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9/16/19 2:17 PM

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Freedom at risk of being 'lost' in Hong Kong, says...

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Douglas Fir wrote:
...are there so many Christians in Hong Kong?

Wiki says 12% [nominally of course].

Sad thing about Hong Kong is, its evangelization was made possible mostly because it was stolen from Qing China via an unequal treaty after they lost the Opium War with the Brits. That the British ruled it well doesn't excuse the injustice.

This is one reason the Communists got a lot of mileage from claims of "Western Imperialism." They had more than a grain of truth.

9/16/19 12:16 PM

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I don't think CA Democrats consider the poverty rate a problem, for dependent poor people are precisely whom these Progressives want as constituents. They will never oppose gov't handouts, regardless of how destructive they are. The greater the poverty, the greater the Democrat stranglehold on state politics.

This is what results from allowing people on welfare to vote. Note that Sanders wants to extend suffrage rights to convicts!

CA has been a reliable harbinger of what will happen to the country as a whole.

9/12/19 1:57 PM

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CA bans schools from suspending disruptive kids

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Education cannot occur with anarchic punks running around. I often think putting them to work picking vegetables or splitting rocks might make teaching feasible for those who want to learn something (not that much of this will occur anyway outside indoctrination in pet Leftist subjects).

Of course my idea is unrealistic, since child labor, as punishment or not, is considered cruel. Public schools will continue as warehouses for kids "outsourced" by parents. Now finding semi-competent people willing to work there, even for union wages, might be a poser.

9/11/19 3:40 PM

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Frank wrote:
For Democrats, the days of â€œsafe, legal and rareâ€ on the abortion issue are in the distant past.

This gives one an idea of how their politics evolves. First it's getting wet feet, then the waist, then jump all the way in. It's safe to infer this is how gun regulation works for them as well. Slippery Slope indeed may be a formal fallacy, but it has a good track record in explaining Democrats. A little is never enough for them; I believe they call for as much as they think voters will tolerate at the time, rather than being honest and forthright about their ultimate goals.

9/11/19 12:31 PM

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Stevenr wrote:
Problem in many IFBâ€™s is a unbiblical definition of Pastoral authority...

True, but any church polity afraid to hold leadership to account will end up in the same place. Look at the RCC, for example. It's the human element, not the organization, that counts.

9/11/19 12:08 PM

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Since "Black Lives Matter" types ascribe high minority arrest/incarceration rates to racism, then why not complain about their high abortion rate as well? I have a possible explanation: They want to eliminate black people. Margaret Sanger's agenda was consistent with this. So is the demoralization of police, so blacks can kill ea. other unhindered.

Democrats have learned that policies which pretend to help blacks but actually destroy them are an easier sell than Jim Crow laws. This was the devil's tactic in the Garden.

9/11/19 10:53 AM

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Maybe this simply early recruiting for the Democratic Party. Depraved of the World, Unite!

9/10/19 5:07 PM

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Dark Ages disease the new American plague threat?

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Jim Lincoln wrote:
again, this happens in Australia quite well....

Irrelevant. Dr. Byrd is a pragmatist - he gets what *he* wants from the system, therefore it must be good. But Biblically, the ethics involved aren't difficult: Anyone who compels strangers to pay their bills, medical or otherwise, is simply a thief, whether a given socialized scheme "works" or not. Socialism is the ideology of thieves, who are their natural allies.

Medical care is the classic "wedge" issue since argumentum ad misericordiam is an easy sell to the unthinking.

9/10/19 1:20 PM

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The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control

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Adriel wrote:
...Which explains why today's politics and Liberal churches agree on so much.

Wiki's very fitting description of LSD effects: "Many users see or hear things that do not exist ...Adverse psychiatric reactions are possible, such as anxiety, paranoia, and delusions."

Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder is associated with prior use of LSD. Could this explain the behavior of certain Presidential candidates?

9/10/19 11:01 AM

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Jim Lincoln wrote:
You will notice notice, Timothy, countries that have universal healthcare like Australia don't have this problem.

