Liberal Arts majors (Literature, Sociology, Psychology, History, Music) really should have some grounding in religious literature -- like the Bible, a...
At which state universities is theology (as such) being taught? I would be very surprised to see "Theology of the Eucharist" or "The Theology of the T...
7:00 pm 'Tis the night of elections, and from several hovels Grave diggers are leaving to wield picks and shovels. Someone will get buried, that is qu...
I voted today; I did not vote for Donald Trump and I did not vote for Hillary Clinton either. I'm hoping that voting for the Greens might given them e...
Mencken clearly should be taught in the schools. It might be that Mencken also said this, or it might be apocryphal: "It can't be known for certain, b...
The spirit hovered over the silent night of the deep and the moment of creation was not remarked in light or sound. Neither did light appear on the fi...
Being honest helps with PR. IF you lie a lot you MUST have an excellent memory, else you start getting tripped up by your own lies. Like, "Which lies ...
A ubiquity of entertainment media is too simple an explanation. Dime novels ("trash"), popular music, radio, television, games, movies, etc. have been...
There was a 3 hour-long wait at 5:00 p.m. at this area's early polling station. Minnesota usually does about 70% of eligible voters casting ballots in...
We'll be a damn sight worse than 'laughing stock' with Trump, which the world can ill afford. Not happy with Hillary either, and she will not be vastl...
Having now watched 10 hours worth of the exquisitely produced series THE CROWN on Netflix, I am quite sure the name of the show should have been The C...
I read it about 40 years ago too. What I mostly remember are his thoughts about finding a psychological equivalent to war. I don't remember whether he...
When people say things like this, they seem to be saying that there are organs and faculties that apprehend things that are silent, unmoving, insubsta...
Let's downgrade that estimation. "We can learn something about American culture via analysis of such a form of entertainment" but American culture is ...
There is no alleged policy in the supposedly blesséd imaginary hereafter that justifies any action in the only world we actually know anything about. ...
that is a good point. There is virtually no free speech at all in the workplace, and no free speech way short of insulting the boss. As it happens, ma...
Granted, men behaving badly has become an axe nearly ground down to the handle during the election campaign. But sex isn't the primary issue here. The...
Another point: There are a lot of young people in the world. Young people like comic book characters. They inhabit a world of black and white, GOOD an...
Americans have been working at being Americans since about 1620 at the latest. That's about 400 years. Minds were not erased at Ellis Island. Everyone...
Well, dearest Dukkha, let's try an experiment: you die and then we'll put your corpse out in a field. We'll check it every now and then. How long do y...
According to scientists, there are at least two trillion galaxies. Each galaxy has 1 star around which a life-supporting planet revolves, and on which...
Right. If a red and blue-blooded Harvard man can't tell the difference between an '8' and a '6' on the female fuckability scale, then something is obv...
My guess is that the soccer teem is being punished for a failure of good manners and not for a failure of good character. The definition of manners ha...
I would not argue that women should be subjected to physical abuse, rape, domestic violence, and so forth. They should not. Everyone has a right to be...
8 hours of THE CROWN produced by and available on NETFLIX is terrific. It's a leisurely bio of QEII. Excellent acting. Not quite sure how they will en...
Not dying quite soon enough can be extremely bad. Like, if the stroke you had while driving had been just a little bit worse, death would have ensued ...
25.5 The hangman's noose of despair.. altogether unbalanced Cassandra predictions that we are tricked into by pessimism despite experiences otherwise ...
I have agreed with quite a few of the point you have made recently, but now I am a bit worried here about where that leaves my reputation on the Left-...
This was a nicely nuanced post. No disagreements. Let me draw a contrast that might further illustrate the problem. In the 1970s and through most of t...
I have been putting forward that view for several years: God is inconceivable--which is not the same thing as not existing. I don't know whether God e...
Which paradox are you positing life without? 1. a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premise...
There is probably little possibility of achieving agreement on this issue if the positions are too far apart. We can probably agree that beauty does e...
Thank you for the greetings. I'm 70. Hope to be around for some time -- maybe another decade or so. Time will tell, literally. What don't you agree wi...
People seem to recognize beauty in the human face consistently. "The beautiful face" is symmetric, the eyes are set at a certain distance apart, the n...
One of the purposes of a "liberal education" is to investigate what truth, beauty, knowledge, love (and a few dozen other words) mean when people are ...
I don't think Jesus had anything against people thinking critically about their lives. You might go to hell (figuratively speaking) but thinking criti...
This is circular. In order to imagine a self, you have to be a self, so the self isn't an illusion. The self can certainly imagine itself to be differ...
Our concept of what is beautiful is in the eye of the beholder TRUE we all have unique tastes in what we consider to be beautiful TRUE our sense of se...
People tend to find ways of making money whether beauty is an illusion or not. I can't quite tell what you are bellyaching about here. That's alright ...
I agree with darthbarracuda: you want it both ways, but you can't have it. If the self is an illusion, then who is the beholder of beauty? If the oute...
As far as I know, I am. If you find that that the you who doesn't exist is a bundle of habits, the bundle will have have to manage the best it can. Go...
The emotion of love has to develop first on the basis of frequent contact with the object of one's love. Expressions of love do have some attractive f...
c Human characters in a game, a novel, or a film are not representations of all humanity or an entire sex. Yes, if they are human characters they have...
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