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  1. doubtingmerle

    Can you balance the federal budget?

    In another thread I saw this post: Ah, so you’re calling for a balanced budget—because if the country goes broke, no one can be fed. That may be a bit extreme, but let’s suppose we do need to balance the budget. What would you cut? I pulled data from the federal budget here: The Budget and...
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    Are Folks Making America Hate Again?

    Your pickup truck is breaking down, and you cannot afford a new one. Good jobs are hard to find, and prices keep going up. You fear you might not be able to keep your God. Times are tough. I get it. In frustration, you look for people to blame, and you find no shortage of possibilities. You...
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    Trump voters, are you happy now?

    Trump voters, your 401K just went down 10% in 2 days. Prices are about to go way up. It was easy to see this would happen if you elected Trump. You did it anyway. You happy now?
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    A Special Monologue for the Republican in Your Life

    Dear Republicans in my life, Jimmy Kimmel asked me to send this to you. Enjoy! And you want a man who says this kind of stuff to be your President?
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    Don't hold your nose and vote for Trump.

    Donald Trump is a fascist to the core. At least that is what his long time Chief of Staff, John Kelly has said. And multiple people that have worked closely with Trump have confirmed this. Trump has lied repeatedly. He has repeatedly threatened to use government against his enemies. He has been...
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    This is What Mass Deportation Looks Like

    Think long and hard about what you are asking for, please. https://medium.com/@cathi.harris/this-is-what-mass-deportation-looks-like-b64d2109ea93
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    Trump kicks off presidential campaign in New Hampshire, South Carolina

    Donald Trump held a rally (or was it not a rally?) in South Carolina. Trump kicks off presidential campaign in New Hampshire, South Carolina Look who showed up.
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    The Grand Canyon Supergroup

    Another evidence for an old Earth is the Grand Canyon Supergroup, which is the layers of rock circled in red in the picture below. This is a set of rock thousands of feet thick at the bottom of the Grand Canyon that has tilted. These tilted layers show every indication of having been deposited...
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    Flood Geology

    In a recent online debate (here), Inquiring Mind asked me to consider a different view of geology. Perhaps most of those rock layers and fossils down there had been formed in a single global flood in Noah’s day. Really? Do we still need to answer this argument? Flood geology, as this view is...
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    Respect for diversity without respect

    OK, you sat through diversity training. There you were told that, in your workplace, you will be expected to treat everybody with respect, regardless of race, creed, gender or national origin. OK, yes, you can put on a cheesy smile and put on a show of respect. But do you also feel a sincere...
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    What offers the best hope for depression?

    It is estimated that over 3% of the population suffers from depression at any one time. Where can the troubled soul turn for hope? Is the Bible an authority on this subject? Or would we be better off turning to science? Or is it a case where both say the same thing, and thus, we can use both...
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    Free Will

    I am going to spin this off as another thread, because this topic might have a mind of its own. ;) Regarding free will, it is molecules that do the thinking. Since those molecules together make up a person, Daniel Dennet says that we, that is, the physical collection of matter that makes up our...
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    How Can Molecules Think?

    I think with my brain. My brain is made of molecules. Therefore, molecules, when arranged in a certain way, can think. But how can that be? After all, you are alive, and you feel what it is to be alive. You are experiencing conscious awareness. How can this awareness be nothing more than the...
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    Human Evolution

    How can an animal we would class as an ape walk out of the forest and become human? It’s a long story. It appears that, in The Great Rift Valley in Africa, a unique stretch of grasslands opened up as the continents moved. Certain apes ventured out of the woods, perhaps searching for food. They...
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    Pride and self-esteem

    The Bible speaks frequently of pride. Here are verses on pride; here are verses on the proud; and here are verses on the haughty. The Bible condemns pride. Many Christians trust these verses but also value high self-esteem. How is pride different from high self-esteem?
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    A Pro-Religion Court

    A Pro-Religion Court How about us nones? Don't we have rights also?
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    Total Depravity and Self-Esteem

    As a Christian, can you support both the doctrine of Total Depravity, and an approach to life that seeks to build your self-esteem? Or must you choose one or the other? Here is an example of what I read about Total Depravity from a Christian site: The doctrine of total depravity is an...
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    A thread about "Nothing"

    Why does the universe exist? Why is there something, rather than nothing at all? For a minute, let's think about Nothing. When I will use the word "Nothing" with a capital N in this thread, I will refer to a state of reality in which there truly is nothing. No matter. No energy. No spacetime...
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    My Epiphany

    Years ago I was fighting the good fight of creation on the Internet. I argued that evolution was impossible, for it required that the genetic code had to be changed to make new kinds of animals. It did not seem feasible to me that evolution could do this. I argued in the CompuServe debate forum...
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    Who are you?

    I am a creature that descended from a speck of magnificently successful blue-green algae, or something like that. Who are you?
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