Yes, I understand that avoiding capital gains taxes, income taxes, inheritance taxes, etc. is the issue. The rich have many ways of avoiding taxation ...
Expropriating the expropriators would be a simpler solution to the problem of too many way too rich people than screwing around with the complicated t...
Zero benefits to the slaves, certainly. While slaves did learn skills, it was for the exclusive benefit of the slave owner. The property owners, merch...
Racism has to come from somewhere. It didn't just pop up out of nowhere. American racism is rooted in class antagonism that has been maintained since ...
It seems to me it is evident that many white people are very prejudiced against most black people. There are stats that validate this observation, but...
The disparity in input and outcomes (like, how much is spent on educating a child and how well that child does after graduating; or how much is invest...
"Speaking of dystopian societies, maybe you should ask ChatGPT what it thinks about a childless future for humans," he said, sarcastically. I am famil...
I've been reading about the 1919 Chicago race riot by a contemporary reporter -- Carl Sandburg, the poet, writing for the Chicago Sun Times. WWI was o...
It can be hard to get into the minds of people who lived just a few centuries ago, never mind 2 or 3 millennia. Native Americans, for instance, though...
I don't know whether the American province of Christendom is / was any worse than the English or Australian branches as far as the body, sex, sexualit...
Yahweh likes the single, very thick, very large, wooden plank. No joining. Oak would be good. You'll have to special order the tree and have the plank...
If you do not communicate successfully, that IS your problem. Granted: there are people who manage to misunderstand a simple phrase like "Good morning...
Oh, the event incudes the destruction of the first temple too, by Nebuchadnezzar. Good News! Some of the successor Mideast oil states are on the hook ...
Thank you--I AM having a difficult Tish'a B'Av, as it were. You all should sue the Roman Empire, and its various successors. These days, everyone is s...
So, what does the interagency, government work group to better understand and address rough sleeping in my city plan on doing about it? Do you have ac...
Intergenerational disadvantage labels the inheritance of poverty. It's certainly not a new phenomenon. This term first appeared in print in 1970 but i...
What you are proposing is a post-revolutionary goal. It doesn't make sense to ask about good housing as a right when the present welfare system operat...
There are 3 factors in homelessness: 1) housing is unaffordable. Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles (well, California as a whole), New York City, a...
Sorry to quote your two "waste of time" statements out of context. But it really isn't clear to me why you hold the view presented in the quoted sente...
Jesus and you agree on the importance of "do". You are rejecting the specificity of people's experience and their development as persons. You have all...
Lots of people have acted on the sentiment you express. They have left. Moved on. Many of the departed are NOT religious--they've become "spiritual". ...
Yes, yes, yes. The church forgets St. Augustine's sexuality -- The Catholic Church is unequivocally committed to reproduction, for sure. Officially, n...
Thanks - good information. I haven't done any reading in the early history of the church for quite a few years and it seems like there is only so much...
I'm sort of fond of OLD institutions, The Stella Artois logo and marketing pay homage to the Den Hoorn Brewery, established in 1366. The Hudson Bay Co...
Must a believer think that the Jews became a people and the Christian Church arose because God intervened in history to make these happen in the way t...
As I understand it, Christianity was constructed well after the deaths of Jesus, his disciples, Paul, the participants in the post-crucifixion home ch...
Thanks for posting the document. The plan calls for much more material about African Americans than I received in high school or college history cours...
Once upon a time, the US had very conservative and very liberal democrats and very conservative and very liberal Republicans. On the Republican side, ...
Actually, I did care enough to follow the results on the BBC World Service. Hey, us old folks remember when fascist Franco ran Spain until 1975 (start...
I'm sorry to hear that you were deprived of a kitchen counter on which to place a used toaster from the charity store. Perhaps I should inquire furthe...
Are you talking about the USA? Outside of the Democrat and Republic parties, there is (for all practical purposes) NOTHING. Democratic Socialists? Pro...
The statement, in itself, is true. Many slaves were skilled workers in various trades, both on plantations and in shops. Blacksmithing is one example....
Certainly there is diffusion of information in society. The need to eat isn't "knowledge" but WHAT can safely be eaten certainly is. Trial and error, ...
We disagree on this. You think it's cultural; I think it's innate behavior -- a product NOT of our development as Homo sapiens, but the product of ver...
@ 1.45 per kg of stainless steel, the factory cost could be around $52. Factory cost is, rule of thumb, roughly 10% of retail price -- so, if it's not...
Come, come -- back to the real world. The 'trope' in culture is to put the brakes on the youngun's sexual drives, and discourage premature mating. Pre...
Seems, Sir? Nay, it's a necessity. Were this abstracted atomized pleasure all that was necessary, evolution would have never got off the ground and we...
We are singing from the same hymnal at least; not sure if we are on the same page. I agree that pleasure-seeking is biologically driven, but we are al...
The homeless are outliers. Many of them are drunks and drug addicts, or MI, and as such, are destitute. Some of the homeless are destitute and don't h...
Good point. EP may produce all sorts of behaviors, but what we are going to be able to parse out is mostly pretty general. Never mind babies. In exper...
I haven't read E. O. Wilson (yes, I should have but...) so I didn't get any ideas from him directly. A lot of this discussion is revolving around whet...
I confess that I do not know how to separate out influences of evolution from all the other natural factors that shape us; or how to separate biologic...
No, it was NOT. However illusive the red heifers might be, they are virgin cows, so they don't give milk. Cows don't produce milk until they have been...
Häagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry's have both abandoned the delusion that anyone in America considers 1/4 cup of ice cream a "serving". Häagen-Dazs recogniz...
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