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    03-20-2023, 05:13 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Rick, I appreciate your response. Its entirely possible that I'm oversensitive by now, but it sure feels like discussions of religious folks'...
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    03-20-2023, 02:00 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    I agree. Yet it's also been drilled into me through martial arts practice that one's obligation is to practice the utmost restraint. That self...
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    03-20-2023, 01:33 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    My profs maintained that it's better translated as against murder, rather than against all killing. I can't recall the specific Hebrew wording...
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    03-20-2023, 01:04 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Who gets to draw the lines saying that this or that law is primarily being based on specific religious values or beliefs, Tom? I mean, you...
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    03-20-2023, 08:04 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    I'm not claiming that religious groups and individual religious people haven't argued strongly against medically assisted suicide. They clearly...
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    03-19-2023, 01:39 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    To be fully honest, I know religious people who've led on each side of the "dignity in dying" issue, and a place where there is great convergence is...
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    03-19-2023, 11:32 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    He'll be convicted of something, because there are too many pieces of evidence to fully ignore. What's to argue about whether he lied about...
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    03-18-2023, 03:37 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    They're not exactly stellar at ensuring that function. Perhaps because their work is typically framed in terms of providing honorific protection to...
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    03-18-2023, 01:51 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    Seems to me that there are already criteria to determine if and when a serving or ex military person, law enforcement officer, or civil servant...
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    03-18-2023, 11:52 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    And Kevin McCarthy is responding by claiming any such charges are an abuse of power, and that he'll immediately start an investigation into whether...
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    03-18-2023, 08:45 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    So, let's hope that the Secret Service, FBI, and other law enforcement agencies are aware that the MAGAs could, maybe, possibly, be chatting with...
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    03-18-2023, 07:59 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    One of the advantages of all these charges from different jurisdictions, seems to me, is that it's less likely that some judge will rule that...
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    03-17-2023, 01:38 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Wet markets in The Bilge
    I learned recently why European diseases were so devastating to inhabitants of the Americas, resulting in about a 90% fatality rate within 30 years...
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    03-17-2023, 01:25 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Wet markets in The Bilge
    Traditions of eating "bushmeat" hasn't worked so well in terms of zoonotic diseases in Africa either. Ebola, AIDS, etc.
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    03-17-2023, 12:48 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    The deterrence argument has always been explicitly about incentivizing behavior which, in that time and place, was understood to be more moral. ...
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    03-17-2023, 12:27 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    No one ever wanted to be a slave, but perishingly few ever thought slavery as an institution was immoral before the abolition idea began to grow in...
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    03-17-2023, 12:08 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    No, not flexible ethics. Consistent ethics applied to variable contexts. Look, you and I live in very different parts of the world. We can each...
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    03-17-2023, 11:33 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    So, once more with feeling. My New Testament prof of long ago gave his final lecture of the course on the old "What about the 'Authority of...
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    03-17-2023, 09:45 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    I'm not sure I'm up for theology and biblical interpretation today, George, but if you really think we should...
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    03-17-2023, 09:40 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    So he healed a Roman Centurion's son (story's in Luke 7 and Matthew 8), and only later to presumably condemn the Centurion and his healed son to...
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    03-16-2023, 09:14 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    He told a pretty good story about how people need to stay awake if they're going to get into the wedding banquet. Apparently woke is wise. Even...
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    03-16-2023, 03:44 PM
    Armoured, of course - presumably so was Hitlers, and maybe the one Biden used a little while back. The British royals also have armoured rail...
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    03-16-2023, 02:07 PM
    Very retro. Dr. Zhivago-esque.
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    03-16-2023, 08:09 AM
    I thought explosions and implosions were different. Though I suppose a nuclear device's explosion starts with an implosion...
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    03-16-2023, 06:49 AM
    TomF replied to a thread tRump indictment near? in The Bilge
    Signs and portents of a coming indictment? I'll sacrifice a pigeon without blemish, and try to read its entrails. My fluency in entrail reading...
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    03-15-2023, 10:54 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Having a very bad day in The Bilge
    John, I'm so sorry. Grief is ... well, there aren't really words. There's such a hole. My mother posted something the other day about how the...
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    03-15-2023, 08:41 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Moving sucks. in The Bilge
    I've lived in this Fredericton house longer than I've lived anywhere in my life. 20 years now. When we moved in, I said that it was going to be...
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    03-14-2023, 09:20 PM
    Clearly I'd had enough sleep and caffeine. Civility varies directly with coffee intake, for me.. :D Thanks for the opportunity to think about...
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    03-14-2023, 03:46 PM
    It's fascinating to me (though probably not to you!) to read this thread in parallel with the Religion one. This thread, I've been describing an...
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    03-14-2023, 12:15 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Earlier in the thread I'd suggested similar scenarios. What emerged is that there are inchoate statutes of limitations, and ascriptions of...
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