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by Pelerin
Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:13 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Can anything good come out of the internet?
Replies: 16
Views: 615

Re: Can anything good come out of the internet?

I have learned many valuable things from the Internet, car repair, music lessons, inspiration and trade craft in my career (building furniture), in the past I learned a lot from Mennonet and it's predecessor both things I now embrace and things I intend to stay away from. Yes, one of the best contr...
by Pelerin
Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:07 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Do Plain Catholics exist?
Replies: 233
Views: 8264

Re: Do Plain Catholics exist?

(Some of this is in reaction to some posts in the other thread but I decided this thread is the right place to post this.) I debated whether to say something or not. Max isn’t here to convert us. I can give you the key to what’s going on here: once you’ve met and figured out one pathological liar (i...
by Pelerin
Sun Feb 11, 2024 8:11 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Rewarding Hackers and Ransomware Crime
Replies: 14
Views: 420

Re: Rewarding Hackers and Ransomware Crime

Maybe this is because government often doesn't pay as much as the private sector and the best tech people don't want to work for government agencies. This isn’t it. State-level actors are widely known to deploy the most sophisticated and novel attacks. Although maybe it’s that anyone in government ...
by Pelerin
Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:31 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Article: ‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Only the Privileged Can Afford
Replies: 13
Views: 573

Re: Article: ‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Only the Privileged Can Afford

It is unpronounceable in Spanish … Anyway, I hear teachers in my school using this term to describe their students in faculty meetings when I guarantee that not a single one of their Latino or Hispanic immigrant parents uses the term themselves. Unpronounceable in English too, I thought. My mind al...
by Pelerin
Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:32 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Are Plain Catholics Anabaptists?
Replies: 198
Views: 47157

Re: Are Plain Catholics Anabaptists?

If MaxPC confirms he has been re-baptized on confession of his own faith, I can see he would an anabaptist Catholic but not a catholic Anabaptist. Hmm, but in that case he wouldn’t be accepting the authority of the Pope who says his infant baptism was valid and so would not be Catholic. The authori...
by Pelerin
Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:39 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: When Catholics leave the church…
Replies: 28
Views: 1148

Re: When Catholics leave the church…

First, a disclaimer, every Catholic person I know is a great person & I have no issues with anyone. I have attended masses & all that. But seriously, over the years, it seems like so many people who were raised Catholic (Catholic school, nuns, etc)… that when they are of age, they leave &am...
by Pelerin
Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:00 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Poll: Modesty
Replies: 31
Views: 811

Re: Poll: Modesty

I’d be interested in reading Neto’s thoughts on #3.
by Pelerin
Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:43 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Article: Courtney Love and the Mennonite drug lords
Replies: 14
Views: 1000

Re: Article: Courtney Love and the Mennonite drug lords

This is a tragedy. Do these Mennonites know they are a part of the drug problem? Or do they think they are just raising profitable crops? Yeah corn prices were down a few years ago so I just decided to plant the big bag of Mystery Seed I found laying around. I didn’t know what it was so I kinda had...
by Pelerin
Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:41 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Experts Confirm Genesis 19, Biblical City Destroyed by Explosion 1,000 Times Larger Than Atomic Bomb
Replies: 76
Views: 2738

Re: Experts Confirm Genesis 19, Biblical City Destroyed by Explosion 1,000 Times Larger Than Atomic Bomb

Having a bit of experience with this, the water table isn’t likely to vary much over your property. If you have water, you have water and predicting where the water is is like predicting which part of the swimming pool you’ll find water in: yes, you were right, but… There was a lady who attempted to...
by Pelerin
Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:41 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Time for a new phone
Replies: 22
Views: 6150

Re: Time for a new phone

For what it’s worth, we are totally an Apple family. I like my iPhone & wouldn’t want to switch. We usually buy the second newest model (so not the newest one) & get good cases, and they tend to last a long time. We have some pretty old ones that our younger children (tweens & young tee...