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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...

You know, there's really no point continuing this. Either you're totally missing what I'm saying or you're throwing up endless strawmen to muddy the waters. Either way I'm done with this.

Hence my earlier comments about this potentially indicating that people don't want their worldview shaken, or people believing your theories lack merit. I don't blame my lack of interest on you. Nice try though. Strawmen always make for a good discussion.

Where did I object to your conclusions? You can't complain I'm not addressing your material while also complaining I object to your conclusions. I haven't read your material in enough detail to form an opinion one way or the other as to its merit. There are so many people online pushing one...

You missed the point entirely, even as you quoted it repeatedly. Try again, read it slowly if it helps. If people reject your theories it may mean one of two things: 1. They don't want their worldview shaken 2. Your theories lack merit. Notice that there are two options there, one of which...

... and still you refuse to actually read what I wrote. Try reading what other people write before assuming what they are saying. It really helps a lot.

For someone not after a following you seem remarkably concerned that people don't accept your assertions.

I guess you didn't actually read my post. Try reading the post again and actually addressing it. Or maybe your conclusions are wrong. It could be your conclusions are right and people don't want their worldviews shaken, it could be that your conclusions are wrong. If all you have to go on is...

A recurring theme in your posts here is that the responses you are seeing might mean you're onto something and people don't want their worldview shaken, but might also mean that your theories lack merit and people don't want to spend their time on them. To insist that people not jumping on what...

I've known services to be cancelled when weather is particularly bad. I think the idea is to avoid a situation where people who live a distance away feel they need to attend - even when services were cancelled there were enough people living locally enough that the service could have gone ahead.

Re-reading this thread reminded me of a story I read some years ago. Allegedly a true story, about a guy who was buying ice cream in the summertime, and was rooting through his pockets trying to find the coupon that gave him 25c off his ice cream. Eventually the person in line behind him just...

When you said one bathroom was easier to access than the other I figured it was a larger stall. There are some impressive wheelchairs out there. I used to regularly visit a park where an elite wheelchair athlete trained. Seeing him move around was impressive.

That's odd. I can't really comment on how accessible the stall actually is, not being a wheelchair user myself, but it looks like it should be accessible. Although it was a very elderly congregation virtually everyone was more or less mobile, although a few used walking aids.

I like cherries. I should dig out a recipe for cherry cakes or cherry cookies or something, ready for next year when the cherries are in season.

Gotta love people who misquote and misrepresent. My post talked of believing without fully understanding. You conveniently missed out the fully, leading to a misrepresentation of my point and a worthless reply.

It can be tricky. I heard something of a conversation at my last church about upgrading the bathrooms - the men's room has a wide stall (I assume the women's does too) but apparently it doesn't meet current requirements. To make it wider would mean either losing the other stall completely, or...