Martin Longman

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when does seven years as veep begin to trump his record in the Senate? And, if you'll recall, while he…
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The difference with Mubarak was that he was our son of a bitch, which was never true of Assad, Saddam…
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I get your point regarding dataguy's tolerance for immigration, but I'm not prepared to accept that number of refugees either.…
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With Ben & Jerry, at least I'd be tempted to watch the show so I could learn how to run…
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Certainly there are many more things in the universe than human brains and consciousness. Thumb tacks, for example, and turtle…
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Hard to see how this administration hasn't been transformational. Look at access to health care. Look at the wars we…
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You can have a prohibition against eating something because it is revered or reviled, but the result is still sacrifice…
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I don't know. In one sense I am making a reductionist argument, but in another I am really arguing for…
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Underneath most self-destructive behavior is self-loathing, which is another concept that is so foreign to me that I think of…
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Your ideas are interesting and worthwhile. Thanks for sharing them. I don't agree with your idea of the sacred at…
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Of course there are states of mind that are what we call "delusional" in the sense that they cause people…
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That's a rather archaic dichotomy, but it's not worthless. It makes more sense to think about the sacred as being…
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No doubt that "yearning" has a lot to do with why many people engage in rituals, especially prayer.   I…
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Deep down, I'm not yearning for that. I'm frankly uninterested in it. But it's something I recognize in other people…
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well, it's not possible to have a narrower definition of the sacred than that it is unproven dogma that can't…
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Not to sound like "the enlightened one," but having rowed past this intersection two decades ago, it's hard for me…
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If religion is about "beliefs" then it comes into conflict with science repeatedly, and never wins. If religion is about…
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It's pretty stupid, frankly, to take people's tendency to arrive at bad reasons for believing stupid shit and use that…
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Did I say somewhere that people have to see something sacred in marriage in order to want to get married?…
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you both make good points, and together you arrived at the truth. Good commenting.
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