Strega

A society can bestow rights, whether it be by consensus or legislation.  No human is born with inbuilt rights. They may be born with needs, but unless their social environment chooses to address these, they will not have those needs fulfilled.

The human basic animal may have urges to ‘thrive’ but the human mind often quashes some of those urges.…[Read more]

@popebeanie It depends if it’s tax exempt.

Would you like to annotate that statement, Jake?  After all, this is a discussion, not a card game 🙂

I would find Tolkien’s Middle Earth and all its critters more credible than any religions. At least the sacred text is non contradictory.

I also think that a common denominator in the religions I can bring to mind, is that all of them appear to have an unprovable belief that is alleged to be objective, ie that others joining the group can learn a…[Read more]

@clearsky wrote : One drawback is that in the G.R ask one to treat others as we would like to be treated.

I think the more primitive issue is who we consider to be ‘others’.  Sexist, racist, misogynist- all acceptable states for a person as long as they are considered outside the group, and therefore not the ‘others’ in the Golden rule as a…[Read more]

It amazes me that they have absolutely no idea how ridiculous they sound to almost anyone not of their particular cult. Does any of this doorknocking actually work?

Theyre all ridiculous. Look at the Mormons. Magic underwear. I can’t….. I just can’t.

Amazing!