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I find the degree to which the American Biblicist wing of Christianity gets hung up on both creation and eschatology myths is curious from a theological standpoint. Obviously from a more earthly standpoint, to posit divine inerrancy for a very complex collection of documents and then claim the exclusive right to the interpretation of said documents is a clear winner for the promulgation and preservation of temporal power and wealth. OTOH, what is about equally silly is to hold that the scientific illiteracy of Genesis in and of itself stands as some kind of refutation of possibility of God, one simply asks: For the sake of argument assume God does exist, then try to come up with a recommendation for just exactly what he should have tried to tell a band of semi-literate bronze age nomads about how to create a world of quarks, relativity and quantum mechanics? Seen from that perspective, Genesis 1-4 works as well as anything else would have.

Spinoza decided that even God has to work within some kind of fundamental constraints and thus things were no better because this is "The Best of Of All Possible Worlds." Voltaire had a pretty good time with that one.

Single face bar helmet is definitely 50-60s though.

Is 'doubtful' and upgrade for Anzalone? I thought I heard this morning he was 'out' out.

very weird

Sounds like the blind leading the blind. Monty has coached successful teams, you'd like to believe that was more than just lucking into so much talent he couldn't screw it up, but in basketball you can never ignore that possibility.

Capitalism was probably never self-aware of itself enough to have any intents as it evolved. The idea of putting money to work for a return goes back to before the Roman Empire - it's pretty much the same idea everybody thinks of as soon people start using money in commerce. The ideas about how to run a business to most efficiently exploit everyone and everything else are more modern, but I would almost be tempted to separate the general framework for the generation of production by private investment i.e. capitalism as framework for economic activity, from the creation of economic regulatory structures that allow for so much exploitation in the name of profit. The first is a matter of economic theory, the second is simply a matter of political failure in a society. You can have, and we have seen, terrible human and resource exploitation in both capitalist and non-capitalistic systems. That is always more a matter of governance, politics and how power is distributed in a society than of economic models. In the recent history of the US, when the law was friendly to unions, workers had more power, worker exploitation was lower. Today the legal environment has been made more hostile to unions and workers, workers have less power, worker exploitation and economic disparity is greater. It wasn't that capitalism somehow changed, the governance under which the US instance of capitalism operates has changed.

Will be interesting to see if they start using Lyon more.

Not to dis Alberta's father, but you see in retrospect that his congregation was not built on community, or service, or even belief, though those things were probably there in the beginning. But as it exploded into a big church, in the end it was growing up instead based on the the self-validation of the membership. The worst trap of all for any clergman.

this could go any number of places, but I just saw that Henry the K has shuffled off this mortal coil at 100. I wonder if they will declare tomorrow (well today already in that part of the world) a holiday in Vietnam?

No shame in losing to the Rangers, but it sucks to have been within 5 minutes of a point and losing it.

Sunk cost fallacy. If he holds it the value is just going to keep going lower. 😱

I don't think I've seen a team so dependent on one player when that player is himself only a mid top talent. Wings just flail when Larkin is out or even playing through injury. And it might be nice to have some goaltending that steals a game here and there instead of the other....I think if they fall short this season we'll look back and blame in on the goaltending.

I just don't see the talent here. You have one player with one standout skill level, and that is Thompson's defense. That's it. No-one else on the team does anything at average NBA or higher level. Cade scores a lot because Cade has the ball all the time (e,g., see Anthony, Carmelo) - you can't hang a hat on that. Weaver has drafted poorly and traded even more poorly. it's going to be 5 years with under 25 wins in a league where you only need to find two or three above average players to be a 500 team. Every day he keeps his job is just additional proof that ownership is just a hopeless.

They need to broom the whole organization starting with Gores hanging a "For Sale" sign out on Woodward Ave.

I tend to think the extremities - particularly on the losing side, have a lot to do with the way the current CBA drives all but the richest teams into a boom and bust cycle. In one sense, it's working as designed as it does make it hard for most teams to afford being good for more than a few years at a time, but I think the effects in the current system are too extreme. Teams should cycle some as their star players arc out of their best years, but I don't think you have to have a system that leads so many teams to feel they have to do total teardowns to get out from under the costs they incurred during their up phases. On that score I agree there are too many too good and too bad teams and that is a bad sign/result.

Pretty close if not 'the' First Rule of being in a sales business is you don't pick public fights with potential customers. He's basically a two year old in a grown-up's leather jacket. I mean, it's fine if you don't want to be in a sales oriented business because you don't like having to be customer centric, but then get out the heII out that kind of business. Sell it to someone who has the ethos for it.

I wouldn't say that's a silly measure, but I wouldn't take it as the best measure of the draft at distributing talent. That would better be measured by something like the average number of consecutive years teams stay over or under 500, or maybe better over 550 or under 450.

definitely. He done a little decent forechecking now and then, but the rest of his game has gone poof.

Yeah - we'd have to move Weaver to another team first.

LOL - Wrong adults consenting.

It couldn't even be the same agreement as Israel would have to walk away from a lot more of the West Bank than they would have had to then. 🧩

Then again, what makes anyone think Abbas would sign on to deal that Arafat walked away from? On the the problems is too many cooks in the kitchen.

That would be juice with 'juice' wouldn't it?

I'd wager Manning would have to pitch himself out of the rotation in ST to not be in the rotation. Last Spring you probably couldn't get Wentz through waivers, based on his last season this year you might! Everyone loves Olson right now, for good reason, but he's probably the next TJ on the staff.....