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  1. Idolater

    Activity on Other Christian Web Forums

    idk if I know what that feels like or not. It's definitely not a united front, idk if that's your experience over there? a united front against you? It was from the beginning (of the internet). There were multiple philosophy forums of course, but for theology, TOL was the only game and only...
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    Lifting thread

    I'm there too, but I haven't looked into surgery ... yet. Have you done all the available surgical options? or are you on the brink of having to decide to go under the knife now? I have to modify my lifting program according to my current chronic injury. I'd love to do one exercise in...
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    Lifting thread

    1 The most important thing to have as a middle-aged or old, man or woman, lifting weights, is a good supply of micro-plates, which are much smaller than the standard smallest weight plate out there, which is the two-and-a-half pound plate. You need two of those plates to make the smallest...
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    Ukraine is a WWIII powder keg

    Ukraine war still burning. We the West are funding Ukraine, against Russia, which is in the East. Israel now wages a just (defensive or preemptive) war in Gaza. The West is divided over whether Israel is in the West or in the East. And it's a paywall for me but here's the front page...
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    Bring it On - Capitalism and Prosperity v. Socialism and Poverty

    Don't forget we've been dumping free money into Ukraine and they're still not even in the top ten.
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    Air weighs more than nothing

    They were able to evacuate a chamber. Why not weigh the chamber before and after, make a valve and disconnect so that the vacuum tube is detachable? Weigh the thing full of air and then empty it and weigh it again.
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    Bring it On - Capitalism and Prosperity v. Socialism and Poverty

    Now do the American founders. Here's my top handful: 1. Murica 2. Germany & Japan 3. the UK 4. France, Spain, Italy 5. Israel 6. Canada and Australia and New Zealand 7. South Africa 8. Belgium & Switzerland 9. Russia
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    Clarence Page: Who’s afraid of critical race theory? Those who don’t know what it is

    Will they agree to include teaching the kids to not plagiarize? and that plagiarizing doesn't pay? also in the curriculum? or is that asking too much?
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    Guns!

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    Wokey McWokeface

    I couldn't find the Clown World thread but this will work here too:
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    That's incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial, impassible, impeccable, and immutable! - Oct 23 2023

    I think it's easy to know, and it's because the temptation is a key plot point in the story. The story doesn't go without a plot, and a plot doesn't go without a plot point. The primary plot point is the temptation. I think it's fair to ponder what it means that the only way God could make...
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    That's incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial, impassible, impeccable, and immutable! - Oct 23 2023

    The idea of meditating on it comes to mind. We are presented with options, and if we choose to meditate on a wrong option, then that's the sin of lust and envy. The temptation is not sin, but it is endemic to our human existence, even Adam and Eve and Our Lord were tempted.
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    That's incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial, impassible, impeccable, and immutable! - Oct 23 2023

    There's a reason particular options are presented to each of us. I don't think being tempted because of our concupiscence is of a different scale, it's of the same quality as being presented tempting options, but it's like we're on fire for tempting options, always wanting to hear them. "I...
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    That's incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial, impassible, impeccable, and immutable! - Oct 23 2023

    OK, good question. "In essentials, unity." What can we unite around? Maybe my children won't be Catholics. Maybe they won't take my correction. What do I do. Seems at this point familial relations have to regress backward to sanitary and sterile politics. Human rights. I have a right to...
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