This book takes a rubber duck level look at the kind of philosophy it takes to understand the Christian Worldview. If you can understand a rubber duck, you can understand why you can be certain that the Bible is true from the very first page. Learn about God, reality, truth, knowledge and faith! Then, learn a few arguments that prove that the God of the Bible is real, and is the one true God. Finally, spend some time getting to know the GOSPEL! The Good News of the love of God. Jesus Loves You! Read all about it.
Here is a colab I was SO EXCITED to see! Two of my friends, Street Apologist and Rapper Vocab Malone talking with Creation today’s Eric Hovind! They are discussing a recently published attack against the creation account in Genesis, and Eric BRINGS THE RECIPTS!
That’s a hip internet way of saying, he makes a defended case based on reason and evidence. They aren’t doing taxes or anything like that.
Check this out, and share it with all of your friends!
And tell Vocab and Eric that A Bit of Orange sent you.
Over on the article, The Dangers of Transgenderism The Amazing Jonathan said (first quoting me, which is a nice change of pace from the usual attack on things I never said):
“CSI. When the cops arrive at the scene of a grizzly double homicide and find the DNA of the killer, which is XY, they know their suspect is MALE”
I see this as implying you have no idea what DNA is and how forensic analysis are done and for what purpose At the heart of DNA ( Deoxyribonucleic acid ) evidence is the biological molecule itself…
Editor’s Note: At this point, he essentially copies and pastes the entire Wikipedia article on what DNA is. I’m not sure why, as it not only doesn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know, but none of it matters to the point he is making. I see this as implying he has no idea what DNA is… but I digress. He continues:
In reply to an article I wrote about how touch screens and cat robots are replacing low level employees as the minimum wage is increased by “well meaning” politicians who know nothing about economics (Pizza Robots Are Taking Over The World), Dude Spewed said:
WOW! I think you got every single point wrong in this article. Is that a first? Impressive.
The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office ruled Floyd’s death was a homicide caused by “cardiopulmonary arrest” complicated by “restraint, and neck compression” while he was being subdued by police.
McDonald’s did not proclaim they are “replacing all cashiers” with “robots” (or any other form of non-human technology) by the end of 2021. CEO Steve Easterbrook said the company planned to add self-order kiosks to 1,000 stores each quarter for the next eight or nine quarters, an effort which would (if fully implemented) place kiosks in eight or nine thousand U.S. McDonald’s locations by the end of 2021.
From the cotton gin to the Ford assembly line to the ATM, automation is always happening. It’s disingenuous to suggest that employers aren’t always seeking ways to streamline their businesses, no matter what wage they’re paying. there’s no correlation between the adoption of automation and the minimum wage.
Published in 2019, the single most far-reaching study on the minimum wage examined “138 prominent state-level minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 in the United States,” only to find that “the overall number of low-wage jobs remained essentially unchanged over the five years following the increase.”
In other words, the gold-standard study, using 40 years of data from around the United States, found that basically no jobs were lost when the minimum wage went up.
And I replied thusly:
Hey Dudapottamus, Starting out with another cheap, grade school insult? I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. Does it make you feel better about yourself? Does it make you feel SMART? Or do you just want people to think you’re a jerk? Like, does that do something for you?
Hey, great. You do you. Anyway- let’s hit some of your points here:
It’s true- I am into vinyl. So now I also have a long beard and wear sunglasses indoors.
My wife and I talked for years about getting a record player and it always came down to the same thing: Where are we going to put it? We have a small house. No basement. And they cost like $200, and we don’t need it… so we never got one.
But then a friend of mine moved and she gave me some of her antiques to sell, including some records. One of those records was a 78, made of shellack that was more than a hundred years old. The rest were a collection of the best symphonies from the best composers, and I thought… well, someone needs to listen to these.
So I did a little research, and thanks to the inexplicable growth of the popularity of vinyl records, record players are being made again and I got one for $50. Christmas came a few months early this year! And of course, now that we have a record player, we need records to play.
