I had planned to stay away from this thread, but last night I received a phone call that changed everything. I was at the bathroom when I suddenly hea...
I agree with Barry - for the following reason. You don't only want to write a book about meaning, or about value. You want to write one that reconcile...
If you're so altruistic that you give all your food, and starve yourself to death in order to feed people who are poor, then your genes will not survi...
I am not, I myself have had anxiety and depression in the past - although it might look that way - it's the necessary discourse I have to adopt in a l...
I was referring to that specific quote. Yes but poverty of spirit isn't a characteristic of those who are admitted into Paradise, but rather that thes...
Well there is something I can do - turn him in to the police. But what would motivate me doing something about it? Jealousy. So clearly "not being abl...
The point was that Jesus' Sermon on The Mount had a different purpose - it wasn't advice on how to live a Christian life. It wasn't meant to say "you ...
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peac...
That is impossible, because being depressed, being grieving, being frustrated - all these are lacking in virtue. It is a virtue to be joyous, happy an...
Yes, happiness is more like hotness, not something "measured", thus making my analogy correct. You measure temperature, not "hotness". I don't need to...
And how is what you say different? It's also dogma. Except that you provide no argument for it, and merely expect me to accept it. You strung a senten...
By the way @"John", congratulations! It looks like you will have the most viewed thread of the month. In just 6 days, and you're already in top 10 for...
True - just like some are born with no arms and legs and still manage to live a happy life (Nick Vujicic for example). Others lose a leg and still man...
No immoral act is trivial. Welcome to the forum, and thanks for sharing this! This illustrates how a sin that people so commonly trivialize - oh yeah,...
Nope - I can care less how he is. All I am concerned about is that justice is done. And jealousy is a response to an occurence. The way you treat jeal...
This must be false, because it potentially holds only for a romantic context, and clearly jealousy applies to other contexts as well - such as John st...
I've edited and added to my previous post. And yes maybe my understanding of what I call jealousy is different from that of others. I don't think that...
Depends. If she was raped, only of the man. If she willingly did it, of both, because they have both taken what rightfully belongs to me. I honestly w...
I compared with 50 years ago, not with 18th century French aristocracy. And the trend was a gradual rise from 50 years ago to today. Thanks for sharin...
Check the additions to my previous post. If I am jealous of the one she had sex with, that is clearly different from envy. If I were envious of him, i...
No Aristotle as far as I remember didn't condemn jealousy. And envy isn't the same at all. Envy is when I desire what others have. That's not being je...
I will end with a quote from the one whom you called perhaps the greatest philosopher (along with Hegel): Now please do some of your "creative misread...
My experience is just the opposite. I find that it is still largely unacceptable for women to commit adultery or cheat, although it has indeed become ...
I find this interesting. Typically though I tend to associate beliefs in reincarnation with those who somehow want to sugar-coat death, but I am certa...
Not only against style - but against your presuppositions - namely that such views are ultraconservative, irrational and shouldn't be held in the mode...
Indeed, I wasn't aware that you had not seen it, so my apologies. That was a supporter for punishment, but there were many more which quarreled with y...
This is not true. By the time you had made your post, I had already made the addition. I've added that immediately after having first posted. As soon ...
Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. Slight disagreement here, I think the morally incompetent will still suffer from their own sinful behaviour, only that they ma...
It's a joke! >:O But I didn't talk about sex there, but rather multiple partners. It's accidental because you never intended to have multiple partners...
What's funny? >:O Social conservatives would be in that range - at least lay ones. Those who have had like one partner their whole life (the one they'...
Read it in context. I hadn't read his article - I just skimmed it and saw the underlined bits. I didn't know what "attempted rape" referred to, hence ...
Quick comments. First I didn't open the thread. I merely stated in a very large and long post in a different thread which didn't have to do with adult...
Yes tell that to Bill Clinton and his wife. Whenever I watch these videos I am reminded there really is no comparison between the Clintons and Trump. ...
https://youtu.be/EWrlZ_WbjF8?t=2m37s This is just one of the several women - by the way. Women who have been ignored by the Clintons, both husband and...
Good if Trump has a rape accusation, then they should discuss it. Both those of him, and those of the Clinton family. The electorate deserves to know ...
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