Think, why would I call a view "good" unless I could support it with publicly verifiable information, and knowing its opposition isn't immune to your point 2...

> "Religion is Brainwashing"
> "questions that do not have real answer"
Calling questions unanswerable just because some of the good answers point to theism being true - how is *that* not self-brainwashing?

You just pulled a Cathy Newman. Never pull a Cathy Newman.

If they fudged the first investigation, shouldn't that fudging factor be exposed and removed, before a second one makes sense?

Yes that makes the most sense so far.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990 was similar in how the investigation ignored the co-pilot's behavior before things went awry.

Can they maybe start by explaining why the "murder/suicide by pilot" theory was so quickly ruled out earlier, despite pretty consistent signs:
- pilot flew that exact route over the Indian Ocean on his simulator a month earlier
- tracking info was most likely turned off manually
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#Murder/suicide_by_pilot

You seem to be blaming "conservatives" - just to state the obvious: a real conservative wants to conserve everything that is valuable (particularly moral values, but also the environment). So do you - why alienate potential allies on this. Conservative =/= wild capitalist.

"Erythritol is an organic compound – a naturally-occurring, four-carbon sugar alcohol" [...] "Occurs naturally in some fruit and fermented foods"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

In industrial quantities, they make it from from glucose by fermentation with a yeast, Moniliella pollinis. Not sure whether that counts as artificial.

Either way this is interesting to me, as I fully switched from sugar to erythritol (and stevia). They can't be worse than sugar, can they?

Would you rather have conscript-age young men playing games, or being brain-washed into the army by Putin?

Same with Netflix and other media...

Wisdom considers the roll-on effects of decisions.

"gains will be forfeited to the national treasury"

So it's not real value when others have it, but with the CCP in charge, it transforms into assets of value (just until they sell it)?

Err, it doesn't actually say that. What it does say is that we don't yet know *enough* for hasty judgement, which I think is accurate even today. E.g. "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth" etc.

Love and obedience are both voluntary according to Christianity. We have an invitation, but you and I aren't forced to go either way. It's entirely up to each and every one of us.

In Christianity, God isn't just an adult who is a few decades older than we are. He's eternal.

Of course God could have created a world without the godless afterlife. But that would have been equivalent to forcing everyone into heaven, and God respects our free will too much to do that. His company is voluntary.

Jesus taught that God created us for a fulfilling eternal life. Humanity (you and I and most people in history) messed up, and we are currently subject to a partly-godless world, with a way back provided for us, and another way to try and stick it out without God.

I don't want to change your mind about God. If you want to be an atheist or a skeptic, be one. But the understanding in your comment doesn't have much to do with Christianity.

To the AC 2 below:
The tree of morality (kudos, many don't understand it for what it is) represented the choice between letting God tell / teach humanity what's right and wrong. Eating from the fruit was about taking that right into our own hands, which set mankind on a painful but fixable detour.

If God hadn't left such a way out of the Garden, he would have locked us in, which would have conflicted with that crucial principle at the start of my comment: love relationships are voluntary.

> "Love me, and obey me, or I will torture you forever."

About the first part: children should love and obey their parents, because they are their parents, and because they know what's best for them. True or false?
Regarding the second part - Christianity doesn't teach anything like that. Pain, suffering and regret will be the *inherent* consequences of the godless afterlife.

> "You are evil and you deserve to suffer, and the only thing good about you is your association with Me."

"I know the plans I have for you: to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

Agreed. Thinkpads have the best keyboard and the best positioning device (=trackpoint), by far.