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@RemyBrown
Claiming a modern day area is the holy land is like claiming a modern day area is Mesopotamia. They are old borders; and therefore irrelevant today.
No area is a modern day area. History is the most relevant subject there is, and I say this as a former medical student.
The Holy Land shall remain until time ends. You say it is not relevant, yet you make a post that is testament to its relevancy. No Holy Land, no war. No war, no DART post from RemyBrown.
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@RemyBrown
Men and women in nursing homes have their lives prolonged. What are you talking about?
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@RemyBrown
You are talking about physical death, which is only to give up the body and not the fight. Land and nationhood is something that would presumably last in their eyes. Palestinians could leave and die for ever. This death would be the end of a claim to a land Muslims had to themselves for 600 years. Not just any land, but the Holy Land.
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@fauxlaw
You are doing well. My parents...drank a lot of alcohol and were heavy smokers, every day. I was introduced to it at 13. They passed away in 2020. My mother's parents are still alive.
It is good to buy fruits and vegetables from a local place, or to grow them. My parents were good cooks who grew fruits. Alas, they were still alcoholics.
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@Castin
The real question is: do you condone slavery?
Do you drink coffee? Slavery persists on coffee farms.
I don't need to drink coffee; I have enough energy. In the last 12 hours I have been to the gym for two hours and later ran for 45 minutes. I still cannot sleep. The curse persists, like slavery.
You probably need coffee, don't you?
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@FishChaser
As a woman you should know this since you automatically respect tall men more than short or average height men.
“Respect” is the wrong word, unless they have done something worthy of respect. They may be more physically attractive than short men, but not if they are skinny. They are the same if they are skinny.
It is very obvious that fauxlaw is privileged and being 6'3 plays a big role in that. It also is a sign that he was well fed as a child, a luxury that not everyone gets to have handed to them.
I don't think his height has anything to do with it. Short men write books too. They also get women and marry them.
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@fauxlaw
I had the privilege of meeting James Watson, Nobel prize winner with Francis Crick for understanding the structure of DNA in 1954. I met Watson at UCLA in 1966 when he lectured there when I was a junior in a high school about a mile from UCLA campus. His lecture was astounding, and, among other things described in detail how DNA is adversely affected [mutated] by, among other things, insufficient and inappropriate nutrition. Get it? That's the how, my friend. Go ahead, don't believe Watson, but that's on you. Yes, children inherit DNA [genetic information] from their parents, including it's mutated state by several causes, including poor nutrition. Disase is another contributor, poor, noxious environments, another. The list is long and indistinguished.
Want to join the real world, now?
I doubt James Watson had much or anything to say about childhood cancer development during his 1966 UCLA lecture. Did he have anything to say about it?
The body is made up of many things, and some of them are confined to a world of their own. You can have a healthy heart and get cancer, and you can not get cancer and have a “bad heart.” Science does not know what causes cancer in children. What we do know is that most cancers in children occur due to spontaneous mutation. What causes it? Neither you nor I know.
Some scientists cannot make their minds up about antioxidants, James Watson being one of them. Well, I guess he has made his mind up; he thinks they cause cancer. What was that you said about healthy maternal diets?
Cancer is a most unpredictable disease. Life is unpredictable too. You would think a successful Nobel Prize winning scientist would create well-adjusted offspring, yet Watson's son is a schizophrenic.
Life is “prepare for the worst, be pleasantly surprised when you get the best.”
But still, be prepared.
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@TheGreatSunGod
I watched the video. What other pearls of wisdom will this AI channel from Nepal bestow on us?
“He competes for scraps of validation from women who will never commit to him.”
Is this not also true of women who put themselves on the internet, go to nightclubs, and seek attention from men?
Men and women seem very confused. It seems they think dating is a good and normal thing to do; it isn't. They should seek marriage and permanency from the time they are youths and stick to it.
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@FishChaser
This just affirms my point that you are blind to how evil God must be because you have a privileged life.
My grandparents did not have privileged lives. They were born in southern Russia and did not have electricity until they were adults. Yet, they made the best of it. One of them died when he was a young man, his wife, my paternal grandmother, made it to 92. My maternal grandparents are still alive, aged 84 and 82.
