Mr. Chatywin et al.

Depending on how you want to define Gorsuch, 6 or 7 of the SC Justices are Catholics. That's pretty stupid.

You've failed me for the first time and the last time.

Bless their hearts. Not all, just a lot, and it should stand out that he's the type of figure the Bible specifically warns against yet so many love him. Kind of makes sense that people who are atheists/agnostics tend to actually know more about the Bible than people who claim it's the center of their world view. And Trump has only further corrupted the Christians that support him.

I've never heard that either, but weren't a lot of people pissed off that he wasn't a unanimous first ballot HoFer? He certainly belongs, but he played with two better players who aren't going to get in and at a time where maybe the best player ever played and he also won't get in (and all three were better before the juice). Jeter got a strange amount of love imo especially since he's a pretty boring guy. Kobe was at least incredibly interesting, even if it wasn't always in a positive way (and that's not even including the rape case).

And yet a good number of them probably also voted for him and will so again.

Sigh, step-dad had to be carried out again after falling. He spent a day laying on the floor. I don't want to wish for his death, but nobody can take this anymore. It would be one thing if he was trying, but he's accepted defeat and is making it as hard as he can on all of us without a care.

Even before his death a lot of people argued he was second best after Jordan. Now obviously the majority of them are younger Lakers fans because there's no argument he's even better than Magic and wasn't even the best Laker of that era. I've argued here that KD is a better player while lacking the number of rings. Kobe is like Jeter to me. Each played 20 seasons for the glamor team in each sport and won five championships. Jeter was never close to the best player in MLB. Maybe Kobe was for a year or two, but LeBron lapped him pretty quickly. The problem with his untimely death in these debates is that a lot of people don't like when you poke holes in the argument for why he should be ranked so high.

Yeah, that spooked me as a kid. The ending to the movie is pretty funny. Idk if they were trying to set up a sequel or just being cheeky.

There are several. Kobe is overrated when compared to the other all-time greats.

He lacks basic critical thinking skills from what you described.

He's sincerely dumb.

Taught in all public schools no less if the teacher believes in it. Ya know, bring prayer back!

Hereditary deserves a shout out. Midsommar was fucked up to.

Simple. E is mean spirited and is probably a narcissist. J is extremely kind and considerate. The former didn't give two shits if I was having a rough day and only wanted to talk about herself for the most part. The latter listens, is understanding and wants to be equal partners. Pretty night and day. Plus J is fun while E seemed kind of boring outside of picking fights at bars when she was drunk. They also both brought up their sexual interests early on with E wanting it to be all about her needs while J wants it to be about what we could do together that would make us both happy. The only thing they really have in common is that they are both attractive women with beautiful eyes and serious...er...assets. Chats can confirm that part as she's seen pics of both of them. Also, like I mentioned a while back, E thought it was really weird that I like posting here and thought pretty low of all of you for wanting to do the same. J thinks it's cute that I've made friends on an online forum where we talk about politics, sports, philosophy, literature, movies, etc. in a both serious and silly way. So again, night and day. I told both of them about how @Fragile Bird got me a book I couldn't really get to complete a collection. E thought that was insane. J found it to be adorable. So that's why I find J to be so different and a much better match.

Brackets be busted. Thankfully I only had UNC in the Final Four.

Bats and balls are back! I'm going to try and follow the Twins a little more this year. 4-1 to start the year.

Sounds like everyone is having issues. 431 has come back and bad lag. I've been getting the human thing too, but that hasn't been a huge issue. The 431 flag still confuses me because I've followed the steps I've found on DIY videos on YouTube and they tend to just be temporary fixes. Who knows. Appreciate all your work Ran. I'm sure you're have a headache.

Jesus thought Hitler had some good ideas. At this point it's probably best to post the problems we're having in the board issues thread up to. That will make it easier on Ran.

This is good for a laugh:

Well to answer Scot's question, you can identify these people because they both say they're devout Christians and think Jesus is too woke. Because that makes so much sense.

It's always funny when you hear, albeit rarely, someone say that Jesus was an American. My guess is their Jesus also caries an Uzi with him wherever he goes.

It's very common for Buddhism and Hinduism to be practiced together. I also think like you said it's common for Buddhist temples to have Hindu shrines to be welcoming even if that specific temple is not teaching the religion. I don't believe I said most. I was just making the point that one can both say they follow a religion and also be an atheist. As to polytheism, many religions that subscribe to this have one god that is the creator. Likewise some monotheistic religions could be interpreted to have demigods. I wouldn't call most polytheists atheists.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is more that some people practice both Buddhism and then another religion that does as there's no conflict in doing so. I think what makes Life of Pi fascinating is that Pi believes in several religions that can have very conflicting viewpoints while also finding atheism to be an interesting concept.

Listening to the GA hearing. This is why I find so many lawyers to be gross. Trump's team is despicable.

But therein lies the rub, you can both be an atheist in the technical sense and buy into a cult that behaves with similar tendencies of religion. And then there is Buddhism, one of the largest religions in the world that doesn't recognize a deity. A Buddhist can both be described as an atheist and religious at the same time. I generally think agnosticism should be the preferred path. Atheism also makes a claim that really can't be proven. I have no problem saying manmade gods are not real, but we still don't know if there is a deity or deities and if there are they problem exist outside of the realm of our understanding. And in that case it's probably best not to worry too much about it/them. Positive spirituality is probably more useful.