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  1. dust1n

    Can Pork Products be Banned in an American City?

    I grew up around multiple dry counties growing up. This would a county where it is illegal to sell alcohol...
  2. dust1n

    Believe It or Not: Israel is the 31st Highest Dues-Paying Country at the UN

    Not formally. It's generally a mix of people who donate to AIPAC. However, that's going to be a mix of American money, and Israeli money, and probably a bit for others. I'm not sure what you mean here.
  3. dust1n

    Believe It or Not: Israel is the 31st Highest Dues-Paying Country at the UN

    Backwards... AIPAC is a lobby group on the state of Israel. They get money from Israel. They use it to lobby American politicians (this includes funding their campaign and buying them random stuff), including, send more money to Israel for aid, etc. Obviously, a portion of the money we send to...
  4. dust1n

    Believe It or Not: Israel is the 31st Highest Dues-Paying Country at the UN

    Some of the numbers I included as present PR numbers, contact with journalists as well, but yes, it's a bit unsettling that through the use of Super PAC's foreigners can channel large portions of money into the country for support of government leaders.
  5. dust1n

    Believe It or Not: Israel is the 31st Highest Dues-Paying Country at the UN

    To be fair, all sorts of countries spend money to influence our political system... Israel is barely noticeable in this regard; 'Top 10 foreign governments paying for influence in 2013 1. UAE 14.2 million 2. Germany $12 million 3. Canada $11.2 million 4. Saudi Arabia $11.1 million 5...
  6. dust1n

    Does God "CHOOSE" not to know the future?

    Ah, well only if all religious people took a nuanced view at their own literature, and everything else in the world as well. Though, anyone could use a hearty dose of that on a continuous basis, nonreligious included.
  7. dust1n

    Isis Bookstore Vandalized

    IF it helps, the ancient Egyptians didn't actually use "Isis", which is also the anglicized version of the Egyptian goddess.
  8. dust1n

    Does God "CHOOSE" not to know the future?

    Thanks. At the end of the day, I don't consider texts transcendental, so it's going to hard to even get a basis of intent when so many people are involved and so many unknowns are about. I mean, I truly sympathize with anyone living before WW2. Just the sheer difficulty and uncertainty of life...
  9. dust1n

    Believe It or Not: Israel is the 31st Highest Dues-Paying Country at the UN

    Just to be clear. 40 million is about .013 %. So for 10000 dollars in the economy of Israel, $1.30 will go to the UN. Believe it or not, 16.77 trillion is the American GDP. So 3 billion of that is slightly less than .018 %. So we give $1.80. We also give Israel the same in military aid every...
  10. dust1n

    Does God "CHOOSE" not to know the future?

    I suppose it depends on the book. They are all pretty nuanced, so I suspect having the greatest understanding of basically 1200 BC - 400 BC would a great place to start. I suspect the identity of Jewish people probably began as a result of Egyptian and Assyrian hegemony on fractured tribes set...
  11. dust1n

    Does God "CHOOSE" not to know the future?

    Thanks for satisfying my curiosity.
  12. dust1n

    Believe It or Not: Israel is the 31st Highest Dues-Paying Country at the UN

    That's all? That's not even a noticeable fraction of the free aid we give to Israel every year, let alone the UN.
  13. dust1n

    Does God "CHOOSE" not to know the future?

    Just curious, but what does that entail? Is it like a metaphorical illustration illuminated by God, or He did just do a casual run-over and sign off on it, or is it entirely human made by people who had some sort of special insight into God?
  14. dust1n

    Does God "CHOOSE" not to know the future?

    Well, that's interesting, because that calls into question God's omniscience, which the Tankah does plainly state. But, presumably being all-powerful would include knowing everything, since acquiring knowledge is a sort of action, or would at least never be unavailable.
  15. dust1n

    Does God "CHOOSE" not to know the future?

    Good thing. I'm not aware anywhere in the Bible it explicitly makes the case that he can do anything, except Jesus said it once Matthew. EDIT: Just noticed after like 3 months and 20 something posts that this is in the scriptural debates section, so I'm dippppin.
  16. dust1n

    Saudi Arabian court sentences Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy

    What?... Anyone who doubts the legitimacy that Ashraf Fayadh has been sentenced to death has either made absolutely no attempt to verify it at all, or is simply seeing what they want to see. This would be far from the first time something like this has happened... I've never been too keen on a...
  17. dust1n

    Does God "CHOOSE" not to know the future?

    Which is pretty much yet another contradiction considering he can supposedly do anything.
  18. dust1n

    Describe "faith" in one word.

    Faith.
  19. dust1n

    The Modern Religion of Liberalism

    There is so much irony packed into your post, that I don't even know how to begin unraveling it.
  20. dust1n

    Why one must believe the "Academia" or the "scholars"?

    I don't believe in any particular method. What draws them together, is like I said, deductive reasoning based on empiricism. We know deductive reasoning works pretty well, because it's the underlying logical base that your computer operates on. And we know things that we can observe is pretty...
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