My grandfather is 6'0.
Are you short?
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@fauxlaw
And you suppose those errors just happen?
Yes.
WHY do they happen?
I don't know. I have not yet asked these cells why they mutate so wrongly. Do you think I will get an answer if I ask?
There is cause, and cause, by one source, is choosing poor substances to consume. The body cannot do its proper job of cell repair and reproduction without the proper materials to perform that function. It does the best it can with substitutes, but that's not going to succeed as well as by providing the proper nutrients. That's personal choice. I suspect you are not longer depending on your parents to feed you, and what you feed yourself will ultimately bear out good, or poor results on your children, including causing DNA mutation from its intended performance. Root cause, my friend, may not be the first error you identify. I spent a career finding, and teaching discovery of root cause of failure, with my now 76th journey around the sun. Experience means things. One thing is that conducting a proper process with the right materials and tools is universal in scope, not just nutrition, and not just in making widgets.
Don't be silly. Children do not inherit cells from their parents; they inherit genetic information from their parents. When the mother abuses her body with drugs and alcohol, the fetus can become sick with diseases that are usually not cancer. Most children with cancer appear to be born from healthy parents who are not drug users.
It is true that eating fruits, vegetables, and getting adequate protein is good for the mother and fetus. A pregnant or breastfeeding woman should be eating healthily, and not using alcohol or other substances.
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@TheGreatSunGod
It can be transmitted from mouth to genitals. HSV-1 too.
I said “usually.”
I already have herpes, so I am more worried about others now.
Most of us contract oral herpes before the age of five. Around 13% of the world has genital herpes. A sizeable number, but not all or most.
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@TheGreatSunGod
It is usually not transmitted when dormant, and most of us are infected in childhood. HSV-2 remains the more common cause of genital herpes. You may not be able to kiss your partner if you are worried about getting HSV-1, which you likely already have.
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@TheGreatSunGod
Is there a reason a couple who are monogamous and had no prior sexual relations cannot perform oral sex on each other?
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@fauxlaw
Because they inherit it from careless parents who have sloppy diets and careless health risks? We are what we put in the pie hole, or otherwise consume, and that may cause inheritable mutation, such as cancer, or it is inherited from more distant family cancer risks, or environment.may have a hand in it. No, God is not to blame, nor the universe. Neither are the total cause of anything.
Cancer in childhood tends to be the result of spontaneous mutations caused by errors in DNA replication. The parents are not the cause of the child's cancer, unless they have been poisoning them with chemicals over a period of time.
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@Shila
The failings of the Jews are testament to the sinful and disobedient nature of man. Abraham was a man who lived among the
Chaldeans in Mesopotamia. I suppose he was one. He was a pagan like the rest of them. Or maybe he was not a pagan? What could God have seen in him? God knows what we do not know. He knew Abraham would be faithful.
For every faithful Jewish servant, is a corrupted Jew. By the time Jesus came, a great many were corrupted.
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@AdaptableRatman
I find him funny. He is no more repulsive than other world leaders.
Trump entertains.
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Will Trump put Bruce Springsteen in jail? Will he deport him from US?
Trump says “we'll see how it goes for him”, after Springsteen returns from his European tour.
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@AdaptableRatman
Thankfully they elected a terminally corrupt and racist one instead.
He is terminally funny. Who isn't amused by Trump?
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@FishChaser
It's funny how Judaism was true for the first 2000 years but lacked this crucial element then became wrong and stupid as soon as Jesus arrived with something supposedly better.
Jesus was a Jew who came to fulfill the law. What new ideas did he come up with? Forgiveness, faith, sacrifice, and salvation? That these are foreign to you is why God had to come.
Maybe there is more salvation in Judaism than you think. After all, the law was actually a covenant of grace the whole time. God forgives people many times in the OT despite them being "under the law".
God does not want to keep forgiving us. He wants us to “sin no more.” God is more than a priest you speak with to confess a sin. He is the Creator, the Father.
