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by curlew
Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:36 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Presidential Debate Part Deux
Replies: 14
Views: 8166

Re: Presidential Debate Part Deux

Having the time of their lives....

https://youtu.be/Fq_ZosSy_9I
by curlew
Thu Oct 06, 2016 3:16 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Hurricane Matthew
Replies: 6
Views: 4254

Re: Hurrican Matthew

MachineGhost wrote:26 dead already from a Hurricane? Isn't that rather unusual in the USA?
I don't think the 26 dead are in the USA. It's just starting to hit the USA now.
by curlew
Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:39 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Hurricane Matthew
Replies: 6
Views: 4254

Re: Matthew

Reub wrote:Good luck to those of you in the Southeast. Hurricane Matthew is a beast and might go bye twice. Stay safe!
We only have a tropical storm watch here in Tampa Bay but it looks like the whole east coast of Florida could be in for some major devastation.
by curlew
Wed Oct 05, 2016 5:01 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Healthcare discussion from Pointedstick's "I'm Free" thread
Replies: 52
Views: 14830

Re: I'm free

You're lucky. I'm not eligible for Medicaid OR ObamaCare because I'm eligible for Medicare. The ObamaCare MAGI expansion (no asset test) doesn't apply if you're eligible for any other forms of health insurance. I've been trying for awhile to find a way around it, but just cannot find a loophole in ...
by curlew
Wed Oct 05, 2016 1:54 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

For those who wonder why God was so mean and cruel to others (e.g. directing the clean out of Caanan) this episode might prove interesting, and beneficial. White Horse Inn (Whatever Happened to Hell?): http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WhiteHorseInn/~3/2-Z_gakAEy8/wi20161002.mp3 "For the last hal...
by curlew
Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:39 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Vintage Ads
Replies: 2
Views: 1762

Vintage Ads

It's hard to believe some of these are real....

http://vaviper.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-c ... would.html

Example...

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by curlew
Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:08 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

For those who wonder why God was so mean and cruel to others (e.g. directing the clean out of Caanan) this episode might prove interesting, and beneficial. White Horse Inn (Whatever Happened to Hell?): http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WhiteHorseInn/~3/2-Z_gakAEy8/wi20161002.mp3 "For the last hal...
by curlew
Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:34 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: I'm free
Replies: 69
Views: 31930

Re: I'm free

MG: avoid dualistic thinking, and don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just because some of what they say is wrong, that doesn't mean that all of it is. And just because some of them are pedantic, unrealistic jerks, that doesn't mean the rest of them should be dismissed. Libertarianism has ...
by curlew
Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:25 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

And since it's another rainy day in Florida here's another one about how to give an atheist a religious experience... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51B8MzcxOX0 What's the TL;DR of the above? An atheist experiences metaphysicality and suddenly believes there is a "God" or that religions ...
by curlew
Mon Oct 03, 2016 1:26 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Surprising U.S. World rankings
Replies: 0
Views: 2241

Surprising U.S. World rankings

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article105618381.html http://www.prosperity.com/#!/ranking According to this article and accompanying chart the U.S. now ranks #1 in the world in only one surprising category... #1=HEALTH #9=EDUCATION #11=ECONOMY,OPPORTUNITY,GOVERNANCE,SOCIAL CAPIT...
by curlew
Mon Oct 03, 2016 1:04 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

If you're like me and have a lot of time on your hands you might find this 53 minute interview of Richard Dawkins interviewing illusionist Derren Brown as fascinating as I did. A lot of it has to do with how "cold readings" communicating with the dead work and how people buy into it. The t...
by curlew
Sat Oct 01, 2016 5:09 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: I'm free
Replies: 69
Views: 31930

Re: I'm free

As I have posted before, the same thing happened to me at the end of July. I was planning on retiring next year any way and I was telling every body it was no big deal but the abruptness of it was more of a psychological jolt than I was letting on. It didn't help that it happened during the hot and ...
by curlew
Thu Sep 29, 2016 3:12 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

