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Are you referring to Vagaries by Axel Munthe which is a collection of essays and reflections written in the late 19th century? Best way to approach it is simply to read it in any order you like. Essays on various subjects do not require continuity.

Last chance to redeem yourselves come November (if you haven't turned into a bona fide dictatorship by then) and turn Moronica back to America. With the nation mired in a war that may be of existential significance, It may be possible if enough people rally behind the Republicans that the Trump adm...

Last chance to redeem yourselves come November (if you haven't turned into a bona fide dictatorship by then) and turn Moronica back to America.

The only way religions can maintain themselves. It has long been the art of making truth the enemy and punishable if truth be told. Scripture guarantees the lies. The main reference for that is the bible itself. The final arbiter is not Judgement Day or any god but your conscience.

Waste of money and resources. Not from a military and geo-politics perspective. Controlling space is (many say) the next frontier of international struggle. Indeed! It's a somewhat moot point as to where and when we blow ourselves up! First it was the Twilight of the Gods eventually followed by the...

As we have all noticed — over long, dreary years! — the Christian thing is endlessly debated and recycled and hardly any part of it is resolved to satisfaction. Why? Because the philosophical mind is not the mind that (in the ultimate, and possibly the more important sense) can benefit from interna...

RickLewis wrote: ↑Wed Feb 25, 2026 12:49 pm

...only if they're better at it than we are. After all, we've had a few millenniums to perfect the art! Nevertheless, killer robots, I imagine, would cause less suffering by being more efficient...meaning less sadistic and more direct in their methods.

Ditch the whole thing altogether. The OT is a misery text of declared untruths and half-truths; the NT is a bogus one dependent not on Jesus, whoever he was, i f he was , but on Paul who certainly was. Hi there Brother Dubious. You are, I think, wrong here. First, it is possible to get to the essen...

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2026 9:46 pm I'm evil. End of story.

If only that were true. Would it help to say verdict accepted?

One reifies one's hatred in a non-existent god by hating those who are its cult members. In, effect, hating an abstraction directly is much less effective, having no feedback, than hating those who are god's committed theists. Thus, one indirectly gets even with a non-existent entity by consistentl...

I don't go to church and don't have any interest in reading the Bible. And because of that, according to IC, I'm going to Hell. Maybe I should white knuckle it and go to church and read the Bible just to avoid IC's threats that I'm going to Hell? Would it be worth it to change? Is changing from ske...

Ditch the whole thing altogether.

The OT is a misery text of declared untruths and half-truths; the NT is a bogus one dependent not on Jesus, whoever he was, if he was, but on Paul who certainly was.

No one disputes the greatness of Shakespeare or Milton, both supremely underrated in their time and for a long time as also happened with Melville. What I'm saying is the prose of Moby Dick can be as majestic, profound, nuanced and deeply psychological as that written by Shakespeare or Milton wheth...

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2026 11:58 pm Chuck Norris will be kicking ass in Heaven! RIP.

Can one go to hell for bad choices?

Please count me out from any further attempt at conversation. Must protect the remainder of functioning brain cells from being inundated by a plethora of non-sequiturs. I don't want to walk around with my eyeballs staring at each other. That's not what any so-called self-examination looks like when ...