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valcus43
Born 1943, PK/Army brat, decent conservative parents, traveled lots, have had 7 foreign exchange students and 250 foster kids, live with registered sex offender kids, do Habitat for Humanity, Board of Ed, created democratic socialist corporation and all associates take home high pay, value our democracy, Declaration of Independence and Constitution above all else, also value tolerance, science, freedom of speech. Greatest fear is my once broad mind and narrow waste will reverse locations with age. Like extremely fast motorcycles, construction projects, furniture making, cultural anthropology, and the many varieties of human culture. Mello wine, warm beeches, beautiful women and my wife of over 40 years. Love my two biological children and many foster children. I live better than most royalty that have walked the earth and truly love and apprecate the United States of America. If you share our values, you are an American no matter where you live. Welcome home, come to America.
If Jesus was a carpenter by trade, what did he build or make?
As important is occupation is to us today and as important as it was in the past to identify a person's social position, what did Jesus actually make or do for a living?
27 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoDoes anyone know why it costs 5 points to ask questions?
Does Yahoo have something against asking questions? Why does Yahoo punish asking questions with a "response cost"?
4 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoIf every religious book asserts it is written by God and the only one, how can we know which one is real?
Why do you believe that yours is the only one? What evidence? Why are the others wrong? What evidence?
8 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoIsn't less government less subsidies for special interests?
If we have less government, shouldn't we eliminate farm subsidies, oil and gas subsidies, all bank bailouts, the elimination of the Federal Reserve, cheap insurance for flood prone beach property, bridges to nowhere?
3 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoWhat is the essential and overriding spiritual belief of your religion or moral code?
What text references this belief?
Is there a penalty for not living up to this belief?
On a 1 to 10 scale, how successful have you been in living up to this core belief?
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoWhere can I discover fascinating stories like marileigh's thing about Claudia?
I don't spend a lot of time on Answers but I would spend a lot more if I could read about the wild and crazy stuff like accusing a gang of atheists of raping a sister. How strange and exotic, how lurid, what fun!
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoIf you understand god, can you predict what he will do based upon your knowledge and past experience?
The next step is to do some tests, some experiments, to see if god can be controlled so we can ask him to intervene on our behalf by changing natural law.
Can we do it?
12 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoIsn't it just great to be an atheist?
We are more tolerant, mentally flexible, logical, rational, scientifically oriented, friendly, happy, grateful, loving, kind, concerned for others, less concerned for money, and productive.
Should we start a religion:)?
23 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoAre atheist myths like those Chuck Norris jokes like he created gravity? And do they have funny holidays?
I'm just wondering how we can have a little more fun in our dreary rational, logical, empirical lives.
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoIf god really wanted to stop abortion could he do it?
Why doesn't he?
If god answers prayers, why can't anti-abortionists just pray that they stop?
Is it more fun playing god than believing in god?
36 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoWhat religion was the guy that killed Dr. Tiller?
Is that church anti-democracy and can we expect more terrorism from that religion?
6 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoWhat is being "grounded" and how do you know if you are or aren't grounded?
Is it important to be grounded and where can one get lessons in being grounded.
1 AnswerPsychology1 decade agoIn a trial, would you believe the eye witness testimony of Pat Robertson over DNA evidence?
How about the eye witness testimony Jim Baker, Jim Jones, Jerry Fallwell, Oral Roberts, Ted Haggard, or your own minister over DNA evidence?
Is it important at all that the epistemology of science is much different than the epistemology of religion?
9 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoWhich is more important, authority as truth or truth as authority?
It comes down to this: Do it because I said so or do it because the overwhelming evidence leads to the conclusion that this is the best choice.
Are their any other alternatives.
Epistemologically speaking that is.
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoDon't you just love slavery? What can you do with slaves?
I just went to www.bibleresources.com and searched "slave". Wow, what a gold mine. 135 citations. I can now justify taking the U of Michigan cheerleaders as slaves after the football game.
Have you found any creative uses for slaves and any creative interpretations in the Biblical rules for using slaves?
I do, after all, want to follow all the rules regarding slaves.
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago