One thing that amuses me about American culture is that despite the existence of a gun culture, this is what I picture as a typical American house:
If you are American perhaps you don't see what is the problem with that, but here's the least I would expect from someone that was actually...
This weekend, on sunday specifically, Brazil will elect its' next president. We don't have the electoral college here, so it is all about having the majority of votes.
We elect presidents using a two-rounds election system. It works like this: We voted for president at the start of the month...
I would like you to look at the following five images and tell me what race (you know what I mean you prankster!) you perceive the person on each of them to be when you look at it, also tell me where you are from. I will explain everything at the end of this post, so bear with me.
Image 1...
As a brazilian, one thing I find reallllly weird about American culture is the concept of paying rent to your parents once you hit 18 years old. How commonplace is this?
Does anybody else also find this weird?
Of course one should help paying the bills, but literally paying a monthly rent to...
What rights, if any, do you consider to be absolute? If so, why?
Absolute rights are those that can not, or should not, be limited under any circumstance.
Most of you are probably aware of the violinist analogy being used in favor of the pro-choice position.
For those of you who don't know what I am talking about:
"You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He...
Please, describe to me what you understand by the term 'spirituality' in the most detailed way you can. Also, please, don't read the other posts before you reply to this post. Everyone is welcome to participate!
For the sake of this topic, you have been granted a joystick with two buttons, the triangle button and the square button. Now here is how it works:
You can press only one button. And not more than once.
If you press the triangle button, the most evil criminal in the world, in your perspective...
I am a brazilian and this is just a curiosity of mine.
What do you know about Brazil?
Have you ever heard about it? Would you know where it is in the world map? Do you know any of its cities by name? Have you ever traveled here? Do you know what language we speak? Do you know anything about...
It often happens that all it takes for someone to accept the notion of something the case, of something being real, is for it to be compatible with what they know about the world. To make matters worse, when what we learn happens to resonate with our own bias we tend to be even more prone to...
"Do wealthier people owe their financial success to skill or luck? Your views on this question may be set by your own financial status, at least according to a study of people playing a card game.
In a simplified two-player version of the game known as “President” (or less politely, “*******”)...
Let me first start by explaining how our presidential election works.
Everyone has to vote, there is a small punishment ( not physical nor jail time, if you were wondering ) if you don't. To be elected the candidate needs to achieve the majority of valid votes, as we call them. An invalid vote...
"An Obama-era regulation that tightened gun checks on mentally-ill buyers has been blocked by the US Senate and could be signed into law by the White House.
The law stopped people who receive disability benefits from buying guns, affecting an estimated 75,000 people.
But Republicans, who...
Source: Chechens protest against Charlie Hebdo cartoons | World news | The Guardian
"Tens of thousands of people have staged a rally in Russia’s Chechnya region in protest against French magazine Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, which the predominantly Muslim region’s leader...
I have been meaning to ask this for quite a while.
What is the purpose of creating the universe(s) on hinduism?
( I know there may not be an unified view on this. Everyone is welcome to answer this question. )
Also, as far as I know, belief in a cyclic universe is quite common across...
A being able to perform miracles on certain occasions, but that is many times limited to simply offering solace to those who seek him by showing the glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel.
At first sight it may not seem like it, but that is a proper way to describe the christian god as...
When i read about Obamacare, and all the criticism aimed towards it, I think the major problem is way all down there on how citizens look towards their government and their country.
It seems to me that we have two ends of a spectrum. On one of them, people that want their government to work...
I am creating this topic to make every user aware of the big loaded "question" that RF presents to us.
User CP >> Edit Your Details
Gender
You identify yourself as this gender 99% of the time.
Options: Undisclosed/Male/Female/Gender-Neutral
Wait....what?
Am i not...