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But which comes first, the chicken (being stupid) or the eggs (consuming stupidity)? I read CNN because it's free (cf. N.Y. Times and W.S.J. and Financial Times and The Economist which are all paywalls) and I already know that any journalistic slant is a Democratic party slant. CNN is a known...

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of World that it leaves to its children," Bonhoeffer once said. That's why I know the American framers are the real Greatest Generation in American history, no disrespect to the WWII Greatest Generation intended, but this is like Tom Brady...

I hope you recover soon and well. Well is better than soon though for a young man. So I hope you recover well first, soon only if well is established. That's the most important part for a young man. Whether I lift weights or not, I get injured, so I figure I might as well get injured lifting...

OK but how is it said of Christ that He was "tempted in every way, just as we are"? The only example explicit in the Scripture of Him being tempted is when the Devil was literally tempting Him. Or are you suggesting Our Lord was "drawn away of his own lust?" As if that's possible? What are...

We believe that God is love, right? And we believe this parable is about the kingdom of Heaven, right? So I'm thinking that the master in the parable represents God, and if God is love, then love must be in the parable somewhere, coming from the master, the master must be loving in some way...

Admiral Rickover interviewed sailors to work on his nuclear submarine project. One of the candidates was intelligent and well-credentialed but Rickover couldn't get a good enough read on him through the interview and frustrated, gave him a weird challenge instead, "You have 10 seconds to make...

This is true but not without qualification. The Septuagint translation was literally quoted in the New Testament here and there, so at least those passages actually are authoritative translations from Hebrew to ancient Greek. If you disagree with that, then let's have it. The Septuagint was...

This's from Greek philosophers. They're the ones who first taught that God and the Good are the same being or entity, that Goodness isn't just an attribute of God but that God is Goodness itself (whatever that means). It's an idea derived from, conjectured, deduced from just reason. The...

If the chamber was pressurized instead of evacuated, would the scale have said the object is now lighter? What does the scale do if there's nothing on it to weigh (empty and zeroed) would it go negative?

God seems to pull things toward mass, the mathematical model of what God's doing we call gravity, a "force." But God's actually the force.

We agree that this is supposed to be a picture of the kingdom of Heaven, right? This is a parable about the kingdom?

Do you think He told them that because it was arbitrary, or do you think He told them that because morality is objectively true and real? iow did God just make up the law about abstaining from that one tree? as a sort of test maybe? or did He merely tell them the morally necessary truth, which...

Satan whispered to Eve, whereas Cain killed Abel. I'm just saying the latter is the violence which resulted from the former. I don't necessarily think we're at odds.

When someone says "war" without qualification (iow not like Ephesians 6:12) we're permitted to think of flesh and blood warfare. Also even spiritual warfare can and often does manifest in the physical World as violence.

It began with Cain. But I get that you don't trust these people. I've learned to trust the process. Salute the rank, not the man.

This is lascivious, why are we doing this?

He's not bad to listen to in the background, I'll give you that.

Does he teach authoritative, canonical Dispensationalism? I'm still looking for that.

idk if Duffy said this but the map makes it look like the seven churches here are just like on the edge of Asia, but in fact they are pretty well dispersed throughout the whole Roman province or territory which was called Asia. It's not like Asia was Russia and China and India, it was like just...