Tab Content
  • TomF's Avatar
    03-22-2023, 08:34 AM
    A data point towards proving the existence of a just God? Who's tired of this crap and isn't gonna take it anymore?
    5 replies | 84 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    03-21-2023, 09:46 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    Word out tonight about the Mar a Lago documents case. Judge Howell last week ordered that one of Trump's lawyers had to answer further questions to...
    1577 replies | 83755 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    03-21-2023, 09:34 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    You think mere words or images of persuasion or normalization of a viewpoint are innocuous? Risk no real consequences? Remind me, why did you...
    515 replies | 4874 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    03-21-2023, 07:24 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    No, they're not. Actually, they're all things which religious people have picketed because of their religious beliefs ... alongside non-religious...
    515 replies | 4874 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    03-21-2023, 10:58 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    For the similar range of reasons that people might picket any business. Maybe the owners of a company have a terrible record about environmental...
    515 replies | 4874 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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'...
    515 replies | 4874 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    515 replies | 4874 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    515 replies | 4874 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    515 replies | 4874 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    515 replies | 4874 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    515 replies | 4874 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    1577 replies | 83755 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    1577 replies | 83755 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    1577 replies | 83755 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    1577 replies | 83755 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    1577 replies | 83755 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    1577 replies | 83755 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    14 replies | 194 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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.
    14 replies | 194 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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. ...
    71 replies | 907 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    71 replies | 907 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    71 replies | 907 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    71 replies | 907 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    71 replies | 907 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    71 replies | 907 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    71 replies | 907 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    28 replies | 524 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    03-16-2023, 02:07 PM
    Very retro. Dr. Zhivago-esque.
    28 replies | 524 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    145 replies | 1809 view(s)
  • TomF's Avatar
    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...
    15 replies | 460 view(s)
More Activity
About TomF

Basic Information

Date of Birth
June 4, 1962 (60)
About TomF
Location:
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Interests:
sailing, music of most sorts
Occupation:
civil servant
displayname:
Tom Fetter
loginname:
TomF
Also tell us:
1000

Signature


If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott

Statistics


Total Posts
Total Posts
49,746
Posts Per Day
6.89
General Information
Last Activity
03-22-2023 10:08 AM
Join Date
06-17-2003
Referrals
0