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Do you believe Israel should cease its counterattack against Hamas? If they do, will Hamas try the same thing again? After the atrocities that Hamas committed, Israel has an obligation to neutralize it. We are not talking about Hamas attacking “again”, it is not stopping. The fact that he keeps a m...

it is not up to Putin to dictate what Ukraine can and cannot do or what they can be members of and what they cannot. To understand, you can remember the Cuban missile crisis, when the same United States decided to attack sovereign Cuba and introduced a naval blockade of sovereign Cuba. This was in ...

Do you believe Israel should cease its counterattack against Hamas? If they do, will Hamas try the same thing again? After the atrocities that Hamas committed, Israel has an obligation to neutralize it. We are not talking about Hamas attacking “again”, it is not stopping. The fact that he keeps a m...

Putin invaded Ukraine without himself being attacked. In the conflict in Ukraine, not everything is so simple; before attacking, Putin warned verbally and in writing that he would not tolerate NATO in Kyiv, which was the capital of the Russian state a thousand years before the concept of “Ukraine” ...

Point is some parent can be very evil, and treat the children badly, even to the extreme of incest. Respect for parents thus is a virtue and can vary according to circumstances. How can a person respect a parent who raped them or are always violent? Whereas do not be violent, harm or kill parents i...

Putin invaded Ukraine without himself being attacked. In the conflict in Ukraine, not everything is so simple; before attacking, Putin warned verbally and in writing that he would not tolerate NATO in Kyiv, which was the capital of the Russian state a thousand years before the concept of “Ukraine” ...

Sacred? Sacred = connected with God or a god or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration. Re secular, respect for parents is a virtue a natural evolving spontaneous impulse for the good of the [human] individual, individuals and humanity. Not only "connected with God",...

Nope, None. You? At least the Ten Commandments are sacred to me. And for you, isn’t respect for your parents sacred? After all, for atheists too, respect for parents is sacred, for the time being. After all, a scoundrel, by definition, is someone for whom nothing is sacred. 'You know, we're really ...

But for you personally, is there anything sacred? Nope, None. You? At least the Ten Commandments are sacred to me. And for you, isn’t respect for your parents sacred? After all, for atheists too, respect for parents is sacred, for the time being. After all, a scoundrel, by definition, is someone fo...

Is there a concept of holiness in your methodology? Not too sure of your question? I stated in the OP; 8. For the belief adopted, the truth of reality is not critical, what is primary is whether the belief can soothe the existential angst or not. Up the present, theism [ personal God ] is the most ...

Is there a concept of holiness in your methodology?

the comments on this early Bob Dylan song are encouraging, people are gonna get tired of computerized music eventually, your soul can feel these things. I am so tired of synthetically written lyrics and melody electronics & rap have killed people ears and consumerism has killed their souls. Blow...

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:05 pm
, the Grumpiest Grandma

this Grandpa is simply intolerable.
Whoever disagrees with this, let him be the first to throw a stone at me.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:53 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8R_AD_ ... afophonist

Well, it's a start!

What is particularly natural about acoustic instruments; where in nature would you expect to find a violin? And if you discount any music that has been electronically processed, that gets rid of anything that's been recorded or broadcast. This topic is more for music samples, not theoretical proofs...