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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Racist attack.

    This is a matter you should take up the chain, as DrFeelGood advised, and does not make an appropriate basis for an SD&D thread, as it will (at best) become ...

    Jan 18, 2015
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: J'suis Charlie/J'suis Ahmed.. J'suis humaine

    This Post is responsive, and will be going off track. Fore-warned is fore-armed. On the logic of "fastest-growing" religion. There's no need to be funny. Rob : I disagree, but ...

    Jan 16, 2015
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is Religion Evil?

    I think this is needless obscurantism. I think you could look at a “social construct” such as the 1830’s-1860’s slave-holding practice in the southern US states and come to a ...

    Jan 16, 2015
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is Religion Evil?

    Slavery is also a social concept.

    Jan 15, 2015
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: J'suis Charlie/J'suis Ahmed.. J'suis humaine

    On the logic of "fastest-growing" religion. Also, Vanz, just a minor quibble, but it's a tad discourteous to use the phrasing "Christians and Catholics" in much the same way that ...

    Jan 15, 2015
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: J'suis Charlie/J'suis Ahmed.. J'suis humaine

    Alternatively it's because they're Christians, rather than Mosaic Hebrews. Seriously, give John or Romans a read some time. EDITOR'S NOTE: Of course, historically, the medieval church was all about th

    Jan 13, 2015
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: J'suis Charlie/J'suis Ahmed.. J'suis humaine

    The problem with "I am human" is that it fails to express the empathy or solidarity of "I am Charlie" or the even better "I am Ahmed". The issue is ...

    Jan 12, 2015
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Would you bring back dinosaurs?

    The people who watched the Jurassic Park films and thought "this it Great! We should totes do this in real life!" Aren't the kind of people who should be making ...

    Jan 9, 2015
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Breastfeeding in public

    All for it in just about every context. It's perfectly normal, natural and healthy and I imagine that people railing against it cause more social dysfunction than the practice itself.

    Jan 2, 2015
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Discrimination of LGBT community

    Thank you for that insight Rubric. I feel like I can understand that perspective better, but I still do have some questions. Even if a person is in the position ...

    Dec 24, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Depictions of Muhammad in media

    chrisevo98: What I want to know is why Muslims don't like depictions of their prophet, needless speculation go. This really disappointed me. You’re a young person living in the Internet ...

    Dec 22, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Illuminati Order

    I intentionally said "pursuing action they perceive to be morally justified" rather than anything more positive, and I believe it to be true. Even those pursuing money or power do ...

    Dec 9, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Discrimination of LGBT community

    This post is not really designed to display my own opinion on LGBT+ rights and marriage, but to paint, in broad strokes, some of the issues surrounding the issue from ...

    Dec 8, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Illuminati Order

    No. Conspiracies surrounding "New World Orders" and the like are a comforting way to try and explain away complex social and political interactions that defy simple explanation or intuitive understand

    Dec 8, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Should "Under God" be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance?

    It may seem like a semantic point, but "Allah" is the Arabic word for God, so Arab Christians also pray to Allah. It's worth remembering this amidst a community increasingly ...

    Dec 5, 2014


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