Right. My self-frenchification program isn't making a whole lot of progress, but one of the best parts of what French I have learned has been by listening to "older" french songs, like 1930s - 1950s. — Bitter Crank
I've just moved to a Spanish speaking country and I need to learn Spanish.
What are the best methods to learn a second language? Spanish or otherwise
What are the benefits of speaking another language (other than ease of communication)? — JJJJS
individuals should be encouraged to take complete ownership of their sexuality; and they should take that complete ownership at as early an age as possible. — WISDOMfromPO-MO
Social scientists studying human sexuality try to produce objective inquiries, I am sure. But the social sciences do not have the precision of physics, chemistry, etc. and, therefore, we may never know how people really, honestly--honest with themselves, not just others--feel about sex. There is a lot to gain politically by filling that void, and liberals/progressives, not just conservatives, aggressively work to make their ideology fill it and dominate every person's life. — WISDOMfromPO-MO
Is the concept of the present ambiguous? — bloodninja
If people do not have a healthy, safe, legal, free outlet then the result is unhealthy outlets, the thinking goes. — WISDOMfromPO-MO
The liberals/progressives will probably say that they have science on their side.
The scientific evidence shows, they will probably say, that sexually liberated people have healthier relationships, lower rates of unplanned pregnancies, better mental health, etc. than sexually repressed people.
"To limit human sexuality in any way other than consent is harmful!", they will probably tell you. "All of the scientific evidence says so!", they will probably tell you.
If you present scientific evidence of harmful effects of pornography they will probably counter with, oh, "Sexually repressed evangelicals in the Bible Belt consume the most pornography". — WISDOMfromPO-MO
The body is still number one. — Buxtebuddha
Stupid! I was talking about nature in the wider sense, and was a quip in response to the silly statement "Sexual assault can be about sex".
I've never assaulted anyone at anytime for any reason. — charleton
But you are reducing nature to just an ejaculatory reflex, when I've made clear, had you read the whole of my post that violence and power-over is also closely linked to the male sex drive.
Wanking is not enough it's what chimps have to do when in captivity. — charleton
I think we might need to have a few weekly prizes awarded on the Forum.
This one gets my vote for "Bleeding Obvious Comment of the Week". — charleton
As i said above, every man wakes up every morning and has to deny his natural sexuality. — charleton
Sexual assault, we are told, is not about sex. It is about power, we are told.
On the other hand, the recent tidal wave of sexual harassment accusations involves only the most powerful men in society. They already have power over most of the people in their lives, and that power is respected. It seems more like abusing power than asserting power.
Power is not enough, maybe?
The sexual rules, mores, beliefs, attitudes, etc. of conservative traditions make even the highest political and economic power useless, maybe? — WISDOMfromPO-MO
Your comments misstated the Catholic position by stating that transubstantiation exists because the Catholic church said it did. That has nothing to do with the new issue you've raised, which is that you believe my rejection of transubstantiation arises due to my wholesale rejection of the spiritual realm. That statement is incorrect and non-responsive to anything previously discussed. — Hanover
Why are the Catholics the ones who ought be given the authority to render the decree as to what it is. Are they more learned and knowledgable? — Hanover
I was speaking him holistically, since taking things appear always creates something new. In this regard, God and Natural Evolution are equivalent in that they are both used by their adherents as an appeal to some supernatural force guiding the universe, while the individual letters making up each if these words are not. — Rich
It would be like arguing over the differences between H2O and water. Which word do you prefer? The more "scientific" or the more colloquial? Is there something to argue about? — Rich
Then Google is wrong? — Sapientia
Your meaning is rarely clear, and that's a problem. If you're saying that, according to Catholicism, it's metaphorical, rather than literal, then I think you're mistaken, since the sources where I've got my information about Catholicism from state otherwise. Moreover, T. Clark's wife is Catholic, and she thinks likewise.
And what I was actually requesting was an explanation regarding your comments about logical necessity and a priori truth, which you haven't given. I might just resign myself to my suspicion that you were talking rubbish, whilst, in the same breath, accusing us of being silly. — Sapientia
No difference between a belief in Natural Evolution as the Almighty Force or God. — Rich
If you proportion belief to the available evidence, then no, they're not comparable. There's a lot of evidence for particle-wave duality. There's not a lot of evidence for transubstantiation, unless you lower the bar and allow for hearsay and funny feelings, which I'm not willing to do. — Sapientia
Yes, I agree with the absurdity of expecting people to believe in a literal interpretation, and that there's special pleading involved. If I were a Christian, I would definitely not be a Catholic or an Eastern Orthodox Christian. I would be a Protestant. — Sapientia
Yeah, mystical experiences are real, people experience them, you know — Agustino
There is always goal oriented reasoning whether it be God-based or Natural Evolution based. They are equivalent. — Rich
Okay, so how does this translate into economic value? Who exactly, in what industry, would be helped? — Agustino
1) Explaining human existence as the result of God's Design is no different than explaining human existence by Natural Evolution. Both explanations are based upon faith that such forces exist. — Rich
2) In so far as the evolution of the human body and mind is concerned, it is no different than anything else, it is the result of a process of creative experimentation. In other words, just like art, it is a continuous process of learning and change. — Rich
I don't think arguments from design are valid. — Cuthbert
Trading of fictive commodities without much underlying value is always a zero-sum game. — Agustino
Can't and will not happen, nothing can stop killer robots from happening, and the smarter they get the worst the danger to humanity.
The military does not like sending death notes to parents, wives, children. The only ones to get notified when a robot bites the dust is the supply officer. — Cavacava
Who says that things that exist--organized or not; complex or not--must be the result of a process? — WISDOMfromPO-MO
Once again I ask, which came first the Cryptolock or the Cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrency became the vogue way of paying off the ransom to those who Cryptolocked their systems. I am pretty sure that the very lock I am speaking of was attempted at PF but there was no money to be had, so they unlocked it and moved on but not before making financial requests of Paul while holding the forum hostage. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Jackson Pollock paintings are not random,they just use different methods for applying pigment and if they were not pleasing, Pollock rejected them and tried again.That is not random. — Jan Sand
Pissing competitions. Meh. — Banno
Tell me more. — Banno
Except Wittgenstein?? — Banno
Why? A child can tell what is true from what is false. It takes a philosopher to doubt such things. — Banno