Biblical nonsense. I am in hell, and more satisfied than the man who looks to heaven. No new things, friend, for many and many a millenia --...
Here is the thing you miss: making a difference does not require power. It requires the abdication of power. It is a subtle concept that is lost...
Mustn't we fuse sentiment and reason together to create an integrated self that can help itself as well as others? Our detachment from our...
I don't think all of them were on psych meds. Some of them, certainly, but whether or not the "grandiose and suicidal ideation" is due to the meds...
Indeed, power corrupts; but mankind is still very far from learning this. Hence the entirety of this discussion. You think I seek power. Nope....
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How flippant. :)
There is a disctinction for which you are not accounting: when one accosts someone with questions about the authenticity of social conventions...
In this context disrespect does not indicate crudity or vulgarity but rather a lack of circumspection regarding the factors involved, and,...
Yes, but it is the mainstream religious, or the functioning wheels, that are the carriers of the voluptuous chariots on which the zealots cruise....
Actually, what you are saying is untrue. Extremists/fundamentalists are anything but a fringe group in this country. They are a multibillion...
The conflict is external, because the inherent view of the individuals in these cases are prejudiced; and it won't be resolved by letting everyone...
As often as not its the soul that drowns the truth... sounds like a familiar story of a man feeling alone in a room he is sharing with someone...
Far be it for me to defend rat, but your statement is itself a grotesque generalization. One example of people who don't have to be greedy to get...
I think what maelstrom was trying to point out was that atheism is starting to mobilize, not for the sake of hating or polarizing, but for the...
Probably not; though if you understand anything about Mormonism, there could have been some extra ridiculous crap. Nonetheless, it doesn't seem...
Here's the problem: your focus on women and the feminist movement is just as much a prejudice as anyone's focus against them. Women are no more...
I'm a moral athiest, however, and should make it clear that I would never condone such huckstering as that above-mentioned. I've always been smart...
The reason Atheism tends more towards the far left is because the right and the religious evangelists are bedfellows. But, and this is just...
Having the right to do with oneself as one will is the primary civil liberty, via both drugs and guns, I see having already been grotesquely...
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