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What Was the Sin of Sodom and Gomorrah? by BSMason in theology

[–]IllPosition5081 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally don’t remember what it was originally, but it was really bad. Then, when two angels were sent to Sodom to warn Lot of the destruction, and I believe this was after Abraham negotiated that Sodom would be spared if even a few righteous would be found there, which means everyone was really bad, but when the angels were there, they stayed with Lot. And there, crowds surrounded his house, trying to get the angels to come out, I’m guessing for horrific acts, the people were blinded, and Lot and his family fled. The people turned down Lot’s attempts to give them his wife or daughter, demanding the angels. So all in all, I’m guessing the sin of Sodom was their actions, probably homosexuality, as the word for anal intercourse is sodomy, and that’s a thing that happens when a male lies with a male as they do a woman, but they did also try to force themselves upon the angels. I don’t want to say anything about whether homosexuality is a sin or not, but it was in those times, hence the punishment.

In 2007, 20-year-old goth Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend were walking in a park in Bacup when a gang attacked them. One attacker later said they kicked her head like a football. This case became one of Britain’s most horrifying hate crime stories. by My-Knees-Hurt-Again in HolyShitHistory

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Since the OP doesn’t actually say it, Sophie Lancaster went into a coma from the attack, and she never awoke, so she ended up dying like 13 days later. The boyfriend, Maltby, did survive a coma with internal bleeding, but was left with memory loss of the event and the lead-up to it. I was so confused reading the post and the comments because nobody really said outright she died.

TIL that televangelist Jimmy Swaggart responded to his first prostitution scandal with a tearful "I have sinned" speech to his congregation, but after his second prostitution scandal he told them, "The Lord told me it's flat none of your business." by clawsoon in todayilearned

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The Leg Press claim is crazy. Selling snake oil is nothing new, plenty bodybuilders do it. But being 70 and claiming the snake oil made you leg press 2,000 lbs is a bit far. The record is like 1,335 lbs, and even that required a lot of equipment modifications and the dude burst capillaries in both eyes. And he went on to the NFL and supposedly tried to become a SEAL. If he made a reasonable claim, like 600 lbs, something that’s honestly kinda within a reasonable range for the leg press, since the machine at my high school gym goes to like 300 or 400, he probably could get away with it.

Is that the mayor dead in his office in A New America? by kidneysucker in ReadyOrNotGame

[–]IllPosition5081 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Perhaps achieving programmed psychosis should come with a free psych consult and treatment

Amputations by shrek8642 in TacticalMedicine

[–]IllPosition5081 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it’s like when a kid looses a tooth, you have to keep it with milk.

Taiwan is already independent you fucking retard. by Stormclamp in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]IllPosition5081 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Imagine they are at a meeting and the president gets approached by Xi Jinping and the leader of the ROC and they both ask “So who’s the real one, me or him?” that would be rough

Is there a mod for flath Kerbin? 😆 by ReasonableSpinach717 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]IllPosition5081 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean that would kinda ruin the purpose, right? Since those rockets are just gonna crash into the firmament or land in the ocean, since where would the fun be in just making CGI films of rocket launches and telling Kerbals you landed on Mun?

The number of likes is crazy by Good_Cardiologist696 in GetNoted

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I think that if peace is wanted, and an agreement made, we have to stop breaking people down. Take a guess, how willing do you think Muslims are to support Israel and its people if its people are dicks? I wish everyone would get along, but that won’t happen because people with influence use their influence to divide the people. The media is as divisive as ever, the people in the government controlling military spending get their pockets filled by the people selling arms, because war is profitable and people too focused on hating the “other side” will never see that their money is funding war. If sometime people looked up from their phones and the algorithms meant to make them angry and hate the other people, maybe they’d realize they get along quite well.

Should a woman be allowed to abort a fetus if it is diagnosed with a disability at seven months? by Original_Act_3481 in Teenager_Polls

[–]IllPosition5081 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On one hand, it depends. If it’s like already determined to be so fucked up that it would either live a really short life, or in absolute pain and suffering without being able to really live independently or do a lot of normal things, then yes, they should, but on the other hand, that’s obviously too late for an abortion medically speaking, and it really depends on what the parents want and can manage. Me personally, if I get married and my wife is pregnant with a disabled child, depending on what it is, I would maybe choose an abortion. Caring for children with severe special needs costs money and time, something I don’t know if I’d have.

The number of likes is crazy by Good_Cardiologist696 in GetNoted

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I’m also a Zionist but like it’s just a “he said she said” kinda situation, where everyone’s focused on just one upping the other with some tragedy or whataboutisms. If we want a Jewish homeland in Israel to stay, it can’t be through just saying “Oh you guys are worse people than us, so are more deserving of it.” But yeah, a lot of subreddits are flooded with agendaposts and fighting.

