When we had a contract in LA, back in 1996, the OG picked up a copy of Myst on clearance sale and we played it together. That was our first sophistica...
That's a cute-ish exercise, but it's meaningless verbal acrobatics. The question refers to itself, but has no information content regarding which an i...
It's the ability - and willingness - to look at the world, or something in the world, from an unusual perspective and to rearrange that perception and...
Questions are rather odd entities, both linguistically and logically. A question must have a subject about which information is being sought. That sub...
The Knox Presbyterian church in our nearest city has a magnificent organ, as well as great acoustics. The church is often used for classical music con...
It sounds like a fun read in the optimistic-by-our-fingernails 70's. Not so much now... I tried to google it just now and all I get is ads for 100 dai...
The one I recall most fondly was in a little nothing village, built of adobe, like most of the houses, and whitewashed once every three years. Dirt fl...
The church most certainly did convert* the Roman empire (and later, several more empires). Yes to the other half: once the organization was solidly es...
Since no other kind can be relevant to time travel, I refer to that version as impossible, yes. You and others have proffered fanciful alternative rea...
There are different species of time? I haven't seen, touched or stepped in any of them. "All my assertions" are only two: 1. Time is a concept, with n...
Here is a good example of convincing evidence: A novel I read some time ago, titled Towing Jehovah by James Morrow. I've read a couple of his other bo...
Yes, it's cruel to make children eat anything. And it doesn't work. In the short term, the child is unhappy and learns to hate foods that they might o...
Then you know more about aliens than I do. As to whether it makes good sense - maybe not equally to everybody. He understands the 'logic'; what he had...
How do you figure that? You mean this?: " If its arrival were tied to a location in time, it wouldn't matter whether you waited for it at the bus stop...
Okay. So time is a physical entity, with form, spatial co-ordinates and dimensions, which co-exists with the world in which we experience time only as...
I've seen every Star Trek, Next Generation, Voyager and DS9 episode at least three times. You do realize that the Prime Directive is exclusive to that...
Anybody they desire, want or need. That's the beauty of imaginary entities: they are infinitely adaptable and interpretable. When gods did not exist, ...
The bus is expected (barring unforeseen events) to arrive at a bus stop: a specified physical location. If its arrival were tied to a location in time...
No, it isn't. What archeologists look at is bits of pottery and metal and the remnant of walls that they dig up in old habitation sites. From those ph...
No. What you've got there is a metaphor. You can mess with language, but you can't mess with physics. Time has no substance, no length and width, no s...
The same pretty much applies to all entities that have been worshipped as deities, whether they created the world or just ruled it. Anyone who demands...
I suppose he would have to tell me. Of course, I might have to be dead in order to understand him. Then I would regret my apostasy. My biggest problem...
Wycliffe, Dalziel and Pascoe, Silent Witness.... I'm revisiting the old BBC series I used to watch on PBS. Don't like most of them as much as I did th...
But you did say: This means a physical body in a physical container, being transported from a point of departure to a destination, which would have to...
As in all areas of human thought, there is a lot of excess, a lot of unnecessary complication and obfuscation. You also have to allow for some pretens...
That said, I was exposed to both Protestant and Catholic practice as a child. My city grandmother attended a grand cathedral with huge stained glass w...
It doesn't hurt. Of course, that independent religious view is part of a more comprehensive self-awareness and self-possession: an integrity of charac...
'Obey' means the same thing and is wrong for the same reason: it is an action taken by a conscious entity with the option to do otherwise. Both words ...
My mother's attitude was the best non-atheist one I know. She had no use for (nor animosity toward) any formal doctrine; she simply didn't need them. ...
Your perception is incorrect in this instance. I do not feel provoked. The kind of provocation it takes to turn me against religion is far greater in ...
They will simply have to do whatever people who questioned have always had to do: decide what they believe. Christianity got itself established quite ...
Yes, I get that. So? It does not alter the history or present state of Christianity. It doesn't make the least little difference to what people have d...
No. I have no 'position' on the matter. I describe things as i see them. If my perception is incorrect, then my answer is wrong. That's your position,...
and my answer was: However you can, according to your own lights [ Variously. So variously that you might not even recognize the different strains of ...
That no current religions worship those ancient figures, or that I left Gautama off the list, has little to do with their archetypal similarity. No. I...
As a legendary hero figure. (Hercules, Prince Yamato, Odin, Ta Kora, Maitreya, Boewulf...) A special human who is born to greatness, pursuing his assi...
What's their alternative? What is ours? Language is of our own making, and it serves us fine, as long as we're using it sensibly to communicate, inste...
You can try. Just remember, even if you make it - hardly a given, since it's a demanding sport, this is likely to be a short career. Better study dent...
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