"All doctrines established in symbolic language are wrong, some are useful."
- Thomas Paine 2.0
- Lover of Liberty and Equality
- Highly-Educated Engineer.
Many religious instructions are given for personal benefit rather than theological effect.
Reflecting on gratefulness before eating strongly activates the parasympathetic nervous system which prepares your body for digestion.
In Japan, Its now considered child abuse to teach children they are going to hell unless they follow a certain religious teaching.
Should we follow Japan's lead?
For the church's own good, there should be.
History shows that the social legitimately of the church was hinged on rejecting a primary political role and serving as a refuge for the lawless to reform, and repay the grace of the church with service to the community on its behalf.
Trump gets convicted of felonies and found liable for rape and the courts are corrupt and illegitimate.
Executing a mentally ill person, the courts are perfectly trustworthy.
Make it make sense.
Senator Kennedy is absolutely right about this. This should become law TODAY. If for no other reason than it becomes an unnecessary distraction from actual important issues.
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but your sciatic pain is actually just nerve compression from wearing waistbands that are too tight.
Buy some looser fitting underwear, loosen your belt and or leave your pants unbuttoned. Pain will subside in 3 to 5 days.
Capitalism is probably the best economic system.
That doesn't mean it's perfect.
We have to acknowledge and deal with it's weaknesses rather than feeding people into the volcano with the superstitious belief that eventually capitalism will fix its own problems.
Bluffing about buying potash from one of Russia's satellite States instead of our ally is one thing...
Not informing Belarus about the bluff is another very hilarious thing.
Not doing the math to understand that the bluff is impossible has me rolling on the floor.
Literally the whole of traditional Christian theology depends on either blurring the distinction between different things, or treating things that are the same as though they are distinct.
Anyone else notice that Google AI is noticably garbage compared to pretty much every other model?
It seems like it is 10 times more likely to hallucinate than the next worst model.
Who is gonna tell the Sola scriptura tards that the authority of the clergy was the basis for determining what was regarded as scripture in the first place?
If you struggle with generalized anxiety that doesn't seem to have a solid mental cause, there is a good bet that the problem is originating in your solar plexus. Feedback loops can cause a progressive tensing of the muscles in your abdomen that lead to worse anxiety.
A perfect God can't create free will for the same reason God can't Sin.
God desiring an agent of free will to be a vehicle for validating or glorification of himself means that God is flawed or incomplete without an independent observer.