Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Jubilee" channel.

  1. I respect adherence to Divine Authority as a guide. It's survived for millennia, which speaks to the power of its truths. But a regimen for tribal survival in the Bronze Age is subject to some minor revision, 3,000 years later. Don't scrap it. But maybe admit that some of the writers of the version of the Bible that you read had their own axes to grind and their own prejudices. The earliest writers came along centuries after the fact as it was. MY version of the Bible got re-worked by scholars under King James. I don't know about yours. Grain of salt for all that stuff, especially the bashing babies' heads against the wall and "proper treatment of slaves" stuff that SHOULD be universally rejected. Homosexuality is one of those things we can be more like Jesus and less Old-Testament about, in my opinion. But it was good advice back in the day, given the promiscuity of males, in general, and homosexuals, in particular. It was a danger to a small tribe with no understanding of medicine, but enough sense to tie venereal disease to rutting males. In the current era, gay marriage should be no big deal. We should ENCOURAGE gay couples to be monogamous, given what we now know about disease and its spread, and the way health and retirement benefits are tied to family members of workers. I don't much care for HETERO couples to get a tax break just for making babies, for that matter. But a couple that's together for decades in the same house, with one the earner and one the home-maker, it sure makes sense to give them the same rights as hetero couples with respect to health and pension.
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  2.  won doyouwant  I hadn't heard that, but it does sound like a higher-ed buzz phrase: "emotional intelligence." You can throw that phrase around and sound sort of smart, the implication being that since you brought it up, you must be OOZING emotional intelligence, whatever that is. I think maybe Maria's just one of those people who went into a pretty narrow specialty and then got a job in industry requiring little or no innovation. They're not designing anything except maybe the packaging of testing kits. I'm sure it's all paint-by-numbers. Probably an outfit that didn't exist before COVID and won't long survive it. Death by end of COVID.
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  3. Gee you're full of snark. And you'd rather argue with yourself than part with part of your precious prose, you poseur. But seriously, methinks Maria has gone very far, very young, and missed out on some life experiences. She's accomplished, she's earning, and she's very green. Her degrees make her think she's more worldly than she is. The Marine's close to the same age, is highly skilled at operating and maintaining some high-dollar equipment, and while he feels confident he can do his job, he doesn't feel like he's better than anybody else, even though he's aware that a certain percentage DO wash out. He knows he's young, and now he knows he has good-to-excellent learning capacity. But I think he was already pretty confident he could learn whatever he needed to for his next job and would be adding to his skill set, non-stop for some time. I think the guy with purple hair lit up the room. Good heart, and generically good mind. Just doesn't measure success exactly the same as other people. More likely to do something because it's fun, and maybe pass on more money for less fun. Those can be the smartest people of all, when you look at their friendships and families. The thing I'd look for in the Chinese - and I saw no sign of it - was dogmatic mind-set and rote-memory understanding of the world. Sometimes the parents can drive their kids too hard, and they'll memorize, even if they don't fully understand. Dude grew up in America, though, and that happens more in CCP, but Chinese parents are notorious for pushing their kids to do their letters. Right up there with Jewish parents. In America, everyone's proud that they hate math.
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