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Most people have some difficulty to face in life. A makeover of one's appearance (whether it's in the form of hiring a stylist to choose one a new war...

Transsexuals only want _some_ of the physical traits of the sex they are transitioning into. A man chemically and surgically "transitioning" "into" a ...

The notion that someone was born in the wrong body is fairly common. One has the "wrong" hair color, the "wrong" height, the "wrong" eye color, the "w...

Not at the same time. I've known a few self-styled "Christian Buddhists". It seems that the way they made them "compatible" is that they simply took f...

You demand that people conform to your expectations. Even at a philosophy forum, for you, some things are simply off limits, as if this would be a wat...

The question is whether they behave a certain way because they are female or male, or whether there are alternative explanations.

They are about as realistic as https://i.quotev.com/img/q/u/12/06/17/legoo.jpg And fictional ideals is probably all that Stoicism and Bushido ever wer...

Some say that "Buddhism" (note the ism) is a construct of Western religiology and culturology, and that it has no equivalent in what we call "traditio...

Nonsense. More of your bad faith. Identity is a construct, it's a means to an end. And we live in a world where resources are limited. This is why it ...

Appear, seem. I find that so much depends on the relationship one has with the animal, however short the interaction. The same animal will act very di...

I have hope that there must be a simpler way to come to terms with one's Christian past than figuring out what the world was like before Christianity ...

Yours has been, toward me, from the beginning. You deserve a hundred more Scotties. You just want things to be politically correct and shallow. That p...

No. Soccer is, but we have no "you kick like a girl". I don't buy this. I've had cats for almost forty years, males and females, intact and sterilized...

Yes, children, ordinary or "trans", killing themselves because of other people's bad faith. I wonder how many people you drove into misery with your b...

Why unfortunately? We can fight, too.

You granted me no such freedom.

That's why they say that one shouldn't talk about religion and politics in polite society. Add philosophy to that. If you want polite society, ditch t...

And he also said that many are called but few are chosen.

We all know humility is your forte. I've said several times in open forums what my stance on Buddhism is, and I told you specifically so in a PM. But ...

Christians should put their money where their mouth is, or be made to do so. So they say they are sooo speshal and they have the most powerful entity ...

One against political correctness. So for you, society and social norms exist and must be obeyed when it pleases you, and should be regarded as non-ex...

Fire is fought with fire.

I don't see that as "feminine", but as physically clumsy, perhaps even a neurological problem or otherwise poor eye-body coordination. A problem that ...

Then the fault is with the trans people. Many people are simply spoiled and want to be speshal, want to be adored. Just before, I saw a feature about ...

There is no society. There are only individuals. There are no social norms.

You'd have to ask the makers of that poster. Psychological gender is a cluster of traits, but which traits in particular those are for which gender va...

Your bad faith is duly noted, as usual.

It's their religion, they can do with it whatever they want.

For you as a man it probably matters little whether you share a hospital room with a man or a woman. Or whether the person in the dressing booth next ...

https://fairplayforwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Karen_hero_typo_1400-1.jpeg One of the functions of gender/sexual identity is that categorizin...

Other people tell you so, and you're supposed to believe them.

They were first and foremost, Christians, and then they began concerning themselves with doctrinal issues, if at all. First comes a generalized religi...

That depends on what those truths are in particular. If one is creative enough, one can always say things that are both true and harmless (and on topi...

Same reply: Normal people figure this out by kindergarten. The topic of truthtelling is one that becomes progressively elusive the more one tries to p...

For starters, perhaps something like this, from the film The Martian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty_law And again from the same film:

Death by exposure would become fashionable again.

One has to maintain that there is a single uniform interpretation of this or that in religion/spirituality, otherwise one couldn't accuse others of ha...

Because they are Christians. There is no Christianity without Jesus _Christ_. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that who...

*tsk tsk* Blimey, religious/spiritual people competing as to who is most exalted!! How ordinary.

To _deliberately_ achieve anything, one needs to follow a system. To follow a religious system, one has to become a member of a religion.

I'm not talking about the politically correct "woman's right to choose". I'm talking about the supposed "miraculous nature" of living a lifestyle in w...

I find their non-communication and hostility are what tends to put people off.

Again: Whence the idea that enlightenment would have something to do with a disposition of predominant concern for others? Even if you define enlighte...

Oh, my virtual balls!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giI2uxwFRJg

Classical music still is participatory, the mode of participation is specific. Ideally, one should be able to play the music piece on an instrument or...

Normal people figure this out by kindergarten ...

I was once discussing some religious topics with someone over email. We noticed there were peculiar delays in emails containing the words "Islam" and ...

I do try.

Because the US is a democracy, duh.