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American household wealth is circa 150 trillion USD. How much of that would Americans authorize to spend to clear guns from the streets? There are 400 million civilian owned guns in America. What price would Americans pay for each one of them? In a fell swoop, a gigantic gun buyback, what...

Inspired by What are you Listening to Now I-VII, and by the old Omnibox thread. Also includes though, if you're watching an account on twitter or a sub on reddit if you wish, we'll discuss whatever comes up. Right now I'm watching something that in my opinion is worth checking out. I'm...

DEAR RUSSIA If you stop, we forgive you. We forgive you all the way up to your head of state President Putin inclusive. For far smaller crimes there exists the legal defense of temporary irrationality, this we accept right now, as your valid defense. We will 'lift' all sanctions against you...

This is CRAZY So MANY people are dying from fentanyl because they're buying street heroin that is 'laced' with (spiked, contaminated) fentanyl. This did not happen with 'pill mill' doctors whose practices consisted of prescribing opioids liberally. People would take the safely made, factory...

Does liquid (melted) rock (magma or lava) exist solely because of the Flood? Are there radioactive elements at the earth's surface solely because of the Flood? And also, as far as climate change goes, do you think the earth's climate pattern changed when it went from its largely green surface...

IF----and it's a BIG IF----the global Flood really happened, and IF----and it's an even BIGGER IF----the " fountains of the great deep" (Genesis 7:11) referred to a hollow sphere of water surrounding the earth's mantle, a layer submerged beneath the earth's rocky crust, then this would be...

Back before Russia began encircling Ukraine on three sides, we were some 'distance' from WWIII. When Russia began building up their forces to invade, we got a little closer. When Russia invaded, we got a little closer. What's happened to our chances of global nuclear conflict in the meantime...

And is America such a country? First we must as far as I'm concerned grant that the Apostles and Jesus never said that absolute monarchism was an inherently moral regime, constitution or political situation, but the New Testament didn't foment revolt against the current political situation of...

So as I ponder the global Flood, that a great mass of water was covering the whole earth, one of the first things I think is, Where did all that water go? And I think, maybe nowhere? Maybe it's all still here? Is there like a boatload of water just sitting around here somewhere? Maybe it's...

@Silent Hunter you were . . . not 'in' this thread anymore by the time I got around to replying but I wanted to followup! Post I'm referencing This is such an interesting talent to me. When you say it takes 43 three-minute exposures, do you have to adjust the telescope after each three minute...

There are a lot of very old threads here, that haven't been replied to in ages. Many of them are worthy of continued discussion perhaps, but at least many of them are worthy of being answered today just as much as they were whenever they were first posted. So I intend to post links to old OPs...

To take the Bible at its word, we have to believe that before the Flood, the earth had the same total quantity of water that it has today but that most of it was underground. We have something like this underground now, petroleum. Crude. Sometimes the crude is under pressure and all you have...

A user suggested 'tongue-in-cheek' that we should start a 'smoking lounge' thread because me and some former smokers started talking about our tobacco habits, mucking up a thread (not on purpose, and no disrespect intended to @Right Divider :e4e: ). I thought better of it. I thought why not...

" Russian President Vladimir Putin has given several explanations for his country's war ... stopping NATO's advance towards Russia's borders, protecting fellow Russians from "genocide" or the baseless claim of "de-Nazifying" Ukraine. The top-ranking priest in the Russian Orthodox Church...

" 1) Don’t Read Scott Hahn 2) Don’t Read Church History 3) Don’t Read the Early Church Fathers 4) Don’t Meet Any Great Catholics 5) Don’t Start Living Like a Catholic 6) Don’t 'Give God an Inch' 7) Don’t Pray 8) Don’t Let Your Faith Be Challenged " "Originally posted on The Cordial Catholic"

Telling the truth doesn’t necessarily always equal telling the accurate. When Samson rightly lied to Delilah he was telling the truth, but when he told Delilah the accurate, there he erred, and grievously. He should have continued to lie. But when you hear 'lie,' you hear, 'not telling the...

In Politics because someone might think of Prohibition e.g. ("for example" in Latin) or some other legal matter in this thread, but it could go in Religion also due to morals. Or ethics. There is this verse in the Bible, the Pauline " ... use a little wine ... " (1st Timothy 5:23)...

" But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; 16 And charged them that they should not make him known: 17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 18 Behold my servant, whom I have...

Now that it's been abundantly made clear for people in the whole world that nuclear weapons cannot be trusted to anybody who is not under the control of moral men and women and intersex people. We need a solution. Before nukes the idea that the whole world could be divided up between dozens or...