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Thread: Ukraine (Topical thread)
Post: RE: Ukraine (Topical thread)
| (05-30-2023, 04:02 AM)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:In the US Civil War, some Generals marched their soldiers around in a circle to appear more numerous.
It didn't take much to fool George McClellan.
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World News, Politics and Current Events
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05-30-2023, 04:26 AM |
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Thread: What are you doing right now?
Post: RE: What are you doing right now?
| (05-30-2023, 01:06 AM)Dānu Wrote: Futzing with network and VPN issues. I hooked up my TV via a USB network adapter and only get 5-10 Mbps through the setup. I'm pretty sure that's a limit of the c... |
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Getting to Know You
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05-30-2023, 04:06 AM |
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Thread: Ukraine (Topical thread)
Post: RE: Ukraine (Topical thread)
| (05-30-2023, 03:25 AM)Inkubus Wrote: (05-29-2023, 02:37 PM)Cavebear Wrote: Where can I buy stock in decoys? :)
That 'image' as is all 'imagery' around this whole caper is a decoy. Everything abou... |
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05-30-2023, 03:56 AM |
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Thread: Bigotry in Christians, bug, feature, or neither?
Post: RE: Bigotry in Christians, bug, feature, or neithe...
| (05-30-2023, 02:32 AM)Dom Wrote: (05-30-2023, 02:26 AM)Cavebear Wrote: "That would make an insufferably boring planet to live on". I don't mind a change in the weather, but avoiding a volcano mig... |
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Atheism & Theism
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05-30-2023, 03:44 AM |
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Thread: NDEs
Post: RE: NDEs
| (05-30-2023, 12:42 AM)Dom Wrote: (05-29-2023, 11:13 PM)Cavebear Wrote: I sometimes wonder if what we consider a "dream" state is the actual daily existence of other animals. For example, what is... |
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Thread: Bigotry in Christians, bug, feature, or neither?
Post: RE: Bigotry in Christians, bug, feature, or neithe...
| (05-30-2023, 12:45 AM)airportkid Wrote: (05-30-2023, 12:05 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: If this god is large and in charge, natural disasters belong to him too.
That would make an insufferably boring ... |
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05-30-2023, 02:26 AM |
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Thread: Political Watch
Post: RE: Political Watch
| (05-30-2023, 12:12 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Russian gesticulating.
Yes, but "testiculating" also comes to mind. :rofl2: |
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World News, Politics and Current Events
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05-30-2023, 12:32 AM |
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Thread: Ethics: Divine Command Theory
Post: RE: Ethics: Divine Command Theory
| (05-29-2023, 09:25 PM)Kathryn E Wrote: I'm pretty sure God doesn't command, require, or forbid anything. If God commanded or expected anything from humanity, he would have need. If he had need, he... |
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Verbal Duels
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05-30-2023, 12:12 AM |
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Thread: Bigotry in Christians, bug, feature, or neither?
Post: RE: Bigotry in Christians, bug, feature, or neithe...
| (05-29-2023, 11:43 PM)airportkid Wrote: (05-29-2023, 11:28 PM)Cavebear Wrote: ... if god created beings with a memory that lasts only 3 generations, and the last time a volcano erupted or a tsunam... |
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05-30-2023, 12:03 AM |
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Thread: The dance around the debt limit
Post: RE: The dance around the debt limit
| (05-29-2023, 11:01 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:but mostly Middle-class.
I disagree. Prior to WWI we were largely an agrarian nation of poor farmers who were at the mercy of the weather and the ban... |
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05-29-2023, 11:58 PM |
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Thread: Your opinion on Christian people
Post: RE: Your opinion on Christian people
| (05-29-2023, 08:51 PM)Kathryn E Wrote: I enjoy being with them now, even if I have a hard time with them. I really enjoy being with other people who like to talk about Jesus even if we have differi... |
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Getting to Know You
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05-29-2023, 11:43 PM |
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Thread: Your opinion on Christian people
Post: RE: Your opinion on Christian people
| (05-29-2023, 11:17 PM)Minimalist Wrote: As long as we are being serious for a moment I would love to get a xtian alone, look right into their eyes and ask them,
Do you REALLY think that a dead jew ... |
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05-29-2023, 11:40 PM |
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Thread: Bigotry in Christians, bug, feature, or neither?