Here’s my philosophy: Some music was recorded and mastered to be put on vinyl records. Other music was recorded to be put on CD. If I’m going to buy records, it should be the music that was MEANT to be on vinyl. Also, if you know where to look (Goodwill) you can get a record for $2. I now have too many records. And the urge to go to Goodwill. I went to a Michigan Goodwill while I was on vacation, and that was after we went to a record store near the lake. We’re not addicted, but we’re a little beyond reasonable. But I digress.
On the article Why Atheism and Parenting Conflict Tony Stark said: Do you actually believe the moronic drivel that comes out of your mouth?
To which I replied: What? No, of course not. I can’t imagine ANYONE believing this nonsense.
On the same article, Atheist Jr. said, America was NOT founded as a Christian nation. It was founded as a secular nation.
‘MERICA!
And amazingly this was his entire comment. I say “amazingly,” not because it’s a surprise, as a thousand atheists before Jr here have done the exact same thing, but because I am always amazed that they bother. I mean, he tosses off this drive-by comment where in he asserts something to the contrary of my stated position, and then POOF he’s gone. He makes no attempt to defend his position with any facts or reason. So, either he thinks that I am SO ASTOUNDINGLY stupid that I will read an unsubstantiated blanket assertion like this and say, “Oh no! I’m wrong!” or he thinks that I am completely unaware that there are other opinions in the world, and he just wanted to drive by and toss his out the window at me without slowing down.
Atheist friends, listen closely- I ALREADY KNOW. You can stop leaving me comments that merely state a contrary position as if I have never heard them. I have heard them. Thank you.
But Jr here had a little learning to do, so I decided this was a PERFECT opportunity to take a deep dive into REAL AMERICAN HISTORY! A topic so important than I am forced to write it in all caps.
I said:I can tell by your clever self applied screen name that you are a person of reason. (That was sarcasm) So let me hit you with a few facts that you maybe forgot to learn in school:
“In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The Declaration of Independence
Do you see the two references to God in the opening of the Declaration of Independence? Not Secular, is it?
The Constitution was intentionally left without reference to the church or the Christian faith because the men who wrote it wanted to give the government NO ability to pretend that the church was under the authority of the government, as was the case in England. To a person, the Founders were committed to protecting religious liberty. This conviction was usually based upon the theological principle that humans have a duty to worship God as their consciences dictate. A good illustration of this is George Mason’s 1776 draft of Article XVI of Virginia’s Declaration of Rights. It reads:
“That as Religion, or the Duty which we owe to our divine and omnipotent Creator, and the Manner of discharging it, can be governed only by Reason and Conviction, not by Force or Violence; and therefore that all Men shou’d enjoy the fullest Toleration in the Exercise of Religion, according to the Dictates of Conscience, unpunished and unrestrained by the Magistrate….”
Virginia’s Declaration of Rights
In 1802, Thomas Jefferson penned a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in which he famously suggested that the First Amendment created a “wall of separation between Church & State.” While stupid people on the internet have tried to twist this to mean that the government is supposed to be free from involvement from the Christian faith, the exact opposite is true. The Baptists didn’t want a government like in England which gave itself authority over the church, and Jefferson was assuring them that the laws were designed to protect the church from the government, NOT the other way around.
Finally, From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Reva Sevander (also known as the Third Sister) is an Imperial Inquisitor who appears in the Star Wars series, Obi-Wan Kenobi (on Disney Plus). She is played by Moses Ingram, and according to Wookipedia, her character is one of only two humans to be Inquisitors. In case you haven’t followed the Star Wars post-Clone Wars/Pre-Rebellion lore, the Inquisitors were servants of the Empire who hunted Jedi after the rise of the Empire.
If you need to ask what Jedi are, you might as well stop reading this article. In fact, you might as well just unsubscribe, because a LOT of things I say won’t make ANY sense to you. I always say that you can’t teach anything without referencing Star Wars or Batman. And that is how I do.
Moses! Let my Jedi GO!
So there was a lot of mixed hype about this series, but the drama started when the promotional material made it look like Obi Wan was going to be a side character in his own show, second banana to The Third Sister, played by a black woman. Apparently the drama got so intense that some people started to send hateful comments to Moses Ingram on social media, including RACIST comments.
