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Kilarin

BUT upon reflection. The word was probably too harsh. I apologize for it.

Kilarin

burlyman wrote: I notice people here use 'bigot' and 'Christian' interchangeably when talking about this. Isn't that bias?

I AM a Christian. But I can disagree with people without threatening to kill them our take away their free choice.
You don't have to be a Christian to be a bigot. But some are.

Kilarin

I'm literally telling you that you're trying to SUCK UP to people like woodchip. Don't allow bigots to manipulate you. That also means, that you don't decide that everything a bigot says requires you to take the opposite position. That is STILL being manipulated by the bigots. Logically, Tunnelcat ...

Kilarin

it’s easy to disprove ball earth Around 370 B. C. Aristotle proved the earth was a globe. In 240 B.C. Eratosthenes managed to measure the circumference of the globe with remarkable accuracy considering the primitive tools he had available. But you don't trust old dead guys. So lets go for evidence y ...

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You do realize that people actively look for and choose their own silos and stick with them for news because it makes them feel better and vindicated about their own tribalistic world views? Absolutely, that is why it works so well. It reinforces a natural human behavior. And for a time it did ...

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You're missing the point. Tools like this (See also: Ground News) make it harder to accidentally eat fake news. Exactly. The Internet was supposed to give us broad perspectives. Boy was that prediction wrong. Instead, the internet locks everyone into a Silo, blocking out anything you might find ...

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I find https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news to be a very valuable tool

Kilarin

LGBT are the ones complaining now. Problem I have with them is that LGBT is sin. I believe worshiping idols is a sin. But I don't want the government to punish Catholics for having an icon of Mary or Saint Jude. Why? Because Catholics believe that not acknowledging the authority of the Pope is a ...

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We're so screwed because voting for anyone outside of the 2 main parties is a no win senario for our Democracy. Unless we change to something like ranked choice voting, this will never change. Our current system punishes anyone who votes for a third party. Which parties are the primary two parties ...

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Humanity is doomed. https://www.meme-arsenal.com/memes/f2ce1b884cffd817eb6ea9dd377f942d.jpg I hate that the religion based on the teachings of an absolute peace loving prophet has completely forgotten or ignored those principles in their tribalistic quest of hate and power. So very sadly true ...

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It's too bad there aren't more Christians like Kilarin Don't give me any credit. I've always been an outlier in any group. :) And, also, I think it's important to remember that the problem here isn't actually Christianity, it's Humanity. Let me be clear, Christianity is obviously a major problem ...

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The Dems are stupid for not finding someone other than old fart Biden to run in 2024 Will Rogers once said, "I am not a member of any organized political party -- I am a Democrat." I never, in my entire life, voted for a Democrat before 2020. I usually voted Libertarian. The Libertarians are nuts ...

Kilarin

There can be compromise.
I believe in the right of the people to bear arms.
That doesn't mean there can't be licensing, background checks, and limits.

Kilarin

State sanctioned murder of minority groups. Yep. You've already seen various members of the right calling for the outright execution of those who are transgender or homosexual. Are they mainstream? Not yet. But they are growing. You've seen the way these people treat Muslims. That's not even a ...

Kilarin

You didn't answer my question, and I know why But seriously, when the Christian Nationalist take over the country, will we get to choose which sect of the cult we have to join. Sorry, I didn't realize you were serious. Historically, when religion intermingles with the government, choice goes out ...

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Mentioning Boebert and Greene...major loss of credibility. I said they were members of congress. That fact is not disputed, right? And I said they both had openly declared themselves as Christian Nationalists. How am I supposed to do that reliably without linking to their quotes? I'm not certain ...

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I'm implying that is an over hyped threat, just like all of the other Boogeymen over the years. We have multiple people in congress who have openly proclaimed themselves to be Christian Nationalists. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/opinions/christian-nationalism-marjorie-taylor-greene-tyler/index ...

Kilarin

spidey wrote:The Boogeyman is dead...long live the new Boogeyman.

Are you implying that Christian Nationalism isn't a real threat in the USA? Or am I misunderstanding?

Kilarin

You're probably a very fine person because of it. Eh, nope. I'm a quite lousy person. But when so called "leaders" of that faith espouse absolute nonsense as "fact" and use that as a reason to put down a whole group of Americans by helping craft draconian laws, I take exception It might surprise ...

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I'm sorry, but I don't think you should marry a person without premarital sex AND, that is exactly the point. We have diametrically opposed opinions on this. So what? We should each feel free to express our opinion, to vehemently defend our opinion, and to attempt to persuade others to our opinion ...

