brilliant insight!

yes! Imagine a show where the terrorists are the good guys. Reminds me of one of the seasons of Galactica.

Good for you! I didn't realize it was a gun until the last scene. What was the SG-1 shoutout?

If that describes the particular sect you used to be, I can see why you are "previously" religious. But it's hardly true that you are describing all religion.

Consider "Friday" as well.

"I'd like an early dinner. There is a game on at six."

"In these sentences you are arguing that carbon credits are bad. That's an interesting argument, but it has nothing to do with climatology or the actual science behind anthropogenic global warming theory."

Respectfully... no you didn't. You surely misunderstood the theorem.

Am I the only one that remembers and loves The Razor's Edge? I think Bill is now more an actor than a comedian.

"Do you think a marathon runner can outrun any horse over the 26.2 miles?"

I like simplicity but that's too simplistic to fit the data. If bipedalism were a response to tall grass, then why are there any quadrupeds?

Why should intelligence be the criterion that defines the eligibility of rights?

I don't understand what you mean by cultural problem. Isn't it a poverty problem? Good food is expensive and bad food is cheap. Moreover there are "food deserts" in the U.S. where you can't buy, say, fruit at any price, but you can buy all the corn syrupy junk you want. So, it's also a lack of access to mobility…

Me too, but only because it reminded me of Charlie X.

"People will drive under the influence anyway..."

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I really don't know how widely reductionism is believed, so I certainly defer to you on that point. It seems natural and likely to me that chemical laws follow from physical ones and so forth. So I'm not disputing reductionism itself, I'm merely challenging the claim that it is a…

Ever since Jeff Conaway passed, I've wanted to watch the short lived Wizards and Warriors show. I never did see all of them when they were on the air.

Hi, Hypnosifl. "All the modern natural science operate on the premise that physical reductionism is ultimately correct in the sense that the behavior of any large system (like a human brain and body) is in principle fully explainable in terms of the interactions of the basic parts that make it up (cells, molecules,…

"[T]he fractional dimension of the coast of South Africa is a mere 1.02, while the curvy coast of Britain is an impressive 1.25."

Hi, Eldritch. Perhaps you answered your own question. Nightmares exist to wake is up. Life for our ancestors was much more dangerous, and sporadic nightmares tended to keep at least one person in the bivouac awake at any given time at night.