If you haven't learned about the Tanakh from a Hebrew perspective you're probably superimposing NT ideas on to it without knowing it in it's original context. Hell, Christians even superimpose modern english interpretations on to the greek of the NT. Your knowledge of the bible is a false interpretation of a false interpretation.
My family is Jewish. I know what the Tanakh says. Do you?
What do Christians have wrong about the Old and New Testaments?
When is the messiah coming? What do you want him to do?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Yea it does if it's intentional. I'm saying the only kind of rapist who wouldn't kill the witness (the victim) is the delusional kind.
Were the men below delusional? They let the women go free.
What makes you think they are more likely to kill in a forest than they are when they rape you at home or in the street?
Kill the rapist? You can't think of any reason?
I would try if it were a matter of stopping them from raping a child. The third source tells us about a woman who was raped with her prepubescent daughter. This would give me a reason to kill the rapist. Is there a reason if I am the only one being raped? No. I would not kill him before, during, or after the rape.
Oh well then fine, rape away what is the big deal. Whatever framework of values you're standing on, I'm not (so you are going to have to explain yourself).
We all have our ways of viewing things.
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@Shila
Standing or kneeling are rigid positions. It lacks flexibility.
They are rigid positions when you are only performing one of them. Repeatedly kneeling and rising is another matter. During Mass, some of the elderly members avoid it.
I tend to stand at the back of the church and kneel on the ground, behind the pews.
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@FishChaser
It says Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and God cursed them. Foolish Jews choose to ignore this. There is no chapter more important in the Bible than Genesis. Jews cannot see what is in the Bible. They are too busy reading the Talmud, or forsaking God altogether.
To overcome a curse, you need salvation. Jesus said you find salvation through faith and sacrifice. You can deny you are cursed and doomed to death without salvation, but God says otherwise.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Some rapist are turned on by lack of consent, consenting would turn them off or they would try to make it painful. No hope there.Others are delusional, constantly revising history and the present to convince themselves that the other person wants it. <- That's who you'd be fooling, and it wouldn't take great acting skills it's what they want to believe so badly they're out of touch with reality.
How many rapists do you know?
Making it painful is fine. Pain does not mean death.
It's also much more likely you can get justice yourself (kill the guy) if his guard is down.
I don't know why you would do that. There are worse things in the world. It is a grown woman in this scenario, not a child.
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@AdaptableRatman
DNA would be all over you.
It could be his first time.
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@AdaptableRatman
But the bear needs aggravation. It doesn't attack that often even if you are right there in front of it.
They are an unknown. How many bears have you interacted with?
Nature is a beast, especially when hungry. This is why insects come after you in late summer and early fall; they are hungry, their food sources have depleted. Starvation makes them mad.
You see men and women every day. A man and woman made you. What on earth do you really know about bears?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
If he made it clear that he was going to use force if you said no, yea.
Maybe we should not say no. Some people like violence, but if you don't, you should submit.
BUT pretending to change your mind is the best strategy to live to tell the police.
This would be a lie. A man would be able to tell it isn't real. You submit and you make it less violent, or you fight and make it more violent. Fighting means you might not be raped, but you will probably become a corpse if the man is inclined to kill you.
What would you tell the police if you don't know his name or have license plate? “A man in the forest raped me, but I pretended to change my mind. I have no idea what his name is or where he is from.”
Why can't they just suck it up?
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@AdaptableRatman
A rapist in a forest is unlikely to let you escape afterwards.
It is less likely if a bear gets its teeth and claws into you.
Moreover, is it rape if you let the man have his way? What reason would he have to kill you if you engage? Not every male is Ted Bundy. They don't all want to behead you and have fun with your head afterward.
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Who would rather be murdered than raped?
I was what they call “raped” as a child. I would choose this over being murdered, although if we are murdered we are murdered. There is not much you can do about it when dead.
A person who picks a bear in a forest over a man, even a man with evil intent, is a fool. Animals are unpredictable and can attack from nowhere.
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The courts get in the way of democracy. Civil service and government workers get in the way of democracy. A judge is a corruptible specimen like a politician. Why would a judge care more for America than Donald Trump?
