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    Three door game

    The game show where the contestant gets the contents of a room behind a closed door. The contestant chooses a door. The "host" opens a 2nd door and the room is empty. Host asks if the contestant if he wants to change his guess. It is claimed that the person improves his chances of winning if...
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    How does one detect the state of "being free?"

    Does the ability to own weapons, choose one's religion. occupation, spouse, and residence (have I omitted anything important?) cause one to be free? Seems to me that freedom must be defined in terms of assets and life's energy. For example, if I am required to worship a foreign god for one...
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    Ethics of doing good

    An advertisement for a charity noted that in one country they were helping, owing one cow made one rich. Are rich people happier than poor people? Say a rich do-gooder took the message to heart and shipped 1000 cows to the country. How should the cows be distributed? Will that cause 1000...
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    Any CRC members?

    If so, let's communicate. It irritates me that the CRC is more parochial than the Catholic Church and that The Banner permits no opposing opinion. Can't find any CRC members on line. I find it amusing that The Banner would publish a story, "Is Prosperity a Blessing?" when our leaders pay...
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    Happy we invaded another country?

    Syria. How many undeclared invasions since the peanut farmer precipitated the Iranian takeover of sovereign American soil? 100? Is that how we good Christians run the world?
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    slavery and poverty

    Exactly what does "slavery" mean in this economy? Exactly how is being a slave different than being poor? Seems to me that a free person owns and controls all the output of his life's energy and a slave has the product of his life's energy taken from him off the top before can claim what's...
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    magnitism

    On wire wound electric motors both the rotor and stator draw power. Why isn't power sucked out of the magnet on a permanent magnet motor? A permanent magnet motor could be built with the magnet replacing the rotor or stator. Why not a motor with a magnet for both? It's a switching problem...
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    New ground war with Pakistan

    Bush Admin admits we have been in a ground war in Pakistan for 2 months. No one cares.
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    Why no port in Gaza?

    Someone explain why no port has been built on the Gaza coast?
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    What other products should be sold below market price?

    Americans seem to think that gas & diesel fuel should be sold at less than market price. In some other countries, the govt subsidizes fuel. Should the govt subsidize our fuel price? What other products should be subsidized? Traditionally, the govt steals from the workers and gives to the...
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    Why did Jesus teach Tanakh was sufficient for salvation?

    See the story about Rich man & Lazarus. Why did Jesus teach that the Law and Prophets were sufficient for salvation? Why did he state that resurrection from the dead would not convince a person who rejected the OT? Is not the NT then icing on the cake?
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    Smallest snake found

    A new specie of snake was found. How did it stay hidden? How do we know that it hasn't recently evolved from an existing specie?
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    OIL: organic or abiogenic

    WhIch? Is oil being continually made inside the earth or is peak oil a reality?
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    Mosaic covenant only applies to Israel

    Nothing in Exo thru Deut applies the Mosaic Covenant to gentiles in Chicago. Nothing specifies/determines/describes one's status in the next life.
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    Why did God create a pleasure organ for Eve but not for Adam?

    Don't know if I am permitted to name it. Why do women have an organ whose only known purpose is to produce pleasure?
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    Difference between knowing and experiencing?

    In what way does God know everything? Pragmatically, if something is known to the depth that God is said to know . . . then can it also be said that this depth of knowledge is the equivalent of personal experience?
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    responsibility in the next life

    And he who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, TO HIM I WILL GIVE AUTHORITY OVER THE NATIONS;” (Rev. 2:26). Is this a reward or a curse? Anyone here want authority over nations in the next life? I see this as a defect in the LDS, that anyone would want to be a god . . . I...
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    Origins theory is not a science.

    Origins theory is not a science. It is a study of (pre)history. What does "prehistorical" mean? It is a study of something older than history, something that comes before history. Then what does "history" mean? History is the study of human culture since humans have been producing some...
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    voluntary abortion - an evolutionary development?

    Is the process of voluntary abortion somehow productive in protecting the human specie? An instinctive elimination of inferior DNA?
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    if no preferred location in space

    If there is no preferred location and no preferred dirrection in space then consider a spaceship in an empty part of space with no charts. The ship can accelerate to 80%C. The crew is all asleep. The mate wakes, looks around, sees nothing of interest, puts out a marker buoy and accelerates...