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Yeah my wife tested today too. She's required to take off work until she gets results since she's a teacher. We're basically isolating but hoping I find results tomorrow.

Churches have tremendous influence here, but its kind of waning very very slowly.

I think due to demographic reality, mostly by chance many of my friends are Christian. Some of them use it for cultural identification and some go to church but they're overall pretty respectful of my beliefs and show genuine interest in them. It's a pretty self selecting group though, odds are...

Yeah this is especially frustrating because I would have expected churches to adapt like the rest of us after the stress of the first round of lock downs but they tend to think of themselves as special. I am very appreciative of the churches who have played along to help us all out. As my wife...

The South Korean flag is very aesthetically appealing to me. I love the design and colors.

Which is why I offer that potentially Christians would look to return to a position of cracking down on people they find morally offensive. That would be an example of a way to go beyond mere stigmatization.

Usually Christians leverage the government to impose their will. If it were simply the question of free association I don't think there's really anything wrong with you choosing to disassociate from others but that typically is only the beginning. Mosaic law calls for the death penalty for both...

I've found that my experience is that its more casual than being implied; like missionaries in various churches I've been to subconsciously send their prettiest girls to meet the young men to talk about joining their church or the tendency for Christians to feign friendship to make you into a...

Looking forward to picking one up but I got some PS4 games to wrap up, odds are I'll take the PS4 off the rack and hide it behind one of my PC monitors and run it on one of those monitors while also continuing to play Danganronpa on a different PC monitor. :D

Are we so quick to forget the Christian meltdown about the red holiday cups at Starbucks? :D

May Hathor preserve president-elect Joe Biden. May the Horned One give him strength. Also, thanks for bringing this nightmare week to an end finally.

Sure I think that is plenty compelling! British Traditional Wicca, the tradition of Gerald Gardner, the effective founder of the religion takes the gender polarity fairly seriously. Later Wiccan traditions have chipped away at it and eclectics have a very mixed to negative opinion of it. Many...

Interesting and relevant reading on the topic! Interpretatio graeca - Wikipedia

The standard devotional polytheist answer is that all gods exist and that to exist is be a self-sufficient agent with will. Generally in ancient cultures they were seen as separate gods but were sometimes syncretized together. The Greek/Roman fusions are the obvious ones but the lines get...

Hey thanks! Always nice to hear from you @PloverWing take care at your return to services, if you're careful I am sure it will go well but this season is going to be hard. My wife teaches K-5 and the kids are really struggling with procedures and we're really trying to be careful since my mom is...

Blessed Samhain! The weather is set to be really nice today, we have a blue moon tonight. I'm ready to watch spooky movies and hand out candy! Plus I'm hosting a very small Samhain ritual tonight with a couple of friends. It'll be a wonderful time! I hope everyone has a wonderful halloween...

I just kicked my home PCs all up to Win 10 2004 and somewhat shockingly didn't die. I think 20H2 (ugh pick a versioning system and stick with it) has some pretty big changes coming. I dualboot between windows and Linux on my main gaming PC these days.

Are you a member of the same church (or denomination) you were raised in? Are there other denominations you would consider as an alternative to your current one?

Noice I'm glad you enjoyed it, I haven't played either game but my friends who had basically registered the same opinion. It was great. I am grinding trophies away in Ghost of Tsushima, I need to wrap it up and start on Horizon Zero Dawn at some point but I enjoy the game a bunch and want to...

IMO this is one of the main reasons the idea of the soul falls apart, but in the opposite direction. Insofar as we can observe; all cognitive capacity of a human is a function of the brain. If the brain dies its reasonable to conclude from the evidence that a person is gone. I know some...