixing leads to interesting troubles.Sometimes the screen might be dirty, or have a dead pixels - due to which all images might seem ‘bad’. But that doesn’t mean the instructions(thoughts) are bad or good. Our level of consciousness is low or high. Due to which our relation with those thoughts are poorer or better.Once we are able to see this(not learn this) differentiation, that thoughts are just thoughts. That their goodness/badness is just a function of consciousness playing tricks on us…they start losing their hold on us. This is akin to our ‘mental health’ improving. The thoughts still exist but they impact us less, control us less. The bad memories, traumatic recollections still exist - but now we are OK with them. Thus we become free of them.