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    In-law problem... Should I be relieved?

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    I don't understand the concept that parents have to get the approval of their grown children in these matters or that they have to share every last detail of their plans with them.

    So much this. As someone with a Dh in the target age range, and coming up on it soon myself, I find the idea that it is "immoral" if we don't want our kids all up in our business offensive. We are competent adults, not overgrown children. Others should think how they feel when their parents meddle too much in their lives.

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    Finland is considering a universal basic minimum income.

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    Is it similar to what George McGovern proposed for the US in 1972?

     

    McGovern ran on a platform that advocated withdrawal from the Vietnam War in exchange for the return of American prisoners of war[178] and amnesty for draft evaders who had left the country.[179] McGovern's platform also included an across-the-board, 37-percent reduction in defense spending over three years.[180] He proposed a "demogrant" program that would give a $1,000 payment to every citizen in America.[181] Based around existing ideas such as the negative income tax and intended to replace the welfare bureaucracy and complicated maze of existing public-assistance programs, it nonetheless garnered considerable derision as a poorly thought-out "liberal giveaway" and was dropped from the platform in August.[162][181][182][nb 12]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern#1972_presidential_campaign

    Netflix suggestions

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    Last Tango in Halifax

    Happy Valley

    Broadchurch

    The Almighty Johnsons

    Top of the Lake

    Orange is the New Black

    Mad Men

    Breaking Bad

    Sons of Anarchy

    Torchwood

    The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

    Portlandia

     

    Warning - many of the above have adult content: violence, nudity, language, etc.

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    King James Only

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    1. I don't think "doctrinal differences" means what is being claimed here.

     

    2. I don't think there are any textual variations (btw the KJV's source texts, and the ones found more credible by other scholars) that rise to the level of espousing "different doctrines" from one another.

     

    3. Among the slight differentiations, I think we find minor issues and shades of meaning that indicate the existence of ambiguity, not evidence of contradiction.

     

    4. With textual variants -- like a game of telephone -- earlier is usually closer to the source, and older scripts should be considered most accurate if push comes to shove.

     

    5. "Corruption" occurs after originals, chronologically. Some corruption can occur very early, each variation spawning a branch that follows it -- so some later copies of an in-varied text can be more accurate than some earlier copies of a varied text... It's not 100% simple, but there is a science to it. "They just must have picked all the best ones ever at that perfect KJV point in history! Because: God." Is not a proprly rigorous approach to the issue of textual variants. (This science accounts for 'missing' verses, 'changes' etc.)

     

    6. There is no nefarious widespread conspiracy to corrupt the word of God evident in the faithful ministry of most Bible translation teams.

     

    7. There is no Nazi conspiracy just because Germans work in Bible translation.

     

    8. There is no Catholic conspiracy to take over Bible translation in order to spread their (supposedly) heretical and unbiblical doctrines to an unsuspecting public.

     

    8. There is no one world order, one world language -- and if there was it would be unlikely to be white or English, and if it was English, it would be simplified vernacular English. There is no conceivable way it would be KJV English.

     

    9. It is perfectly simple to say the same thing (doctrinally) using a variety of phrases and translation philosophies. This is normal: to ask what English words communicate the original ideas best? -- and to get a variety of answers. It does not make the Bibles "different" in the sense that one is right and one is wrong every time one of them says "and he went to capernaum" and another says "then he went to capernaum".

    Thank you.

     

    KJO explanations sound to me like Christian "Just So" stories.

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    King James Only

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    Ok, so this would be the central issue. Why do you think the one Greek text is inspired by God, and the others are corrupt? Maybe one of the others is inspired, and the one the KJV uses is corrupt.

    Interesting that the Textus Receptus, which was compiled by Desiderius Erasmus, a Catholic scholar, is considered the one non corrupt text. I suppose ad hominem attack is only valid if it supports the preferred position.

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