Marriage wasn’t a sacred union. Christianity made marriage sacred. By making the sex partners exclusive to each other according to the teachings of Apostle Paul. Marriage was used as a political tool to bind with other clans or tribes. Marriages were arranged based on political and economical expediency, not based on love. Christianity by way of controlling who can marry dismantled the clan system by denying arranged marriages. As a result, it created the nuclear family that is seen today. The clan-based system was controlled by a powerful patriarch that could decide the fate of life and death of all those under his household, or property. Even today, the elders of the family control marriages according to what they believe is best in some parts of the world. Christianity gave young people the freedom to marry who they want. Nobody is forcing them to marry.

All those things are cultural. Humans are social creatures that mimic other humans to form a kinship. Whether you drink tea because that is what British people do, that is cultural. You put a human baby with a chimpanzee, they will mimic the chimpanzee. Feral children raised by dogs mimic the dogs they grew up with. Christianity does not indefinitely say we have free will. It is a debate, not a consensus. Calvinism sides with predestination as an example. The Qur’an is very heavy on predestination - a holy book to Muslims which is steeped in Judeo-Christian tradition.

Good and evil, or good versus evil is dualism that Judeo-Christian tradition inherited from the Persians when Jews were ruled by the Persians. Again, it is a cultural concept that is not universal, but contingent on what is taught generationally, and taken for granted as being a truth. The fact you take dualism seriously, shows that you are influenced by cultural assumptions made up, and passed up to the present day by distinct cultures. In reality, there is no good versus evil, or good or evil in a universal, absolute sense.

Free will does not exist in a biological sense. If you get hit in the head in a car accident, and you get brain damage, you can be a changed person. That is not free will. Sexual activity is an example of the lack of free will. That is why we have teen pregnancies when such pregnancies, according to a certain consensus, doom the people who are pregnant. That is why we have abortion.

Christian theologians for centuries debated whether we have free will, or predestination. They asked profound questions which are answered by science. Asceticism or discipline helps us try to deviate from our animalistic tendencies, but, so far, death is the ultimate predestination.

They already did.

‘Absurdly woke’: Google’s AI chatbot spits out ‘diverse’ images of Founding Fathers, popes, Vikings https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/absurdly-woke-google-ai-chatbot-185153814.html

Why Google’s ‘woke’ AI problem won’t be an easy fix https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68412620

You’re alive, aren’t you?

Self-love isn’t necessarily narcissism. If nobody loves you, then who does? If everybody hates you, then who loves you?

Have you been to Fort Worth?

Trump isn’t a libertarian. You make false equivalencies of taxpayer roads versus economizing people to choose the best, low cost goods. EVs are not economical. Despite receiving huge subsidies, EVs lose money that only upper middle class and rich people can afford. Assuming you pay taxes, you are paying EV companies to build cars for upper middle class and rich people. Joe Biden and activist like him are unhinged. Libertarianism is sane in comparison. The EV mandates is more unhinged policies from unhinged people who think they can command physics. When California’s EV mandate kicks in, used ICE car prices are going through the roof, because EVs are too expensive, even with tax subsidies, and most Californians will be looking for used ICE vehicles. Such activist are economic illiterates and anti-physics.

EVs cost taxpayers 32 thousand dollars per vehicle. I don’t want to pay for someone else’s EV. Joe Biden is incompetent. He has no “real” economic advisor with credentials. Just his bro. There is a reason why we have free markets and not soviet style economics, because people like Joe Biden don’t know how things work, or even where he is at, or where he is supposed to be. Joe Biden’s 325 million dollar Gaza pier that floated away? There’s your GDP. If you are going to practice corporatism, at least do it right. Joe Biden can go kick the bucket.

If you read the article, you would have answered your own question.

Californians have their own identity and within California you have independence movements within the state away from California.

You would think a democracy would outlaw misinformation and lies from politicians as to be honest to the public, but no…

Texas should bring Oklahoma with it. Then it should join OPEC.

Right because you know what I look like from your computer screen. You know everything, don’t you?

We left because the area was bad. The area had a lot of criminal activity, drug overdoses, and drunks falling over the balcony face first, busting their gums on the pavement. I don’t miss urban D-FW. Well, if it makes feel special to accuse other people of being racists because they think people who like MS-13 with teardrop under their eye, which I heard that in certain gangs means they killed somebody, as being weird, and untrustworthy. You need to take care of your self-esteem.

May be because I don’t live in Dallas. I lived in the metro when I was younger. Good observation. Pat yourself on the back.

There is no law that prevents me from using my mobile phone and record you. If you can do it, why can’t the DPD? That makes no sense. Google spies on you, and other marketing companies buy their data. So what? Why do you need privacy in a public space? That is illogical. I have cameras everywhere that records the street and I record people who are acting up. The police use body cams. Without recording people, perhaps Derek Chauvin wouldn’t have gone to prison. It is an irrational fear. European countries have surveillance. Cameras make certain people think about their actions when they know they are being recorded, and video can be used as evidence. Are you saying the DPD are going to “deepfake” you planting cocaine with the video? Lol. What a secure society needs is the removal of all guns except for hunting license, and police departments need body armor and packing firepower. They need to record everybody in public. I fully support that. Those are taxes well spent, if there ever were any good taxes. A country like Japan does not need cameras because they have a harmonious culture. American culture on the other hand is wild and Americans believe they are dignified in their rebellious ways, and being lawless, even looking like freaks with a bone across their nose. You can literally be in your yard taking your dog a bath and a psycho will show up to threaten to steal your car and threaten to kill you with absolutely no provocation. That is America at the bottom. I have been around for many years and I have never been abused by a cop. I am not a white person, and a white supremacist would not think I am worthy of life. Sure, there are corrupt and psycho cops, but I bet that the majority of people who complain about cops are inharmonious people who are troublemakers. As I said, wild.

How it is a privacy concern when paparazzi can snap photos of celebrities in public? This is good technology to improve security for citizens. I support it.

California electricity prices now second-highest in United States - https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/electricity-price-rate-pge-19429422.php

Certainly, but Texas is mostly Cfa, humid subtropical; it isn’t always clear skies in Texas. Texas does get a lot of cloudy skies. There is a reason why solar and wind have climate recommendations; that is for maximizing reliability. I just don’t think that solar power from West Texas and wind from the Texas panel handle going all the way to the population centers and the population core of Texas is worth it. Activist claim solutions, but they are comprises, not solutions. I support regional grids that take advantage of their own strengths. Northwest Texas and the panhandle should take advantage of wind energy for their own consumption. It is costly to export the energy. This is true of exports in general consumer standard of living; it is better for Texans, and Americans to consume their own energy, than it is to export., because it is cheaper Especially, when you have a federal government that has economic sanctions on fungible commodity and now puts the responsibility on supplying more oil and natural gas due to artificial supply restrictions.