Lars

And progressives bear a lot of the blame.

You guys have lived apart from the rest of the advancing world for so long you’re so completely out of touch with what progressive even means. What these people are proposing is absolutely nothing revolutionary, controversial or extraordinary. They are proposing a very minor (and I’d say even…[Read more]

but share the views expressed by Trump on the four female Democrats.

But the status-quo works out quite comfortable for us straight white men. All Trump is trying to do is maintain the same way of doing things forever and writing a few harmless spicy tweets for those hateful women who viciously attack the standard-operating-system. Imagine a…[Read more]

@Ana sounds very toxic. I can stand religious people occasionally talking about their stupid religions. I cannot tolerate them bad mouthing races, genders etc or piling on the hate. It’s one thing to respect different opinions…it’s another to allow toxicity into your life…especially someone so quick to dehumanise others .

Seriously folks, when I read this I took it as an objective, dispassionate view of how humanity has historically abused people with no power, and profited from their toil

Nope. Not when you begin an explanation of something atrocious with a “to be fair” disclaimer. Yes, it admits that it was bad, but it tries to jam it into a history of other’s…[Read more]

people are livid that no English politician actually used the word”racist” to characterise

Actually Corbyn did.

Telling four Congresswomen of colour to “go back” is racist. But the Tory leadership candidates can’t bring themselves to say so.

We should stand up to Donald Trump, not pander to him for a sweetheart trade deal which would put our N…

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I think the reactions of world leaders says everything, most especially the first one:

That’s not how we do things in Canada.

Trudeau

We take the view that our parliament should be a representative place, it should look and feel like New Zealand, it should have a range of different cultures and ethnicities, and never should a judgement be made…

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It is astonishing how quickly western civilization advanced once the chains of religion were thrown off. It was like BOOM electricity, BOOM airplanes, BOOM deep understanding of physics, BOOM dna, BOOM landing on the moon. Along with enormous progress in human rights, a kinder society and stable politics. Wow. Yes, the moon landing really is a…[Read more]

The most problematic thing for me is that I don’t know why it happened.

She became an ugly person. I am very skeptical that religion explains it all. Religion simply has the ability to bring out the ugly and crazy in people. From what I’ve read from you, the answer seems to be entirely within the conflict and problems in her life. If you are a r…[Read more]

The person you miss, is not actually the person she is now.  The person you miss has gone, and is unlikely to return.  The person she is now, is totally incompatible with you.  Not because of her faith. Because of her attitude about her faith.

She may at some stage mellow, or deconvert, and then she will be yet another person – who you may or ma…[Read more]

Even people who accept evolution believe in “heaven”.

Yeah, and Elvis is a live and living in Tweed, Ontario. He performs twice a year. You should go check it out.

Anyone who’s been under general anesthesia knows what it’s like.

Indeed. Under certain kinds of anesthetic, it’s like nothing happened at all between going under and coming back to Earth. It’s slightly creepy. But I think a more interesting comparison is simply: before you were born. Remember what life was like before you were conceived? Tha…[Read more]

I since learned that Facebook is NOT the place for anything resembling a meaningful or intelligent discussion

Yes. I don’t think you are losing much by disengaging from social media.

To laugh at my weight struggles? To put me down?

Be it religiously motivated or not he sounds like a toxic asshole. A 15 page rant under any circumstances is extremely agressive. Smashing you over the head like that with your belief/non-belief is ugly to say the least. Accepting an apology but not giving one? Allowing a facebook post to wreck a…[Read more]

It most likely happened because she was terrified that you’d talk her out of her new comfort – sort of like an ex-smoker who gets all up in the faces of people who still smoke.

(Also, please could you use some paragraph breaks next time?  It’s a bit tough to read a huge block of text with no breaks!)