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re: Megyn Kelly and MTG had a nice little interview.
Posted by cssamerican on 3/3/26 at 4:43 am to TigerAxeOK
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They have all lost their minds in 2026. Off the deepest of deep ends, every last one. Qatarlson is praising Islam and jihad, Kelly has become a shock jock attention whore, Shawn Ryan can't see anything beyond the Epstein files, Fuentes is telling his ghey groypers to vote for Democrats, Bongino is a sellout and the Hodge Twins have even started taking liberal positions. Candace Owens, I don't even know what the hell planet she's on.
When Ben criticized influencers at TPUSA for refusing to push back against conspiracy theories about Erika Kirk, and the response was to attack him instead, that’s when I realized something was deeply wrong within the conservative movement.
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re: What is the direct positive impact to the US for our actions in Iran?
Posted by cssamerican on 3/2/26 at 5:30 pm to gothamdawg
Gets us possibly out of a conflict in the Middle East every decade.
re: Just started rewatching Silicon Valley
Posted by cssamerican on 3/2/26 at 5:27 pm to CocomoLSU
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It does get repetitive and it sucks to never see the guys get a full win at times. But all in all I enjoyed it a lot. I don’t even remember why I drifted away from it when it was airing.
Yeah, they should have won and we could see them do rich stupid things, I think it would have made later seasons more enjoyable because it would have been less repetitive. You could of ended it with them losing everything due to something stupid in the final season if you wanted to.
re: Gen X kids rated most emotionally durable generation
Posted by cssamerican on 3/2/26 at 3:19 pm to BOHICAMAN
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You know what else is different? Parents didn’t spy on their kids every moment with Life360 like a bunch of psychopaths.
I would have loved this as a kid…I had to come up with elaborate lies about what I did and where I went, you know how easy it would have been just to leave a phone at a friend’s house and my parents never question me about my whereabouts?
re: Popeyes ICT Sunday Afternoon
Posted by cssamerican on 3/2/26 at 1:44 am to Cosmo
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My local popeyes is surprisingly well managed
Obviously that isn’t the one on Greenwell Springs. :lol:
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re: Louisiana ranked third most sinful state.
Posted by cssamerican on 3/1/26 at 4:06 am to BoomerandSooner
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…42.8% get the recommended 150 minutes of weekly aerobic exercise.
No way this is accurate! That number is easily way to high.
re: Impressive support for Intelligent Design
Posted by cssamerican on 2/25/26 at 7:47 pm to JacieNY
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Now as for evolution all of the evidence, the real evidence supports the "theory" such that for all intents and purposes it is proven and none of the evidence disproves it.
Out of curiosity, what evidence or observations would be required to disprove the theory of universal common ancestry, that all life on Earth descends from a single primordial single-celled organism?
re: One thing kids today don't have: traumatic movies
Posted by cssamerican on 2/24/26 at 8:50 pm to deeprig9
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No way I'd show that movie to a young child.
She used to run around the house laughing and yelling sha…sha….sha…shark!
re: One thing kids today don't have: traumatic movies
Posted by cssamerican on 2/23/26 at 5:49 pm to Pelicans15
They have every movie we had plus more. My daughter’s favorite movie as a young child was Jaws.
re: Impressive support for Intelligent Design
Posted by cssamerican on 2/22/26 at 12:44 pm to NC_Tigah
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You'd probably need to link/quote those directly. I'm not aware of Jesus treating the Genesis accounts as historical. For what it's worth, Paul was a trained Pharisee though.
The vaguest of his references, but still seems to indicate that they were as they are from the beginning.
Matthew 19:4-6 (ESV)
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Mark 10:6-8 (ESV)
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
He treats Abel the same as real people in this context.
Matthew 23:35 (ESV)
so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
Luke 11:50-51 (ESV)
so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
This reads as if he believes it was a real event.
Matthew 24:37-39 (ESV)
For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Luke 17:26-27 (ESV)
Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
re: Anyone play chess?
Posted by cssamerican on 2/22/26 at 12:33 pm to mytigger
Play people slightly better than you, and I mean slightly better. The game is no fun if you destroy everyone or get destroyed by everyone. Plus, you don’t really get better in either of those scenarios.
re: Impressive support for Intelligent Design
Posted by cssamerican on 2/22/26 at 12:11 pm to NC_Tigah
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Genesiac allegory.
