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The work the word “practical” is doing in that sentence is: anybody with even a passing understanding of Christianity.
You’re right: to a person who has no understanding of Christianity, Mormons are Christians because what they vaguely look like.
This is the same true for people who think Buddhists are Hindus. Or Jains are Buddhists. Or any of the many tiny middle eastern religions are all Muslims.
But they aren’t. While there are definitely various flavors of Buddhism, and various flavors of Hinduism, these are not the same thing. In fact, even the Mormons own propaganda about “the Latter Day Saints movement” where they talk about the various flavors of Mormonism aligns with the “Hindus aren’t Buddhist, Mormons aren’t Christians” point I’m making here.
They’re trying to have it both ways. Both that it is a separate religion revealed to Joseph smith when an angel showed him some magical golden tablets in 1830, and also that they’re Christians.
Muslims, who also recognize Christ as a prophet, affirm the virgin birth, and acknowledge some of the Miracles, but they aren’t Christians, although some Muslim evangelists may try to claim some alliance with Christianity when recruiting people in the same way that Mormons do.
UnopenedEnvilope
2hr ago
That’s a great reference. ❤️
ABigGuy4U
2hr ago
Normal Christians outside of Silicon Valley wouldn’t even know who Aella is, or that polyamory is a thing.
UnopenedEnvilope
2hr ago
You get the feeling that, as a public company, if they could have moderated their greed, tempered it a bit, they might have gotten away with everything, albeit at a lesser scale in the second phase. But that tragic flaw brought them to that point and they couldn’t change.
That's because migrants shouldn't get government welfare besides essential services (e.g., police, fire) and programs know to have a positive rate of return (e.g. childhood education) unless their host country admitted them specifically because they have an attractive skillset justifying recruitment and retention efforts. America is better than europe because most of our immigrants are illegal so we don't need to pay for their medicare or social security. Illegal immigration is better than regular immigration.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
2hr ago
Is full self driving more dangerous per mile than having a human drive? Otherwise it might be the case that having an AI parse the CFR would work better across the board than having humans do it, but would fail a few times in highly surprising and attention-grabbing ways.
zeke5123a
2hr ago
You still need an actus reus. If you remove “strict liability” you are just adding a new element government must prove; not changing the predicate to something wishy washy.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
2hr ago
I mean it's not exactly the Napoleonic Code Civil just yet. But given how incomprehensible and vague US law has become, it's high time for this kind of jubilee.
MadMonzer
Temporarily embarrassed liberal elite
2hr ago
Although SCOTUS has fairly consistently ruled that that type of search (accessing a third party business's records about you without your knowledge or consent) is not a 4th amendment violation, including specifically in the case of bank records with Miller in 1976.
I am neither an American nor a lawyer, but even I can see that 4th amendment doctrine is a hot mess. I don't know what a sensible set of rules looks like from a policy perspective.
desolation
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
2hr ago
It hoovers up people self-selected for being ambitious and hardworking from other countries, thereby strengthening our nation
Largely untrue for recent and particular groups to Denmark and The Netherlands.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
2hr ago
I'm talking about the attitude of the MAGA movement, which is basically the Republican Party now. People here do not speak for it.
desolation
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
3hr ago
Ehh, I kinda get it, Episcopalians don't want to talk about anything icky and theological like "sin," that might imply they actually believe in something numinous, but almost anything would be better than, to paraphrase, saying that in the interest of racial justice they'd rather shut down than help refugees who happen to be white.
WhiningCoil
3hr ago
You know, in my casual reading of history, legal reforms of this sort usually go down as "Best thing since sliced bread". They rarely stick, and a few generations later the law has recomplicated itself to a point where it's just a mechanism of abuse and corruption. But for 20-100 years upright industrious people can breath a sigh of relief, content that some petty tyrant can't conjure up some obscure bureaucratic incantation to seize all their wealth and throw them in a rape cage.
PokerPirate
3hr ago
That's fair. I've known plenty of churches like that as well.
WhiningCoil
3hr ago
Does my experience here sound right so far? Small electronics success often hinges on shopping skill?
You know, once upon a time I wanted to do more electronics stuff. But this is more or less the brick wall I ran up again. Sourcing parts is bonkers complicated, and simply was not a part of the hobby I was going to enjoy. I repaired a few old motherboards, and developed enough soldering skill to repair the odd toaster, mouse or audio speaker, and more or less decided to leave it there. Although I'm always have my eye out for an inspiring woodworking/electronics project.
urquan
I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness.
