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by Ken
Mon May 20, 2024 12:53 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Is it wrong to use nuclear bombs against civilians?
Replies: 28
Views: 805

Re: Is it wrong to use nuclear bombs against civilians?

Why pick that as the start of the WW2 rather than also include the actions of the surrounding nations after WW1 including the land grabs and economic policies that fomented the economic difficulty and unrest in Germany? There has never been a single moment in human history when there were no groups...
by Ken
Mon May 20, 2024 12:44 pm
Forum: History
Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
Replies: 28
Views: 465

Re: MennoNet and Genealogy

Josh wrote: Mon May 20, 2024 12:33 pm Certain Mormons request access to baptise by proxy my grandma, and my mother keeps on not granting permission.
I wasn't aware that they bothered to ask permission of anyone.
by Ken
Mon May 20, 2024 12:39 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Poll: Putin and Ukraine
Replies: 32
Views: 560

Re: Poll: Putin and Ukraine

Honestly, the port and buffer against NATO seem like the only legitimate claims from a secular perspective. We can argue all day over what NATO was intending but I listened to his speech on weapons and it was a fairly logical case for invasion. De-nazification? Yeah right… To be fair, Ukraine has o...
by Ken
Mon May 20, 2024 10:40 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Poll: Putin and Ukraine
Replies: 32
Views: 560

Re: Poll: Putin and Ukraine

What isn't true? That Russia invaded because Ukraine was persecuting Russian speakers. They overwhelmingly elected one. It's not like anybody suggested that Ukraine was persecuting Russian speakers, let alone arguing that that was the reason Russia invaded. That was, in fact, the exact claim made b...
by Ken
Mon May 20, 2024 10:36 am
Forum: History
Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
Replies: 28
Views: 465

Re: MennoNet and Genealogy

This past week, I've started digging into my genealogy for the first time. I'm using FamilySearch.org and its sub-site RelativeFinder.org Wife: has anyone else read the privacy policy or the terms of service on family search? It’s kind of an odd seeming website and makes me wonder what the Mormons ...
by Ken
Mon May 20, 2024 10:15 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?
Replies: 67
Views: 1609

Re: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?

So we've narrowed it all the way down to single adults who get pregnant? We aren't worried about teen pregnancies or any other cause of single parent households. Just single adults who choose to get pregnant? I narrowed the scope so that you would stop muddying the waters. Ken, I feel like you argu...
by Ken
Mon May 20, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: "Give to whomever asks you": voluntary speeding fines
Replies: 11
Views: 260

Re: "Give to whomever asks you": voluntary speeding fines

So even if the fine is technically voluntary does the ticket go on your driving record or become any kind of public record? Say if someone runs up 50 violations at a particular location is that information that your insurance company might obtain? Or a curious reporter who puts in a FOIA request for...
by Ken
Sun May 19, 2024 11:24 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?
Replies: 67
Views: 1609

Re: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?

It is not hard at all for me to admit that single parent families are less than ideal. And that likewise, teen pregnancies are a bad thing as is sex between children (or between children and adults). And I happy support a wide variety of policies that would tend to reduce all of those things. Becau...
by Ken
Sun May 19, 2024 10:43 pm
Forum: History
Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
Replies: 28
Views: 465

Re: MennoNet and Genealogy

This past week, I've started digging into my genealogy for the first time. I'm using FamilySearch.org and its sub-site RelativeFinder.org Wife: has anyone else read the privacy policy or the terms of service on family search? It’s kind of an odd seeming website and makes me wonder what the Mormons ...
by Ken
Sun May 19, 2024 7:36 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?
Replies: 67
Views: 1609

Re: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?

So you believe it is the specific circumstances of conception that happened years earlier that uniquely harms children and not the fact that they are being raised in single parent families? I didn't say that, either. What I said was that choosing to conceive a child out of wedlock is a very selfish...