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Ask the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP) and Watergate-disgraced president Richard M. Nixon how well that approach worked.

Secularization has been sweeping the world like a seismic wave for... a century, more or less. I'm not sure it had an agenda of any sort. It isn't aga...

Religion is philosophy, theology, eschatology, soterieology, a social group, revelation, ritual, talk, devotion, music, imagination, dogma, and more. ...

Yes, it does relate to all that. Of course, if it only related to the paranoia of lunatic generals, it would still be a good movie, but not as sociall...

BRIGADIER GENERAL JACK D. RIPPER ON WAR AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY TO SAP AND IMPURIFY OUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS https://youtu.be/N1K...

War is hell and a cyber war would be hell too, though yes, fewer exploding shells and no mushroom-shaped clouds. But that should lead one to think tha...

Well, in the US, in a majority of states--40 out of 50--disenfranchisement ceases when the sentence is completed too.

Just out of curiosity... where did this business of "dog whistle" start. Yeah yeah, I know, dog whistles are very high pitched and supposedly only dog...

WY, TN, NV, MS, KY, IA, FL, DE, AZ, and AL do or can permanently revoke voting rights. Maine and Vermont have no voting restrictions, and the rest of ...

A few decades ago when I began to extricate myself from the Christian dye my virgin wool had been immersed in, I phrased it this way: "I want to live ...

In the world but not of the world... 2 things. One, even if the phrase isn't in the NT, the problem of navigating through this world to the world to c...

Too true, too true.

From the web site "Critical Theory": 9 INSANE STORIES FROM THE LIVES OF FAMOUS EXISTENTIALISTS #1 Jean-Paul Sartre Was Literally Obsessed With Crabs. ...

Camus a douche? According to Adam Gopnic of the New Yorker April 4, 2012 Camus was the Don Draper of existentialism. Sounds like quite the hunk. I was...

Suppose someone wrote this: “I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction....

Should moderators root out posts in which unreasonable statements are made? Well... probably not. They don't have all day to read and reflect on the d...

Hanover hadn't made a motion. It was just a point of information. Inform the chair that you wish to make a motion.

That's the problem, see. People trying to be funny. Didn't you read the guidelines? NO DELIBERATE HUMOR especially at the expense of any schools of th...

I doubt very much that you could not be creative, but "creative writing" isn't the same as "creativity". "Creative writing" is about turning out speci...

Mother Theresa was an extremely insightful choice. The old bag tended to the dying on the streets of Calcutta and founded an order of nuns. Had she in...

I don't know whether Hightower's quote was from a book or a speech; I just thought it sounded provocative. Centrism is a moot concept in America. Cent...

Jim Hightower, Liberal Democrat, TX, says there is nothing in the middle of the road except yellow lines and dead armadillos. Is that true?

Yes; I agree. All our experience and meaning is housed in this world, and there is no other world, transcendent or merely more of the same. What is, i...

You could do worse; much worse. Yes, well... nouns, verbs, and grammar are a problem, true. Please tell me more about your writing.

We didn't "enter the stage", we have always been on stage -- along with the rest of the evolving species. Around 40 million years ago, the Infraorder ...

How do you all feel about whether we have uncovered (any) Hidden Psychological Causes of Political Correctness?

Individuals and corporations who have the resources to manage their reputations and images generally seek out of court settlements. They may or may no...

So, Bill Clinton needs a roof over his head -- the white house is as good a roof as any. Calm down. Cultures are changing all the time. The course of ...

Correct. "More meaningful/less meaningful, all the same" is definitely not my schtick. Some people know more and have greater insights into the meanin...

How could there even be a single narrative (from which we all spring)? Whether discourses are more meaningful, or less meaningful, than others is a ho...

Oh oh, they are all exhibiting POMO vocabulary and concerns. Call the cops.

Yes, but hybrid cars don't use that kind of battery. They use lithium ion or nickel oxide hydroxide batteries. What's an environmentally-sensitive POM...

Right. Whether a deeply beloved partner who is terminally ill dies on April 25 or June 2nd isn't going to make a huge difference in the amount of pain...

If you are contemplating pesticide, it would be best to bot use aggressively otto-correcting softcore to write your finial massage to the wold. Where ...

Clarice and I knew each other for 40 odd years; we met at work. Clarice was a lively but not especially happy person. She was an Angry Woman. She was ...

There is some very confused thinking on the left with respect to religion. The stronger influence of relativism hobbles some leftists in discriminatin...

I've been in the foyer too. I think security identified me as someone who probably wasn't a resident of the floors above -- they started following me ...

What do you mean, "That is precisely the problem in Saudi Arabia"? Is there a functioning Christian church in Saudi Arabia? I'm pretty sure that the M...

Please note this sentence in the article to which you referred me: "But the church is also registered as a for-profit business and city officials said...

As you no doubt know, no one--priest, pastor, minister, rabbi, boat captain, airline pilot, or Chief Justice--is required to marry anybody. When a den...

Yes, we do make up our own narratives, but we don't compose in a vacuum. We all have to piece together some sort of explanation for our being here, an...

I am fairly sure the electorate will do the right thing and reject Donald Trump. If we elect him, then do you have any contacts in Canada who could pu...

More like an indictment of the current state of the Republican Party, which is hardly all of American society. There were somewhat better Republican c...

Of course by looking at their views on a wide variety of topics and policies, and deciding how those views measure up to your own expectations. Laws t...

I rarely use the term "straw man" but your depiction of liberals calls for the term. First, serious liberals have a wide sense of what is included in ...

It isn't your fault, Erik, that terms like "conservative", "liberal", "socialist" et al have become debased over the last 50 years (and longer, likely...

You're entirely welcome. Anytime you need a heavy foot on your head when you are about to go under, just give me a call. I don't know where you live o...

I don't have any statistics at hand (they exist, however). Yes, I would say the rate of successful long term relationships is sort of low. Why? I can'...

There is a good reason for the "heteronormative tradition": men and women can not conceive without each other, and they succeed best in a stable marri...

This old gay guy has always thought that "marriage" exclusively applied to heterosexual couples. I remember how gay right advocacy developed from the ...