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  1. It Aint Necessarily So

    Harris pulls ahead of Trump in Iowa in the 11th hour

    That seems likely. Up-ticket success (president) generally results in down-ticket success on its coattails. In this case, it appears to be driven more by dissatisfaction with Trump than new enthusiasm for Harris. She had an uptick in popularity relative to Biden upon entering the race and then...
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    Women: What happens in the voting booth, stays in the voting booth

    It's OK because she's an autonomous individual and is free to vote for whomever she wants with or without her husband's approval. If she chooses to exercise her freedom and right, she can do it one of two ways - quietly or confrontationally. By your reckoning, if she wants to vote for Harris...
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    Personal Wisdom

    Really? Yours is a harmless belief in all likelihood, although it might affect your survivors including pets if you make decisions based on that belief. "Object permanence describes a child's ability to know that objects continue to exist even though they can no longer be seen or heard. If you...
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    Harris pulls ahead of Trump in Iowa in the 11th hour

    You're missing the broader point. This is likely a bellwether for what has likely happened in multiple if not all states in these final days of the campaign, where Trump has gone on a racist and sexist rampage. Harris hadn't been able to move the needle for weeks, but it appears that Trump did...
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    How about we defund UNRWA ?

    I didn't expect you to address my point. Can we assume that you support the idea of Muslims attacking Israel for the next several generations and perhaps beyond no matter how little that does for them or how much it does to them? My point was that that it has been and for the foreseeable...
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    Harris pulls ahead of Trump in Iowa in the 11th hour

    An ominous portent for the Trump campaign is the last minute shifting tides in Iowa, a state never considered in play for the Democrats before now - a state Trump won in 2016 and 2024. From Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how "The results...
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    One Infinite Expanding Universe

    That sounds like a belief based in the idea that a god put life on one planet (and no moons) and not others - that is, it sounds like a religious belief. A naturalistic view of nature has life forming wherever it is possible the way ice melts whenever possible, and with so many celestial...
  8. It Aint Necessarily So

    How about we defund UNRWA ?

    I think we can see where these discussions with Muslims will go. Do not look for them ever to find any fault at all with Hamas or any justification for Israel. I've yet to see that from even one of them. And now we see that some feel that only they understand or can speak to human rights...
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    Join my political party! The “I’m done talking about this crud!” party! (I ignored 44 members)

    I have used the ignore function on four RFers, but took them all off. I discovered that it didn't matter. There's one still won't read ever - the others, I occasionally read their comments but never reply to - but it's easy to skip over his posts even when they are visible.
  10. It Aint Necessarily So

    How about we defund UNRWA ?

    Their differences aren't relevant to the issue of what works for them and what doesn't. Egypt stopped attacking and eventually, there was an end to Israeli retaliations following those attacks. Hamas attacked recently and met with sever retaliation. One can learn from that or not. It's not a...
  11. It Aint Necessarily So

    How about we defund UNRWA ?

    Egypt once had an attitude toward the Israelis that manifest in violent attacks followed by swift retribution. They apparently learned that it was in their best interest to lay down arms, and there has been no further violence between the two nations since. I'm sure that it's a begrudging peace...
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    Women: What happens in the voting booth, stays in the voting booth

    I hadn't heard of it until now. I'll check into it. This is something I've done for years to build vocabulary. I have quite a few more similar lists some of which I can share here for those interested. I've always been a wordie: primary secondary tertiary quaternary quinary senary septenary...
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    Meaning of Life?

    I stopped searching for profound answers decades ago. I came to tentative conclusions which have been refined in minor ways since, but in the main, what I thought about such matters hasn't changed for a long time. The answers I came to satisfy me and work for me, so I have no need for more...
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    Women: What happens in the voting booth, stays in the voting booth

    Yes, they have been given the right to vote for whomever they choose, but not the right to not be judged harshly if they choose Trump. If you vote for Trump, I can't respect you, man or woman, and I am sure that there are many who agree. I also wouldn't trust your judgment in other areas, thus...
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    What are the best and worst things about heaven?

    You had said somewhere something about Christendom failing to heed the words of Jesus leading to problems in the world, which is why I wrote, "I was referring to his followers and their failure to learn his lesson according to you." It's your judgment I referred to. The words in the Gospels...
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    On Evolution & Creation

    He's correct. You're wrong. You keep asserting your opinions of fact from a position of abject ignorance, and by ignorance, I mean just of facts, but of critical thinking and what it can do for one. You demonstrate no familiarity with that method or even awareness that it exists, so you see...
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    On Evolution & Creation

    Digression: You remind me of the people pulled over by law enforcement for traffic violations that feign interest in having a discussion with law enforcement, but actually just want to be contrarian. The cop is trying to explain how the law works but is hit with an endless litany of...
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    Is the evolutionary doctrine a racist doctrine?

    You refuted yourself in the second paragraph. There is no reasonable definition of human that would apply to a child but not its parent for the reason given. Human is a vague predicate. You'd need a definition in which a single mutation across a generation allows a nonhuman parent to have a...
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    Women: What happens in the voting booth, stays in the voting booth

    I'm very confused by your seemingly contradictory answers. Are you saying that this matter doesn't rise to that level? It seemed that you thought so when I responded to you. Now you're talking about how much you hate righteous indignation. OK, then don't express it. And if you feel like I do...
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    Women: What happens in the voting booth, stays in the voting booth

    You seem to have misunderstood me. My words were, "Now you seem to be approaching or have reached that attitude as well. I understand and appreciate your willingness to not merely disagree with those people, but also to express your disgust and contempt for such people." Somehow, you read that...
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