jerome1232

It's futile. People like that, they don't want an understanding. They don't listen to understand. They listen to attack, to find weakness, and to twist wordings to suite their needs and worldview. If not block him, I'd at least make it so his posts don't show up on your feed (there's an option for that) by posting and arguing with him, facebook will think you like his content and show it on your feed more often.

Actual picture of TFP.

So I read an article on this today, it seems at least in part the reason for the flag removal was because the American flag could be seen by some as representing racism and imperialism. This update completely changes my opinion on this. Idiots all I say. The American flag is symbolic of many things, the fact that some see those items previously mentioned in it is more a reflection of what they believe about this country than anything.

As long as they don't start flying some other nations flag in it's place I don't really care. Patriotism is great, but we don't have to have our flag dangling everywhere to prove ourselves. What was the reasoning for removal?

By telling someone what you believe, and when they realize it is not what they believe, you've just indirectly told them they are wrong.Sort of unavoidable. When you are trying to change someones opinion or belief about something, at some point we have to confront that fact that a does not equal b.

I wasn't aware of that angle. Is that the pro-"net neutrality" position, that an ISP must take the hit?

Again, as I understand it, to anyone willing to pay for it. As I understand it services like Netflix which deliver large amounts of content which requires good quality of service depend on these arrangements to deliver.

I can't remember the details exactly but they do offer a service that bypasses the internet backbone and ties directly into the isp's network. At least it is something to that effect.

Goes to show just how much editing of the images we see our brain does.

At the current rate, *if* portal 3 comes out

There is quite a difference between taking a bullet for someone, and taking some cyanide because you can't stand your life any longer Traveler. They are in no way comparable, one act is selfish, one is charitable.

Gah, I hate pugs. (That happens to be a gaming acronym for Pick-up group. Meaning you're a doing a team based game with a random group of people you don't know. They tend to fail spectacularly if the game is at all challenging.)

When someone starts talking about absolute numbers in two countries with vastly different populations it makes me immediately believe they are being intentially misleading. Comparing the UK and the USA in non-per capita numbers is silly at best and deceitful at the worst.

Oh perhaps, my broad brush doesn't paint everything. I allow there may be cases where the water becomes muddy. I certainly hope for that, but seeing the pain they cause in their wakes...

This may seem harsh, but to get into God's kingdom we must become perfect, I don't see how someone who did not even finish his test getting a 100% on it. I can't imagine the professor (the savior) giving you a pass that you did all you could do when you didn't even bother to fill out all of the bubbles. I could easily be wrong though, so there is always that.

That may be a great clue as to the time period. ???

If when he has conversations with women they begin reminding him of where their eye's are, at the point I'd be very, very concerned. But nothing in the OP really strikes me as overt.

I always assume when a group is put in a box it is meant in a general sense not in an every-single-individual-in-this-group sense. Obviously some men don't enjoy looking at women at all, and just as obviously most men do. Just like, at least in my experience, most women *are* suckers for babies. I have weekdays off so I often end up running errands with my 18 month old, I, okay he, sure does get a lot of attention when he is with me. I expect some buck this trend. Besides I'd rather be in a baby loving box than the boxes we men get put into. Most of them are not nearly as flattering. As for the op, as a man I can vouch for the fact that we can look and not lust. I've caught myself many times, I can't vouch for wether my wife has ever noticed, she has never brought that to my attention. The fact that you had to look for it makes me believe his looking isn't the lusting kind, it's probably just the noticing something kind.

I just noticed that. Hehe, For some reason I read the Joseph Smith Translation and thought Claire was talking about the Book of Mormon, not... The JST. I forget that Claire is a bit more knowledgeable about us mormons than most non-mormons. I had in mind that you were non-lds and took your phrasing more generic.

A guy makes a record. This is the first opportunity for error. Much later another guy, Mormon, abridges all of the records, assuming that this was the first time copies were ever made we have our second opportunity for error, more likely Mormon wasn't even working with all originals so there is more chance for error. When Joseph translated, he himself could accidentally insert errors into what was being perfectly revealed to him, his scribe could accidentally insert error. We know for a fact errors were made when the manuscript was being prepared to be printed. The original manuscript had no punctuation at all. I'm sure some of the punctuation that was added in has errors.

Still susceptible to error.

There was no "except that jerome1232, he can be sacrificed at the stake that one", clearly I need to step up my level of obnoxiousness.

Pfffffft tell that to all of these participation awards I have.

The analogy instead of the idea is being attacked here. Regardless of the flawed analogy, the idea is that the life of the kid is forfeit regardless, the only courses of action is that you must kill the already doomed kid to save another life, or allow both to die. The life could be but doesn't have to be your own.

I actually thought the dangling off a cliff analogy was a fairly good one. Reminds me of a certain movie intro.