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Another interesting topic is how historically peaceful churches loose non-resistant position during the armed conflict. As far as I know the marority of (ana)baptist and Mennonite Brethren churches in Russia are staying away from the conflict and their draftees are chosing alternative civilian serv...

We live in interesting times where someone can be an expert on anything and data can be produced to say almost anything.

The power of propaganda is that the user believes it.

Wife: did it help? Yes. My first ambulance partner was a dairy farmer. (keep in mind he was Horning Mennonite!). He would go to the beer distributor and buy the cheapest beer in a glass bottle. When cows would get "twisted stomach" they would pop the cap of the beer bottle and stick it in...

[quote=steve-in-kville post_id=230505 time=<a href="tel:1713975794">1713975794</a> user_id=166] All I remember was Shirksville and Swatara are basically next to each other, but they were two different districts.... and there was some strange rivalry between the two. Friendly in nature, bu...

steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:02 pm I gave beer to very sick (and very expensive) rabbit once.

Wife: did it help?

Supposedly the white one was in a head on with a bus. Sources say the bus survived too.

Growing up I was taught it was over state rights and representation. Oh yes, it was about "states rights" too. They were clear on that. Including which RIGHTS they wanted states to have. And also representation (the famous 3/5ths clause). From the same South Carolina article of secession:...

Judas Maccabeus wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:52 pm
IIRC they have restrictions on employment that even Eastern does not have, right?

Yeah, I couldn’t work as a nurse or any academics. This would effectively leave me with untrained manual labor. That won’t pay the bills unless I’m being given a generosity job.

Actually not really. Every southern state wrote articles of secession explaining why they seceded and went to war against the Union. These are historical records. You can go look them up. For example, here is South Carolina which started the war: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec...

My claim is that John Hurt is utterly wrong when he posted that 50% of Confederate prisoners died at Johnson Island as an example of true facts being distorted. Actually you made several claims that were shown to be wrong by your own arguments. And I did, in fact, research HIS claim before refuting...