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Asithappens

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  1. Uh, yeah it is imo. Bierstadt Lake Trail is on the way to Bear Lake. It's no way close to a 14er, so we must be talking about two different things.
  2. I guess my major concern is that I don't want to hit a fucking deer at 3:30 in the morning in the middle of nowhere.
  3. Thanks. From what I've read while the I-35/I-70 may be longer in miles it's about the same in time. Maybe that's no longer true. One of my considerations is that I'll be driving through the night, so interstate seems to have the edge over the other route. And I get ya on the Okie avoidance factor. And oh yeah, I'm planning on driving straight through. So if the shit hits the fan... I guess I don't know if the shit hits the fan.
  4. I guess that depends on what you want to do. Imo, Romo does not shut down in the winter at all. Go up to Bear Lake, walk across the frozen lake and climb that little hill at the end of it. Get some snowshoes and hike that trail on the way up to Bear Lake, Bierstadt or something like that. Enjoy the brisk, cold weather.
  5. You're probably good going to Estes, but don't make that I 70 drive without good tires. I would probably have some snow socks in the car just in case. Research COs traction laws before you come. Yeah, if you stay on the east side/front range you should generally be ok. If you go on the western/ski side you generally would not be ok. Or at least you should have some chains with you.
  6. I know this has been asked before, but is there a clearly better way to go: nw Texas or I-35 to I-70? Is there any road construction going on the nw Texas way?
  7. Libs? How about just non-retarded Republicans?
  8. You kinda made my point. Yes, I'm aware of those other verses. But there is still a verse that says "faith without works is dead". So... everyone is cherry picking. Just because the "church" has consensus on which cherries they picked, they still picked something. Someone (man) had to decide that. So, contrary to Luther, it's not "sola scriptura".
  9. I had one. It was kinda greasy. Chck fil a is better.
  10. Barr is like his dad: a semi-competent, semi-corrupt assclown.
  11. If that were true then there wouldn't have been a "need" to have a bible verse stating that "faith without works is dead". To me, this is just another (bullshit?) way to get around scriptural conflicts. A ham-handed way to show that the bible is a seamless web of truth. Come on. Faith is faith. Works is works. Don't overcomplicate things.
  12. To me, that is just a ham-handed, in-artful way of avoiding the scriptural conflicts. Works will not inevitably follow. See deathbed confessions.
  13. Which makes my point. They quote one part of the bible, I quote another. Pick and choose. Interpret. And fuck the slavery loving, anti-dancing baptists. Maybe when they learn to read they can climb to the heights of being a Methodist....
  14. It's not fucking nuance. The bible itself states that faith without works is dead. And "man" (could be some women) is interpreting this stuff. The bible/text is open (wide open in parts) to interpretation. You can't "nuance" your way out of this, imo.
  15. I've read similar things about viewing pics like that, but it had to do with how long the person viewed the image. That is, a gay person's gaze lingered longer on the homo pic, and the straight person's gaze lingered longer on the hot babe pic. Society is struggling to deal with the whole "accepting gays" thing, and so the church is, too. The church is little more than a reflection of (some segments) society. For the most part, it's a very good segment but it's not perfect. I hope that this will all come to a positive conclusion. Like some have said: don't be a dick to others. Maybe with the older crowd dying off we will achieve more acceptance of gays.
  16. Both are good qbs. Burrow obviously had the better year. But Sam may be a sleeper. He's been solid, sometimes rock solid, other times not as much. But who knows what he may do at the next level with good guidance? Sam's been good, if not great, for Texas. Thank you for your service, Sam.
  17. Which is what in American miles? 360? 820? about 90?
  18. How do you know that Luhnow got railroaded? I mean, is this along the lines of evidence showing that Iran was going to bomb 4 embassies?
  19. At least steered the church to convince the laity that scripture is ultimately authoritative and complete. Because it's not. It still depends on interpretation. By humans. That's kind of the fraud behind Luther. There is no text that is not open to differing interpretations. And look, it's not like god wrote the bible. It was written by men. Luther just tried to make the argument that his "team" (or rather, not the other team) were the ones who could correctly interpret the bible. Or that the other team was not capable of doing that. And if scripture is so authoritative and complete, then why did Luther need to conjure up his 3 solas? That's part of my point from before. Luther says "faith alone", but he's wrong. It's not faith alone. It's faith combined with works. That's in the bible. Faith without works is dead.
  20. I just gave an example.
  21. It’s easy to see how this focus, and the larger worldview informing it, appeals to well-heeled establishment types of every political stripe. The allure runs deeper than the conditioned boardroom response to a team of Ivy types bearing proprietary intellectual property. McKinsey presents itself as the most luxurious and state-of-the-art solution to the ancient business problem of squeezing the maximum return out of people at the minimum cost: Like other such companies that advertise in airport terminals, the brand’s broader vibe is both coolly sensible and steeply expensive. That is to say, the elegant McKinsey finessing maneuver is to carry out remorselessly brutal work that bears a real human cost, but in such a way that it doesn’t look brutal. In this sense, McKinsey sells not just solutions but a certain sleek aesthetic. This, too, arrives as a suite of solutions duly outfitted with its own patois: Luhnow and the former McKinsey consultant Pete Buttigieg use the same totemic catchphrases—big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, counterinsurgency—to describe the respective futures of running a competitive baseball team and a moderately sized American city. It is striking, but not really surprising, that all this well-credentialed cleverness and machine-tooled efficiency tends to deliver the same solution, which amounts to more for the client and less for everyone else; that is the goal, after all. So it will likely not surprise you that Luhnow’s Astros have been credited with originating MLB’s recently announced plans to eliminate 42 of 160 minor league baseball teams, most of them in smaller cities. MLB currently faces several lawsuits concerning the appalling pay and conditions in the minor leagues. That’s a problem that could be solved with comparatively small expenditures—or by simply eliminating a whole lot of jobs. Which would you expect to be a consultant’s preferred recommendation? It is still true that no organization in baseball works harder to gather more data, or parse it more effectively, than the Astros. They are likely to receive a fairly severe punishment, by MLB standards, for the cheating they’ve done. Still, the organization itself and the values it has evinced—in the absence of what are conventionally understood to be values—seem unlikely to change. The people in charge will continue to work on solving the problems they care about and continue not caring about the rest. There’s no reckoning coming, but there is something perversely satisfying and darkly apropos about seeing where all those McKinsey-scented insights and learnings (to use another corporate consultancy term of art) wound up. All those merciless cullings and endless organizational refinements, all that data and all the brilliant minds and machines working it over, all resolving to some underpaid grunt in a folding chair whaling away on a garbage can because the members of the team’s brain trust of thoroughbred data nerds simply took it for granted that they could get away with it. All that data, all those numbers, all those shifting variables continually delivered the same answer: What are you going to do, stop us? tl:dr Luhnow is a cheating piece of shit.
  22. The MLB penalties should have been more severe. This was organized, sophisticated, electronically-based cheating on a scale way, way beyond "normal" sign stealing. Which, I think most would say, wink wink nudge nudge, is a part of the game. But when you start going way beyond with shit like the Astros (and it looks like other teams) were doing? No.
  23. Kinda, but Luther is way overrated when it comes to the idea of a "pure" interpretation of scripture. Imo. Faith alone? Nah, Marty. Faith without works is dead. That's in the bible, dude. Marty was just a man.
  24. Yep. And it's almost the entire fault of the evangelical (fucktard) community. Self-righteous, hypocritical, narrow-minded. They are little more than modern-day Pharisees. Fuck Franklin Graham and all his toadies.
  25. Learn to read, bro. That's in no way what I said.
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