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    03-21-2023, 12:19 PM
    As I posted earlier, two years ago my sister was diabetic. She isn't diabetic anymore. I'm not saying it's true in every case of Type III diabetes,...
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    03-21-2023, 12:09 PM
    I agree with you. I'm not suggesting co-ops are the answer, but that they might just point the way to alternatives that may evolve out of them. I...
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    03-21-2023, 11:59 AM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    Read the sentence. Delgado acknowledges that CRT "emerged out of" postmodernist thought, not that they are the same thing. So, first you presented...
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    03-21-2023, 12:05 AM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    It IS different for religious groups. Because the First Amendment SAYS it is different. Don't like it? Repeal the First Amendment. Until then, too...
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    03-21-2023, 12:03 AM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Boy, do I wish that were true. But it is quite obviously NOT true. And arguing over and over that things like this don't happen seriously decreases...
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    03-20-2023, 11:58 PM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    The painfully obvious difference is, the Establishment Clause does not apply to all beliefs. Only religious ones. So I can believe solar energy...
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    03-20-2023, 11:55 PM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    If you think that's true, you must not be paying attention on this thread. There are many examples of how people are coerced to believe (or to...
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    03-20-2023, 11:43 PM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Best aviation books in The Bilge
    As a kid I always liked Reach for the Sky and Fly for Your Life, about two WWII Spitfire/Hurricane pilots. The Cannibal Queen was another I liked,...
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    03-20-2023, 11:36 PM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    Read that sentence again. With, like, some actual thinking this time. Because: 1. What it describes is not CRT, but postmodernist thought. 2....
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    03-20-2023, 03:36 PM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    See my comments to Keith. It makes no sense to assume that a prohibition against murder is a uniquely Christian ethic. It predates Christianity and...
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    03-20-2023, 03:31 PM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    I'll mark this on my calendar--we agree! I mean, we agree that religious people do not always have the same right to enact their beliefs into law as...
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    03-20-2023, 03:27 PM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    I think you're missing the point I was trying to make, or I didn't make it clearly enough. An ethical or moral value does not have to be universal to...
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    03-20-2023, 11:41 AM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    I don't think reality backs up your claim in the bolded bit. Do religious people, in fact, have as much right to get their ideas enacted into law as...
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    03-20-2023, 11:30 AM
    No. But it provides an opportunity to do so. And for those cooperatives that do follow the cooperative principles laid out by ICA are doing something...
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    03-20-2023, 12:25 AM
    I'm thinking specifically about organizations organized around the 7 cooperative principles adopted by the International Co-Operative Alliance. Those...
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    03-20-2023, 12:12 AM
    There was both oak and bronze triple-banded around the heart of he who first launched a frail craft on the savage open sea. Horace (Only he...
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    03-20-2023, 12:01 AM
    Very true. The perennial weakness of Western medicine: treat the symptoms, not the cause. Provide the magic pill so we can pretend we don't need to...
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    03-19-2023, 02:14 PM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    As for that bolded bit, much of the hate, fear, and political manipulation is directly connected to religious beliefs that a minority want to impose...
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    03-19-2023, 02:09 PM
    No, no! Money to the wealthy = good. Money to anyone else = bad. Because, Freedom! Tom
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    03-19-2023, 10:59 AM
    More on this note: I'd argue I've been doing a bit of thinking along these lines. Cooperatives can and do work. And they work along...
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    03-19-2023, 10:50 AM
    What, that creating complex systems is hard, and that things often go wrong? And that it's best to start with simple systems, and gradually (one...
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    03-19-2023, 10:41 AM
    That's an odd spin to put on it, though the label appears to have caught on. But it's not "forced" savings--a family could choose to rent and...
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    03-19-2023, 10:24 AM
    I completely agree. I was thinking more of making the process as organized and idiot-proof as possible. Like, for my boat tent, using different...
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    03-19-2023, 08:18 AM
    His writing is too cutesy for me to take much of. I'm not impressed. "The new science of 'systemantics'?" I don't think so. Hardly what I'd call deep...
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    03-19-2023, 08:12 AM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread House or apartment? in The Bilge
    I think you could drop the low end around of your range substantially in the Midwest in many places--a decent home for $150,000 is realistic. It's...
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    03-19-2023, 08:11 AM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread House or apartment? in The Bilge
    Interesting. The U.S. bias toward individualist separate "I gots all my own stuff and my own space" living comes through very clearly on this thread....
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    03-19-2023, 05:54 AM
    Well, I had a quick look at John Gall's "Systems Bible." Reviews are quite mixed from the little I saw. I didn't come away thinking it was a...
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    03-19-2023, 03:37 AM
    WI-Tom replied to a thread House or apartment? in The Bilge
    I'm living in a tiny apartment in Poland, after 21 years in a house in a small town. The apartment is good for urban life, very simple and...
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    03-19-2023, 03:21 AM
    Thanks for the comment--I think it's fair to say that the Thirty Thousand Islands is my favorite cruising ground so far. By quite a large margin,...
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    03-19-2023, 01:22 AM
    No. What I believe is that you have an extremely limited understanding of what life is like for people without lots and lots of money. Tom
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