Well now, that is certainly an 8th commandment (put the best construction on things, per Luther) endorsement. Perhaps if you read Montgomery's bio you might, just might, come to understand that his writing is not at the 6th grade level. Thus the comment about being willing to open your mind. I cann...

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 5:11 pm You might want to do some reading of JWM, but only if you are willing to open your mind.

That's rich Mounatineer.

"Oh the gift that God could give us, to see ourselves as others see us.” - Robert Burns.

MangoMan wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 6:08 pm Omicron is the Y2K of Covid.

I think we need to start distinguishing between Covid and COVID, the former being the real disease and the latter being, well, those who understand what I'm saying know very well what I'm talking about.

I was just reading on FoxNews that after discovering one incident of Omicron only a few days ago there are now cases being reported in many states which they go on to list one by one. If you added all the cases up you could probably come up with a headline something like "Omicron variant cases ...

A. The true religion was preserved from Adam till the coming of Christ by the patriarchs, prophets and other holy men whom God appointed and inspired to teach His Will and Revelations to the people, and to remind them of the promised Redeemer. How do you deal with the fact there is no real evidence...

What Scott Adams was saying about the Rittenhouse trial had nothing to do with his own opinion about his guilt or innocence. His comments came out when the jury was taking a lot more time deliberating than people expected even though there was pretty clear video proof of self-defense. I don't know ...

"Psychologically speaking this doesn't surprise me." If this was a psychological reaction, we would have expected that this was happening over the last many centuries. Why would that be a valid expectation? We have no idea what was going on in the last many centuries compared to what is g...

Semantics of certainty are probably worth avoiding. Touche. Well, I did call those men "complete idiots" so I guess we're both guilty of that. I'm sticking with my certainty on that however. For the record, I didn't start this thread even thought it appears on the home screen that I was t...

Thought some of you might be interested in this clip by Dinesh Disouza about Muslim conversions to Christianity. He makes the claim that something like 6 million Muslims a year, mostly in Africa if I remember correctly, have been converting from Islam to Christianity and this is something that has n...

What turned out bad for these men had absolutely nothing to do with race-baiting nonsense unless you're paying attention to the side commentary on the media. The legal arguments towards their guilt are actually remarkably clear if you've paid attention to the case, and very, very little attention i...

If there is one thing I think I could confidently convict those three men of without even hearing much of the evidence is that they were complete and total dumbasses unless they were so far removed from the news and current affairs they were totally clueless. I remember in the movie Time to Kill tha...

Going to facts here's the bottom line: Ivermetcin studies range anywhere from it may work to it doesn't work. The jury is still out. (However, if you really think taking a drug made for animal deworming is a super great idea that sticks it to big pharma...knock yourself out.) Agree with Flyingpytho...

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine linked to rare cases of eye inflammation - study https://www.jpost.com/health-science/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-linked-to-rare-cases-of-eye-inflammation-study-675839 Mountaineer, his wife, and me as noted in this forum alone. So how rare is it really? Most people probably don'...

Way too complicated for me. Kind of reminds me of a Jesuit who, in furtherance of his search for a way around the prohibition against masturbation, announced (quite seriously) to his class that abusing oneself "inadvertently" doesn't count. One of the early church fathers, someone named O...

I've been binge-watching Money Heist. I originally thought it was just about a bunch of robbers stealing from the government of Spain but in season 4, the genious leader of the group known as "The Professor" decides to bring down the whole lying, corrupt government of Spain while stealing ...

It's the flagrant narcissism that pushes my buttons, not just on mask wearing, it's more on people choosing on their own to not follow As a Christian, don't you have any problem passing judgment on other people as "flagrant narcissiists"? I think Jesus had a few things to say about that. ...

i kind of do the same thing . i have a very conservative core portfolio which i use being i am retired but i try to mold it to better for the bigger picture . it is the most conservative model in the insight portfolio but i add my own little spin like better inflation protection which i feel is mor...

Thank's Xan. Probably something to think about with the amount of red meat I eat. Of course, if I get blood drawn frequently enough, the problem would be self correcting :) And pp4me, Xan is just talking about problems associated with excessive iron in the bloodstream. I've never looked into that, ...

The wars in Afganistan and Vietnam also lasted a lot longer than they were predicting. I'd say the war against inflation could last as long except that I think there is no war against inflation. The only thing it has in common with those wars is that it is deliberate government policy, possibly run ...

Mark, you might also consider a ferratin test, at least every once in a while. Hemochromatosis can sneak up on you. I always get the feeling that these tests are basically about mining your blood for drugs to sell. I've never heard of ferratin or hemochromatosis but something tells me the drugs mig...

Do they have pre-determined names for variants in alphabetical order like they do hurricanes? If so, we're up to O and there are only 10 left before they start using numbers. You may count 11, but I read somewhere that the letter X would be ommitted because it would be the "Xi" variant an...

Do they have pre-determined names for variants in alphabetical order like they do hurricanes? If so, we're up to O and there are only 10 left before they start using numbers. You may count 11, but I read somewhere that the letter X would be ommitted because it would be the "Xi" variant and...

Maddy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:34 pm If you find this sort of thing "fun," maybe it's you who should go.

Aren't you at least heartened that 86% say No?

bobbiearias wrote: ↑Mon Nov 29, 2021 6:04 am Credit cards are a pretty cool innovation.

Especially the ones with cashback and reward. I use mine wherever they will take it but haven't rolled the balance over in probably 20 years.

If there was one good thing about the masks, lockdowns, forced closures of "non-essential" businesses, and mandatory vaccines it's that it seems to have reminded a lot of people of the quote from Benjamin Franklin, " “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temp...