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by alentist 5y ago
From its earliest days, following the edicts of Jesus, Christianity encouraged its devotees to tend the sick. Priests were often also physicians. According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey, while pagan religions seldom offered help to the
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by alentist 5y ago
From its earliest days, following the edicts of Jesus, Christianity encouraged its devotees to tend the sick. Priests were often also physicians. According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey, while pagan religions seldom offered help to the
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by alentist 5y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1282404647160942598.html
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by alentist 5y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1282404647160942598.html
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by alentist 5y ago
What about them?
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by alentist 5y ago
So 2 people out of billions? And can you prove your claim for both? See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28475407 .
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by alentist 5y ago
Based on the content your earlier comment, it's abundantly clear that you're lying. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28475407 .
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by alentist 5y ago
Have you considered basing your characterization of 2.5 billion people on reality, rather than your own twisted mental gymnastics and fabrication of their beliefs?
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by alentist 5y ago
Christians are more generous than the general population, so your tripe makes no sense. https://www.hoover.org/research/religious-faith-and-charitab... > The differences in charity between secular and religious peop
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by alentist 5y ago
Again, to describe the PPC as "far-right" is to make a mockery of reality and out yourself as far-left. It doesn't matter if you think they're "antithetical to your belief system". Or are you one of those child
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by alentist 5y ago
> There was a new party in that election led by a man named Maxime Bernier called the People's Party. They're a far-right populist party and generally awful. Describing the PPC as "far-right" is a good way to out your
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by alentist 5y ago
> Defunding the police was never a sincerely held belief You are lying. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arch
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by alentist 5y ago
The burden of proof is on you.
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by alentist 5y ago
Because one is forcing people to do something while the other is letting people choose for themselves.
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by alentist 5y ago
Your claim that economics does not consider time lag is ignorant nonsense. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/economics-econometrics-... https://www.jstor.org/stable/2343782 https://w
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by alentist 5y ago
And? What does that have to do with the GP?
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by alentist 5y ago
Elaborate, because it sounds like a strawman.
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by alentist 5y ago
> coordinate system is not a requirement... to analytic geometry Yes it is. That's what analytic geometry means [0][1][2][3]. If you mean something different, use a different word. > Herons formula doesn’t count because it’s the
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by alentist 5y ago
Why are you misleadingly quoting this wall of text as if it supports your thesis when it doesn't? The fact of the matter is that the KMT by far did most of the fighting against Japan. This was directly admitted by Lü Zhengcao himself
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by alentist 5y ago
Despite your attempt to obfuscate the issue with your wall of text, the simple fact of the matter is that you didn't give a single example of analytic geometry (i.e. coordinate geometry), which is based on the explicit use of a coor
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by alentist 5y ago
Talk is cheap, but it takes money to buy a farm.
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by alentist 5y ago
Why do you think they are "over exposed"? What do you claim is the "correct" level of exposure?
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by alentist 5y ago
> Have you studied math? Yes, I have a degree in it. > And yes that is analytic geometry No, the example you gave is not analytic geometry. Read the definition again. The explicit use of a coordinate system is essential. Algebra is
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by alentist 5y ago
Do you have a page number for your claim? Because the mainstream view is that the KMT did much more to fight Japan than the CCP. It is bizarre for you to claim that Chiang "didn't have much interest in fighting the Japanese&quot
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by alentist 5y ago
> read the distance and angle section. Distances and angles have been used by the Greeks since ancient times. By themselves they don't constitute analytic geometry. > Describing geometric objects with equations in coordinate syst
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by alentist 5y ago
> Brahmagupta was the first to have a formula for area of cyclic quadrilateral in 6th century That's not analytic geometry. > Bhaskara had devised ideas of differential calculus by 11th century [2]. A concrete example of this is
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by alentist 5y ago
> In India analytic geometry was the norm Source?
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by alentist 5y ago
There's nothing questionable about the statement you quoted.
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by alentist 5y ago
That statement is correct. Why are you confused? https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-s...
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by alentist 5y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/ Rating: Mixture What's True Susan Rosenberg has served as vice chair of the board of directors for Thousand Currents, an organization that provides

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