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"Everything in moderation. Especially moderation." - Oscar Wilde, attrib.......................
1 posted on 10/03/2023 9:46:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; mylife; SunkenCiv

No Beer for you! Ping!...................


2 posted on 10/03/2023 9:46:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I’ll drink to that.


3 posted on 10/03/2023 9:50:13 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Red Badger

Temperance for thee not for me.

Temperance is fine as a personal choice.

But Prohibition taught a hard lesson in the limits of the power of government to legislate personal behavior.

Government can only accomplish certain things and only causes harm when it goes beyond those limits.

It is better for government to rely on religion when it comes to personal behavior.


6 posted on 10/03/2023 10:36:11 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Red Badger

In fact, turning water into wine was the second recorded miracle performed by Jesus.

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Oh yeah? So what was the first?


8 posted on 10/03/2023 11:29:54 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Red Badger
The reason more wine was needed at Cana seems to be that too many of the guests were drunk already (inebriati in Jerome's translation).

The Greek word for "to get drunk" (methuein) is cognate with the English word "mead" but there doesn't seem to be any connection to Methuselah. So Noah couldn't blame his grandfather.

12 posted on 10/03/2023 12:22:02 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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