It does. Building a rapid transit line (not a whole system) is likely to cost 1 or 2 billion dollars--a level of expense that counties and cities can ...
It should be apparent that people need the government as a vehicle to execute their desires to care for one another. Government is a critical institut...
Cutting 31% of the Environmental Protection Agency helps which state program for the disadvantaged? You understand, don't you, that cutting 100% of th...
I agree. One of the things that makes it possible for the tough to get going when the going gets rough is rehearsal of hypotheticals. Of course, fire-...
I understand your forced-choice set up here, but we are not in forced-choice situations. In our ordinary unforced choice situations people don't rigor...
Being immaterial beings, angels wouldn't need -- and wouldn't have -- any organs at all. They would be no-brainers. No liver, no spleen, no teeth, no ...
Over at the Great Chain of Being thread, it has come to light that all angels are male--seraphim through guardian angels. I'm surprised feminist haven...
I am sure some people would prioritize their dog over some humans, and nothing as bad as the adult Hitler. Like Donald Trump, for example. I might pri...
It does seem to be the case that angels are male. Fine by me, but doesn't it piss off feminists that there are no divine female beings?. However, are ...
Back in the late 70s, a gay Harvard guy (Charles Shively) proposed that promiscuous sex should be obligatory. If everyone engaged in promiscuous sex, ...
Because, Agustino, it's your Christian duty to contribute to the supply of happiness, and every man has to do his share. The truth is, you are contrib...
DB, are you talking about humans or fruit flies here? What you say seems to be true for fruit flies. Some experiments have been done to test the theor...
When you get tired of Burning Man, visit the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco (Alas, I've never attended). For one day Folsom Street abounds in S&M...
Myth Busters demonstrated that it is easy to shoot fish in a barrel: point the gun at the barrel and pull the trigger. What the bullet doesn't hit, th...
It isn't clear to me what "that suggestion" is. A good share of homeless youth are kicked out by their families. This isn't all that new a phenomena; ...
Couldn't we all!!! I was an active Methodist up until about 1966 (I was about 20 then). Nothing dramatic happened; I was active in the campus Wesley F...
Well, what would you call her? A "not-enthusiastic about homos"? A "hetero-preferer"? "Homo annoyed"? Look, if you are willing to slam the door on you...
Her testimony convicts her and her church's teachers. They are certainly "sharp, shocking, and grim". I do not doubt that she feels a great deal of pa...
Right. If I lived out there and had the money I'd enjoy it for a day or two -- looks totally groovy. However, 70,000 groovy humans is too much groovin...
Life expectancy was so short in centuries past because so many children died in the first few years of life. That drove the average down. Many women d...
The author says she is a Third Wave Feminist and effectively demonstrates the ideological flavor of 3WF. Feminism, some other sweeping 'isms' demonstr...
It's a whole series of things, not one thing. Among them... hand washing and antiseptics trained midwives pre-natal care antibiotics C-sections can he...
I saw Solaris a long time ago; didn't do much for me. I must not be a fan, just going by that. Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the...
Franklin might have said sell the sizzle, but I kind of doubt it. First, Google Ngrams reports no use of 'sizzle' before 1840. That probably because n...
Life imitates art. It's probably time to put burning man on ice. Not because of the actual burning man (sadly inevitable) but because it appears to ha...
It is my understanding that when Thomas Jefferson was working on the Declaration of Independence, he had first written "life, liberty, and the pursuit...
Computers certainly alter the quality of life, not necessarily in a positive way. But what do we count as "a computer"? Are we counting Hollerith's pu...
Ya, I'm not sure either. Birth rates in poorer countries are better than they were, but they're still too high. China's growth rate is 0.43% while Ind...
Good point. Here's another good point... It doesn't have anything to do with anything--I just came across it in the New York Times review of a book ab...
Photography was pretty important --1839-- without it, scratch cameras, movies, Kodak, great and fine art photography, snapshots, porn, and National Ge...
She's sincere, I suspect. If a belief system can be "sociopathic" (the term applies to persons) it's for providing a strong incentive to disassociate ...
Of course there are good hearted Christians -- millions, I would guess. Yes, religiosity is indeed most often the product of upbringing (and maybe geo...
Money mindedness is pretty common among all religious, pretty much. Most churches are effectively real estate operations. The needs of the edifice dri...
I did read your reply in the other thread which had risen about to my eyebrows, and is now over my head. Thanks, however, for your further comments. O...
The US may have a very high level of GDP, but very large numbers of Americans (as a group and individually) have a very small share of that largesse. ...
Here are the most salient of the 16 characteristics of sociopathy referenced in the Psychology Today article: (my emphasis) Superficial charm and good...
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