"Everything in moderation. Especially moderation." - Oscar Wilde, attrib.......................
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.....................)
To: Red Badger
3 posted on
10/03/2023 9:50:13 AM PDT by
EvilCapitalist
(81 million votes my ass.)
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.)
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)
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.
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