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RDKirk · 2025-07-18T21:31:36-0500

eclipsenow said:
But another thing I hate? Bad writing. Especially bad writing about important things like race. Especially what I would call "lazy woke" writing! (And as I was explaining above - I'm woke about some things - a conservative Christian on others. Politics is messy.)

So here is my question: did the show kind of ask us to excuse this girl because it was a girl of COLOUR inventing all this!?

What offended me, right off the bat, was the concept that Riri Williams couldn't find a way to raise money. Her "excuse" was that she couldn't stand the idea of working for someone else ("having to pretend to like people I don't like"...as if that's not a sign of a personal issue in itself).

But one of the things she did was to invent a personal force field projector that could be worn like a wristwatch. She sold it to another student for a couple of hundred dollars. But it could easily have made her a billionaire...entire nations would have been throwing suitcases of money at her.

She wouldn't have had to work for anyone, she could have hired some people and become her own corporation like Serena Williams or Simone Biles.

I was also offended by the "I'm a black woman, so the world is against me and I can't compete" victimization line she constantly implied with no push-back from any other characters. I already mentioned people like Simone Biles. But there's also the example of Mae Jemison--who is another real-world woman from South Chicago like the character Riri Williams. Mae Jemison became an engineer and a physician (whew!) and was the first black woman astronaut. Jemison is the real-world "Ironheart."

That "I'm a black woman, so the world is against me and I can't compete" line is just hogwash.

I was also offended that they reached all the way back to the 70s to create characters that were nothing but urban black stereotypes. The writers clearly don't know any real black people, so they based their characters on other characters.

RileyG · 2025-07-18T21:31:18-0500

Fantine said:
Unbelievably, 48% of Hispanic voters supported Trump in the 2024 election.

Months later, only 35% approve of him. While I am sorry that this dawning of awareness did not happen earlier, I understand it completely.

Whether the Hispanic voter is an immigrant, a first-generation American, or possibly a second-generation American, I am sure that they realize exactly what life conditions they were fleeing, or how desperate they were.

Very few "waited in line." Most were grandfathered in under Reagan's amnesty. They themselves (or their parents) did exactly what many undocumented immigrants do today, and they were not punished.

And what about the Cubans? They know what it was like to be a refugee fleeing communism. I wonder what they think about Trump's lies about the Haitian refugees--"they're eating the dogs!" I wonder what they think about refugee status being cancelled--when the refugees have no home to return to?

I can empathize because my grandparents fled poverty in Ireland...but that was in the early 20th century. How must these immigrants (or first-generation) or refugees must feel--with the hunger, fear, and uncertainty embedded in their vestigial memories? They understand what a president born with a platinum spoon in his mouth doesn't. They know the truth. And that knowledge should forever disaqualify the people with ICE on their shirts and their leaders with ICE in their veins.

Many, many are here legally and were born here.

I even know some Hispanics who can only speak English, despite their parent being fluent.

The point being…..?

Hentenza · 2025-07-18T21:31:03-0500

Some presidents end up with the brunt of a pandemic while other just ride the tail of it. Not defending anyone just citing the facts.

https://usafactsdata.blob.core.wind...dget_deficit_over_time_bar_chart-download.png

RileyG · 2025-07-18T21:28:46-0500

I am going to confession and Mass tomorrow night.

Please pray for the grace of a good confession.

God bless

rjs330 · 2025-07-18T21:28:42-0500

durangodawood said:
I'm a big fan of small single family lots/homes. Unfortunately most jurisdictions are not.

Around here in order to consolidate housing they passed a law saying land for building could only be sold in 20 acre lots or bigger. That put building out of reach for average person. Only developers could afford that. So rhe developers did. And then they doubled the cost and you had to buy a home feom them. It drove up the cost considerably.

I look now at the difference in what's happened. Homes went from decent lots with a nice yard for your family to these tiny lots with no yard and where your kid has to go blocks away to some park to play outside. So you cant just let your child go play in yard anymore.

And now there are tons of building going on for apartment complexes. For rent.

I dont know what the answer is but I do know that we could if we wanted to provide ways for people to buy homes for families. I gave some ideas for rhat. No one really WANTS to raise a family in a small two bedroom apartment.

