I will assume that on one fine day, a real NK nuclear-tipped missile will be launched at Japan, the US, or Seoul--a city of 25 million people--and may...
What is "a lot of aid"? The US spends around $29 billion on foreign aid. This is a very small fraction of a multi-trillion dollar budget--less than 1%...
The mental functioning of an intelligent person can be significantly impaired by difficulties with concentrating, memory problems, attention to detail...
I'm being a bit coy. When I said that about the Fall, what I mean was that people have amply demonstrated their capacity to be terrible. We are terrib...
I will comply,, but your instructions are unclear. Do you want me to go back and mention to God all those horrible things, or do you want me to attrib...
I don't like the common interpretation of The Fall (I understand why the church interpreted the Eden story that way, but Jews, for instance, didn't in...
Thanks for the link. Young Dillon Bowen is a very clear, articulate thinker. I enjoyed reading the piece--and being introduced to Quintette--Damn -- a...
Why do people seize on some small feature of other member's posts the way you just did, and ignore the main point? When I responded to your post, I on...
Well, according to the Census Bureau, maybe not. My guess is that all these women aren't so much against having children, as they are against having c...
"'What is "self-actualization'" and how would you know you had it? When should one expect to achieve "self-actualization": Any day, now? Before one is...
If a rock (the very model of modern unconscious matter) is falling towards the earth and you will presently occupy the same space as the rock, does th...
That is a good starting point. I don't disagree with it, but there might be other definitions of self-actualization, and certainly there are elaborati...
Never mind the viruses. Meanwhile on Mars we are looking for "signs of life". IF we can not decide what life is here, THEN how will we know that we ha...
If you want God to be responsible for the details of life and the pain of childbirth, It's mostly about bad design. Big head, narrow pelvis: pain. Sho...
Do you think many independent scientists would care to add peer-reviewing of Vatican evidence to their already busy schedules -- not to mention the li...
OK, now you are talking about something else altogether. I agree with you 110% that the American oligarchy has a wretched record in just about every r...
This is true. The US economy and society completed what in retrospect was a century long cycle in 1970. We had tremendous growth in population, output...
I'll grant that the Chinese Communist Party probably has elevated the skills and horizons of its cadre, many of whom were quite possibly of peasant st...
Exactly. China and the Soviet Union were not communist at all. The USSR was essentially a state-owned capitalist economy. There was one owner: the sta...
Didn't Marx say that it was through the bourgeoisie that the proletariat would ascend? Not that the bourgeoisie would do this as a favor to the proles...
Roman votives. Romans would offer models of afflicted body parts to a god to beg or give thanks for cures. Miracles, or services rendered? https://68....
What about the problem of tying the bona fide unexplainable cure to the activities of a specific saint. How can the jury on a given canonization trial...
An intention can be bad from the start. Cheating on tests not only conceals a lack of preparation, it also indicates a willingness to dishonestly obta...
True, the Abrahamic theist has the problem of the God who created the Universe. The scientific-minded theist's solution is that God created the univer...
What part of being a theist means that you must think the world is 10,000 years old? I have plenty of complaints about theists, but a lot of theists t...
I who was ranting about people claiming to have specific knowledge of God, should not then make opposite pronouncements, like "God doesn't do anything...
Yes, they ask those questions, but still -- remission is remission, whether by divine intervention or the inchoate resources of the genome. (Further, ...
I can't stand here at this distance in time and kilometers and say Dr. Duffin (a hematologist) didn't know here ass from her elbow. In the case discus...
There is the Bible, which doesn't provide information directly about God. What it reveals is the testimony of people who believed that God existed. Su...
If they ask me what I believe, I will tell them that I do not believe we can know anything about God, but that does not mean that I am, therefore, cer...
You have stated what is the sum of my reasons for distancing myself from belief in God: God has been (usually is, probably will be) presented as a bei...
Traditional socialists like to stick with the three classes - working class (wage workers), middle class (professionals like doctors... and small busi...
Three Things Marx Got Wrong Marx lived between 1818 and 1883. Office work was perhaps more skilled in his time, but clerks and bookkeepers were workin...
Because you made them up. By the logic that people who died before smallpox vaccine was invented didn't reach their full potential, no one will ever r...
I used to have some relatives in Corbin, KY; they're both dead now. I liked the area. My brother thought the politics in KY were appalling. Yes, it is...
I believe people can do better in reality, but not quite as well in reality as in theory. We are limited beings living in a limited world. We can not ...
It's debatable how much "more" the Internet has added. True, when I was growing up there was no YouTube, no FaceBook, no Google (I graduated from high...
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