god must be atheist

Yes, but they smoked differenent brands of tobacco cigarettes. That's a serious enough difference in pro-ethnic culture to lop his head off. This is n...

Just joining in... sorry if I repeat things already said. I paraphrase a few things from a personal friend of mine, who is an interested, interesting ...

right on.

I once wrote about that. It was an essay, titled "Unconditional Love, Unconditional Expectations".

You just described the Viet Nam war, the Afghan war against CCCP, and the Afghan war against USA.

The back-and-forths, the left-and-rights and the in-and-outs.

Garrett, I don't read your posts, and you promised to not read mine, but apparently you forgot. No problem, just a gentle reminder that I ignore every...

I am sure I did not use the right phrase. A leader (group or individual) puts you in a very relaxed state of mind, you are usually lying down comforta...

The reason for high murder rates is a feeling of entitlement, the Randian Me! philosophy, and the culture of arrogance.

Your uncle was right. And you were right. You can live a life of correct decisions, but it won't be perfect, for the simple reason that perfection elu...

here's a neat little short list, mostly modern pop, from the 80s to the present. I heard all of them first and always without the visuals. More powerf...

"War is hell." General William Tecumseh Sherman. 150 years ago. Nothing changed as far as that aspect goes, except people's memories. The farther into...

Agreed. Each to his own.

I agree on the second count of your sentiments. I am the same way. I learned to listen to music by hearing it only. Later, when I saw them on stage, m...

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Okay, I'll relax. I hadn't realized you were just yanking my chains. All is fair on the Shoutbox. Just don't forget: "Philosophers of the world! Unite...

Don't you find it a bit pretentious that your disbelief is strong enough to challenge the sincere description of my taste? Beauty is in the eye of the...

I'd say that aside from the progressive Black heroes of the Civil Rights movement, the good thing that came out of the boomer's allegedly different va...

In my youth in communist Hungary the generation divide was reduced to who listens to what music. Old folks listened to classical: operas, classical ba...

I hear you. Maybe it's not the fact that it's music that you can't listen to pop and rock for the required amount of time according to your age-group,...

Same here, but for me the visual helped. In his songs, Burden sounded pontificating. "Do your homework!" "Listen to your parents!" that sort of thing,...

I remember this song with the Dave Clarke Five back in 1964-ish?? When I was just a fat little kid in the hood. This song catapulted that band into no...

Thanks for explaining it... I was confused. I see you are relatively new to the site, so I wish you good cheer and nice intellectual frolic here. It's...

Thank you for your magnanimity, Tiff. I had fun compiling that list, and it was foolish of me to think that any one of my points was dead on. Perhaps ...

You and I never had a discussion back to a month ago inclusive... and the issue I brought up I have mentioned for the first time within a month ago. A...

Proceed as you wish... I am not here to stop you from engaging Bartricks. I respect your decision, whatever it may be. Thanks, and likewise, have a ni...

I quote Khaled. He has said this on page 2 of the thread entitled "Does God Have Free Will". When Khaled refers to "it", Khaled means Bartricks. Quote...

Sorry, Tiff, I am apologizing because I did not want to put you on the spot. You're one of the nicest people on this board. I just wanted to illustrat...

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I agree. The first quote you quoted from me had been quoted from Olivier5. My mistake (and I seek forgiveness for it) that I hadn't indicated that. Bu...

Straight Wittgenstein! (This, a compliment.) "No human can guess the motivation for another human's action." The sole and living exceptions of this un...

Maybe there should not be charity. Yes, I want to be forgiven when I make a mistake. Be judged, so you can judge others. Without judgment social struc...

I sounded there like a nihilist. I am sure there is a fine line between nihilism and realism.

From where I sit, pursuing social justice over the interwebs is pretty simple. You read the arguments, sometimes you make a post and then you call it ...

I'll look for it on Netflix or the local library's DVD collection.

I haven't, but I heard of it. Apparently Adaptation was a movie adaptation from a short story with the same title.

"Du" means "you" in German. faq does not mean anything.

Yah. Du faq. :-)

I will sound as a naysayer, but what you claim is precisely what religion denies of its followers. "3-1 is Zero!" say the Christians. What is a reason...

That's a type or trend in philosophy, if you will. But my response to the OP's question is (basically the same as Tom Storm's) that people of philosop...

Thoughts don't exist IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD, but the brain does. That is a necessary improvement. Because thoughts do exist, albeit not in the physical...

Mushroom Tops Make Great Toppings Sang to the Tune of "Jingle Bells" Mushroom tops make great toppings Toppings make great trappings Trappings trap th...

Pizza makers predicted your move. You can order one pizza and they deliver two (for the price of one).

It is true that any variation of the ontological proof must be suspect, since by their nature they seek to demonstrate the existence of something not ...

Heureka!! PAMELA LEE ANDERSON!!! Of course. You can believe in a god, too, if you choose the image carefully.

Thanks, i'll try that variation a few times and see how it fits my world view.

I wrote once a scathing humor-piece about the Trinity, in which the Holy Spirit was the mother. It is so wild, the short story, that it's completely u...

You heard of Homer's works. The Iliad and the Odyssey were not written by Homer, but by a different guy with the same name. The ancient world was vast...

I haven't heard mine talk yet, but it can think in several different languages, and it communicates by telepathy. It's also been observed to have comm...

You can't step in the same weather twice.