The More You Know: "Immaculate Conception" refers to Mary (the mother), not Jesus (the child). Mary had to be without sin in order to give birth to the messiah, and since everyone is born with Original Sin according to the Church, she therefore had to be "immaculately conceived."

That record is sealed, but what's posted publicly isn't. I remind my son of this constantly, especially as he enters the prime age for being stupid for stupidity's sake.

That's nice, Ruth. My state, Arizona, will revert immediately to the law which has been on the books since decades before Roe. One to five years in jail for the doctor and the woman for abortion or even attempting to get an abortion.

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THANK YOU. This thread was giving me hives. There is no way a CEO is working 400 times harder than the rest of their employees. It's pretty much common knowledge that CEO pay in the US is completely out of control. The boards offer no control, b/c they're packed with other CEOs buddies who see nothing wrong with…

Or they could just run the company into the ground, rob the pension to line their own pockets, and skip town to plunder again in a brand new executive job. While there are some good CEOs out there who do well by their companies, right now corporate culture favors the leeches, encouraging the complete destruction of…

You do realize that CEOs tend to make 400 times what their companies' "average" employees make, right?

"I really hate it when people get down on CEOs for making a lot of money."

Next most obvious target candidate: Catcher in the Rye.

Not sure why the tone of this article was so snarky. To Kill A Mockingbird is irrefutably an absolute classic, you don't need to try to make yourself seem better than the plebs by acting like it's nothing special.

Not to be a huge downer here (even though I'm about to be) — these cubs are super cute, but FUCK the world's obsession with white tigers. They're ALL inbred, they are not a separate species, and continuing to try to produce/"conserve" them is just awful. So many of them are stillborn or born with awful deformities,…

Unfortunately, white tigers aren't particularly rare, nor should they be bred. Most of the cubs end up with pretty terrible birth defects because they're so inbred to preserve the trait.

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while "but the boyzzzzzz" reason is stupid as fuck, these are *8th* grade girls. I don't like the idea of 13/14 yr old girls feeling the need to be all sexy and go strapless. there's plenty of time to be sexy - 13 isn't it. /old fogie

You've obviously never worn a skirt. First off, there's nothing scary about a skirt (wait, that's your measure for bravery? Discuss...) and they don't tend to inhibit ones ability to walk, unless you like to date people who wear period costumes... which is totally cool. Truthfully, I would dress for the…

First of all, it's not officially sanctioned. All proms are private events funded and hosted by the students and their parents. That's how they're still getting away with this shit.

Yo doc, I don't want a second job either! But hey, is it really work to cook, clean, shop for groceries and wash clothes? I am sure you would call that "wedded bliss" as long as you didn't have to lift a finger, amirite?

Aside from the suspects being Muslim and from another country, how do you know that there was a political motivation behind the bombing? They had no ties to any terrorist groups and there has not been any statement about motive from the suspect who is still alive. Any speculation about the reason for the bombing is…

I find it baffling that we spend more time and energy into one day instead of maintaining this event called marriage over a lifetime.

Funny. The Church's antiquated views on women and rampant misogyny are incompatible with my feminist views, which is why I left the Church. Hey, it goes both ways!

I think its an unholy collision between all the hype and marketing of what your wedding day "means" and how the Millennial generation was raised. They are, generally speaking, the demographic primarily getting married right now. It's a whole lot of nauseating coddling about how you as the individual are more…