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In: Father Richard Rohr at Science and Nonduality Conference  — view comment
Yes. If you ask a religion scholar what the word means, he or she will probably first want to identify what culture and what time period you're intere...
March 14, 2017 at 18:24
In: Father Richard Rohr at Science and Nonduality Conference  — view comment
Kin to Un's point is that there is no scientific definition of divinity. Therefore divinity is not a scientific issue.
March 14, 2017 at 12:14
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Ah that wonderful combo of belligerent and stupid. Where's Agustino? At least he wasn't stupid.
March 13, 2017 at 16:25
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
https://youtu.be/oLExkn3W3yA
March 13, 2017 at 15:59
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
So your first claim was some weird non sequitur. Your second claim was the entirely baseless strong claim that Trump being impeached is impossible. No...
March 13, 2017 at 12:31
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Nobody wants to dwell with the unknown. Gotta fill in the blanks.
March 12, 2017 at 22:36
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
You have a crystal ball?
March 12, 2017 at 22:16
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Oh. I never thought of David Brooks as a reality denier.
March 12, 2017 at 20:37
In: Post truth  — view comment
Opposites attract.
March 12, 2017 at 20:01
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
You continue to confuse me for someone who gives a fuck. Trump Defensiveness Syndrome.
March 12, 2017 at 20:01
In: Post truth  — view comment
Trump met Putin in college. After a year of making fun of his name, Trump began to fall for that melancholia disguised as Christian mysticism so typic...
March 12, 2017 at 19:02
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Huh? I just asked why he thinks the attacks on Jews would make him look bad.
March 10, 2017 at 15:22
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
The US has never been a democracy. David Brooks predicts Trump will be impeached sometime in the first two years. Being a Washington outsider is appea...
March 10, 2017 at 15:20
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
In some ways it would be the same situation. Popular support isn't real power.
March 10, 2017 at 15:00
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Oh. I guess I'm a little confused about positive qualities. Michael has a streak of persistence. Is that positive? It could be. Or it could be disastr...
March 10, 2017 at 13:12
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Yep. And that's what it is: the lack of predictability. It's always true that we only partially understand the present moment. We can't put it into co...
March 10, 2017 at 13:08
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
I don't feel like you're taking my question very seriously. Maybe because it's in the shoutbox. . I think Trump is neither a Nazi nor a conservative. ...
March 10, 2017 at 00:14
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
So I've been pondering this: after the desecration of some Jewish graves and bomb threats on Jewish community centers in several states, Trump stated ...
March 09, 2017 at 23:22
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Honestly, I haven't interacted with him enough to know him very well. He rarely shows up to the more in depth philosophy discussions. Why the fixation...
March 09, 2017 at 15:22
In: Transgenderism and identity  — view comment
Kids are born with ambiguous genitalia from time to time. Nobody says "Nature made it that way. We must respect that." Surgery is available.
March 08, 2017 at 21:31
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Right. Fireman arrives. The roof is on fire.
March 08, 2017 at 20:21
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Cool. Feel free to share details. Is the setting a lawyer's office? Surely not a courtroom. A private deposition? Sia is a singer.
March 08, 2017 at 14:41
In: Transgenderism and identity  — view comment
Yea... I edited it. If a person can feel aggression, compassion, sensitiveness, coldness, etc., I imagine it's just a matter of putting those notes in...
March 08, 2017 at 08:36
In: Transgenderism and identity  — view comment
How could a bishop be trapped in a knight's body? He's not trapped. He just wants to move diagonally and he knows knights who do that are scorned. Sen...
March 08, 2017 at 08:13
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Whatever gets you there. Sia's voice turns me on.
March 08, 2017 at 02:29
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Cool!
March 07, 2017 at 21:26
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
It was stuff I saw while walking my dog. I like the juxtaposition of a manmade thing against a wild background. Tonal range. I wonder how that relates...
March 07, 2017 at 21:10
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
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March 07, 2017 at 20:17
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
/uploads/resized/files/qp/2qgb8g9b513wbgnb.jpg /uploads/resized/files/16/kb7vdc5d9hf367in.jpg The ending of things
March 07, 2017 at 19:38
In: Is climate change man-made?  — view comment
Northern? I could have sworn it was S America and the Congo.
March 07, 2017 at 16:39
In: Is climate change man-made?  — view comment
Right, it's rhythmic. CO2 drops during southern hemisphere summer, if I recall correctly, and goes up in the winter. All the CO2 humans are putting ou...
March 07, 2017 at 16:21
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
I think the verb to be changes in meaning depending on context. Duh.
March 07, 2017 at 14:37
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
/uploads/resized/files/ki/d9retjdjxzqq8isl.jpg /uploads/resized/files/hi/4qarr1twjc0ds8jm.jpg More picsart
March 07, 2017 at 14:34
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
He does have a quirky sense of humor. Is being a lawyer considered a positive thing in your world?
March 07, 2017 at 14:31
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Um. Can I get a hint?
March 01, 2017 at 21:35
In: Post truth  — view comment
I think fascism (loosely put) is a reaction to a sense of impending decline or doom. Bouts of it occur during economic downturns. The onset of the Jim...
February 28, 2017 at 23:38
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
The President can't keep ignoring threats on Jews Why not? He sort of winked at the KKK while campaigning. Obviously a lot of people are fine with tha...
February 28, 2017 at 21:44
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Speaking of community centers: bomb threats
February 28, 2017 at 20:49
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Oh.
February 28, 2017 at 17:13
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Well what have you done as moderator (other than give incorrect information in the feature request thread)?
February 28, 2017 at 16:35
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
I was just pointing out that the "somebody else's home" analogy doesn't really work either. The way the forum has been moderated is fine. I just think...
February 28, 2017 at 15:56
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Fine. Then you're paying the bills and we can take down that fundraiser thread? :P
February 28, 2017 at 15:47
In: OIL: The End Will Be Sooner Than You Think  — view comment
I think he meant fusion.
February 28, 2017 at 15:11
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
I shot the sheriff. But I did not shoot the deputy.
February 28, 2017 at 14:56
In: OIL: The End Will Be Sooner Than You Think  — view comment
Right. Change is coming. We don't usually change intelligently. We barrel into catastrophe and then change.
February 28, 2017 at 14:48
In: OIL: The End Will Be Sooner Than You Think  — view comment
The US is sitting on a couple centuries worth of coal. I'm just saying... I think the BDO is baloney. It may happen, but not because of oil depletion.
February 28, 2017 at 14:02
In: OIL: The End Will Be Sooner Than You Think  — view comment
Construction does run on oil. Why not coal?
February 28, 2017 at 13:56
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Except I don't hold fundraisers to pay my bills. I think a sense of group ownership. (of the kind Un was encouraging with his moderation thread) is a ...
February 28, 2017 at 13:51
In: Practical metaphysics  — view comment
Right. So you're sort headed in the same direction TGW and BC were: our thoughts, speech, and actions aren't informed much by metaphysics. It's the ot...
February 27, 2017 at 21:37
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Oh thank god.
February 27, 2017 at 21:11
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