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Glen D replied to the topic What Holy Books Have You Read? in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 1 week ago
“especially the: the world wants you to succeed and you can do anything if you just believe in it” .
Yeah, that idea has been around for a very long time. I first came across it in 1969, in “Bring Out The Magic In Your Mind” by a stagemagician called Al Koran. He called ‘the magic’ ‘The Law Of Attraction” .It surfaces every now and t…[Read more]
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Ivy replied to the topic Harvard Study: Gender Pay Gap Explained Entirely by the Genders' Work Choices in the forum Politics 5 months, 1 week ago
In most of Western Europe companies offer all kinds of flexibility to parents with sick children. I don’t have a single friend in Spain or Belgium whose career was put on hold or faced aggressive bosses because they had to pick up their sick child and take them to a doctor or who wasn’t given a chance to make up for the work or even jus…
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Ivy replied to the topic Harvard Study: Gender Pay Gap Explained Entirely by the Genders' Work Choices in the forum Politics 5 months, 2 weeks ago
And equalising the burden for domestic house work would give women a realistic chance to choose if they actually want to do overtime (as opposed to if they even could do it if they want).
Time for “housework,” has absolutely nothing to do with it. Absolutely nothing Davis. Who do you think takes time off work to take care of the child whe…[Read more]
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Ivy replied to the topic What Holy Books Have You Read? in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 2 weeks ago
It is not trivial to think about the fact that the thoughts that go through your head and the words that come out of your mouth have an impact on your world. Scientific evidence supports the things that she is saying, even if she is seeing them in a way that may not be to your liking. I have found what she is saying to be very true, from…[Read more]
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Ivy replied to the topic What Holy Books Have You Read? in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Oh my God how do you hold all that information in your brain! That was crazy insane. I had to laugh out loud several times reading your response LOL…(In a good way).
That concept of the mirror is very interesting. And I kind of wonder if it’s possible that all religious texts point to somewhat the same thing just in different way…[Read more]
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Ivy replied to the topic
Back to the classic problem in the forum Knowledge 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I answered your question @Davis. Whether you liked my answer is a separate question.
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Ivy replied to the topic
Back to the classic problem in the forum Knowledge 5 months, 2 weeks ago
@Davis I did answer your question.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic
Sunday School 11th October 2020 in the forum Sunday School 6 months ago
Science can answer moral questions.
I like Sam Harris but I find him somewhat infuriating on a number of points, and simplistic. He seems to want to insist on moral objectivity, all the way: to say that 1) it is self-evident that cooperative human flourishing is objectively good; 2) that some things are “factually” morally right or wrong.
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Johan replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 7 months, 2 weeks ago
6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
biological pressure to thrive
OK, so they’re not exactly the same thing, but they are closely related. The first is about the biological pressure for a seed to grow to adulthood. The second is the biological pressure to thrive, survive and reproduce. What is t…
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 7 months, 2 weeks ago
6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
biological pressure to thrive
OK, so they’re not exactly the same thing, but they are closely related. The first is about the biological pressure for a seed to grow to adulthood. The second is the biological pressure to thrive, survive and reproduce. What is the currency of lo…[Read more]
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Ivy replied to the topic Noviembre in the forum Politics 8 months ago
In a functioning democracy, we would have both conservative and liberal ideology is coming together to compromise somewhere in the middle. We have not had that realistically for a very long time… And it’s getting worse. Now what you have is an “us versus them mentality.”
We need somebody who can begin to mend that relationship between…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Third Wave Feminism In Atheism in the forum Politics 8 months, 2 weeks ago
@davis – that sounds like about the size of it. The backlash is real. Why stop, just because there is a backlash?
This sounds like a bunch of hysterical nonsense. Yes, there have been abuses and excesses. That’s to be expected in any liberation struggle. Some people do have too much time on t…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Third Wave Feminism In Atheism in the forum Politics 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Some people have suggested that third wave feminism could qualify as a religion under some anthropologists’ definitions.
I dunno, “some people”, like who, and why should we care? I’m writing something up about the differences between religions and cults because I’ve heard some people say there are no differences, but… it hit me…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Is gender studies a fraud? in the forum Small Talk 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Is gender studies a fraud? in the forum Small Talk 8 months, 3 weeks ago
@davis – it’s unfortunate then, that these dogmatic ideologues give the rest of gender studies a bad reputation.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Is gender studies a fraud? in the forum Small Talk 8 months, 3 weeks ago
@davis – makes sense. I knew it had to be about something, since gender has such a big effect in various areas of life.
But normal men certainly do not wish harm upon women and are not ‘toxic’. There is no ‘conspiracy’ to keep women down.
I see it as like the fabled “white privilege” – it’s not that individuals are necessar…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Who runs the universities nowadays? in the forum Small Talk 8 months, 3 weeks ago
@davis – I think the ideology is toxic, and the leaders of the movement are usually assholes, but the grass-roots men on the ground I see as “lost boys” who have been misled and manipulated by the malignant narcissists in charge. It’s all pretty scary, and does men no favours at all.
At the same time, there needed to be a corrective to the “all…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic
Sunday School July 12th 2020 in the forum Sunday School 9 months ago
I love that reply, @davis. Especially your mums position. That made me grin.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Pastor vs Pastor in the forum Theism 9 months, 1 week ago
Ok then – given our shared, collective history (because that wouldn’t change – you can’t change the past), our current human nature (which hasn’t changed in 6 to 10 thousand years as best as the top anthropologist on the plant can tell, so it’s not likely to change in 200 years), our track-record of self defense and blame s… -
fullermingjr replied to the topic Pastor vs Pastor in the forum Theism 9 months, 1 week ago
Thanks @jakelafort, I was responding to the question from @robert. I agree… no state established religion in the US, and all the ancillary implications therein.
@davis, I too despise the “poison of religion”, and some of what you meant by that phrase I would agree with wholeheartedly but obviously not all. Also, I really don’t care if a bicycle…[Read more]
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