Ask your difficult questions of an Atheist.

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  1. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    As you said, some people do get arrested. When they are in jail do they have their kids with them?
     
  2. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    Are you saying that arrested people keep their kids with them while they are locked up? I never knew that is the practice in America. Thanks for telling me that.
     
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    """" ( determined by the state) It then becomes a misdemeanor and not just a civil offense. They don’t get their kids removed from them.....""""



    I read that, it was clear.....why didn't you read it?
     
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    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    Those are not the Ten Commandments. It is nice to know what they are when discussing them on a religious forum.
     
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    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    If locked up prints don't have their kids with them in jail are they removed from them?
     
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    You’re pretty naive. For misdemeanors in in state’s, they have 48 to 72 hours to bring formal charges or release them. The Trump administration NEVER MADE PLANS TO REUNITE THE KIDs.
    Kids can not be held in juvenile detention for long without being charged or they must be reunited with their parents. The courts have found Trump wrong, and ordered the kids reunited. But they can’t, because the incompetent Trump never made provisions. ICE is engaged in violation of the law and court orders.
    It’s even violation of international laws.
    Why are supporters so proud to be ignorant of the lawlessness going on ?
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/world/americas/us-un-migrant-children-families.html
     
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    Why don’t you look it up. Do you need to be spoon fed everything ?
     
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    How many illegal aliens did you take into your home this week?
     
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    How many delusional questions do you keep asking,
     
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    So tell us, all knowing and wise one, what exactly ARE the Ten Commandments?

    Any bets his "Ten Commandments" come from some obscure text no one knows about and no religious group accepts as authoritative?
     
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    Wrong. we don’t know any such thing. Schools don’t administer them anymore. What rock have you been sleeping under ?
    You must be out of touch with reality. We don’t administer IQ tests in schools anymore. Who takes them and who relies on them ? No university or college does. Tell us. What institutions rely on them ?
     
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  12. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    Wasn't the outrage about the illegal alien chicken pluckers being locked up and the girl crying because her daddy was in jail?
     
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    That’s as stupid as telling someone who is against abortion to adopt 10 children.
     
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    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    First off, it helps to define what constitutes the Ten Commandments. Do you agree that they must be written on stone tablets and called the Ten Commandments? A lot of things were written on stone but are not called the Ten Commandments, for example, the Twelve Curses in Deuteronomy chapter 27.

    You will know what they are when you read the biblical fairy tale.

    Get a pen and some blank sheets of paper. Start reading at Exodus chapter 19 and continue to the end of Exodus chapter 34. As you read, summarize in your own words the ideas expressed in each group of verses.

    As you read you will discover that Moses went up and down the mountain several times. People had a punic with the God character. The rules in Exodus chapter 20 were oral and were not written on stone tables or called the Ten Commandments. It was Exodus 31:18 before Moses got the stone tablets.

    I Exodus chapter 32, the God character wants to go on a killing spree and Moses tells him to chill and let him do it. Moses then has his thugs kill thousand because they wanted to have freedom of religion.

    In Exodus 34, Moses chips out two stone tablets and lugs them up the mountain for another 40 day and forty night vacation without food or water. He then gets them engraved with the Ten Commandments, Exodus 34:11-28 = https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus34:11-28&version=RSVCE;ERV;NKJV;TLB;KJV

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    It is important to know what the real Ten Commandments are (Exodus 34:11-28) because every biblical story illustrates one or more of them in action. The miracles are based on Exodus 34:10. If a person doesn't understand that then it is impossible to understand the stories. As you read the Bible a knowledgable person will be able to link the story with the relevant Commandment(s).

    You will also realize why they push the fake Ten Commandments (actually 11) in Exodus chapter 20. They alway ignore the eleventh commandment =Exodus 20:23-26. After all, would non-Jews be eager to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread or break a donkey colt’s neck? So they sold the lie and people believe it because they never read the actual book. They get their religion from movies.
     
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    Outrage ? Oh, rather then confuse the discussion with silly little one offs, let’s talk about the white supremest terrorism that uses Trump idiom manifestos prior to their shootings. Buddies in arms ?
     
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    Wow......
     
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    From movies, as opposed to comic books ?
     
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    Isn't funny how those righties always want others to do their 'Christian' work for them?
     
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  19. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    You can always do your own research.
     
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    All of them do. IQ tests were forbidden in use by federal law, so we have to use proxies for IQ instead. The SAT and ACT are almost universally used by colleges for admissions, and they are better proxies for IQ than high school grades. The military's ASVAB is correlated with IQ at the .8 level, as close to 1 as you can get in psychology. Every entry-level employer of anyone higher than a roofer uses educational attainment, major, and school attended as proxies for IQ.

