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In: Semper Fi  — view comment
Many people love their mothers, and many mothers are very caring. The same can be said for fathers. But for purposes of philosophical discussion, it w...
April 01, 2019 at 02:56
In: Semper Fi  — view comment
I don't want to offend wallows, so I'll post this cut for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6rKrO5iLZs From the Bible to the popular song There's ...
April 01, 2019 at 02:45
In: Semper Fi  — view comment
You have. The heresy is that one sex is better than the other. Women are not more moral than men. They are merely morally and immoral, delightful and ...
April 01, 2019 at 02:41
In: Semper Fi  — view comment
Mothers don't abandon their children as often as men do. Much, much more often than men they hold on to their offspring, doing a perfectly wretched jo...
April 01, 2019 at 02:39
In: Semper Fi  — view comment
It isn't everyday that mother-love and the USMC, semper fi, and all, are rolled up together that way. I'd avoid it, myself. The relationship between p...
March 31, 2019 at 23:12
Hey, I not only have my Medium Income, distant civil war, wealthier country of the world (of which my share is about zip), and living in my castle in ...
March 31, 2019 at 19:25
Well on that we can agree, as long as we don't have to agree on the list of unlikable churches. I never met a church that had nothing unlikeable about...
March 31, 2019 at 18:20
That's a big piece of the problem: No locality (city, county, state) can afford to absorb and assist millions of immigrants, asylum seekers, opportuni...
March 31, 2019 at 17:50
The fault is not yours; the problem arises from the term itself, one which has been in regular use for a long time: It's loaded with meaning. Thinking...
March 31, 2019 at 17:29
That's nice, but aren't these all limited? (Just reacting to your qualifications in the part that preceded the quoted section.)
March 31, 2019 at 07:25
Children who are not aided in building a value set may miss the boat on developing useful, socially desirable values. At best they will have a stunted...
March 31, 2019 at 07:23
An objection with something in the section that you placed out of bounds: (I've never been big on obedience). Fuck reverence and capitalism. Do "value...
March 31, 2019 at 07:08
No time to wallow in the mire; Come on, baby, light my fire, Try to set the night on fire. Songwriters: James Morrison / John Dens
March 31, 2019 at 06:32
There does seem to be a short-cut between our fingers and that part of the non-conscious minds that actually composes our texts. Then there is the aut...
March 31, 2019 at 01:07
While I am not wildly enthusiastic about millions of people migrating across our borders for jobs or asylum, there are certainly reasons why this is h...
March 30, 2019 at 23:14
Why don't they just call it paganism, heathenism, satanism, or whatever the fuck they dislike? I still don't get what your thread is about. I like thr...
March 30, 2019 at 22:42
Why would we be skilled at discussing our demise as a species? Talking about our own individual dying and death is hard enough, and there has never be...
March 30, 2019 at 18:24
I've never heard a pastor say such a thing. Can you provide more context for this? Christianity is a religion. Has "religion" become such a bad term t...
March 30, 2019 at 17:34
How about NASA, ESA, the Russian space agency, Chinese space Agency, etc? Musk? Elon Musk and 50¢ won't get you a cup of coffee.
March 30, 2019 at 16:05
Human behavior is loaded with neuroticism. It just goes with the territory . There is nothing inherently bad about spending hours at the gym sculpting...
March 30, 2019 at 07:42
I just love stirring up bee hives. Poke, poke. :naughty:
March 30, 2019 at 07:26
Women are at greater risk of adverse consequences than are men as a result of promiscuity. Pregnancy and childbearing have been one of the leading cau...
March 30, 2019 at 07:23
In: Brexit  — view comment
Marmite and Unilever... let us hope they don't bring out a Ben & Jerry Marmite combo.
March 29, 2019 at 16:51
Observing the operations of individual neurons gets us one step closer to the goal of understanding nerves and brains. You've heard of C. elegans? It'...
March 29, 2019 at 03:58
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March 29, 2019 at 01:15
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March 29, 2019 at 01:15
Your ex-wife must be quite the deal.
March 28, 2019 at 23:52
Life as men and women knew it. I'm not lauding the lack of women's suffrage, or women's lack of control over wealth (that condition was not universal)...
March 28, 2019 at 23:47
Never was. Patriarchy and matriarchy are projectiles developed for gender warfare. The historical use of these terms is not ancient. In the Google Ngr...
March 28, 2019 at 23:25
How old is NKBJ Jr.?
March 28, 2019 at 23:17
Traits are derived from evolution. Look at 100 dogs: they all exhibit very similar traits. Why do they all have the same traits (like the ability to f...
March 28, 2019 at 23:16
Sigh. I was merely amplifying the point that working class women, one of whom I observed at close hand for years, didn't have much opportunity to purs...
March 28, 2019 at 23:03
No it's not patriarchy. You read the post too quickly. Journals written by men are usually not literature either. Journals have real value, just not "...
March 28, 2019 at 23:00
My mother was contemporary with Tillie Olson and was also a working class wife and mother (of 7). She didn't have literary aspirations, as far as I kn...
March 28, 2019 at 22:48
Journaling! Journals, diaries, and the like are usually NOT of interest as "literature". Pepys journal is valuable as an intimate view of everyday his...
March 28, 2019 at 22:29
Camille Paglia is a good author to read on the subject. Very saucy. 200 proof.
March 28, 2019 at 18:52
Emily Dickinson wrote her poetry on the go and she didn't have any children to worry about. Not taking care of children is probably necessary for arti...
March 28, 2019 at 18:35
In his novel, Seven Eves Neal Stephenson used parthenogenesis. In this really quite good SciFi story, something caused the moon to break up into a lot...
March 28, 2019 at 18:25
Women have never been banned from art; they have been taking drawing and painting classes for many, many years. Yet, how many great woman painters can...
March 28, 2019 at 18:06
It depends where, when, why, etc. these violent behaviors show up. If one bunch of violent bad guys is on the loose (bad) a bunch of violent good guys...
March 28, 2019 at 17:53
And then he could end up in prison, too.
March 28, 2019 at 17:40
I thought I just did. Men are more likely to engage in state-prohibited behavior than women are, and society tends to be more concerned about the kind...
March 28, 2019 at 17:05
Wallows -- are you trying to start a fight? The prisons also have a lot more black men than white men. Does that imply that white men are socially sup...
March 28, 2019 at 16:50
I can't tell how much of a compliment it is being a cut above what you are used to. I'll just go ahead and assume that you are used to the very good. ...
March 28, 2019 at 05:58
Oh yes, getting help was suggested. He would have benefitted from the help of an able psychotherapist. He did, apparently, overcome his problems enoug...
March 28, 2019 at 04:58
True, and I don't think that genetics is anywhere close to parsing out all the genetic factors that control the behavior of the brain for learning 2 +...
March 28, 2019 at 04:47
The statistics might be misleading. 50 years ago, give or take a few, the rate of "mental illness" per se was thought to be around 10%. Several factor...
March 28, 2019 at 04:18
Hanover and I have been trading sarcastic broadsides for years.
March 28, 2019 at 04:05
Thud.
March 28, 2019 at 04:02
I don't know. Is he? Yes? No? Maybe? What should you do to prove your evolutionary fitness? Beat up every other guy in the neighborhood and become Kin...
March 28, 2019 at 04:00