NOTHING. Just my opinion. You might like to read Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart D. Ehrman. He explains how heaven and hell came t...
Does 'reality' exist in 'reality'? You dismiss truth -- fine by me; truth is like pornography -- I can't define it but I know it when I see it. Isn't ...
Well, actually I haven't given it a second's thought since I lavished high praise on the whole thing. One of the benefits of defects in short-term mem...
Oh, WHEN will the people gather in front of the White House for his afternoon Covid-19 press conference/mini-campaign rally and chant loudly and long,...
You seem to have won a Double First Prize: Your readers rated your OP quite favorably (1 prize) and then gave you thoughtful responses (2nd prize). Yo...
Glory, laud, and honor to science, logic, mathematics, et al. But consider the New England colonies, which were premised on ideas of religious freedom...
I thought it was about taxation, representation, and various bourgeois concerns of the colonial upper class. Even in a democracy thoroughly infested b...
It will most likely go higher, and it won't be spread evenly across the population. It's too early to see how the economic shutdown will affect busine...
Gotta love a great paradox! But... In a frozen universe where there was no movement, would time exist? In this frozen timeless universe, should the ar...
My understanding is that Boeing turned the money down, because the string attached was a government stake in the company. It's bad enough for them, I ...
You didn't ask me, but one example of corrupt religion would be one of the causes of the Reformation: The wanton sale of indulgences for the purpose o...
Highly cogent question. Take Psalm 137:7-9 This isn't the only reference to bashing in the brains of the enemies' infants in the Bible. Acquiring and ...
According to LII at Cornell Law School... So, it would appear that the case of the praying governor will result in the DOP going forward. The Establis...
The cemeteries are well stocked with bodies that were strong, fit, and good looking just before they encountered the fatal bacteria or virus that put ...
A lot of people weren't alive at the time or don't remember IRA bombings, 40+ airplane hijacking, terrorist bombings in the US, European leftist gangs...
Actually, gas lighting introduced in the late 18th/early 19 century increased the safety of streets at night, and improved interior lighting, leading ...
Don't count on it. This isn't the first new disease to come along. If the executive and congress were paying attention to public health, there would b...
What people want is not 'bad news' or 'good news'; they want interesting news. In some fields (@"Congau" mentioned sports where there is at least 50% ...
An axiom is that the stock market is driven by fear and greed. It's a repulsion/attraction trap. On the one hand, investors FEAR losing money in the m...
SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) is a good example. SARS (another corona virus) jumped from animals to humans and first appeared in China in 2...
True enough: "The flu" (as the term is used) may be any of several unrelated infections -- like a rhinovirus, a norovirus, or a bacterial disease. "St...
It's probably the case that eventually everybody will be infected by one of the various strains of influenza A (and may or may not experience a signif...
In a very real sense, society is itself an ideology--the ideology of settled, state-centered society. I haven't actually read the book, the principle ...
Looks like reality to me. 2 weeks ago, Minnesota had 1, then two cases. Then 3, then 5, then 11, then 18, now... 35. At first all of the cases were tr...
Oh, I got it right away, alright, but I felt compelled to mention that the much honored Reagan was losing his mind while he was president. So did you....
I don't know, of course, but the epidemic could be worse than we think it will be. It depends on how much community transmission occurs -- disease spr...
That's absolutely the case. Most cities in the world (or the USA) do not have many empty hospital beds just waiting to be filled by people sick with c...
I hope Biden selects a younger, healthier, more functional Vice President. I hope the vast majority of voters will hold their nose and vote for the un...
One of the reasons that returns are slow is that there are many mail-in absentee or early vote ballots. It always takes time to sort, open, and record...
A friend went on a gay cruise, and said it was like being locked up in a gay bar for a month. I might be in the right age group, but I don't have the ...
The "wet" (or live) trade in wild animals for food is pretty bad idea. A lot of the problem is rooted in bats, which have very tolerant immune systems...
However, it might be a good idea to not buy stock in Princess Cruises. Surely viral slime has corroded their luxury brand. Luxury cruises sound like a...
Marx's comment. in A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of...
Pass along any handy stats you might have. But various Abrahamic regimes (Christian and Moslem, mostly) have had very discouraging violence and death ...
I have heard some younger (and older) atheists fulminating about stupid 'sky gods' and superstitious believers, etc. Some of them do seem to carry a h...
For what purpose would a will be needed in heaven? IF, as has been suggested, being in the presence of God is like (LIKE, mind you, not the same thing...
If one were to posit consciousness to both human beings and viruses, one would have to explain by what means molecules making up the virus (or DNA) co...
I don't know whether all, most, some, or a few atheists are "angry" -- or if they are, what they are angry about. Any data from anywhere supporting th...
Yes on both counts; I'm on the mend, and the surgery didn't involve the vocal cords. The tonsil and lymph nodes were the sites of the malignancy, and ...
But everyone is not on Medicaid. For one, it's administered by the states, and some states have meagre funding, others are much better funded. Compare...
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