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by Some Schmo
Wed May 15, 2024 8:40 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: doubtingthomas’s topics MEGATHREAD
Replies: 1282
Views: 49539

Re: Florida woman who posed as 14-year-old to molest middle schooler faces additional child sex charges

I've never encountered anyone who put so much effort into defending an imbalance of power in a relationship. Maybe there is something we don't see. :( I'm certain that is the case, but if we waited to understand where everyone was coming from before we spoke, nobody would ever say anything. All we ...
by Some Schmo
Wed May 15, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Why are Humans living longer?
Replies: 30
Views: 451

Re: Why are Humans living longer?

"The age of the universe" is the age that would be measured by a co-moving observer—that is, by an observer for whom the expansion of the universe is equal in all directions. That kind of co-moving observer is a lot like the old Newtonian concept of an observer who is at absolute rest. And it's tru...
by Some Schmo
Wed May 15, 2024 8:16 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Anti-Christian Magas
Replies: 2
Views: 83

Re: Anti-Christian Magas

This MAGA Christian brags about giving counterfeit money to homeless people so they go to jail. He's "cleaning up the streets." You know, because that's what Jesus would do. MAGA proves that claiming a belief in Jesus doesn't make anyone moral. It's been my experience that the opposite is likely tr...
by Some Schmo
Wed May 15, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: doubtingthomas’s topics MEGATHREAD
Replies: 1282
Views: 49539

Re: Florida woman who posed as 14-year-old to molest middle schooler faces additional child sex charges

I honestly suspect that these days, more women than men commit statutory rape. I don't believe the 'honestly' bit. I honestly suspect DT obsesses over this topic way too much. I've never encountered anyone who put so much effort into defending an imbalance of power in a relationship. He might as we...
by Some Schmo
Wed May 15, 2024 7:48 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Why are Humans living longer?
Replies: 30
Views: 451

Re: Why are Humans living longer?

The glow of the "good ole days" tends to cloud how we look at our current time. I listened to someone (I really wish I could remember the reference) who was saying that studies show the "nostalgia of the good old days" happens to everyone who ages. Every generation feels like they came from a bette...
by Some Schmo
Wed May 15, 2024 1:34 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Why are Humans living longer?
Replies: 30
Views: 451

Re: Why are Humans living longer?

I think humans are living longer due to advances in medicine and especially dentistry. Plus, we're slowly learning the diets that promote life and which ones promote death. One thing I do want to ask Neil Tyson is, if time travels at different speeds all over the universe, how can we be sure the uni...
by Some Schmo
Wed May 15, 2024 1:11 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Next President ___________ ?
Replies: 14
Views: 247

Re: Next President ___________ ?

So many people being accepting of Trump shows that America is comfortable with Arch-Villians. It seems to me more a case of willful ignorance. When your best defense for why Trump has 91 criminal indictments is that Biden has weaponized the justice department, you've let ignorance rule your world (...
by Some Schmo
Sun May 12, 2024 4:21 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Why all the screaming about WOKE?
Replies: 9
Views: 431

Re: Why all the screaming about WOKE?

That's still going on? I'm not on Facebook or anything but I thought the woke stuff had slowed down. I haven't been on Facebook since well before "woke" became an insult, and it doesn't seem to have slowed down for me. I see it in videos all over YouTube. Of course, that's likely what the YouTube a...
by Some Schmo
Sun May 12, 2024 4:17 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Why all the screaming about WOKE?
Replies: 9
Views: 431

Re: Why all the screaming about WOKE?

"Woke" has assumed the power to short-circuit whatever message is being conveyed in favor of wondering what the agenda is. I basically assume people using that word (pejoratively) aren't really thinking about the criticism but invoking the power of the buzzword and expecting it to do the heavy lifti...
by Some Schmo
Fri May 10, 2024 1:22 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Katie Britt’s Shtick Abides
Replies: 5
Views: 266

Re: Katie Britt’s Shtick Abides

Britt reminds me of that 70's movie The Stepford Wives. That had terrible acting too.