Tenretian posted: "treetop500" <treetop500@y...> ... Jane ... or ... other ... consideration, ... Here's a quote I think relevant, taken from the racism...
Carl, you wrote: <<Indeed! Loewen is expressing essentially what I am saying in point #4. Eamon, you said in post 5518: <<<< I mean, since you're saying gays...
Eamon, most recently you wrote: << In summary, the only argument against using the word marriage you made which holds water (in my view, and seemingly that of...
Carl, You wrote: <<I would rather move on to other issues, such as our still unfinished discussion on ethics.>> Having carefully considered the pros and cons,...
Hi Ten, From the article: << But what kind of friendship for religion is it that insists that the words "under God" have no religious connotation? A political ...
I'm surprised the SC didn't pass on this one altogether. Left on its own, in the hands of a Scalia, we will eventually be rceiting the Pledge not merely as...
Bernt, Ken, and the rest, I've been a bit busy and I offer my regrets that I have had to let this thread coast for a bit. I shall endeavor to return to this...
I like the form "Treat others the way you would want to be treated", which, if you have healthy beliefs based on science and reason, will work, and if you...
Hari: Well put. "IF, THEN" clarifies it, divides the analysis into more manageable parts. Ken ... be ... do), ... to be ... written as ... goal ... provided...
I visited Dteve's yahoo group and tried to find the relevant text there. I cited what I hoped was the monolaw. Steve ahd taken many versiosn of the Golden rule...
wish I knew computer programming better. A lot of prog has that language so it woudl be posible to even make a program of such If Then and we could complement...
... replaced by sentences like: 'If we want a healthy happy world (and we do),{THEN} (my insertion)we need to treat each other as we would want to be...
Hmm.. I did not post that last message (that claims it is from me) that says, "Please answer quickly..." I hope there is not a virus in my computer that is...
Carl: I'm wary of relying on principles of evolution when making social policy, the tendency is to get it wrong. A common misconception about evolution is...
Carmella Soprano has taken a giant step toward determinism. I wonder how many of the millions of Soprano series (HBO) viewers will follow her lead. In...
I found the following site from which I selected three points about the Golden Rule (GR): http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/goldrule.htm Harry Gensler...
Ken, Previously you said: << I like the form "Treat others the way you would want to be treated", which, if you have healthy beliefs based on science and ...
River out of Eden CHARLES DARWIN lost his faith with the help of a wasp. "I cannot persuade myself," Darwin wrote, "that a beneficent and omnipotent God would...
... I was referring to the pseudo-scientific application of evolutionary theory to humans which constitutes much of "evolutionary psychology" and some social...
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:37:33 -0000, treetop500 <treetop500@...> wrote: "There is also the problem of a pervasive attitute among black children that, to...
I assume this essay by an unidentified college student is fairly representative of the muddled thought process of the average person. I came across it during a...
How about the first one? Over the past 35 years, support for the death penalty has almost doubled (resistance has dropped by about half), while at the same...
For some reason, yahoo did not recognize that the PID=... is part of each link--you need to type in the last bit to get to the correct polls. ... even ... ...