Ragnarr Lodbrok

How do Americans rate their government, it's internal and foreign policy?

Wonder how will the newest generation look like? My nephew is 2.5 years old and he's alreadya more proficient in the use of internet (he's got a tablet and can browse YT on his own) than most people aged 65-70+... Who knows? Maybe they won't be able to go to school without a computer displaying the route...

75% of people who are not flooding Europe are NOT from Syria. If they're not from a war-torn country, then the whole mess is not a refugee crisis. It's an economic migration.

He cannot disagree with Jesus because he was appointed by him as his successor. If Paul disagreed with Christ, it would mean that Christ either lied about himself or was wrong about Paul. Lord Christ could not lie about himself because he was sinless and he could not be wrong about Paul because he "(Christ) was God.

These refugees should be loaded on ships and sent to America. Enough problems cuz of US neocon BS policy.

Why reject St. Paul's explanation? St. Paul is the second most important person in Christianity after Jesus and his interpretation of the teachings of Jesus takes precedence over any other interpretation.

Well, you guys can always write to the Pope (or Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinopole, the Archbishop of Canterbury or a head of some other Christian church - and argue that all of them have been plain wrong for almost two millenia and only 8 guys in America got it right. Maybe we'll have a revolution in Christianity and Pope Francis will start advocating death penalty for homosexualism? Who knows...?

The goal of the Old Law was, ultimately, Christ. He fulfilled everything that was written in the Old Testament The Old Law is made of three parts: 1. Ceremonial - this includes all rules relating to worship - dietary laws, prayers, religious festivals etc. 2. Civil - which encompases all rules relating to state - criminal punishments, rules of trade, organization of government. 3. Moral law - law that is in the mind of a believer - mostly the Ten Commandments. Ceremonial law was abrogated because all sacrifices point towards Christ, civil law was abrogated because the "kingdom" that Jesus talked about is no longer the physica Israel but a spiritual kingom in heaven. Moral law was or was not abrogated (there is a controversy)

Everybody knows about communism too - but very few people support it. Knowing about something is not the same as supporting it.

It's not apologetics, it's facts. I realize there are things in Christian theology that have trilions of interpretations and are really controversial - but abrogation of the old law is not one of them. It's about the least controversial topic in Christian theology and one of very few with nearly 100% agreement amongst CHristian churches. In the US there is an extremely obscure Calvinist denomination called "Christian Reconstructionism" that says Mosaic law is still binding. It is currently represented by two organizations - the Chaldecon Foundation with 3 members and the American Vision with total membership of 5 people - which gives a total of 8 people - not a big number in a country of over 300 million people, eh?

Jesus did fulfill the law. It is not binding on Christians precisely because he fulfilled it.

95% of laws listed in the OT are not followed by Christians - the ideas of progressive revelation and agrogation come into play here. That's why I said all that killing in the OT does not matter. Crimes committed in the past are not "crimes of Christianity" - they are either crimes of secular rulers or crimes of the Church. There is nothign in the teachings of Jesus and his apostles that justifies all these crimes.

I have neither tools, will, nor capabilities to create such things. Anyway, people can design whatever they want in CAD.

Whatever in the OT God ordered people to kill or not is redudant. The Old Testament is not an important source of guidance for Christians. It is included as a holy book of Christianity because the New Testament does not have anough info about Jewish history - so Christains have to resort to an old Jewish book to see "how it all began". THE source of guidance for Christians is Jesus. Moses, Joshua and other Jewish prophets are cheifly historical figures. I can see a lot of contribution that Christianity made to the Western world - we can begin with the knowledge of Latin that would be completely forgotten and was restored thanks to a group of monks in Ireland. Then we have cathedral schools and universities that constituted pretty much the only source of formal education in medieval Europe - and the only place where one could read and write. Then we have numerous Catholic scientists who until the Renaissance, made up the majority of scientists. We can mention monasteries that helped spread technological innovations around Europe.

No idea. I know there are a lot of people with degrees in science?

I meant mechanically simple stuff - small arms (pistols, rifles, sniper rifles, RPGs), simply ballistic missiles (like a winged rocket with a camera, controlled from a computer), grenades, mines, maybe cannons. I do realize that iw would be next to impossible for someone to single handedly design a tank given it's sheer complexity (electronics, suspension, engine etc.). But more simple things may be in reach of a gifted engineer.

I asked when I realized how much easier design has become thanks to CAD software. 50 years ago everything had to be drawn by hand - today it can be designed and tested in a computer program, together with simulating it's production process etc. So I thought maybe it's possible for a single person to design some basic weaponry.

What education is needed to design weapon systems from scratch? Let's say it's basic stuff - an assault rifle or a simple solid fuel rocket guided from a PC for example. Would a mechanical engineer manage to do that?

All forum members - hello. My father recently died from lung cancer, don't know what type of cancer it was (a biopsy wasn't done - but he had a lung tumor and he had been a lifetime smoker for 46 years and painted cars for ~15 years with almost no protective equipment until ~13 years ago). He had almost no symptoms except severe back pain bron a spinal metastasis that greatly reduced his mobility (he complained of back pains since April but wasn't diagnosed properly until August). One day he came out of his bedroom bleeding from his nose and mouth, then collapsed and died within literally half a minute (all attempts of resuscitation failed). What possibly could have caused such a sudden death? Since no autopsy was done (and later he was cremated), I can only speculate. Most often people with cancer gradually lose strength, then weight and ultimately, die after months.