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Usually people posting questions show some signs of wanting to get an answer to their questions. When you post more or less the same question time and time again with minor variations it makes me wonder whether you want an answer or just want to vent. But then you post in ways that suggest you...

First of all, get rid of this term "torture" and try "torment" instead. It might sound like semantic gymnastics but think of the difference between someone actively inflicting pain on you, and you knowing that you were the author of your own misfortune. To use the party analogy I've used in...

So an omnipotent God must do it the way you would do it? God should make everybody's life all sunshine and roses so there are no challenges, because that's what you think life should be? If you ever get to be God then by all means do it the way you think it should be done. For now it seems all...

... or maybe accept that some people just don't want to hear it? Lots of your "solutions" turn into little more than "Why doesn't God just force us to do it?" while at the same time you complain about God being like a dictator.

Cheaper than dealing with $20/hour minimum wage I guess, especially since there's no way of knowing what crackpot idea Fuhrer Newsom will dream up next to drive businesses out.

I'm not anti-vaccine in general but the whole Covid farce has more or less destroyed any faith I had in government health departments.

So you're saying something relatively simple should be able to understand something far more complex? You seem to be back to complaining that God can't be God because we aren't God.

A lot of chargers these days are generic bricks that can be used with any USB cable, so I tend to keep those. I have more than I need. Chargers with specific cables attached tend to go in the metal recycling, if I no longer have the item they charged or anything else that could be charged with...

I never took the vaccine. Frankly I found the argument "we need people to take the vaccine even if you have had the virus because we don't know how long the natural immunity lasts" to be laughably weak, given we didn't know how long vaccine immunity lasted either. So I held off on it, figuring...

Metal vocals are often raspy and shouted, particularly with the more extreme styles. I'd be interested to know what you think about the tunes when the distortion is removed, like here

Yes, because if a Muslim blows up a building we're endlessly reminded that not all Muslims blow up buildings, but if a Christian pickets a funeral waving a sign saying nasty things we're endlessly reminded that all Christians are bigots.

I haven't but a Jewish friend of mine has often ordered pizza with mushrooms and anchovies when I've met with him.

Some of them are valid enough, and some of them seem to be little more than "I heard some guy at the pub say that churches are (whatever) and so I won't go to church". If you have to work on Sundays you can't go to church on Sundays. Whatever people say about going to church, if you don't work...

I always sign them. It takes a moment and lasts for years. If you don't sign the card and someone steals it they can sign it themselves and make it easier for themselves to pass off as you. Most places don't ask for signatures and even if they do ask they don't check. I just don't see why you...

Seems like a great way to turn a spiritual message into a secular message backed by some kind of appeal to authority. Scripture does tell us to look after the poor and the immigrant. It also recognises private property rights and talks of individual charity rather than central welfare systems...

I had a pet snake for nearly 20 years. I got her as a hatchling and kept her until she developed a heart condition common to snakes and the vet said the best thing to do was to put her out of her misery. Because of the way snake anatomy is laid out in a long line an enlarged heart prevents a...

I'll either leave the room presentable or strip the bed. I ask the host what they would prefer, there's no sense stripping the bed and leaving a pile of sheets if they're not planning house guests for a while and weren't planning on washing the sheets until they've cleared a backlog of other...

"Dad, can I have a beer?" "No son, you're only 8 and you're not old enough to drink alcohol" "Dad, can I have a cigarette?" "No son, you're only 8 and you're not old enough to smoke" "Dad, can I drive the car?" "No son, you're not old enough to drive" "Dad, can I get married?" "No son...

Curiously that well known hotbed of hardcore conservative philosophy, Sweden, has been moving to restrict if not outright ban gender medicine for minors. The recent Cass report in the UK (currently under a Conservative government but still generally further to the left politically then the US)...

Sooner or later it was inevitable. When we had the idea of "sanctuary cities" where blue cities refused to enforce Republican-backed immigration laws it was clear it was only a matter of time before red cities or red states would refuse to enforce Democrat-backed laws of some other nature. My...