You're not "thinking thinking," Jim, on two counts:
1) Cum hoc ergo propter hoc. There could be other reasons Australia lacks this problem. For all we know, it could be a Southern Hemisphere thing. Or maybe it's their beer;
2) These diseases have become more manifest *since* Obamacare. Not that I would necessarily blame it, but by your defective reasoning I could.

If you're posting this stuff merely to bait people, at least put more thought into it.

9/9/19 7:30 PM

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Marchers ask Trump to â€˜liberateâ€™ Hong Kong

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Jim Lincoln wrote:
Tony, what a good example! General MacArthur had to resign,

Misrepresentation: he was *sacked* by Truman for endorsing full-scale conflict with China, nukes included. Is this what you want now over Hong Kong?

I think Gen. Sherman put it best in a different context:
"You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end."

9/9/19 3:57 PM

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Jim Lincoln wrote:
We probably try something a little more close--like Venezuela first

How about nothing at all, anywhere? Let's stop the arrogant imperialistic interventionism. Anyone who was of age during the Vietnam era should know better. America's track record in "Making the world safe for democracy" isn't good.

The Chinese would outlast us anyway; they have more people and patience.

9/6/19 8:45 PM

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China had a massive problem with opium in the 19th century, thanks to British attempts to redress a trade imbalance with a country that didn't want to buy anything from them.

Lin Zexu was a scholar official (now a sort of popular hero) who tried to stop the trade with severe measures, but got a war with Britain for his trouble. One of the most evil things Britain ever did, all so they could have their stinkin' tea. They didn't care about ruining the lives of millions of Chinamen. Zexu even wrote a letter to Queen Victoria, who either never got it or wouldn't answer.

9/6/19 12:20 PM

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@JAG:
The conservative fixation on pagan classics dates to the Florentine Renaissance, which "rediscovered" Greco-Roman liberal arts. It coincided with the Reformation but was of an entirely different spirit.

Greek philosophy may be worth studying as "opposition research." People often fall into one of the "schools" without realizing it, the Apostle Paul encountered it in Athens, and the RCC is Aristotelian.

The Reformation still gets short shrift because of Catholic influence and mistrust (at best) by most "evangelicals" and Fundies today. It is still too controversial and "sectarian" although there is plenty of material worth studying.

9/5/19 5:21 PM

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Jim Lincoln wrote:
Neil, the woman who wrote the article is a Mormon who repented of her overlooking the errors of some of her beliefs

Completely irrelevant to my point.

9/5/19 4:27 PM

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[QUOTE]... The metric of the regulators is not always correct.[/QUOTE]Am I supposed to believe this on faith, absent evidence? Who but a Mormon would go around casting unsubstantiated doubt on regulators' credibility here?

People do survive drinking tainted water. Heard of Moctezuma's Revenge?

9/5/19 1:11 PM

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jj3 wrote:
...these people should be left alone and allowed to drink water that has proven harmless for hundreds of years.

"Proven harmless" how? And who is saying it should be "disallowed?"
Information is all that's needed at most, which is what parks etc. do all the time regarding their water supplies.

9/5/19 12:48 PM

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The "aesop" here is not how bad LDS is, but that the unstated Prime Directive of any human organization is preserving its righteous faÃ§ade, not reproving and correcting its negligence or injustice. After all, how often does one hear *individuals* admit error and repent?

9/4/19 5:41 PM

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Military suicides top record

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I don't have figures but according to my late father, at least some ETO veterans, after returning Stateside in 1945, committed suicide upon hearing they were to be redeployed for the expected invasion of Japan, called Operation Downfall. Aptly named; if Okinawa was any indication, it likely would've been a horrific bloodbath, with Japan's whole civilian population mobilized. The A-bombs thus were a mercy to both sides.

9/4/19 1:35 PM

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Tattoos mark people as hasty and reckless

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I am seeing more and more store clerks with tattoos, at least in America, so I don't think the "paradox" is so "apparent" (BTW the late Gordon Clark once wrote about this issue in theology). For even American and British cops have tattoos now; I suppose this gives them common ground with suspects they arrest.

Irrationally acting on impulse is precisely what corporate marketers and retailers want from the public, and is reinforced by popular songs and film.

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