Clearsky

jakelafort wrote:
As to why it is a bad idea…it would draw additional attention and scrutiny of the trans folks. It would be like a freak show.

I agree it could be, for a while at least. While as physically and mentally handicapped competitors now have regular events, maybe we could learn from how policies and measurements of “fairness” across d…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Bad idea.

Worse than what we have now? I’m all ears.

Simon Paynton wrote:
Not all trans categories are a single category.

(I wasn’t finished editing my post before you responded… sorry.)

In any case, it could be left up to them (and those non-binaries, and so on in any other category) to come together and make those kinds of determinations themselves. With as much additional support from all…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
They seem like two very different athletic categories.

What Unseen first said didn’t hit me as obvious either, but I think that what you and Unseen say relate to my point:

Help make inter-trans (intra-trans?) competitions more common and popular, because trans people deserve to have them. I think that least some trans events…[Read more]

Maybe trans men and women could compete in their own category someday, even in (say) the Olympics. It might be interesting to see how trans men and trans women would feel about competing with each other, instead of (or in addition to) just competing with their own assigned gender-mates. It might be one way to discover whether or not the genes…[Read more]

For others here, out of dozens of reviews of Hi Ren, none disliked Ren’s musical style, and most, especially the professional guitarists, commented on how creative and talented he is as a guitar player. I’m still in awe of it every time I watch. I consider Hi Ren as a short opera, as the story takes us through a very emotional topic, and the…[Read more]

On a related note, boosted now by the House out to Cancel the Executive Branch’s use of a word. I had no clue that use of the term LatinX was yet another propagandanismistic (sp) tactic of Woke Culture.

As just another naive white guy, post-colonist, I sought out and found a bit of Latin[?] history and insight from someone, who I think is one of <…[Read more]

Your examples of prophecy fulfilled are not contextual to all the unfulfilled prophecies.  We can’t tell a good one from a bad one until after the event, either.  So we would be rather foolish to trust *any* prophecy in case it was a bad one.

This reduces the value of a prophecy to the equivalent of an astrology reading.

Netanyahu is pushing every possible emotional button to reinforce the Israeli response. If there’s a bit of Bible handy, he’s going to grab that. I don’t think there is any particular proselytism that is out of bounds when you’re rallying the troops.  I wouldn’t take it seriously.

Now, tell me what the point of prophecy is if it cannot be trusted…[Read more]

michael17 wrote:
There are no prophets counseling the leadership of Israel. protect the people, but do not take the moral high ground by quoting scripture to justify genocide. Leaders are in place by providence for a non believing world, to assume it’s for righteousness is presumptuous <p style=”text-align: rig…

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Simon Paynton wrote:
Unseen wrote: I’m not clear on why you’re bringing up communication.

That is probably the only way that alien living beings can reach us – virtually, rather than in person.

I agree, and my wild guess is that AI could be sent far in tiny packages, and assembled into bigger agents near its destination, depending on the missi…[Read more]