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  1. tango

    Cash vs Gift Card

    Cash every time. Cash can be stored in a bank account for safe keeping. It can be combined with other gifts of cash, and it can be spent anywhere. It doesn't come with terms and conditions and scammers can't steal the value of it without you noticing until it's too late. Gift cards are...
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    Olive Wood Prayer Crosses

    My wife has a cross, although I'm not sure what wood it is made from. Her cross is shaped to make it easy to hold. As you say it has no special powers but sometimes she likes to hold onto it.
  3. tango

    Dietary restrictions

    If people can't decide whether it is a nightshade or not and you have reactions to nightshades and have reactions to zucchini, maybe it is a nightshade. I've never heard that collective term before, other than in the context of deadly berries and I figured you weren't talking about eating...
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    Dietary restrictions

    Nothing aside from preferences. Some things make me want to hurl, some things I can't stand the taste of. Aside from that I eat most things that stay still long enough.
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    Dietary restrictions

    Nightshades? What foods have those in them? When I think of nightshades I think of things like deadly nightshade and that's not something I eat very often.
  6. tango

    What are the pros and cons

    If you look after them yourself you save the ruinous costs of care homes. You also have more control over their care regime. And it means you get to spend more time with your parents in their twilight years. The downsides are that you have to provide the care or have someone else visiting your...
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    Adam and Eve

    God said they could do pretty much anything they wanted except eat the forbidden fruit, and they ate the forbidden fruit. So there was only one rule in existence, and they broke it.
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    Trump Is Disqualified From 2024 Ballot

    I'd really rather not see Trump back in the White House but this smacks of political shenanigans rather than anything else. After the allegations that Trump incited a riot I read his speech, and didn't see anything in it that could be interpreted as inciting a riot. But then those on the left...
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    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    I've also been eating more than usual lately (Christmas and all that) and exercising somewhat less (it's cold outside, so I'm tending to walk rather than run more often and do the shorter loops) but so far it seems nothing has gone out of control. Weight alone is only useful up to a point. In...
  10. tango

    Off limit areas

    Locking doors is a remarkably effective way of doing that.
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    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    My suggested workout was two threshold intervals. I didn't feel like doing that because it was quite chilly outside so just went for a free run without specific intervals being set up ahead of time. And I ended up clocking a faster workout than the suggested one, holding an average pace on a par...
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    When visiting for the holidays

    This seems like a situation where there's no obvious right answer. In a way it's easy to say they shouldn't share a room but if they are living together anyway it seems like an exercise in posturing to insist that, for the sake of these few days, they have to act as if they aren't living...
  13. tango

    Banned Books

    Well, I did say that banning a book from an adult library should require a very high burden of justification. Feel free to refer back to post #3 where I said "To ban a book from a library intended for adults would require that it be deemed unsuitable for anyone. That should have a very high...
  14. tango

    Once Saved, Always Saved

    I think the problem here is that in the OSAS situations you described there's no way of knowing whether the faith is even real. In the other threads where we've discussed the process of salvation, unless I misunderstand your position there's no way of knowing whether that faith comes from within...
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    Sinful Art

    It seems to me that it's more about our interaction with stuff than what stuff we have. Some people worship Buddha, so we might argue that we shouldn't have them in our homes. But then some people worship Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian and yet it would be absurd to say we shouldn't have...
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    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    That makes sense. When my feet get really cold it's usually because I'm walking on the cold floor. If I put warm socks on and wear something to keep my feet off the floor that doesn't always help because they are already cold. If I warm them up by some other means (usually the radiator) then all...
  17. tango

    Banned Books

    In a public library I wouldn't necessarily expect a publication titled "How to make bombs and kill people" but it's not difficult to find information on how to make explosives from something like a chemistry reference textbook. I wouldn't expect chemistry books to be banned on the basis some...
  18. tango

    Once Saved, Always Saved

    I know this isn't the topic of the current thread but, since we've mentioned a related topic in other threads, I'm struggling to see how you reconcile what you're posting here with what you've said in other threads about salvation itself. Unless I've misunderstood your position you believe that...
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    Once Saved, Always Saved

    I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. I may conclude that Toyotas are better than Chevys and buy a Toyota without concluding that Chevys have no value at all and are worth nothing compared to the chance to own a Toyota. Maybe I bought a Toyota because the dealer offered me a package I couldn't...
  20. tango

    Banned Books

    I agree with Josiah. To ban a book from a library intended for adults would require that it be deemed unsuitable for anyone. That should have a very high burden of justification. Restricting books in schools based on being age appropriate is entirely appropriate. If you go somewhere like the...
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