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one of your comments addressed the issues I raised; 1, will sub-Saharan Africa be able to cope with more than doubling its population within 35 years ...
April 16, 2019 at 09:45
Very recently the sultan of Brunei managed to focus the world's attention on the barbarity of large part of the Islamic world. His law about stoning t...
April 14, 2019 at 19:57
Heavenly host (Hebrew: ?????? sabaoth or tzva'ot, "armies") refers to the army (Luke 2:13) of angels mentioned both in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles...
April 08, 2019 at 15:53
What you described is the enlightened vision of God. But, it is not the established view of the monotheistic religions (not to mention their folkloris...
April 07, 2019 at 13:44
What you described is the enlightened vision of God. But, it is not the established view of the monotheistic religions (not to mention their folkloris...
April 07, 2019 at 13:42
Well, does he just 'pay attention' to details or does he create them? I suppose that by 'details' you mean the whole tapestry of religious tenets and ...
March 01, 2019 at 11:38
Well. aristoteles and Plato survived to tell them the story Would have done so under the Pharaohs or Ashurbanipal? Absolute Tyranny was the rule in Mi...
February 22, 2019 at 16:07
OK, but why was there a god/goddess of philosophy in the Egyptian, Sumerian, or Indian pantheon. I think the reason might be that free thinking was no...
February 21, 2019 at 16:52
Compared to the Reptilian Consplirasive narrative, the world of Harry Potter appears as a model of coherence and rationality!
February 16, 2019 at 19:59
February 15, 2019 at 10:59
To a very large extent, perfection is a projection of power and wealth. One buys what he considers to be the best and is fussy about trivial details b...
February 15, 2019 at 10:40
OK, maybe a crack being a strucual fault was not a good example. So let's have a chip of few square mm. Such a chip won't shorten the life of the vase...
February 14, 2019 at 15:28
OK, maybe a crack being a strucual fault was not a good example. So let's have a chip of few square mm. Such a chip won't shorten the life of the vase...
February 14, 2019 at 15:22
To a large extent, purity is in the eye of the beholder. To a large extent, purity is in the eye of the beholder and obsession with what one considers...
February 13, 2019 at 20:45
According to hard determinism, the universe as it is, down to its most minute and trivial events (like my decision to drink tea rather than coffee) is...
February 01, 2019 at 20:34