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  1. PureX

    Interview: My thoughts about some current issues. (possibly not safe for everyone)

    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...
  2. PureX

    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    "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.
  3. PureX

    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    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...
  4. PureX

    Interview: My thoughts about some current issues. (possibly not safe for everyone)

    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.
  5. PureX

    Republican found to be a ****. Police not called.

    Fourteen months is hardly a puppy, and once a dog has gotten a taste for blood they become a danger to kids, pets, and wildlife.
  6. PureX

    Interview: My thoughts about some current issues. (possibly not safe for everyone)

    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...
  7. PureX

    Republican found to be a ****. Police not called.

    Depending on where and how one lives, this sort of thing is not unusual.
  8. PureX

    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    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...
  9. PureX

    Was there ever even the slightest chance of failure?

    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...
  10. PureX

    Is forced labour in prisons ethical?

    Many things that are ethical may not be practically achievable.
  11. PureX

    Was there ever even the slightest chance of failure?

    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...
  12. PureX

    Question for Christians. What do you think about what this Pastor has to say?

    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...
  13. PureX

    Was there ever even the slightest chance of failure?

    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...
  14. PureX

    Question for Christians. What do you think about what this Pastor has to say?

    The term, "a confederacy of idiots" comes to mind.
  15. PureX

    Was there ever even the slightest chance of failure?

    I 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...
  16. PureX

    Is forced labour in prisons ethical?

    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.
  17. PureX

    Is forced labour in prisons ethical?

    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.
  18. PureX

    The Profit of War

    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...
  19. PureX

    Shogun

    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.
  20. PureX

    If you had psychokinesis.Would you make the opposite gender's clothes disappear?

    I can see no point to doing such a think. Unless maybe I saw 12.
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