Religious rules can sometimes make sense - and making them "God says so" rather than just a law or custom can ensure that people will obey where perhaps they wouldn't otherwise. E.G. the Hindu ban on beef means that even when people are very hungry they don't eat the animals which will be pulling ...

Following your logic I wouldn’t be be able to prove that the color blue was in fact blue. I could get a spectrophotometer and we could analyze the light bouncing off an object, but we’d be unable to define that light as “BLUE”... just like I could get the GPS coordinates for Boston but we couldn’t ...

This is why there has never been a border dispute in the history of the world. Since everyone can just appeal to the objective science of surveying and check the dictionary there has been constant peace since day 1.

Border disputes often occur because borders are written in descriptive language ...

If you still got room, add me in!

People talk about their tastes as if they're fixed and immutable. Most people, without any evidence, say that tastes are genetically predetermined.
"Most People" in the next sentence will use the expression, "It's an acquired taste."
People are strange, contradictory and often illogical.

Dukasaur wrote:

tzor wrote:I'm allergic to nuts.

Then what are you doing here? Daily exposure to nuts is a certainty in this forum.

I always wear gloves before I touch the keyboard.

I'm allergic to nuts.

So provocative yet, true

"The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose."

C.S. Lewis ...

what,me worry? wrote:The answer would be Iron but, I like where your heads at

Iron Ferrets ... It's like Iron Chef only ... ferrets.

"OK ferrets ... open your baskets."

Back when I was a kid, the local Episcopal elementary school was named after St. David. Not knowing who he was, I always thought it was odd to name an Old Testament figure a saint ... wrong David.

To choose marriage over a domestic partnership or neither and just date the same person

Obviously the institution of marriage is now a tax purposes driven idea with many more negatives than positives

Marriage is an institution ... but who wants to be in an institution?

But isn't that the ...

Look at the list of presidents

It should be noted that there was an assumption that those who can't vote shouldn't run for office. The first presidential candidate who was a female was from a minor political party and the only real question was that she may have not met the age qualification at ...

KoolBak wrote:Yeah, but....tequila.

That's what USMCA is for.

Under one government. Germany was formed from many nation states as was Italy. Could this happen in the future? What are your 3 or more current counties likely to unite under one government?

I don't see this happening in the near future. Your examples are all European centric which reached its ...

Under one government. Germany was formed from many nation states as was Italy. Could this happen in the future? What are your 3 or more current counties likely to unite under one government?

I don't see this happening in the near future. Your examples are all European centric which reached its ...

'Cause everything old is new again ... Human population planning - Wikipedia

Paul R. Ehrlich, a US biologist and environmentalist, published The Population Bomb in 1968, advocating stringent population planning policies.[21] His central argument on population is as follows:

A cancer is an ...

Seems that would help everyone instantly. Is the some advantages to having so much salt in the oceans?

Because salt water is life. We carry the oceans within us. Without enough salt in our bodies, we die. We have evolved so that drinking that much salt in the water is dangerous, but that salinity ...

Blind people in society rely on their other senses.. mainly sound, in order to be able to move within society ..

I believe Japan has already required a noise system for electric cars. It might be ironic that future "electric" cars might be noisier than some modern gas engines at pedestrian speeds ...

I'm no fan of conspiracy theories but even Dr. Evil would be proud of this one.
Iowa ... too damn white!
Caucuses ... who the hell needs them?

(This was actually sentiment of major party players months before yesterday.)

So what do they do? They give control to some upstart programming company of ...

All of which will influence the votes of maybe 0.5% of the voting American electorate. Is it worth shutting down government operations for the next two months to achieve that?

The election is pretty much lost as it is. This is the long term plan. None of the presidential candidates have a ...

It's just such a stupid process from start to finish. Accuse him of a crime then submit him to a trial overseen by his own party, who can clear him without having to provide any justification for why they've chosen to clear him. Why even bother when everyone knows exactly how it's going to end? Do ...

It's about time Mexico started enforcing their very strict and draconian immigration laws.

My initial title was too long...

“What happens to organized religions when you start mixing with people of other faiths?”

There are a couple of points to the problem.

First, the state of "Catholic" Catechism is at best horrid and at worst abysmal. Even when the subject is distilled properly it ...

The sad part is that there is a viable middle ground (and there is another viable middle ground - just vegetarianism because I don't want to give up my egg / milk product sauces unless I absolutely have to) that involves just eating fresh foods. I have passed by the fake meat burgers at my ...

It's the Woody Allen quote, "everything that was considered healthy was proven dangerous and everything that was considered dangerous was proven healthy."

The reason why it is so funny it is that is has been proven true, time and time again.

Let's consider the "war on sugar."
Sugar is bad
It ...