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by neaden 1y ago
"Let your word be ‘Yes, Yes’ or ‘No, No’; anything more than this comes from the evil one." Mathew 5:37 NRSV
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by neaden 1y ago
I mean roman coins for example are so plentiful that they are sold relatively cheaply, we have more then enough of them for all the museums of the world if they wanted them. I don't think viking era treasure is anywhere close to as com
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by neaden 1y ago
The broken windows parable is about causing destruction and then repairing it, which thankfully isn't what NASA is doing. If you read your Wikipedia link you would see that this was never meant to apply to all government spending. To h
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by neaden 1y ago
Tax money isn't drained out of the economy. The money used for NASA goes right back into the economy, since they use it to buy things. Even money to pay down debt isn't removed from the economy since the majority of that debt is h
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by neaden 1y ago
I mean yeah, pretty easily. We just have to you know, not have a massive tax cut for the rich people that the Republicans are currently trying to pass.
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People who stop weight loss drugs return to original weight within year(theguardian.com)
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by neaden 1y ago
Most organisms, including pathogens, have a relatively narrow temperature range they operate in. Hence why we get fevers in order to fight them off. Bats spend most of the time too cold, then get up to the equivalent of a high grade fever f
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by neaden 1y ago
A big thing is that Bats have a really weird metabolism, during their day it can dip down to 50 Fahrenheit and then go up to 104 F at night when they are active. This can mean they end up carrying a lot of diseases but not dying/showin
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by neaden 1y ago
But the executive branch isn't supposed to be able to raise taxes and he's blatantly using a loophole to do all of this. Your point would be true if it was congress doing this.
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by neaden 1y ago
Can you give me an example of a prominent American liberal who said the US was winning too many Olympic medals?
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by neaden 1y ago
Looks like she gave up her US citizenship when she moved, as did Boris Johnson who was also mentioned. So I haven't seen anyone who retained citizenship and was a recognized head of state.
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by neaden 1y ago
Just read a little about him, seems like a very weird guy who basically invaded Nicaragua and Bolivia on his own and declared himself president. It looks like he never had full control over the country and wasn't recognized as the vali
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by neaden 1y ago
Pakistan and Bangladesh are on the Indian subcontinent, do you correct people from the country of India every time they say they are Indian?
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by neaden 1y ago
Is he the first US Citizen to be head of a foreign state or have their been others? Edit: Did some googling and found Toomas Hendrik Ilves was a naturalized US citizen who renounced his citizenship before becoming an Estonian ambassador and
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by neaden 1y ago
Drugs, worm, and mercury poisoning. None of it has been good for his brain.
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by neaden 1y ago
It's 300 kilometers away and the Black Sea isn't even the closest large body of water to it.
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by neaden 1y ago
I would need to see that in more context but even if Pascal didn't believe in the existence of Troy that would represent him having a weird conspiracy theory then a widespread belief, like pointing to flat earthers today. As I said it
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by neaden 1y ago
I think you are conflating people calling the Trojan war fiction with thinking the city was. While there were a few people like Bryant who thought Troy was totally fictional it was always a very fringe position.
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by neaden 1y ago
Bryant was a pseudo historian who came up with an elaborate alternate history. He doesn't represent the mainstream view anymore then flat earthera do today. Edit: as I said, Troy was inhabited until around 1300 and left behind many art
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by neaden 1y ago
I don't think that's true at all. The narrative is very clear that all humans and land animals that are not on the ark die, and in the Talmud I'm not aware of any debate that all humans died.
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by neaden 1y ago
I mean, none of the things you've really said feel like coincidences to me since you're basically saying the dragon is a metaphor. And there are plenty of other stories that are found over a large area and have a lot of different
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by neaden 1y ago
What is the significance of that to you? Mount Ararat doesn't stick out of the sea.
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by neaden 1y ago
People didn't use to think Troy was fictional, where did you get that idea? Edit: to be clear there is no evidence that the Trojan war happened as described, but that doesn't mean Troy is a fiction anymore then Sparta or Ithaca ar
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by neaden 1y ago
"Ditto for The Iliad and The Odysee, yet Troy existed." - As I said in a different comment this comparison makes no sense. Troy was continuously inhabited up until around 1300, we have artifacts like coins from there and multiple
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by neaden 1y ago
What do you mean we found out that Troy existed? We always knew it existed, it continued to exist as a city until about around 1300 AD, it's present in the Homeric stories along with Gods, but so are a bunch of other cities and like th
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by neaden 1y ago
Crop rotation was the standard method of planting throughout Europe in the middle ages, it certainly wasn't lost by the settlers.
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by neaden 1y ago
What is the basis for thinking that it's not just a work of fantasy and has to be a retelling of real events? We have plenty of examples of people making up fantasy stories, why add this extra step that has no evidence for it?
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by neaden 1y ago
But that's not the flood in Genesis. Not even close to it, for instance in Genesis the land is flooded and then the waters recede and the land comes back, whereas the Black Sea is still a sea. You're just pointing at a flood and s
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by neaden 1y ago
I would recommend he get a therapist but he would just make an AI one.
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by neaden 2y ago
I don't see the connection between mysterious and magical thinking. It just means it is a mystery and I don't see anything that implies magic about a mystery.

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