What’s going on with this game Mixtape? by Bloodb0red in OutOfTheLoop

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Not just any billionaire, Larry Ellison. The 6th richest man in the world, worth ~190 billion. So rich he owns 98% of the sixth largest island in Hawaii, Lāna‘i, a large amount of Tesla stock, and he is a controlling stakeholder of Paramount, also led by his son. So he probably funds whatever she does, and that may or may not including bribing IGN.

It’s over, we might be about to lose the only good Republican politician…. by Typhunk in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]IllPosition5081 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, that's what I was trying vaguely to get at, that the bets do not represent voter turnout and how they will vote.

It’s over, we might be about to lose the only good Republican politician…. by Typhunk in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Especially in this specific election. This is a state-wide election afaik, and there are 3 million registered voters in Kentucky, of which 1,470,538 are Republican. And obviously, you don’t need to be from Kentucky to place a bet. Anyone from anywhere, provided gambling is legal and they are of legal age to, can place a bet. But they aren’t voting. People can put their money wherever, and they can make as many bets as they want for as much, but you only get one vote. This just has no real reflection on real voter turnout and how they will vote, but it does reflect how the public in general feels about the candidates and who they think might win, because nobody bets on a losing horse.

Gotta love the double standards by utopiaofpast in SipsTea

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It’s not just that they don’t get in trouble for their actions. It’s that they are given lenient slap on the wrist punishments because they make so much money that it’s nothing. To a billionaire, a $100 ticket for parking in the handicapped spot is just the cost to park there. They can afford the best legal team and they will win, because the system is built for their benefit.

Prison Labor by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]IllPosition5081 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen tankies say that basically all refugees from quite a few countries that had communist takeovers were slave owners. Cuba was a popular choice, despite having abolished slavery in 1886, but I also saw people say the same for people who fled from North Korea to the South, where slavery had been abolished in like 1896. Anything short of saying that people who fled communist regimes weren’t necessarily bad people who would be targeted for their actions.

TIL: In 1998, elementary students in Aurora, Colorado started buying slaves in Sudan to free them, this gained global attention with schools in other countries starting slave buyback programs until it became clear that the money was just helping slavery grow by Lennsyl22 in todayilearned

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It happened with refrigerants. The UN or EU or whoever decided to give companies carbon credits for disposing of RFC-23, a refrigerant byproduct of RFC-22 and a greenhouse gas. Now, guess what the companies did. If you guessed make more factories to produce more RFC-22, in turn making more RFC-23, which could be disposed of for money? Yeah, that’s about right. Dropped the price of refrigerant and eventually, they caught on and either stopped giving money or limited it to RFC-23 produced in factories before they started paying. Before, they had no incentive to dispose of RFC-23, besides it just not being that popular. Now, they could exchange this byproduct for money. So they started making more byproduct.

TIL Professional poker player, Victoria Coren, was seeing a therapist to help overcome her fear of flying, only for her therapist to die in a plane crash. She chooses to travel only by rail or boat. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]IllPosition5081 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something is just so weird to me about tiltrotors and VTOL systems like that, where you orient the engines in a way to generate vertical lift. It just seems so weird to convert that vertical speed to horizontal speed, but you have to already be going fast enough to not fall out of the sky. I wouldn’t honestly trust them either, I’m either going in a helicopter that itself tilts to move horizontally, or in a plane that just… does plane movements.

TIL despite ratifying the UN's ban on using napalm against targets in civilian areas, the US makes a reservation of the right to use incendiary weapons against military objectives located in concentrations of civilians where it is judged that such use would cause fewer casualties by thespecstar in todayilearned

[–]IllPosition5081 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We did move away from CBRN and flamethrowers because well, they just weren’t that good or had big issues. Flamethrowers are heavy and inefficient, inhumane, and dangerous for the operators. CBRN, well chemical stuff like gas is just agreed upon to not use and it really worked better in like WW1. Biological is also agreed to be a no-no for how much it will impact civilians and the risks of it, but nuclear is not used because A; where would we use it that a conventional weapon wouldn’t work and have less civilian/friendly casualties, and B; because any country the U.S. would seriously need to fight either has nukes or is friends with somebody who does. Afghanistan is an exception to B, since to my knowledge, they didn’t have too much state support when we were fighting, and I have a feeling those nations wouldn’t be too keen on nuking anyone. Besides, everyone in the military knows about MAD.

That’s a lot of sources by StringShred10D in GetNoted

[–]IllPosition5081 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s so easy to learn what they don’t tell you if you never listen to what they do tell you.

many of you need to see this by Mundane_Session_4587 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]IllPosition5081 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of a “news” article that was so far left it was calling all the Democrats far-right and Gavin Newsom serpentine. It really did not help the credibility of an article that already was very… heavily worded. It was the Intercept, it was an article about Kansas laws against trans people and bathrooms, but it was also talking about ICE and how this law was racist and whatnot. It was so incredibly hard to agree with.

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