Mountaineer wrote:Culturally, God is dead and without the God who exists outside of me to define humanity, I begin to doubt the reality of other persons.
I think wives do a lot better job of this than God does.
by curlew
Wed Sep 28, 2016 2:20 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Clinton-Trump: 9/26 Debate
Replies: 53
Views: 19803

Re: Clinton-Trump: 9/26 Debate

From an investor’s perspective, Clinton’s plan is concerning. She wants to replace current short-term and long-term capital gains rates with a series of six rates. For securities held less than one year, the rate would shoot up to 43.94%. Then it would decrease for each year of holding, down to 23....
by curlew
Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:56 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Clinton-Trump: 9/26 Debate
Replies: 53
Views: 19803

Re: Clinton-Trump: 9/26 Debate

I watched the debate for about 45 minutes which was about the limit of my pain tolerance for listening to any politician speak. I probably won't listen to the next two. I lost my job and was forced into early retirement on the last day of July this year due to offshoring to India. My impression was ...
by curlew
Tue Sep 27, 2016 8:29 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

However, we have a God who does speak and His Word is inspired, inerrant, infallible, clear , sufficient and efficacious. I think that statement is nothing more than a Christian Shibboleth. For those not enlightened about the infallible Word the word Shibboleth comes from this story.... …5The Gilea...
by curlew
Tue Sep 27, 2016 8:09 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

IMO, the most unloving and in-your-face are former Evangelicals who have rejected their faith and don't wish to live in peace with Christians and anyone else who might disagree with them. Gee, I wonder who Mountaineer might be talking about. It can't be me because I'm married to a Christian and we ...
by curlew
Sat Sep 24, 2016 12:36 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

If you're going to debate with Christians, I would not resort to using the Old "God" against them. They don't literally believe in it anyway, otherwise they wouldn't ignore the nasty, sadistic bits while hypocritically upholding the judgemental bits they want to believe in or enforce on o...
by curlew
Fri Sep 23, 2016 5:45 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Worth of a Woman

http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2006/08/worth-of-woman-bible-vs-quran.html The blog above is great. I'm just getting started. Just what is a woman worth any way? The Bible God appears to have started changing his mind in the New Testament, but it apparently took him a while to get past his ...
by curlew
Fri Sep 23, 2016 5:00 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Microsoft To Solve Cancer In Ten Years
Replies: 8
Views: 4246

Re: Microsoft To Solve Cancer In Ten Years

Maybe I'm just too thick to see the obvious, but how is cancer a computational problem? Is there an actual plan here, or does Boy Wonder Gates simply imagine that 100 twenty-somethings who point and click at the speed of light can solve anything? If he thinks he can cure cancer and is spending the ...
by curlew
Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:52 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Microsoft To Solve Cancer In Ten Years
Replies: 8
Views: 4246

Re: Microsoft To Solve Cancer In Ten Years

I realized after getting in bed that what I wrote was wrong, but thanks for catching it. I should know better to write posts late at night!!! So forget what I said. Senile cells clog up the body and can contribute to cancerific cells, but cancerific cells have already evaded the senescence death se...
by curlew
Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:21 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

So now I think I've figured out the root of YOUR problem like you have mine. You think you are God. We're all made in "God's" image, right? God I hope not. If we were all made in God's image we'd be like Andrea Yates who drowned her five kids in a bathtub. And following that line of thoug...
by curlew
Fri Sep 23, 2016 5:02 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

Romans 7 address this point quite clearly. Based on what curlew writes, and how he always is quoting Law passages (such as mixed materials), I'm suspecting he got stuck in the Law (either in despair realizing he could not do it, or pride thinking he knew better than God's Word) and did not hear the...
by curlew
Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:22 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

Romans 7 address this point quite clearly. Based on what curlew writes, and how he always is quoting Law passages (such as mixed materials), I'm suspecting he got stuck in the Law (either in despair realizing he could not do it, or pride thinking he knew better than God's Word) and did not hear the...
by curlew
Thu Sep 22, 2016 8:51 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1432745

Re: Figuring Out Religion

God is always right. The article below shows yet another example of what happens when we ignore God's will for us. His Law is intended to show our sin and to show how God wants us to live in accordance with his will. His Gospel shows us the way of salvation and His forgivness for that sin. ... Moun...