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re: For the first time in our nation's history, a 30-year-old isn't doing as well their parent
Posted by Foch on 4/24/24 at 12:57 pm
[quote]In earlier times they'd either join the military or enter the workforce and work their way up.[/quote]
Exactly, and where did those jobs with a long term trajectory go? Who was cheerleading the profits and increased stock prices (not an actual measure of the economy's health) while the nex...
re: Is it possible for us to tell BOTH the Jews and the Muslims in the Middle East to GFY?
Posted by Foch on 4/24/24 at 9:26 am
[quote]I’m also not advocating going to war with Iran. Just trying to get the isolationist to realize that completely pulling out of the Middle East[/quote]
You provide a logical fallacy as the basis for your support of Israel as a means to counter Iranian dominance in the region. Opposition of I...
re: Russia prolonging Ukraine war
Posted by Foch on 4/21/24 at 1:18 pm
[quote]Russia usually wins, but it's only due to sheer numbers. Due to their demography, they no longer have meat waves to throw at their enemies like they used to.[/quote]
You state "no longer having meat" but forget that UKR has even worse demographics [link=(https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...
re: Uh oh...everyone's favorite "pro gay" Pope just shite in the punchbowl
Posted by Foch on 4/9/24 at 9:50 pm
[quote]As a Catholic, it is hard to accept the proclamations of a Pope who[/quote]
[quote]Yet here he is telling a family that the very act of bringing a child into this world via surrogacy is a sin.[/quote]
So would you prefer he add to his silence on these "Catholics" by rejecting fundamenta...
re: Uh oh...everyone's favorite "pro gay" Pope just shite in the punchbowl
Posted by Foch on 4/9/24 at 8:49 pm
[quote]What about someone who wants to have their own biological child but is unable to carry a pregnancy?[/quote]
Might (an ability to do that which is not in accordance with the Natural Law) does not equal right. ...
re: Uh oh...everyone's favorite "pro gay" Pope just shite in the punchbowl
Posted by Foch on 4/9/24 at 8:45 pm
[quote]However, the real reason Catholics are in opposition to the process (including IVF) is that, for economic reasons, it leaves spare embryos that either sit in a freezer for eternity or get destroyed.[/quote]
Beyond IVF, there are other concerns with renting the flesh of another to satisfy d...
re: Uh oh...everyone's favorite "pro gay" Pope just shite in the punchbowl
Posted by Foch on 4/9/24 at 8:22 pm
[quote]dont be fooled, he has and there is more to this than we know because he is 100% a groomer for life.[/quote]
His position seems pretty consistent to me...
[quote] [from 10/2016]
"To change the mentality -- I call this ideological colonization," the Pope said.
The Pope said he ...
re: Uh oh...everyone's favorite "pro gay" Pope just shite in the punchbowl
Posted by Foch on 4/9/24 at 8:15 pm
[quote]don’t understand the opposition to surrogacy[/quote]
You fundamentally don't understand the Chruch's position on IVF or Natural Law foundations for the rejection of surrogate wombs....
re: Just got home from an hour/45 min.Easter Vigil Mass...
Posted by Foch on 3/31/24 at 7:43 am
[quote]one year on Easter Sunday his family went to church and the priest walked to the pulpit and said something to the effect of “In today’s world with so many points of view, one thing we can all agree on is He is Risen. Happy Easter, everybody…….then dismissed the service.[/quote]
[quote]they...
re: I’m tired of rural gop politicians killing school choice bills in state after state
Posted by Foch on 3/5/24 at 2:03 pm
[quote]This is 1960s-era bullshite, sorry.[/quote]
You are quick to discount how much more oversight and gov interference can be brought about with the innocent sounding "school choice".
At what point will gov funding become the lifeblood of some of these schools, and when will bureaucrats use...
re: Laguna Beach trip.
Posted by Foch on 3/1/24 at 4:11 pm
[link=(https://g.co/kgs/f1YtsM3)]Crystal cove shake shack[/link]
Crystal cove shake shack is worth a visit.
We used to live in the area and liked parking here [link=(https://maps.app.goo.gl/9e4B73d71dZJgjV58)]parking by montage[/link] to walk around the beaches in front of the montage.
De...
re: Any cool day trips from Munich?
Posted by Foch on 3/1/24 at 4:09 pm
[quote]Oberammergau, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and Neuschwanstein Castle[/quote]
Hard to do all of the above in a day with munich as a home base. OP, I would recommend choosing Neuschwantein (do this first/early AM) and Oberammergau as a very full day OR doing a day trip to Garmisch/Grainau/Mittenw...
re: Any cool day trips from Munich?
Posted by Foch on 2/29/24 at 4:26 pm
[quote]What about Mittenwald[/quote]
If you are willing to rent a car I would definitely do Mittenwald and rope in Garmisch/Grainau and the Eibsee. Zugspitze would be cook to but then you are looking at a lot for a day trip.
If I were you I would focus on the Zugspitze for the morning and lun...
re: Venial Sin my butt!
Posted by Foch on 2/26/24 at 8:28 am
[quote]Dr. James White sort of touched on this in a debate with Trent Horn last weekend.[/quote]
Trent went directly to it in his opening comments. White (and Protestantism) must accept that there was some "middle Truth" that existed to govern, instruct, and bind actions of believers [i]AFTER[/i]...
re: Venial Sin my butt!
Posted by Foch on 2/26/24 at 5:23 am
[quote]Foo and people like him can under no circumstances accept the Bible of the Church in 382 AD[/quote]
The Protestant cannot logically explain how the faithful were given any deposit of Faith or authoritative instrument for instruction/Christian formation in the years between AD 33 and AD 382...
re: Professor Javier Milei explains why the neo-classical economic model is flawed. CPAC.
Posted by Foch on 2/25/24 at 9:49 pm
[quote]Serious question, how old are you?[/quote]
None of your ad hominem attacks come off as serious, but to answer a direct question, late 30s.
[quote]So off with you to go create Utopia, oh Foolish One.[/quote]
I do not seek Utopia, but do seek a laissez-faire model with a purpose that ...
re: Professor Javier Milei explains why the neo-classical economic model is flawed. CPAC.
Posted by Foch on 2/25/24 at 9:20 pm
If you are willing to call out contraception as one of the many causes for society's poor state than we do have much in common.
Still, you have not responded to my charge that the Capitalist proponents, without a bedrock understanding or agreement in what is ordered vs disordered, cannot fully p...
re: Professor Javier Milei explains why the neo-classical economic model is flawed. CPAC.
Posted by Foch on 2/25/24 at 8:43 pm
[quote]Render to Caesar that which is Caesar. Do better.[/quote]
If you are not a person of faith then your disagreements with me and my position are understandable as is your mistaken understanding of what it means to "render to Caesar".
You can criticize those who would push for ungoverned ...
re: Professor Javier Milei explains why the neo-classical economic model is flawed. CPAC.
Posted by Foch on 2/25/24 at 8:28 pm
[quote]The problem with Belloc’s distributist model is it ignores the historical reality that it’s ideal world in which the peasant farmer owned the patch of land he farmed would not be possible without the widespread wealth created by the Industrial Revolution.[/quote]
I appreciate your sincere ...
re: Professor Javier Milei explains why the neo-classical economic model is flawed. CPAC.
Posted by Foch on 2/25/24 at 5:31 pm
[quote]This isn't a religion discussion ya weirdo. [b]Live within the world[/b][/quote]
To say that religion has no role in economics is truly to live within the world. You are very simple.
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