RileyG · 2025-07-18T21:25:46-0500

ozso said:
"Empathy" = Embrace.

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Not all of them live like that, although a majority demand approval for their lifestyle, some of them who have same sex attraction don’t even use the term “gay” because of how it’s politicized….there are also some who are 100% celibate or choose to be married to the opposite sex.

Speaking from experience

RileyG · 2025-07-18T21:23:38-0500

BPPLEE said:
Always heard that Obama was a closet gay. Tucker Carlson interviewed a man who claimed he smoked crack and had sex with him

I personally doubt that. Interesting he was opposed to same sex marriage, until it became acceptable to support it, same with Hillary Clinton…

Makes me wonder….,

RileyG · 2025-07-18T21:21:54-0500

durangodawood said:
I would guess its somewhat better?

Still seems like its in that metabolic junk zone of foods American like to eat all the time.

I can get unbearably scoldy on the Americans on this topic.

I love chips too much, I won’t lie.

RileyG · 2025-07-18T21:20:56-0500

Oompa Loompa said:
Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026

The most recent ratings from Nielsen show Colbert gaining viewers so far this year and winning his timeslot among broadcasters, with about 2.417 million viewers across 41 new episodes.

www.pbs.org

For once, I believe CBS.

Nothing lasts forever.

Oompa Loompa · 2025-07-18T21:18:41-0500

Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026

The most recent ratings from Nielsen show Colbert gaining viewers so far this year and winning his timeslot among broadcasters, with about 2.417 million viewers across 41 new episodes.

www.pbs.org

Colbert told his audience at New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater that he had learned Wednesday night that after a decade on air, “next year will be our last season. … It’s the end of ‘The Late Show’ on CBS. I’m not being replaced. This is all just going away.”

The audience responded with boos and groans.

“Yeah, I share your feelings,” the 61-year-old comic said.

Three top Paramount and CBS executives praised Colbert’s show as “a staple of the nation’s zeitgeist” in a statement that said the cancellation “is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.”

For once, I believe CBS.

Bradskii · 2025-07-18T21:18:14-0500

Fantine said:
And let's not forget to correct a misconception in the post you responded to, Bradski. Clare 73 mentioned "the dangerous level of the federal debt inherited from the last administration."

Both deficits are high, but Trump's was higher...

Tuur · 2025-07-18T21:16:05-0500

Um...a quick check shows that lignite dates from 60 million years ago.

Fervent · 2025-07-18T21:13:40-0500

Reluctant Theologian said:
The big problem with penal substitution is that it doesn't make any sense from a logical and moral point of view. Substitution for compensation makes sense, but not substitution for punishment. If one child behaves badly, how could I possibly be satisfied in my righteousness by punishing another child for that? Another child can offer to clean-up the mess (that is the compensation bit), but the punishment of someone else does not solve anything at all - it doesn't restore a relationship and does not clean up the mess.

The forensic motif isn't about punishment, though many misunderstand this and even contradict it in common parlance. While it is retributive, the retribution is not simply punitive but removing an obstacle.

Reluctant Theologian said:
Neither does the legal payment argument make sense: God would be paying the price Himself (as he is sacrificing His own Son). Paying yourself is a zero-sum game.

The payment, insofar as that motif can be employed, was for the integrity of the law itself. It's not a payment from God to anyone, neither Himself nor the devil. Specifying a recipient takes the motif too far.

Reluctant Theologian said:
Real forgiveness does not require any repayment or retaliation at all - at least that is the core message of Yeshua. We are called to forgive 7 times 70 times without any blood or repayment involved. Penal substitution theory is basically saying God cannot do that Himself: He is so righteous that any offense/sin MUST be punished always so someone else guilt-less and blameless MUST die - the logic of that is lost to me.

That seems like an uncharitable characterization. It is because God forgives us that He offered Himself up in order to satisfy the laws rightful claim of death on us. Not a means of acquiring that forgiveness.

