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Atheist Angers Christians With Bible Verse
I think that is precisely the point. It wasn't written for *us*, so why do so many treat it as if it was? It may as well be written in latin, given that to get the "true" meaning you need scholars to provide you with context, to steer you must past imperfect translation and to point out which side of the contradictions to fall on. One might wonder why it is so nebulous, and who it serves by being so.
I mean, Christians can't even agree on which day to go to Church. Not sure why I'd pay too much credence when there doesn't seem to be much consensus on what The Word actually is.
Yes indeed! The full quote has a specific meaning: that women should stay silent in church as per the law. This was the law of the land at the time and is strange for Paul to say since he supposedly held the law (Mosaic Law) in disdain. His particular instructions were only intended for the people he was speaking to. He didn't forsee that some person would attempt, two millenium later, to apply those intructions to a foreign situation.
Very importantly, only recently in history have some versions of Christianity abandoned what is called Tradition and started taking the word of the bible as its own contextual source (sola scriptura). The Orthodox and Catholic churches have Tradition and it lays down a continual (2000 year old) framework for which to interpret the bible and other aspects of the religion.
I'm not a scholar in this area so I don't know a lot, perhaps someone else can chime in.
TLDR - the verse has been taken out of context.
Sciency stuff about the American kilogram - Veritasium
Recently I was surprised to see a ruler that had centimetres on both edges.
I have no fucking idea what imperial weights are but more often than not I'll give my height in feet.
In Canada, we like to mix up both systems. We get our weather temperatures in Celcius , but we prefer our pool temperatures in Fahrenheit. Construction plans are laid out in millimeters, but materials are sold in inches (thank you USA). So, we have to be bilingual in units as well, eh.
How to Rapidly Draw Dotted Lines on a Chalkboard
Yes.
I also predicted the ending.
Seeing his hands covered in chalk dust made me want to wash mine thoroughly. Don't know why I didn't see that coming.
Did anyone else immediately know it was a skipping sound?
4 Revolutionary Riddles
1) Some sort of viscous liquid, like honey.
2) Yeah... I thought v1=1 and v2=3, but then I realised that was actually more like t1=3, t2=1 which is not quite what the question asked.
3) Most of the bike will go forwards.
4) First thought was the wheels, but it would only ever be the very outside edge of the wheel in contact with the ground, only on driven wheels, and only if the wheel was slipping.
edit. I knew there was a reason it had to be a train and not a car. The rims of the train wheels extend past the contact point with the rails, so they will be moving backwards (well, part of them) even if the wheels don't slip.
newtboy (Member Profile)
Perhaps I am being obtuse but I feel that one of us, or perhaps both of us, are not understanding the other.
A parallel: After Brexit there was some rather ugly anti-immigrant stuff flying around. "Polish vermin" etc. I did, in my bitterness, fantasise about a UK without immigrants because it would be such deliciously ironic justice. I mean, in reality I'd have my Polish friends and a country that actually functions rather than "I told you sos" and packing bags... but still, sometimes I do wish lessons would be learned the only way some will ever learn them.
Yeah...except that ignores your original point, that without non-whites efforts, 'merica would implode. I don't feel like a racially pure white supremacist nation would be a utopia in any way, even though I'm extremely white. (for one, my wife would have to go, not cool, and probably me for marrying her)
5 Comma Types That Can Make Or Break a Sentence
I definitely leave the comma IN and OUT because I believe a life should be lived in balance, and also without an overabundance of care for proper punctuation.
Can tilapia skin be used to bandage burns?
I sense the beginnings of a lame superhero origin story.
TILAPIAMAN
Every vehicle in the President's motorcade, explained
Soooo...you're saying we need to find another way to get rid of Trump. Gotcha.
Why Love Is Never As Nice As It Should Be
Love, love is verb /
Love is a doing word
I'm not sure it should be unconditional though. And Eros is fun sometimes.
Love is an action word; it is something that you do. People today think love is a feeling but what happens when the feeling runs out?
"I'm not in love with you anymore" = I don't feel love for you anymore
This is an inferior type of love which is based on feelings and physical desire. In greek it is called Eros.
There is another type of love called Agape love, which is unconditional love. It means I love you whether I feel it or not, and regardless of whether you return it to me or not.
Eros is selfish love, and Agape is unconditional love. Many marriages have ended because they were based on Eros, and not Agape love.
How Not to be Boring
This one certainly rings very true to me.
Who else spent their late teens and early twenties trying to maintain a cool disinterested facade before eventually realising that it was unbearably lonely because anybody who tried to get close to you invariably slipped into a coma? o/
6 Construction Failures, and What We Learned From Them
On the Citicorp Center:
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/structural-integrity/
Interesting story.
Obamacare in Trump Country
To quote Trump, "Sad!".
Don't bite a gift horse in the hand that feeds the mouth. Or some similar proverb.
Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents | WIRED
Interesting.
I don't say "advertisement" like a normal Brit even though I was born and raised here. Just throwin that out there in case anybody ever has to play me in a movie.
I knew one Polish woman that spoke like she was from California. She'd never been there, she just picked up a more Americanised version of English from TV, film etc. I wonder if this guy would be able to tell where she was from.
Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like? - Veritasium
Not in a position to make any judgement about its validity, but it certainly is an interesting idea.
Engineering the Perfect Pop-Up Book
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.
The thumbnail makes it look like he's holding a book about vaginas.