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Recent content by The Pandector

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    "Original Sin"....Just Another term for our animal nature?

    Not sure if there is a ‘Christian’ faith that doesn’t believe in original sin. Christianity is all about Christ, and Christ is all about dealing with original sin. IOW, to remove the concept of original sin from Christian doctrine is to render what is left pointless. But of course, I respect...
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    "Original Sin"....Just Another term for our animal nature?

    People have a hard time grasping the fundamental mechanics of original sin because it’s foreign to our thinking. When our progenitors sinned, they altered the fundamental nature of mankind and therefore their relationship with God. That nature has remained corrupt since that time. God...
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    Reframing Autism’s ‘Welcome Pack’

    I can’t see anyone thinking that you posted with the intent to exclude anyone or any group. FTR, my own comments were also not intended to be exclusive. My point was about the forces that haunt the background of your comments. IOW, trying to identify who is responsible that, “For some reason...
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    Photos from a road trip

    In the eye of the beholder, I guess. I live rurally, yet that area hits me as remote. So the early spring light resonates with that, gives it a washed out look. Butter over too much toast. Works for me.
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    Photos from a road trip

    Enjoyed your shoot of the badlands. Funny your note towards the end about not enough color, because I was appreciating throughout how the b&w fit the subject.
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    Reframing Autism’s ‘Welcome Pack’

    So glad I read down to this post. I took a quick look at the resource and turned away, almost left the thread. I too am discouraged by this type of media treatment. I understand that they are trying to help a population of young people deal with the stigma of autism, but maybe I’m just too...
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    Are you treated differently

    Yeah. I guess that it is technically bullying. I tend to think of bullying as using force to get something from someone else. Certainly, online bullies are in serious need of something they can only get by appearing to dominate. We all have to endure these weaklings as they self-gratify. I...
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    Photos from a road trip

    More great work, @Sherlock77 . You inspire me. I live in an area with lots of old barns and settler shacks. Maybe this is the year. This shoot reminds me of the Utah badlands, where everything reeks of loneliness.
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    Are you treated differently

    How we’re treated has mostly to do with how we treat others. IME, most people operate on a highly emotional rather than rational plane. Just as I don’t like being expected to respond to emotional needs, your average allistic doesn’t like being expected to deal with things in a purely rational...
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    Do we have way more computer power than we need?

    As others have pointed out, it’s not so much about needing all the power we pay for, it’s more about the way we blow the power we get. When I was handling large graphics files I could see both flops and memory being used. Nowadays, it seems the icon has to bounce around, grow and turn bright...
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    Do you worry about the X-virus?

    I understand why you say you’ve never seen anything like Covid, but I think you’re confusing two issues. In the past human lifetime we have seen countless viruses come and go, many of them as bad as Covid. What we haven’t seen before is such a wild authoritarian crackdown in response. Am I...
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    Why do Humans believe in the Existence of God?

    I’m familiar with cognitive dissonance. This is not that, but rather another example of the talking down and demeaning I mentioned earlier.
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    Why do Humans believe in the Existence of God?

    You are absolutely correct. I apologize for my accusations concerning your rhetoric. They were untrue and I retract them. I recognized both the argument and the tone, but you are not the one who used the rhetoric I referenced. Again, I apologize.
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    Why do Humans believe in the Existence of God?

    Yes, we misunderstand each other. Take a recheck of whether I have tried to enforce my understanding upon you, or whether I simply respond to your unwarranted public attacks on believers. When I offered an alternative understanding, it was because you challenged me to do so, not because I was...
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    Why do Humans believe in the Existence of God?

    Too bad conversations like this seem always to miss the huge gap between going along with a religion and actually believing in it. Without doubt (says the elder who watched for decades) many people sitting in pews are merely paying their fire insurance premiums. I think most of the people...
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