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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
September 3, 2021 at 8:14 am
A number of LGBTQ Christians remain chaste until marriage, choosing to reserve sexual intimacy until they make a lifelong, spiritual commitment
They met on OkCupid. At the time, Constantino Khalaf, now 37, lived in New York City, and David Khalaf, now 39, lived in Los Angeles. But the distance didn't faze them. The couple, now married, had found two shared traits in each other: They were both Christian, and they were both waiting until marriage to have sex.
"You can use sex to control someone or denigrate a person. Or you can use sex to say something beautiful like 'I love you,'" Constantino Khalaf said. "Sex can be used to say 'I am yours, you are mine' -- the idea of a marriage covenant."
Their beliefs in sex are rooted in a theology of marriage that reserves sexual intimacy until they make that sacred covenant. In a traditional evangelical sexual ethic, virginity is meant to be a gift for your partner after the sacred marriage covenant -- a belief that is interpreted to be a biblical directive.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/...ty-n735071
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
September 3, 2021 at 10:30 am
I have an intense need for a slotted fish turner spatula. Thank you, Washington Post!
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
September 3, 2021 at 10:49 am
(September 3, 2021 at 10:30 am)Angrboda Wrote: I have an intense need for a slotted fish turner spatula. Thank you, Washington Post!
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
September 3, 2021 at 11:51 pm
Turns out Tim Pool might not just be the right's useful idiot:
I know, right? You'd think takes as moronic as the ones he takes are so stupid you'd never expect anyone lying about it to expect anyone to buy it.
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September 5, 2021 at 5:22 am
I always thought the terms were synonymous, but it turns out that there is a difference between a coffin and a casket.
A coffin is wider at the head end than at the foot end, whereas a casket is the same width all the way along. Also, a coffin has a detached lid, but a casket has a hinged lid.
It might seem trivial, but it turns out that many burial grounds allow only caskets.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
September 7, 2021 at 1:57 am
In-house staff is a minority in this facility, it turns out, because the agency staff who gets paid more is doing subpar work. It's certainly having me seriously considering leaving.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
September 7, 2021 at 7:36 am
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There are no scientific distinctions between toads and frogs. ALL toads are frogs.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
September 8, 2021 at 9:08 am
Apparently not all yellow tail tuna is tuna.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
September 8, 2021 at 5:52 pm
(September 7, 2021 at 7:36 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There are no scientific distinctions between toads and frogs. ALL toads are frogs.
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Explains why they all eat snails!
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
September 8, 2021 at 5:53 pm
(September 8, 2021 at 5:52 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (September 7, 2021 at 7:36 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There are no scientific distinctions between toads and frogs. ALL toads are frogs.
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Explains why they all eat snails!
The scientists or the toads? 
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