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Let's all be honest, there's a reason Public transportation sucks, when it could be a pleasant experience


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2020 Jun 12, 12:18pm   2,658 views  97 comments

by Tenpoundbass   ➕follow (7)   💰tip   ignore  

Nope it's not because black people run amok and can't control themselves.
But it's because Liberal policies expect and encourage them to.

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14   Onvacation   2020 Jun 14, 2:14pm  

marcus says
Stupid troll of a post.

Labeling?
15   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 14, 2:19pm  

This is why we can't have Public Transportation.




16   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 14, 2:20pm  

What would the Rioters, um Peaceful protesters had done to that Billion Dollar Bullet Train Obama promised us, but never delivered?
18   marcus   2020 Jun 14, 2:51pm  

Tenpoundbass says
Show me a society where people allowed to act out and terrorize the other passengers, that has a good public transportation?


That subway photo doesn't look very terrorizing to me. It's an extreme moment. The top photo looks like some silly advertising executives imagination of the future from about 1948.

How much experience do you have using american public transportation ?

Better perhaps to admit that you have lived a very sheltered life.
19   marcus   2020 Jun 14, 3:03pm  

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I used to live in Chicago. Those are all very every day normal public transportation photos. People don't want to drive downtown becasue of traffic and parking. Most people take some kind of public trans if they work in "the loop."

















20   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 14, 3:19pm  

Most of those are corporate shuttles, they are all stock photos.
21   marcus   2020 Jun 14, 3:29pm  

Wrong they are the two different forms of transportation I used daily for many years. The first three are either the "L" trains or subway, both part of the Chicago Transit authority(CTA). They are a lot like your second photo, but without those two kids posing.

The last three are from "the Metra" commuter trains which is part of the regional transit authority (RTA) , which consists of several train lines from suburbs in to the city. People usually buy monthly passes, but you can buy single ride or daily tickets too. (actually CTA is a subset of RTA)

They are both very regular public trans in chicago.

marcus says
Better perhaps to admit that you have lived a very sheltered life.


You didn't answer my question. What is your experience with public transportation ?
22   marcus   2020 Jun 14, 4:15pm  

The more I think about it, that first photo may be of an actual "first class" car on a predecessor of amtrack back in the 50s. Perhaps it's England. Obviously not a commuter train.
23   alpo   2020 Jun 14, 5:09pm  

marcus says
I used to live in Chicago. Those are all very every day normal public transportation photos. People don't want to drive downtown becasue of traffic and parking. Most people take some kind of public trans if they work in "the loop."


VTA (light rail and bus), Caltrain, and BART or also very popular in SF bay area. I have used them for years. I have also used light rail in Seattle frequently - very convenient to go straight from airport to downtown. I haven't used Chicago public transportation much, except for a few times on train going and coming back from downtown chicago - that was good too.

Unfortunately, I am a non-white person, but I am quite sure it will make many white people on patrick.net more comfortable to know that there are many white people also riding public transit in SF Bay Area, Chicago, and Seattle. You all don't need to be scared. We won't eat you just like we don't eat other white people riding the public transportation.
24   Patrick   2020 Jun 14, 6:01pm  

Caltrain is pretty safe - because they have human conductors who will very quickly throw off trouble-makers, if necessary stopping the train for everyone and calling the Amtrack police, who are pretty effective. And Caltrain goes through orderly prosperous mostly white and Asian neighborhoods.

BART is dangerous because there are no humans keeping order and because it goes through Oakland, which is mostly black. Much more crime on BART. Not a coincidence.
25   PeopleUnited   2020 Jun 14, 7:59pm  

Rode BART from Tenderloin Area to The Oracle once around 2004 with a group of friends. We had a good time, but even then the homeless were a problem. Went back in 2008 and didn’t notice much change. Enjoyed a round of Frisbee golf at golden gate park. Have not been back since.

