I would call Laborer Season - like Deer Season. Anybody caught outside their houses with the intention of going to work could be shot on sight - no questions asked. ;)
Seriously, I think the Seventh Day Adventists have a good policy on their Sabbath. They think it is wrong to cause anybody else...
According to Wikipedia, "ignostic" says God needs to be defined clearly before we can have an opinion. I like this label, because my opinion ranges from "no way" to "maybe" - depending on the definition of God or woo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism
My beliefs change depending on the...
In real life I would probably say I'm a disillusioned Christian
In forum life I would probably say I'm an atheist
I have mood swings that change what I believe. Sometimes I am very cynical and atheistic, other times I am hopeful and Christian-like, sometimes I become obsessed with wooish things...
So what is the ideal Islam in your opinion? Maybe this ideal Islam doesn't exist yet, but how would you imagine it? You don't agree with the Islam of ISIS or Assad, but what group has it right?
Also why do so many Muslims have Islam wrong? Do you think the large number of young people is a...
Any guesses about the future of Islam?
I don't know much about Islam, but here are some of my ideas:
(1) Baby booms create young adults who are troublemakers. The problems in the Islamic nations are most likely a result of high birth rates. Probably the average family size among Muslims is...
The true measure of violence is not ritual violence but warfare. The Aztecs may have sacrificed one person every morning to help the Sun rise, or they might have sacrificed prisoners to celebrate a victory, but the numbers would have been trivial compared to warfare.
When a predominantly...
Here is a study I found from 2000 about a tablet purgative. I don't know why the doctors give people that other stuff when there are better methods.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10968848
Here is an article about Fleet laxative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisacodyl
Here is an article...
I'm coming up on the age where I need a colonoscopy and the horror stories I've heard about that stuff they make you drink to induce vomiting and diarrhea ... makes me wonder if it might be easier to let the aliens examine me.
Many times I read account where people waved to a UFO, blinked a flashlight at a UFO, etc.
What would you do if you saw a UFO? Would you try to attract the UFO's attention? Are you hoping for a free colonoscopy? ;)
Many religions practiced human sacrifice, self-inflicted pain, cannibalism, etc. This seems to have been the norm all over the world. Here is an image from the Mississippian Culture of North America that illustrates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippian_culture
It makes sense to me that knowledge, assumptions about reality, etc. evolve.
These memes can reproduce in different ways:
- from parent to child through indoctrination
- society assimilating hosts from less efficient society (imperialism, McDonaldism, etc.)
- individual acceptance of some sales...
How is it possible for something to exist without having directly observable physical effects?
Hmmm. O.k. obviously it can exist, but how is its existence relevant to humans? If it is relevant to humans, can't we test for its existence somehow? I would like to believe in the possibility of...
Isn't that exactly what the Clinton administration was doing - promoting American hegemony and world domination? That's what the US has been doing since WW2. All the international institutions like the World Bank and the UN and so forth were designed to maintain the American world domination...
^ Another random thought: you would probably need to amputate both feet to have symmetry and maybe there would be some pain and discomfort from the way the prosthetics are fitted.
I worked with a guy who had both his legs amputated below the knee and I never realized that until one day when he...
It seems like several separate but related issues:
(1) pain from good ankle
(2) pain from fused ankle
(3) anger about suffering for decades due to that stupid person that shot you for no reason
Is it practical to use a wheelchair most of the time so that both your ankles can get some relief?
One difference between Bush and Gore might have been political salesmanship. Gore could have counted on the support of most Democrats for anything he proposed - particularly after 9/11, but the Republicans would have been skeptical (the reverse of Bush's situation). Instead of speaking about...
Here is a link from 2000 describing the foreign policy of pipelines.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/business/articles/eav033100.shtml
I don't remember all the details of the Clinton years, but we had the bombing of Serbia to achieve independence for Kosovo. Then we had the expansion of...
I think this is an interesting topic, @blueboy . :)
All the Abrahamic religions include belief in a divine revelation, and history shows that these revelations were slow and messy evolutions from earlier religions.