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Simon Paynton wrote:

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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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]

@Davis:

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]

@davis – that sounds like about the size of it.  The backlash is real.  Why stop, just because there is a backlash?

https://dplore.fandom.com/wiki/Third-Wave_Feminism

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]

Anonymous wrote:
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]

@davis – there’s this:

@davis – it’s unfortunate then, that these dogmatic ideologues give the rest of gender studies a bad reputation.

@davis – makes sense.  I knew it had to be about something, since gender has such a big effect in various areas of life.

_Robert_ wrote:
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]

@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]

fullermingjr wrote:
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…

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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]

@davis, Great response.  It’s the latter, an explanation based on “some rational argument grounded in a reasoned moral system”.  You have provided some excellent material for me to chew on, specifically the idea that “virtue ethics and utilitarian ethics …have had a massive influence on contemporary western ethos [and] human rights”.  Clearly I…[Read more]

@Davis

i’ll read both in their entirety and get back to you. I will weigh them like mene mene tekel upharsin.

@Davis

I will defer to Jakelafort’s comment.

And not to be nip picky, the term I used was “atheistic perspective”