But on the topic of public transportation, it is just welfare for the wealthy. It allows employers to pay less than a livable wage by forcing taxpayers to subsidize the transportation of their employees. Public transportation NEVER pays for itself.
26   Patrick   2020 Jun 14, 8:23pm  

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholding-surveillance-videos-of-crime-to-avoid-stereotypes/

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — In the last three months, there have been at least three robberies on BART involving groups of teenagers.

“I think people are genuinely concerned — they are fearful about the stories that have come out about the recent attacks, the assaults, the thefts,” said Debora Allen, who is a member of the BART Board of Directors.

April 22: Forty to sixty kids boarded a train at the Coliseum stop and robbed seven passengers, beating up two;

June 28: A group of four kids assaulted a passenger and made off with a cell phone at Dublin; and

June 30: A woman on a train with about a dozen teenagers had her phone snatched by one them before the group got off at the Coliseum stop. Thankfully, a good Samaritan was on hand to retrieve the phone.

So far, BART has refused to turn over surveillance video for any of these incidents.

ALSO READ: Security Guard Foils Teens In Another BART Strong-Arm Robbery

Allen told us the agency issued an explanation for why it is being tight-lipped about the thefts.

“To release these videos would create a high level of racially insensitive commentary toward the district,” she was told. “And in addition it would create a racial bias in the riders against minorities on the trains.”
27   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 14, 8:37pm  

alpo says
my biggest worry while taking public transportation is to be accosted by some "crazy" white guy rather than being mugged or robbed by a black guy.


Based on what data?
28   PeopleUnited   2020 Jun 14, 8:42pm  

Patrick says
AN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — In the last three months, there have been at least three robberies on BART involving groups of teenagers


They were not robbing, just seeking their fair share. Don’t be racist.
29   just_passing_through   2020 Jun 14, 9:37pm  

Tenpoundbass says
Yup and I believe we're all related


You've no idea... We're all about 1/30th cousins which is seriously inbred for a mammal. Races are BS, culture is not.

Tenpoundbass says
Females promiscuity and desire to dump the chump and drop the zero and get a hero.


True story! Also, we look the way we do because females think it's 'cute'. Also act the way we do because females are looking for 'X'.
30   just_passing_through   2020 Jun 14, 9:45pm  

alpo says
de in the car and bitch on internet forums as to how bad public transportation is.


Oh me me me!!! I want this job!
31   WookieMan   2020 Jun 15, 6:28am  

marcus says
The last three are from "the Metra" commuter trains which is part of the regional transit authority (RTA) , which consists of several train lines from suburbs in to the city.

Metra is fine. I still live here and will use it occasionally if going to the city to get plastered. The employees are A-holes though and they're thoroughly protected through some fucked scheme. Metra employees are employees of the rail line they operate on, not the government even though Metra is government. They work for BNSF, Pacific Northern, etc. You cannot FOIA them. It's fucked up. So those conductors have free rein to shit all over you. Found out the hard way after one of those cunts pushed my wife off a train. Took me years and cooperation with 3 other people that saw it, but finally got that basket of shit fired.

CTA is a cesspool though. North side of Red line is fine. Blue line is fine until you get west of Western Ave. on the Southern/West portion. Pink line, is somewhat newish (~18 years I think) is fine until you again, get west of Western Ave. The cars routinely smell like piss. I've had to punch a homeless fuck harassing me. My wife commuted in from Oak Park to UIC where we both went to college and I wouldn't let her rid alone at any time of the day. It simply wasn't safe for a single female to ride that part of the Blue line.

