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Heh. The part I bolded there was the only bit in The God Delusion (yes, I did read the entire book... don't bash what you haven't read ;)) where I wholeheartedly agreed with Dawkins. The issue I have with the tradition of child baptism is one of the many things that irreconciliably separates me...

Unless you count Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam... ;) ...who very probably never met each other in person. Depending on what theory is correct, they may have lived as long as 160.000 years apart.

Isn't it "that really drives you insane"? R. and I make a habit of re-watching RHPS together every October... so it's relatively fresh in my memory at the moment, hehe.

What do ya wanna know? I don't have any topics to spam the boards with, and the majority of other threads are (obviously) far out of my area of experience, but I'm fine chiming in on this one and similar ones (like that one on poly and virginity a year back) if and when I can. Obviously, it's...

Ah, okay. That's a vital bit of info I didn't have... it's nothing I can personally relate to - i.e., so not my personal cuppa - but I can accept and respect that it's a massive game changer in regard to the reply I gave (which, in general, I do still fully stand by) for folks who have freely...

Whoa, no. That's absolute bullshit. His penis, his rules. It absolutely does not, and should not, matter what she wants to do with it. If he says no, then that's no. End. Of. Story. And if Debbie is frustrated by that no, that's her problem and hers alone, he shouldn't make it his. If she can't...

This doesn't sound like you're asexual, but like celibacy/abstinence. You are suppressing (or trying to transcend, or whatever you're okay with calling it) your desire for sex. If you were asexual, you simply would not have any desire for partnered sex to begin with. Of course, in practice...

This. "Multiamory" is fine and dandy, but "polyerosy" gives me facial tics, lol.

Yeah... if you're like me and consider all parties to the right of the Greens as outright unvoteable (;)), you're in for a lot of patience here in the current sitch. Merkel doesn't seem to be going anywhere soon. Well, at least we have Greens and Socialists/Leftists with seats in our national...

Not sure if you're confusing it with the precedent case of a FMF civil union in Brazil? I haven't heard anything like that from Europe, yet... but I may just have missed it. Anyway, fat chance of it happening over here in Germany in the near future... I don't think our majority party, Merkel's...

Nah... the obvious solution to Twilight is "run far away from both, as fast as you can". (Even though Jacob seems a bit less of a douche than Edward and OHMYGODWHYDOIEVENKNOWTHIS. ;)) Not a movie, but a TV show episode... Star Trek DS9's "Looking For Parmach In All The Wrong Places". I just...

I think that another footprint he'd leave, if he were around today, would be a sweltering red one on the butts of a lot of the folks who are most vocal about how popular he is with them. ;)

Hehe, +1. I guess being pleasantly drama-free and without "throes of passion" (one bad month of major drama/crisis in our six years was very much the exception, and I think we wouldn't have lasted if it had been the rule) is something I'd see as a key factor in why R. and I are still doing fine...

I'm aware of that (except the Sicarii/Iscariot bit - that was news for me, so thanks for telling me :)). His beliefs were quite a tad beyond and more radical than just the usual love thy neighbor bit, though, so summing it up as just run-off-the-mill Judaism is misleading. There is a lot of...

Great teacher who taught us to love one another. The only reason why I didn't check "just a man" is because being such a teacher is more than most people accomplish in their lives. I don't think "brother Yeshua" had more divinity in him than you or me do (as a panentheist, I believe human is to...

Yeah. It was never intended as a statement about objective/universal truth. As I said above already, the one and only objectively true statement I know is "thought exists". :) I find it pretty awesome that minds/personalities can work so differently from each other that the same thing that...

No, empirical science is based on the unproven and unprovable belief that there is an objective universe about which meaningful statements can be made by collating subjective sensory data. That belief, in itself, is no more substantial than [name of deity X]ism; it's equally axiomatic and has...

Because the only thing we can know for certain is that thought exists. (One step beyond Descartes' famous "cogito"... I do not even have proof that it actually is me doing this thinking.) Everything else requires going with unproven and unprovable assumptions (= blind faith). And yes, this...

Other. I'm a panentheist. Technically, I'm a pretty strong agnostic (i.e., I'm certain beyond any reasonable doubt that it's impossible for any human being to ever objectively know the answer to that question, so, being human myself, I obviously don't know the answer, either); in...

Yup, that actually sounds perfectly fine to me. :) I'd think at this point it stops being a rule within the relationship, but a condition to be fulfilled to even be in that ship in the first place.. but that may well be just a case of the old "potayto, potahto" depending on what viewpoint one...