Outlander

I mean, to be fair, there's a reason horror movies are classified as horror and not fantasy. Meaning, these things do happen. All day, everyday. I can...

Right but be fair. A person is a human and they have human rights. They don't suddenly vanish because they think or adopt a lifestyle or even a religi...

90%+ of people alive today would not be alive, nor have ever reproduced, were it not for violence (what mankind pitifully attempts to separate from se...

There's an old tale.. though I can't be sure of when or from where, in which an indentured man judiciously feeds a bird (or perhaps it was several) th...

People have always been jealous of birds. Don't you wish, if things got tough, either in the modern day (surrounded by thugs), or even in the past (al...

@"Jamal" Why the new avatar? Are you okay? Is there something you're trying to tell us? Speak up.

This discussion is fascinating. The one thing that warrants the powerful to retain their power and the subservient to bask in the safety of their subs...

This is the disconnect. That I find it strange you are unable to see. There is no third sex in any organism that exists or has ever existed. There is,...

What is a culture? Cultures do change. How long has it been prevalent? What was it rooted in? There's a difference between killing for sustenance and ...

To be fair the word for "black" in multiple languages is 90% similar to the slur, which is also the name of a country. It's literally just the word fo...

So, tossing aside common knowledge, we still come to the unavoidable question. Was Engels a fool? Or a psychopath who enjoyed watching a tortured man ...

History is written by the winners. And winners are murderers. Immoral people. Your trust is therefore based on immorality, which does not preclude the...

I think his point was, he genuinely believed in everything he expressed (and perhaps quite a bit he chose not to, as a nod to your suspicious sentimen...

While I cannot answer for @"T Clark", I can say that, in general, all of the examples listed on this thread so far, including hunting, have many reaso...

You really don't like this guy, do you. Why can't you focus on his work, at least. He was obviously persecuted by the State for his beliefs when alive...

10 years. That's a decade. Where the word decadence comes from. (Not really, I don't know that) But that's surely old enough for a roast! For those wh...

What specifically in this thread are you referring to that seems to parallel or equate to such an analogy in your mind? I don't know of any longtime p...

Interesting. And not unnoticed! However, does it not take two to tango? The average person does, or at least desires to, hold or perhaps be invited to...

Why do people listen to or make music? Why do we read books and watch shows or plays? Why don't we just wake up every morning, go to work, then return...

You'd believe anything you read, now wouldn't you? Caricatures come in all forms. The man is dead and after 100 years even his most bitter critics spe...

I have reoccurring nightmares (just normal dreams at this point) of such. Where I can turn the steering wheel, but because of my (dis)orientation cann...

I think the elephant in the room, or perhaps the question he was not able to form, would be: Aren't people raised by their parents? The apple doesn't ...

In the dark, a lit tea light is better than nothing I suppose. :grin:

+1 for an excellent question. Naturally, @"Jamal" would have the final say. (though I would presume the answer to be no, I'd be fairly confident in st...

Because it's all been said and done before. The average person in the past 50 years comes from a multi-sibling household with TV or Internet or otherw...

Sounds like a modern for-profit college. Daddy's money buys anything these days. At the cost of the future of society. But oh well, when Country XYZ w...

If popular aphorisms are to be trusted, it's quite lonely at the top. But at least they're nice. That or desperate to trap another unwitting soul so a...

It's about how the mind can best determine an increase of what is vital for the body to prolong its existence. So, perhaps. Unfortunately (or perhaps ...

Yes, and did you also know "mean" means something other than being mean? See, it's fun to check what else lies beneath where you stand before you dig ...

But do they not claim the lion's share of one's cultural or social "zeitgeist" depending on their popularity? Especially in times when perhaps, unlike...

Where I come from, people who use the word "supine" end up lying on their back. So pardon me this one time, professor.

"Your speech is not well. This new version is better; Watch it instead please." :pray:

Ooh, I like butterflies. Here's a song someone shared with me some odd years back. It's in your language, I believe, actually. https://www.youtube.com...

I cannot hear you as my indescribable despair has understandably forced me to enter a prone position lying on my back, and of course, naturally, my te...

I shall be in a state of constant mourning for you, inaccurately named member. As referenced by my updated profile. Countdown until Copernicus can pos...

To be alive is to want things, things beyond what one needs. Can you truly say you've never felt a temptation to have something, that if the actions r...

You're a good person, javi. If nothing else I want you to remember that. That said, good people are often the most naive. Point being, unless C'pern (...

There are great minds here, no doubt. Minds like such I haven't seen in, quite a while. You're no fool for your desire to speak with and be spoken to ...

Try Wyzant or Preply. This is not a "hire-a-tutor" service. Certainly not for free. Not for your level. Now if you have cash (and plenty of it), I'm s...

Are you some sort of delusion in my head? Why, you're posting now, are you not? If you can't explain an idea to a five year old, you don't understand ...

I mean, training wheels are nice. And I'm no great scholar. A good majority of these threads and levels of discussion are a fair level over my head (b...

Ah, what a joy. FINALLY someone sunk that Titanic of a mind (or perhaps ego) of yours like a direct, apocalyptic final hit in Battleship. Of course it...

But you don't know that. You don't know any of that. Sure, it's a reasonable guess. You might even base a theory on that and it be proven correct. But...

To be fair, I don't think one can ever refer to any person (even ignoring the first 18 years of life, or whatever your society or legal government con...

Just to update you, the OP, or father of the discussion as to where the rest of us have reached or what the metaphorical child has grown into: Most ac...

While I can't say I completely agree and embrace your sentiment, I certainly have respect for it and can see the dangers or otherwise loss of quality ...

Smuckers sues Trader Joe's over similar product For those who aren't aware Smuckers is a large brand behind most popular jams and jellies in North Ame...

Do you believe that unchecked human population growth will ultimately result in a "tragedy of the commons" scenario, given enough time, then? Not unli...

"It is both fascinating—and to good men, humbling—just how much—even the wisest and well-traveled among us—will live and die never knowing." - young b...

Hm. I'm sure the person is aware of it, but the arising tendency or intent to, in some cases, might be reflex of habit, thus never once being a though...