Reluctant Theologian said:
I do see the logic of us dying with Yeshua so that with Him our sin and shame and death ends up on the cross so also with Him we rise and live a new life in Him. He literally takes us with Him in His death so all our bad stuff also vanishes at the cross. The wages of sin is death - so because of our sin death is inevitable, but we can go through Yeshua's death in Him and so with Him also receive new life.

Yes, there must be a medical and expiatory aspect as well as propitiatory. But He accomplished all that and more.

Reluctant Theologian said:
That logic I get and is beautiful.

It is, but it's incomplete.

Reluctant Theologian said:
Real forgiveness is about restoring a spoiled relationship as if nothing has happened - not about someone else paying for a broken window.

Amen

CoreyD · 2025-07-18T21:13:09-0500

JohnClay said:
So those other things have overwhelming evidence but the most important part has no obvious evidence? BTW in all other instances kings have a power over the world. It seems your saying that in this instance there is nothing happening that non-believers could detect. I mean actions besides war, famine, and pestilence - unless Jesus the king is responsible for that.

You did not understand correctly.
The evidence is there - overwhelmingly so. Like a fingerprint.
I'm saying to you that Jesus' followers are looking for it, as opposed to skeptics, and it is them Jesus gave it to.

Are you trying to find out who killed O.J. Simpson's wife? Neither I.
So I won't be looking for any evidence. Detectives will.
If I did take an interest though, I could examine that evidence, and determine what it says, but I need to get that information from the detectives, wouldn't I.
I could then go about the investigation, and accumulate more evidence if there is any.

I'm saying you aren't in such a position, but Jesus followers are.
I'm saying that there is no video tape for those looking for such, but any additional evidence will indeed be found by those detectives.
Jesus followers have that evidence.
They don't need a video tape, and neither does anyone else.

JohnClay said:
I thought that was about the Holy Spirit... not about Jesus ruling as king.

Not everyone reading the Bible will understand it.
They need help, and Jesus explained how truths he reveals will be made clear. Holy spirit is a gift.
Think of detectives having special equipment.

JohnClay said:
I don't see a need to involve the supernatural to explain the conversion of people - people get converted to all types of religions and cults and this can be explained with secular psychology.

JohnClay said:
I think a lot of people see his miracles as evidence that he is God. There was also the miracle of Jesus making the fig tree wither. I'm not sure all of his miracles are because of compassion.

Good point.
He did proved to his disciples by his signs that he was the son of God, as well as the crowds. That's true.

JohnClay said:
Yes that's what I mean.

It would be different if I was an eye witness to a miracle - like many people in the gospel stories. And like I said I believe the upside-down Bible and Connect 4 events were miracles.

Are you sure these can be considered miracles?
Putting a cover on wrong is a mistake, isn't it?

JohnClay said:
It says "see" i.e. be an eye witness - not hear about them third or fourth hand, etc. Well I guess that is ambiguous.

I don't understand what you are trying to say here.

JohnClay said:
No that's all for now.

Great. Thanks.

Hentenza · 2025-07-18T21:07:46-0500

BCP1928 said:
No, only the definitions. Democratic Socialism is not stable without some effort and can easily slide into authoritarian socialism. By the same token, free market capitalism is not stable either and can easily move toward authoritarian capitalism--"oligarchy" as you call it, but correctly known as neoliberalism. That's the direction we have been moving in ever since Slick Willy was in office, under both Republican and Democratic administrations. The only real difference between socialism and neoliberalism is whether you use the carrot or the stick to keep the working class in line.

But you only talk about opposite sides. I think both parties have moved to such extremes that chaos is imminent if not already here. We, as voters, need to move the parties away from the extremes and toward the center. Even Slick Willy managed to balance the budget and work with the other side of the aisle. That’s why I was (and am) so disappointed at the last election and how the Democratic Party has not learned the lesson from the spanking they received. I still see the far left ruling the DNC as I see the far right ruling the GOP. We should stop defending the mediocrity from the present politicians and demand better.

Bradskii · 2025-07-18T21:04:23-0500

Whitlam was a Goth?

Bradskii · 2025-07-18T20:59:54-0500

Clare73 said:
That process is not without adding more to the dangerous level of the federal debt inherited from the last administration. . .which risks putting us on the same path as those who need our aid.

