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  1. Idolater

    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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    Different Stuff

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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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    Different Stuff

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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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    Concerning Stupidity

    Granted. The progression was from sin making you stupid (the original idea), to demons making you stupid, to listening to demons making you stupid, to obeying demons making you stupid. Granted. And therefore also agreed. My point, and I think it's exemplified in Our Lord's temptation by the...
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    Concerning Stupidity

    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...
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    Concerning Stupidity

    "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...
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    Lifting thread

    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...
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