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Fascinating Factoid: Job is commemorated by the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod in their Calendar of Saints on May 9, by the Roman Catholic Church on M...

In some ways yes, but I haven't read any of Feuerbach. "Maybe" the devil on his left shoulder said, "you should." I have read some of Marx ("Not nearl...

I pick I've spent way too much time around Christianity to have no emotional connections with it -- and that has been a long struggle -- but intellect...

Write on the blackboard 100 times (a la Bart Simpson), "Fuck John Calvin, Fuck Martin Luther, Fuck Augustine, and double fuck all fundamentalists."

Yes, I've heard about Zizek. Zizek hasn't been quoted here in video just recently (as far as I know) but he has a following here. Or at least he did o...

I think it is safe to say that quite a few people find it hard to appreciate Paul. Paul was something of a self-powered buzz-saw. Brilliant guy, no do...

I'm sorry your have been troubled enough to need hospitalization. You are by no means the only person at this forum who have experienced these kinds o...

Some people think that religiousness is weak, weepy, and inferior to the strong, dry-eyed and superior atheistic view. To the extent that this occurs,...

The historic peace churches (Quaker, Mennonite (includes Amish), Church of the Brethren) and pacifist groups within otherwise non-pacifist denominatio...

Isn't there a contradiction between your first statement: and your second statement? Presumably your life experiences and genetic make up led you to n...

If they bother you, then leave them alone. One can give a good reading of the entire Bible without consulting Calvin, Luther, or Augustine.

Right. Well, none of these guys died for your sins. But they occasionally had good things to say. Like Luther: “Be a sinner and sin?? boldly,? but bel...

I am a baptized, confirmed Christian, though I have spent decades stewing over how much of the Christian creed I can honestly say. I'm 70. The whole b...

My feeling about some Christians is that they are more interested in finding a way to assign people to hell than they are to get people into heaven. T...

It is not at all surprising that a religion that offered a way to eternal life would attract dissenters who thought the gate was way too open. That's ...

Just be grateful you didn't hit a velociraptor -- much worse collision. Besides which, if it were a big one, it would be very irritated and would have...

Why do people like to have their wedding and family photos taken this way--lined up looking like they were waiting for the firing squad to begin? In t...

I can't imagine what seeing that would be like in real life.

Honesty, by definition, doesn't allow for lying. A rigid approach to morality doesn't allow mercy. Love trumps truth-telling if it can be determined t...

I'm cool too with space exploration, but why would you fucking go to the moon? We already know what it looks like (dry, gray, bumpy, round) Have you b...

Yes, the aboriginal genocide wasn't done just in the name of progress, it was done as progress. The European conception of the New World was that it w...

Good point!

I have a plastic pink flamingo in my yard, for purposes of low camp. Audubon was spared this embarrassment.

A similar thing happened in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (a mostly German branch of Lutheranism in the US) in the 1980s. It was engineered. It s...

And more besides. Perhaps the problem is that "progress" implies cumulative and continual change in the direction that is thought to be advantageous. ...

Here's a page charting the evolution of Mondriaan's style from figurative to abstract:

The claw foot chair is not well equipped to grasp its escaped ball, but feels compelled to reach anyway. Sort of like life itself. Should I change my ...

Condoms are effective barriers to sexual transmission of diseases including AIDS, Zika, Ebola, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Trichomoniasis, and hep...

https://68.media.tumblr.com/8ebbcdd5a3ed4c7b7302558919154588/tumblr_orulc0ZXjW1r1mpi1o1_540.jpg I've thought about this and discussed the question for...

I didn't track that election, so I can't comment on what the authors of the initiative had in mind. However, the obvious reason for requiring condoms ...

Oh, I suppose in an art glass studio other people would be involved in the glory hole of the furnace from which a viscous ball of molten glass is take...

Yes, very pneumatic. Probably air-brushed. I'm guessing 1960s or later, judging by the hemline, strapless design, and hair. Not before the 50s.

This is 50% reading, 50% intuition. I have read some reports that madams and high class prostitution aren't involved with organized crime. Since these...

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1. There is no such thing as "meaningless sex". 2. Casual sex is not different (as sex) than sex with the "proper" partner. 3. Sexual activity bears c...

West coast Canada. Sic transit gloria Vancouver.

What was amusing about it was the guy with the Dutch or Nordic accent offering little droll comments like, "Hmmm, he's finally clicked the button -- s...

Did you mean "sharia" law?

Sure, I'll drink to that. ANY concerted effort to manage one's mental transactions toward a positive outcome are likely to be beneficial. There are nu...

Here is a reasonably amusing web site that demonstrates how one's browser activity is tracked. There is text, but the amusing part is the voice over. ...

I'm pretty sure that there are too few gender-bending, anti-racist, and anti-sexist people in Canada to re-elect PM Trudeau--or to elect him in the fi...

I would guess it would be illegal to have a picture of a woman in even a ONE piece bathing suit in some countries. She might as well be naked. However...

Moderately interesting. Some of the questions seemed to be real 'sorters'; others, meh. Myers-Briggs influenced--don't see much value in MB.

Welcome to The Philosophy Forum.

Well, you can't discard your ego. As the term is used, it's "you". You may not like everything (or anything) about your self, but "you" is all you've ...

Rubbish.

There are a couple of problems (at least). One is technical sophistication. When organized crime makes a lot of money in drug importing, the money has...

I think it depends on where and at what economic level one is speaking of. High class prostitutes, for instance, usually have no connection with organ...

You might happen to live in a good market, or it may be that you are not seeking minimum wage jobs -- like office cleaner, fast food worker, fruits an...