Frank Apisa

Right on the button, Andrew. But NKBJ will not be able to acknowledge it.

WE should be very, very, very, very careful about even trying any of this that you suggested using "we." Decisions in these areas are for "I" to make....

Anyone with a brain KNOWS they had a great, great grandfather. They KNOW they their great, great, grandfather also had a great, great grandfather. Thi...

It is a guess...a blind guess. And "faith" is the absurd insistence that it is correct no matter what.

"Beliefs" in religion... ...are nothing more than blind guesses being disguised. I "believe" in God"...is nothing but a blind guess about the unknown ...

Anyone favoring "forceful intervention" in matter like this...should be force fed themselves...through their asses. It seems almost inconceivable to m...

That was funny...although it would have been a lot funnier if you had proofed it before posting.

Bullshit. Anyway...I do not have a daughter...or a son for that matter. Early on I decided I would not be a good parent and opted not to father any pr...

Yup...a bit off topic. And a whole bunch of audacity, pretentiousness, pomposity, and sticking his nose where it does not belong.

My sister is in from California...and we will meet for three or four hours of talk. We talk almost every day on the phone, but something is different ...

For the same reason that you can divide 8 apples among two people but not 8 pears by 2 peaches?

Sorry, Shamshir, I've got better things to do than arguing with a kid looking for attention. Stick with the other kids in the playground. They like th...

It is not a "belief"...but if it makes your life more worth living to suppose it is...go for it. Cost me nothing...and brings a bit of cheer into your...

I do not do believing. I know that it is not a belief.

One...it is not a "belief." I know it. Two...I do not give a rat's ass what you venture to call it.

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” ? Mark Twain “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever...

I guess we cannot.

I would not do that. I am talking about a concept here. Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Can we have an actual philosophical conversation?

C'mon. Of course I am not wrong on this. It means that for a Christian as much as it means it for anyone else using it in a religious discussion. Yeah...

Bingo. But always with the notion in mind that IF a person chooses suicide...and does not deviate from that...there should be a way for willing profes...

Not at all. The friend would be using the words he/she chooses. The principal would be using the words he/she chooses. I am not sure of where you are ...

If it happened, I'd laugh my ass off. I would be delighted that someone was intelligent enough to see the absurdity of arbitrarily designating certain...

One way to handle your question, Christine...is to change the way you phrase it. Fact is, in a religious discussion, any comment that contains the wor...

IF there were no words arbitrarily designated as bad...one would think nothing of it. If the words "fucking" and "shit" were not arbitrarily designate...

Perhaps all true...but also besides the point. My point is that arbitrarily designating certain words as "bad" or "whatever else"...is a hell of a lot...

Ummm...there you have...what?

Ummm...I do not feel that I am in a cage of any sort. Other than life itself, of course, and "life" has its own way of setting one free. Your stream o...

I guess there will always be people like you...people who think they set the standards for what is good or bad, moral or immoral, right or wrong. Best...

YOU do not get to decide what is or is not painful for anyone but yourself. Schzophr. Can you finally get that? Suppose, as you supposed, you were rap...

What the hell makes you think YOU get to decide for other people what is or is not "painful enough?" Where do you get the nerve to suppose that?

My point is that any "language" should be considered acceptable...and polite. We should not be artificially designating certain words as "bad" and oth...

Yup. Aretha Franklin used it at an inaugural. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4D9jQpecVo

Fuck you, you fucking jerkoff. Or...Hi, Shamshir. Your choice.

There should NEVER be a setting where words should make a difference because certain words are considered "bad." The idea is an absurdity. But...we ar...

In about 10 weeks, I'll be 83. I am in great health and live a full, happy, content life. I know I am going to be dead soon. My remark (the question) ...

You are going to die. Stop being afraid. It screws with your being able to think reasonably. Life is not based on the kind of force you were talking a...

Why? Are you afraid of death? You would actually FORCE someone to stay alive who does not want to stay alive? THAT seems to me to be more questionable...

I would bet this is not a "murder." Murder has a definition. It is the unlawful taking of a human life. Was the death unlawful? If not...it was not "m...

My comment is: We humans almost certainly have not fought our last major global war yet. The last one will be a monster...and may do the universe the ...

I think some words do speak to things with more rawness than others. But my point here is merely that being offended by certain words seems silly to m...

Now that I liked!

It has little to do with the ancient Romans. Bring profane has a specific meaning. It means making worldly what belongs to a god. Saying "Fuck you" is...

Ouch. That must have been one hell of a response. I'm interested in the "why." Can you clean up your response so as to make it acceptable to the mods?

Okay. You do realize that "fuck" is not swearing. Nor is "fuck" cursing. Nor is "fuck" profane. "Fuck" is vulgar. And we both know that being vulgar m...

Perhaps. But the pressures to be offended are so great...that it may seem it is being done the way a dog likes its own ass. I think there is more choi...

Please see above comment from me.

I personally think there is very little chance of language etiquette rules disappearing or even relaxing significantly. That is not my point here. I a...

Common practice…and a healthy infusion of upper crust control of what could or could not be written. The word was not even included in any English dic...

I understand what you are attempting to communicate here, Baden...but I disagree with your first sentence so completely, that the remainder of the com...

Yep...a tremendously useful word...that some people want to eliminate.