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  1. tango

    Jury duty

    I heard two cases during my stint as a juror. One was a case where two guys were accused of attempted murder. The defense was creative to say the least but after seven days of hearing evidence we rejected the defense's claims and returned a unanimous guilty verdict within an afternoon. I went...
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    Accidentally locked yourself out

    A couple of years ago I went for a walk with my wife. When we got back home I took the keys out of my pocket and found.... the keys to my friend's house. Oops. I tried to pick the lock but didn't have the tools accessible to make anything to do it properly. In the end I called a friend who has...
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    Eighth deadly sin,

    Getting caught.
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    Are you watching the Super Bowl today?

    Nope.
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    Attendance at local church

    I'm surprised anyone listens to Forki-tongue any more. But, you know, each to their own.
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    Should people who aren’t organ donors.

    I don't see why not. Some people may be medically unable to donate organs, in which case there's no need to deny them an organ. People who are opposed to organ donation are probably equally opposed to receiving a donated organ. In any event we desperately need to get away from the attitude...
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    Jesus can change people?

    You wouldn't be the only one who thinks something about life might be different. I'd hazard a guess that many, if not most, people have imagined ways they think things might be better. The big question is whether you're willing to accept that God knows best. It sounds trite to put it that way...
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    Doxastic voluntarism and involuntarism

    If it's possible to create such a text go ahead. Give an example. My point with the examples is that even when something is clear you can rip context away to make it look like it says something else. But feel free to provide a piece of text that's comprehensive enough to mean something and...
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    Attendance at local church

    It's useful to list something specific rather than simply responding to links with "meh, not true", no?
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    What is your view on proselytizing?

    There's a big difference between an intervention to save someone from an immediate danger, and a lecture about a future danger when the target isn't interested in the warning. Danger right here and right now that could kill or seriously harm someone may warrant taking immediate action. It's not...
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    Jesus can change people?

    It's not an appeal to fear at all. I'm just saying I wouldn't be too quick to assume that I know better than God. Trying to become greater than God is what Lucifer did and it didn't work out well for him. Not an appeal to fear, just a statement of what's in the Bible. It's in Isaiah 14 if you...
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    An extra $1,000 every month

    Clearing out can be surprisingly easy. Last time my wife and I moved we took the chance to have a massive clearout, partly to reduce moving costs and partly to avoid our new house being cluttered right from the start. It was remarkable just how much stuff we got rid of. With few exceptions we...
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    What is your view on proselytizing?

    You really need to be careful to make relevant comparisons in discussions like this one. Back in my teenage years I was hanging out with a group of friends. One of the girls in the group had an open can of soda. We were all chatting and people had left their drinks on a table. I noticed a wasp...
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    An extra $1,000 every month

    I'd probably travel a bit more, eat out with friends a bit more and give some of it to deserving local causes.
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    Doxastic voluntarism and involuntarism

    It isn't semantically possible to create such a text. Take something as unambiguous as this, taken from the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not commit adultery" Doesn't get much clearer than that, right? Try a little semantic gymnastics with it... "Thou shalt.... commit adultery" Oops. If...
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    The cheap version

    I guess with a lot of that stuff it's down to choosing an appropriate price point. I wouldn't buy cheap remolded tires for my car but I don't need the ultra-speed rated options either. Curiously the most comfortable footwear I've found in a while are the running shoes I get for $50. They are...
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    Things you realize as you get older

    On a loosely related note, if you eat the entire cake without cutting it into slices then technically you only had one piece of cake.
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    Jesus can change people?

    It doesn't matter in the sense that speculation is pointless. God could have created the earth as a giant bouncy castle with gravity that inverted every few seconds, so we'd all be bouncing around everywhere wondering why nothing stayed still. If we impose our views of what we think God should...
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    Most famous person you've ever met

    Not so much "met" as "nearly ran into". David Cameron, then the UK Prime Minister. He was out jogging in London with a police protection office and I nearly ran into him. I only figured who he was after he had gone. I met the members of a few Christian heavy metal bands back in the late...
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    Doxastic voluntarism and involuntarism

    You test it thoroughly. But test it objectively and rigorously, not like a lot of people who are clearly looking to find something, anything, that they can point to as "proof" that nothing is true. If it truly doesn't align it's easy to see how they would struggle to accept it. Without...
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