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    High rates of depression in Iran

    The fact that opium has a long cultural acceptance in Iran and there's a huge addiction rate there certainly can't help.
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    Feds tell Catholic hospital in Oklahoma: Blow out your sanctuary candle or face the penalties...

    That is such complete nonsense. The rate at which portable medical oxygen generators produce gas is so low that you'd have to put the cannula inches from the flame to get any meaningful increase in flame size.
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    Need help in religious terms for my diploma.

    I've been a Christian my entire life. I was raised Protestant, most strongly influenced by the Presbyterian denomination but also by the Methodist and Baptist communities. Daily bible study for six years in grade school, very serious about my faith for the last thirty years and became a Catholic...
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    Aliens

    Not at all, not the slightest hint. Anyone who says anything to the contrary is kidding themselves.
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    The destiny of bruce willis

    Whaaaaaaaaat??
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    Is pleasure during sexual intercourse sinful?

    Neither of those say it either. Last time I checked, most of the time we can have sex without getting pregnant.
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    Is pleasure during sexual intercourse sinful?

    Genesis 2 says nothing of the kind. Not even close.
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    Watch: Andrea Bocelli wows fans with ‘Amazing Grace’ in Times Square

    I don't see that line as meaning what you think it means, or that it's reasonable to think that it means that the author thinks that grace is dependent on our act of belief. I see the grammar as indicating the subjective change in how I saw things after I responded positively to the grace that...
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    Is pleasure during sexual intercourse sinful?

    Who says they didn't? Where did you get that idea? I've got a hundred bucks that says they had by far the most mind-blowing conjugal relations that anyone has ever had.
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    What Is Our Ninth Planet?

    Pluto. It's still Pluto.
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    Let's assume for a moment that human clones would NOT have souls.

    The definition of the word soul is "the principle that animates a living body", so what you posit is identical to assuming that they're not alive. If a body is alive it has a soul, and if it has a soul then it's alive. Human beings are the only beings that have rational souls, and since you...
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    Lust

    Sounds like how I felt before I gave up drugs. Eventually the pain of going on became great enough that I became willing to stop even though I still desperately wanted to keep doing it. How much pain that took was entirely up to me, and God was eager to give me the strength I needed to follow...
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    The Mechanical Elves of the DMT World

    Tripping is a highly suggestible state. If you've heard that you can expect to see the Mechanical Elf, or Mescalito, or whatever, then it's very likely that you will. Every single time I dropped acid with friends (and that's a lot of times) we all experienced seeing the same bizarre stuff at the...
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    Lust

    Nonsense. You yourself have admitted that you don't want to.
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    Why plants have no soul

    The definition of the word soul is "the principle that animates a living body". Everything that is alive has a soul. A living plant, by definition, is alive, and therefore, by definition, has a soul
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    Massad Ayoob: Defending Your Home with the AR-15 Elite Carbine

    Let me guess: everything you know about firearms, you learned from television and newspapers, right?
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    An Odd Sky Observation

    Sounds like a contrail to me.
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    Disc golf disc discussion--favorites, least favorites, special scenarios, etc.

    I started golfing long before golf discs existed, everyone used the same Wham-O 165 that we used for freestyle and ultimate. My 20,000 hours of muscle memory means I do fine using a putter for all of my shots, so although I do bring my drivers with me I seldom see any use for them.
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    The story of how Oreo defeated Hydrox is more fascinating than you’d think

    Darker chocolate and less sweet? Oh man, I gotta find me some Hydrox!