A majority of Americans support deporting migrants who are criminals. What is Trump doing wrong?
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@zedvictor4
I'm a woman.
You don't know where I am from. Making speculations is pointless. I could be from a progressive country. Maybe I'm from Norway or Denmark.
I'm not from Norway or Denmark, but I have had exposure to the world. I have lived in three countries so far. I went to university to study medicine, but dropped out in late 2021. Although I have been places, I have also given myself time to think about things. Do you know Nietzsche? He believed you had to think about things.
Well, some might argue that at 8.2 billion and rising, then there is no problem, other than several billion selfish organisms denuding Planet Earth of it's resources.
Birth rates are decreasing. I don't think the Earth cares about us humans. It will exist regardless of what we do. At one time, they say it was a ball of molten lava. It seems fairly dynamic and resilient to me.
Where I come from, gender equality is the established norm...And it suits me fine.
You come from a mess of a country.
The other day I had an electrical engineer come and install a new electricity meter, and she was extremely competent...We chatted about her children...No problem.
Are you sure they were female?
It could have been a hallucination.
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There is no genocide of whites in South Africa. The man in this video says that “everybody in South Africa is a target of crime.”
I have a friend from South Africa, a good friend. He is a native inhabitant. He says the place is a mess. It is as unsafe to be a black man as it is to be a white man. How can you tell it isn't genocide? Is it more unsafe to be Israeli or to be Palestinian? Or are they both unsafe to the same degree? Being Palestinian is more unsafe. They are the ones being starved and bombed. This is a genocide, a real one.
South Africa has problems. An “intent to kill whites” is not one of them.
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@Shila
I hope it's all true. I hope we are more than animals. Liberal morality, godless ideals, and “we know it's bad because of the effects!” doesn't do it for a psychopath like me.
Or sociopath.
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@zedvictor4
I'm just guessing that we are from two very different cultural societies.
Are you and GreyParrot from “two very different cultural societies”?
I suppose you are. People do seem freer in USA.
Women's brains are just as capable as a man's brain.
At what? There are more male engineers than female engineers, more male physicists than female, and more male chemists than female. A woman in the West can attend any university she wants and pursue any career she wants. Apparently they don't want the aforementioned careers, or aren't any good at them.
And men are just as capable as women, at caring for children.
A child needs the love of a mother and father.
Where are the male kindergarten workers? The male babysitters? Why isn't the man taking the same leave as a woman when a baby is born? The mother looks after the baby, and has some help from the father. Women are also more likely to care for the elderly.
The woman is the one getting impregnated. She births the child and feeds it with her breasts. Since when did men do these things? We come from the womb, after being put there by a male having sex with a female. You would think after 9-10 months of growing us, she would want to look after us. It isn't natural when a woman doesn't want to have children. To have children is to grow up. Those who reject it are afraid to grow up. Selflessness and responsibility terrify them.
Where would we be if women were not willing to have children?
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@Castin
In ancient Greece, dogma was something that “seemed true.” It came to mean tenet or principle in Latin. I believe God is nature, and that every sin in the Bible can be proven to be bad by nature. This is why the promiscuous are more likely to be diseased, and the gluttons likely to be plagued by their excess. A prideful person is more likely to suffer, and an envious person more likely to do harm. All of these truths can be found in the Bible, in the Old and New Testaments. Worshiping other Gods is idolotry, murder is a grave sin, and taking that which is not yours is wrong.
It is wrong to say “dogma changes constantly.” The principles do not change, not when you follow.
And slavery is almost universally condemned in the modern world; in the ancient world it was so normative that God himself condoned it.
The condemnation does not mean much when there are millions of slaves in the world, some of whom are enslaved in Western countries, or making products those in Western countries use. Do you think you have never used a product not made by the hands of a slave? What about all the children forced to pick coffee beans? And the fruits you eat? What about the clothes you wear and technology you use?
Where does it say God condones slavery? God has less to do with slavery than you and I do. He is not using products made by slaves. Take it up with Satan if you dislike slavery.
