Yeah, they were in pretty rough shape. Shacks, basically.

Lol. She was talking to someone else on the bank.

This is just a few meters from the ocean.

It was a weird vibe in the village. Either bitcoin people, who tended to be middle upper class, or surfers.

There’s a place in settings where you can hide down votes.

It felt very safe there.

Yeah, but it depends on the diligence of the principal, so not perfect.

We vacationed in Spain last year. Lovely people. Greater friendship with them is a wonderful idea.

Well, they lost to Vietnam and Afghanistan. Greater military might doesn’t guarantee success.

Where I live, every principal is assigned a list of homeschooled children in their district and monitors their progress. If they are diligent, it seems to work out well. I know several well-adjusted, lovely children who have been homeschooled.

Hey, we gave rise to women’s lib, remember?

I think it depends on the trustworthiness of your government. Even then, it’s a scale that slides depending on the situation. I’m in my 70s and feel my government is going through a very solid stage right now. My trust level is at one of the highest level.

Hey, thanks. That’s a great feature.

Exactly. You can believe either as the first step.The first step requires faith because the evidence isn’t available.

It’s not a question of benefit or necessity. It’s a question of what actually happened.

Who said anything about organized religion?

Faith is not restricted to believing in things unseen. Faith can be believing in something even when the empirical evidence and logic aren’t strong enough to make it likely. This applies both to the existence of a higher being and the presumption that all the matter, energy, and order of the universe appeared from nothing.

It takes just as much faith to believe that the universe came into existence out of nothing as it does to believe a higher being created it.

How do they know there is no plan?

I don’t think you can judge cops worldwide by the cops in your country.