Those west side neighborhoods along 290 are absolute shit holes. I've physically worked in them in my past career. I've seen shit people wouldn't believe. I've called DCFS and Chicago building inspectors more times than I can remember. Most middle and upper class people have zero clue what the ghetto is, as they have no reason to go into one.
32   NDrLoR   2020 Jun 15, 9:09am  

Tenpoundbass says
they can't keep Black families with a strong Patriarchal figure heading the household. Dad would put a foot up their punks asses for acting like the Liberal establishment demands out of them
https://www.shorpy.com/node/13072?size=_original#caption

This photograph, taken in Jim Crow 1956, shows an affluent black family about to experience a wedding--something that is seldom seen today. That's Dad in the grey suit, a strong, patriarchal figure who is keeping his sons in line and making sure they toe the line. It will remain to be seen if the youngest of them keeps on the straight and narrow in the mid 70's when everything in society went to hell. This also shows that blacks in Jim Crow America didn't have to be victims.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/13128?size=_original#caption
33   NDrLoR   2020 Jun 15, 9:27am  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says
Kodachrome.
I know, nothing like it!
34   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 15, 11:58am  

just_dregalicious says
Tenpoundbass says
Females promiscuity and desire to dump the chump and drop the zero and get a hero.


True story! Also, we look the way we do because females think it's 'cute'. Also act the way we do because females are looking for 'X'.


The Human story is crazier than that. Humans are the only species that got a leg up by the females being attracted to the weaker males.
As we migrated out of Africa we got stronger, because the stronger species was attracted to worldly traveler, over the strong brutes in their local indigenous species. Eventually giving man both brains and brawn to out compete the local species as we encountered them. Even the women or males they might have kidnapped but didn't eat or ritually kill. They may have bred with them. Only to give birth to better looking stronger smarter kids, that over several generations. Those that were no hybrid at this point were probably ostracized and ridiculed. If not exploited to do all of the grunt dirty work, and to fight battles and beasts.
This is the millions of years of evolution people talk about that brought us to here. A few gender confused Liberals now, wants to hold every White Male alive today for the natural selection processes that has made us all who we are. My theory about the interspecific breeding replacing earlier man, and not because Homo Sapiens won every battle he fought with Homo Erectus that walked out of Africa millions of years before. It happened everywhere, not just in one region. Humans have been tribal since the beginning, they have been prejudice, and exploited others where they have conquered them. We've come a long way, they want to send us all back.
35   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 15, 11:59am  

NDrLoR says
This photograph, taken in Jim Crow 1956, shows an affluent black family about to experience a wedding--something that is seldom seen today.


That was a very rare color combination. The owner was probably one of those people who used to say. "I got my car made Custom, direct from the Factory."
Usually the Dark Blue is on top and the lighter blue is on the bottom, on those Olds Holidays.
36   Kepi   2020 Jun 15, 4:21pm  

Tenpoundbass says
We've come a long way, they want to send us all back.


This evolution stuff seems to be a part of this thread so I don't think (at least, I hope) I am hijacking the theme.

A little science stuff.

Here is a little something the scientists have come up with with respect to the theory that all of mankind comes from Africa, that niggers were the original man.
 
Recent discoveries have disproved the theory that man originated in Africa (although the media is reluctant to publish this).

Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find.
The discovery of the creature, named Graecopithecus freybergi, and nicknameded ‘El Graeco' by scientists, proves our ancestors were already starting to evolve in Europe 200,000 years before the earliest African hominid.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find/



A fossilized tooth belonging to an ape-like creature that roamed Bulgaria 7.2 million years ago could rewrite history as we know it.
Scientists say the species, which is known only from a lower jawbone and a single tooth, may prove that modern man originated in Europe and not Africa.
https://nypost.com/2017/05/23/this-fossilized-tooth-might-prove-humans-came-from-europe-not-africa/

But, really, it is not like we have to do anything more than just look around us to know that niggers aren't exactly on par with modern man.
37   marcus   2020 Jun 15, 4:36pm  

Wild guess - going out on a limb. Kepi voted for Trump.
38   Kepi   2020 Jun 15, 4:40pm  

A little more (or, actually, a lot more).

In 2008, Richard D. Fuerle published a work called Erectus Walks Amongst Us – The evolution of modern humans.