Atheists have horizontal morality; they look at the people around them and what harm could befall them.
How convenient. All the atheists say this. I wonder why it is harmful, if it is not intrinsically wrong? It is almost as if it were all set into motion. The rules weren't made by you.
Without God, there is nothing. We are nothing more than animals with phony ideas about the world, an over-evolved species no longer fit for anything.
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@zedvictor4
Who is to raise the scientists if there is no wife and mother? Are women as accomplished as men in the fields of science?
Why isn't it common for females to be engineers?
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@Castin
Denying yourself that because of a book written at a time when slavery was okay is just pure and utter nonsense, persisting only in the minds of those who value dogma over people.
Slavery is apparently ok now, as there continue to be slaves in the world.
I don't know why atheists bother to talk about morality. What is there without God? Why should we bother trying to be nice? You think it is wrong if homosexuals are judged...why? Have you invented these morals?
Why should I value people over dogma? Dogma cannot be changed; it is NATURE.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
A man with a broken soul loves nothing, not even life. These are the people who commit suicide. I believe it is a common misconception that suicide is caused by people who can't stand the pain, but that would fail to explain the people who underwent horrible tortures such as in concentration camps and yet were unbroken.
It's silly to think a broken person is likely to commit suicide. A person can be profoundly broken, and have no desire to commit suicide. Those who commit suicide may be some of the most sane, unbroken types. To be broken is to carry on, knowing you will become more and more broken and being indifferent to it. You are probably not broken.
You go to some stupid lengths to prove a point. This means you are more normal and ordinary than think.
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@zedvictor4
Do you disagree with what I said? Why?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Everyone who hasn't wrecked their soul is something of an artist and something of a philosopher.
I thought you only believe in what is real? What is real is what can be seen. Where is your soul?
Says the guy who was acting as an agent of a universal god five minutes ago....
I'm a girl.
I would not need to if you read the Bible. Is what I said not Biblical? Is this where you ask why God needs a Bible again? His work exists everywhere. Can you see it?
One I had when I was younger that Jesus was my friend.
Christ is your friend.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
What answers do you have? You have decided that faith is fantasy and reality is, what, reality?
Art is a lie that reminds you of a truth, and that can move you.
Are you an artist? It's not uncommon for artists to be pretentious and not make any sense. Many are bigots dressed up as freethinkers.
Oh I have plenty of fantasies.
Animal fantasies?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
How can you ask “why does God need a Bible” when you only deal with the realm of your perceived reality? What are you trying to prove?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Not only do you presume there is a supreme being, but you also casually act as his agent; which for an omnipotent being implies that even he himself couldn't say it better than you can.
He says it in the Bible, which I “presume” you neither read nor believe in.
Why comment on God and question those who speak His truth when you do not believe? Are you able to demonstrate that God wants us to sin?
My theory of the universe gives a role to human reason, so it follows that what I say might have value.
Wonderful! I am...happy for you?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
What are you talking about? Why do you deride faith yet ask me if I am God when I comment on matters concerning God?
Have no faith? Go away. It does not concern you. You know nothing. An atheist or agnostic telling a believer how to behave laughable.
Have no faith? Go away. It does not concern you. You know nothing. An atheist or agnostic telling a believer how to behave laughable.
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I agree with this post. The best thing a woman can do is be a good wife and mother, but instead they are trying to do things they are not good at.
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@AdaptableRatman
Welcome to the Catholic faith. 🙏✝️
Thank you.
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@TheGreatSunGod
God created sin. Without sin, there would be no battle of good and evil. How can you tell if something is evil if you only know good?
The Bible tells you everything you need to know about sin. It tells you God created angels, and that one third of them rebelled. Satan was a beautiful angel. God gave His angels free will. He created the human, whom he too gave free will. Eve was tempted by Satan; she and Adam ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Do you now understand why we sin?
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@n8nrgim
You are describing how marital sex was normative and customary, not necessarily the way it has to be.
What dream world are you living in? I care about the way it was, about the way it is. Enter the realm of paganism if you enjoy and wish to justify premarital sex. In God's eyes, yielding to sin is wrong.
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