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by f154hfds 4y ago
Forgiveness in the Bible is formalized as a cancelled debt: the act of forgiveness is when you decide to eat the cost of a debt owed (Matthew 18:21-35). I think forgiveness is mostly misunderstood by our society. It has several implications
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Hikaru and Nepo in Fischer Random World Championship(youtube.com)
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by f154hfds 4y ago
It seems you define regret as: if I went back in time I would do <Y> instead of <X> and of course this is a pointless exercise if you choose to define it this way. Most people I think define regret more abstractly: back in time,
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I don't think the SAT is an IQ test. I'm sure IQ helps but parents clearly have a pivotal role - the single biggest external factor to explain variation in score perhaps. Surely the biggest factor in SAT scores is how much you the
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by f154hfds 4y ago
In what way does the moon effect the earth _other_ than its gravitational pull? Do you think that industrial mining on the moon would have a noticeable effect on the gravitational pull of the moon?
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I don't know why no one disagreeing with you will engage. Human ingenuity is forged in fire. You don't build muscle without discomfort. You can't have children without sacrifice. I personally don't think the lack of a we
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I downvoted this because it's an overly simplistic narrative of the world. I'd say we've hit overregulation in a few areas and we're underregulated in other areas. Some examples of possible overregulation: * Kids' c
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David McCullough, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author, Dies at 89(wsj.com)
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I go to a Christian church that is geographically situated in an urban area around a bunch of college campuses. Some of my friends from this church are: * A heart surgeon in residency * A guy who does flooring / carpentry * A physics p
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by f154hfds 4y ago
This is a signal vs. noise issue. Quite simply if you think your values are better than the average (and believe me - you do think this) then it makes sense to inculcate your values into your children as much as possible. A decision to not
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by f154hfds 4y ago
As someone who was homeschooled through 6th grade and then private schooled and considering homeschool for early elementary (I have a 4 year old) I would say my main concern is actually in my wife's ability to maintain a parent/te
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by f154hfds 4y ago
Conception is when the genetic material from the father merges with the genetic material with the mother to create a new complete set of genetic material in a cell. Sperm and egg only contain half the genetic material, subsets from the fath
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by f154hfds 4y ago
Agreed completely - strict textualism usually can't take legislative deliberation into account directly except to handle ambiguities in the written text. So I'm curious - without judicial review what realistic mechanism would we h
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I think a principled (and honest) originalist judge would agree with you insofar as saying originalism is imperfect. It's certainly imperfect and we all know that alternative viewpoints can arise in good faith exploration of history le
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by f154hfds 4y ago
This isn't convincing to me because jurisprudence is about having a principled and _consistent_ approach toward deriving meaning from laws. Of course your point about stare decisis (precedent guiding decisions) is a good one! No argume
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by f154hfds 4y ago
>I personally believe there is no good good line during pregnancy when someone becomes a person, it is a process that takes time, anything we pick is arbitrary to satisfy human law So what should we do in your opinion? Are the unborn ent
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by f154hfds 4y ago
As usual the opponents of originalism describe its very real detriment, that knowledge of history (and more specifically linguistic history / etymology) is vital to originalism while failing to offer any alternative view that doesn&#x2
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I think this discussion is not a good faith discussion anymore. If you kill someone and no one ever knew including you then law is kind of irrelevant right? A zygote is a human but not all killings of humans are equivalent in the eyes of th
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I've been explaining why an abortifacient (as birth control) is different from getting an abortion knowing your pregnant. Homicide? Yes. Murder? I don't think so. I don't even think these should be illegal. There are wrongs w
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by f154hfds 4y ago
Not sure what your point is here. There are all sorts of gradations of one person killing another person and while I think ethical arguments can be made to restrict access to abortifacients I also think it's different from abortion mor
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by f154hfds 4y ago
When I refer to abortion I'm talking about a mother consciously choosing (or being coerced) to kill the baby in utero. Miscarriage is unavoidable and tragic, it has nothing to do with a mother's conscious decision. This is like sa
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by f154hfds 4y ago
See my comment elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31866064
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by f154hfds 4y ago
If you're referring to the reference to the law on accidental harm to pregnant mothers in Exodus it's irrelevant to the question of when life begins. I can think of many reasons why courts would be lenient about sentencing regardi
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by f154hfds 4y ago
It's only a crime if there is a law criminalizing it, and I can see reasons why a just state would not make laws about abortifacients for several reasons not the least of which being it's unreasonable to prosecute such an offense.
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I can also include this interesting verse, Ecclesiastes 11:5: > As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. Quite simply, according
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I do believe there's a case to be made that 'abortifacient' birth control should be regulated more carefully, and used for the protection of the mother instead of as a general-use contraceptive. Though this kind of manslaught
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by f154hfds 4y ago
Are you trying to say a lack of evidence is evidence of a lack? But there is plenty of evidence nonetheless: Maybe the most clear case comes in this way: Christians believe that human beings are chosen by God just as much as they choose God
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I agree that 'human life' and 'ensoulment' are linked, but I of course disagree on your casual dismissal of my question. Maybe I can ask another question: If murder is wrong for the born, what about the unborn makes that
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I might not understand your question. If life begins at conception, then of course a zygote is a human being and that zygote not making it would be a death by definition. Before implantation etc, you might never know that human being existe
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I'm a Christian and I've engaged people many times on this platform about this very issue. In fact your insinuation is so contrary to the truth I find it hard to believe you could possibly believe it in good faith! Let me start wi

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