Below is the cover image.



The book is 588 pages long. It is THOROUGH and masterfully presented, and I think nicely readable. I present a passage from pages 234 – 235.

“To summarize, Section II provides overwhelming evidence that race is real
and that blacks are the most primitive of the major races, though only a small
proportion of the known racial differences is presented. Because research on racial
differences, except where they are medically important, has been effectively
outlawed for at least the last 50 yrs, there are no doubt thousands of other racial
differences that have not been discovered or published. In reading comparisons
between different types of animals, one is struck by the immense number of small
differences in anatomy, physiology, protein structure, and development. Surely,
there are also a large number of differences between the races.
The fact is that virtually all of the racial differences between Africans and
Eurasians are in traits that are primitive; there are few, if any, African traits that are
more modern than Eurasian traits. The evidence comes from a large variety of very
different traits, hard tissue, soft tissue, physiology, behavior, intelligence,
accomplishments, and genes. And, most importantly, all of the evidence is consistent.

It is not the case that genes are saying blacks are modern and bones are saying they
are primitive. All of the evidence is saying the same thing – they are primitive, less
evolved, and closer to our ape ancestors.
That is the source of the title of this book, not that Homo erectus is alive today
as the species that lived from nearly 2 mya until as recently as a few tens of thousand
ya, but that erectine alleles long lost by Eurasians are still active in Africans and some
aborigine populations, expressing themselves in primitive traits of body and
behavior. These traits are readily discernable at a glance, though people are
indoctrinated and warned not to notice such things and to deny them if they are
mentioned. In Fig. 16-4, 16-5, & 16-6, note the erectine features of these black athletes
(left to right): the prominent brow ridges and receding forehead of Jerry Stackhouse,
the protruding jaw of Shaquille O’Neal, and the slight saggital keel of former NBA
player Karl Malone.



Whites have romanticized primitive people as “noble savages” and, in movies
and on television, they are usually portrayed as competent, wise, and kind-hearted
towards whites. Real life data, however, does not support that portrayal. (Keeley,
1996; Wade, 2006; Lablanc, 2003). European soccer fans, who make ape-like hooting
noises and throw bananas to taunt black players may be boorish, but biologically,
they have a point. Blacks, biologically, have traits that man had hundreds of
thousands of years ago. In Figure 16-7 the horizontal length of the lines is
proportional to genetic distance; the short length of the horizontal line going to
“African” indicates that Africans have not evolved much, and the long length of the
horizontal line labeled “non-African” indicates that non-Africans have evolved a
long way away from Africans."

Edit: Oops, forgot to include the link to the book.

https://analyseeconomique.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/richard-d-fuerle-erectus-walks-amongst-us.pdf
39   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 15, 4:55pm  

alpo says
there is hardly any "Black" person in United States who doesn't have White ancestry.


Who's eligible for reparations then?
40   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 15, 7:55pm  

Kepi all man evolved from hominids. Africans didn't leave Africa Homo erectus did, and as he moved out into Europe and then on to Asia, they evolved into the other species you see in the fossil records. Followed by another wave of the first humans to start evolving Human traits and features. These weren't Africans, and they weren't Asian or European at this point.

George W. Bush looks like a Chimpanzee
Ron Pearlman looks like a Lowland Gorilla
Don Rickles had Shaq's same profile from the side.

Cosmetically Asians and Europeans got finer features due to our evolutionary tract and interspecific partnerships we made along the way.
We did more monkey fucking than Africans did. So we got finer features.
41   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 15, 7:58pm  

And if your religion has a problem believing in Evolution. Just remember God said he created man in his image, he didn't give any body the recipe.
42   just_passing_through   2020 Jun 15, 8:16pm  

Saw some racist stuff at work and didn't respond. It's gone now. Had 'legitimate' science links and everything!

