I’ll add this: If facts were immutable, we wouldn’t need burden of proof in courts. We’d all just know the truth. But we don’t. Observation differs, even between honest witnesses.

“Facts are independent of observation.” Yeah? What is the color red? We observe that the color is red because we agree abstractly that red is a certain wavelength of reflected light. Words abstractly represent fact. So, a story can get at truth —including contradictions—and that’s entirely normal.

And yet, observation will always have some contradiction. To paraphrase you: I’m just playing with the definition of equality. But, equality is an abstract idea to begin with; as are mathematical descriptions of the behavior of light. Decision-making prefers one contradiction over another.

No fact ever described existed independent of observation. But, it’s also not a different proposition on the quote: it’s true and false, depending abstraction of principles. I can agree (or disagree) with both. Light is both particle and wave. This is contradictory and still observed to be true.

I’d rather say factual, but yeah, that’s where they take it, don’t they? If they did stuff the Bible “told” them to do — and then it’s not always correct — they have to take personal responsibly.

I am perfectly aware that facts - that is reality discerned through observation - exist. But one can absolutely see contradiction and hold two contradictory assertions of fact to be true. We just change the level of abstraction. “All people are created equal.” Is this True? Yes. And, also, No.

You see how that’s endless, right? Contradiction is the heart of decision-making. We often choose one side to represent “truth,” until the weight of evidence changes our mind. Contradiction isn’t the absence of truth - it a step on the way to finding it.

You’ve never seen contradictory evidence? You’re confusing truth with conclusions.

Contradiction doesn’t preclude truth; contradiction is necessary to discern truths of greater worth. Balancing contradiction is the heart of decision-making. The Bible records a story of the relationship between God and his followers. The truth isn’t in the facts asserted, it’s in the story told.

The only puzzling part is this: why must people insist that consistency in the Bible matter
so much? If you can’t hold two opposing thoughts in your head at the same time, you’re hardly prepared to get at the real questions in life.

What a fundamentally misinformed article about the history of hobby crafts. Who did you think all those magazines on fine woodworking and ceramic arts sold to in the 1950s and 1960s? Retired old people?

Right! The steps for a consequential regulation is: policy development + write + internal review + OMB review(~30 day) + sent for publication + >30 day comment period + comment review + decide policy response + write final + internal review + OMB Review + publication. Writing isn’t the issue.

What about the protestors in this article who brought guns in support of VA open carry? Would they have deserved to die? www.fox43.com/article/news...

Regulations don’t take months to write because people don’t know how to write a sentence. They take months because writing is thinking. Thinking takes time.

BTW Gym teachers/coaches were the worst, and called on students by whatever name they felt like. I met a fellow students that literally thought it was my first name because the teachers used my last name only.

I’d given up by the time I met you. In elementary and middle I tried hard, and failed. When I left school one of the first things I did was to tell people to use my <<first name>> and I was surprised how easy it was to get them to do it.

400-500 million guns in the US. 341 million people. 30,000 ICE agents country wide, and they are doing raids in a city of 340,000 people. Every person they meet likely has a gun at home. Every unlawful detainees’ family probably has a gun. Professionals know how to math. They need good behavior.

I mean it *is* the same standard for both under FOIA (Exemption 7(c))- but does FOIA apply here?