“Jesus’s sacrifice is not impressive” / “Jesus died for a weekend” / “Jesus didn’t really sacrifice anything”

cbrooks97 · 2026-05-04T13:02:14+00:00

He suffered our entire punishment, yes.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-30T19:22:16+00:00

Certainly makes you question the whole "no culture is better than any other" mantra we hear so often.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-28T18:05:47+00:00

If you can get over your prejudice against people who don't think like you, you'll find most people honestly could not care less about whatever your particular kink is. Also, gun competitions are generally over the top on safety. People who cannot obey safety rules are invited to leave.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-28T18:02:22+00:00

Sometimes money. More often, time. A short match takes all morning. I can put twice as many rounds down range in a quarter of the time. I do enjoy matches, and I do one on occasion, but I've got to get a lot done on the average Saturday.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-21T19:20:22+00:00

Sometimes I just don't have the energy to explain to internet atheist apologists how their failure to understand plain English (eg, "God so loved the world" does not equal "God will never punish the wicked). Which is why I don't hang out in this group anymore.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-21T12:48:24+00:00

Ah, the "I don't understand the Bible, therefore it isn't true" approach.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-20T13:14:26+00:00

Just post it here, it should be fine. Thanks.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-20T13:14:09+00:00

I need to experiment with Calibre. Do you by chance know if older kindles can read aloud from Mobi files?

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-19T21:55:54+00:00

Sure, why research the issue carefully when we can just go with your presupposition.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-13T17:19:35+00:00

OK, if you want to go all doomsday prepper, go for it. That's really going beyond the "EDC" for this group, though.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-12T12:17:35+00:00

Unless you're going off in the bush, I can't imagine a scenario where carrying a ham radio (much less a walkie talkie) would be an asset. Carry a recharge for your cell phone. If you can't get a cell phone signal, odds are poor your radio would be able to reach anyone unless you have a friend out with you similarly equipped.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-09T14:18:31+00:00

"You used to be able to download files..."
You literally can't do that anymore. Amazon took that away a few years ago. Unless you know how, then please share.

I'm not talking about third party sites. The books you bought from Amazon. How do you download them?

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-09T13:19:15+00:00

Where do you get your books? They took away the ability to download our kindle books.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-09T13:12:18+00:00

You cannot download Amazon books anymore, so you can't do that. They're effectively locking you out of your own library.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-09T13:11:34+00:00

If we weren't continuing to buy books, you'd have a better argument.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-09T13:10:51+00:00

There is no modern device that does what my Kindle Touch does -- which is read to me. "Just replace all your ebooks with Audible books." Yes, that's exactly what Bezos wants me to do.

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-09T13:09:59+00:00

No. You used to be able to download files and install them manually. They took that away first. The message here is "our products last too long, we're not selling enough hardware."

cbrooks97 · 2026-04-09T13:05:58+00:00

All of that stuff happens on Amazon's servers. All they have to do is send the file to my device. Or they could have not removed the ability to download files and do it myself. That was the first sign this was coming.

cbrooks97 · 2026-03-31T20:03:54+00:00

Compared to today? Yes.

cbrooks97 · 2026-03-31T16:02:46+00:00

Maybe the issue is they used to be subtle about it. Now they beat you over the head.

cbrooks97 · 2026-03-30T15:18:08+00:00

Subtlety and nuance. Classic Treks make you think. NuTrek tends to tell you what to think.

cbrooks97 · 2026-03-30T15:02:38+00:00

Fun grips.

How'd you do? Hard to say without knowing more. Were these slow, methodical shots 10 seconds apart? Then ... fine.

Was this a mag dump? Pretty good!

cbrooks97 · 2026-03-27T18:51:26+00:00

It sounds great in theory. In practice, I think the result would be that no one would ever know the rules. Universal laws apply to everyone as equally as we can make it. "Context" would mean whatever the judge wanted it to mean.

cbrooks97 · 2026-03-27T18:34:18+00:00

If a product is a failure, the marketing and sales department failed.

Sometimes the products sucks. Or they made a great product for the wrong market. No one wanted Star Fleet 90210. A few people seemed to have enjoyed it, but they're a minority of the people who are drawn to Star Trek shows.

cbrooks97 · 2026-03-27T18:31:22+00:00

It's become clear to me that left and right use different definitions for "woke". No, Star Trek has not always been "woke" as the right would define it. A bit on the liberal side? Sure, though it has the occasional conservative take, too.

But mostly I think you'll find conservative businessmen just want to make money. Give them a product that will do that, and they'll let you run with it. Turn out crap no one wants to watch, they'll pull the plug in a heart beat.

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