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I do a little. It's not too difficult, it's pretty much like cooking anything - follow the recipe at first until you figure out what to change on your own to make different flavors. I'd recommend starting out with How To Brew by John Palmer. It has a good blend of technical plus practical advice.

Get yourself a simple kit, some grolsch style bottles and an ingredients kit. The most important part of brewing beer is sanitation - clean and sanitize everything! You don't want any stray bacteria getting into your batch and ruining it. If you've got a basement, that's a pretty good place for fermentation, otherwise a closet works just fine. The biggest problem I have is finding people to drink 5 gallons worth of beer.

Head over to /r/homebrewing for even more advice.

Go read Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne. It's an excellent book that answers every single one of your objections, with plenty of citations that you can actually go look up for yourself.

edit: See also, the Nova special on the Dover Intelligent Design trial in which, more or less, proponents of creationism put up their best defense and are crushed.

If you're having trouble finding a person, two books may help you start the process: Do What You Are and What Color is Your Parachute. I know how frustrating it is to be "stuck" and then find a dream job. Unfortunately, I don't have much advice to share as I fell backwards into the profession by just taking every job opportunity that came my way that sounded remotely interesting. Best of luck to you!!!

Great book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/New-Localism-Cities-Thrive-Populism/dp/0815731647 about how/why some cities thrive yet others don't.

The book compares Ytown to Pittsburgh and cites a study that in Ytown all the old money/people with power/elites were in one specific civic group: The Garden Club. Hard to build trust with other groups when everyone is siloed.

In Pittsburgh the elites were spread out, sprinkled among many.

When it came time to build a consensus and pressure local civic and political leaders to do so, it was easy to build one and coalesce as everyone knew everyone. Trust was already established.

Let's just start with one claim: If I am wrong on this one, stop reading, that means I'm a liar, or I'm mistaken.

'ALL scholars, believing or unbelieving, agree that Rome is the 4th empire.' See the 2010 series. Dan 11/12 The Unfinished Business of History (time 7:37--context is 6:00-7:57). Also see 2010 Dan 7-8 pt 2 at 2:38.

Anyone who has read even a handful of scholars on this point knows this is not true. Go to Amazon. Find a book 'Complete Guide to Biblical Prophecy' by Miller (conservative, bible believing scholar.) https://www.amazon.com/COMPLETE-GUIDE-BIBLE-PROPHECY/dp/1624162231/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510789384&sr=1-1&keywords=miller+bible+prophecy He discusses how there are two competing theories about the identities of the empires. On page 150 there is a chart describing this. (Amazon has a 'look inside' feature when you click in the upper right corner of the book.)

Here's another--Boice, Expositional Commentary on Daniel, p 126. Daniel, Boice (conservative) p 126 (notes ch 9) https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Expositional-Commentary-James-Montgomery/dp/0801066417/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510789329&sr=8-1&keywords=james+montgomery+boice+daniel
--in order to avoid predictive prophecy, liberals date the book in 165 BC, and make the Greek empire the 4th. All of the empires would therefore have come on the stage by the time of the book's writing.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/tgc-documents/journal-issues/2.2_Goldingay.pdf This is a conservative scholar, who discusses this issue in the 2nd paragraph.

Unfortunately doing a web search for 'Daniel 4 empires' may not yield results...people who make websites about Daniel typically hold to the conservative Christian position. But, you probably will be able to find proof. Look at Wikipedia for example, Four Kingdoms of Daniel, in 'Schools of Thought.' (right above 'Roman Empire schema')
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_kingdoms_of_Daniel

If you go to any decent sized library, they will have one volume bible commentaries, guides, handbooks...if you look at the sections on Daniel 2 and 7, they will all tell you the same thing. Some scholars see Rome as the 4th empire, some see Greece as the 4th empire. This is impossible to miss.

I am not arguing that Greece is the 4th empire. All I am saying is that there is a disagreement among scholars, and there are two main views. That's it. Some Xenos teachers somehow have missed this. I can't imagine how. They NEVER mention that many (actually I think most) scholars disagree with the 'Rome as #4' view. (If they did, they would provide only the weakest arguments, like they have done for the late-date, such as the '3 Greek words' argument.)

Why is this important? The answer to this is in the quote in the quote from Boice above. Mainline scholars date Daniel (not the book in its entirety, but its final form) at about 165 BC. No one dates it later, even as much as a decade later. Therefore if everyone, including mainline scholars, actually agreed with the 4-empire schema of Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome, then Rome is one of Daniel's 4 dominant empires. Daniel thus would have clearly predicted the ascendancy of the Roman empire. Rome was not the dominant power in the 160s; Greece was. I think Rome became the dominant power about a century later. (To further verify this point, see the 2006 Daniel 2 teaching at 1:03:40. He argues the same exact point I make here.)

