Yes, perhaps you do. I think religion necessarily involves both belief and practice. If you have just the latter, then you might be called spiritual. ...
Depends. I've seen plenty of left-wing protests of college speakers like Ben Shapiro, in which the protesters were utterly humorless and seemingly inc...
Oh boy, what a knee slapper! I mention the fact, in all seriousness, that almost all the mods are on the left, and what do those mods do? Laugh it off...
Perhaps. Perhaps. Debatable. The idea, however, is that a diversity of views will decrease abuse, not that the right is immaculately tolerant. I just ...
Um, he banned Emptyheady for basically this very reason. It was. I wasn't necessarily saying that the mods knowingly pick on right-wingers for being r...
This is a really nice distinction. It reminds me of what Schopenhauer says about reading, if I may quote him in full: A highly ironic passage to read,...
They deleted a joke I made recently as well. No was rationale given. Perhaps it wasn't funny enough. It was made in a thread that no one will respond ...
Testifying would temporarily but tenaciously test the testicular tensile strength and timorousness of tendentious, tangerine-colored, and tactless tal...
I'll address both of you at once. I get all this, but the way this story has been portrayed by the Democrats and in the media has been misleading, in ...
On all of their parts. Still, though, even if someone in the administration alleged that Trump had ulterior motives for firing him, and I don't actual...
Correct, but it's still a creation on their part until then. I haven't technically generalized and for the record don't agree with the firing. I've al...
Mhmm. Right, but they've had to create this motive for their own politicking, so they aren't just making an innocent logical distinction as you are he...
The Democrats are presently pushing for an investigation in search of a scandal. Just weeks ago, many of them hated Comey or wanted him fired, but now...
Precisely, even though they're empirically in the wrong. If you mix that with an introverted personality type, I'm really at a loss as to how I will b...
That's actually part of the problem. Yes, I can read, think, and write. Obviously these are highly valuable attributes to possess, but not in the shor...
I'd prefer not to say. It doesn't really matter, though, as all humanities degrees are of a piece: practically useless. I meant that somewhat tongue-i...
An MA in one of the humanities. I couldn't get into a PhD program this cycle, so I have to now get a job, especially since the six month window to sta...
I just got a graduate degree and am looking for work now. I have absolutely no idea what I will or should do. At least you've had genuine employment a...
You've subtly shifted your claim here. You originally said that Jesus didn't preach asceticism. Now you're saying that he didn't require people to be ...
This could not be more false. Any passing glance at his sayings in the NT or the consensus of scholars who associate him with Jewish ascetic movements...
He admitted he was asserting correlation, not causation. If you're correct that the rates have actually increased for some of the things he mentioned,...
1) Porn does not "reduce" said things, it is correlated with their reduction, and 2) I never said I wanted to prevent porn. I'm actually on the fence ...
From that perspective, sure, I suppose one can agree with the apparent correlation (causation would be another story). But surely a lack of syphilis a...
I've never heard of it, but I have seen evidence that says the opposite. Porn causes and/or exacerbates addiction to it, general Internet addiction, e...
What does "bringing about goodness" even mean? A world without people is not a tragedy, at least from our perspective. Something about the wording of ...
No, but people are going to be born into the world whether we like it or not, and so we do have a duty to maintain civilization for them. Society is a...
Tragedies befall the living. If someone who doesn't have a child suffers as a result (and there is evidence to support that having children can make p...
It's interesting that you fail to quote the clause "it doesn't do so perfectly" I made.... Most people who are generally in favor of free markets are ...
The free market usually expunges such forces, because, as might be expected, immoral behavior is bad for business. It doesn't do so perfectly, but it'...
It "took on flesh" is another way of putting it. Yes, this is why the Council of Chalcedon declared that Christ had two natures, one human and one div...
The Word became flesh at a certain point in time, yes, but the Word itself didn't come into being. An ambiguous question. In some sense, the world is ...
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