Douglas Estes

Biblical scholar, assoc prof of religion @NewCollegeofFL, fellow at @CenPasTheo and @AIandFaith, author/editor of fifteen books and more than fifty articles.

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@StephenVanEck If you read any decent college level philosophy textbook, you'll quickly discover why your question doesn't work. At all.

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@SpencerKlavan So true!!

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@Incictus_V @TheColloquialR Yes!!

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

Herculaneum fused scroll read in full.
https://t.co/y8RV6tDzvg

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@jamie_saris @JDMartin1998 @sarahsalviander Your arguments are strawmen. Anyone can find one bad example over 2000 years of global history. In short, you have no idea what you're talking about. Read a book; do better.

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@AntiCommieBecca Radical Islam is not "far right." Right and left are positions predicated on a liberal society. Radical Islam is what it is, something different entirely. (And not in a good way).

[Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK]

To my fellow Jewish Democrats:

Have some self respect. Leave.

I admitted I was wrong and feel so much better as a result.

Don't stay in a party with people who hate you.

This is a party full of *explicitly* anti-American, Islamic communists.

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@japan_nobunaga B. Florida

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@BrandonWarmke Tenured faculty "peer reviewed" journal article, of course!

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@olivia_p_walker @RonDeSantis In-N-Out is the Chick-fil-A of burgers.

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@RonDeSantis No, Sarasota! (At @NewCollegeofFL)!

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@JonasYDu Thank you, Jonas. It is a pretty normal college, with a lot of great faculty and great students.

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@GKMasterson @ds_hoffman Although I frequently use the BCE/CE convention in scholarly publications, you are correct and this is the biggest weakness of that system. Why have a dividing line at all, at that point?

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@s_drue91599 @ds_hoffman Not necessarily. For example, it is usually the publisher's chosen style (and the author has no say). For another example, sometimes it is more accurate. There are of course other reasons that involve progressivism.

[Mickey Kaus @kausmickey]

To people dismissing suspicions of fraud: Have you ever worked at the lowest level of a political campaign? The people who do it are idealistic and put in long hours for the cause. A non-trivial subset are CRAZY--zealots who'll do anything to win. Even illegal things? OF COURSE. If you leave a door open for fraud, they will go through it. If you draw a statutory line, they will cross it if nobody's going to catch them. In CA, the door seems to be wide open.

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@Albanese_AV @timgill924 Agreed (with Anthony)

[Mickey Kaus @kausmickey]

For those dismissing the possibility of fraud in CA vote, please remember that key protections we're told are built into the law turn out to be vaporous in practice:

--'You need to sign it' .... A mark or slash will do.
--'We check those signatures.' ... LA election workers told @jenlynncallahan they don't. https://t.co/svWWKDd6gu
--'Must be postmarked by Election Day' ... No! Fine print in regs lets voters self-date.
--'Ballot "harvesters" must sign the ballot envelope!' ... But the ballot's still counted if they don't.

All this doesn't mean there was fraud. Still ...

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Local governments took $32 billion in property taxes in 2019.

Today, they are taking $60 billion.

Meanwhile, at the state level, Florida has reduced spending four years in a row — even though we’ve had both inflation and population growth.

Exempting homesteads can be done. And it it will help millions of Floridians.

[Rachel Christine @RachelXReads]

I'm a PhD student studying the sociopolitical ideals in early novels by British women, and part of my research has involved revising existing scholarship because many modern scholars have little knowledge of the Bible – a text that the novelists they study knew well and frequently incorporated into their works. That gap is incorrectly reshaping how literature is interpreted and received today. It's a real problem.

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@HMBrough_ I don't believe you.