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Recent content by hedrick

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    Trump says Democrats have ‘blood on their hands’ after deadly Charlotte train stabbing

    The underlying issue seems to be what to do with mentally ill people. Parents of the perpetrator considered him violent and tried to get him committed, but it was denied. N Carolina, like many places, have over time decreased capacity of mental hospitals and made commitment difficult. This...
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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    What does identifying with animals have to do with sex?
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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    I think what got this started was the term "identify as." Furies identify as animals, which of course trips political sensibilities. We can't have people identify as things other than what they were born as. However "identify" is being used loosely. They don't (as far as I know) actually live in...
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    School Teachers, Nurses, Government Workers, CELEBRATING Charlie Kirk's murder

    He avoided clearly calling for the death of gays. Christians commonly don't want OT punishments to be employed, even when they (selectively) want to follow the moral principles. One of the problems with people on both sides is that they avoid clearly saying certain things, but their more...
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    Is belief/non-belief a morally culpable state?

    In the abstract the idea of culpable ignorance makes sense, but it's very hard to apply in practice. People quite commonly reject evidence against what they believe. Is this an honest mistake? I'm not so sure. But generally the pont of ethics is to guide people's behavior, and I'm not sure how...
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    School Teachers, Nurses, Government Workers, CELEBRATING Charlie Kirk's murder

    This story talks about the origin of the claim that he said gay people should be stoned. https://ew.com/stephen-king-apologizes-charlie-kirk-advocated-stoning-gays-11808874
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    CA considers anonymous abortion drug prescriptions

    From the article it looks like this is omitting a name on the package. I’m not sure that qualifies as an anonymous prescription.
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    A conversation about unity.

    I think officially the whole Presbytery (the assembly, not the geographical region) is our equivalent of a bishop.
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    A conversation about unity.

    A lot depends upon definition. I would consider magnification of Mary's "cooperation" with grace an unjustified speculation, but not overtly non-Christian. I have, however, seen a few statements that imply that Mary is somehow between Christ and us. That, to me, would make it non-Christian.
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    A conversation about unity.

    1 Tim implies the existence of an office of overseer or bishop. This may be a nit, but it doesn't speak of this as requirements for ordination, since it doesn't speak of ordination at that point. Of course it's reasonable to think that the laying of hands or ordination mentioned in 5:22 applies...
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    Top ten crime cities in the USA

    This seems to depend upon what you count. Here's a nifty site that lets you choose which set of crimes to track: Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Mid-Year 2025 Update - Council on Criminal Justice. It's weird how much they differ. Of course almos all mayors of the largest cities are Democrats...
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    Rfk drops ball

    Just like Supreme Court candidates assuring senators that Rowe v Wade was established law. Unfortunately people lie in these hearings. In both cases we could tell from their record that it was unlikely that they were telling the truth. The Senators involved surely knew that.
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    "No MAGA Left Behind" -- New DOJ Pardon Attorney crows about Trump's two-tiered justice system that favors his political allies

    My theory is that we have a large number of people who feel left out of the system, and think the only way to deal with it is "Dirty Harry." Traditional things like restraint and separation of powers are simply not issues for them.
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    Biden Appointed Judge Orders Release of ‘Teens’ Who Violently Attacked Ex-DOGE Employee Edward Coristine, AKA “Big Balls”

    Here's what actually happened. Teens charged in violent carjacking of DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ released to caretakers on strict restrictions: ‘School and home, that’s it’ They're released, but not free. Not sure I agree with it in any case, but it's worth being accurate.
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    Can AI Ever Understand Purpose?

    Currently AI does what you can in a broad sense consider pattern matching. What's stored is a very abstract form of what it was trained on, so that doesn't mean that it just spits back words it learned (though that does often happen). It can get at meaning, in some sense. Still it is a model of...