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:) In some versions the story starts with the people being grieved by the actions of their king, Gilgamesh. He has sex with all the women and he force...
June 17, 2017 at 23:48
They had rights. In a lot of cases their rights were violated. Nazis could violate the rights of Jews. Evocative statement. We look at definitions or ...
June 17, 2017 at 22:09
To "violate a right" is to commit a certain kind of transgression. But I think it's true that if black people, for instance, are not considered to be ...
June 17, 2017 at 16:51
Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint, by Jay Williams
June 17, 2017 at 14:13
I've been reading about ancient Sumeria. I think if we wanted to explain to them what rights are, we might tell them that one of their myths explains ...
June 17, 2017 at 14:06
cool.
June 17, 2017 at 12:16
The concept of a right is a tool for addressing wrongdoing. It doesn't have much value beyond that. You'll explain the basis of rights according to yo...
June 17, 2017 at 12:13
Did you ever read Young Man Luther by Erik Erikson?
June 17, 2017 at 01:04
More Gorilla Shit
June 16, 2017 at 17:22
Hmm...could be.
June 16, 2017 at 17:19
Sure it does.
June 16, 2017 at 13:23
She can't invest her emotions in you. She reflexively closes off to protect herself. On top of that there's a hormonal issue with being 15. She's not ...
June 16, 2017 at 13:15
Christianity seems like fairy tales. A Christian church is a museum. It's so just that many haven't noticed that yet.
June 16, 2017 at 12:58
A new global religion will emerge sometime in this century and absorb both Islam and Christianity.
June 16, 2017 at 12:30
A theory: where population density is low, there might be some envy, some resentment. In the Russian mir they say sons would twist under the thumb of ...
June 15, 2017 at 23:41
So you're saying an emphasis on egalitarianism is about returning to a primal aspect of ourselves?
June 15, 2017 at 21:39
Somebody threw some bread and the grackles arrived. Soon the big kahuna appeared, striking his sapphire gleam at the others. They backed up and waited...
June 15, 2017 at 13:53
"But those are days, at this point in our narrative, that are still far in the future, for now we are concerned with the process whereby religion make...
June 14, 2017 at 16:34
"for eventually the human being will find himself alone and abandoned by an indifferent cosmos in which the audience of gods has vacated the theater. ...
June 14, 2017 at 16:05
Egalitarianism is mostly resentment.
June 14, 2017 at 13:37
A bunch of pelicans just flew by in an orderly pattern. I'm off the coast. :)
June 13, 2017 at 19:08
It's a problem because it requires that the person presenting the argument either 1. accepts that the argument implies a contradiction, or 2. provides...
June 13, 2017 at 12:24
It's the proof of God that was presented to me in childhood. I noticed early on its weakness. Is God supposed to be an untidy, disorderly entity? If n...
June 13, 2017 at 11:47
Dickinson fan? I knew you were awesome!
June 13, 2017 at 11:14
My lawn is mostly clovers and crab grass. Honey bees visit all summer long.
June 12, 2017 at 17:26
That's definitely happened in electronics. But if you look at the industry required to make or repair a windmill, for instance, steel and glass still ...
June 12, 2017 at 14:48
Because of the size of the human population relative to available resources?
June 12, 2017 at 14:45
Cool. I think your position is probably around 90% hope. You aren't proposing long term solutions, but rather you stand for thinking about and investi...
June 12, 2017 at 14:07
Wittgenstein? Could be.
June 11, 2017 at 23:32
But large is also beautiful. And sometimes it's not only the best way, it's the only way to get the job done. I'm not knockin' small stuff. It definit...
June 11, 2017 at 23:29
smh
June 11, 2017 at 00:29
I think you misunderstood the intention of my post. It's just more leaked stuff; unconfirmed, but probably true (most of the leaked stuff has been tru...
June 11, 2017 at 00:08
Look it up. :)
June 10, 2017 at 10:02
The FBI is supposed to be independent.
June 10, 2017 at 10:02
Sessions supposedly told Trump to fire Comey. I don't think Trump is the ring leader.
June 10, 2017 at 10:00
Yea, but if the dude is crazy enough to go into a hospital to shoot people, I don't know if having premature babies thrown at him is going to make a d...
June 10, 2017 at 09:56
That would have been possible back when I worked with babies, but it's adults now. They're too big. My only hope is that if it happens, all my patient...
June 09, 2017 at 23:37
We were also told to run. It makes sense, but it's hard to think about abandoning helpless patients.
June 09, 2017 at 18:36
Are you on vacation? Your bitching is more profuse than usual.
June 09, 2017 at 17:32
I can't compete with Wosret. He's smarter than me.
June 09, 2017 at 15:46
Oh, it's the trained killer part that makes it so fascinating. I'm partly kidding btw. I work in a hospital. That's me covered head to toe in personal...
June 09, 2017 at 15:36
National security? No.
June 09, 2017 at 12:52
Oh. I butted into my own discussion. :)
June 09, 2017 at 12:49
The discussion was about what we should focus on during an election. Terrorism was elected because it's a serious problem. I don't say it's not a seri...
June 09, 2017 at 10:02
I preface all statements with "Herp derp..." You're free to rank problems by how much the source of the problem hates your guts.
June 09, 2017 at 03:33
No. But it kills more people.
June 09, 2017 at 02:29
So is heart disease. It doesn't come up in political debates much.
June 09, 2017 at 01:56
I'm asking why it should be a focal point during an election.
June 09, 2017 at 00:06
How does bringing it up during an election help anything?
June 08, 2017 at 23:02
That's cool.
June 08, 2017 at 22:20