Buxtebuddha

No, I actually meant Freuds :P

TL has frands! :o :-! :-*

Oh, but you do post pictures of your baked goods for all to see and admire and oogle over and make you feel good about your accomplishments, >:O O:)

I have, and I don't like the implications that the term possession brings. It's like how people say that they've "fallen in love." Fallen? Like, you f...

If I'm in love with someone, the last word I'd ever use would be "possession."

Not surprised your taste in metal is boring, derivative death metal, lol. I guess it goes with janitoring? O:)

The old days where I took people around here too seriously? Hmm, no.

And no debt?

How'd you manage 2-3 years? You take a break in the middle?

Grats dude/dudette, that's better than half the philosophers on this forum, :-*

Me, TL, and Agu used to be the ones in a threesome. Now, I suppose it's TL, Agu, and Hanover. Aw well.

(Y) It's unfortunate that many people don't view relationships in this and similar ways. I've found that people get in and out of relationships when t...

Stained red by the blood of rejected men.

I don't actually think TL is flustered, she's just getting her kicks tonight by messing with people...as am I... >:O

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I merely found his comparison amusing, so don't read into my emoticons too much. Your edginess and pomp lately has been cute, though, I'll give you th...

I think so, too. In the Christian sense, we can't ever understand it otherwise we'd be God. Metaphor's the best way understand love, though, in my opi...

>:O >:O >:O

While I don't entirely agree with Aquinas here (mostly because I'm not a believing Christian), his first reply in the following link I find to be an i...

You list a few things that love may consist of, but could you define love by itself? To me love is to will the good of another. This is the classicall...

Having knowledge of Christ is different from being convinced of him. If the wagerer merely needs to know about religion x to believe in it, then he'd ...

How so? Where does Pascal say that the wagering person must come to his belief as a result of blind trust in a priest, rather than coming to his belie...

Boz Scaggsby? :)

Really? lol. I didn't do that.

Slippery, non answer, this >:O Okay, but that's a big term. Who's Pete anyway? Wos, Question, ?

Secondary lit? You'd have to go by religion and then time period. Even then, the secondary stuff isn't that helpful, I've found. It's more worthwhile ...

I don't think mystics call themselves mystics, just as Saints in the Christian Churches don't call themselves Saints. What do you mean by this?

In a discussion about mysticism, why'd you pick the religion of Islam which has perhaps the weakest mystical tradition of all major world religions to...

@Thorongil paged me about this a week ago. Are you saying that Pete, whoever that is, shouldn't take medication, get a job, have meaningful relationsh...

Yes, yes, the United States is the only country on earth that has dealt and deals with mass murder. Only = exclusively. Regularly = frequently. X, Y, ...

When I read "academic forum" I just take that as the moderators being college rejects attempting to feel snooty and sophisticated by slapping the "aca...

This being an "Academic forum" is made a laughing stock when we have threads about boxing, movies, music, etc.

It's not obvious at all. You want us to read between the lines, but there's nothing to be read, so it's only obvious to you because you helped come up...

If text speak is not explicitly against the rules then you don't have much foot to stand on when asking someone to stop if what you want to stop isn't...

I think you should be banned for editing in that comma. Can I have modship so I can do whatever I want?

What's more ridiculous is banning someone because he wasn't writing like you wanted him to. Getting told to fuck off is usually what happens when some...

What is acceptable? Who determines what is acceptable or not? Is coherent, understood English not acceptable English?

And I guess it's the third time I've stated that there isn't a rule against text speak. You've banned TGW for not doing what you want even though what...

This doesn't include "text speak" as you've not even defined what "text speak" is. Furthermore, having just now gone through recent TGW posts, why is ...

What is the rule?

Where does it say that "text speak" is against the site guidelines? Is there someplace here on the forum where text speak is explicitly defined and ma...

for me personally

As I understand it his company essentially held a monopoly on the drug, so while he tries to infer natural economics - that low quantity will raise th...

The pixel quality of your avatar is frying my brain, man. Meditation is supposed to make things clearer, not blurrier. And I'm even wearing glasses ri...

Yeah, kinda like you wielding power over the unborn child that will be cut out of a vagina like goop in a potpie. Common among whom, exactly? If a wom...

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How many people actually do this, though? I don't even idealize my mother, so it's hard to imagine there being swaths of infatuated kiddos...

I think many "conservatives" are jokes in and of themselves, so the comedic quality of conservatism is much more existential, :P

Isn't this why someone would love another? We need love because we are all flawed and I don't think love is a "toleration." I wouldn't describe a mutu...

Like in what way? I'm fortunate enough to have a wonderful mother, but dare I say many, perhaps most, children don't have wonderful mothers or respect...