In the "good old days" of the "smoke-filled back room" where the party leaders got together and decided things in private, there was more control over...
I thoroughly loath and detest Donald Trump and I would enjoy reading his obituary next week, BUT I don't think he is crazy. "Paranoid; check. Aggressi...
The claim that the president can not obstruct justice is total bullshit. The claim amounts to a bid to put the office above the law -- an infinitely b...
Explaining the god(s) is an essential task of all believers, because the gods are our creation and as such are subject to continuous re-interpretation...
For clarification purposes... I was raised as a Christian, inherited the value system of mainline Calvinist Protestantism, have been at times active i...
Yes, in as much as our perceptual capacity can not immerse itself in the direct nature of the world beyond our skulls, this has to be conceded. Even i...
It is true that the human mind is not very rational. But rationality is still one aspect of the mind. How responsible are you? 86%? 23%? 50%? If you b...
Are you a Nihilist? Maybe. Varieties of nihilism argue... --the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life --life is wi...
As Txastopher noted, a most ill-informed post. Maybe not of all time, but still... Ancient Jews did not have a vector model of disease (like, mosquito...
Right, but Minnesotans are forever complaining about how humid it is. (We probably don't know what humid is.) So, when the relative humidity hovers ar...
The New Testament was written a certain time and in a certain place, and the New Testament writers were restricted in their thinking by the reality th...
There is an east/west continental divide between more or less dry "arid" and more or less humid "watered" zones. The line is more or less parallel wit...
I think a lot of quackopracty is baloney, but if the field was based on 'energy flows' and spinal adjustment to "straighten out the flow", some of wha...
Maybe you are think of Paul: Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Ephe...
Jesus, what kind of people are you working with? Are you working in a sheltered workshop for autistic literalists, or something? Are these people not ...
"Simplifying" and "dumbing down" aren't the same thing. Dumbing down applies to situations where complex abstractions (like 'hermeneutics' or 'quantum...
Matt Powell is hardly the first Christian moralizer to bring to the fore passages from Leviticus (and elsewhere) and propose that they be put into eff...
It's a scriptural situation: "As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly." Proverbs 26:11. It's such a visceral scriptural quot...
I don't see a problem here either. One can be an atheist and accept ideas that arose in theistic or non-theistic religion. One can be an atheist witho...
I very much wanted to post this great folksong, "It All Sounds Like Bullshit To Me". It's on Apple Tunes, but not on YouTube. It's sources is too esot...
Nobody is going to read this because it is too long, but I'm quoting it just because it is long. Formal fallacies Main article: Formal fallacy A forma...
Yes, T Clark gave you good advice. Say what you mean, and mean what you say. BTW, I don't think you have a big problem in this area. When you set out ...
A) Just how long is the list of logical fallacies? Is there a finite number? Do people make up new logical fallacies? You may not have stumbled on a l...
How about Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There by Timothy Shay Arthur. Never read it myself, but hey, you never know, might have something to ...
The Latin proverb is "Radix malorum est cupiditas" -- The love of money is the root of evil, not money itself. Currency is dirty, for sure (literally ...
The "deeper angry insecure self" gets more response from attacks than agreement. People like to get responses. What do you say to somebody who says th...
Power doesn't exist as a disembodied entity. Power comes from wealth, the control of wealth, force of arms, or the threat of using force of arms. Thin...
Play devil's or angel's advocate as you wish, just don't tie your sense of personal worth to what you wrote. Take the view that someone is attacking w...
To summarize my post, above, we end up having disagreeable fights because too often we act as if a discussion is a contest upon which is riding a judg...
You don't -- which is why we don't post our telephone numbers and addresses. About 20% of the membership have intensely psychopathic, murderous, heino...
According to a little known Google map, Tiff lives in a Velveeta Zone. So do I, and I also live in a Cream of Mushroom Soup goolag. Before I became a ...
Most of us luxuriate in being part of our own in-group. It feels good. It's comforting, supportive, nourishing. It's probably also in our genes to lik...
I wasn't disturbed at all. I just felt like affirming the realness of our fictional community at a time when there was a lot of muttering and natterin...
Life is painful because we have emotions and these emotions send out tendrils to warn of incoming flak. Our tender tiny tendrils register hurt, anguis...
My feelings aren't mobile enough to rise to the level of love for everybody here, but there are some people who I like, and like a lot. There are a fe...
God, I hope this kerfuffle over a crumpet, this tempest in a tea cup isn't a death match! Now who is leaving? TimeLine seemed to be making departing s...
Are you making fun of Fish's disabilities? Welcome Fish. You joined this high minded operation in the middle of a hateful hoedown. It seems to be just...
It's in the best interest of farm people to gain your trust. Beware of trucks being loaded with your kith and kin. They are not going to summer camp. ...
We should probably construct a sociogram of who everybody likes and dislikes. I think we would find that most of the relationships would be "skin-craw...
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