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    "White Americans with no degree (about 10 years of completed education?): Average IQ 87

    White Americans with high school diploma/GED (about 12 years education?): Average IQ 99

    White Americans with an Associate degree (about 14 years education?): Average IQ 104

    White Americans with a Bachelor’s degree (about 16 years education?): Average IQ 113

    White Americans with a Master’s degree (about 18 years education?): Average IQ 117

    White Americans with PhD, LLD, MD, DDS (about 20 years education?): Average IQ 124"

    https://brainsize.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/iq-years-of-education/ (quoting Charles Murray's Coming Apart)

    "Estimates place the average IQ of Harvard students from 129 to 137. This figure is derived from SAT test scores, described by Harvard professor Howard Gardner as "thinly disguised IQ tests.""

    https://www.reference.com/education/average-iq-harvard-students-1c4c565596442870

    Ranking of 1339 colleges by how smart the students are: https://www.psychologytoday.com/fil...olleges-ranked-average-student-brainpower.pdf

    "Some highly competitive roles or very desirable employers use GPA standards as a way to cut down the list of potential employees to consider. Since the percentage of graduates who complete school with a 3.5 (for example) or higher is quite small, requiring a 3.5 or higher is an effective way to tighten the applicant pool immediately. While there are a few employers or select employment programs that target GPAs of 3.5, most companies that have a GPA requirement target 3.0 or 3.3 and higher. These requirements still limit the applicant pool, but clearly are more inclusive." (In other words, if you've got less than a B average, you're automatically eliminated from consideration for these jobs.)

    https://money.usnews.com/money/blog...04-26/does-gpa-matter-when-applying-for-a-job

    After entry level position, IQ also correlates with success on the job, so even success on the job is a proxy for IQ.

    "Science says IQ may be the best predictor of your potential to excel at work — and no one wants to hear it"

    https://www.businessinsider.com/why-your-iq-strongly-influences-your-success-at-work-2017-10?op=1

    So the idea that "no one" uses IQ tests anymore is just flat out wrong. We may not administer the Stanford-Binet test to everyone, but we're using IQ tests all the time just the same.

    "The average IQ in the United States is 98."

    https://www.healthline.com/health/average-iq (embedded link is behind a paywall)
     
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    Really, Daisy? Are you living under a rock?

    Why don't Pro Life Republicans Adopt More Children?
    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/...bif7qeQrAJbWQgoOsmLomRZ9k_He7W5hnN3bZ3QgQsNv7

    Why do so few "Pro Life" republicans actually adopt children?
    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/...bif7qeQrAJbWQgoOsmLomRZ9k_He7W5hnN3bZ3QgQsNv7

    Why don't pro-lifers adopt the babies they don't want aborted?
    https://christiananswers.net/q-sum/q-life006.html

    Why don't more pro-life people adopt children?
    https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-pro-life-people-adopt-children?share=1

    “Why Don’t You Pro-Lifers Adopt?”
    https://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/07/pro-abortion-fallacy-of-the-day-why-dont-you-pro-lifers-adopt/

    "You don't see these Right Wing anti-choice extremists adopting children from unplanned pregnancies..."
    http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/republicans-are-pro-birth-not-pro-life.656872/

    "I don't see pro-lifers offering to adopt all the fetuses they want to save. Hypocrites!"
    https://www.reddit.com/r/prolife/comments/46gwke/i_dont_see_prolifers_offering_to_adopt_all_the/

    By the way, while Christian does not necessarily equal pro-life, Christians are more than twice as likely as the general population to adopt a child. How about that, pro-lifers DO adopt babies! https://ethicsdaily.com/christians-more-than-twice-as-likely-to-adopt-a-child-cms-21267/ Meanwhile, those who support unlimited immigration tend to live in lily-white communities surrounded by walls and gates and even security personnel. "Let all those poor and middle-class people deal with the problems immigrants bring, I'm perfectly safe in my Fortress of Privilege." It's rank hypocrisy and it deserves to be called out.
     
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    As I thought. No one accepts Exodus 34 as "The Ten Commandments", not Christians, not Jews, not anyone.
     
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    Racist bigotry has NO FACTS whatsoever!
     
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    Screaming "racist" at every fact you don't like doesn't make them not facts.

    "In contrast, the heritability of IQ in Black and Hispanic Americans is less studied. Nevertheless, there are a small number of studies that allow for heritability comparisons between White, Black, and Hispanic samples. We will review these studies to determine whether the magnitudes of the genetic and environmental parameters interact with race/ethnicity. Such analyses directly indicate only the sources of within-race differences, but they nevertheless have important implications for understanding the causes of the Black-White and Hispanic-White mean differences in IQ, which research consistently shows to be about 1 and 0.7 standard deviations, respectively (Roth et al., 2001)." [average IQ of blacks ~ 85, Hispanics ~ 90]

    https://humanvarieties.org/2014/09/...s-a-meta-analysis-and-new-analysis/#more-3895

    Note this study didn't even contest that there's a difference, rather it started from the difference and studied whether it was inheritable. (TL; DR... it says the data on blacks is that the difference is inheritable, but the data on Hispanics isn't clear yet.)
     
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    :roflol:

    You can PRETEND to be anything you want to be on the internet but the CONTENT of your posts ALWAYS exposes the truth just as it did with your pretending to be an "atheist".

    https://www.healthline.com/health-news/biologically-race-only-skin-deep#1

    Black Americans have an average of 25% white genes and since these white genes originated in the SOUTH where the majority of BLOTUS supporters exist that might explain why BOTH groups get the same lower than average scores on IQ tests because we KNOW that part of IQ is inherited. However the blacks are smart enough to know that the BLOTUS is racist POS!

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1682537/

     
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