3hr ago
This isn’t true for fentanyl, but illegal fentanyl is so dangerous that the only people who use it will be stupid/impulsive, so you can’t draw conclusions about the general population from them.
Fentanyl is often laced into other illegal drugs to make them more addictive — or in other words people are being poisoned with it without their consent. A lot of the moral panic over fentanyl is about that aspect.
FtttG
3hr ago
114k on my NaNoWriMo project. I would like to say that the end is in sight, but who knows. It actually feels like it's getting harder and harder the closer I get to the finish line. If I'd known that, when I'd finished my initial 50k words at the end of November, that would represent less than half of a first draft - I'm not sure I would have started in the first place.
WhiningCoil
3hr ago
So, the last three weeks having been a battle against the loss of morale realizing you did things kinda wrong and there is no going back. But I'll get to that.
I milled the rest of the lumber for my back chair legs, and got them rough cut out, working around knots and weirdness as best I could. Some of the layouts didn't leave a lot of room. But for the most part I got 4 chair legs out of plank, in pairs of two. This took for fucking ever with the jigsaw, and my urge to buy a bandsaw has intensified. I saw Harbor Freight recently released one with an 8" resaw capacity that's only $600 which is very tempting. Maybe if I get a Christmas bonus. Anyways, it got done eventually.
Next comes attaching the template to each leg with some double sided tape. You do a pass on the router table with a templating bit, remove the template, and then hit it again to remove the rest of the rough edge. It takes a few passes. I even had to hit this with a flush trim bit from the top after I got as far up as I could with the template bit from the bottom. Cleaning them up with a sanding drum on my drill press and they aren't looking too bad. At some point I realized, after enough really ugly tear out, that I needed to reverse my feed direction. Normally I hate this, because instead of the bit pulling the work piece in closer against a fense or other positive stop, it wants to climb the workpiece and spit it out. But I had to trade that safety for not consistently destroying my workpieces with massive tear out. The curve of the legs just offer too much chance for the bit to catch an odd grain and rip a huge chunk off. A few weren't so bad and sanded out, but one piece that tore away was so large I was able to glue it back into place and resume my work.
But I said I messed up, and here is what happened. I should have used MDF for my template instead of a piece of 1/2" sheathing. I figured sheet goods are sheet goods and it's what I had. But it turns out, sheet goods are not sheet goods. The sheathing had all sorts of warp too it, and flexed too much. Every leg I routed using it came out just a little bit different. This would not have happened with MDF which basically has no give at all because it's more glue than wood. Alas. Still, with 8 legs for 4 chairs, I was able to pair each leg off with it's closest match. So fingers crossed the final products don't drive me insane with their dissimilarity.
Next up came getting started on the jig for mortising the back legs. Fingers crossed it works out when I finally go to use it. It should handle the mortising for the back rest and the front to back apron pieces. I'll need to use a seperate jig for the side to side apron pieces and the brace down at the bottom which is going to be the most challenging mortise.
With the legs behind, I'm excited to plow on ahead towards dry fitting my first complete chair.
urquan
I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness.
3hr ago
The kind of status you describe christianity as bestowing is managers authority, and it often seems to be opposed to anything but its particular management authority
I’m not actually talking about the formal hierarchy of the Church here — which I agree is a manager’s authority — but about the hierarchy of the saints. The hierarchy it’s replacing isn’t the hierarchy of government, but the more nebulous, albeit extremely real, hierarchy of informal status that drives people to compete for praise, attention, and mates.
FtttG
3hr ago
Never do they acknowledge that the addicts bear any blame
Wasn't that pretty much the entire point of that paragraph of my original post?
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
3hr ago
Still working on learning Blender, health and family allowing, and building a list of thing I want to make as time goes on. Current goal is still the texturing workflow. Made some good progress through the current tutorial this weekend, but finding time has been tough.
BurdensomeCount
Messenger Status: Shot
3hr ago
Damn, Trump actually did something good. Here's hoping this doesn't get bogged down by the courts.
You keep making these assertions, and I am willing to tentatively grant that Aella specifically maybe isn’t on the radar of “Normal Christians,” but hearing about polyamory is unavoidable, even out here in deep flyover country.
Do “Normal Christians” have more than a surface-level awareness of the concept and a desire to grant debating the concept any more time than “That’s just fornication with extra steps?” Probably not, but I would anecdotally state that they do know it is a thing.
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