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Since starting this thread, I've been to listening/reading many addict's accounts of what made them get sober, either on their own or through a rehab facility or program. They all were very different: some hit a rock bottom as Josh mentioned. Other were able to see their own downward spiraling and ...

Wife:There’s always the possibility that the Astors and many other people on the Titanic might have chosen to get right with God while on a sinking ship, and Straus could have chosen to follow Jesus. This act itself, brave as it may be, would not be enough to get someone into heaven, and there are ...

Ultimately, stopping using drugs isn't that hard. When someone truly hits rock bottom, they'll stop using and get clean. My spirit disagrees with this statement. It could be correct, somehow. It is also unhelpful and in my opinion barely passes the test of Christian charity. It isn't actually accur...

UN revises Gaza death toll, almost 50% less women and children killed than previously reported https://www.foxnews.com/world/un-revises-gaza-death-toll-50-less-women-children-killed-previously-reported Before anyone jumps in to say that this can't be trusted because it's Fox News, I did confirm thi...

UN revises Gaza death toll, almost 50% less women and children killed than previously reported https://www.foxnews.com/world/un-revises-gaza-death-toll-50-less-women-children-killed-previously-reported Before anyone jumps in to say that this can't be trusted because it's Fox News, I did confirm thi...

This discussion is degrading into “the candidate and policies I don’t like are an evil autocrat”. Not a very useful discussion. I think it is quite useful to take a current major area of policy and ask: "What is the institutionalist approach to this issue? and what is the autocratic approach t...

Last I checked, Trump hasn’t been in power for 4 years and isn’t in charge of much of anything, other than some golf courses. The institutions to control immigration have existed for a while. The point is, those institutions have been basically disabled, because an authoritarian approach has appear...

I disagree. A big part of Trump's appeal to his base is his autocratic tendences. That he will round up millions of immigrants and detain/deport them. That he will crack down on protests on college campuses and crime in the cities. And that he will advantage evangelical Christians and business cons...

By the way, I'm pretty sure the Autocrat/Institutionalist dichotomy is not playing a major role in the selection process of the electorate. Maybe I'm being a bit cynical, but it seems like the motivation for the average voter is more short-term in nature. More often than not people are voting for t...

In 2020 the 5 closest states were Georgia Arizona Wisconsin Pennsylvania North Carolina None of those are particularly small or rural states. What the electoral college gives us is a system in which the voters in 5 swing states determine the election. And in 2020 those 5 states represented 14% of t...