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    Poll: Re: [Ostrakon] Pontifex Maximus

    I’d just like to point out that someone who supposedly keeps quotes of Pontifex Maximus probably didn’t write an ostracon that doesn’t feature any quotes. :whistling

    I’ve read quite a few of his...
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    Sticky: Re: Discussion and Debate Community Thread

    If.



    Very interesting. Nice to see that it's not unsalvageable. I still think that the long term effects of America reneging on the nuclear deal is dependent on whether other countries see...
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    Sticky: Re: Discussion and Debate Community Thread

    I'm not arguing about how good the deal was. I'm saying that the U.S. made a mistake when they broke it because it causes the international community to lose trust that the American government will...
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    Sticky: Re: Discussion and Debate Community Thread

    If you lay aside any jingoist inclinations for a moment, you might consider how embarrassing it must be that the God-blessed American government dishonored it diplomatic commitments before the...
  5. Re: Citizenship and Infraction Levels - A Proposed Approach as a Replacement for the Ambiguous "Standards of Behavior"

    Have you tried not getting an infraction? It's really not asking for much.
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    Re: Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Riots.

    Central government, federal government, whatever.



    The people who actually pay for the statue’s maintenance “should have the chance to be consulted”? Why, how generous! :rolleyes:

    The...
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    Re: Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Riots.

    Well, I agree that it is best for memorials to be removed by certified experts with the proper equipment to do it quickly and safely. Someone is more likely to get hurt otherwise. The part of the...
  8. Re: Citizenship and Infraction Levels - A Proposed Approach as a Replacement for the Ambiguous "Standards of Behavior"

    Three points before citizens start losing privileges? It's actually pretty hard to accidentally get infracted that much. Standardized standards might be a good idea, I don't know, but these ones...
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    I can't even convince you that I made a mistake. This is so pointless.

    Feel free to do a victory dance or whatever you do when your presupposed responses sufficiently wear down someone’s desire...
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    And yet you act like it doesn't affect the present in the slightest. Again, the topic of a conversation is a two-way street.

    As I have explained multiple times, a statistical disparity in and of...
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    Thus,
    [/QUOTE]

    Remember when I kept droning on and on and on and on about housing discrimination and slavery and stuff? That was me trying to get you to admit that black people became poor due...
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    And I’ll say the same thing I said. Those making claims affirming the existence of systemic racism defined it. I addressed the claims on their own terms. It doesn’t matter what I personally believe...
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    As a courtesy, could you maybe look in a mirror and quit insulting my intelligence once in a while? Acting patronizing may be a great way to “win” “debates” on the internet, but it's actually...
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    Poll: Re: USA elections 2020 - 2021

    I mean, the president's behavior was a factor. My perspective is that in close races, there is no one thing that costs a candidate the election, no single straw that broke the camel's back. We may...
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    You’re just repeating yourself and refusing to examine any other possible effects that it had. I also made the case that blockbusting can cause racial breakdowns of city neighborhoods to change...
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    Poll: Re: USA elections 2020 - 2021

    Still a close couple of races: nearly identical instate fundraising, close polls, purple state, and a very close presidential election result back in November. Most of the outstanding votes are in...
  17. Re: The Fight for Mediterranean: Turkey, Greece, France, Libya, Egypt ...

    Arclengths can be approximated with straight lines from one point on a curve to another. Using small measuring lines will yield a more accurate result of the length. Calculus effectively allows us...
  18. Re: The Fight for Mediterranean: Turkey, Greece, France, Libya, Egypt ...

    This might come across as pedantic, but why do the lengths of coastline matter for legal claims over certain waters? I thought that they were mathematically ill-defined because you can just make a...
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    Re: What is the West?

    It sounds like you view the West as strictly being the countries that have a particular kind of government: a liberal democracy. And while there might be a certain kind of sense to call liberal...
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    Re: Are you worth saving?

    I will admit that I’m not very well-versed in more Eastern Orthodox schools of theology, but I’m usually unimpressed by it when I encounter it. It’s not really “the most minimal of effort” to repent...
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    Re: What is the West?

    It seems as if I had been stumbling around the edges of that article for ages. Some of the stuff I had read before I decided to make this thread seem to have at least partly influenced by it. ...
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    Well, there clearly are some American cities with informally segregated areas. I don’t think that’s up for debate. But here’s another implication of redlining: it didn’t have to be creating...
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    Poll: Re: USA elections 2020

    Imagine backing up your political opinions with evidence.
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    Re: Are you worth saving?

    I think that for a lot of Christians there is some point they have to resolve for themselves the tension between the theological concept of original sin with their belief in human rights and whatnot....
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    Re: A Worldwide Pandemic - how is it effecting you?

    Civil Engineering with an emphasis in structural design. It's not the usual profile for someone in TWC, but here I am studying concrete, steel, and dirt for years.



    It's good to hear that my...
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    Re: What is the West?

    Why would any describe the Christian world as a distinct entity if there is not a non-Christian world to compare it with? Why would that concept even exist?



    Well, enlightenment thinkers had...
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    Redlining was banned 50 years ago. To prove that redlining is still causing the current wealth gap (the example given) one would need to establish, at a minimum, that
    A) formerly redlined areas at...
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    What is the West?

    In a couple of semi-recent political conversations, the person I was talking to or myself would start invoking the concept of “the West”. It could be western values, western culture, or just the...
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    Re: A Worldwide Pandemic - how is it effecting you?

    I was fortunate that my teachers all had a pretty similar online class format. I think it helped that they were all in the same department and not intro level classes.

    My school does quarters...
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    Re: Banning books is the dumb way to go

    In days past, the average book ban in the U.S. was by a local school district that would remove stuff like To Kill a Mockingbird because they didn't want to teach kids that racism exists or whatever....
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    It matters to me.



    We've been through this. It's been unaddressed because I don't get what you're trying to say.
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    Re: USA elections 2020

    Well, I'm being snarky because I didn't ask them what systemic racism means. I asked you. And boy have you been evasive on answering that one so far.

    If it's a simple thing to define, then why...
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to say here. Can you please rephrase?



    I think that those are all neat ideas. So why do you keep disagreeing with me so much?



    I think...
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    Re: Trump's Pardons

    One unique thing about President Trump's pardons is that he hasn't pardoned very many people. Right now, it's less than fifty. Trump and Papa Bush are the only presidents after Ford who didn't...
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    Re: What makes a villain?

    Let's all stick to the topic. This thread is about the concept of villainy, not God.
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    I don’t quite follow what you are saying here. Could you please carefully define systemic racism and what you associate with it?



    You still missed the point. You have said that America has no...
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    Re: A Worldwide Pandemic - how is it effecting you?

    It's a little bit refreshing to stress about something different. It's been a bit of an extended break from the rat race of the collegiate life for me.

    Quarantine boredom brought me back to TWC...
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    Sticky: Re: Friday/Saturday/Sunday morning preaching.

    Can confirm this is catholic life[/QUOTE]
    It is known: Roman Catholics who know their catechisms are basically just those peasants from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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    Re: Does systemic racism exist in the US?

    You said it yourself: Jim Crow existed. Do I really have to explain to you how old-timey racism impoverished people, many of whom are still poor?



    At a certain point, what difference does it...
  40. Re: President-Elect Biden Begins Naming Appointees

    Okay, I’m no bureaucratic wunderkind, so there are some nuances in the civil service that I don’t fully grasp yet. It may be a somewhat different situation with a president being reelected, or a new...
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