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It gets points for sanity though.

I think Vance wants to rally 'round the family. Musk wants to colonize Mars. Trump wants to avoid further prosecution while changing the name of the G...

I don't think eating Europe is on the to-do list right now.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?

Russia has a tendency to want to annihilate the Ukrainian identity. It gives them joy to try. Ukrainians say no to this for some strange reason. I get...

Accomplishing their goals.

God almighty came down from heaven to save us from his own wrath by allowing himself to be tortured to death. This strategy worked, even though he did...

Intellectuals hate it when audacity is more effective than intelligence. :sad:

I just had Pacific coast Mexican with the special stewed beef called birria, a giant wad of cilantro, and various other unidentifiable flavors all wra...

Do women make more doing the same jobs? Or do they just have better jobs?

Is Vance actually the president at this point?

He appointed the first female chief of staff. I think he is sexist, but wants to exploit talent more than he wants to misogynize.

I hadn't realized that the SCOTUS' authority was backed by the executive branch. So the SCOTUS actually has no power over the executive. That means we...

:up: More things for rattling: Kierkegaard said faith is like floating in water that is 70,000 fathoms deep. He was talking about faith that's along t...

So their power just came down to respect for rule of law? What about the National Guard?

If the goal is to pave the way for greater authoritarianism, the judicial branch would have to be rendered powerless. This occurred to me a while back...

102?

"In the depths of our hearts the light of God is shining on a soundless sea with no shore.". --Rumi

Sounds like you made up your own religion.

If you like. You were born with some of that irrational faith. You can't live without it.

Only 15.7% of Americans make that much. 57% of Americans make that or less. here Since you think $65,000 is enough to make ends meet without struggle ...

Nobody was talking about working for a living. Ssu was saying America is rich because of its global influence. I was saying the average American isn't...

That would be awesome

Speaking of sliding, the delta blues beat comes from laboring songs, songs that are meant to coordinate action so everyone does the same thing at the ...

Whoever's writing the software for this matrix is going off the rails.

Trump and Vance tell Zelensky to get out of the Oval Office. Get out!

I couldn't find it on line. You can buy it from Amazon.com. It comes as a little paperback.

Downs isn't passed down genetically, though. It's a malfunction that takes place early during gestation. There wouldn't be any eugenics benefit from e...

Living paycheck to paycheck is pretty common. It often comes from a heroin deficiency.

I think I was the one who told you that a trade war precipitated the Great Depression. Now you're teaching it back to me. Basically because the US can...

It has the potential to. A trade war would help American labor as long as it doesn't coincide with a panic that crashes the system. I'm not sure why y...

Agreed.

No reflection. Just outrage.

I read a book about him? He praised the Chilean dictator and commented that a dictator is the best solution to threats to freedom. I'm not going to lo...

Ok. The average American struggles to make ends meet. They worry about how they're going to afford to retire. The ones just below average show up to t...

I also get what he's saying. There's a little bit of zombie-ness in progressivism.

Hayek favored dictatorship as the best way to preserve the freedom of the market. He's an ideological grandfather of Land and his friends. What did he...

Libertarians truly want freedom and they think democracy has failed in its mission to provide that. They have joined hands with Neo-Nazis in order to ...

If you mean should America's global influence end. Yes. It should.

If he required any of that for belief, yes, it would show a lack of faith. I'll tell you a secret about mysticism. As soon as you stop trying to be ri...

St Anselm was very well aware that faith is not based on reason.

You've got to be kidding me. He's clearly saying that if you require argumentation for belief in God, you lack faith. The Pauline doctrine and the off...

Let's revisit the OP. And you've affirmed that Faith is above reason. Those who require reason in order to believe are demonstrating a lack of faith. ...

If someone refused to believe until they had a good argument, that would demonstrate a lack of faith, pretty much by definition. Just indulging in arg...

One of things in your previous post that gave me pause was this: If by "Evangelicals", you mean Protestants who support missionary work, that's exactl...

So you're admitting that the Pauline doctrine, along with the official Catholic view is that faith is not through reason, but by the grace of God?

The main issue Paul dealt with in his religious work was the salvation of the Gentiles. He believed Jesus offered the way for Gentiles to become benef...

Could you explain how it is? The US has a giant nuclear arsenal with the ability to deploy them with ICBMs, medium range missiles, submarines, and Air...

I agree.

This is the official Catholic view: "Again, it is evident that this "light of faith" is a supernatural gift and is not the necessary outcome of assent...