And so this is non-responsive to the question, which was whether the media has the power to bring about world peace. It also is non-responsive to my p...
You're arguing that the development of free will is a choice, thus creating a circularity problem. If you can choose to transcend all worldly impulses...
You really think that the media possesses the power to bring about world peace? At any rate, the media ought have no agenda. To the extent it does, it...
Military planes are dependent upon GPS so that our bombs blow up the right shit. Without it, we'd have to use paper maps and look for landmarks out th...
I looked up "Barron" and it means warrior. So, if we can combine all these clues, the culprit is a 400 pound Chinese warrior sitting on their bed. Doe...
The link between the Russian hacking and Trump (in trying to figure out why it's being discussed in a thread about Trump) appears to be limited to the...
Catcalling is done to women by men who they think are attractive. That you've seen women you think are ugly catcalled just means different strokes for...
Sure, just an analogy, yet it would apply directly to her as an attractive woman and he as someone seeking someone out of his league. We can pretend s...
The question assumes a false premise, which my comment made clear, which is that sport is a representation of war or that there is some other purpose ...
She'd be battered in a debate and rightly refused, but her stated reason was sexist and suggested pathetically that Shapiro was just seeking attention...
No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I've not advocated hedonism or irresponsibility and am aware that any excess can lead to problems. What I said ...
Since the primary use of sex is pleasure, I would say that the primary purpose is pleasure, with pregnancy being a byproduct that is most often not fu...
Either that or it's the cause of the continued existence of the species. Non-humans also engage in heterosexuality, despite having no idea what patria...
Nuclear weapons aren't in some random guy's mouth awaiting detonation by the tapping of a hair trigger. That's an important distinction and probably w...
All you will do is make an appearance and then disappear again, leaving us all having to go through the feelings of loss of meaningless all over again...
It wouldn't happen in the US because the US was founded on the principle of distrust of government and an important check against the government is fr...
Should an ancient society exist alongside a modern one, the manly men ancients wouldn't scoff at the girly moderns, but would live in constant fear an...
That's an incorrect definition of relativism. You're explicitely stating that the morality of stoning is relative to the moment in history when it occ...
These distinctions have less to do with mercy than standing in the community, but absolutely, a showing of remorse will result in a lesser sentence th...
Mercy is an element of justice as is proportionality. That's why stoning a mother at the town's gate is draconian. In fact, I find your argument disin...
The question of what establishes objective morality is a legitimate one and involves looking at what our intuituve conscience determines is moral and ...
That would seem to be his position except for where he said "God is the very standard of morality... " From this, I assume he means that stoning is th...
The commandment isn't specifically against lying, but is in the prohibition against bearing false witness against one's neighbor (i.e. perjury). The p...
What is the point of this thread? Is it simply to inform us of the authentic way to be Christian or is it to suggest that one must adhere to Christian...
Bored, sitting here in Noordwijk with a prostitute I rented in Amsterdam. She passed out face down in my lap from too much heroin, revivable only mome...
I'd have a gun if I lived out here. I haven't seen a county police officer once, just state highway patrols. I'd think violent crime is low out here, ...
Depends upon who you ask. There's not a single entity who speaks for the Jews, so there are actually formally atheist Jews ( Recontructionist Judaism)...
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