We won't get out of the hole by giving away more money, but by using it to get out of that hole to first save ourselves so we can then save others.

Do you know that Americans spend more on pet food than they do on foreign aid? Even on an adjusted GDP per head of population the US is the tenth richest country on the planet (over a few very small countries like Singapore and Bermuda): The richest countries in the world

So please, let's not have any more bulldust about digging yourself out of poverty before you can help others. It's a pathetic argument.

Reluctant Theologian · 2025-07-18T20:57:15-0500

Jonaitis said:
Substitutionary atonement is the biblical teaching that Jesus Christ died in the place of sinners, taking on Himself the punishment we deserved, so that we could be forgiven and reconciled to God through faith.

In other words:

1. We broke God’s law.

2. We deserve judgment (Romans 6:23).

3. Jesus stepped in as our substitute, taking the penalty in our place.

4. Because of His sacrifice, God’s justice is satisfied, and His mercy is freely given to us through faith.

So the cross is both justice and love meeting together. Let us not forget this beautiful gospel message.

The big problem with penal substitution is that it doesn't make any sense from a logical and moral point of view. Substitution for compensation makes sense, but not substitution for punishment. If one child behaves badly, how could I possibly be satisfied in my righteousness by punishing another child for that? Another child can offer to clean-up the mess (that is the compensation bit), but the punishment of someone else does not solve anything at all - it doesn't restore a relationship and does not clean up the mess.

Neither does the legal payment argument make sense: God would be paying the price Himself (as he is sacrificing His own Son). Paying yourself is a zero-sum game.

Real forgiveness does not require any repayment or retaliation at all - at least that is the core message of Yeshua. We are called to forgive 7 times 70 times without any blood or repayment involved. Penal substitution theory is basically saying God cannot do that Himself: He is so righteous that any offense/sin MUST be punished always so someone else guilt-less and blameless MUST die - the logic of that is lost to me.

I do see the logic of us dying with Yeshua so that with Him our sin and shame and death ends up on the cross so also with Him we rise and live a new life in Him. He literally takes us with Him in His death so all our bad stuff also vanishes at the cross. The wages of sin is death - so because of our sin death is inevitable, but we can go through Yeshua's death in Him and so with Him also receive new life.

That logic I get and is beautiful.

Real forgiveness is about restoring a spoiled relationship as if nothing has happened - not about someone else paying for a broken window.

Bradskii · 2025-07-18T20:54:17-0500

Clare73 said:
Church and State are separate, and the political realm is not governed by any religion.

Christians are free to personally donate to the needy.

Why? It only delays their death.

Ignatius the Kiwi · 2025-07-18T20:53:58-0500

timothyu said:
Yes God used the gentiles to forward the scriptures. It is the Word of God, not man or our religions That matter. Remember who Jesus' adversaries were... organized religion. They have been notorious for taking what God has given us and making it over to support their own image.

He also used Christians to further the word of God. In fact he used us primarily. I understand you think there were no Christians before you but there's actually a long list of historical men and women we can point to who helped to spread the Gospel. Priests, monks, kings, Queens, laymen. But your faith is in a book, you don't believe in the Church, which faded from history and didnt appear until you read a book called the bible.

The brain of a Protestant on Solo Scriptura is truly disturbing.

Bradskii · 2025-07-18T20:51:53-0500

Why is AI so bad at hands? Maybe I should ask ChatGPT:

'In short, the complexity of hands—both in their form and function—combined with limitations in the training data and the model's understanding, makes generating hands one of the trickier tasks for AI.'

eclipsenow · 2025-07-18T20:51:21-0500

ozso said:
And that's all there is. Being in the files could mean anything. Epstein rubbed shoulders with numerous prominent figures in politics, business, and entertainment.

Except - it's all made up by those evil Democrats! That would make it one of the biggest political scandals in American political life - one of the dirtiest, most muck raking bottom-of-the-barrel schemes imaginable. Books and documentaries and history teachers should be talking about it for generations.

Oh - but it's also really boring - why are people so obsessed with it?

Which one is it Donald?

One of the dirtiest political misinformation conspiracies in American history - or boring?

Also - he says he doesn't draw?

Then what's all this?

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