Post: RE: Bigotry in Christians, bug, feature, or neithe...
| (05-29-2023, 10:47 PM)airportkid Wrote: (05-29-2023, 10:19 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: ... one with no problems causing tsunamis that killed 275,000 people in a day ...
Can't assign that to a god's i... |
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05-29-2023, 11:28 PM |
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Thread: Bigotry in Christians, bug, feature, or neither?
Post: RE: Bigotry in Christians, bug, feature, or neithe...
| (05-29-2023, 04:39 PM)Szuchow Wrote: (05-29-2023, 04:19 PM)Kathryn E Wrote: Yes, they do, horribly. Yet, we also all have missed the memo on some level. I'm sure there was a point in your life w... |
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05-29-2023, 11:20 PM |
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Thread: NDEs
Post: RE: NDEs
| (05-29-2023, 10:19 PM)Alan V Wrote: 1) People who seem to have died are sometimes misdiagnosed as dead. They are really still alive.
2) It seems fairly obvious that anyone who really died would ... |
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05-29-2023, 11:13 PM |
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Thread: The Ranting Corner 2.0
Post: RE: The Ranting Corner 2.0
| (05-29-2023, 05:38 PM)Alan V Wrote: (05-29-2023, 04:45 PM)Cavebear Wrote: But there is a difference between the attacking party of a war and the defending side. In WWII, the Nazis were trying to ... |
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05-29-2023, 10:55 PM |
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Thread: The Ranting Corner 2.0
Post: RE: The Ranting Corner 2.0
| (05-29-2023, 04:01 PM)Alan V Wrote: (05-29-2023, 02:35 PM)Cavebear Wrote: We haven't engaged in a "good" war since WWII.
I'm not sure any wars are good. There was an awful lot of slaughter and d... |
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Thread: The Ranting Corner 2.0
Post: RE: The Ranting Corner 2.0
| (05-29-2023, 02:38 PM)Dom Wrote: (05-29-2023, 01:42 PM)Alan V Wrote: Putin rules over a huge country. No one was threatening his borders. Yet he tried to take over Ukraine.
That is an example o... |
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05-29-2023, 04:10 PM |
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Thread: Ukraine (Topical thread)
Post: RE: Ukraine (Topical thread)
| (05-29-2023, 02:35 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (05-29-2023, 04:08 AM)Minimalist Wrote: But make the russkis think they are going to do one thing and then do something else? Now that is a better appr... |
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05-29-2023, 02:37 PM |
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Thread: The Ranting Corner 2.0
Post: RE: The Ranting Corner 2.0
| (05-29-2023, 01:42 PM)Alan V Wrote: (05-29-2023, 12:22 PM)Cavebear Wrote: I generally support our military budget. And many nations around the world do too. Ask Ukraine among others (I'm not say... |
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05-29-2023, 02:35 PM |
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Thread: The U.S. Presidential Election (topical thread)
Post: RE: The U.S. Presidential Election (topical thread...
| (05-29-2023, 12:02 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (05-29-2023, 04:03 AM)Minimalist Wrote: I'm not ignoring it. It was a despicable act by a despicable piece of shit. But that power does not appear in ... |
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05-29-2023, 12:48 PM |
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Thread: The Ranting Corner 2.0
Post: RE: The Ranting Corner 2.0
| (05-29-2023, 09:50 AM)Alan V Wrote: (05-29-2023, 08:27 AM)Cavebear Wrote: We need fewer Billionaires and more Middle-Classers.
When is enough enough? When are we spending too much on our military... |
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05-29-2023, 12:22 PM |
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Thread: The Ranting Corner 2.0
Post: RE: The Ranting Corner 2.0
| (05-28-2023, 04:06 PM)Alan V Wrote: American expectations are set too high. We are encouraged to "dream big." We are bombarded with relentless advertising. We are oversold on almost everything, i... |
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05-29-2023, 08:27 AM |
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Thread: The dance around the debt limit
Post: RE: The dance around the debt limit
| Historically, we have been a Middle-class nation (among non-slaves, I recognize that). Some filthy-rich and some in poverty, but mostly Middle-class. And from what I've read of the past, we mostly h... |
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Thread: The U.S. Presidential Election (topical thread)
Post: RE: The U.S. Presidential Election (topical thread...
| (05-28-2023, 05:07 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Baloney. McConnell - exercised a "power" which appears nowhere in the constitution, btw - did not nominate any of Fuckface's choices. He couldn't. Had Fuck... |
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