The Hall of Fire

Oh, it was just a little sad, for just a moment. Not to worry.

Well, just so Cerin isn't left dangling out there by herself ;), I thought the fridge magnet was not particularly funny. Not that Frelga shouldn't have posted it! Obviously, some here DID think it funny. Just, well, for me? ... I didn't get the humor. I didn't take it as a poke at Christians, either...

Well, struggling is a pretty common reaction for a human trying to understand the constructs of an infinite mind.

When an infinite mind tries to fill a finite mind, there's going to be spillage.



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Thank you about the quote, btw! I still enjoy it.

Pearly Di:

I, for one, am very glad you have participated in this thread. Your kindness shines through your every post!

*tiptoes into thread, grumbling to yov for introducing such a a loaded subject :P* I had this very same issue come up for me about 5 years ago. I was working on an Easter Sunday... three Easters in a row, thank you very much, and I've already expressed my thoughts on this experience elsewhere on th...

Hmmmm.... although you can imagine hearing those words from me and disregarding them with little more than curiosity, I would certainly be politely interested in what you believe, as I hope to be with all beliefs I hope that what I wrote did not lead you to believe that I would disregard your profes...

I know that blanket statements are generalizations and cannot possibly be true of everyone. But I don’t consider it necessary in a political discussion to list all the people who might be exceptions to the rule. If we are talking about how people are going to vote, or whether there will be public s...

Anth, Whoa! :D :horse: I think that BECAUSE I have beliefs that matter to me, I can 100% understand someone having beliefs that matter to them as well. It seems that you know people who feel they way you describe, and are extrapolating the feelings of those people to the general American populace. ...

Alatar, thank you for posting that here. I can't quite make myself look at it right now, though... I'm not strong, that way. :( but what we have trouble doing is imagining that 'foreigners' find their own beliefs as legitimate as we find our own; I completely disagree with such a blanket statement. ...

I see that there hasn't been one administration (with the possible exception of Jimmy Carter, who was, I think, a genuinely good man) that hasn't used tactics like these at some time or another Gosh, Imp, this is such a good point, and one I was thinking about yesterday (as I was planting my new ra...

Okay, so they should tell us about these operations. Right? It isn't that they should tell us about the operations (speaking now about the domestic spying). It's that they should tell the appropriate people so that there can be oversight, so that power can't be abused. I very much agree with that. ...

particularly since not four months ago the administration was claiming that revealing this information would potentially cause a security risk, and it refuses to say why that is no longer true Okay, so they should tell us about these operations. Right? Or else everyone will think they're not doing ...

Does anyone else see that response of the Iranian newspaper as kind of... well... childish? You stick your tongue out at us, well we'll stick our tongue out at you, see how YOU like it? I say ignore it. Ignore the dumb Anne Frank joke, too, because in the end, it IS dumb. Whatever. That person is ju...

30 years ago in Ireland it was such a stigma to be an unmarried mother that many who wanted to keep their children were foirced to either have abortions in England or were sent to places like the Magdalene Convents until they had their children, which were then given up for adoption. Times change. ...

My statement stands.

I think that's going a bit too far, Cerin. I know many good people who give an awful lot of time, money and energy for programs for unwed mothers and foster children, including people who are very much against abortion. Many people are led to help the defenseless, not only the ones on the "corr...

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I'll bet you knew about the E.coli, too.


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To address a point earlier in the thread (from Jnyusa, I think): ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny Fascinating theory. Love it. It's one of the things that will always stick in my mind, just because it was such an interesting topic in our high school class. It is TOO cool. Also: E. coli is not a para...

But is that a problem with the rating or the parent?

It's always the parent's fault.

We parents know that.