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by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:31 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Political office
Replies: 81
Views: 1558

Re: Political office

More liberal groups, such as MCUSA, probably allow or encourage people to be involved in influential government positions as long as their proximity to the violence of the state is indirect and not direct. So they might serve a function as a public servant or on a legislator, but would not serve as...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:22 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Political office
Replies: 81
Views: 1558

Re: Political office

I am also baffled why delivering prescriptions to people in very remote rural areas requires also delivering pornography to people’s houses. The two don’t seem connected at all. In the context of working as a mail carrier for the USPS, yes, one requires the other, if both are being delivered. Becau...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: God Bless the USA" Bibles
Replies: 121
Views: 6128

Re: God Bless the USA" Bibles

ohio jones wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:05 pm My favorite part is at 2:35: "I'm gonna rare back and tell you something...."

Good to hear a Church of God pastor saying this.
Excellent video all around, though. Spot on.
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:12 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Charlotte Shootout
Replies: 17
Views: 491

Re: Charlotte Shootout

More GPT to describe the way things are currently done: How Warrants are Served with Potentially Dangerous Suspects Yes, warrants generally need to be served in person. The process of serving a warrant involves law enforcement officers presenting the warrant to the individual named in the document, ...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Charlotte Shootout
Replies: 17
Views: 491

Re: Charlotte Shootout

Possibly so. But governments all over the world are trying a variety of ways to handle criminals and other social ills. Those who discover a better, but previously unconventional way of going about things, are not generally those who are defending the older way of doing things. My suggestion may no...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Charlotte Shootout
Replies: 17
Views: 491

Re: Charlotte Shootout

Ernie wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:31 pm https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68925453

4 Officers killed.
I'm really sorry that their lives needed to end this way. I wish there was much less evil in the world.
I agree. This feels kind of close to home for me.

Evil is not a new thing.
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Charlotte Shootout
Replies: 17
Views: 491

Re: Charlotte Shootout

When our military clears houses in Iraq or Afghanistan, often the lead guy faces extreme risk of death due to being the first guy in. Making an effort to identify friend or foe before shooting increases the likelihood of getting shot. Hypothetically, if they had an armored car, what would they have...
by Bootstrap
Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:19 pm
Forum: MennoLight
Topic: Neither leisured foreigner ...
Replies: 3
Views: 170

Re: Neither leisured foreigner ...

Do any of the examples on this particular mug actually violate the rule? I don't think the rule prohibits "cie" as a sequence.
ohio jones wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:44 pm Image
by Bootstrap
Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:59 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Rampaging Horses in London
Replies: 10
Views: 301

Re: Rampaging Horses in London

Despite the obviously clickbait title, I clicked on this thread to see what "Rampaging Horses in London" was about.

It was ... about rampaging horses in London. Really. Wow.
by Bootstrap
Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:42 am
Forum: Other
Topic: How accurate do you find this map?
Replies: 12
Views: 360

Re: How accurate do you find this map?

The label "where you go on the way to somewhere better" ... I don't think I can apply that to any place I've ever been, once I have really spent time there. I think whoever made this map should spend the next few years getting to know those places.