You're taking Einstein way out of context here. And mixing metaphors. Chains do not "dog" anyone. The metaphor of the chain in this case relates the dogma or religion with the chains of the slave. Just as the slave who has thrown off chains "after hard struggle" still feels the weight of those chains, he suggested…

Dawkins has never, that I've seen, suggested that people should not be able to choose. In fact, he wants very specifically for children to be able to choose what they will believe rather than simply being told by their parents what to think.

I read Dawkins' The God Delusion and I found it an intellectually brave and well-argued piece of work. He didn't push his philosophy at me; he published a book. He goes to places where he's invited, and speaks or debates. He doesn't gate-crash Sunday school picnics. I know he's been described as arrogant by his…

I like to think that if Einstein saw the misuses and evils to which religion was being used so many decades later, he might have changed his tune. Call Dawkins a professional atheist if you like, but he doesn't murder children, force women into abusive marriages, or call for war. That second passage you quote,…

However, many cultures refer to their god colloquially as God, so yes.

Jesus, the father in question says the school is publicly funded, and there is also a question about Canada that appears in another photograph he took. I think this may be a Canadian school, perhaps even more specifically an Ontario school. What's wrong with education here in Ontario is that we're using public money…

It's a funny comment, and I thought the same, but just because it was written in a book, and the others were not, it doesn't make it any more correct. All the supplied answers were equally wrong in the sense of not fitting geography curriculum. This student did not fail — she protested in taking a courageous stand…

As others have said, this is a myth. Check Snopes and spread truth.

Lay down the boogie and play that funkei music till you die (from the 15 tonnes per square inch bite force)...

I like that definition. But I still want the argument first.

I've told Lewis Carroll to pack it in time and time again. He just won't listen.

Issues of right and wrong are rather easily determined for you my Paduan. For me, not so much. I think it necessary to apply some critical thinking to define what we see as poetry. I think that the reader has a role in defining the text. By your definition, I can call this response a poem and it magically is so. …

Why?

Yo, I don't think people are confused about this so much as they don't subscribe to your rather low standard for what makes a poem. If I stand a few twigs together and call the result a building, that doesn't make it so. By your standards, I might even be able to call it a poem. If all that we have as a standard is…

If that's how you want to define it, then fair enough. I'm not much interested in arguing semantics. The next question, then, is: is it any good? In all three cases (my silly re-linings and the original poem) my answer is not really. I thought that poem too prosaic, its use of language too commonplace. I…

Then so is this:

I must say I agree. This is quite the definition of prosaic. I didn't even find it all that thought-provoking. If that's the best science poem you read this month, then it's been a poor month. I submit, in competition, the following. Personally, I find the last two lines absolutely perfect.

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I'm going to just go ahead and quote from the article you linked: "Over time, the costume selection extended to include popular characters from fiction, celebrities, and generic archetypes such as ninjas and princesses."

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