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by m1n1 2y ago
Physically, I see your point. Spiritually, they died that very day and were dead in sin unless God helped them. And back to physically, just imagining the sight of the tree of life and the experience of getting banished - that's going
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by m1n1 2y ago
> combined with larger complex brains The fact that our large complex brains make childbirth painful has a kind of irony: the original mistake in the garden was that they supposed they knew better than God, and so they ate of that one fo
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by m1n1 2y ago
The sentence of having a worm that never dies and being in a fire that is never quenched, in a time period where there is a new heavens and a new earth as it says in the Old Testament, Isaiah's last chapter. Apparently one can be a cor
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by m1n1 2y ago
It's a consequence and not the only one, and put together the consequences aren't really avoidable. But they are consequences, not punishment. For punishment, see a sibling comment elsewhere on this page that has a massive quote.
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by m1n1 2y ago
Yes, it is nonsensical and irrational as long as God is viewed as _just another x_. But it makes sense if one does two things: 1. hold all the rest of existence to be as the light dust of the balance in worth compared to God 2. see what oth
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by m1n1 2y ago
It's possible the mechanisms of the consequence are the biomechanics you described. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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by m1n1 2y ago
No Eve alive today claims to be the original. Eve ate from the tree and surely (eventually) died. Edit: the supposition in Genesis is if they hadn't ever eaten, they'd be alive today.
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by m1n1 2y ago
This comment (and another cousin comment elsewhere) uses the word Punishment. But I used the word Consequence. As for Punishment, I found this quote to be helpful in understanding: "It is just with God eternally to cast off and destroy
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by m1n1 2y ago
God is both able and willing but there are additional considerations. Therefore not QED.
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by m1n1 2y ago
In this worldview, Satan is not merely sadistic. He wishes to detract from God. So if one is walking away from God or apart from God, Satan would want that person to feel justified (comfortable, rewarded) in their opinion that they know bet
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by m1n1 2y ago
> I honestly don’t understand how anyone who has been proximate to childbirth can believe in intelligent design. One way to believe in intelligent design despite how awful human childbirth is compared to those for other animals -- is fou
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by m1n1 2y ago
I have a friend who told me two separate times without promoting about how great a particular brand of guitar strings are... Both times I reminded him I don't know how to play any instrument. Sorry. I almost resisted naming the languag
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by m1n1 2y ago
I think it's not uncommon for a dev to be faster with one language than another. And for another dev to know the same two languages but be more productive in the opposite direction. (And I am mindful that the bar was much lower for me
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by m1n1 2y ago
We had to build and launch something by a deadline in order to avoid renewing a contract that would have cost $x mil. But we discovered we weren't going to finish in time with the resources and the approach that was planned. So I got a
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by m1n1 2y ago
If that system existed in America, what would it take to keep it as clean and as safe? (Edit: I visited Japan and loved the train system)
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by m1n1 2y ago
And regular cell-division will include this episome the way it does the regular chromosomes?
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by m1n1 2y ago
Saw all the CSPAN videos for the hearings on the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol, listened to Trump's call with Brad Raffensperger, and The Trump Tapes with Bob Woodward, and Liz Cheney's Oath and Honor.
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by m1n1 3y ago
Driving aggressively occasionally causes others to slam on the brakes to avoid accidents, which creates standing waves also known as traffic jams. So speeding at least slows everyone else down.
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by m1n1 3y ago
If you have any questions, lemme know. I've been collecting questions and seeing if I can tie them all back to a particular idea. It's nice when things fit together like that
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by m1n1 3y ago
A professor once gave me a demo of a printer that could erase its own work and print a new image on the same regular printer paper. In between the two prints he let me mark the page however I wanted so I could be sure it was the same physic
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by m1n1 3y ago
One step closer to AI robots that can subsist by eating. :)
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by m1n1 3y ago
> it's totally accepted to leave your car engine running at all times There is a smaller system that can consume diesel slowly and keep your fuel from freezing -- one doesn't have to run the entire engine!
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by m1n1 3y ago
If you want to hear about how bad air traffic control is in the United States, you can listen/read here https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/podcasts/the-daily/plane-... There was a time recently
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by m1n1 3y ago
One thing I've done in the past is put comment "tours" in the code so you can follow with your IDE's search. Each comment has the name of the specific tour, a number, and the tour guide's blurb. This lets the visito
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by m1n1 3y ago
https://aresnorthamerica.com/ ARES Nevada is developing a 50MW GravityLine merchant energy storage facility on approximately 20 acres at Gamebird Pit, a working gravel mine in Pahrump, Nevada. This project will employ a fle
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by m1n1 3y ago
What is the "best" thing for students to do? What is the "best" thing for parents to do? For "best", I'm interested in two things: making the system less broken, and the kiddos being ok as adults.
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by m1n1 3y ago
I don't know but something involving light (perhaps the police color of blue) would help. Are there laws about sticking something under a door? There are hockey-puck sized devices you can attach to surfaces, which can turn them into sp
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by m1n1 3y ago
I mentioned to a police officer recently that pounding on someone's front door while yelling "Police!" doesn't always succeed in communicating. Some people are hard of hearing. Some get distracted by the noise and theref
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by m1n1 5y ago
Is "damping" a technical term, distinct from "dumping"? The article uses it more than once so it seems deliberate...
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by m1n1 5y ago
If you turn red after only half of one drink, consider: "people who inherit a deficiency in an enzyme that metabolizes alcohol have been found to have substantially increased risks of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma if they consume

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