It's possible, but you have to be A. good, and B. lucky. There's a lot of excellent artists out there who never get recognised and never make a living from it. There's also, (IMPO) quite a few mediocre artists who get more recognition than they deserve. So, what's your art? Is it something...
I'm pretty comfortable believing the whole Adam and Eve story is an analogous story about a folk memory of the switch from hunter gatherer to settled agriculture. I have no problem with the idea of original sin, but I believe that's simply part of our human nature, it's not because someone who...
If you ignore the fact that new industries are created to fill the gaps left by the "destroyed" ones, I guess? Or the fact that people leaving obsolete jobs can get employed in new industries. Or did you worry that the automotive industry would destroy the buggy whip industry and put blacksmiths...
FYI, it's easier to get a firearms licence here than a car licence. The whole "Australia banned guns" thing is a myth. I own 5, perfectly legally, for example. For some weird reason there is a core of Seppos who love mischaracterising minor and fringe Australian legal matters as somehow meaning...
Scumo hitched his wagon to the fossil fuel industry a long time ago and is seriously neck deep in the sunk cost fallacy. It's pretty well understood here that our only hope is to vote him out at the next election, he proudly and pig headedly refuses to change position on any issue, no matter the...
It's really pretty simple. Catholics are right, Jesus, the Son of God entrusted his church to Peter, the first Pope, and we have an unbroken papal line back to him. Other religions, sects and denominations are all interesting in an intellectual exercise kind of way, but if you want a definitive...
Anything to justify special pleading based handwaves of an argument that makes him deeply uncomfortable if approached with anything approaching intellectual honesty.