I can see this interpretation as a Jew; however, I can’t see it as a Christian because this isn’t how it’s is viewed in the New Testament, Jesus and Paul treat those events as historical.
re: Impressive support for Intelligent Design
Posted by cssamerican on 2/22/26 at 10:19 am to NC_Tigah
Evolution, understood as the process of natural selection, is an established scientific fact. The real debate lies in whether the variation it produces is limitless over long timescales or inherently constrained.
If variation is effectively unlimited, the concept of macroevolution becomes a reasonable explanation, with the main unresolved question being the origin of life itself. However, if variation is limited, then some form of intelligent design seems like a more plausible framework.
Intelligent design is often portrayed as inseparable from religious creationism, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be. For instance, the idea that life on Earth could have been seeded by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization is rarely considered, though it remains a theoretical possibility. I don’t personally hold that view, but it seems worth acknowledging as part of the broader discussion.
That said, from a Christian theological standpoint, macroevolution appears difficult to reconcile with the Bible. If death and suffering are consequences of sin in what was originally a perfect world, yet evolutionary theory holds that death existed long before humanity, then the foundational logic of redemption through Jesus becomes problematic. I say this as a Christian: I find it very difficult to see how someone can fully embrace Universal Common Ancestor evolution and still remain consistent with a traditional Christian understanding of creation, sin, and redemption. It’s the view I have the least amount of respect for as I can’t see how you can believe both honesty.
If variation is effectively unlimited, the concept of macroevolution becomes a reasonable explanation, with the main unresolved question being the origin of life itself. However, if variation is limited, then some form of intelligent design seems like a more plausible framework.
Intelligent design is often portrayed as inseparable from religious creationism, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be. For instance, the idea that life on Earth could have been seeded by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization is rarely considered, though it remains a theoretical possibility. I don’t personally hold that view, but it seems worth acknowledging as part of the broader discussion.
That said, from a Christian theological standpoint, macroevolution appears difficult to reconcile with the Bible. If death and suffering are consequences of sin in what was originally a perfect world, yet evolutionary theory holds that death existed long before humanity, then the foundational logic of redemption through Jesus becomes problematic. I say this as a Christian: I find it very difficult to see how someone can fully embrace Universal Common Ancestor evolution and still remain consistent with a traditional Christian understanding of creation, sin, and redemption. It’s the view I have the least amount of respect for as I can’t see how you can believe both honesty.
re: The Alcohol Industry Lost $830 Billion In the Last 4 Years, Thanks Largely to Gen Z
Posted by cssamerican on 2/22/26 at 6:58 am to blueboy
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alcohol =/= 'anything pleasurable in life'
That’s incorrect, it loosens you up in social settings to have fun.
People here seem to be equating a few drinks at a party to drinking a 750ml bottle of Jim Bean a night. One is responsible using alcohol for what it was meant for, the other has a drinking problem.
I would imagine the same people who consume alcohol who can’t control it, will be the same people who do the same with other substances.
re: What is the point of a debate?
Posted by cssamerican on 2/17/26 at 11:27 pm to northshorebamaman
From AI on his position:
The available evidence from Andrew Wilson’s debates, statements, and content indicates that he does not argue for a dictatorship or the enforcement of Christian nationalist ideals as a minority position imposed on an unwilling majority through governmental force. Instead, his positions emphasize working within the existing democratic framework—primarily through voting, elections, and representative government—to achieve cultural and political dominance for Christians. He frames this as Christians legitimately seeking and exercising power when they hold majority influence or elected positions, aligning laws with Christian ethics without subverting constitutional processes.
He’s essentially arguing that Christians should support policies and leaders shaped by Christian values, working within the Constitution just like any other interest group. Critics label this as far-right extremism because the values being promoted are explicitly Christian. The definition of “far-right” has shifted, from describing state-run nationalist or ethnoreligious authoritarianism to describing almost any situation where religious, especially Christian, influence affects secular public life. In this view, secularism is now treated as the neutral center, while only very radical anti-capitalist communism is seen as truly left wing.
