SippyCup

The old testament is full of kinda fucked up, ~~borderline~~ abusive demands.

NVM he has you cut the tip of your dick off as an act of devotion it's full on abusive.

"I am the Lord thy God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of slavery and you shall have no other gods before me"

That's not a mistranslation, that's the entire first commandment. The old testament openly acknowledges the "existence" of competing deities.

Remember that when this was written down for the first time, it was super strange to have only one all powerful God. There were hundreds of gods that the Jews would have been at least aware of. Even if the whole Exodus thing is not accurate to Jewish history in particular, which it likely isn't, no one but the Jews had only one God they prayed to. At the time, you prayed to whoever you thought got that particular job done. The first commandment says no, set them all aside and worship me and me alone.

Which is exactly why the second commandment is about not making idols.

Also the whole Egypt thing was probably the Hitites, who got diaspora'd and many of whom probably ended up finding the Jewish people and integrated with them. There's literally 0 physical evidence of large scale Jewish enslavement in ancient Egypt.

It's the year 3250. Two harsh desert planets are in a bitter dispute over mineral and water mining rights over the asteroid belt. The Mars coalition insists that Earth may lay claim only to those rocky bodies that fall past her orbit. Earth insists that anything beyond their respective atmospheres is fair game. They use loaded language and plan to argue that an 'atmosphere' is one that sustains life, meaning she plans to mine uninhabited stretches or Martian soil too. There is serious debate on Earth of the inhabitants of Mars are even human anymore, cross breeding has become exceptionally difficult. Martians have a lower natural fertility rate and often need IVF to reproduce. Earth gravity is too strong for martians to safely return to the home planet, and so few Earthlings have ever seen one in person.

The dispute, unresolved, leads to the second interplanetary war. A billion people will die on both planets. Mars will lose precious irreplaceable atmosphere. Earth will lose access to much needed water. The conflict only ends when neither can keep up the fight any longer.

Largely diplomaticly and financially. The US actively supported secessionists with guns and money. Being fair the little federation was never very stable, but the US got involved immediately to ensure it never found it's footing.

Imagine that, if during the first Constitutional Convention in the late 1780's, if Europe had sent envoys to separate factions with an assload of weapons and whispered "hey, you really gonna let them get away with that shit? I got your back bro if this gets bloody..."

That's kinda what we did.

Can you guess who played the lead role in destabilizing the FRCA?

It starts with United and rhymes with Bates of Bamerica.

USA! USA! USA!

See that's an apprentice kinda attitude.

Where I come from meetings can become fist fights any time you want.

They have to keep one guy out illegally so we waste all of our outage on him instead of the fact that it's happening at all.

Literally ANYTHING to own the libs

Oh perfect. I GOT THE CONCH.

many may have a conch but mine is THE Conch and I have it.

I'm sure they'd kill for it to work that reliably. It hasn't been successful yet.

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Generally these tests are conducted by pedophiles and kept secret, so I can see why the GOP has no problem with them.