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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Watching this game is so weird. The wolves are very good at every spot, and the Lakers only have one real starter-caliber player other than LBJ and Luka.
  2. How embarrassing, my gawd
  3. Looks like he’s smuggling hams into the park
  4. I grew up in tech. My Dad was an engineer in the HCF era, and I’m old enough to remember when I was a kid and they had ashtrays next to the dumb terminals in what would now be called “data centers.” I got my first job in tech in 1999 and spent the next 25 years at 5 companies. I left tech 18 months ago for a lot of reasons. I was running towards something more than running away from anything, and I would go back if I needed to, but from one old veteran to another, the ride is over. We had a hell of a run, though.
  5. Not related to politics exactly but Nissan needs to bring back the Xterra and launch a barebones Mini truck to compete with the Maverick.
  6. And a woman who’s a little plump, scotch girl, and a daughter who‘s thirteen.
  7. You try feeding that with a little 12oz roll. It ain’t gonna work.
  8. Agreed, we are not talking about the same thing. I understand your point. My point is that Christians have been spent the last 500 years beating each other up over your point, and should not do that.
  9. Ok, fine - BUT that line is for Christ to draw and for you to think about. If the church can and in fact does acknowledge that those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience may achieve salvation, SURELY those who think of themselves as Christians can acknowledge the same thing about other Christians, or at least spend more time consider the great beam in their own eye.
  10. And that’s something to meditate on, not a division bell. It is not for Christians to decide who is and is not saved.
  11. We are a department store and
  12. The left is getting better at growing beards and it’s making righties nervous.
  13. Again, this is academic and strikes me as the sort of thing that Jesus scolded the Pharisees and lawyers for obsessing over. I’m not saying it’s unimportant, but it’s a koan more than it is workable doctrine. This is what I mean about Christians screwing this up. Buddhists think about the question of one hand clapping and try to arrive at inner clarity. Christians take the question of faith vs works and burn cities to the ground.
  14. Yeah I meant to screwed it up. Mine is 4, 2, 3, 5, 1
  15. Ok, but so what? Mercy, love, being the neighbor are non-negotiable moral obligations.
  16. Ok, but that’s an academic question that millions died over and has driven more people away from the gospel than it brought to The Church (and vice-versa). How do you supposed Jesus would feel about that? You say Jesus “condemned Pharisees to hell” for works without faith, but does he? Or does he condemn them for following the law while neglecting their neighbor and a lack of faithfulness? Does grace drive the faithful to slaughter each other over the question of chickens and eggs, or would that be works alone?
  17. Respectfully, Jesus doesn’t say anything about how to be a Christian. He says a number of things about how to be.
  18. It doesn’t have to be that one either. I really like this one: Or for the Catholics and Catholic-adjacent: Watts on Chesterton
  19. Make your time
  20. You should listen to that lecture on Hinduism I posted. And for that matter read the pope’s essays. Being happy can be your religion. Looking at the stars and being a good person can be your religion. Tat tvam asi, my brother.
  21. How about this: “Republicans are destroying your country and making you poor. vote for us if you want more and safe streets”
  22. Yup. I hate that branding, “moderate”. As if what we needed was compromise between competing elite factions instead of smashing them. It stinks like fear and pee. And while I like a lot about that book and what him and Derek Thompson are doing, San Francisco is just a terrible example, because it’s so sui generis. Every other big city with the same problems looks like it has shit together when you compare it to San Francisco- hell Ezra Klein praises Austin on housing, which is utter nonsense until the last 2 years. He’s just looking at MSA data, and what that is really telling him is not that Austin is doing a great job, but that it has sprawling suburbs in places where San Francisco has seawater.
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