T_Clark

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A bit of explication would be helpful. Perhaps this shows that bricks exist, but it doesn't show that facts exist. I'm a bit lost. Now it sounds like,...

No. She is a woman of substance and principal whom I respect greatly. One of the few genuinely good people I know.

Congratulations. The first post on page 1000 of the Shoutbox. We have reached the end of my knowledge about conversion in Judaism and I'm just transmi...

The implication, which she isn't able to abide, is that women are unclean.

If I hoped to be a teacher, the answer to that question would be - because there are things I know, feel, see, and understand that I want to show othe...

A formerly Christian friend of mine whose husband is Jewish and who has raised her daughters in the temple wanted to convert. She started the process ...

It is my understanding some cannibals called human flesh "long pig."

A wise philosopher said "In order to understand the world, you need to be able to hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time." Light i...

?? ??? ??? Which is actually "Revossap Yppah."

A "fact" is an entity, a concept, associated with a particular understanding that the world exists independent of the human mind, which, itself, is no...

Word of the Day - March 30, 2018 Avuncular. Sounds like a medical condition. "He has an avuncular spleen." Means "like an uncle." Whoda thunk you need...

At work, we authorize actions by our subcontractors using an email all the time. I believe you are adequately covered.

I sometimes feel split in two. I've never, up until the last couple of years, felt happy. Many times during my life I've been miserable and afraid. No...

Alas, I can't ask him for clarification.

I said this before, if a moderator decides to delete someone's discussion, they have time to write at least a brief PM - How about this I deleted your...

I don't need any explanation. As I said, I support the moderator's authority to make these types of decisions. On the other hand, Rene Descartes deser...

As my father used to say "Jack's son has the gout" which translates to "Each to his own taste."

And it's not being "at your beck and call" to be reasonable.

@"TimeLine" As you know, I endorse he moderator's authority to decide what stays and what goes, but when you delete someone's discussion, a timely exp...

Alternatively, you could send him a PM and ask what's up. He's usually pretty responsive. It also might have been a different moderator.

Can you please use "Hide and Reveal" for that clip. It's making it hard for me to come to this page. I have, as you know, delicate sensibilities. By w...

Words of the Day - March 29, 2018 Homophones with at least three different spellings Rude, rood, rued Two, to, too Sees, seas, seize You’re, your, ewe...

I don't go places because of the architecture and engineering, I just like see it, feel it, when I'm there. It's really good to live in New England. S...

Is this one of those "Hanoverisms" we've been hearing so much about?

This is the greatest video, visual image, ever created in the history of the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot3Orz8KeLo

My attitude toward the non-human universe is not one of wonder or sacredness, it is one of family, home. The universe and I grew up together over 15 b...

I wasn't trying to imply Jews have a monolithic opinion about Israel, only that a Bar Mitzvah is probably not the right place to bring it up. On the o...

I don't have an affinity for social media. I have a hard time relating to people online. I only have a Facebook page under a fake name. I can't look a...

First off, you might have misunderstood me. The reason North Sioux City is one of my favorites is because it's across the Big Sioux River from Sioux C...

There's a name for it. It's called a "Hanoverism." @"TimeLine" is responsible for the concept. She apparently finds him amusing.

I'm always moved by signs of love among people who are considered less than us. Of course they loved their children, their mothers, their fathers, the...

Are any of us friends enough to be invited to each other's funerals? Probably not.

What do you expect, you accused him of having blubber for brains?

When I was 13 years old, I was loud, excitable, and hyperactive (in the old sense). I tended to say the first thing that came into my mind without thi...

I was trying to let Agustino down easy. He, and you, will have to be satisfied with unrequited love.

As we discussed in the Shoutbox, the fact that the person you are trying to have this discussion with already is open to the idea of cosmological/geol...

This is better: Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred Tan me hide when I'm dead So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde And that's it hangin' on the shed!...

Clarks don’t generally make it past 75, so sometime in the next nine years.

I have already told my children I want them to tell the worst stories about me they can think of at my funeral. I've also asked to be cremated and hav...

I can understand the distinction. I'm trying to think if previously I would have applied the word "epistemology" to more intuitive or spiritual knowle...

I saw a documentary about that. It was fascinating. To think that as simple a thing as selecting for tameness could lead to an array of significant bo...

My point isn't to defend it, it's to point out I am responsible to take action to change things to the extent I can.

Or you're at a Bar Mitzvah and start a discussion about Israel's oppression of the Palestinians with the Rabbi.

I don't agree actually. I'm responsible for my country and what it does domestically and in the world. The UK seems like a good place. I don't have an...

Perhaps when you grow and become more mature, you'll learn that there right times and wrong times to discuss particular subjects.

Why do you care what we do in the US? Is it still true that in the UK, the defendant in a defamation trial has to prove what they say is true? And spe...

But it only takes "some" scientists to ensure that everything that can be studied by science will be. If there really is any danger from AI taking ove...

South Dakota has one of my favorite cities - North Sioux City SD. It's across the Big Sioux River from Sioux City Iowa and across the Missouri from So...