Welcome, whoever you purport to be. We were just talking about decorum, in the "Let's get rid of Kevin" thread. Some people thought Sapientia was not ...
Why did Sheps not continue on? School, was it? To Mega Therion had some specific reason -- nothing to do with sexism or gender imbalance in the forum ...
If the devil is still in business after all these eternities, how did he lose? Avoid thinking about the devil too much. "Rudolf Bultmann taught that C...
There is no reason why any particular forum open to all will have or should have a 50/50 male/female participation rate. This is a voluntary organizat...
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the US about this in a speech at the end of his administration in 1960. He sounded a very clear alert about the ...
Liberal arts education, no less than factory-like k-12 schools or trade training programs, is a component of "the maintenance and reproduction of soci...
The brain, which is the place where 'mind' lives, is entirely biological. The components of the body which make mind possible have been developing sin...
Maybe, but employers what to know whether you can stick with tedium and difficulty for many months, maybe even for several years, while remaining prod...
True, but the rabid gun-toting redneck Obama & Clinton haters and Trump voters are generally unemployable, unskilled, jobless working class males with...
Always fact checking. Lorna Jane doesn't sell purses, Hanover, but they do have a line of sport bras you might find interesting to project onto your i...
For studies in evil, I stick to history books. Evil in practice is more interesting than evil in theory. A few chapters in the history of Nazi Germany...
I am not arguing in favor of God or Satan, but it makes for a much more interesting and compelling mythology (story) if God is immensely powerful but ...
I don't know quite how your idea could be implemented, but in theory it is a very good idea. I suppose we could require gender-neutral language, a la ...
Your probing search light piercing the shadows is always so... revealing. Damn it. Well, we did try very hard to figure out if we were doing something...
The devil can certainly be omnimalevolent, but were he impotent and stupid he would be unable to perform the deceits, seductions, frauds, and misrepre...
This is familiar territory. I was a member of a socialist group for many years. We held face-to-face meetings and discussion groups. This was before t...
No, it wasn't you. It was somebody whose name I forget. I could look it up, but I don't care quite enough to do that. This person was rather humorless...
If they obeyed the law against taking justice into their own hands, then they were behaving in a more moral manner. We really can't talk about what is...
Is morality not manifested in acts? If morality (a system) is not related to behavior, what significance can it have? The reality of no blacks being s...
And just where would we be without our bar stools, I'd like to know! “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesm...
Hey, the Déjà vu discussion was at least somewhat philosophical. And it provided Wosret with an opportunity to make a subtle joke: "I think I've seen ...
Perhaps. It would almost certainly be good for you to return to college and complete a degree. I realize there are practical problems that might make ...
McPostface, get real. Like I said above, the economy is everywhere in a society, including the hallowed halls of ivy. Even in the "good old days" when...
College freshmen who lack critical judgement skills are going to have a tough curve to climb, so this really needs to begin in elementary school. (In ...
The crisis in education (it costs too much, one has to be practical-goal oriented, etc.) has one big root in the way state colleges are funded. When I...
In many ways we do that. That's why the specific college degree isn't very important. A college grad with a liberal arts degree (most university depar...
People are not shackled to the working of the economy "in some sense". They are shackled to the economy lock, stock, and barrel (to use an expression ...
You didn't define "soul". i'm not knocking any points off your OP for that failure, but at least with quarks there is a definition. There are several ...
I don't understand all this stuff either -- nobody does, yet anyway. And explanations one hands out may not reflect one's own experiences. For instanc...
Maybe I wasn't clear. Epilepsy and drugs are not at all necessary to experience Déjà vu. But... IF one is epileptic, OR if one uses certain drugs, THE...
Indeed. People do have moments of great insight, conversion, doubt, and so on--experiences on the road to Damascus. Not often, but sometimes. Our intu...
Déjà vu is a common experience having several explanations. (One, a psychological phenomena of no great significance and two, sometimes associated wit...
This is familiar territory to me, a decades long internal debate, not resolved to my satisfaction. There is no 'ultimate' resolution to some questions...
Wasn't expecting references to John Skelton. Have you read The Tunning of Elynour Rummyng? Skelton's poem tells the story of Eleanor's small time ale ...
If you didn't like Surfing Bird from Minneapolis, you certainly won't like Dancing Pumpkin Man from Nebraska. This was originally done as a time-fille...
Surfin Bird: The Trashmen's biggest hit was 1963's "Surfin' Bird", which reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latter part of that year. The T...
Maybe, maybe not. Harvey Cox, a 20th century theologian (Baptist background, I think), Harvard professor, joined a group out in the SW desert for the ...
One of the standard and appropriate responses to announcements that one is very depressed, rageful, lonely, and fearful is to recommend that they do s...
Making money brings us closer together? In a sense, yes -- but only in a rather narrow, functional sense. Were we yeomen in an Anglo Saxon village, 10...
Feelings are very important elements of our lives, but isn't it the case that the good or bad value of our lives comes from actions, rather than our f...
Here's to the man who drinks dark Ale and goes to bed quite mellow; Here's to the man who drinks dark Ale and goes to bed quite mellow; He lives as he...
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