This doesn't follow. It would be the justification you challenge for the belief held. It could be the belief based upon faith happens to be true, so y...
I'll agree that faith is not indispensable, nor is reason, contemplation and all else you itemize. There are those who survive off feeding tubes, so I...
Given that dichotomy, yes, it makes more sense to chase one's food than to pray for it. The bigger question is whether you will be starved (in the met...
I believe at this point I have posted sufficiently that someone could take all my prior posts and create a tome of Hanoverian sayings, along with scho...
"Placebos require faith" I take in this context as tautological. The definition of a placebo is that which gains its effectiveness by a belief in its ...
The first sentence was: I I don't take this to refer to the faith required for someone to make a decision. When making a decision, some people rely up...
It seems your beef with our late founding father was his lack of sense of style and impractical design features. I say maybe you judge him too harshly...
I've thought about this as well, and, even when there's just a recitation of the facts, there is still the decision as to what to report. If I named a...
All history is myth, designed to reveal ideals and enforce ideology. It is a political tool. Objective history is a video tape of events, no events pr...
Assuming Neitzche posted the following regarding the death of God: "When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality o...
For the sake if accuracy, I cite the rest of the Wiki article: "Following the arrival at Plymouth, a now defunct auto manufacturer was established, ha...
That book is actually not a Jewish book, but a book about Messianic Judaism (aka Jews for Jesus). It's Christianity. Jews, while not agreeing on much ...
Thank you for this. I will now explain to my gentile friends some more about Judaism. Pig will be kosher when the messiah comes. https://jewinthecity....
I don't know, but I do like the word "degloving." It creates a neat visual, as in, "Jethro wasn't paying attention to the belt in the corn dehusker an...
I think whatever befalls a person who relies upon the comments posted by a random guy off the internet with an avatar of the town drunk from Mayberry ...
Oysters aren't kosher, so you won't find them in Jewish restaurant. The reason they're not kosher is because they don't chew their cud and they don't ...
Really? They always tell me not to deplane until the unbuckle seat belt light comes on. Otherwise, I'd just pop up the minute the plane hit the ground...
There's a Rome, Athens, and Dublin, Georgia. In fact, the American cities were the original ones and they were named this way after the European citie...
We've always thrown our anchor into an arbitrary point in the sea to keep us from crashing about and we've created wonderful myths explaining why the ...
That was the last thing you wanted me to hear from you? You should have been nicer. Had I just died, then I'd spend the rest of eternity with a clarif...
When the kids were young and at the beach I'd pull out my pockets and sing the hook to this song while revealing my collection of sea shells. Good tim...
That's good advice if you were to die tomorrow, but if you blow it all out now and you live a long time, you'll wish you saved up for your long life. ...
At some point it seems inevitable that Georgia will invade Georgia. There's just too much resentment, confusion, ambiguity, identity uncertainty, trad...
When you go to a Geotgia restaurant, get the meat loaf, collards, mac and cheese, and go for the cornbread over the biscuit. You can read from the Pen...
What is the dividing line between government censorship and private censorship? Would this site be in violation of the 1st Amemdment if it banned raci...
This is actually a real thing: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/yes-giant-technicolor-squirrels-actually-roam-forests-southern-india-18097188...
None probably. The weather's better in Raleigh. It's the South, but a pretty sophisticated area with the research triangle with UNC, Chapel Hill, and ...
/uploads/files/86/8zyptxp4jc0p2o2h.jpg White squirrel of Brevard. I named him snowball. Upvote the white squirrel post. What kind of person doesn't up...
I'm thinking I don't really know what you're talking about. But, if he did get a gig in Raleigh, I would tell him to have a good time in Raleigh. If D...
This short story, attributed to Hemmingway, supposedly the saddest story ever written: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Flash fiction - https://en....
While I laze on a bed of linguine overlooking a sea of chicken marsala rethinking some questionable decisions. That's a tough first line of a book to ...
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