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Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
Or, Christianity is defined by the Orthodox Church, which also limits how the Bible is to be interpreted, and all else is Christian heresy.
We are coming at this from different perspectives and common ground seems unlikely.
Thanks for the conversation.
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1yr ago
Any idea what causes this? Just another big question mark in the autoimmune basket?
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1yr ago
Well it's an interesting question -- is there any sort of intrinsic character to Christianity, or is 'Christianity' whatever people do while declaring themselves 'Christian'?
Can a group like Antifa call themselves "The Anti-Bad Guy Squad" and thereby make all their actions good?
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1yr ago
If Christians typically went out and executed people for mocking Christ, that would indicate that Christianity is dead.
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1yr ago
Scylla has scales. Giant six-headed hydra-like thing. Is gonna make a solid run at your crew but only has so many mouths.
Charybdis is one giant mouth that will swallow the entire ship.
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1yr ago
Well yes, actual interbreeding will do the trick, but again only if the ones who don't successfully make the jump to marriage with the native population don't continue reproducing themselves. If they do, you'll just end up with one partially- (slightly-)mixed population and a mostly-separate perpetual underclass.
In the US there used to be enormous economic incentive to integrate. Now we're subsidizing degenerate lifestyles on the backs of the productive.
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1yr ago
It can be both. One of the things I'm always on about is the way that humans can coordinate with/against each other without even being aware that we're doing so. We have a conscious mind which spins up plausible excuses, and another hidden one which knows exactly what we're doing but also hides that from us, which makes us better liars. Including to ourselves.
Consider the old saying, "It is impossible to make a man understand something his income depends on him not understanding."
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1yr ago
I'm pretty skeptical of this narrative. See:
http://www.anechoicmedia.org/blog/european_politics/
In short, it's a good takedown of the default, overconfident narrative of American migrant assimilation. If your idea of 20th century immigration is wretched refuse coming ashore, moving their way up, and merging economically and politically into the uniform White America we know today, that pretty much didn't happen. By most measures, identifiable European ancestries are still differentiated within America, and in ways that parallel their differences in Europe. The story of white America, then, is less one of assimilation, and more of selection bias and attrition.
There's not much selection pressure on Sweden's migrants if they and their children all get free rides.
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1yr ago
Nothing is wrong with salt or (saturated) fat though.
And actually another major reason they taste better is the incorporation of acid, which most home cooks ignore.
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1yr ago
But I believe the American Heart Association etc absolutely does endorse seed oils and warn against animal fats.
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1yr ago
It would be disingenuous to argue that Christianity is true because Constantine saw a vision of a cross. No one who’s studied the issues would hold that position.
Well sure. Because he saw a chi-ro. =P
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1yr ago
The only way out is to stop producing so many dysfunctional people. We have so far failed to figure out how.
Seems to me that a good first step would be to stop subsidizing their production.
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1yr ago
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1yr ago
My state banned fishing and then later on one of its counties promoted having sex through a hole in a shower curtain.
Link please
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1yr ago
I'll let you know on the day I start feeling satisfied with my character/intellect/overall decision making.
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1yr ago
A lot of this is due to declining standards to help them 'do better'. Everyone else pays that price.
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1yr ago
Inclination to parental investment absolutely has genetic roots. We can see this at a glance in animal species without much in the way of culture to speak of.
The idea that different human populations didn't stabilize at different equilibria is flatly absurd. Now, how great the differences are is something I'd like to see more research into. Not holding my breath.
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1yr ago
Black Americans are something like 17% white on average due to interbreeding. They have substantially higher IQs than stock Africans.
Eastern.
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