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To the fifty and sixty-somethings amongst us: "They talk of my drinking but never my thirst." - Scottish proverb Slįinte!...
For some number of far past years this would be the season of solitary drinking. My birthday was usually the initiating factor and I would actually take a jug...
Mary, "Here's tae us; wha's like us? Gey few, and they're a' deid." - Scottish Toast, probably of 19th-century origin. The first line appears in T. W. H....
Ok, so I don't like the term, yet find myself stuck with its associations. This is existlist, after all. My instinct is to reach out first for what is...
L, It has only been over the past six years or so that I have been such so rabidly anti-religion. It would be disingenuous of me to pretend that my revulsion ...
Yes, it is a slow process also, to clarify our respective subjective revulsions, beliefs, scepticisms, in relation to objectively statable claims, made up of...
It is a known fact that domesticated animals over time develop smaller brains than their wild ancestors. One should actually wonder, (given the ordinary...
When passion is numbed by the world, ideas come along and help us feel alive, but they fly back to the hive when desire can no longer be denied. To breathe, to...
Louise can be excused for her dislike of politics, especially America`s bombastic variety. This administration has gleaned much of its power from religous...
"Yesterday a right wing pundit spoke openly of the obliteration of nonbelievers within the US. She proposed a sort of Krystalnight pogrom of philosophical...
you could place the word "government" in the place of "religion" and it would also make sense. Anyone who worships religion or government is equally evil. ...
I guess they forgot acceptance of other beliefs and opinions only applies when we are talking about shades of the left . . . How about a new bumper sticker - I...
Are you saying that antireligion means Left? Was Nietzsche on the left; or Mencken; or Ingersoll? And who ever said anything about hating intolerance? Not me!...
Louise can be excused for her dislike of politics, especially America`s bombastic variety. This administration has gleaned much of its power from religous...
How do we rid ourselves of the power hungry groups that have melded religion and government together? (Where all thinking and living is planned for you.)Maybe...
You should tolerate other beliefs but you should not have to pay for them. When faith based groups promulgate laws that restrict personal freedoms from their...
Unfortunately, history demonstrates that the "mainstream" won't wise up until it realizes that the button pushing won't deliver the satisfactory shock anymore....
Dear Chris: Thank you for your post - I love Martin Buber - and I have read part of his works, but I need to reopen some of the discussion - and regarding...
I still think it's a question of grasping limitation. Without certain facts we can only live in what seems to be, and wait and see if it is. Dawkins puts it...
... I'm not sure if I am countering or agreeing. It seems to me that persuit of absolute understanding and perfect knowledge -- perhaps called fact -- is more...
Dawkins' latest isn't too bad either, if you are interested in a full attack on religion. WS ... From: cruzprdb@... To: existlist@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Yes, I suppose that's a cleaner perspective, that ideas don't have to include facts. Interest is similar to following one's bliss, and who knows where that...
As often happens when posting matter that affronts the established order the message was "lost " in cyberspace. This situation repeats and repeats beyond any...
... "Yesterday a right wing pundit spoke openly of the obliteration of nonbelievers within the US. She proposed a sort of Krystalnight pogrom of philosophical...