Granted, I haven't taken any classes on comparative American/European education systems. As far as where I got such information I have... I suppose ju...
Once you get beyond a few people bartering potatoes or apples for socks or mittens, a market, large, small, free or otherwise, can not exist without o...
Groupthink is groupthink is groupthink, whether sponsored by the state, the corporation, the church, the school board, the editorial board of the New ...
When (not if) the shit hits the fan, a bunker will be of little use. Unless you could build a bunker like the Chad Mitchel Trio sang about in the 1960...
Bear in mind that the most comforting time on the Doomsday Clock was 17 minutes before midnight in 1991--when the Soviet Union collapsed. Were we any ...
When the English started colonizing North America, they found the forests "park like". Why? Because the aboriginal people had used controlled burns to...
You would have to be old to remember the National Defense Education Act (NDEA). It is quite novel to see the NDEA blamed for Trump's election. Let one...
When you want to quote somebody, highlight the text and then click on the word "Quote" that will appear next to the highlighted text. This accomplishe...
No matter what we do--keep the old system, try a new one, or have a bloody revolution and end up in chaos--some people will not be acting in good fait...
We could judge the morality of an act on a flat plane: all sentient life is equal; no species is superior; every individual creature matters equally; ...
Your theory accounts for a good many FSM Syndrome subjects. A desire to feel superior is not the only etiology of atheists who feel a need to pick on ...
I am in favor of experimenting with a "NOTA option. The experiment can be carried out in local elections first -- city councils, mayors, and the like....
Complex? Complicated? Multifactorial? One of the reasons "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation" is that they are adding too many parts to their li...
Did that drawing disrespect the theist position? The cover of John Fry's book The Great Apostolic Blunder Machine has a drawing of a church presented ...
In the Christian view, nothing is possible without god, and all things are possible with god. So... yes, it's possible if god wills it -- which he pre...
I would guess that Jesus was aware of the gap between perfect love and the performance ordinary humans were going to give. Jesus didn't have a lot of ...
or Must we do it or not? Love is hard. Loving one's self is hard. Loving someone else with the same regard we have for ourselves is hard. As hard (dif...
That's because a real person is behind the Bitter Crank conspiracy and the real person changed. A test: If you, or I, were to write under our real nam...
I concede nothing. A real person is writing your posts. I wonder... do I even have enough processing power and band width to create and maintain an al...
A Liebfrauenmilch (Virgin Mary's Milk) would be good. A sweet sherry? Some people like a sweet, dark vermouth with ice and soda (sparkling water). A s...
In another forum far away and long ago, @"Banno" started a discussion similar to this one, is the divine stallion Pegasus, wings, hooves, balls, and a...
Beer is safe and effective when used as directed. But then, so is gin, vodka, whiskey, bourbon, wine, schnapps, ale, rum, benzodiazepines, cannabis, p...
And that's fine. Even if I am much more tolerant of "socially appropriate lying" or white lies than you are, and won't be availing myself of the confe...
I suppose you, Tom, Manny, et al think that a lie is a lie is a lie? That there is no variety of lies? That intent has no bearing? That a lie about wh...
Your post is fine. IF there was any reason for your post to be deleted, it might be that a moderator remembered another thread on exactly the same top...
Homo Ludens is a book written in 1938 by Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga. It discusses the importance of the play element of cult...
That's what I'm talking about. You don't just have "simple depression". You have a more complex diagnosis. "Depression" may feel the same for you that...
Thanks, but I cribbed that from the article. The author also addresses your second point - he says the church, like schools, is a most likely place to...
I don't know whether or when or why it will get worse or better. I've been taking antidepressants for 30 years or so. Various formulations. Some of th...
Here's a thoughtful article on Catholicism in the New York Review of Books. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/11/22/catholic-church-sins-celibacy/...
re: Is nihilism supportable or is it an excuse for a lack of talent? I don't know whether 'lack of talent' has anything to do with nihilism, or not. M...
Now don't get all deep on me. I was just being flippant. But in terms of what is good and what is bad for living creatures (like our esteemed selves),...
But mother became senile centuries ago and just keeps repeating herself. Physics is a well-rewarded son of philosophy, but hasn't needed mother dear f...
Oh, dear... Rank, bless you for holding down the paleo end of the Christian continuum. It's dirty work but somebody has to do it. I attended a Trident...
Catholics should probably ask Protestants what Catholicism is. We are totally objective about the Catholic Church so we would be a totally reliable so...
Oh, I wasn't forgetting the kids. Pedophiles tend not to also have adult relationships. It's maybe not a hard and fast rule, so to speak, but a tenden...
I shall, thank you -- and so will you. And that's fine by me. But when, exactly, was it decided that priests must not only all be male, but they must ...
There is some justification for ignoring elections not voting, The two political parties are not vastly different; politicians may promise X, Y, and Z...
New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gl...
Orthodox Marxists understand what the working class is: It is people whose sustenance is dependent on getting paid for their labor. The working class ...
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