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You just now noticed that? Most of us have one idea of freedom -- The freedom to stop the other guy from doing whatever it is he is doing over there. Circumventing the constitution is a full time preoccupation for most -- Who will turn around and tell you we are the "free-est" country in...

Wrong! John Locke said "The majority should rule rather than the monarchy." John Stuart Mill pointed out that the majority can be far more oppressive than any monarch. Thus the concept -- Not of simply majority rule -- But protection for the minorities within it. It is this concept that...

She definitely is credible, and good -- But some things in "Joy of Signing" are actually SEE signs. Am just pointing out that the signs I saw in Kristin's book were the same as in Riekeof's book. The only difference being Riekehof used the English word feces whilst Kristin used the word...

Saw the book, "Dirty Signs." A student of ASL had it. When I looked through it I pointed out that every sign I came across was in another book she had, "The Joy of Signing." The only difference was "The Joy of Signing" only used polite English glosses for signs, like Feces, or Intercourse...

Different. In my little northern California town my insurance is different than it would be in crowded L.A. and still different in Reno. Yes, my company is State Farm. In order to get a car registered in Reno before bringing it to California we had to insure it in Reno. Then we had to...

Am one of the shrinking people. Used to be a bit over six foot -- Now a bit under. I figure by the time I'm 300 I'll be four foot tall and my once blond hair will be jet black.

I am a forklift driver in the shipping department. I have met a lot of truck drivers who were born in India. They all speak English and from one to eight other languages. Some speak with little or no accent some have a very heavy accent. Those who are comfortable with idioms seem more...

The winners go to Heaven and the losers go to Hell. Sounds like a game to me.

Seems as though abstinence might be worth it if you believe you will be rewarded sufficiently in the hereafter. Perhaps eternity in Heaven. However I am not sure what the point of life everlasting is if you cannot spend it with the people you love expressing that love in the way you choose...

Sex hardly seems sacred. We share it with all manner of disgusting creatures. Flies, worms, snakes, and octopi, among others. Sex is like a walk on the beach. You can enjoy it all by yourself. You can enjoy it with a stranger, or with a friend. The more you care for the one you are with the...

So how does a gay person win this game? If they have sex with each other outside of marriage they have committed a sin (Is it a mortal sin?) but they can't marry because that is not approved of. Seems gay people are in a no win situation here. How is that to be remedied?

Interestingly accurate idiom for a non-native American. Does your family believe in Karma?

My apologies. It has been a long time since I read the Bible. It was Solomon's father, David, who caused Uriah's death so he could possess Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. To my mind a trivial detail. The story is still the same. Lots of money, lots of power, lots of women, lots of greed...

One of us has misunderstood the import of the story. On a personal level I do not see the story as a tale of morals at all. I see it as a story about the disastrous consequences of greed, to society, to the individual, and to the power structure, regardless of what that greed might be for...

I do not believe there was a "move" too interracial marriage from same-sex marriage as the arguments against both are the same. I was told as a child that being a product of miscegenation -- that is white blood and Native American blood -- I was the product of a union that was "an abomination to...

But as my link points out -- Sex outside of the current definition of marriage is not against God's law. Solomon did not anger God until -- Even with wives and 700 concubines -- he murdered a man to obtain his ONLY wife.

Were they? Or were they preaching the "Sons of Hamm"?

Maybe. Or Maybe not.

The whole thing reads like something straight out of a Jonathan Swift novel. I see you reside in South Wales. Don't get yourself in any trouble on my account. I'm sure all the information is out there somewhere in another form. Thank you for the offer though, it was generous of you.

I like the part about hearing people and real Americans.