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  1. My LAL will beat either IMO.
  2. He was in the RSS as a child like all good Gujaratis, to your point. He's stated as much that this isn't going away quietly. And while I get this was an extremist organization, but Pakistan has long been unable or unwilling to keep the terrorists in their borders at bay and some of this blood is on the State's hands.
  3. This is a good thread filled with a lot of different viewpoints but I think what I said and what you disagree with is a foundational belief of Christianity. I'm not trying to apply it one way or another to politics or ideologies like liberals and conservatives and I understand not everyone is talking from a Judeo-Christian perspective that believe in Genesis 3, but if you DO profess to be a Christian (like I think the OP does), that seems to be a non-negotiable.
  4. Modi is a monster of a leader, he's already promised a response "beyond imagination" and his flavor of Hindiusm will demand a big response here. Pakistan is really struggling lately (economically, politically) so it will be interesting to see if they even muster a response. It's in everyone's best interest to let India get their "get back" and move on and take the L because of your loser terrorists IMO.
  5. I do #1 only and with a low-carb diet and minimal exercise I can maintain an impressive fighting weight.
  6. This is a very eloquent way of expanding out why you need a savior in the first place. If you are a Christian and believe in the God of the OT and Jesus Christ, then you understand that even as you try to be a righteous and blameless man, you will fall short. Our creator, Father God is perfect and just and will not tolereate sin, so for us to have an eternal reconcilation with him, we needed a redeemer (savior, intermediary, sacrifice, whatever). And Jesus paid it all, as the old hymn says.
  7. Simple rules, but extremely difficult to practice and impossible to put into practice at all times. I'm reminded of the old adage about Texas Hold 'Em Poker: "takes a minute to learn and a life time to master". Humans are inherently selfish, wicked people and so it's a daily effort and every morning it's imperative to pick up your cross. It's super similiar to the alcoholic who takes it one day at a time and with both the man serious about his faith and the man serious about his sobriety, daily habits that ground you in your positive goals (gratitude journals, prayers, meditations, devotionals, hitting your knees, whatever works for you) start when you wake up and being in a community of likeminded people are very helpful.
  8. I think you can argue being overtly political and being a Christian is mutually exclusive. Trump is just highlighting the worst case scenario.
  9. If you say you are too good to dip pizza rolls in ranch then I can't trust you to be honest.
  10. I was reading a book today and came upon a passage and thought of you. Not sure if it resonates or not but thought I'd share (The premise of the book is a demon giving advice as to how to corrupt a man away from God, book called Screwtape Letters):
  11. I accounted for what you are describing in the sense that you can argue about the ethics and utilitarnism of it (as you are here), but that doesn't change the fact that the right to eat food and become a fat person is fully protected in every way imaginable as an American. It's one of the most celebrated and enjoyed protections and rights these days, if you look around.
  12. Girl dinner was a trend from like 2 summers ago. C'mon Surly, let's not look unchronically online. Also, @Brisketexan eating raw pork is a horrible idea no matter how you dress it up (e.g. cultural immersion, delicacy, sophistication, not being raised a wimp). I get doing it once is not a big deal, but parasites are a real thing and gross.
  13. I agree and wonder if the father/family of Metcalf would agree as well. At the end of the day this is a tragic event and supremely sucks for everyone involved. I also feel for the black community of Frisco (mentioned my nanny is a BIPOC in Frisco) and the fact that this society (and area we live in) has to be proactively defensive and litigous to get a fair shake for folks who are black and so in a sense I can understand the need to keep race in the forefront as a reminder of societies natural bent and historical responses (fair or unfair). But also, the kid killed another kid and that is true outside and above another secondary factor outside of any evidence that will come out for self-defense, if any (which is then not even a secondary, but primary factor)
  14. I think one thing we can all agree on is that being fat as an adult, whatever your opinions, is ultimately the right and responsibility of the adult. You can argue the merits, the ethics, the morality of it all, but at the end of the day, a man can choose what he eats and when and how. Full stop. But what's so heartbreakingly tragic in America today is when I see these same fat adults with obese children. Kids as young as five or six years old. There should be some sort of law or oversight akin to CPS being called if you are chain smoking in kids bedroom or doing drugs around them and allowing them to ape your behaviors and some accountability to help these children because family, friends, social shunning these behaviors is often non-existent and, at worst, reinforcing.
  15. I appreciate your fervancy in being a devil's advocate and critical thinker to ensure that the truth rises to the top. Seriously, no kidding about. I think every jury of 12 should have a @Thatguyon it and justice would be better served over the long run. That said, let's say you end up being wrong to woefully wrong here. Are you going to admit it?
  16. Super minority opinion here because Kanye has alienated everyone in the world, but the dude has been obviously traumatized and suffers big time from some mental issues. Well that's not the minority opinion, I think everyone agrees with that, but the song he put out (I listened to the above, assuming it's him and not AI or fake) is actually pretty brave and not a "dissing himself". It sounds like a cry for help for sure (10 percs, etc.) but also maybe therapeutic in the sense of letting go some of that heavy trauma and hoping to get som healing or something from it. And it's SUPER vulnerable in a way that is nearly impossible for most of us to fathom. Now 10x how you imagine, and imagine being in the black community and the hip hop community which is going to be vicious I would imagine.
  17. Gold chains from Amazon are timeless.
  18. You are arguing with a guy who a) has shown himself to be ridiculous with his arguing with actual attorneys when told he is wrong and his semantics and b) is super invested in the TMZ / Blake Lively thread and controversy. Quit responding.
  19. Jesus dude. If this is true I really feel for parents of public school aged kids these days. What a goat rodeo.
  20. It's wild to hear that mdma doesn't work on some folks (and Derka). I remember my first few times on ecstasy and can't imagine it any differently. One of the things I've noticed is that in polite society; executive-level meetings catered with food, weddings, and white table cloth restaurant meetings, etc.-- ordering a sugary drink like soda is a class signifier. Unsweetened Iced Tea or Water (or black coffee) is for men of ability and accord. Ordering a Coca Cola shows you are either a kid or poor. But I'm an older man so maybe the times-are-a-changin' and the kids and the tech billionaires and that will change with the new culture. Exceptions, like Mssr. Warren Buffett and our current President (arguably), obviously exist.
  21. This is why he got so mad at this at the time. Hit dogs yelp. Hope he gets the mental health and therapy help he needs.
  22. This is a good one.
  23. I can smell this picture. Warm dry barely burnt by heated electronic part plastics in the air. Heavenly.
  24. I was just thinking about this movie, which I too saw on a plane recently, and had the opposite reaction. What bad timing. Had the pope died in the couple of months in the run-up to the Oscars, this movie would have been a must-see and probably gotten a dead pope bump in the academy and voters minds. He dies 6 months later and now a handful of people will watch it on a plane.
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