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Purely looking at that state polls, to get to 270 Biden has to maintain lead in WI 0.8% lead MN 2% lead NH 3% lead He also has to win MI 2.2% trails PE 2.8% trails That gets Biden to 268. So to win he has to take either AR 3.2% or NE 4.3% All others states are above 5%, given how the...

In Australian court recently there was a case Giggle v Tickle. Giggle was a woman only social media application, that wanted to exclude all men from the space. The app owner was an actual woman Sall Grover. Tickle is a person, who has changed name to Roxanne. Tickle wanted access the site...

Albo, Labor and Lambie think Australia should be able to tell every other nation what is legal to be watched in their territories. would they really be happy for North Korea, Iran and China to dictate what can be shown in Australia? Tanya Plibersek said we should respect the victim, except the...

Why hasn't Orthodoxy honoured pre-schism western saints with days and icons? My son was given an anglicized Celtic name at birth but ended up choosing a different name at his (re)baptism, due to none of the 3 pre-schism saints having Orthodox saints name days. I have no great objection to the...

Countries & 2021 territories All Male Female Gender gap Australia 84.5 83.2 85.8 2.6 New Zealand 82.5 80.6 84.3 3.7 Australian Indigineous 73.6 71.6 75.6 4 Samoa 72.8 70.3 75.5 5.2 World 71.4 68.9...

Is it OK to ask what makes someone indigenous in Australia? Hon Lidia Thorpe only has one out of 16 great-grandparents as being indigenous (and it is possible even that ancestor had some non-indigenous ancestry.) Ray Martin has again one indigenous great grandparent, but he was specifically...

Is there a rule forbidding in EO the use of common medicines before communion? eg antihestimines? paracetemol?

Constitutional wording to setup the voice, I have emailed and phoned people but no one is giving me answers to my questions. I have rung Labor, Libs and Julian Lesser's office, I have emailed various voice supporting groups. In recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the...

Credobaptists often rely on biblical references and ignore church history but if you accept that the church normally baptized via credo, but allowed infant baptism near death, than a fairly strong case can be made from church history. Historical examples of credobaptisms Ephraim the Syrian...

I'm interested in both Catholic and Orthodox answers to how Adam's sin was passed on. Catholic doctrines around the blessed Mary, seem to imply genetic transfer of sin. That is you get it from you parents. It appears to me as a non "Cathodox" Christian, that Catholics believe that blessed Mary...

Our family lost our first child at 41 weeks for no identifiable cause, only two days before the Obst was going to deliver her. For us, as arminian protestants, she died well before the age of accountability, so our expectation was that she would proceed us to heaven. This was a child that had...

Today is Australia Day, the traditional time when we as a nation, yearly divide on whether our National Day should be on Jan 26th. For some First Peoples in Australia, the date is marked as the beginning of the troubles that European arrival caused them, so they name it Invasion Day or Survival...

Some (very) tricky General Knowledge questions on Australia? 1) How many Australian states do not share a land boundary with another state? 2) How many mainland territories in Australia? 3) According to our current constitution, what is the current name of our President? 4) In the constitution...

Even though I am 8th gen Australian, I still have a very British view of history. I know this may seem like an odd question, but in many way British history is entrenched in an anti Catholic world view. The mythical view of British history as a fight against the big powerful Catholics nations...

There are lot of claims coming from pro-Russian supporters in the current conflict about other people being Nazi's or Nazi sympathizers. People seem to forget that Russians in the Soviet Union engaged in a treaty with the Nazi's to conquer eastern Europe, and subjugate its people. The Soviet...

So an EO convert in a Protestant household, how would that work in terms of prayer? From my perspective, I could hardly think of more derogatory thing to do then to not be willing to prayer with the rest of the household on the part of an Orthodox convert. Jesus had the last supper with Judas...

I have seen it espoused that one of the major differences between East and West, is the West emphasis a judicial paradigm of salvation, whereas EO emphasis more salvation as healing of the illness of sin? I can see healing as one of the images of salvation that is in scripture but I can't help...

How do Orthodox see this verse being obeyed\lived out in Orthodox liturgy? Is it moot? Done outside of Worship somehow? 1 Cor 14 26 What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an...

Many including myself had issues with the use of stem cells in the creation of Covid vaccines, due to unethical sourcing. (On the balance of good to those around me, I took the vax, but I can see some Now whatever you end stance on this, shouldn't we as Christians seek to ensure that vaccines...

Orthodox folk, do you view the two great awakenings as authentic moves of God?