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    DeSantis Trying to Force Chaplains in Schools

    Does the governor actually have the authority - per the law as written - to do this, though? Wouldn't the selection of the chaplains all be done by individual school districts? In short, I suspect this is really just a bunch of political posturing on his part and his office doesn't actually...
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    DeSantis Trying to Force Chaplains in Schools

    So that's not what the actual text of the bill says. https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/931/BillText/er/PDF Go read it. Nowhere in that document is there any prohibition of any religion. I'm not saying that this won't absolutely be abused to express favoritism towards certain...
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    If you had psychokinesis.Would you make the opposite gender's clothes disappear?

    What would even be the point of that? Killing off a large number of humans since they'd die of exposure to extreme heat and cold? Being a general piece of crap human being and a pervert? Landing yourself in a jail cell or worse becoming a lab rat because you were dumb enough to publicly...
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    How do you detect "design"?

    I mean, the OP didn't mention "Intelligent Design" at all, so it would be a bit weird to be addressing that which the OP didn't even contain. I couldn't care less about "Intelligent Design" - I was commenting broadly on the notion that the gods have a had in the making of things (e.g., that...
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    How do you detect "design"?

    I feel like the question is sort of missing the point of understanding the gods to have had a hand in the making of things, at least from my own perspective. Then again, arguments about origins frequently miss that point just in general so I suppose that is par for the course. For me...
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    How do you know how to live?

    This is one of the things that I do. Listen to the Wind, consult with the Moon, take in the radiance of the Sun. Sometimes, something more formal like practicing divination. Divination done right isn't so much about fortune telling as it is about introspection. Whether or not one believes...
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    How do you know how to live?

    Who told you that you're supposed to "amount to anything" and why did you listen to them? Something to keep in mind is that American culture is... instills some peculiar notions within its citizens as part of its materialist and consumerist culture. When a culture is so fixated on mass...
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    Foreign Aid bills - this would not have happened under Trump

    Sorry, I'm confused. What's wrong with foreign aid? Especially foreign aid that serves humanitarian, ecological, and/or domestic interests? In an era of globalism where isolationism doesn't actually work as a viable foreign policy?
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    Musings of a Tree Hugging Dirt Worshipper

    :fullmoon: Gifts of Lady Luna :fullmoon: Find solace in Silence Be comfortable in Dark Close eyes to see Clearly Embrace Inevitable Change Seek Mysteries Know Beyond Flow Be :waxcrescent::firstqmoon::waxgibbous::fullmoon::wangibbous::lastqmoon::wancrescent: :newmoon:
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    What if you could prove your psychic powers by transferring them?Into someone else?

    Wouldn't work that way. While the understanding of "psychic" powers (or even using that term to describe it at all) varies among the diverse communities of practitioners that delve into such things, it ... how to put it? This is similar to asking "what if you could prove trichromatic vision...
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    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    Yes. (I know you weren't asking me, but I'm kind of a biologist) https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-animals-that-exhibit-parthenogenesis.html
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    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    Haha... while I know this isn't what you meant, this resonated with me because Sun is literally one of the gods in some traditions, my own included. Like, it's... kind of right there? :blush:
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    What Do YOU Think Of When You Hear, Read, or Say the word; "God"?

    I miss when we used to have religious affiliation clearly visible - it helped reduce some of the guesswork on what folks mean with proper-case god God. Not eliminate it, but reduce it.
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    Idolators - ALL

    I don't take the concept of idolatry seriously. It is a concept born of religious and theological intolerance. And while the opening post helps to deconstruct that in some ways, it feeds into it in others. It is not that humans are all "idolators." It is that some humans decided to...
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    With homelessness on the rise, the Supreme Court weighs bans on sleeping outdoors

    Everything about this case makes my skin crawl. The human species has slept outdoors for the vast majority of its evolutionary history. If civilization cannot handle something that is so basic and fundamentally human, it needs to step aside.
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    When does life begin?

    How do you figure that? It seems to me that folks with various perspectives on this issue are being quite honest in their tellings of them. That is, both the extreme positions of "abortion at any stage or pregnancy" and "abortion at no stage of pregnancy" are present in society. I don't...
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    What Do YOU Think Of When You Hear, Read, or Say the word; "God"?

    Depends on if it is upper-case or lower-case. Upper-case, proper noun, it refers to the god of Abrahamic religions. I don't think much about that god since it isn't part of my lifeways. Lower-case, speaking generally, it refers to that which is worthy of worship. And each individual...
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    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    Eh, not interested in making it more complicated than it needs to be right now. Doubt is isn't that complicated, regardless of the topic or subject. You either trust yourself and your aptitudes - you either take responsibility for being discerning and making your own decisions - or you...
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    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    No.
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    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    It is really very simple. It is a fact that I get to decide what I deify. It is also a fact that I have already decided what I deify. What is there to even doubt, exactly? That would be about as stupid as doubting my ability to decide what I want to have for lunch later today.
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