As far as I was concerned, Trump's nomination of Kavanaugh was the kiss of death. Kavanaugh could have walked on water, and it wouldn't have changed m...
At least we're not built for enduring uninterrupted happiness. If life doesn't interrupt our happiness, we will do it ourselves. Maybe it is more impo...
The whole enterprise of religion was a very early high point in human artistic achievement. We created the gods: this is an easy concept for the relig...
I interpreted it to mean "Let go of the rope." Meaning, put yourself entirely in my hands. I assume that our unfortunate climber would soon arrive at ...
Cases are fought all the way up to the Supreme Court, but a candidate's appointment to the court isn't "a case". Kavanaugh is not being tried, he's be...
If the honorable and not guilty man (as opposed to an obviously innocent one) has been wrongly accused and can not shake the accusation, then he shoul...
Interesting about the Kuwait fires. But you know, when the FAA grounded all flights over the United States on 911, the loss of all of the contrails th...
Ordinary depression presents a number of problems. For one, "a bad life" -- too much stress, debt, drinking, drugs, lack of exercise, bad environment,...
So, you are not the libertarian I thought you might be. All well and good, libertarian or not. But let me ask you: Would you be in support of calling ...
Why do you think they prescribe chemicals that act on brain chemistry? It is to treat disorders of the brain? What is not understood with many drugs i...
Many psychiatrists (and others, laymen too) view mental illness as diseases of the physical brain which have behavioral or affective symptoms. A perso...
I think this true. One can arrange to hear certain kinds of news about certain kinds of events reported in a certain way -- exclusively. Until the las...
Some people feel there is just too much uninformed political discourse going on. The various Internet platforms give millions of unvetted people (a go...
Your opening post is very poorly stated. I gather you think the SCOTUS has been getting out of hand ever since the Constitution was adopted in 1787. C...
Daniel Pentagon Papers Ellsberg was an analyst for the DOD. His sense was that nuclear war was seen to be survivable because the Russians and American...
Probably so. And I actually don't expect any sort of grand social meltdown without a nuclear war--and if the nuclear war is thorough, we won't be arou...
3 things: 1. Limited supply; were gold as plentiful as copper or aluminum, it wouldn't be so valuable. 2. Its inherent properties (conductivity, resis...
I should have been clearer. The situation I was thinking of was farther out than the collapse of currency. I was thinking more along apocalyptic lines...
The trouble with all schemes for surviving the collapse of money is that no representative commodity, be it gold, diamonds, silver, or any thing else,...
I understand that paying taxes supports the value of a fiat currency: IF you do not pay your taxes with the fiat currency, you will suffer the consequ...
According to Jesus in Matthew 25, we have a choice. When we see the hungry, imprisoned, thirsty, naked, and so on, we can either choose to do somethin...
First, keep up the good work, which teaching children is. Despite having thought a lot about the question of what and how to teach children, I'm not s...
@"boethius" Indeed. SCOTUS has become politicized, and not just under Trump. Roosevelt attempted to reshape or "pack" the Court by expanding it, then ...
I'm not an economist, so take several grains of salt... Printed money is "fiat" currency. It has values because a government declared that it has valu...
Of course they can, if they are able. My sister isn't stupid, but she is not educated, and given the doctrinaire version of Christianity she espouses,...
If Kavanaugh thrust his diminutive Irish prick into the public sector, why wouldn't that be only 'indecent exposure' -- the same as flashing someone? ...
I don't know what influences it, but naming patterns vary over time. Some pundits referenced Obama as "Mr. Obama" and others as "President Obama". Geo...
One thing that has been revealed, clearly, again, is how partisan politics are working. Everybody involved here--Donald Trump, the Democratic minority...
And I was just thinking of a piece of blueberry pie! What was that about ducks? Geez, people obsessed with duck smut. Ballistic penises and corkscrew ...
This is a church camp story illustrating what faith is supposed to be like. I have added a couple of my own touches to it. Very sappy, and not sapient...
At what time and on what day were the first 7 drivel, because this thread is in the first 7 right now. Drivel, drivel, snit and snivel; key strokes fl...
I'm not a moderator and do not read every post as a member, so I cannot be sure whether what you are claiming is true or not. My guess is that if an a...
Interesting. Also about 40 or 50 years ago, I had two dreams in which I met the Devil. In one the Devil was in a person I knew, had some reason to fea...
How about Elizabeth Warren, Senator, D - Massachusetts? I'm pretty sure she's available for nomination in 2020 - she's been running spots on the inter...
Supposing you were sitting there in front of your computer contemplating your next post, and you heard, clear as a bell, a voice that said "Jack Jones...
Yeah, I've found the arguments presented for religion unpersuasive. If god, God, the gods are ineffable, beyond our ken, immortal, invisible, omnipote...
And what do believers do? The profess their beliefs. What more can they who believe in the immortal, invisible, ineffable do? One thing some believers...
Correct. People believe in all sorts of things. Jesus, Abraham, Mohammed, Buddha, the god of the swamp, the god of the wind, Odin, Demeter, Brahma Shi...
Really? It is only my impression that success is more immediate. Within 16 hours a virile manly thread will have taken off and have dozens of progeny....
A successful-traffic generating post is something about which many care. The Donald Trump United thread has 2.9K posts, while "The Morality Of Bestowi...
Sometimes indifferent threads become quite interesting when a weeds-sending poster performs their magic and says something irrelevant that transforms ...
I do not know how to define a good topic. It seems to be the case that good topics presented properly can be derailed by posters who wander off into t...
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