+1 Not a believer myself, but if the Christian God granted Free Will and intelligence divine intervention would make those gifts meaningless....
The story is that when Obama went to Washington he was totally unprepared to assume the presidency. He appointed Summers and Geithner because he...
Casandra: I read a bit about you on your tumblr page. You sound like a wonderful person. Don't let the world get to you. The more sensitive...
Actually no, I didn't know that she'd shown us her face elsewhere. I guess it amounts to the same thing though - if we know her face but have to...
Since you appreciate the female form so much I would assume that you take good care of your own body. Hence you must be one of the ladies who...
Dow seems to be having trouble breaking through that 11670 area. I'm short (by way of DOG) pending a drive through 11700. Anybody who knows what...
Fair enough: "Believing in God carries with it an established moral code." is in itself too general. But I was taking it as a given that we were...
Hitler believed in Wagner, Wotan, and God in that order. He was a nut whose propensity to lunacy showed as the stress of leadership wore him down....
Ironically, even though this is a strong response to Ricter's post it actually tends to reinforce his argument. If I were given the choice as you...
Paul: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. If by 'sincere Christian' you mean a person who...
These protesters look to me like middle class kids. They're aware of and are protesting the completely anti-democratic relationship between Wall...
Actually they were successful only in the 1st part of the war. They had a population of 85 million at the start of the war, a strong economy and...
America. Americans weren't better fighters but they had limitless resources. The American economy was bound to outlast the economies of the Nazis...
Trade on paper for a long time, then try playing with real money. When you actually have your cash on the line you'll discover how fear and greed...
Hitler was very intelligent. He was also very imaginative. He was also very weird. Had the nazis developed the A-bomb first the world's...
I've heard a lot of these kids saying they're protesting the influence Wall St. has on the US gov't. I think it's a legitimate concern for young...
The problem isn't capitalism, it's unregulated capitalism - as in monopolies and absolute concentration of wealth (and power).
We may be storming in a teapot here; I don't suppose it's an important issue but.. Philosophy may be proposition but it's proposition that's...
The earliest scientists were philosophers of the classical period interested in understanding the nature of the material world. After philosophers...
Just a bump. This thread is too excellent and has had too much work put into it to allow it to fade into obscurity. RCG's Girl has a great...
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