Southern_Man
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My DZ is requiring me to jump my own pack job. I have no problem with that. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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I'd soak it w/ oil, personally. Good seasoning is important. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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They are great if you have IT Band problems. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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I am for equal partnerships. I don't much care what they are called. Somebody hit the nail on the head when they said the basic problem is we are using one word "marriage" to describe what is both a legal (property) status and a religious institution. Religious institutions can recognize or not recognize whoever they want. I'm for less government in general and see no reason government should be regulating people's personal relationships but if governement is going to be in that business it should treat them all equally. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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Property rights and inheritances can currently be taken care of through private contracts. Health care decision making can be taken care of through durable powers of attorney. There are only a few "rights" that depend upon governement recognition of marriage or partnership. The tax status, which I am find w/ doing away with. Some insurance and pension things. The insurance and pension are currently often dependent on legal status but they are not necessarily so, as many private companies have been offering domestic partner rights for some time even in the absence of legal sanction of such arrangements. It is a long way from where we are now, but it is not necessary for the governement to recognize unions at all. I am in favor, if the governement is going to recognize unions, of the governement recognizing them all equally and using the same word. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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I thought this thread was going to have something to do w/ calculating a snowball's chance in hell, since that's what that nice lady at the DZ told me I had "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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That's what she said!! "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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I hope to be in the market for a starter bike this year. Currently learning to ride on a friend's bike (or currently when it finally warms up a bit). "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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All that stuff can be taken care of with private contracts. No need for the state to impose those things at all. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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I personally wish the government would get out of the business of recognizing marriages altogether. Let people make whatever contractual arrangements they want between themselves. I'm a realist so I know it won't happen but it is my libertarian dream. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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What reference? All the earliest existent manuscripts we have of the New Testament are in Greek. I don't think there is really any dipute that it was, as best we can tell, the original language of composition or at least of circulation. Don't think it has anything to do w/ Council of Nicea. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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Anti Whale Terrorist Boat Gets Rammed
Southern_Man replied to Andy_Copland's topic in Speakers Corner
Other animals use tools as well. Maybe a degree in difference but not a degree in kind. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?" -
It's from the Westminster Shorter Chatechism (Question 1), but I believe it is misquoted. I believe the correct language is the chief end of man is to florify God and enjoy him forever." Parts of the Old Testament are written in Aramaic. Matthew appears to be written by a Hellenic Jew in Greek by somebody w/ a sophisticated understanding of that language. We don't know if any of the NT texts were originally written in Aramaic and then translated to Greek but Mark's gospel has the most basic Greek of the gospels and may well have been written by someone for whom Greek was not that native tongue. Revelation was almost assuredly written by somebody who was a native speaker of Aramaic, as the Greek in it is almost unreadable and seems to contain many semitisms. Hard to say if he wrote in in Greek or in Aramaic and then translated it. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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I haven't eaten at a fast food burger joint since 1997. I got food poisoning. Not 100% sure it was from McDonald's but that was the last thing I ate before I got sick. I have a Pavlovian reaction just smelling the grease from one of those places. I also don't eat at Taco Bell, KFC, or a bunch of other places. I will still eat subs from Subway and a pizza once in a very long while. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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Pretty sure it has been done since then, for example when Iraq occupied Kuwait. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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I have no idea why gays shouldn't be allowed to be as miserable as the rest of the married people. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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I am fully aware that meaningful is a subjective interpretation. Choosing a data set, however, is also subjective and not purely scientific. A data set which represents 27 years is hard to measure against any sort of historical record. How much, for examples, did polar ice coverage differ in a 27 year period during the Medieval Warm Period? More than this? Less than this? We don't know. I'd put more stock in any of the climate prediction models if they had been reliably back tested, though. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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What sorts of whales are they hunting? Are these whales endangered at all? There are a number of species of whales that are doing quite well. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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Rather, this year's Arctic Oscillation was more extreme (recorded) only once since 1950 - Jan 1977. The whole problem to me is that this is not a statistically meaningful data set when you are talking about global warming and cooling and what a "normal" variation looks like. Climate varies naturally on a more geological time scale, not on a year-to-year basis. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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Cold enough that they canceled AFF jumps for today. Three jumps short of my license and I was winded out last week and too cold this weekend. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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I think it is a black rat snake and a copper head. These two snakes are known enemies, as well. The black racer and timber rattler are pretty good guesses, though. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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It hasn't been above freezing this week. Tonight it will be down in the teens and predicted highs in the uppers 20s tomorrow. I'm going jumping. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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When Chuck Norris takes a dirty water enema the water comes out clean. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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Folding laundry. Don't mind washing and drying it, somehow folding and hanging it seems like a huge deal. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
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What's in the gift bag? "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"