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  1. Markus6

    The Scourge of Racial Bias in New York State's Prisons

    Which is why we need prisons with an environment conducive to rehabilitation.
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    Should flag burners lose citizenship?

    Those are normal parts of the democratic process, not methods of protest. What about marching, and sit-ins. Those have a pedigree of gaining needed rights.
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    Should flag burners lose citizenship?

    Those are normal parts of the democratic process, not methods of protest. What about marching, and sit-ins. Those have a pedigree of gaining needed rights.
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    Hey White People 2!

    Spartans and Trojans (and Vikings and...) are historical. Totally different animal. As a Brit I'm very aware that there has been lots of negative generalizations and stereotypes about Scots and Irish people. In America it became blatant and damaging until eventually the Irish were accepted into...
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    Prosecutors Charge 6 Baltimore Officers in Freddie Gray Death

    We don't know that the police actually recognized Gray or had access to his arrest record before arresting him. "Probable cause" means probable cause that the suspect has committed a crime. The fact that he has committed a crime before cannot possibly provide probable cause to believe that he...
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    Hey White People 2!

    The "Red Man" logo, and its all to common brothers and sisters, are attempting to represent an entire ethnicity. The products are typically being sold to people who do not have a plethora of Native American friends so that they are aware of their diversity. The logo thus typifies all Native...
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    Prosecutors Charge 6 Baltimore Officers in Freddie Gray Death

    Do we know that the cops recognized Gray before chasing him or is that just conjecture?
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    Prosecutors Charge 6 Baltimore Officers in Freddie Gray Death

    In the video of the arrest I can only see white officers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YV0EtkWyno. The names of the officers are pretty bland - so likely white :sorry:. I've never seen a statement in any new reports though.
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    More Obamacare Implosion

    Formalization and expansion... if you know how to give initial care (stopping blood, putting someone in the right position, CPR) then you should. You should ensure someone calls 911. The responders are obligated to come, administer on scene care and transport to the correct place. The people at...
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    More Obamacare Implosion

    I think that is a natural, moral obligation of those with medical training. If someone is injured in public or collapses, and you have the medical skills to help then you should. Without checking to see who they are or how much money is in their account. That's the moral basis. Everything...
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    Eternal Suffering or Annihilation?

    The experience of reading this thread has helped me imagine what eternal torture would be like. Will it ever end??
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    Priestly Role and Presbuteros

    Well I'll start to share my ignorance. What exactly is not permissible because in one of the churches I was a member of the maximum I saw was a dog collar. Yes but we don't have other translations where bishop is used to translate the greek word for levite or pharisee or something. That's the...
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    Priestly Role and Presbuteros

    Indeed, though it does denote relative age. I'm saying we can discover some sort of idea of what the role means by looking at the role of the elders of the time. And if they're wearing jeans and a shirt too? So two translations, which used the same word to refer to two different things would...
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    Priestly Role and Presbuteros

    I was born and raised in the Church of England so I can quite honestly say: yes and no. My mother's previous church was very anglo-catholic and the role of the priest was practically identical to the catholic role. Personally I have spent more time in evangelical churches were mostly the...
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    Priestly Role and Presbuteros

    Head slapping emoticons and choosing not to actually engage with what I'm saying aside - you do not need to accuse me of lying about my mother. We can either enjoy this interesting discussion without accusing each other of lying unneccessarily or we can not have the discussion at all. Civility...
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    Priestly Role and Presbuteros

    Well there's not much on the specifics of the roles as they apply to the christian church. However, both roles were already defined in the Judaism of the time and, if we don't have anything else to work with, those definitions should be the ones we read into scripture. A priest was a very...
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    Priestly Role and Presbuteros

    Facts and equalities are for mathemetics, not the complex field of translation, unless you want to make it painfully obvious that you're trying to oversimplify things. I had tried to, but lets go further. The difference between "hiereus" and "hierarch" is the suffix "-arch". That is not devoid...
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    Priestly Role and Presbuteros

    Translations of biblical words are constantly changing and up for debate. There is certainly not a fixed "THE translation" for any given word, as much as that would make things easier. Hierarch isn't in any dictionary I could find, isn't used much in society, isn't accepted as the translation by...
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    Priestly Role and Presbuteros

    Priest isn't a translation, it's an evolved transliteration. Elder is a translation, the same word, presbuteros, is also used in the gospels solely to mean elder - e.g. the elder brother. The word priest nowadays carries more connotations with the Old Testament and pagan priesthoods than it...
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    One Thousand Years - Millennium, Here or There?

    Considering: The millenium only appears in the book of Revelation. Revelation was written relatively late compared to the other books of the canon so there's no proof that anyone accepted before that. Revelation has the rockiest history of canonicity of most of the books of the New Testament...