Tom Derandere

Zen Buddhist. Computational biologist, but interested in quite a lot of things: Cooking, Astronomy, Antique electronics, Our times.

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@BrandanJR I'm happy to leave salvation and redemption to your savior. I admire Jesus, and only wish that there had been someone who would have saved him.

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@DiningNearMe Maple is good in coffee.

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@keithmehl @redusa21 I would ask when in pregnancy Ruth thinks abortion would be the killing of a human being, but I'm nearly certain she will say "conception." Nothing new.

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@DarthCalculus @theosib2 I believe you have won this round, sir.

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@Askwhyisit I suppose they are at least claiming to know in some detail what Jesus wants from them. Perhaps by actual verbal commands.

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@theosib2 Latin is helpful in things like this, but language is first of all inconsistent.

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@theosib2 Are there paraphors?

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@geostylegeo I'm confident there was sunrise this morning.

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@JMPeck69 Roger Waters isn't Pink Floyd, and the work he's done on his own isn't in the same league as his work in Pink Floyd. I don't accept him as representative of Pink Floyd at all.

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@geostylegeo Fear may not be the same thing as avoidance responses which developed along with nervous systems. Nervous systems go way back: https://t.co/KA6NLtdyVg

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@geostylegeo Gag reflex

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@Askwhyisit Well, people on the left sponsor petitions -- to force Clarence Thomas to resign, for example. Thoughts and prayers are usually offered by the right. Effectiveness about equal.

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@StJohnsPriest @KaraNSlade Humanity is no stranger to carnage, that much is true.

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@brclothwrites When I was young it was always "Be yourself!"

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@kaimatai @CapturingChrist They do realize that they are the least of beings, saved only by the grace of a god they tried to kill.

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@CapturingChrist So it is somehow better to believe in the wrong God than to believe in no gods? Just curious. What is up with Christians these days?

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@Drstevenhobbs I would focus on English Lit. majors and others who have no real prospect of clearing their student debt.

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@Askwhyisit If God can solve all of my problems, I fear the problems He can create that He can't solve.