Tag: culture
group name: bothsidesoftcoin
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October 21, 2006 09:20 PM EDT --
No matter how much things have changed through the ages, much remains quite the same. We still live in a time when Christian conservatives would like to legislate their religious beliefs on the rest of . . . more
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September 02, 2006 04:55 PM EDT --
I just have one question. I do mean to write this with all do respect. I don't have anything against any state, but, why is it that when Hurricane Katrina hit the gulfcoast, all I hear on the news . . . more
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July 26, 2006 01:34 PM EDT --
Many people have all kinds of crazy mixed up notions about thinking. To hear them tell it, it's a tricky business, requiring careful attention to details and laborious comparing and evaluating. . . . more
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October 10, 2006 07:51 PM EDT --
It's quite easy to be a jerk. And it's pretty easy for a jerk to think they aren't. These two things kinda go hand in hand, a match made in hell, you might say. There's a little rhythm . . . more
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August 09, 2006 01:51 AM EDT --
We don't learn so good, we humans. Our 'tribal' tendencies don't yield to reason, despite the long bloody history, and catastrophic failure, of the 'us vs them' mind set. . . . more
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September 19, 2006 04:27 PM EDT --
A lot of people think that Girls Gone Wild and its ilk are just harmless "fun" and they don't see what the big deal is.
But these types of images of women do affect women, every day.
I . . . more
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October 02, 2006 10:47 PM EDT --
I hate to get mean about politics. It usually isn't necessary or productive, but things have gone too far in this country. We are drifting perilously close to the abyss of fascism, and it's time . . . more
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January 08, 2007 11:14 PM EST --
There seems to be a bit of confusion about what a person is. Well, actually the problem is better described as confusion about what a person is not . . . I guess.
I often hear persons speak of . . . more
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August 04, 2006 08:59 AM EDT --
A disturbing trend seems to be occurring. People are calling for an increase in violence. They site a grave threat from terrorists and Islamic extremists as the bases for a need to become more ruthless . . . more
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November 25, 2006 09:50 PM EST --
It has become clear to me that many people do not grasp the notion of "God". The general concept this notion revolves around is that such a "Being" would have capabilities . . . more
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November 12, 2006 02:55 PM EST --
Political pundits spent the past week trying assess and understand the mid-term elections. Why did Americans vote the way they did? Did the Democrats really win, or did the Republicans simply lose? Has . . . more
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July 26, 2006 09:58 AM EDT --
(A note on the use of masculine pronouns in relation to God: I fully acknowledge that God is not exclusively male in nature, nor indeed exclusively sexual or singular. Please understand that it would be . . . more
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February 29, 2008 04:18 PM EST --
The following story, based on a 2004 visit to Bangkok and set largely in a strip club, is one of the more sensitive pieces I've . . . more
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October 27, 2006 08:34 AM EDT --
The mind is an investigator. That is why we have a mind.
The mind is for figuring things out. It is extremely good at this, and if we don't misuse it for other purposes, it makes us very intelligent . . . more
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October 29, 2006 11:41 PM EST --
The defining record of my youth is Free to Be...You and Me, by Marlo Thomas and Friends.
This groundbreaking record, first published in 1972, is still on sale today and features stars such as Alan Alda, . . . more
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June 12, 2007 11:34 AM EDT --
It’s all the rage, and apparently has been from the get-go, to proclaim some wonderful thing we have concluded to be true, and insist that all ought to agree with it. It’s that last . . . more
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November 22, 2007 08:31 PM EST --
There is a logic which, if employed, results in a rather convincing illusion. The logic goes; To be free, the mind must not be encumbered by belief in any specific "truths" or . . . more
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December 10, 2006 01:28 AM EST --
A few days ago I wrote an article about a new friend I'd made at The Second Cup.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976854869
Hande and I started talking about our backgrounds. . . . more
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November 05, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
No Reward
Temptation so taboo,
their unmatched rings a threat,
they danced around desire
in a place removed from trust
Down her gentle neck and back
her hair was softly flowing,
his eyes . . . more
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August 17, 2006 06:05 AM EDT --
George Corneliussen
First of all, did you know that we no longer call those close to us friends ? That's right, the world of academia has spoken, and the word on the street is that we now refer to . . . more
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