Could be. I think the desire to censor comes from fear. People who don’t even see censorship might be fearful about where things are headed. It takes ...
I was thinking: how does `Tom Cotton-NYT` not pop in your mind when someone mentions an editor being squashed for publishing a controversial opinion? ...
Social media issues aside, the question of whether a brain-in-vat, living in a dreamworld, is able to control the dream is interesting. I think too mu...
You asserted that cancel culture is rightist fiction. I handed you a well-known protest against cancel culture from a very well respected group of soc...
Wait. We were talking about intentions and you jumped to effectiveness. It's two different things. I'm not surprised that mistakes were made starting ...
Religious traditions are a mix of history, science, folklore, politics, law, ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy. This means that whatever a particula...
It does not follow that since government has failed in some ways to protect public health that it can't be doing that with pandemic measures. I can po...
But if we point to the failure of governments to do anything about the sugar and tobacco industries, we're saying the government should have far reach...
I meant that Russia has weakened the Ukrainian economy where it has control and has left the area dependent on Russian subsidies. Its picnic surroundi...
Sure. I've just been getting some continuing education about tobacco abuse. It's stands out starkly that governments do nothing about it when it's cle...
Putin proved that no one but Russia cares about Ukraine. Russian domination hasn't been a positive experience for Ukrainians so far. Could that change...
Eh. Some say homosexuality is a just a state of confusion that can be remedied by good medical care. I don't have x-ray vision into people's souls so ...
True. Shakespeare is called profound whether it affects you or not. If Shakespeare or some poet has an impact on you, are you a passive, blank slate w...
I think there's more to it than that. It's about a fulfillment of prophecy, the idea that where we're headed is better than where we are. Think about ...
No, they're sometimes metaphors for what's inside you. Jesus screams on the cross and then asks why God has abandoned him. It's odd that they kept tha...
:up: A cult is a new religion as opposed to a sect, which is a subdivision of an old religion. In the NT, Jesus is depicted as bringing his message sp...
Every little thing comes down to money. Companies scramble to present a PC image so as to avoid losing their share of the market. That's why I, a heal...
This is what you said: "The Messiah was to bring about the Kingdom of God (Heaven) on Earth." What caught my attention was your reference to heaven, a...
This is what I suspected. You're using the gospel account as a source for the expectations of Jesus' followers prior to his death, and then you argue ...
He was probably one of a number of preachers who were associated with the Essenes and apocalyptically minded Jews. The world his teachings spread in w...
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