shirgall

The commonality I found in most religious texts is that the sins that it forbids to the flock are exclusively reserved for the anointed. You can't murder or seek revenge but your King and your God sure can, because reasons. The other commonality is enough stories that almost anyone can find something they can attach to, even though taken as a whole the doctrine is a mess of contradictory spaghetti. Yes, community support is great, and shared values, but one does not need theology for this.

The fact that Stefan never engages on the forums tells me all I need to know about the real world value of arguments here. I hope to inform or amuse (and be amused in the process) but I don't get too invested in it.

The problem is that once you have accepted a supernatural state such as heaven, you now have to select among several mutually exclusive versions of it, each of which has absolute conditions and learned authorities with advice for becoming a member. Where do you invest your time? How do you choose? Once you leave the world of empirical data and logical inference you still have to make value judgments... but you no longer have a reliable universal system for evaluating them.

It's your claim that it does, it's up to you to do the groundwork. I do not have any particular need to disprove 10,000 other supernatural claims that you don't believe either. For example: has science disproven that Mjölnir was made by Sindri and Brokkr?

Proving the truth of any remarkable claim requires reliable, repeatable demonstration of all of the characteristics, behaviors, and attributes that the claim describes.

In situation 4 the person should reasonably expect that a bank robbery could lead to the death of another, and since a death resulted as a direct results of the execution of their plan, is culpable for felony murder.

A interesting and more recent development is people who are less willing to help the injured. http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303127is the research, behind a paywall. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/04/dont-count-on-strangers-in-a-medical-emergency.html covers it, though, and links to the Cornell announcement at https://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/04/having-medical-emergency-don-t-count-strangers (There's an interesting breakdown by race, too. 1 in 24 would help for whites, 1 in 55 for blacks. Chances of receiving assistance go down in lower income and higher population density locales.)

The most famous of these is a book called "The Bell Curve" but if you find the videos on IQ and immigration on Youtube you will find a number of references in the description for each.

The term "murder" has a moral judgement in it already, since it means "unjustified intentional killing of a person". I think the situation is more clearly phrased, "Duress taints moral choices with considerations of survival."

Universal: a type of joint or coupling in a rigid rod that allows the rod to bend in any direction but still transmit rotary motion, also a dessert topping, a sealing wax, or a principle that applies to every member of a category.

Inductive reasoning: no object in the physical world has been reliably observed to violate physical, chemical, biological laws (whether or not it has the quality "free will"), therefore it is likely that no object n the physical world *can* violate physical, chemical, and biological laws. Bonus fact: physical objects with the quality "free will" have tried to violate physical, chemical, and biological laws and have always failed.

New battleground, old tactics. http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/04/germany-syrian-refugee-admits-to-trying-to-frame-far-right-for-arson-vandalism/

I have this T-shirt:

Since this is one of the more popular pages because of all the references, it makes sense to me to add this here: https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/04/12/0256244/genetic-studies-prove-cuckolded-fathers-are-rare-in-human-populations Several further links within the story.

I've had my eye on Larry Elder for a long time. I used to listen to him on the radio years ago when I had long commutes. We's written a number of books, but the one I read was The Ten Things You Can't Say in America. http://larryelder.com/p/Larrys-Books/The-Ten-Things-You-Cant-Say-In-America/55604.html

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/04/08/breaking-president-obama-turns-over-thousands-of-fast-and-furious-documents-n2145604 Gun control has popped up in the political talking points a lot lately... and I think Hillary thinks it's a weakness of Bernie's. It's especially contentious in New York, so I wonder if we have a gambit afoot here...

Bill Whittle referenced this video for his latest:

I'm more amused by the folks that get "无法读取普通话" (or equivalent) tattooed upon themselves.

When King Argeleb II allowed the hobbits to settle part of his hunting grounds to form The Shire he insisted that they acknowledge his lordship, maintain the roads, and provide aid to his messengers should they need to pass through. As a result, the Hobbits made a post service, Shirriffs to keep the peace, and Bounders to deal with immigration. After the fall of Arnor, they elected a Thain (afterward hereditary) and a Mayor on a regular basis to hold the power of the king in his absence. The families formed clans that kind of managed themselves most of the time, They had ancient Rules and lawyers, but for the most part everyone followed them without being overtly forced to. After LOTR the Shire's King was Aragorn and his offspring. The movies spent very little time on the politics of the Shire, focusing instead on pipe-weed, pubs, and parties (the three P's that form the libertine version of libertarians). Not exactly Anarchocapitalutopia, since anarchy requires no rulers, but close enough, right?

And if you continue to steal, have nothing further to do with you. You forget that Stef also has a rule of "get harmful influences out of your life." You don't believe in the NAP because you steal. You're given a chance and then you are discarded, expunged, scorned, shunned, or (if persistent) worse.

We don't ignore them, but we have to look for alternative sources data if we can. I'll take the NCVS over the SPLC any day, for example.

Let's treat this squatter the way we want to be treated... http://www.abc12.com/home/headlines/Squatter-refusing-to-leave-home-374815271.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/04/01/6-ways-good-parents-contribute-to-their-childs-anxiety/ Money shot: The list: Caring too much Advocating too hard Compensating for weakness Overplaying strengths Having great values Hiding your troubles I don't think the author has a lot of experience focusing on win-win with children...

Christians haven't done a great job of forestalling coercive government in the west.

Ignore the popularity contest. As for the NCVS, as I posted in another thread: Possible problems with the National Crime Victimization Survey and other Census Bureau surveys? Quote http://nypost.com/20...-vet-weighs-in/