Volirus

11700 pts ยท September 20, 2013


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Early Christianity Theology is heavily influenced, inspired or even downright copied from (middle) Platonism, which in turn is based on Pythagoreanism.

You are absolutely right in the way religion is used, but it its not completely correct to say all concepts of "God" are invented by primitive illiterates, at least not in the case of Christianity. In fact, it was the literate scholars of the age that made up the theology.

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What about for on an android? I use qBittorrent for my desktop, but its not on android right?

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I'd like to argue you misused the word intelligence with regard to plant life. Adaptability or resourcefulness apply better. Intelligence presupposed some form of deliberate action, to have intent before the action.
All your examples of intelligence in plant life are random actions that just happen to be successful. Intelligence is having a plan up front and working towards it, not do random stuff until you succeed. Evolution also does not have a plan. I can expand more if you have questions.

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Regulation also works the other way. When the wealthy are able to create regulations through legislation, once they are wealthy enough and in power, effectively stop any new business from competing with them. They can then further abuse their position and force monopolies etc.
Currently we have the worst of capitalism (wealth centered at the top, no trickle down) with the worst of socialism (regulations, but in favor of capitalists).

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Tax the poor, tax the poor! New slogan for 2028.

But yeah, u are right. However I know a good fix. The less you make compared to the median, the more your tax goes into the negative. Take the median point as 0% tax, if you go over you get a progressively higher tax (up to lets say 50%), if you drop below your income gets subsided until you earn the median (after taxes).

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Don't be dumb or misinformed. That woman has a healthy weight. That doesn't mean its the only weight that is healthy, im sure you can be heavier or even lighter than her and still be healthy. But there's medically nothing wrong with her weight, and if you think there is, you need to educate yourself.

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Scratches from the otter claws?

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Impressive, still trying to blame her for such an incredible act. I applaud thee effort. Must take some serious mental gymnastics to look at this situation, and then think "how can I make this her fault".

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The top 50 of a whole population? I don't that is going to be fair though? Even with a progressive scale. There is probably not much difference in earnings between someone at 49% and 51%.
Wouldn't it be better to progressively tax according to a median? The further away from the median, the higher your tax.

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During the Turkey Summit, when Trump was leaving to go back to USA, the SS had credible info of an attack on the plane of Trump. They boarded Trump and many cabinet members + press on a plane, then secretly removed Trump from the plane and boarded him on a different plane. This secret removing was done through an airplane food supply cart. It was only recently told, weeks after the event.

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Pirating? Or the HP franchise?

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I ran out of words, but I wanted to add that results might vary for each country. So yeah, results might vary. It is at least true in my country.

With regard to saving, it wasn't even an insult. Realistically some people are unable to save money each month for whatever reason, so they might be better off paying a small amount each week. If you are able to save, I advise people to do the math and see if its worth it.

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Dental is debatable as add-on. Generally, if you dont have cavities or need work done every check up, its cheaper to not have the add-on and pay for the dental out of pocket. On a yearly basis, you'll save money.
Eyes even more so, the added cost per month is way more than what you get in return.

Only reason to buy those add-ons imo is 1. your dental is terrible 2. you are terrible at saving money so you skip dental/eye work.

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It won't change the fact the rich are in control, absolutely. But you can't deny that due to Trump, the rhetoric used both by the office of the president and overall political climate changed from at least pretending to be civilized to outright hatred and blatant lies. We can at last hope that his death heralds a return to a political climate where we debate politely and about topics, rather than insult each other. Both in the USA as globally.

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How do you reconcile your idea winning against Israel (by freeing Palestine) with your strategy of giving them exactly what they want by leaving the land?

If not even the people living there are going to stand and fight for their country, do you honestly believe the rest of the world will? What could Palestinians hope to achieve by abandoning their land? Yes, getting killed over land is terrible, but it is pretty much the only option they have to keep the land.

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Funnily enough there is enough debate between different christians about this. Some say jesus death completed the law and thus freed people from it(also debating which laws since there are 3 different types), others like you claim it didn't. It is just another great example of what a clusterfuck the supposed theological basis of the religion is. Can't even agree on what you consider the most important part.

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That's not really correct. All the things u say about YHWH are. But that is just the god of Judaism. Christianity believes in more than just the father, they believe in the son and holy ghost too. And since they claim that the son is equal to the father, the god of christianity is just as much the peace-promoter as it was the vengeful god.
I mean, its a clusterfuck of theology anyway, since Christians love to preach about following leviticus laws etc while the coming of jesus freed them of that

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Gul Du-Sac. Prounounce Du very french and it sorta works.

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I hate to say it, but I wouldn't count those as performers of today. Sure, they might still be around, but I think the comment was in spirit of new and upcoming performers.

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Highly doubt that if he is still alive, he is aware enough to be suffering. The man looked barely aware during interviews, most famously his freeze moments and his fall. If he was already in that state of barely being conscious AND had to get long term hospital care, i highly doubt the man is anything more than a vegetable right.

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I get your sentiment, and agree with it sorta, but want to add some nuance. Your point is valid only for people finding faith later in their life.
But raising (indoctrinating) children into a faith from their earliest memory, praising them for being faithful, and making their life and self-esteem revolve around their faithfulness, without offering or accepting alternative views, is as much forcing religion upon your child as making them wear a hijab. And that still happens in Christianity.

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Trashy people doing trashy things will look like they are trash. The settlers are the most trashy racist people there are, so yes, they will look like hillbillies most of the time. Empathic, caring, educated people wouldn't become settlers because in itself is a hateful act. So only the scum becomes a settler.

This is the same amongst all cultures. It's not just a jewish thing. The poorest, least-educated, most hateful people of a group, will look and act the most trashy.

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Have you ever heard about agnostics?
And what you are doing is painting all atheists in the same light, while in reality there are many different views within atheism, from soft to very hard. What you are describing is only really very hard atheism.
There are more people fully admitting they have no idea, than those convinced they know what comes after death. It is just that those convinced yell hardest so you hear those the most.

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Also, there's been more than 3000 years of kings and queens (from the pharaohs to our modern aristocracy) all over the whole world. Their behavior would differ from age to age, from culture to culture, from country to country. It would impossible to put all kings and queen under one label. There is too much different between them.

I have heard of cultures not naming children under the age of 1 or 2, because many of them died early. 12 seems awfully late in age though, but under 5, sure.

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Why only France that matters? The actions of GB, Turkey, Germany and Canada would seem just as important to me. Or do you think it's already clear how they would act?

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The person inside is still there, just much happier now. All the memories you made are still in that person, all the experiences. Its the the outside that changed (well, I hope the personality hasn't changed THAT much, besides feeling able to express her true self).
Maybe imagine it like like unlocking a new skin for a videogame character. Moveset is still the same, game still plays the same, its just a custom skin instead of the default now.

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Why? They've had ample time to do it by now. If you can't score the goal, pass the ball. Lets just be glad when it happens, instead of fighting over who should score the goal.

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How dare you assume i'm a human!

Jokes aside, i thought sand was a quality bestowed because of a process, not simply a size indicator. I learned it is though. I thought it was only sand if it formed due to erosion etc. But it's merely the size that counts if its sand or not (well and the material ofc).

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Fair enough. I was under the assumption that sand formed due to natural processes, that it derived its terminology from that. But what you are saying is that everything grain sized, if from the correct material (so a part of human flesh or glass for example wouldn't qualify) is sand. And that the way it becomes grain sizes is irrelevant. TIL.

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