No, it just isn't true that racism is a thing of the past. It hasn't been purged from the body politic or individual behaviors. Race consciousness is ...
Like... life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness? Freedom of religion? Freedom of speech? Freedom of assembly? You could do a better job of stating wha...
That's a reasonable desire, me thinks. I won't suggest any books about it, but I've wanted to do the same thing, in a way. Let's avoid spooky stuff. T...
The thing is, second-by-second events happen that push future events in any one of many different outcomes. Tracking all of these potentially signific...
This is an Excellent Question. Let's not go into too much depth with it, lest we stumble upon some highly inconvenient truth. The price of a stock is ...
Of course it is. But there are several reasons why understanding isn't wider and deeper. 1. It isn't "necessary" to have "understanding". If you want ...
And that is the crux of the matter. We just don't know how to deal with very long-term problems that are inconvenient in the short run, no matter how ...
The trouble with the butterfly flapping its flimsy wing theory, is that trillions of insects and birds are flapping their wings at the same time. Not ...
Small events may cascade and cause larger events. However, the strength of effects also dissipate. The winds from a hurricane (and the hurricane itsel...
Sure, it's problematic to put stuff in his mouth -- or take stuff out. How much confidence can we have in any evidence that he did or didn't say somet...
To some extent, at least, isn't that both necessary and desirable? We don't live in the temporal/spatial context of Buddha, Abraham, Jesus, Mo... and ...
Our ability to think and feel together account for both the good and bad things we do. It's important to remember this: emotions drive our best and hi...
One of the implications of science-in-general, biological science in particular, molecular biology even more so, is that we have moved into a position...
There have been many discoveries in science which were advantageous or disadvantageous to one group or another, but most of them have not caused huge ...
According to the all-knowing wikipedia tardigrades can survive vacuum, radiation, high pressure, high temperatures, etc. for a while -- not indefinite...
The sun didn't "capture" earth, earth and the sun, plus all the other planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and various leftovers, all arose out of a dis...
I don't doubt that maybe 1% of the population is gluten intolerant. I note in the map to which you linked that between 2-3% of Swedes and Finns are ce...
None the less, I've been ready to flee the onslaught of killer icebergs in the Midwest for quite a while. https://68.media.tumblr.com/d56c3d25a61eaa9c...
I am sublimely confident that an iceberg the size of Delaware will be unable to steam up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Minneapolis and men...
Baloney. At least 25% of the population (that's 80 million) want excellent fresh baked bread and can't get it. Why aren't they worried about THAT unta...
I'm tired of all this gluten free nonsense. 95% of "gluten sensitive" people (mostly women, probably) following this fucking foolish feminine food fad...
I never liked the Larsen Ice shelf, and I'm glad it has gone to sea--all trillion tons of it. Fie upon it. Really, I don't like any of the ice shelves...
3. Earning money by working... Wouldn't that be another choice? BTW, most people are penny ante thieves. The thieves that we should be worrying about ...
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It's about "exchange". coins as opposed to paper currency: a handful of loose change. • money given in exchange for the same amount in larger denomina...
Translations and interpretation can certainly upset people. But the scholarship I am referencing is about the various strands of narrative, the age of...
What? The Yellowstone hot spot was NEVER under Russia or Indonesia. "Yellowstone has had at least three such eruptions: The three eruptions, 2.1 milli...
You are weighing things with monetary value (gold bullion, art work, buildings, luxury cars, airplanes, ships, land, etc.) against things that do not ...
Of course I can see the difference. Actually, I'll concede the issue. belief is based on evidence, and the principle evidence that produces religious ...
Jesus performed a number of miracles. That's one piece of evidence. Then there was Jesus himself--who was to some very compelling evidence--just his p...
I don't know what the rigor of rationality was thousands of years ago. Certainly, some people were extremely discerning and some people were credulous...
Jesus didn't heal the sick, or raise the dead as evidence -- he did so as a sign that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand. He didn't do anything to prov...
No, I don't think that sums up fate--not the way I understand fate, anyway. Fate has an author. All of the myriad interactions which result in an outc...
I don't think that is true. So, you think everything is as opaque as religion is? When Apple develops a new product, they neither hope nor have faith ...
Russia didn't junk the Soviet Union nuclear weapons, and we didn't junk ours. The numbers of bombs may have been reduced, but we were grossly over-sup...
Not everyone who lived in and about Jerusalem at the time of Jesus' crucifixion thought he had risen from the dead. I doubt if very many people though...
Tiptoe Through the acronym TULIP... This is what Calvinism stands for in 5 nutshells Total depravity: We cannot respond to God's offer of salvation, s...
The point Thorongil was making, and I'll make the same point is that God's mercy is great. Look, in the system of belief we are talking about, God kno...
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