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couldn't they hook up some kind of low voltage or resistance check to confirm continuity. instead of a visual inspection. and This is pretty crazy loop hole.
Why not make a tiny 10cm wire at the north pole to do the entire planet? And bless the oceans for unlimited holy water. Anyone who goes to the beach is baptised.
The latter wouldn’t be valid, as baptism also involves an intentional act. Merely touching holy water doesn’t baptize you. In fact, you don’t even need holy water for baptism, strictly speaking. Any Christian can validly baptize any non-Christian by merely pouring any water over someone’s head and stating that they baptize this person in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Whether it is a licit bap…
Following this logic, the entire ocean has been multiple flavours of holy water at once for centuries. Failing that, the subset which is has become homogenous throughout.
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> Judaism isn't Christianity any more than Islam is All three share common beliefs and values. Christians and Jews worship the same God. Islam IS closely related to Judaism and Christianity and the Quran explicitly states Muslims worship the same God. > Trying to apply Christian norms to Jewish practices usually ends up in a pogrom when Christians realize that Judaism isn't Christianity. BS. Thinking about where we a…
how about judeo-islamic then? there's at least as much overlap there as with Judaism and Christianity
Google Maps zoomable map I found: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0... I wonder why it seems to circumvent Hells Kitchen?
Also circumvents Times Square, Penn Station, SOHO and Lower East Side.
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> Islam IS closely related to Judaism and Christianity and the Quran explicitly states Muslims worship the same God. This is like saying that Windows and GNU/Linux are closely related because they both run on PCs, and were both (Windows originally) written in C (thus worship the same "foundations"). :-) > Christians use Jewish scriptures and prayers and symbolism. Quite some applications have become ported from Windo…
More like GNU/Linux and Android. Also Windows is C++, NT kernel.
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Will the power company believe you that your system will only ever provide a tiny amount of power? Will you convince city government (in NYC, where some level of corruption is a fact of life) to allow your plan?
>Will the power company believe you that your system will only ever provide a tiny amount of power? A small guage wire (ex:24 AWG) is limited to low voltage use. The issue is that voltage will drop over distance less than a city block. ref: https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/AC-DC-voltage-drop-cable-dist...
I wonder if a fiber would meet the definition...
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> Rather than make them automatons that simply do his will he wanted them to love him of their own will the same he loves them. You can understand his first command as "do this because you love me and trust that I have your best interest in mind". So he doesn't want automatons, but he does want unquestioning loyalty and trust? Is this not simply a distinction without a difference? If someone we knew in our lives beha…
I don’t think it is so much “unquestioning loyalty and trust” but a loving relationship with the creator of the universe. It is hardly a distinction without difference. The story continues that God came to earth as a man who, while innocent, was brutally murdered, for spreading this message. That doesn’t sound like controlling (nor trauma-induced) behavior to me. Instead it sounds like the ultimate sacrifice for a lo…
A loving relationship with the creator of the universe that's mandatory if you don't want to be cast away to hellfire, correct?
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Seems logical to me, either you believe you can understand the divine will by interpreting holy books or you don't. If you don't believe the divine will is knowable, then why would you follow any religion?
> If you don't believe the divine will is knowable, then why would you follow any religion? This doesn't follow. If you believe you can just decide how to reinterpret the word of God then you put yourself at the same level as Him and are qualified to follow your own word, rather than a religion. You follow a religion because you want to be given the word of God to follow. Not the word of a man who pretends he is at t…
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> You take God's word at face value, no interpretation, no exceptions.
But your judgment that god's word must be understood in this way just reflects your own belief about how god has chosen to communicate with us.
And it's actually a belief that does not give god very much credit. Great books convey meaning in numerous different ways at the same time. Why would you assume that god has written a text that operates on the level of an Ikea instruction manual when he could have used all of the tools available to great literature — and, through his omniscience, used them perfectly to speak to the needs of different readers in different times and places?
Ask yourself this: when you read scripture, does does it seem more like an instruction manual or a piece of literature?