Under this definition the United States has been a far right extremist country for the majority of it’s existence,
The available evidence from Andrew Wilson’s debates, statements, and content indicates that he does not argue for a dictatorship or the enforcement of Christian nationalist ideals as a minority position imposed on an unwilling majority through governmental force. Instead, his positions emphasize working within the existing democratic framework—primarily through voting, elections, and representative government—to achieve cultural and political dominance for Christians. He frames this as Christians legitimately seeking and exercising power when they hold majority influence or elected positions, aligning laws with Christian ethics without subverting constitutional processes.
He’s essentially arguing that Christians should support policies and leaders shaped by Christian values, working within the Constitution just like any other interest group. Critics label this as far-right extremism because the values being promoted are explicitly Christian. The definition of “far-right” has shifted, from describing state-run nationalist or ethnoreligious authoritarianism to describing almost any situation where religious, especially Christian, influence affects secular public life. In this view, secularism is now treated as the neutral center, while only very radical anti-capitalist communism is seen as truly left wing.
Under this definition the United States has been a far right extremist country for the majority of it’s existence,
re: What is the point of a debate?
Posted by cssamerican on 2/17/26 at 3:21 pm to forkedintheroad
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I don't care about the winning a debate crap...I just want the OP to define "far right"
Yeah, for some reason normal common sense thought is labeled “far right”, I’m not sure if people understand what “far right” should actually mean.
re: The Dor Brothers create new AI movie in 1 day that would cost studios 200m to make
Posted by cssamerican on 2/17/26 at 7:14 am to MrLSU
Well, it has basically no story, weak dialogue, and terrible acting. The only reason this has a chance to unseat Hollywood is because that’s the same problem Hollywood currently has.
re: What would you tell the dying man?
Posted by cssamerican on 2/17/26 at 7:06 am to lsufanva
I’m not sure if death bed confessions are as simple and sure as everyone makes them out to be, If you don’t really have faith and trust in God I don’t think it matters. So, I would just ask if he had a message for a loved one and promise to pass it on.
We all know about the thief at the cross and the story of Lazarus and the rich man, we all know that Paul in Philippians 1:23 desires “to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better.” And these passages are what we base our idea of how it all works. However, I never thought the most direct explanation 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 came across that way.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
I sometimes think the scripture kept the mechanics of the afterlife a mystery, perhaps intentionally.
quote:I’ve wondered about this…If we aren’t judged until the second coming, how do we receive our punishment or reward beforehand?
He'll find out if heaven/hell is real before we do.
We all know about the thief at the cross and the story of Lazarus and the rich man, we all know that Paul in Philippians 1:23 desires “to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better.” And these passages are what we base our idea of how it all works. However, I never thought the most direct explanation 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 came across that way.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
I sometimes think the scripture kept the mechanics of the afterlife a mystery, perhaps intentionally.
re: Lindsey Graham: I come to Israel every 2 weeks
Posted by cssamerican on 2/16/26 at 8:20 pm to UncleLogger
I think Israel existing is a good thing, but this is ridiculously stupid for any US Senator to care that much about another country. Represent your state like you were elected to do!
re: UPDATE: Anyone Remember the Discussion Around Watermarked Ballots?
Posted by cssamerican on 2/15/26 at 9:50 pm to AlterEd
Call me when someone gets arrested
re: Evidence 500,000 year old petrified log cabin found in Zambia (not sure how I missed this)
Posted by cssamerican on 2/15/26 at 2:40 pm to Proximo
quote:quote:okay bud
I question all dating simply because I don’t believe they know what they are talking about.
Funny how you left off the the soft tissue part of my statement: stretchy blood vessels and collagen in 65-million-year-old T. rex bones, flexible enough to squeeze like rubber bands. Not bacteria, not mineral goo, actual dinosaur tissue.
They slap exceptional preservation on it like that’s not a massive problem for millions-of-years decay math. Iron cross-linking magic, sure, whatever helps you sleep.
Soft tissue laughs at deep time, dating assumptions crumble under scrutiny, yet somehow it’s still settled science. Cute. How wrong are the models? Probably hilariously so. Keep pretending it’s bulletproof though.
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