I've heard philosophy majors talk about lofty ideals and "higher planes" of thought, being, etc", but I've noticed that they still want a full stomach and a comfy place to sleep just as much as 2-year-olds do.

No, I haven't, although I know what you're referring to. On the other hand, the gentlemen weren't serving at the Pentagon,either.

Pentar, try using full and complete sentences, with spaces between the words instead of hyphens, paragraph structure, and other forms of punctuation besides exclamation points. Your posts could be classified as "A Collection of Signs Seen at a Protest".

You've confused. The Democratic Party is godless and immoral. The Republican Party is judgmental and bigoted. Get your labels straight.

"Two US office workers were shot and killed at their desks in the [Afghanistan] Ministry of Interior on Saturday..." Um, can we get a little more clarity in this? They were military officers: an USAF LtCol and a USA Maj. Calling them "office workers" makes it sound as though they were low-level, defenseless file clerks.

I think the implication is that Dawkins claims not to believe that a god exists, that science can explain everything, yet when feeling himself "stuck", he immediately says "oh,God", commonly understood as a cry for help.. Why not cry "Oh, stardust" or "Oh brain cells" if science can give you all the answers? Merely a cry of frustration? There are a lot of interjections he could have used, some repeatable, some not, but it seems strange that that particular one scame to his lips do quickly, so automatically, so easily. One of Christ's most devout followers was, at one time, one of the most intense and passioante persecutors of His followers so, yeah, wouldn't it be something if it were to prove to be a Freudian slip?

Can someone explain to me what the significance of Dawkins' survey is? “Dawkins’s conclusion is that these self-identified Christians are ‘not really Christian at all’.” Okay, I can see why he’d reach that conclusion, but what’s the point of it? Does he think that it somehow proves that God Himself doesn’t exist? I don’t understand.

Since it's Valentine's Day, advice columnists are issuing a lot of love advice. One of them printed advice from those who've been married, happily, for 50+ years. One of the TOP 5 pieces of advice was: don't expect to change your partner. It won't happen; as the computer geeks say, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). See that pile of debt? Hear the collectors calling? See that guy without a plan to pay it off, but wanting to pull you in so he can blame you when it doesn't magically disappear? That's what you'll get.

VERY good point, Sugarbare. He agreed to pay the money back on the stated terms and, he's not only NOT paying it back, but he won't even "man up" and talk to them...and he wants YOU to be his protector, defender, and motivator. Now, if you begged, threatened, and cajoled him into spending that money, if trying to please you caused him to get into that debt, then, morally, yes, you owe it to him to help him get out of it BUT neither one of you should marry ANYONE until it's gone.

You claim that Senator McCarthy 'got a whole bunch of Americans fired from jobs because he said they were communists..." So why did he say they were Communists? Could it have been because they WERE Communists? Could THAT have been the reason they lost their jobs? If I tell the local school board that my neighbor is a drug dealer or a pedophile and he loses his job as school crossing guard, is it more likely because I say he’s a drug dealer or pedophile or because he is one?