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I think you're doing an injustice to stoicism to suggest it is based on cowardice. Self-control isn't fear. In any event, the lack of manliness (which...

In the afterlife, if an ugly man is paired with a beautiful woman, either you say the man has been sent to heaven or the woman to hell. It's just not ...

I'm 1.05. In real life, my email and text received to response ratio is much higher because I typically ignore emails and texts, except when it's impo...

Forced labor is forced labor. We wouldn't allow the government to round up all the 18 year olds and build our roads, so I'm not sure why we would allo...

Wrote this poem: The taste of her lips still upon him as he glanced out the windows at her mangled body upon the tree limbs twisted, landed there from...

April showers brought the Mayflower, but it hit a glacier and killed Leonardo Dicaprio. True story.

I think they are mean you too have foundational beliefs that lack empirical proof, like causality and the existence of other minds. If causality isn't...

If you identify a difference use, you don't get to just declare your use correct and the alternative use incorrect. The OP asks what is faith, and it'...

Of course

If I wanted to quote this: "By the way, James Rouse was Edward Norton’s grandfather," I'd have to say, Clarky says, "By the way, James Rouse was Edwar...

This suggests a culture other than mine exists, which is pretty ridic.

Brackets indicate an insertion of words not contained in a quoted statement. Parenthesis would be correct here.

"Piggly Wiggly was the first self-service grocery store. It was founded by Clarence Saunders on September 6, 1916" "At the time of its founding, groce...

I do agree that if you find yourself in a community that is 30% African American and you business is 100% white, then maybe you need to look within. T...

I share in @Ciceronianus sentiments, and I don't cry for big law or expect big law to do anything other than maximize profits. The work environment at...

Piggly Wiggly invented the modern supermarket. The aisles, carts, checkout lines, all pig technology.

There is a position among the right that holds that ADHD is a bullshit diagnosis that translates into childish misbehavior, the cure for which is a ki...

https://youtube.com/shorts/UDSH94tdGVU?si=P2XYYl9ceN6NxYQr

The way you budget is you keep in your mind about how high you can allow your credit card to go. Once it gets there, you stop ordering socks and soap ...

The term predates Howdy Doody. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_gallery When I came to America at the turn of the century, I was fully invested ...

I've only noticed my posts getting better. But I'm sure you've noticed that as well

It might be true that every thought thunk has already been said, but everytime you open a banana, you are the first person to ever see it.

Generally, social media posts carry a low level of reliability because anyone can post anything without limitation and footnoting it here then elevate...

The sound of silence. https://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4?si=VOMLV4ZVPaLGVHMw

In my intense 30 minute exploration of this topic, it seems clear the prevailing theory is that ancient foraging societies were more egalitarian and p...

I bet you could catch a catfish on a pigfoot baited hook.

https://youtu.be/69fPof-ZTnU?si=LLmUgGpEfw4WTvGZ If our personalities are determined by brain blood flow, we shouldn't criticize. Blood flow is beyond...

My son made a soup of calf foot. I could taste its last step taken, consisting of trepidation with hints of resignation.

The sows and boars full returning all in glory but still humbling in their victory sacred pursuing The demons up above them peering down on their retu...

From the smoke and the thunder ahigh on the mountain decreed the Almighty who delivered the hatred expecting it halted from the frozen Stompholeus tha...

A stampede of hate stammered down the mountain onto the town below but was quenched by the icy river of Stompholeus that ran just beneath it, its flow...

Counter-examples: Tattoos, breast augmentation, SRS. Might be in your best interest and might be medically harmful.

The general idea is in requiring reference to original sources of information as opposed to hearsay or entirely fabricated accounts found on social me...

Poetry comes from the soul, though, not the language, and your soul is Spanish. That's all that is.

Meaning is use. How do you suggest the Hebrew Bible is interpreted by those who use it? If it is that you believe they read the words and just offer t...

Mankind - 0, our lesser selves - 1 (especially the singing of the word "action"). https://youtu.be/1J256lLL4fU?si=e0Y_KFigcsRcV7ZH

My most recent response from ChatGpt: "So, in conclusion: If the duchess sings in burp, the vicar may abdicate, but not out of disgust— out of jealous...

Literalism again. Super. I'm as interested in conducting an exegesis on Amalek as you are. Suffice it to say, there is no virtue in sympathizing with ...

What about "genocide is wrong"? Is that a hinge belief?

I once had cow foot soup. It had a lot of cartilage on it. My son bought it at the Korean supermarket so at least i didn't have to foot the bill.

https://www.pickledstore.com/categories/pickled-pigs-feet.html

Pickled pig's feet is a southern treat, although I've never eaten it. They are bright red for some reason. They would sell them in a big jar at conven...

When i was in the mob I'd affix severed chicken feet to the bottoms of my shoes to make it appear my mayhem was caused by a chicken.

No, we see that the same. What we see differently are (1) you think ethics are interpreted differently than laws, and (2) i think ethics aren't man ma...

Alright, then to the point. We have a proscription. Where did it come from? But there are rules in particular situations, as in not stomping babies fo...

So this rule is not from the hand of man. Where did it come from? Are there more of these rules not yet known?

Yeah, the story isn't perfect, like any art. I create my own meaning to some extent. Under your interpretation, if there was no evil when Adam and Eve...

All killing isn't wrong. Self defense, for example. The moral decree opposed to killing is limited to certain sorts of killing. The Commandment, for w...

I take this as a limitation on a mortal's ability to survive knowledge of absolute truth. It is to see the face of God, so to speak. Consistent with E...

Is this an analogy suggesting that "Believing that murder counts as evil is not an act of faith but simply to understand how to play the rules of soci...