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Thanks! I am retired, so more time on my hands - maybe too much. ;) Ideally, for both. The patient suffers less, and the living don't have to watch the suffering. Every one is going to die. That is common to all mankind. But, maybe, so that we are not tempted to despair, and to doubt God's...

C. S. Lewis wrote about the passage where Jesus tells us to forgive, not seven times, but seventy times seven times. What Lewis found hard was that he had to forgive the same sin, over and over again. Until. late in his life, Lewis was comforted to find that he had, actually, forgiven someone...

Yes, there's a slippery slope and potential for abuse, but that is true no matter what. Should we waste a lot of resources causing unnecessary pain for people who are going to die anyway? Used to be that medicine couldn't do much. Now we can do a lot. But should we, always? For...

I would feel better if this "Ruth Sent Us" group would publish their own home addresses, just to show their gander can take the same sauce as anyone else's goose. Regards, Shodan

My daughter and I both got Harry Potter themed tattoos a few years ago. I also have an earring, coincidentally done about two minutes before my daughter got her ears pierced. She was a baby when we got her ears pierced, and she was an adult when I got my tattoo (and she got her third tattoo.)...

The store clerk who spotted the phony bill said it was blue-ish and the ink was running. It was pretty clearly fake - even the teen age clerk could spot it. Although maybe Floyd was too high to know the difference. The same clerk mentioned a friend of Floyd's trying to pass either that, or...

No, actually you haven't. You said earlier that you didn't think George Floyd was breaking the law. That was wrong. Yet you don't seem to be able to mention any biases - you just assert that there are some. Given that what you claimed earlier about the methodology is also wrong, I disbelieve...

I can't tell - do you understand that Floyd was, in fact, breaking the law, and your earlier claim that "George Floyd was not breaking the law" was wrong? Were you intoxicated/blasted out of your gourd when you brought the counterfeit bill into Bank of America? It has to do with whether or not...

Don't you think the circumstances were different between your finding out that you had a counterfeit bill, and Mr. Floyd buying cigarettes at a grocery store with a counterfeit bill (and refusing to return the cigarettes, plus being high out of his mind, plus a long criminal record including...

George Floyd was arrested for attempting to pass forged currency, which is in fact against the law. Also because the store clerk reported him as being drunk in public (actually he was high on Fentanyl). That doesn't mean he deserved to be killed, but he was breaking the law. As to why the...

I hope to God I could stand firm. But still - lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, because I don't want to find out. Regards, Shodan

No, AFAICT it doesn't. Cite. Note the reference to self-defense. It does not authorize person to shoot someone in the back, as you said earlier, nor does it authorize shooting because of trespassing. It says, if you are attacked, you do not have to try to run away or escape. IOW if you could...

"Stand your ground" laws do not allow ordinary citizens to shoot people in the back. Actually, they are pushing for something rather similar, as mentioned in the OP - Actually I think one of the legislators mentioned their motivation - they're trolling for attention. Satanists gotta troll -...

I'm not sure which part of #140 you mean. If it was Trayvon Martin, that reinforces what I wrote. Trayvon Martin's death did not have to do with race - Zimmerman shot him because Martin was sitting on his chest smashing his head into the ground because Zimmerman (the neighborhood watch in a...

The stories can be true and real, without showing that there are systemic problems. One of the problems with BLM and the related social justice movement is that it seems to rely mostly on anecdotes, and not all of those anecdotes are as BLM is presenting them. Michael Brown was the kick off...

I would say No, because the death penalty saves innocent lives, overall. Arthur Shawcross, Ed Wein, Robert Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz), Henry Lee Lucas, Jack Unterweger, and others are examples of murderers who were sent to prison, and then killed other people. According to the Bureau of...

From your second cite - Certainly it was easier to move from the farm to a city, get a job, and make a lot more than you did as a farm hand, but now that's going to be more difficult because farming is so much more industrialized. The Great Migration led to a heck of a lot of upward social...

Only about 4% of the US workforce earns MW. Most of them are not supporting a family, nor even themselves. Most do not live in poor households, either - it is mostly although not entirely teenagers working for their own money, not to put food on the table for their children. Most of the rest...

Even God rested on the seventh day. We ought to take the hint. Remember all the times Jesus went off by Himself, or told the disciples to come along, and rest? He was saving the world. That is work a lot more important than anything you or I do, and even Jesus didn't do it 24/7. You gotta...

The only unforgiveable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit - that is, rejecting the call of the Holy Spirit to come to Christ. If you repent, not just of the sin of selling your soul to Satan but any sin, you aren't committing blasphemy against the Spirit. As mentioned above, Jesus paid...