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by Bootstrap
Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:55 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Russia Invades Ukraine 2022
Replies: 2894
Views: 161487

Re: Russia Invades Ukraine 2022

Part of why this is funny is ... What is funny is .... What is funny is that Ken and Josh keep having the same conversation in various threads that are about different topics. It makes it really hard for me to know what the subject is. I wonder if this thread could be about the Russian invasion of ...
by Bootstrap
Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:54 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Russia Invades Ukraine 2022
Replies: 2894
Views: 161487

Re: Russia Invades Ukraine 2022

Prior to the outbreak of WW2 there was all kinds of diplomacy going on. None of it mattered in the end because Hitler was always going to extend the reach of the Reich by one means or another. There's an angle where you could say it was failed diplomacy that caused the war, but in the end, aggressi...
by Bootstrap
Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:20 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Coronavirus Outbreak
Replies: 7325
Views: 778590

Re: Coronavirus Outbreak

That's not true, I think vaccination is correlated with higher death rates. This is obvious in the UK data. What data are you looking at? When I looked this up, I found things that look like this: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/england-covid-19-mortality-rate-by-vaccination-status?country=~All+...
by Bootstrap
Tue Dec 27, 2022 3:08 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Sexual Immorality in 1 Corinthians 6
Replies: 22
Views: 1200

Re: Sexual Immorality in 1 Corinthians 6

They seemed to think this freedom even allowed them to have sex with harlots if their body wanted it. They had been washed, sanctified and justified by what Jesus did, so why any restraints to not give their body to it's desires. So how exactly does Paul address this with them? To me, that's really...
by Bootstrap
Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:49 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Elon Musk. Twitter. Babylon Bee.
Replies: 842
Views: 143864

Re: Elon Musk. Twitter. Babylon Bee.

Here's Drew Harwell of the Washington Post, quoted in the Mike Lee article: https://mastodon.social/@drewharwell/109547298144925417 This is what Twitter is now defining as "doxxing people's location." A factual piece of reporting about the company blocking a competitor. Can't do anything u...
by Bootstrap
Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:44 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Elon Musk. Twitter. Babylon Bee.
Replies: 842
Views: 143864

Re: Elon Musk. Twitter. Babylon Bee.

1 post_id=177181 time=1672167934 user_id=81] .. But it does tell you how Twitter users feel. .. maybe. if so, it’s because Musk allowed those of opposite views to have active accounts. an oddity these days.[/quote] This poll occurred just after Twitter suspended the accounts of several high-profile...
by Bootstrap
Tue Dec 27, 2022 1:51 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Elon Musk. Twitter. Babylon Bee.
Replies: 842
Views: 143864

Re: Elon Musk. Twitter. Babylon Bee.

Different time. People weren't on social media Henry Ford also didn't buy up the 1920s equivalent of Twitter to project his views to a world-wide audience. He most certainly did do the 1920s equivalent; he bought the Dearborn newspaper, and required all Ford dealers to distribute it. And Henry Ford...
by Bootstrap
Tue Dec 27, 2022 1:49 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Elon Musk. Twitter. Babylon Bee.
Replies: 842
Views: 143864

Re: Elon Musk. Twitter. Babylon Bee.

What Elon is doing is turning the ordinary purchase and ownership of a Tesla into a political statement since people now link Tesla to Elon's right-wing political views. Were sales of the Model T affected by Henry's antisemitism and Nazi-friendly political views? Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll and as...
by Bootstrap
Tue Dec 27, 2022 10:45 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Whitespace Thinking
Replies: 7
Views: 268

Whitespace Thinking

I was surprised by this post in Overused Phrases and Words: Whitespace thinking. I went and looked it up, I haven't heard of this. But I'm guessing Steve has heard it a lot or he wouldn't think of it as overused. When I looked it up, it seems to mean that you need time to think and strategize if you...
by Bootstrap
Tue Dec 27, 2022 9:43 am
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: 11 signs of a family-run church
Replies: 24
Views: 1485

Re: 11 signs of a family-run church

I attended a church that had a few families that were very active in many parts of the church. I didn’t see any signs that they were ‘running’ the church but I can see how quickly that could change if the family was a little power hungry. In our church, one extended family does more than their shar...