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Show me the parts where he Muhammad became increasingly violent and warlike as time went on. Or how about the part where he had a 9 year old wife? What about the part where he talked about...
I spent years arguing in favor of the belief I no longer hold. Look at anything from 2014 and earlier that I posted and you'll get a lot of different arguments. You'll also find a lot of vitriol,...
You'd be hard pressed to find people who speak Latin conversationally. Rosetta Stone is helpful but lacking. It doesn't cover Classical Latin but Vulgar Latin. It doesn't really do much to describe...
Fair point. I rescind my criticism.
I'm normally with you, L5, but in a way you're just giving ammo to your opponents here. I think it's fairly obvious that women are more likely to want to be cared for financially by their husbands,...
I just finished the campaign for Arma 3. It was a bit anticlimactic.
I think that season seven was flawed as well but for the opposite reason - I think they took two seasons of material and condensed it into one. It felt disjointed because characters were traveling...
It's difficult to take pride when I succeed. I didn't attend the ceremony for people receiving their GEDs because I knew that I wasted two years of high school doing nothing and the GED was little...
Saying that there is a 'before' the Big Bang is kind of nonsensical given that 'before' requires the existence of time and space and time and space came into existence with the Big Bang. I believe...
Arma III - I had to restart the campaign because I totally forgot how to play the game.
Faith in God is not the same as claiming absolute knowledge. There's a reason we use the word believe in our creeds and not know. We don't believe that science is the only way to come to...
I think his suggestion is groundless. The classical definition of nothing would be undetectable through scientific means. It is an unfalsifiable hypothesis - ergo it's not science. All he does is...
Shows that haven't ended.
I love being back in school. It's not even really about the learning, it's about having the opportunity to fix the things I screwed up when I was a dumb kid. I dropped out of school in 2006. It was...
How do you approach the problem of an infinite regress? I know how Lawrence Krauss approaches the issue - he looks at empty space and redefines the classical concept of nothing as empty space which...
The Magicians - I read the first Lev Grossman novel and I enjoyed it. With the exception of featuring overachieving students I found the book to be incredibly relatable. I enjoy the series because...
It all depends on the scenario. I think most of us agree that discrimination due to race, sex, or religion should be illegal in most cases. Religious institutions should be allowed to give...
@TypeOne - You're talking about a period in time before Sola Scriptura - a good 1400 years before Sola Scriptura. The canon of the Christian Bible had not yet been established so there was no the...
TypeOne - With regard to the Mithras portion he was condemning the fact that they had taken the Eucharist and perverted it. In the full First apology he talks about - The Liturgy of the Word -...
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https://youtu.be/D3pMs5Y_Exw?list=LLXCMqGrT2HdvQR1S3HXBzcg
https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/blog/st-justin-martyr-on-the-eucharist-and-the-ancient-mass/4780/ He then describes the Eucharist The Catholic Mass and, most importantly, the...
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Total War: Attila - I was over 100 turns into the Roman Expedition campaign of the Last Roman DLC and I realized the victory conditions require that my faction has Greek Christianity as it's...
So many people parrot this misconception about the Catholic Church and Fr. Mike knocks it out of the park. https://youtu.be/3K9yGNPaIcA?list=PLeXS0cAkuTPpJ6j3eH59WudJhJ4q1tpwH
Disagreeing with the Vatican on political issues is not the same as rejecting Catholicism. As long as my beliefs are in line with the Magisterium and Canon Law I remain a faithful Catholic. You...
Where did you get that the Founding Fathers established the United States so that people could put their needs before the needs of society? They obviously cared very much about the needs of society....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mThuNcfDCI8
You can't buy indulgences, either. Purchasing or selling anything holy - sacraments, sacramentals, indulgences - is classified as a sin called simony.
1. You can't buy absolution. The sacrament of reconciliation, more commonly known as confession, is given freely at any Catholic church. 2. The Vatican doesn't claim to be democratic. The Pope is...
I got this email from my school today. My state sucks...
I'm saying that it's a pretty uncommon talking point and you're acting as if it's a common.
I've never heard anybody describe the Barbary Wars as Muslims attacking America. How many people go around talking about the Barbary Wars? How many people talk about the War of 1812 aside from the...
https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw
I think it's fairly obvious that we view ourselves through the lens of other people. It's the reason we seek the approval of other people. We're social creatures and we rely on each other to survive...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9FyLsfDzw
Authoritarianism is like anarchy - temporary. The problem is that anarchy tends to become authoritarianism because the chaos of anarchy leads people to demand authoritarianism. The destination...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rQL_pkuuBw
https://youtu.be/60J6HlvfePM?list=PL0D8442F129C22C6E
In order for anarcho-anything to work you have to be able to trust other people. We have prisons full of people that demonstrate that we can't trust people to live without a social-contract. Without...
Normally my medication does good for me. It was a confluence of events and a horrible mental state that drove me to do something stupid. I had a partial nervous breakdown. I've never done anything to...
I blacked out. I don't remember a damn thing from that day. That was a product of pure rage... and ritalin... and alcohol... and rage... and more ritalin... and benzos... and opiates... and more...
I've never had a White Russian but I hear it's the favored drink of the Dude. Seriously, though, most cultures in their totality are tied to an ethnic group. You're not going to see many white...
I don't like him. I never did. I voted for him anyway because I saw him as the lesser of two evils. He's not very bright, he's an egomaniac, he won't shut his mouth, etc. I still think he's better...
I never made a post about mandatory military service. I did say that voting should be obligatory for citizens of a country but I never said anything about conscription. You're a crazy person......
What the hell are you talking about? What is it that you claim I wanted?
Yeah, that's the same as arresting people for destroying property and attacking people in the streets. Have you been completely deprived of reason? That's a rhetorical question. You could have it...
Virtually my entire family is a product of interracial marriage but I think that it's obvious that culture and race are tied together. If western culture could remain the same with the changing...
Simpson17866 - Citing NPR to defend the left is like citing Fox News to defend the right. johnson.han.3 - If supporting the enforcement of laws against violence is the same as condoning violence...'
