That was not because people were obsessed with sex. It was because the people in power were obsessed with maintaining control. As they still are, and always will be. Which is why it has nothing to do with why young people are so obsessed with and confused by the subject of sexual identity these...
"Interpretations" of reality are as much a part of reality as anything can ever be. Because without them, there is no reality for us. PERCEPTION IS CONCEPTION. Neither exists without the other.
But you are assuming that YOUR standard for evidence determines what's a "lower" standard. So in fact you ARE presuming to judge other people's criteria for and use of evidence.
How superior of you. When in fact it appears that it's you that doesn't understand the difference between an...
I didn't post a thing about laws or oppression or punishing anyone for anything. So I really don't see why that's where your mind automatically went when I posted that young people seem to be inordinately obsessed with and confused about sexual identity.
I think young people are thinking and worrying way too much about sexual identity. In my day, we used to identify ourselves by what genre of music we listened to. Not what we wished was between our legs.
I blame this obsession with sexual identity (confusion) on internet porn. Sadly, young...
Science has nothing to do with it. And evidence is any information that is relevant to the question being asked. This requires no "epistemology". Just a little honesty and common sense.
Science has nothing to do with it. Neither does jurisprudence. All that is required is honesty and some...
There is nothing in the story to indicate that. That's just a religious interpretation of the story by religious interpreters and proselytizers.
He didn't know that would happen. And you don't know that the same might happen for you. Also, he was brutally tortured and murdered. But I guess you...
He rose again as a divine spirit because he didn't fail to embody the message and promise of God when he was a man. Why are you trying SO HARD to make this story into something that it's not?
What makes you think he could not have failed to embody the message of love and forgiveness and...
I'm always very puzzled by the fact that people will actually deliberately go to place and sit for an hour or more just to be haranqued by some hyper-religious idiot that apparently thinks he knows how everyone else in the room should be thinking and behaving. I wouldn't last ten seconds in that...
What is the "failure" here? Is it our refusal to listen to listen to the messenger? Is it our failure to take the message to heart? How is any of this Jesus' fault? Jesus delivered and embodied the message to us, even as he was being tortured and murdered for it. So now you want to cheapen that...
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I think you have taken on a very literal interpretation of the NT that has been derived from a lot of fallible human interpretation and translation and imagination.
First, bear in mind that within the culture and society that Jesus lived (patriarchal family clans), the son(s) of a family...
Even just prison privatization has caused serious abuses. Judges not long ago were caught sending minors to private detention centers in return for kickbacks from the greedsters operating those centers.
It is both reasonable and ethical to expect prisoners to work for their keep.
However, it would be very unwise to allow ourselves to force them to do so. As it opens the door to all manner of very likely abuse. We have been down this road in the past, and abuses were commonplace and horrific.
The media is not in the pocket of the politicians. It's owned and controlled by the same oligarchs that own and control the politicians. Which is far, far more dangerous. Because these greedsters are now running things, and they are controlling the information that the people use to determine a...
Shogun, Tai Pan, and King Rat were a trilogy of books written years ago by an Aussie named James Clavell. They are excellent novels, and I think there have been several films made based on them. Clavell also wrote the story The Fly that became two different films over the years.