That's probably so, especially if you say it. Delusions are, as I said, our stock-in-trade. Why, if we can perceive reality, do we cling to delusions?...
Yes, it make sense. First, there is objective reality. Second there is us, the observers. We are both capable of observing objective reality (which is...
Trouble is, when I searched the real estate database for chicken friendly neighborhoods, I came up with a chicken egg -- 0 chicken friendly neighborho...
A devout Christian can believe in his or her own salvation, know well the theology of their faith, perform worship and good works splendidly, and stil...
I will have to plead guilty to your charge. When it comes to "being gay" which as you say involves a global perceptual-affective style, I find myself ...
In some cases it is. As you know, only a small percentage of men are exclusively homosexual--about 2.5%. They are not confused. (One group that is con...
I would use her preferred pronoun because I am at least semi-civilized, and and would not want to make a scene. That doesn't mean I think she has chan...
Yes, that's the case, until the xx and xy chromosomes are activated and the pubic hump is differentiated into female or male body parts. The rest of t...
Before retirement from social work, I occasionally provided services to trans persons. I treated them with respect and sensitivity, as expected, as tr...
Well, yes, not surprisingly. My "take" is that the overwhelming majority of H. sapiens are born as male or female. True, a small percentage are born w...
Watching geese and turkeys attack people is quite satisfying in a number of ways, Wild turkeys are actually quite capable of drawing blood; they are v...
The BBC World Service has a story about a woman who was taking testosterone and had had her breasts removed who decided (as a "man") that "he" had alw...
A bitter, sneering, mocking laugh. People who live in expensive homes around the lakes on the west side of Minneapolis hate Canadian geese. The gather...
Why is it crazy? I had a pair of chickens as pets. They had imprinted on each other, or they were homosexuals. They were ALWAYS together, usually no m...
Why were the people across the alley keeping ducks? I imagine as pets for their children. Presumably low maintenance. I thought they made a pleasant s...
There is no way in hell that all that nicely sliced meat came from one duck. It doesn't even look like duck meat (too light). Wasn't that picture from...
Most furniture advertisements feature a golden retriever, beagle, or some other dog to accessorize and warm up a scene. This company took a furless ap...
Flight-capable chickens must have trained for the pea-brained olympics. Most of the birds one sees in barnyards are too heavy to fly very well. The on...
Although many religious people can give damning evidence about the failures of their religion (I can), it may not be a good idea to get all 'the relig...
Religion, ritual, beliefs; poetry, novels, prose; film, drama; music; plastic arts; painting; dance; opera: ALL of this is human culture. The media (p...
Your mother probably recited the nursery rhyme to you about the three little kittens who had lost their Fausthandschuh. Three little kittens, they los...
Here is a piece of commercial art that I think could be defaced. It was put up in the Dayton's building, the former site of the Dayton's Department St...
I love words too. Wordlove is one of the reasons I dislike Spellcheck. Spellcheck is a robot system, totally insensitive to context. I wasn't up on Ga...
Never mind what "esculin" actually is. I bet he aimed for 'echelon' and missed by a letter or two and the ever intrusive spell-checker decided on beha...
What doesn't kill us the first time practices and works out at the death camp, then returns to try again. Hey, glad you're still kicking and kicking c...
On the one hand, blessings on you for caring for your mother. On the other hand, your OP makes more sense now. You have been burdened from an age when...
Wait wait. On the topic of evolution I'm not at all bitter or pessimistic. After all, our esteemed selves, the paragon of animals and the crowns of cr...
I was in joke-mode, so don't take what I said as an argument. However: I do not think evolution is upward-bound. Evolution takes place whenever two an...
IF our world was designed, then it wasn't designed very well. Consider all of the screwy things that can happen to healthy bodies. Rabbits, for instan...
Yes, that would be bad -- but the risks do not rise exponentially. They rise linearly; eventually they reach 100% and nobody gets out of here alive. I...
Death at 50? No, no. I didn't really get going until 25, and the years between 40 and 50 were pretty good, in terms of youthful vigor and health. Look...
Dorothy enters the shabby dining room of the Catholic Worker House of Hospitality in a full-skirted pastel dress with cuffed short sleeves singing Que...
That's because the New Testament was written in Koine Greek and then translated into Latin. Didn't Jesus speak Aramaic? He might have known Koine Gree...
I need a term that means less than "atheist" and more than "not a believer". "Agnostic" isn't it. "Atheism" is too loaded. "Agnostic" is too wishy-was...
God. Android spouses -- as if keeping the batteries in the mouse, bicycle lights, iPod, iPad, iPhone, smoke alarm, vibrating dildo, pacemaker, the car...
Great post. In the long run (2000 years) and in the short run (last 15 minutes) tradition is both brick and mortar, and the Bible, the writings of the...
What you say here is absolutely true. It is also true that various entities and 'forces' put poor blacks where they ended up as much as that was possi...
I don't either; I don't have fond memories of current Jesus Freaks either, though "freak" has fallen into disuse. Jesus, I say as a profound heresy, h...
One of my favorite southern Catholic writers is Flannery O'Connor, “Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor that it is more open-minde...
It is a quasi-conspiracy. Yes, they did build projects for black people to live in, and the initial experience of the residents was good. There was a ...
Very apt observations. There are "random shootings" but more often than not, the shooter and the target know each other. Gangs have taken territory se...
Haven't seen that cartoon in decades. It was very influential in my development of sarcasm. Thanks for posting it. Who says they are not? We could hav...
You are not being racist. You are being obtuse. The synonyms are too harsh to be applied to you on this particular instance, but they are tempting. Yo...
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