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by Soloist
Thu May 09, 2024 9:23 am
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 47
Views: 1153

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

Bootstrap wrote: Thu May 09, 2024 9:21 am
You're right - thanks.

I didn't just use GPT, I also searched his essays for keywords, read his Wikipedia page, etc. But not his Twitter feed - I ignore Twitter when I can ...
I just googled it.
by Soloist
Thu May 09, 2024 7:26 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is Biden Fit to be President?
Replies: 46
Views: 926

Re: Is Biden Fit to be President?

I find it really fascinating that Pres Biden is both the evil leader manipulating and lying his way through everything yet so incompetent to do anything due to cognitive decline that he is a puppet being manipulated behind the scenes. If it’s cognitive decline, people should feel compassion that he ...
by Soloist
Wed May 08, 2024 11:00 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Failed: Pastor Shooting Attempt - Western PA
Replies: 12
Views: 469

Re: Failed: Pastor Shooting Attempt - Western PA

What do you mean? I haven’t watched the video. The assailant was restrained and then another man came over and removed the firearm from the assailant. Like taking a sharp object from a student "You might hurt yourself with this." I would have no problem taking a dangerous item from someon...
by Soloist
Wed May 08, 2024 2:36 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 47
Views: 1153

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/673624958015168512 https://medium.com/@paulgraham_69742/where-and-when-to-advocate-the-lgbtqai-agenda-in-leadership-6503274eb364 I think Boot, relying on pre-programmed bots to argue with Josh will result in you not actually finding simple data that is fairly easy t...
by Soloist
Wed May 08, 2024 2:35 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 47
Views: 1153

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

Should we trust this kind of accusation without facts? Is making this kind of claim without evidence a way to pursue truth? Beyond that, if so much of of our energy goes into name calling, ad hominem attacks, responding to tone, and taking offense, where is the energy for actually discussing and un...
by Soloist
Wed May 08, 2024 2:10 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 47
Views: 1153

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

Isn't this precisely what this thread is about? You can derail any thread by making personal accusations, and they do not need to be true. Just use lots of strongly emotional language, and don't provide any evidence. Meanwhile, keep turning the focus of the thread back to those accusations, and ins...
by Soloist
Tue May 07, 2024 11:10 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Failed: Pastor Shooting Attempt - Western PA
Replies: 12
Views: 469

Re: Failed: Pastor Shooting Attempt - Western PA

Wife: I remember a story a few years back about a pastor who was killed with his own gun after finding someone hiding in his church. he pulled it out, and the guy ended up wrestling it away from him.
by Soloist
Tue May 07, 2024 9:07 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Conscientious Objectors in Ukraine
Replies: 7
Views: 346

Re: Conscientious Objectors in Ukraine

Wife: Keep us updated how things are going.
by Soloist
Tue May 07, 2024 5:50 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Poll: Auto Accident Fatalities and Injuries
Replies: 142
Views: 3253

Re: Poll: Auto Accident Fatalities and Injuries

.... None of us have the capability to drill our own oil and refine it into gasoline in our backyards and farms. .... Actually, when I was a child, a farmer in our congregation DID refine his own oil, and sold it as well (but maybe not gasoline - I just remember the oil). (His main business was a d...
by Soloist
Tue May 07, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 455
Views: 80379

Re: War in Gaza

I don't think that is accurate. In my experience, the Anabaptist focus is not on defining war. But rather, on defining what is meant by by Biblical teachings on nonresistance. And most Anabaptists equally object to participating in every form of armed conflict against others, whether it is conventi...