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  1. TheLightWithin

    Your Daily Rant

    What's going on there? If your load is done and they remove the items, you aren't paying extra are you? Or, is something else going on? Are they taking your stuff out while the washer is still running? 🤨 :eek::oops:o_O
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    Ethiopian Christianity

    88 books. More material. I think the translations are different. They are, I think, miaphysites or something, some subtle difference in theology, there may be more to it. I don't know if there differences are tied to the material in the additional books. I can't help but wonder, if, with 1/3...
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    Cats

    Further explained, and I think one of the images in the early part is an image of the same cat above! In case it doesn't play on our site, it is Jackson Galaxy - What are Toe Beans? Cat Daddy Dictionary
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    "Believing in science" - what does that mean?

    Well, but the canon has evolved within several religions hasn't it? And commentaries abound and sometimes become deutero-canonical, and then there is evidence of redaction or revision of some texts?
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    Who created God?

    If you used different words... if instead of creation you said "the reality in front of you" ... Would that call for a different conclusion? In any case I agree with @RabbiO it is one of those agree to disagree moments. -- In that this has come to the point in the discussion where opposing...
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    "Believing in science" - what does that mean?

    Yes Hypotheses are educated guesses, and then as more data is gathered it adds up to either support or not support a hypothesis.
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    "Believing in science" - what does that mean?

    Not sure what you mean by "just" data? I mean they do keep gathering more. I looked up some of the methods of paleontology https://library.fiveable.me/paleontology/unit-12 https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fossils/inventory-strategies-and-methodology.htm...
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    Religion of love?

    Do you think usury and money manipulation come out of blasphemy? Or non-adherence to religion? Do you think those abuses were or are absent in more religious societies? Is there any correlation between one's religion and one's behavior in the financial sector? Have there been any studies? (on...
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    Religion of love?

    Those exceptions are already pretty clear in case law, in the US it would be First Amendment law. Slander, libel, harassment, "fighting words" To even begin to fathom anything remotely like laws against "blasphemy" then "blasphemy" would need to be well defined.
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    Religion of love?

    If you would like to make others see it, it helps to make a case where you draw clearer causal lines of cause and effect. Otherwise it just sounds like harrumphing about the downfall of society which someone is ALWAYS doing, in every era.
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    Religion of love?

    Is it? Everywhere? Sadly enough where I live is taking its turn to be in crisis. I see no causal line between this and any "blasphemy" which is what I am asking about. There is a lot of blame to go around and a lot of targets for the blame but blasphemy or irreligion of any kind are not...
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    What attracts me to interfaith...

    Chrislam? (Although this seems specific to a country or region as presented here) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-videos/2023/08/chrislam-combines-christian-and-muslim-beliefs
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    Ethiopian Christianity

    I don't remember if we had a thread discussing the Ethiopian canon, larger than that of the other Orthodox churches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Tewahedo_biblical_canon (I wanted to I also stumbled across this 8 minute video talking about a different or more detailed interpretation...
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    "Believing in science" - what does that mean?

    Well, that's the experimental method. Which would rule out other forms of studies, qualitative studies, survey or focus group data, evolutionary science in most cases, or archaeological finds or paleontology, those things are not experiments that can clearly be replicated - those are reliant...
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    "Believing in science" - what does that mean?

    Replicated studies, and scientific consensus.
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    ADHD Symptoms Described

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    Buddha Biography

    https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2253 https://whoseculture.hsites.harvard.edu/bamiyan-buddhas These go into more detail about the destroyed Buddhas and the cultural impact.
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    On Blasphemy: A wrong, a right, or both, or neither?

    When the attempt to attack blasphemy ends up being in itself blasphemy against someone else's beliefs 😵‍💫 🤕 :oops::confused::(o_O 1:16 is where they start directly addressing the destruction of the statues. https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
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    Buddha Biography

    If I remember, in Afghanistan the Taliban destroyed many. Including two very prominent ones 1:16 is where they start directly addressing the destruction of the statues. This could also go in the thread about blasphemy. I think I will add it there.
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    The Wisdom of David Bowie

    Was that in a different clip?
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