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I love stuff like that!

He can and does. In our Catechism. Supra. you really know how to hurt a guy

One thing that's becoming clear as this thing drags on, is that the Russian Orthodox Church approves of this invasion. That hearkens back to the Catholic Church in medieval Europe. It's not like Ukraine isn't Christian, or even not Orthodox Christian. Ukraine is open to Holy Orthodoxy...

If you understood my 'broken English' reference you'd know that I'm not denying that the translations we have all basically agree that nobody besides Noah and his family could have possibly survived, I'm just entertaining the possibility that the 'broken English' isn't as finely definitive and...

That's distinctly possible, I'm more investigating a logical possibility is all. If true, it would actually add more substantiation to the scientific claim that the world was once basically 100% underwater about 6000 years ago. So that's why I'm pursuing it.

I already granted that.

I 'fell off' the deadlift 'horse' a few times. The first time I really injured myself. It wasn't in picking up the weight, it was putting it back down that 'got me'. I was lifting 280 LBS and went to put it back down, 'did it wrong' and strained my back. It took me a full two months before I...

Agreed with all of this. We've agreed on this before too. We both believe in the rule of law, and this scheme doesn't have the rule of law. America's founders addressed the problem through taking Hobbes's concept of the sovereign, which is basically an absolute autocrat if it were a man, and...

Did Mr. Brown (no deliberate disrespect intended just that "Dr. Brown" doesn't really mean anything like how in contrast "Dr. Phil" and "Dr. Oz" are true unique identifiers) actually model "nuclear winter"? Is "nuclear winter" mechanically possible? Enough to cause "extinction events"?

Literally I agree, in our 'broken English' translations of that ancient writ, that detail does appear to be unavoidable, not allowing for any exceptions. But it's not as if I'm a Scripture denier. If I am, you could only sustain a claim that I'm a 'light' denier, but not a serious or grave...

Germaine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt#Aftermath " After the suppression of the [Bar Kokhba circa AD 136] revolt, [Roman Emperor] Hadrian's proclamations sought to root out Jewish nationalism in Judea, which he saw as the cause of the repeated rebellions. He prohibited...

He was a Christian. :) The most salient thing in the book for me is telling the murder from the murderer's perspective.

Hatch a plan.

Do you think that successful people are successful because they wish harder than the rest of us or because they hatch a plan?

Did no one live there? Did we not annex it? Is it not a full state? I'd be happy to annex North Korea compared to what's happening over there.

Most of them. They're still ongoing. Lots.

You do recall that the United States began as 13 states and now it's 50 right? Had to have happened somehow. I'm just suggesting 'dust off' the process. I think Hawaii was the last one to join the Union, before that Alaska. They're both integrated into our Union even though they're not...

No. I'm talking peace as in the absence of MAD. I've seen Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees physically fighting on a baseball field over a game of baseball. But there weren't even knives or bows-and-arrows involved in that conflict, let alone 50 MT H-bombs. Smirk. :)

Here's three medical doctors' idea to solve the threat of nuclear MAD: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/opinions/nuclear-war-weapons-abolition-helfand-levy-bivens/index.html Basically, "ban" nukes. Gun control writ large. Typical MD thinking. smh.

Agreed in principle and disagreed that this idea is naive. What's naive is to think we can keep whistling past the graveyard when it comes to nuclear weapons, climate change, and a potential looming bolide impact. Climate change is already happening, we're way closer all of a sudden to nuclear...