Be more creative Wallows. By the way, "Wallowing in the mire" was used by William Byrd, not the English composer but an American Colonial who died in ...
Just off hand, I can't tell you why God doesn't lead by example. I can tell you though that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are descended from Abraha...
S There will soon be 8 billion people. Let's say 6 billion of them will need -- not a safe haven, but permanent relocation -- to what great location d...
I'm not offended. The climate crisis is eating away at a lot of us. I expect the richest 1%, wherever and whoever they are, will ride out climate chan...
It is certainly true that "building a wall" will not work. If you are really going to guard your borders so that NO ONE gets in or out, you have to do...
Don't soil your Depends on my account. I wasn't suggesting that parents were responsible for what happens in US border control facilities. What parent...
Is "scientific" the right term for the attitude of people who think that there are reasons why things work the way they do, and that with careful exam...
As a WASP, I can assure you that WASP culture has indeed been criticized too much, way way too much. Non-WASPs just have no idea how tremendously posi...
Thank you -- I should have known than -- #1, having read the story earlier, and #2 her being my congressmoslem. I don't know what the Minnesota Democr...
Do bad things not happen to children who live in Central America? Do no children get sick before they reach the southern border of the US? Does being ...
Yes, absolutely. Maybe a lot of our dreams are just run of the mill subconscious mumbling, but every now and then we have a dream in which the subcons...
Of course, dream mages DO NOT and CAN NOT have minds of their own. Dream images are a blurry reflection of the mind that dreams them--blurry because c...
I don't "believe" in dream interpretation -- like using a chart which lists what images "mean". Like "a thing is a phallic symbol if it's longer than ...
apparently "man/men" is the Anglo-Saxon generic term for both men and women. So have a crack at dream interpretation, why don't you. I am a non-lucid ...
From very early in life we become aware that other people exist. All these other people that we observe and interact with are pretty much self-directe...
Please bear in mind that men and women are not different species, and gay and straight people are not different species. Homosexuality is, as I said, ...
I'm not an antinatalist, so I wouldn't want them to not have children. Actually Homo sapiens did very well for the first 190,000 years -- really an ex...
Part of the deal of being a 'sovereign nation' is the right to control one's national borders. Nations have the right and the obligation to guard thei...
It is too late to be antinatalist. If one were going to nip child-bearing in the bud, one would have to have been actively promoting antinatalism to t...
The same actual person will also experience good--quite possibly much more good than suffering. In the words of a song from decades ago, "I beg your p...
True. You don't get to choose your parents, the world your ancestors made, or whatever catastrophes will happen once you are born. You also don't get ...
Sham shpam! Maureen, dear, of course we pay people to tell us lies that are convincing. What do you think The News is? Or the history that we learn? I...
Attributing blame to institutions may be a dodge to avoid personal blame, true enough. Nonetheless, the many individuals in concert who operate instit...
As you say, intolerance of criminal behavior and disease is justifiable. The community and individuals can and should protect themselves from these po...
I'm not very interested in personal biases and prejudices, any more, because the real damage that is done to the victims of systemic bias, prejudice, ...
I agree with @"Pattern-chaser" that a large part of who I am, or who you are, consists of a long list of attitudes, prejudices, biases, preferences, l...
Some drugs are illegal to use for a reason: cannabis, cocaine, opioids, meth, LSD, etc. are substances that involve various risks (great and small) to...
Why does the Supreme Form of Bad not exist? In Christian theology the supreme form of bad is personified in the figure of Satan. In the mythology, Sat...
Whether one thinks that Plato was right or wrong about goodness or government or anything else isn't the same as whether or not Plato was influential....
I was going to congratulate you on being the first to use "colonoscopy" in TPF discussions. But no, it has been used before. Then I thought maybe you ...
The article said, "Kaepernick’s concern over the shoe’s “Betsy Ross Flag” designs connection to an era of slavery resonated with investors" That may b...
This is true, but what vigorous culture hasn't stamped its footprint on the world? Going back to the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Greeks, the Roman...
The steps from 1620 to 1776 to 1861 to 1954 to the present have been dogged by moral contradictions all the way. The United States is not unique in th...
Hyperbole, but I get what you mean. Democrats and republicans are the only two peas in the short pod of the established Party. The actual very liberal...
This is a watershed issue in the United States: In a minority of school districts, high level academic success is expected/demanded and delivered by t...
This is true. Ok, ok, I get the pun. But there is a wider American culture, and more narrow ones. The doings of the KKK below to one of the narrow cul...
Moon Unit Nine denies any connection with American Culture. You aren't going to deny that there is such a thing as "American", "French", or "Russian" ...
Assessing how we thought about something after the fact is a fun game but I am not sure that it is reliable. First, there are mental processes going o...
Logic was employed, but yes, after the fact. Most of our personal decisions are not made using logic, and a lot of our business or professional decisi...
I just made a decision--I bought a pair of New Balance shoes on line. 1 hour prior to the decision and act I did not intend to buy anything. But I rea...
Good housing, good food, good health care, good education, good jobs (that people actually like)--all good and desirable things. No one will argue wit...
I agree that political correctness is foolish, but it probably isn't up there with the most foolish things that have ever been tried. You want to try ...
Now wait a minute. I learned how to garden from my dad. He had a shovel (a spade), a pitchfork, 2 heavy garden rakes, and a hoe (the implement, not th...
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