Well whadaya know...Tocqueville was the one who coined the phrase "Tyranny of the Majority". All this time I thought it was John Stuart Mill. Learn something new every day. I noticed that Tocqueville died the same year that Mill's "On Liberty" was published... Coincidence or Conspiracy?
But so be it. No longer anonymous. Welcome Baffled.
I understand completely where you are coming from CS Guy. However, hate is an ist/ism condition--including hate against ist/ism. Something I have to remind myself of constantly.
Sally, click on "My Account" (on my screen it's in the top right hand corner under my name). On the screen that pops up you should be able to see a box that you can check wich says "Manage site custom links". If it doesn't, just keep trying. Sometimes it won't appear for me either (it's done this twice today).
I am sorry you feel it necessary to be anonymous Baffled, you make some good points. And I use the words "lifestyle choice" to say that being gay is a choice you make about your life. Heterosexuality, vegetarianism, and a whole host of other things are lifestyle choices. Beebles, I can assure y
I think the difference is that heterosexuality has an actual purpose in nature, where as homosexuality doesn't. So does being intelligent. Should we therefore make a constitutional amendment banning marriage between stupid people? Lets face the facts. This ammendment isn't about "Nature" or sav
The sad thing is that this type of thinking is common in all bureacracies. Dems da ruwles!
Being gay is a lifestyle choice. Being homosexual is no more a lifestyle choice than being heterosexual is.
My earliest memory is of me drooling on my Dad's face as a baby. However, everyone says that you can't have memories from that age. *shrug*
I was good at everything. That pobably includes athletics, music and art too. Correct?
hope it makes your life better in some way It's for your benifit, not anyone else's. Good job on your revision. I can certainly relate to your post (and I am sure CS Guy does too).
So basically, Sir Peter has admitted to cheating. So JoeUser must really be a game (since you can cheat at it). That concept works for me.
How Christian of you Bakerstreet...
My friends just claim that I am easily amused. Same thing.
Thanks for the list. Martin and Stephenson are 2 of my favorite fiction authors. I will try some of those books once I get through my current stack of books.
I will have to give it a try then. My favorite Arthur tale is by A.A. Attanasio Link . What are some of you favorite books? I am always looking for new stuff to read.
Did you like the book or just Lancelot's character?
my pee pee hurts...
If you are interested in having people read and respond to your article, it would help a lot if you edited it with spaces between paragraphs so that it is easier to read. Most people won't bother reading something that looks like one long sentance.
Lol, thanks for that one.
Training myself not to hate is something I continually struggle with. One thing I’ve started to do recently that helps is trying to see what I have in common with the person I am feeling hatred towards. When I don’t know the person at all this means I usually tell myself that he has a fundamental desire to be happy and free from suffering (as do all of us). But most of us have no idea how to actually go about achieving this. We just stumble through lif
I read this post and it made me wonder again just how little uniqueness there is in humans. I have had essentially the exact same conversation with myself.
"Anyone out there with some insight into what might be going through these girls' heads?" The answer to your question is answered in the article that you link.
That Roberts quote is definitely one of my favorite. I just wanted to point out that Buddhism isn't necessarily a religion, though often it is.
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