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So wait. Are you saying women aren't generally fearful of men?

Life is the greatest of all teachers.

Well Edgar is an alcoholic. He's going to crash the bus into a ditch in the middle of Nowhere, whereas Melissa actually has amazing eye-hand coordinat...

I've said twice now that I wanted your opinion. What I took away from it was that you really weren't able to put the words together: "I'm not afraid o...

I wasn't trying to be insulting to you either. I wanted your view, and it has influenced my thinking. Thank you.

This image came to me about the women's rights movement: imagine we're all in a bus and the driver just went insane and left. One of us needs to step ...

Ok, so I'm learning something new. You're saying that it is normal for a woman to be afraid of her husband.

To each his own. Makes sense.

I totally agree. I don't want to zero in on the specific case of the person who wrote that. There are sexist people who want to argue that it's natura...

This is the quote: I don't really want to talk about the person who wrote this. I just wanted your view of the idea expressed. If a woman is afraid of...

I wonder if you could clarify something. One of the posters in this thread revealed that his wife is afraid of him and that he finds it to be common t...

When it's all said and done, I think we'll know that Trump was approached by Russians who offered to help his campaign, and it was understood that Tru...

What the heck is sex infused phelgm?

His theory could be expressable in principle, but still kept private. He probably just got tired of dealing with mean girls.

Idea for a story: A young inventor (of an obscure dental device) buys a house. The surrounding property is sterile, with river rocks instead of mulch ...

Or accept determinism and you'll immediately feel more compassionate. Are you a determinist?

Putting value to saying something new. I'm not being dogmatic, I'm asking: is that part of our worldview? I think I could make the case that it someth...

It's a nice way to understand what a proposition is, though. Sometimes it seems that propositions are taken to be platonic objects, if not explicitly ...

Yep. Taking meds instead of going to bed and getting needed rest. The type of therapy that says: its just a matter of how you view situations, alter y...

I dont think there was a better place to start. Nobody else was defying the demand for UN inspections. Ugh. You have no optimism at all, do you? That'...

Holy guacamole.

Saddam Hussein was a better place to start the job of undermining monarchy. Democracy had become rooted in domino-like way in SE Asia. Wolfowitz thoug...

Post Cold War , the only interest the US had in the ME was oil. Corrupt monarchy was seen as the best way to assure the flow prior to 9/11. I already ...

Forget Turkey. This woman is talking to me. https://youtu.be/HCjNJDNzw8Y

That Wolfowitz wanted a repeat of SE Asian democratization in the ME, but it didn't work out. I guess if a market is left in the wake of war. Do you s...

You're missing a critical ingredient for understanding what's been happening for the last 17 years. But the OP is looking for an optimistic viewpoint ...

Ok. I need to take lessons in how not to stick out like a giant American thumb. It'll probably take a while.

So you're saying there was no change in American foreign policy post 9/11. You're just wrong. And I have no idea what you think predated the DPG other...

Yay! Could you set up a go-fund-me too? I'm going to pack my duds. Oh wait. They're already packed. :(

I'd like Turkish citizenship, please. I want to live near Gobekli Tepe and sell handmade junk to boutiques in Japan.

In 1992? 9/11 was on 9/11/2001. It was after 2001 that the dream of forcing peace on the middle-east was born. It was obviously too ambitious, and set...

The creatives you're talking about aren't going to be able to live normal lives are they? In fact it seems they'd be as likely to end up striking out ...

All you have to do is say that this is possible, and you're an optimist. Optimism vs pessimism regarding global government was what I was looking for....

Didn't have to infer it. Wolfowitz explained it publicly after the invasion of Iraq. Terrorism targeting the US was seen as a result of corrupt monarc...

Anyway, the answer was yes, Republicans need to see white supremacists as benign. If a real threat was perceived, they'd have to abandon Republican un...

There was an American interest in stability post 9-11. Did that change?

Ah ha! An optimist! Or almost-optimist?

It was about consciously embracing greatness, wasn't it? Nietzsche-esque.

But hasn't the US been calling for uprisings in the region since GW Bush? Would the region be more stable right now without that interference?

I'm mostly on news blackout these days. I'm making my own private non-America.

It must be awesome to be non-American.

Must be a democrat.

That sounds cozy. Out here in the real world there is no stigma attached to being a white male.

Neither has much power right now. Who judged you harshly for being a white straight male?

That girl's hair wasn't on fire. She was a redhead. I agree that neo-Nazis (basically white supremacists), aren't particularly dangerous. But white su...

What danger do you think they pose?

I don't think I expressed any skepticism. It's kind of like watching a person who can obviously see claiming to be blind. Why would you argue about it...

I experience myself as boundless. How does your experience of yourself relate to the story you tell about who you are?

Metanarratives are like: I'm a victim because I'm X. I'm a badass because of X. Jesus is my co-pilot. I'm a humanist. I'm a single mother. I'm a drug ...

The wreck of Syria was a direct result of Obama's poor judgment. He encouraged rebellion and implied that the US would provide support. The world's re...