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It can be pretty intense, depending on how deep it is and what area you're clearing. Sometimes my wife and I have chalked up several thousand steps just clearing snow from our driveway. When it's deep and heavy, and we need to walk back and forth working with partial shovel widths at a time...

Also true in the winter, although the people who attend the gym regularly are more likely to be the more healthy ones. Yesterday I finally got a run in, for the first time in a week. Today I walked because we had snow and wind. For much of the walk there was no wind and I thought I could have...

If people want to give to someone who has unimaginably more than they have, they are free to do so. It seems a bit tone deaf to ask for money to replace your third mansion when others have literally nothing left, but that seems to sum up a lot of celebrity culture. It's all about me, after all...

I'd probably tell my wife to grab anything that was specifically important to her, while I gathered up things like my laptop and a few practical items. I'd need my laptop to do things like get online and make sure bills were paid, and I have digital copies of documents that are important. We...

Fair call, the difference between Calvinists and the ones you called hyper-Calvinists (not unreasonably, IMO) is a good distinction to repeat here.

They aren't the worst I've walked in. Sometimes I've had to lean hard into the wind, and times it's been hard enough to make me stumble sideways a step or two when a gust catches me. I wish there was a gym nearer me, the trouble is that when the weather is nasty and I don't really want to be...

Hard to say in many ways. I moved from the city to the country and really enjoy having lots of space and a house big enough to have space for things, but at the same time I miss being able to go out for the evening without considering driving home again. It's really handy meeting a friend at the...

Given how liberal Canada is compared to the US I can't imagine a Republican president would want more liberals in the Senate. That alone would suggest he's not serious about Canada. Controlling the Panama Canal might have its advantages but would also come with a lot of costs. Is he proposing...

That's OK, I can collect if that's the only reason not to do it. Just let me know where to collect it :)

Exactly. The original post talked about Calvinists and the view that God is responsible for people going to hell, a view that I think leads into some of these questions.

Wow, this thread went quiet for a while. It's not much fun exercising outdoors for me either, I've only been for one run this month because of the cold and the wind (the wind is more of a problem). Today looks like it's going to be another case of bundling up and going for a walk. I'm tired of...

I don't honestly think it makes any difference. Some people wear crosses because they are committed Christians, others wear crosses because it's a cool piece of jewelry. If you're wearing a piece of jewelry that's clearly at odds with the message you're trying to convey that potentially changes...

A shiny black Lamborghini Aventador Roadster shipped to my home address in recognition of my numerous erudite posts would be nice. (I suspect that's not the kind of suggestion you were seeking :P )

Sure, but it requires that we have the ability to choose between the two. If Adam and Eve had no choice but to eat the forbidden fruit how can we say it was their fault that they did eat it?

One trouble with predestination is that it opens up huge cans of worms every which way. If Adam and Eve were preordained to eat the forbidden fruit then can we say it was their fault?

Presumably, although my understanding was that the original point of the H1B was to fill the gaps where it was hard to find an American citizen who could do the job. If companies have found a way to hire someone from India with only comparable experience, and pay them a lot less because their...

True, although the people who show up at church on a Sunday and then live the rest of the week as if there were no God, who regard church as little more than a Sunday morning social club, may or may not be in the faith at all. Someone can't be "kept in the faith" if they were never there to...

Why would American citizens need a visa? I suspect something got lost in translation there.

It's hard to know how many in the west who profess to be Christian would stand by that profession in the face of real persecution. In the west people cry about persecution when they are told not to wear a cross on a chain to work. In the east what they call persecution is when you're dragged...

So much depends on the situation. Assuming you're not talking about small children, the people who always play the victim get really tedious. In a work situation there might not be very many options to avoid them, so documenting everything is a good thing because the chances are sooner or later...