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The Bible has internal contradictions, so not all of it can be true at the same time. None of it is necessarily true either, though. I've lived my life fine without using the "facts" or "morals" of the bible. I still have to know it though, to read classical literature. Bible is everywhere.

Dorito is arguing about the numeral tokens. .9... and 1 have the same value, but different representations.

freedom: 4. the power to determine action without restraint. Total freedom would be bad. No freedom is also bad. Somewhere in between, it gets good. I think the US is just a little bit under the mark. Depends on your definitions really.

I question the author's credentials. Of the Qur'an I mean.

Welcome to the thread. Note the "..." in 0.999...

So then, are you saying that the "sin" of alcohol is a stupid small thing? After all, you have more on your mind than trying to be healthy. Regardless - the point I was making (if you can even call it that) wasn't about westerners - it was about Israelis. Same region. Overall, same troubles.

What's the standard for being truly free, then? If you say it like that, it might not even be a good thing, to be so free.

Well, I'm not talking about Muslims versus Westerners, I'm comparing two groups of people in the same area, but with different religions. You have the same weather, and the same water. Middle East compared to Western though - there's no comparison. I agree there.

If you even say that 0.0..1 is showing how small a number is, you're doing it wrong. You can't represent an infinitesimal that way. They work in strange ways. They're smaller than any number you can construct, but they're larger than zero.

You're going to argue A LOT with your calculus teacher. Just saying.

Well, most Christians interpret the old testament very loosely, or reject them. You can't be both a jew and a christian. (btw, LOL @ Jews for Jesus.)

Workers of the world, unite. Or at least in the United States. I sense I think I agree with Gnomey, but only out of my innate intolerance against skaters. The nation isn't coming any less free because you were booted out of the parking lot for being disrespectful to a customer. But it is...

It could be worse. We could be governed under sharia law.

The sample of people in a public school class and in a homeschool is different. At public school, you (at least where I lived) meet a good representation of all traits, races, etc - and you learn to be tolerant, because you get in trouble if you aren't.

It isn't just the effects of alcohol in the liver. ANYTHING that goes through your liver can be applied here.