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D_Merkel
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D_Merkel - 4 days ago
Prior to the Reformation the RC church was just a power game. Dominate governments, extract money from those who feared the church.
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D_Merkel Janjanmen - 5 days ago
I agree, though when there are large delays, readers drop off. This is a constant regarding manga. Far better to be regular and slow, than to be intermittent with large hiatuses.
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D_Merkel - 5 days ago
I am reminded of "Food Wars." What's the best way to become excellent in running a restaurant? Is it serving customers, or learning the latest techniques? Because of Souma Yukahira and some of his friends that had restaurant experience, Food Wars tilts in favor practical experience, but nonetheless Souma learns from the academy. He has learned from his parents. Now he will learn from experience.
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D_Merkel AlexBen - 5 days ago
I won't kill you. I had dreams when younger, but found that being practical was better than something that could not pay the bills. Raised eight children. Pioneered a variety of new techniques as an investment actuary. I am mostly unknown as I worked for medium-sized firms when I did my best work. We can't change the desires of the past. We can enjoy the present; I am still doing creative things in finance.
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D_Merkel - 8 days ago
Sadly, the problem was with the medieval church, not the Bible. The Bible does not teach geocentricity. The medieval church did not teach the Bible, but the traditions of the church. They didn't let the people have the Bible in their own language. They forbade the people from reciting the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments in their own language. The leaders of the medieval church were greedy politicians who wanted to continually absorb what the members gave via taxation, rather than free giving. More than the atheists, the Roman church hated the Bible, except where their misinterpretations supported them.
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D_Merkel Bruce - 12 days ago
No, prejudice and hate are normal, not taught. Anyone who has interacted with children knows that. Someone teaching them such will amplify it, but it is easily engendered even without teaching. They naturally form cliques. The pretty and powerful exclude those who are not so. Children who are abnormal get marginalized. Those that are really bright get hated by lesser students. Small children get picked on, as do ugly children.

Instead, we have to teach children to be loving. It is not native, and most adults don't have the ability to teach it.
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D_Merkel - 13 days ago
Even though the Reformation did not initially endorse Heliocentricity, it took the Reformation to end Geocentricity, and end condemning people without fair trials.
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D_Merkel - 14 days ago
Condemning anyone without two witnesses goes against everything the Bible teaches. The heretics are the inquisitors.
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D_Merkel - 19 days ago
When you have to run -- run! It is not a time to talk theory and past dealings.
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D_Merkel - 19 days ago
Beautiful, just beautiful. Being content with just enough and mutual love. Can I bore you all with a story?

39 years ago, I didn't have much. $2000 in the bank, and the offer of a job at a small life insurer paying $28,000. With the aid of a friend-of-a-friend who dealt the diamond district in San Francisco, I went to buy my girlfriend an engagement ring. I wanted it to be special -- a diamond, a ruby and an emerald, in a triangular pattern. But that would exceed $2000 I learned, and so I settled for red and green garnets rather than the ruby and emerald. She accepted my proposal, and she loved the ring. Many commented on how distinctive and unusual it was.

Well, our marriage has been a happy one. We raised 8 kids, 5 of whom were adopted, and now we are empty nesters with 6 grandchildren, and 2 on the way. But recently my wife had problems with the ring. Out of a need to do physical therapy, she took the ring off, and then couldn't get it back on. She took it to jeweler to get it resized, and the jeweler pointed out some other wear-and-tear issues. My wife then sent me to talk with the jeweler about the cost issues. I decided to give her back the ring I originally wanted to give her. The ring was redone with a ruby and an emerald. Two nights ago, I gave it to my wife, who is not materialistic, and she was impressed with its beauty. She said to me "Why did you do this?" and I said, "Because you are worth it. Originally, I wanted to give you this ring, and now you have it."

Relative to the manga, my point is this: It takes an adequate amount of resources to have a happy marriage. Difficult to do it with nothing, but you don't need to be rich -- you just need to be content with what you have, and with each other. That's why I found this chapter to be beautiful, and extra touching, given what I have gone through in my marriage from the start until now.
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D_Merkel - 19 days ago
Arrogant Chinese. Just because they have a huge amount of tomatoes, it means they can cook Italian?
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D_Merkel - 19 days ago
Order tomatoes from the US, they never run out.
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D_Merkel - 22 days ago
They are willing to violate the Law of Moses, and the need for two eyewitness accusers. Also, the Law of Moses never allowed for torture in confessions.
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D_Merkel - 23 days ago
Yes the main planet orbits are slightly elliptical. But from Venus to Neptune, it barely matters. It took some sharp observation to catch elliptical orbit of Mars. Aside from that, relative to the center of mass of the solar system, the sun sort of stands still. Yes, the barycenter is outside the sun 54% of the time, but by small distances.
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D_Merkel - 25 days ago
The "Cage of Catholicism" was created over many years, from AD 250 to AD 1500, where the Church paid increasingly less attention to the Bible, and like the Jews, created their own Talmud. They exchanged the relatively flat organization that the New Testament specified for a hierarchy that increasingly could not be questioned -- the Papacy. Rather than being ministers (helpers) they imitated the Old Testament priesthood. Their misunderstanding of how to apply the Old Testament led to most of their serious errors.

The Bible does not teach Geocenticity. But so much of the Medieval Church was a power thing, that almost no one was willing to challenge "the teaching of the Church."
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D_Merkel - 26 days ago
With little time or consciousness left, Hak makes the most significant pitch that he can to Yona. Yona is now at the fork in the road. She will choose Hak over the dragons; Kouka will return to normal, and the manga will conclude.
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