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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Electoral college factor |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 07 Apr 2024, 6:29 pm
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Ahhhh, so the real election is in who gets to unfairly bias the electoral college. Not who gets the most votes. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Trump selling Bibles |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 07 Apr 2024, 5:24 pm
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Replies: 39 Views: 4,511
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What's with the flag? Don't they know the Bible is unamerican? It wasn't even written in America. And the King James Version was created to satisfy King James' personal politics because he didn't like the Geneva version (side note, I spoke with the pastor of a large church, who had been educated in ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why Do Some Leftists Love Fictional Villain Monarchs? |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 07 Apr 2024, 5:12 pm
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Replies: 34 Views: 3,523
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I've never understood the position of "our society concentrates too much power into the hands of too few, so let's switch to a system that concentrates far more power into the hands of even fewer". |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Omnism |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 06 Apr 2024, 6:18 pm
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Replies: 8 Views: 1,203
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Hinduism has a pantheon of hundreds of Gods but most of them are avatars (manifestations) of higher ranking gods, many of which are in turn avatars of still higher gods. And (depending upon the sect) it all traces up to the top three gods (the Trimurti) of Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the preserve... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: The Legend of Dragons |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 06 Apr 2024, 7:23 am
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Replies: 48 Views: 6,204
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naturalplastic wrote: Ummm...sure. Here you go. I'll admit there might be some other explanation for it but at the time I was seriously spooked out.
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: I'm 29. Can I live to see gay marriage in Japan? |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 06 Apr 2024, 7:15 am
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Replies: 4 Views: 8,202
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I think so. Just look at how much Japan's views have changed in the last 75 years. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Grotesque Human Rights Scandal Happening To Autistic People |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 04 Apr 2024, 4:46 pm
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Replies: 12 Views: 5,395
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This was already happening in my parent's and grandparent's time -- very likely even earlier. What they called "cripples" and "ret*ds" (their words, not mine) were often kept out of sight from the general community. Those who could afford it would send their children away; those... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I’m just curious to know |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 04 Apr 2024, 4:34 pm
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Replies: 28 Views: 1,693
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I don't know if I'm disabled or differently-abled or whatever but there are just some things I'm not able to do. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do You Hide Your Special Interest? |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 04 Apr 2024, 4:32 pm
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Replies: 63 Views: 10,725
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ElmersTrueLove wrote: Do You Hide Your Special Interest? Yes. I do. I have a dark confession to make... I like trains! I don't often tell people because I don't want them to think I'm a foamer. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Weird Little Things You Used to be Interested In |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 04 Apr 2024, 4:29 pm
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Replies: 8 Views: 4,140
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One weird little thing I used to be interested in was collecting dust. I had a dust collection. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: How does 40 year old look any different than a 38 year old? |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 03 Apr 2024, 4:45 am
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Replies: 9 Views: 4,999
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auntblabby wrote: I look far different than I did from present decade to previous decade. gravity and the years under the sun spare nobody. Fortunately I'm wearing my anti-gravity underpants |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Changing the clocks twice a year is bad. |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 03 Apr 2024, 4:43 am
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Replies: 24 Views: 5,219
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Time is just a conspiracy to sell more clocks. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Fermi Paradox explained by Prof Brian Cox |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 03 Apr 2024, 4:40 am
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Replies: 33 Views: 3,150
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I'm disappointed. I thought Professor Brian Cox would have solved the Fermi Paradox by now.
Maybe Liu Cixin has the right answer with his dark forest theory. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Bible says nothing about transgender people. |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 03 Apr 2024, 4:30 am
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Replies: 72 Views: 2,834
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It never says in the Bible that people can't be transgender or identify as a gender different from that assigned at birth. So why do some people act like the Bible is against people being transgender? Modern Christianity is a modern religion. They claim to be thousands of years old but their religi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sick and tired of identity politics |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 03 Apr 2024, 4:28 am
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Replies: 115 Views: 6,207
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The opposite of identity politics is just another form of identity politics. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: The Legend of Dragons |
RetroGamer87 |
Posted: 03 Apr 2024, 4:26 am
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Replies: 48 Views: 6,204
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I saw a dragon flying through the sky when I was in China. Does anyone want to see the photo I took of it? |
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