Fifth Avenue Forum

They’re two of the best people on the planet at having a discussion. Those are lofty expectations of the rest of us.

They’re two of the best people on the planet at having a discussion. Those are lofty expectations of the rest of us.

His last point about destroying a religious book and destroying science book was an excellent point.

It's not like anyone's actually "scientifically proven" the origin of man.

I believe his point stands on micro-level science stuff but at a macro level there's plenty of room for interpretation

Would anyone really be upset if the entire population attending the anti vaxx rally in DC yesterday got wiped out? Those speeches were absolutely insane

It's not like anyone's actually "scientifically proven" the origin of man.

I believe his point stands on micro-level science stuff but at a macro level there's plenty of room for interpretation

He wasn’t trying to say that. Of corse science hasn’t proven where/how/mechanism of life and man. Lots of good ideas, but not enough evidence to get there.

What he’s saying is the math, physics, chemistry, biology… the stuff that is pretty locked in as being fact: if we were to delete all that knowledge from the earth and start over, those things that were proven would be proven again eventually. If we erase all religious books and knowledge from the earth, they wouldn’t come back the same. Maybe similar, but not identical.

Religious books contain quite a bit of history, and use knowledge at the time they were written to tell stories/parables of the religion they are teaching. So yeah, he's right but....so?

The Pentagon hasn’t said under what circumstances the U.S. would deploy the troops, nor what NATO’s threshold would be for requesting them, but officials said it could send a signal to Russia that the U.S. would quickly bolster the defenses of NATO allies in the event of a Russian incursion into Ukraine. The troops could also be on standby should the U.S. decide they are needed to evacuate tens of thousands of Americans now residing in Ukraine, the officials said.

The forces won’t be authorized to enter Ukraine, U.S. officials said, but they could be used to support any such contingency. Many of the forces must be prepared to move within 18 to 36 hours, U.S. officials said.

The U.S. decision comes as North Atlantic Treaty Organization members, including Denmark and the Netherlands, began moving ships and aircraft to northeastern and southeastern member states ahead of an expected move by Russia.

U.S. officials have said they have yet to believe Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a decision to invade Ukraine, but U.S. officials said a sense of inevitability has beset the Pentagon as diplomatic negotiations have failed to narrow the gap between Moscow and the West.

Russia has amassed 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian border and tanks, equipment and other support are moving eastward regularly. In addition, Moscow is moving troops and S-400 surface-to-air missile systems into Belarus, which borders Ukraine and NATO members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. Russia also has moved several ships near Ukraine’s shores in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

President Biden met Saturday at Camp David with his national-security team to discuss the Russian military threat to Ukraine and efforts by the U.S. and its allies to deter an attack, and the Pentagon presented several military options, U.S. officials said.

I’d love to see the mental gymnastics of how “state rights > federal rights” yet “municipality rights < state rights”