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Recent content by Mark.E

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    Proud Boys leader Donohoe pleads guilty to conspiracy, admits plan to storm Capitol and will testify

    Their top guy, Enrique Tarrio, is a fed. I'd like to see them put him on trial, but that's unlikely.
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    Why and what is MAGA?

    A peasant revolt within the GOP. It was stifled by the worst kinds of people swarming to Trump and his kids to give him the worst advice in office, but the "Spirit of '16" remained.
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    Happenstance

    If I were born in some population-300 town in Mississippi, I'd likely be a Southern Baptist, because my parents would have been too. If I were born in some village in Pakistan, I'd know nothing but Sunni Islam, because again, my parents/village would have been that way too. Many people I've...
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    Ingratitude

    Aquinas, Plotinus, and Avicenna made incredible arguments for the existence of a higher power. Either there's a singularity of creation, or everything that is something came from nothing, so it must be the former. I'm convinced totally that there is a God, that much I know. It's finding out what...
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    Ingratitude

    It sucks to realize that I'm shallow and prone to behavior based on contrarianism, but it helps to be self-aware. Certain components do set me off about it. Predestination, for example: God already knows where we'll end up, but it's in the same way that He already knows what we'll all have for...
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    Putin Left With No Choices

    On the biolabs: suppose that John set up a 'facility to study organic stimulants' in his backyard, right up against the fence next to the yard of the neighbor he hates, Phil. All perfectly safe of course. That said, if a meth lab blows up back there, the blame is on Phil. ;)
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    Mike Pence rolls out new 19 page policy platform

    If he somehow takes the nomination, I'll knock on a thousand doors for Kamala Harris out of spite. The RNC needs to face electoral consequences for trying to drag us back to the Bush era.
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    What are YOU currently reading? (8)

    "The Taste of Conquest - The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice". I've gotten through several books about the history of commodities, it's fascinating what lengths we've always gone to for creature comforts and luxury goods. Money does make the world go 'round, but money goes...
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    Ingratitude

    One of my problems is that I'm 'ungrateful' for religion in general. I first took a look at Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism in 2016, essentially flipped a coin and decided to visit an EO church for the first time, which started my years-long interest in it. That's not the full truth. I was...
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    Hello

    I'm 'Mark' for all purposes, from Saint Mary of Egypt, in early 20's. Seeker because it feels dishonest to list as Christian of any sort for now. From a 'Census Christian' background (nonexistent church life but aware that we're vaguely Protestant), curious for Eastern Orthodoxy for several...