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A terrible job, but somebody has to do it, right?

This sounds as good as any other theory I have heard, RJ. I personally don't hold to it only because I do not believe the spiritual and the physical are actually separate. I believe they are both part of the one reality in which we all live. Which obviously separates me from all the theists out...

It's a bit more complicated than that. A lot of people joined Castro's revolution to usher in a new democracy. Only that turned out to be a ruse to use people to help him get into power at which time he assumed a dictator role instead. If Castro had been sincere we would have remained friends...

Do you have to? Nope.

Can only express my opinion. I never 'rejoice' at someone's death. I'm often very pleased that a bad person has died. There is no pleasure in it, just an acknowledgement that a bad person can no longer do any more damage in this reality.

It has always been a challenge to separate gifted men's and women's talent, especially when we find out their private lives were not so up to the standard ethical modes we as a society accept as correct. How are the two sides of the person connected. Are they connected? Should they be connected...

A happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates it. A happy day to everyone else!

Welcome. Interesting suppositions. One thought. Does the ability to create an artificial, improved version of us - is that in and of itself all there is to be God?

With respect to Asagai. those who see the changes—who dream, who will not give up are called idealists, those who see only the circle—we call them the pessimists, those who see the past as it is, and who can dream of a different future, tempered by what has come before, those we call the...

Youth today! :rolleyes:

It's not the only relevant measure I can think of; I was trying to get you to participate! Subtle as a sledgehammer, that's me!

So put some forth! Give some examples you think are relevant.

Yep. This is the traditional view of reality, long held by most people, even scientists for hundreds of years. Turns out, from some philosophical points of view the mineral, flora, fauna are all equal to people in the sense that all of it is important because it only works as a whole. Without...

Wow! Wil, you are falling off your eternal optimist cart! Careful there, that is a dangerous path.

This is certainly the popular view, that man is the best that nature has to offer thus far in its evolution. If only evolution were a stepladder where each new species is an improvement over the previous. Unfortunately evolution does not work that way. It picks and chooses randomly. Sometimes it...

I don't got no stinkin' bucket list. I kicked the bucket! list.

Hate to be the doom and gloom guy but I just see little if any reason to be optimistic. Trump is Trump. He is not going to change. When he got into the primary they said he will stop being that guy from the reality show. He didn't. Halfway thru the primary his people started to try and get him...

I wish I could laugh about this. This really happened though and Trump as Pres is NOT going to be a laughing matter. Apologies Lux, don't mean to rain on your parade; this just is not funny to me any more.

That whole system rigged against him, how did that go again?

That is precisely why the electoral college was written into the constitution. The FF did not believe the people would always have the sense to make the 'right' choice for the country. I agree with Wil, though, in that I do not believe the electors will vote against their constituency. If either...