SergeantLynch

Wow...Didn't know that DT could levitate cheesecake.

Respect.

Then 70% don't.

Though if 30% of members are psychotic displaying violent propensities, then perhaps the moderation team should intervene.

Though I'm guessing that 30% of members are somewhat less mature than the other 70%.

Nonetheless, I see that my nomination was too late.

Next time perhaps.

Perhaps it's more accurate to say that we discriminate according to our preferences.

It was simply one example of the theo-political deceptions of globally expanding religious power houses.

There are no original texts, only supposed translations of original texts from about the 2nd/3rd centuries onwards, as most of the claims made about the life of Jesus, post date his execution and are based upon the supposed hearsay of ex-disciples, who are then subsequently credited with authorship.

Search any subject or disciple in books or on line and what you find is latter day supposition and imagery that is clearly influenced by European culture and European religious organisations.

Biblical tales became and still are to a large degree, the basis of European theo-political ideological oppression and propaganda that has spread worldwide.

"Epstein stuff" is just a cash cow in waiting for media sensationalists and legal eagles.

And the majority of the American electorate vote either for one or the other with little regard for content.

And Trump the being is likely to self destruct fairly soon anyway.

And of course there's always the 2nd amendment and millions of guns available should needs be...Yet another cash cow for media sensationalists.

Yep, such is the intellect and civility of the modern thinking primate and the leaders of the free world.

Just keep your head down linate for there is trouble ahead........Well, there's always trouble ahead.

"Free and open conversation" is what participants are invited to join in with.

Well, from my point of view, it was just another example of power brokers deceiving the gullible by presenting latter day manuscripts as the words of some mysterious earlier prophet type...Gentile is an English word, as is "The Bible" that gets readily quoted, and so neither can be accurate reiterations of 2000 year old hearsay and gossip.

Yep, 8.4 billion short lived blobs of organic goo competing for resources and survival...Who needs a yacht when you've got tranq and a soup wagon to see you through the day.

Choices choices, don't blame failure on success.

Yes, including circumcision...I absolutely agree.

One cannot be picky and choosey when it comes to sexually motivated child abuse.

Though that's the thing, humans are selectively moralistic when needs must.

Yes, is offal popular in Canada.

Flash fried, lightly seasoned, and served with a walnut salad, drizzled with olive oil.

A nice crisp fruity white to cleanse the palate before the sweet course.

Well, population has to do with the perpetuation of the species...Perhaps for a reason or perhaps for no reason...No one knows.

And "innocent" means what?

Innocent is a legal term, or a bit of a heart string tugger when arguing against pregnancy termination or eating meat...So a human thought construct, that as far as we know has no greater universal significance.

Population up to 8.41 billion now.

So nothing to worry about Lucy.

Just think what the population would be if it weren't for mortality.

So it is.

Though the bigger the clump the bigger the issue...And rightly so in my book.

And it really is a woman thing...Also in my book.

7 year olds cannot be aborted...Similarly children are not aborted...Though children can be murdered.

So your simplistic argument is too simplistic, not taking into account the many facets of the human social and physiological condition.

Murder being a variable concept...Just like most similar concepts that tend to fall under the general heading of morals and ethics.

After all, overthink is what it is to be distinguishably human...So "abortion is murder" never addresses the broader aspects of the issue.

Abortion tends to be the cessation of gamete fusion and/or cellular division by choice, relative to a raft of socio-economic considerations.

So Lucy unless you can explain the purpose of everything...Or even more so, prove that there is a purpose to everything; then abortion remains to be a moral travesty for some or a practical solution for others.

"Gentile" is in fact an English word from the Latin gentilis meaning tribe or family...Somewhat misappropriated by religious organisations to mean the opposite.

As such the word gentile is not applicable to much earlier Jewish narratives.

Yet another example of the fraudulent and deceptive dogma to be found in latter day religious publications.

Very little is new.

Most is modification.

Well, unless the instigator is just messing about, then an opinionated argument will always be true, even if the argument is unverifiable or factually incorrect.

Nonetheless, even deliberate messing about comes weighted with truthful intent...Cause, rather than randomness.

Wow, that was jam packed with angst induced metaphor Faux.

So much so that you blew your top and came up with meassnurement.

Of course the Republicans have their own "big tent", wherein performs the orange clown and his acrobats.

I'm very much a cook and kitchen man, much to my wife's approval.

And perhaps we need to distinguish the multi-functionality of the other place, and refer to it as the sleep or sex room...Wherein the bed is simply a piece of furniture that comfortably facilitates such multitasking.

Everyone's bottom line is survival and procreation, but of course thinking primate has long since overthought the basics.

And survival and procreation is a collective necessity somehow written into our organic programming...Yep, begs the bigger question...Why?

But like you say, human nature never changes, despite how much we overthink and complicate our infrastructure and social fabric.

So I have come to think that there is a higher more subtle level of natural control that exceeds even the autocrat and their subalterns.

So, where does this lead us?...Well it's seemingly leading somewhere, as material evolution is not regressive...We're never going to un-invent AI are we?

As I always say, government is always a lesser or greater form of tyranny, relying upon varying levels of force and compliance.

And "communism" tends towards greater tyranny...Making "communism" a sort of self contradiction in one term.

Ironically then, capitalism tends towards a less tyrannical "laissez faire" style of socialism.

Whereas for sure, "Theodicy" is a philosophical concept that relies upon opposing assumptions...Though said assumptions do tend to come with a consistent level of social agreement and generalised rules...However, rules that are easily overlooked if needs be.

Indeed.

Acceptance without proof.

I would suggest that belief is defined thus.

Well one might argue that schools are indeed like prisons, or open prisons...Enforced conditioning of the gullible is essential to achieving a reasonable state of social cohesion...Not so many will go on to self read and question the system...And those that do have little influence over the compliant masses.

Of course, the above is a generalisation based upon longer periods of social stability and doesn't include brief interludes of social unrest and regime change. Nonetheless the outcome of social unrest and change will only seek to re-establish the same system in a slightly different format.

Perhaps that which dictates social order and more importantly progress rather than anarchy and chaos, is reliant up on a natural selection of Hitler's, Sub-Hitler's and various tiers of obeyant underlings.

Exactly.

Though at forum level, if it were "necessary" to define every opinionated statement or word (including "define" I suppose) then we would be forever defining.

So we respond to generally understood words and opinions, generally with generally understood words and opinions, that in the main come with a generally understood meaning or intent.

Maybe at a debating level, one might expect greater clarification.

That's like one of those cat food statistics.

Did they all do a degree in qualified and normal at university.

Though 100 lunatics out of every 900 is nonetheless a worrying statistic.

I wonder who or what will find it first.

I nominate SatanLucy as the most improved site member.

Yes, I will whistle my next comment.