Sadly, there are assholes who make up bad science and then those that promote it. Race really isn't a thing other than a social construct, I know that hurts some people's ears but if you go global estimates are we are 1/50th cousins. The 1/30 I mentioned above is for Europeans only. Both are inbred AF.

It's really hard to show you guys this without sounding like just another hack but I'll try. Check this out:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/gdv/browser/genome/?id=GCF_000001405.39

That's a random position I picked in the human genome, chomosome-1, assembly number 38. See the zoom in/out icons and the slider bar? Slide all the way to: +

Now you can see the A/C/G/T code level. That's the latest human genome assembly. It's composed of several Caucasians which is problematic for some precise work but for the most part you can plop anyone's (just get your bam file) in there and it'll map perfectly. We are ALL nearly 100% the same. Everyone who's left on the planet is Homo sapiens sapiens. Yes, there were a lot of other hominids that ran around all over the world before we came along but we all came from Africa. No doubt about that at all.

Edit: Okay if you click on that NCBI will send you to a position with Ns... So click on one of the chromosomes and THEN zoom in.

So some more, your genome will map on that nearly perfectly. So then some people posed: "But why are we so diff then?", others, "It's got to be epigenetics". You DNA doesn't sit there all stretched out like that. It's coiled and the coils are coiled. In some places methyl groups are added that makes it hard or impossible to do when your cell wants to transcribe a particular 'gene product'. It's another level.

But that's BS too. It's culture. Races have some differences but by far the biggest contribution to our differences is culture. Demoncrat politicians intuitively know this.

Question for other gen-Xers: The 80s and 90s seemed pretty cool right? We all got along and mixed pretty well is what I remember. Lots of fun, parties, ribbing each other, joking around. Sometimes a drunk got emo and wanted to fight but I grew up in TX so that's par for the course there.

After 2000, I recall starting to see ruckus's in GG park. Loud ass bitches with megaphones screaming about environmental racism! Which later transformed in to all manner of shit after we elected that asshat Obama.
43   just_passing_through   2020 Jun 15, 8:17pm  

Oh, weird, I guess I just had to refresh my browser. The racist stuff is still above. Yeah, Kepi is full of crap. So are his sources.
44   PeopleUnited   2020 Jun 16, 4:09am  

No, the earth is not flat, the earth is not the center of the solar system and humans did not evolve from apes. There is exactly zero evidence that a monkey can become anything else. It is right out of the NWO globalists playbook to divide us by superficial things and discredit the one true God. The globalists must do this because they cannot tolerate the competition, and ultimately they can’t tolerate religion because it gives people hope that is not dependent on their government puppets.
45   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jun 16, 6:10am  

just_dregalicious says

But that's BS too. It's culture. Races have some differences but by far the biggest contribution to our differences is culture. Demoncrat politicians intuitively know this.

Question for other gen-Xers: The 80s and 90s seemed pretty cool right? We all got along and mixed pretty well is what I remember. Lots of fun, parties, ribbing each other, joking around. Sometimes a drunk got emo and wanted to fight but I grew up in TX so that's par for the course there.


I used to be possible to have racial diss wars that didn't end up in butthurt.

But that's also when some kids having a fight was no big deal. Today the idea of kids having it out over anything is bullying, male toxicity, etc.
46   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 16, 7:04am  

PeopleUnited says
No, the earth is not flat, the earth is not the center of the solar system and humans did not evolve from apes.


Well we didn't spontaneously appear on earth one day.



just_dregalicious says
We are ALL nearly 100% the same. Everyone who's left on the planet is Homo sapiens sapiens. Yes, there were a lot of other hominids that ran around all over the world before we came along but we all came from Africa. No doubt about that at all.


The problem with the genome mapping of man, there's no other hominids around to compare DNA to.

You can't compare DNA from reptiles and birds, even though they evolved from the same tree.

So to look at the human genome and not find any Gorilla markers, as proof we didn't evolve from primates is silly in my opinion.