HATE? On the INTERNET?!?!
According to Newsweek, Moses Ingram shared screenshots of the messages she’s received in her Instagram inbox since joining the franchise. Some of the hateful comments included: “You’re days are numbered [sic]” and “You suck loser. You’re a diversity hire and you won’t be loved or remembered for this acting role.”
The article goes on to report that Ingram said, “Long story short, there are hundreds of those, hundreds.”
According to CNN, Ingram posted multiple examples of racist messages and comments on Instagram, noting that she has received hundreds of messages, some of which included the N-word. CNN doesn’t say what the N stands for, but apparently it’s very naughty. Maybe it’s “naughty”? I’ll Google it later.
Reva Sevander (also known as the Third Sister) is an Imperial Inquisitor who appears in the Star Wars series, Obi-Wan Kenobi (on Disney Plus). She is played by Moses Ingram, and there was a lot of mixed hype about this series, but the drama started when the promotional material made it look like Obi Wan was going to be a side character in his own show, second banana to The Third Sister, played by a black woman. Apparently the drama got so intense that some people started to send hateful comments to Moses Ingram on social media, including RACIST comments. Today we look into this media frenzy about Ingram receiving HATE… on the INTERNET?!?!
Moses! Let my Jedi GO!
Examples (for once) Are Hard To Find
I’ve not been able to find any examples of any of the hundreds of these hateful, racist comments online, so all I have to go on is those two examples given by Newsweek. According to Newsweek, Moses Ingram shared screenshots of the messages she’s received in her Instagram inbox since joining the franchise. Some of the hateful comments included: “You’re days are numbered [sic]” and “You suck loser. You’re a diversity hire and you won’t be loved or remembered for this acting role.” Neither of those are ACTUALLY racist, but, if you take them both the right way, they certainly are… not very nice. Which is sort of like racism in the way Adam Sandler movies are sort of like funny.
The article goes on to report that Ingram said this about the issue, “Long story short, there are hundreds of those, hundreds. And I also see those of you out there who put on a cape for me and that really does mean the world to me, because there’s nothing anybody can do about this.”
Remember that she said “There’s nothing that anybody can do about this,” because in just a moment I’m going to show you how all kinds of people decided that this was somehow Disney’s Fault.
Very interesting. Be more interesting if you got your facts straight. No one ‘decides’ to change genders. A fully functional man–or woman–does not suddenly one day ‘decide’ to become the opposite sex and viola, there they are. Most if not all of them feel otherly challenged even as children, and depending on their family ‘standards’ they either shut up about it or tell someone, i.e., “mamma, I don’t feel like a girl. I feel like a boy’. It’s got nothing to do with wanting to wear blue or pink, or playing with ‘girl toys’ or ‘boy toys” but an internal feeling that must be agonizing for them and for everyone around them.
I think you’ve confused cross dressing with gender issues. Not the same thing at all.
I suspect you are also of the persuasion that a gay can be ‘converted’ to straight, if they just try harder.
I was thinking about the debate over Evolutionism recently, and I was reminded how a lot of Evolutionists seem to think that ANY change is evolution, to the extent that more than one has told me that, the fact that he is not genetically IDENTICAL to his mother IS EVOLUTION. Of course this is nonsense, but I have had difficulties in the past getting them to understand why.
But then it hit me; I just need to simplify it down to the lowest genetic level. Get out your pencils kids! It’s time for 6th grade science, and learning to see the forest for the genes.
A gene is a piece of DNA that codes for a protein. I’m simplifying a bit, but when it comes to the cause and effect relationships of DNA information and parts of the cell, a protein is coded for in a gene. Lots of proteins connect together into organelles, and a bunch of organelles that work together in a single living unit makes a cell. All of those proteins are coded for in the DNA carried in the cell. You should be writing this stuff down. It MIGHT be on the test…
So, imagine a gene. Let’s call it Gary. Gary is the information to make the protein Garatin.
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