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And since you quoted my post discussing celibacy vs casual sex. Well let's see... you go do your casual sex and being socially integrated until your i...
January 07, 2017 at 21:27
Morality doesn't involve just being kind to others and not being cruel to them.
January 07, 2017 at 21:15
Why?
January 07, 2017 at 21:13
:-} And suppose your premise is wrong? Suppose it is nonsense to say that giving in to your lusts is morally superior to being celibate? Listen mate, ...
January 07, 2017 at 21:10
Yes but you need to have a background framework which makes this conclusion reasonable - such as you have knowledge about your house, with regards to ...
January 07, 2017 at 21:08
But you do have evidence in your knowledge that you don't have cats in your house + neither do you have a reason to believe that one could have gotten...
January 07, 2017 at 21:02
Ah so you do have knowledge about it. Why do you think it is false? Not having reasons to believe it isn't sufficient to hold that it is positively fa...
January 07, 2017 at 20:51
Okay so the reason is simply that you don't know, so you're afraid to say it is so for fear of making a mistake, when you don't in fact know what the ...
January 07, 2017 at 20:46
So are you, or are you not able to give a reason why you hold your position? In the former case, I'd like to hear it. In the latter case, then I'll as...
January 07, 2017 at 20:42
Hmm I actually didn't know about that one (that it wasn't hit by a plane). I'm referring to the two main towers. I will need to think about that.
January 07, 2017 at 20:40
But they are morally better than folks who give in to their lusts. Proper relationships are a different game, we're not discussing that here. We're di...
January 07, 2017 at 20:36
I haven't seen that exact one, but I've seen similar. Now the reason why I don't buy the controlled demolition argument I will illustrate below. Here'...
January 07, 2017 at 20:29
People having sex is a market - for condoms, for sex toys, for medication for STDs, for abortions, for contraceptives, for pornography, for dating age...
January 07, 2017 at 20:00
Why? >:O For someone like me, going there is good for spiritual regeneration, but not to stay there completely. And... as for pink ploughing, why not ...
January 07, 2017 at 19:48
Around 2 weeks. It was a very nice experience, I'd go there again sometime.
January 07, 2017 at 18:46
No they suffer of a different kind of problem than your society, that much is obvious. And if you imply that I think women should dress in heavy cloth...
January 07, 2017 at 18:30
As I've explained, having no sex before marriage allows one to have a potentially stronger bond with their partner ceteris paribus, and therefore allo...
January 07, 2017 at 17:28
And? How did you find them? Yeah at least I gave articles sanctified by respected medical journals not articles for stupid people from forbes. Of cour...
January 07, 2017 at 17:09
Yeah, just a playful act, you probably have it with your mother also right? >:O
January 07, 2017 at 16:45
What makes men different to women regarding abstinence? :s Yes, as I said it's an opinion piece they agreed to publish. I have given you different kin...
January 07, 2017 at 15:10
Your opinion isn't sufficient reason to reject a possible explanation for the data as false. And those who practice chastity are obviously morally sup...
January 07, 2017 at 12:19
Why are you ceding the point? Pounce on it man! He says, for example, that those who have sex have lower rates of depression... isn't that because tho...
January 07, 2017 at 11:21
Your earlier reply proves exactly what I have said. (1) is a general level statement, and (2) is a more specific instance of (1). (2) is included in (...
January 07, 2017 at 11:14
I'm not sure this is the case - I've visited and lived with monks before on Mount Athos, and there is no neuroticism there, I can assure you of that. ...
January 07, 2017 at 11:11
Right, what Baden knows how to do - remember what he did with Trump? Cite the polls >:O I see he still didn't get rid of that habit, despite evidence ...
January 07, 2017 at 11:04
Bingo, I agree 100%. That's exactly why I hate this modern Western culture. And people like BC and Baden aren't helping it, that's for sure.
January 07, 2017 at 00:23
Thou shalt not take the LORD's name in vain :-* Have you forgotten that commandment? :P
January 07, 2017 at 00:22
The Chinese have a saying... Nobody knows what the sleeping dragon can do >:O
January 07, 2017 at 00:17
:-O
January 07, 2017 at 00:11
I don't get the pun? :P My low intelligence isn't sufficient... and I just realised there is no crying emoticon. Tragic.
January 07, 2017 at 00:06
Why is it preferable than, for example, to abstain from it until the long-term relationship? It seems you and Bitter Crank are stuck with Freud! Commo...
January 06, 2017 at 23:19
:-! facile to say, but I didn't start here exactly. Back before I had my first girlfriend I experienced this kind of desire for, I guess you could say...
January 06, 2017 at 22:32
Which goes to show what I told you before. In nature, the fittest doesn't always win - if the fittest always won, we wouldn't be here :P
January 06, 2017 at 22:13
Actually it's not pancake effect ... alas, let's do some engineering using the method for illustrating the simplicity of Truth that we have seen recen...
January 06, 2017 at 20:32
Do you really want to see the sleeping dragon?? >:) >:O
January 06, 2017 at 18:40
This is interesting, but I would doubt it because I don't really have a sex drive in the sense you speak about it. In my life in general, whatever sex...
January 06, 2017 at 18:39
:-! Why, you yourself have said this! You've said that someone with a normal biology can't not have sex, lest they fall in neurosis. That means they'r...
January 06, 2017 at 17:29
At least I got so far as mastering my sexuality, unlike you :P you have to be its docile servant all the time. How is that working for you? Happy bein...
January 06, 2017 at 17:23
Sure, but this presupposes that society itself isn't one of our innate drives. I think it is. I think in many regards we're social animals before we'r...
January 06, 2017 at 17:22
Well it would be strange if other life forms would have been around for longer than bacteria, considering the fact that the first life to appear would...
January 06, 2017 at 17:18
:-d Good luck with your neurosis then... How important sex must be in your life, can't live without it. Why so weak and dependent? ;) Oh it's your bio...
January 06, 2017 at 17:13
I did respond to the substance. Your theory about neurosis is wrong. it's simply not describing the actual situation, it is describing precisely your ...
January 06, 2017 at 17:02
That's what I mean man - we're winning this, the progressives have little to no chance, even if things look bleak for conservatives for the next, say ...
January 06, 2017 at 16:56
Then how do you explain all the monks, and the rest of us celibates who don't have sex? This is nothing but cultural prejudice, and a way to attempt t...
January 06, 2017 at 16:44
But of what use is saving my soul if it has no effect in this world? Clearly, even the Protestants believe that living by grace in this life is superi...
January 06, 2017 at 14:08
I don't see how it has anything to do with whether we're spiritual or material.
January 06, 2017 at 14:08
How does that follow that I'm virtuous because of my materiality? If I found out that the material doesn't exist, I'd go on being virtuous because my ...
January 06, 2017 at 14:00
Which is why the analogy doesn't hold. It fails to capture this "far more complicated" part that is essential to sex.
January 06, 2017 at 13:57
But I don't claim the material world is inferior. Only that if, for example, I were to find out that the spiritual doesn't exist, I wouldn't cease pra...
January 06, 2017 at 13:56
I'm not sure what's up with that study, I haven't investigated it to be honest. In either case, science isn't done like this. If I find a study claimi...
January 06, 2017 at 13:52