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Geopardee
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re: Why are so many American people protesting Israel?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/23/24 at 12:30 pm
This may have been said, but the pro Palestine crowds are much larger and organized than the prior flareups in the last decades (i.e., 2d Intifada). Probably occasioned by the advent of everyone being chronically online, more maturation of anti colonial, anti Western mindset.
There’s a real split...
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re: What's the deal with people trashing up public restrooms?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/22/24 at 2:48 pm
There may not be a worse stretch of public restrooms than the truck stops and gas stations in LA off of I-10. ...
re: What is the worst town, city, or village in Louisiana?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/15/24 at 9:10 pm
I believe it; the town looks like it's just falling in. Main Street and a beautiful 1920s HS building all just going to dirt. Folks who are still there aren't doing much to try to keep the lights on.
I always get a bit weirded out going through a lot of those towns south of I-20 and north of Al...
re: What is the worst town, city, or village in Louisiana?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/15/24 at 12:46 pm
Waterproof ...
re: What defunct brand from classic NOLA is ripe for a relaunch to make a billion?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/13/24 at 12:42 pm
Don’t think it’s down for the count yet, but
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re: Nationwide Zyn shortage
Posted by Geopardee on 5/9/24 at 5:15 pm
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re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 5:35 pm
Kind of surprised the UMC big tent held together for as long as it did.
Hard to fathom that a Hilary Clinton and a John Kennedy can both be members of the same church org.
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re: United Methodist Church votes to allow gay marriage and gay clergy
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 1:06 pm
Going to be a lot of empty church buildings for sale in the coming years
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re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 12:47 pm
The common denominator ...
re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 12:39 pm
Regarding the Presbyterians—lot of different Presbyterian break offs/denoms—but yes, as to the PCUSA, the largest, most progressive body.
The smaller, more conservative denoms (PCA, EPC, ECO) don’t countenance it and are either static or growing....
re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 12:32 pm
You would think it’s a $ move, but the denoms that went that route have lost considerably more members than others.
I think the PCUSA (largest Presbyterian denom), went from something like 3 million members in 1990 to around 1.25 million by the 2020s
Lot of these denoms are just living off the...
re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 12:23 pm
Story of Protestantism, but most of your mainline denoms have had similar crackups in the past decades, including the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians, over this and related issues. ...
re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 12:19 pm
It’s been going on for a minute in the United Methodist Church—now the not so United Methodist Church—but it reached a breaking point in the last year or so when the more conservative churches split off to form the Global Methodist Church. Much of the UMC institutional apparatus has been trying to p...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 4:49 pm
Right, there are plenty of regional variations on the theme. Memphis is not Mobile, Charleston is not Charlotte, etc, which may require different metrics.
I think part of it is what area still has [b]it[/b]—ie, hasn’t gotten the growth, for better or worse, of the Sunbelt blow up. ...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 2:11 pm
The spread of NOVA and the carpetbaggers severely impacted VA’s historic Southern status. But certainly a lot still there. ...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 11:07 am
Agree, from my limited visits, most of KY felt a lot like Middle TN, North MS/AL.
And I've never known how to classify Louisville at all. It's one of the 30 largest cities in the US (maybe by virtue of city/county consolidation), but it seems like it's just hanging out there. Doesn't have much ...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 10:30 am
Yeah some of the transition areas on that map are suspect, but it got a good bit of the outlines down. ...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 10:28 am
That said, I think AL gets the slight edge over MS for most quintessential "Southern." That Hwy 80 corridor is something else, even if MS has the Delta. ...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 10:22 am
The South is a lot of different places
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re: Baton Rouge vs Austin
Posted by Geopardee on 4/25/24 at 8:34 pm
Much of the “old Austin” aka Keep Austin Weird character got eaten up with the emergence of the tech playground ...
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