I don't think lowland Gorilla's and Chimps were the same animals they are now back then either.
47   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 16, 7:14am  

DILLIGAF says
Look where the minorities are in the ads for train travel that goes along with the first picture in the OP.


Wope look a white guy has a job too!



Look showing a bunch of people taking a very civil well behaved ride in public transportation in the 40's, 50's and 60's, doesn't prove anything other than what I said.
They didn't tolerate stupid people acting out for the benefit of a certain political party.
They didn't tolerate white people acting like punks and if segregation hadn't been a thing, they wouldn't have tolerated them being unruly either.

I still stand by my OP that public transportation doesn't have to be a miserable experience where punks of all races act like wild rabid banchies, and dare you not say anything least you be labeled Karen and called a racist after you get your ass beat by them.
48   Patrick   2020 Jun 16, 8:25am  

PeopleUnited says
The globalists must do this because they cannot tolerate the competition, and ultimately they can’t tolerate religion because it gives people hope that is not dependent on their government puppets.


@PeopleUnited What they have done is created a competing Religion With No Name. People miss the old certainties of Christianity, and so are reinventing them, along with the worst of The Inquisition at the same time:

50   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jun 16, 9:58am  

People always mention segregation, but they never mention the crime rate, illegit birth rate, drug addiction rate, etc. Of the 40 and 50 era.

Fractional to today.
51   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 16, 2:15pm  

just_dregalicious says
Yes, there are other hominid genomes we've sequenced and compared to us.


Oh really with what DNA? You know much of the DNA tech is hype tech as well.

How in the fuck are they getting Neanderthal and Clovis DNA from rocks?
Here's research that supports what I'm saying about early man lineage.

https://www.livescience.com/41679-oldest-human-dna-reveals-mysterious-homnid.html

Yes I said ancient DNA is useless unless it supports my hypothesis. :P
52   just_passing_through   2020 Jun 16, 7:19pm  

Interesting article... I hadn't seen it. 2013 NGS (Next Generation DNA Sequencing; cheap massively parallel sequencing) was just coming up. They may have tried to use Sanger Sequencing instead in those days.

Either way, that's too old to get DNA out of under those conditions.

We got plenty of Denisovan from a toof. We have plenty from various Neanderthals. Those are only 30-60K year old samples though. There are others as well. Bones and teef! Not rocks!

There sure IS a lot of hyped DNA tech/vaporware out there but bioinformatics in general and NGS (which I was an early R&D person for) are legit.

My favorite hyped BS was at an Art and Wine Fest in Foster City. Some bitch at one of the booths tried to sell me vitamins based on my genetic profile (which is still pretty much BS to this day; it happened in 2011) so I asked her, "Okay, what kind of tech are you using to get my profile?"

She stared at me like I just kicked a kitten and didn't even fucking know.

Later, a pal of mine whipped out a binder when I dropped by his pad to pick him up before heading to a party. It was one of those vitamin companies and was some sort of multi-level marking shit he bought into. I had to tell him he was scammed. No fun.
53   PeopleUnited   2020 Jun 16, 7:42pm  

Tenpoundbass says
Well we didn't spontaneously appear on earth one day.


Well, that is not what God said.

“And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1:24-31‬ ‭KJV‬‬
https://www.bible.com/1/gen.1.24-31.kjv

And in case you didn’t know that the “scientists” like Fauci and Birx were liars, they are. Just like the liars who claim diverse species like bats and sea lions came from a common ancestor. No, they came from a common designer. A creator who used DNA/RNA as a common tool to build and allow for adaptation to changing environmental conditions.

“For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:”
‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭3:5-6‬ ‭KJV‬‬
https://www.bible.com/1/2pe.3.5-6.kjv

And this flood is what buried billions of dead things in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. We call them fossils. A direct result of God’s judgement. Those who are willingly ignorant of the previous judgements, will not be ready for the final judgement.

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