Dang Martin

@Belle. How do you know the voice isn’t the Devil?

Santas gifts are tangible.

On a side note, I was over in Cologne (Germany) one December and discovered that their version of St Nicholas is a very different kind of Santa – he has a sidekick called Black Peter too.  If you’ve been a good little boy/girl, St Nicholas gives you the normal gift type of reward, but if you’ve been a bad little…[Read more]

@Reg. Oh dear

This is Plan A?

If the Trump administration sticks to power politics, the best of the bad options might be to attack at the earliest stage, before North Korea acquires a fully deliverable nuclear capacity.

If you are holding out for impeachment, perhaps you should scan over this easy-to-read snippet on the matter of presidential impeachment…  https://www.thoughtco.com/presidents-who-were-impeached-3368130.

So Plan B is hope?

I don’t think there’s ever been an impeachment that resulted in the departure of a sitting President.  Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.

To impeach, you need a significant majority of congress to unite.  This is practically impossible at present with the Republican majority.  If the democrats turn that around in 2018, then there is a s…[Read more]

I call every religious ‘leader’ “Preacher man” after Aretha Franklin’s magnificent song – some of them don’t seem to like it, but hey, it’s kind of accurate 🙂

The reason women can have abortions was laid out in Roe v Wade in the Supreme Court in 1973 – it has to do with autonomy over ones own body.  It has nothing to do with rape – rape was cited as an extreme circumstance wherein those people who object to a woman having an abortion might find some grey area to agree.  I still find it astonishing t…[Read more]

David this topic appears to have moved away from a generic ‘moral question’ and is now becoming detailed to a level that conflicts with philosophical debate.  Are we now discussing an actual situation?  Yours?

What do you think should happen?  Should the baby grow up knowing its father rejected it?  What is YOUR perspective on how this should pan out?

David, regarding rape, the man gave consent at the point of conception.

I also rather like Belle’s perspective!

There’s an inescapable obligation already in place.  The admission of paternity is already made. Putting the fathers name on the certificate benefits the child.  Refusing to do so merely renders the father obstructive.  He’s the father.  He’s not denying paternity; he can’t under the circumstances you painted. Recording the fact on the birth cer…[Read more]

Yes. It’s hard enough for an unloved baby to progress in this world. The father IS the genetic father.

Oh Simon, Simon…  The Bible is full of an angry jealous god who blights people for entertainment, anihilates swathes of people, drowned pretty much everyone, set bears to eat children, and don’t let me understate the smiting.  The word “laughter” is only present in that terrible book if you pluck it out of the word “slaughter”.   Calling it a bo…[Read more]

@Simonpaynton you have to be kidding me, right?  You’re using the Bible to support your theory?  So on this tiny blue dot, in a nano-moment of time, in a tiny corner of the tiny planet, a bunch of men collected the musings of another bunch of men, then selectively bound them and called them “The book” and this is your evidence?  I had to check tw…[Read more]

It’s a huge leap from Deism to Theism.  That there could have been a sentient creator is a conceptually feasible idea. That this creator then gave a shit about a tiny blue dot in its massive creation is highly questionable.  That human beings are then imagined not only to be the reason for the creation, but also involved in regular communication w…[Read more]

See Belle, I completely agree here.  If you’re not taking Gods word via a human interface, but listening inside your head, you’re pretty much doing what I do, but I think of it as consulting myself.  I’m not saying I’m right and you’re wrong!  I’m saying we have different interpretations for pretty much the same thing 🙂

@Simonpaynton The whole ‘thrive’ concept smacks of Ayn Rand, looking out for yourself.  The co-operation aspect is simply more Ayn Rand looking out for others only because it benefits yourself.  If it were not so, philanthropists would make up the bulk of our populations.  Instead, we have the opposite.

Humanity will most probably join the ot…[Read more]