Now, are there good arguments to be made that Daniel predicted the future? Yes. But, none of them are as good as 'It is 100% certain that Rome is the fourth Empire'...which is clearly not true. Now, if everyone, even late-dating scholars who don't believe in prophecy, agree that Rome is the final empire...what other conclusion could be made? Daniel predicted the Roman empire.

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Regardless of leanings, these are things to consider while willingly accepting status quo and ignoring agendas of cold corporate America. Is that “box store” vase Really necessary?? Shoppers’ therapy is the cure for the apathetical comfortably numb American populace that seemingly believe Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell are on opposing sides while the Prez garners too much press. The local politicians are wussies, and if they weren’t, there’d money for education and Veterans, tax reform, and campaign overhauls. Jus keep voting incumbents in because nothing changes if nothing changes.

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Here you go, start reading.

I also recommend this one.

I think the Crawford expedition and everything leading up to it is an incredible piece of history that rarely gets told. I first read about it in Allan Eckert's book ["That Dark and Bloody River"] (https://www.amazon.com/That-Bloody-River-Historical-Fiction/dp/0553378651/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=that+dark+and+bloody+river&qid=1558790930&s=gateway&sr=8-1) and always felt it would make a great film if the events around it weren't so brutal.

Your knowledge of history seems limited. I am not equating the current left with Nazis, I was pointing out that Nazi's started as a socialist party.

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https://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Rise-Party-Frank-McDonough/dp/0582506069/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TXVDWRJADKJBBTR4GBF6

C'mon now friend, I'm not being lazy by pointing you to a source like the Drug Policy Alliance that is dense with info about the failed drug war and the racism that's woven into it.

Personally, I think pointing someone towards a source that supports a point is a great way to discuss issues broad enough that they don't fit easily into a paragraph or two on reddit.

If you're interested, here's a book that discusses some of the diverse cultural and historical currents that come into play trying to understand how we ended up with a drug war.

https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Living-Movements-American-Cycles/dp/027597541X

Here's the inadequate wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_living_movement

And I hope you're interested because I believe that drug hysteria and the endless, unwinnable drug war it rationalizes is so corrosive to our freedoms and identity as citizens, so complicit in a host of cultural divides, so clearly another peculiar institution that mangles and degrades our interactions with each other, that a hundred years from now we'll be baffled that so many smart capable people went along with this craziness.

you should get her this book for christmas

For anyone who relates unironically to this post

Imagine if you discovered the ancient Egyptians, 3,500 years ago had an advanced civilization (that we know extensively about because of thousands of writings) all without your so called fathers of civilization.

https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Lives-Daily-Egypt-Pharaohs/dp/003000733X/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1541187091&sr=8-8&keywords=ancient+lives

It's also on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnsNwwwHm2I

Next you discover some guy named Steven Pinker and maybe, possibly, you will be able to integrate all three into one view, but I doubt it.

Hah! Damned if you do, damned if you don't; we're all going to get priced out regardless. But that's another issue entirely. Good book on that topic.

Nice to see you get it. The airline fees and bag limitations are truly towards your comment on choice, and the private entity has the right to impose those, or give you the choice to shop elsewhere. It isn't violating your rights in imposing those fees or limitations on you (this is for others reading this thread, not you). With the assumption of a threat simply for booking an air flight to go visit granny, we're really losing our rights, and it's not something we should go through.

As for the doing your job, I just read a book on the 101 Police Police Battalion and the choices they made/had to do their job. Sad when people alter their essence to do a job.

My parents owned Chinese buffets. I was an indentured servant. Can confirm.

No, in all seriousness, it's super simplistic to think of them as indentured servant. They're just heavily in debt(by choice) and need to work their asses off to pay off their debt pronto. It ain't cheap to come to America. You can't be dumb and lazy to be here. Life ain't easy for Chinese restaurant workers with limited English skill.

You are serious about learning more, pick up this book from library. But with the amount of ignorance I saw on daily basis on this sub, I'm not optimistic people would even bother.

>And of course casual gun violence which claims the lives of more people than mass shootings do, needs to be addressed at the root cause level (education, poverty, etc.).

Fair point. Mass shootings are still rare events when compared to Suicide.

I finished reading a book that alludes to a possible solution. The lack of a community. Through a variety of means in the name of better/faster/cheaper services+products have disconnected large amounts of Americans from their community. There are large parts of this nation where the American Dream is dead and no local institutions exist to provide an outlet or serve particular needs (like a VFW hall). This creates isolation and leads to deaths: https://www.amazon.com/Alienated-America-Places-Thrive-Collapse/dp/0062797107.

It is no wonder the decline of Veterans organizations like the VFW has also occurred at the same time vets are offing themselves in large numbers and the decline of Rural America happens at the same time farmers are killing themselves more than ever.