Plan B Forum

Comparisons are odious are they not? The English have already been through this and declared the entire monarchy to be non-existent (as did the French). Sadly for the Parliamentarians (happily for the nation), the overwhelming need to have Charles II ponce around in full regalia put the monarchy bac...

So far no one has shown that Manning did anything that is more harmful than beneficial to a democratic society. Where does the constitution say that government has a right to keep facts necessary for a population to govern themselves intelligently, secret from the electorate? Where does it say that...

Lord Jim wrote:Gen'l, I believe you misspoke....

Crowley is the name of the publicity seeking State Dept. official who just resigned after publicly criticizing the treatment The Traitor Manning has been receiving in custody.

The Traitor's name is Bradley Manning....

Very true - lost my way on that one!

His condemnation of homosexual sex between consenting adult IMHO deserves no more attention than his statement that women should remain silent in the church and defer to the men 1 Timothy 2:10. Paul actually writes "I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man" (alternatively: "ove...

Still and all, the slaves were freed, and their owners were not compensated. Was that theft -- the taking of property without just compensation? (By the way, did the resolutions of compensation provide for compensation at fair market value? Just curious.) Or was it simply recognition that the claim...

... and in many liability cases Andrew, for example company A did not purposely hire person X to secretly videotape women in the bathroom, the guilt of company A exists in that they did not take reasonable and proper precautions to prevent what happened. Their non-evil intentions are not an adequate...

Let us suppose that you are correct. Let us suppose that ∞ X 60 = ∞ (read as "an infinite number multiplied by sixty is that same infinite number"). How does that prove that in an infinite past, everything that could have occurred absolutely must have occurred? you made the claim (by way of agreein...

I suppose if he'd put the revelations in a pumpkin for commies to pick up later we'd have to argue that he only gave them to the pumpkin which is not an enemy of the state? http://images.sabob.com/products/images/1/Spy_Pumpkin_Scholastic_Reader_Level,1.jpeg I think LJ is a little harsh there but on ...

When the US emancipated all slaves, the people of the US did exactly that: They collectively determined that something which had been considered property was no longer property, but they did not punish anyone for previously having owned slaves. Should slaveowners have been compensated for the loss ...

His power is to save and to condemn. ie. He has the last word And he/she/it uses that power to subject to eternal torment people whose eternal damnation was absolutely ineluctable before he/she/it created them. (Or, if you like, he/she/it created an eternally existing state of affairs such that no ...

It's the teeth my dear - the teeth.... and those little claws.... now if you were a nice meerkat or a yellow mongoose perhaps so..... I don't say god deny's them (the omnipotent seems surprisingly powerless in this regard). My feeling is nobody should steel. Nobody should Hitler (nice verb). Nobody ...

I have love and companionship with many people of both sexes but that doesn't mean I have to engage in sexual gratification with them does it It's not a case of sexual gratification. For many, making love with their life partner is ultimately fulfilling and brings them close in a very special way. ...

Meade So if you truly believe in god you bscome sinless? unable to do wrong in the eyes of God? that is news to me we are all sinners and will continue to be so until the second coming what "counts" is the endeavor to be a better person not ones success. All have fallen short and all sin is abhored...

Virginal discharge?





Enlarge to normal size? Now who's going to admit the need for that kind of muthi?

Meade - do you really think homosexuals have free will and can just think to themselves "well, tried that - it was fun - now I'll just start fancying the opposite sex"? A murderer can decide "I'll just not kill anyone today". Job done. Nobody hurt. All the murderer has to do is continue each day. Y...

Who would follow a god who made people homosexuals and then punished them for it? Idiotic. Unless you need to hate someone. Real bad. yrs, rubato Granted the logic, why should God punish Adolf Hitler? or anyone at all for anything? It's necessary in framing the red herring question to wilfully igno...

Andrew D wrote:It is not an accident, I think, that the ancients referred to cosmological realities (to the extent to which they understood them) as "the music of the spheres" ....

Them was smart, them old ancients!

So I now have a more satisfying answer as to what that darn table is made out of, but as an altar boy back then, I also asked the other big questions—

I guess that explains a lot. Poor man.

Well Gen'l, I am not a good Christian by any means, but I have to say I am somewhat offended when you refer to "The Roman Church" (The One True Faith) as some sort of "cult"... No better than Mormons ... :( I think you are in the wrong thread? No need to reply here - don't want to divert it from th...

Now why should anyone stop you enjoying a few drinks with friends after dinner?