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I WISH we could disagree without so much hatred. I'm a Christian. I believe premarital sex is wrong. I have good friends who are living together in obviously sexual relationships without being married. The issue never comes up. Do they know my opinion? Almost certainly. But why should they CARE? So ...

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So why do you consider a shortened version of transexual as insulting? Are you honestly telling me you didn't mean it as an insult? I think honesty is important. Especially when you are trying to claim the moral high ground. Trannnys bring ridicule on themselves by dressing up as drag queens and ...

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Not a peep out of them when transgenders with male physiology compete against females and utterly dominate them If you haven't been living under a rock, then you have to be aware that many feminists HAVE objected to this. J. K. Rowling, for example? There's only one thing I agree with woody on ...

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So a person is a moron because he doesn't want to share a beer with a tranny? Why do you feel obligated to refer to people you disagree with by terms that are considered insulting? It's not going to win anyone over to your side of the argument. And it really implies that you don't have much to ...

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WAY back when, Verran (Jonathan Vukovich) gave me a copy of some of his music. Dark Reflections, Core Decision, and some other stuff he had done.
I still listen to it to this very day. Good stuff!

Kilarin

You're also implying that no version of Christianity can lead to salvation, which is false No, I didn't. I said "No version of Christianity is perfect." Jesus said "No one comes to the Father except through me." But He never said "No one comes to the Father except through denomination X" Please don ...

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Tired of all these fake versions of Christianity, Jehovah's witnesses, Catholic church, Mormons, Hebrew Israelites... am I forgetting one? Unless you are talking about Messianic Jews, Israelites are certainly not Christians. No version of Christianity is perfect, because they are all made up of ...

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I'd be surprised (insofar as anything surprises me anymore) if any of them were Trump supporters today. I have been shocked and surprised at some of the people I know who have turned out to be rabid Trump supporters. There is a kind little old lady at my church. She is not senile. She is kind and ...

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voting for President can only be justified under a sense of democratic duty. The problem with this is, if you can convince more of one group that their vote doesn't count than the other, then it really DOES count. Ok, that didn't make much sense. Let me rephrase. I vote, even though my vote is only ...

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I had to look up "Poe's Law"
Thank you, that is useful information.

Sadly, it's true of both the left and the right.

Kilarin

Lightning would have to strike a million winning lottery tickets before my vote would affect the outcome of that election. This election was a LOT closer than it should have been. So was the last one. 'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future' :) although I'm supposed to be ...

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The argument that voting for the candidate that most aligns with your values would normally be a good idea, if one of the major parties guaranteed to get more votes than whatever candidate you actually align closest to was not currently being taken over by a fascist death cult. This. Normally I'd ...

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you are also engaging in strategic voting. I don't really disagree. My entire voting life, I have always argued that it was more important to vote for the party that actually comes closer to your own point of view than a "compromise" candidate. When people who are really Libertarians vote for ...

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You know the funny thing about this whole hypothetical privatized roads idea? That is more or less exactly how cable TV works and how cable and phone companies want to make the internet work. This is what Ajit Pai spent most of his term as the chairman of the FCC paving the way for. This exact ...

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Libertarians can be pretty weird. Seriously. Like I said, I STILL stand by the idea that the less the government interferes in our lives, the better off we all are. The Libertarians embrace that principle better than any of the other parties. But then they take it to absolutely insane and wacko ...

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I do miss our debates... are you still a staunch Libertarian? I miss the debates as well! I've never been a very good Libertarian. :) Good Libertarians believe we should privatize roads and police. I think that is pure nuts. I stand by the principle that we are all generally better off when the ...

Kilarin

Busy, Busy, Busy. My wrist won't let me play Descent anymore, and I let work and other things get in the way of keeping up with the Descentbb. Got to thinking about it yesterday, realized I missed it, and came back to see what was going on!

Kilarin

unless you believe in a different Jesus. :/ See what I mean about Catholics? It's the same Jesus. They just believe some different things about Him. I am very much protestant. But part of being protestant is that I believe salvation is based upon having a saving relationship with Christ. And I ...

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woodchip wrote:So how long before someone sets up a building you can fly in and you can mount some sort of a laser to shoot with that will register hits against a opponent?

My suspicion is that they will have a version with actual weapons and let the drones fight each other to the death. A very EXPENSIVE sport...

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Headline for this vid is "First-Person Drone Racing Is An Awesome New Sport That Will Make You Vomit"

https://digg.com/video/first-person-drone-racing-help

and my first thought was, "vomit? Haven't any of you people ever played descent?"

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