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After 11 years I think I'd just mark it "gone away, return to sender" and put it back in the mail.

That can certainly be an issue with anything that's "low fat" or similar - if something is half the fat and you eat twice as much of it then you're no further forward than if you ate a regular amount of the regular fat version. When sugar is completely replaced with artificial sweeteners and...

I don't drink diet beverages so can't say I have noticed a link, but it's certainly a plausible concept - something that tricks the body into thinking it's taking on sugar triggering a response from the body consistent with taking on sugar.

From what I've read about the situation it seems a chimpanzee could have done a better job of securing the perimeter. It's hard to see how a body specifically tasked with protecting high value targets could fail so spectacularly without the head of the body losing their job (through firing or...

Depends what it is. We periodically get mail for a particular person delivered to our mailbox. This person might have been the previous owner of the box but we've had the box for something like 15 years now. The first couple of times we gave it back to the staff but from what they said it was...

The amount seems to be "think of a number and double it". When so many healthcare plans have huge deductibles and so many Americans have less than $500 in spare cash to meet an emergency, many people are functionally uninsured. It's great that the insurance will kick in once you pay the first...

To borrow from what Josiah and others have said here and elsewhere, so much for democracy. The party endlessly claiming that their opponent is a threat to democracy fairly elected one candidate, then he pulled out and anointed his chosen successor and the rank and file members don't get a look...

I guess the decision is whether you want to continue the friendship. Personally I don't know how much time I'd make for someone who called themself my friend but spent a lot of time insulting people like me on social media. I have more or less distanced myself from a couple I used to consider...

I think you've answered your own question there? Do you need a specific form of words to ask someone to stop insulting you based on what you believe? If she constantly insults you I'd have to ask how good a friend she actually is. If she thinks what she's doing is friendly teasing but you find...

As people have said here and elsewhere in news articles the optics of rejecting the first black woman to appear at the top of a presidential ticket would be pretty bad for the party so obsessed with putting black women everywhere. It would have to be the ultimate indication that they want black...

Put it in my wallet, most likely.

... and you keep coming back to this insistence on speaking in tongues. The insistence that the presence of the Holy Ghost must be evidenced by speaking in tongues is a specific denominational stance. You can use as many words as you want about the specific instance in Acts 2. At the time...

But, but, but, it's the Nasty Republicans who are the threat to democracy. Never mind the Democrats ignoring the election and letting a small group decide who else gets to play, it's that nasty orangeman who is the danger. Never mind the Democrats using the DOJ as a blunt instrument to stop...

... and yet you insist on demanding certain signs that Scripture does not demand, based on a very denominational interpretation of one very specific passage. ... and yet you do expect speaking in tongues to be a sign of the Holy Spirit. Why one and not the other? Scripture is equally silent on...

Do you need to put an end to it? You can't meet people where they are if you won't listen to where they are.

Your argument is that you cannot see purpose in it and from there you conclude that no purpose exists. It's the same as you've presented several times now. You can believe without fully understanding, no? Unless your argument is that you cannot possibly believe in something that is beyond your...

It's all very convenient until you find you can't stop it and the company won't stop it until you jump through their process, which is designed to be as tedious as possible in the hope you won't ever get around to completing it.

You keep saying you've explained it while your argument remains little more than "I don't see the purpose of this, therefore no purpose exists. Other people saying an argument is valid doesn't mean anything. You've made accusations of ad hominem attacks while throwing around your own logical...

The people speaking in other tongues were heard by those around them who spoke the tongues naturally. People heard the simple disciples speaking in their tongues and marveled. It served a purpose. If I receive the Holy Spirit in the privacy of my own living room, or in a church surrounded by...

So we're back to the assumption that what happened in Acts 2 is prescriptive and must therefore happen every single other time the Holy Spirit is received? Someone speaks in tongues for a time, regardless of whether it serves any purpose or not, and then stops speaking in tongues at some...