I think I did that. Though probably much closer to the grave than you are (at 70+) I haven't ceased trying to achieve, and be an upstanding character....
I agree with you -- entirely, actually, not just 97%. The People should be aware. The People could become an overwhelmingly powerful political force. ...
In Pennsylvania, the horse and buggy Amish have negotiated with hospitals to provide care at reasonable rates. The community of Amish assumes the resp...
I wish what you say was true and practical, for then we could change the world. Alas... No. Well, what you say is in a sense 100% true--in the sense t...
Really? You may be exaggerating how much people know about the conditions under which the food they eat was produced, or the products they buy were ma...
There's a disconnect between the first quote and the second quote. First you properly accuse the big corporations of being corrupt and callous, then i...
Micro-economics and macro-economics operate on vastly different scales. When people buy strawberries at the market, it isn't possible (at that moment)...
Some people are just more risk averse than others, and most people are more risk tolerant for one kind of risk than another. Some people will take gre...
The fucking nerve of these lazy sons of bitches -- wanting to enjoy life. Take them out and shoot them! Perhaps opportunities abound, but not everyone...
The thing that bothers me about mild depression (NOT major debilitating depression, just mild chronic depression) and the various chronic objective so...
Ah, well... 250 mg isn't a lot, I don't think. I was taking 2000 a day for a while for arthritis -- yes it helped, but my doc told me to stop taking t...
"Normal" people -- whatever the money manager meant by that moniker -- play a significant if unwitting role in the economy. Millions and millions of p...
It's a bit moot, at the very least, because I don't think we can tell with 100% validity that we have, or don't have, free will. For instance, if we a...
Sorry you're troubled by recurrent thoughts of suicide. Think about something else (Seriously... don't dwell on those kinds of thoughts.) While it's g...
So, UU believe that God is a single person, not a trinity. They don't believe that Jesus was a deity, on earth or later. They believe Liberal Christia...
Right, directors find Bergman tempting, but his worst films are already awful and shouldn't be imitated and his best films are difficult to imitate. T...
Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman)--great movie--makes several faith statements which are memorable and may or may not represent a practical plan for traffi...
This claim needs some elaboration and corroboration. Certainly there are religious people who hanker after theocracy and having priests of one kind or...
First, you have to experience the world. Second, you have to understand the world If you have experienced the world and understood the world, then You...
God is love, but love is not God (Except in a poetic way, as in this poem): Love III, George Herbert, 1593 - 1633 Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul dr...
This is a critical insight. Ingenuously* is the way they were intended to be read. The narrative of scripture is compelling. The "trick" for secular e...
Oh, dirt roads -- ready made sandboxes. Well... I feel too inhibited to emit baby talk to a baby or a puppy if there are other adults in the room. But...
My apologies for not acknowledging your good post on the history of the early Christians. I was thinking about what you said, but was drawing on other...
So here's another book which nobody will read, most likely: The Great Apostolic Blunder Machine by John Fry. Fry observes that Christianity's founding...
The Trinity isn't found in the Gospels. Yes, it may say "Baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit" which is likely a back-readi...
Why don't you give him some finger paint, then he could enjoy actual tactile sensations as well as a computer screen. You could make some thick white ...
Nonsensical baby talk isn't as nonsensical as some of the nonsensical adult talk here. At least baby talk serves a useful developmental purpose. If so...
I'm a scorpio; I think Myers Briggs and horoscopes are both piles of crap. Myers Briggs is a self-perpetuating fad. A well-written horoscope column is...
And what does $9 represent -- the value of the life so far, or the value of the income likely to be earned in the future? That's how insurance compani...
Talking a lot, and nicely, to children is critical. Children from middle class homes hear many more normal conversational words by first grade (5 to 6...
Is Holland anxious to get agéd asylum seeks from the US? At 70, a long-way-from-the-cradle-and-pretty-close-to-the-grave benefit program would come in...
For a while, back in the 1970s was it? people liked to brag about whether they were "linear thinkers" or "non-linear" thinkers. I think "non-linear" w...
I protest that I am not a follower and try to convince myself that I am not, but for all practical purposes I'm a believer. I grew up in the Methodist...
Of course you can over-critique any solution offered. So can I. Quibble, quibble, quibble. IF you can make a technique work for you -- even if you can...
Good question. This is actually going to happen at some point, not very far into the future. The AI in the car won't be capable of making a moral deci...
As Buddha lay dying, his disciples gathered around him, lamenting that his body was decaying, he was dying, and that he would soon no longer be with t...
Of course you can share the apples equally. There is you and your three friends. 4 people total. Cut each apple into four pieces, each get 7 pieces. D...
Some religious people seem to be more interested in the number of people they can condemn to hell than the number of people they can send to heaven. I...
Our experiences in life (for better and for worse) bring us to the place we are now, whatever that is. Humans have many intellectual facilities, and o...
A-sociality and anti-sociality by themselves aren't mental illnesses at least in my book. They may be perceived by the subject as afflictions, in whic...
A mother's love for her baby follows from an apprehension of her baby. The order with which philosophers think virtue and everything else proceeds is ...
So, is Comey going to get into a boat and whisper answers to questions to one other person? Somehow, that doesn't make sense. And where would the rest...
If we can't imagine it, then the speculation has reached a brick wall, a dead end. I love to speculate about the future, but we can only speculate abo...
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