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That's what I figured. Thanks for the honesty. Now I am confirmed in my suspicion that your posts are not serious, and I should take some or most of what you have to say with a heap of salt. ;) I have my prickly sides like anyone. There are people who use these analogies and mean it...

I think you know as well as I do that your logic is absurd. There are "fence-in" states and "fence-out" states. California is a "fence-in" state in which a livestock owner is legally responsible for fencing their livestock in. It was always legal to release slaves. Since cities sprung...

First, it wouldn't be legal. Second, there is a difference between enslavement and protection. We as human beings have altered the environment, building highways, train-tracks, and other such technology that kill animals. People (I hope) don't consider their children to be slaves, but...

No doubt, the friction (and I don't mean it in a bad way) between laity and clergy is what helps to refine each. :p A lot of our threads end up this way! LOL :D Somehow the Catholic path and the forest path meet up at a crossroads. :) Gives you the virtual stink-eye. LOL What...

I don't think of my horses or dogs as slaves. They are inherently pack/herd animals that will elect a leader and are happiest when it is not themselves. They don't think like we do. They don't respond with happiness or longevity when they have control. Horses, when free to respond to their...

SH (yay, a way to shorten your name without making it sound awful!)- If I didn't have equality in my home, I would not have married. My idea of a worthwhile marriage is mutual respect and love, support of one another, and working out what each partner is good at, wants to grow in, and can...

Certainly could be a bit of that. I'm not immune. But the place of women among the Celts and the Romans was vastly different, and like the very different worldviews concerning wilderness, made obvious impacts on the way Christianity unfolded within those cultures. I hear from a lot of...

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No, no- 17th... that would be you. :) You're the dog-dude, I'm the horse-chick. :D Though my dogs are pretty happy too. I must confess, though, I'm better at being alpha mare than pack leader. My Rottie sees it as his job to protect me, so he mostly listens, but if he thinks I really need...

Good at what? Just kidding. Sort of. This has been a most amusing thread to read. I tend to think less of goodness and more about harmony. If there is a harmony, a balance. This might look or feel very bad in a moment, but cosmically be for the best. Or an action might look or feel very...

Unfortunately, generally this seems to be the case. In Christianity, the closest thing would be Quakerism, to the best of my knowledge. Small group, consensus-based, without a priesthood. Other examples of disorganized religion would be many Pagan traditions, indigenous shamanic...

I am not sure how equality relates to crime. Please explain. Family structure in much of Europe still accommodates equal rights and a relatively high divorce rate. Look at Iceland, Sweden, France, etc. There is a greater social support network, as you describe, in Europe that make it a...

Well, yes. That's a matter that's related to one's beliefs and faith, and isn't open to scientific inquiry, of course. From what I understand, which albeit is not at a level of expertise, the stronger position of women as Abbesses in the UK compared to the more male-dominated Roman Catholic...

Again, you seem to have completely ignored that I said men and women have different strengths. I would still say that aside from brute force, there are other strengths, including pain tolerance, endurance (many women around the world are the primary workers in the fields, carrying water...

What dictionary would you suggest as God-authored? According to the Revell Concise Bible Dictionary, I have the following: (1) God himself in his essential nature (2) Persons, places, things, and times set apart or consecrated to God and therefore sacred (3) A quality of character and actions...

First, there is no cross-cultural grounding in evidence for the assumption that there are universal gender differences. There are very slight differences in average behavior and of course differences in various physical aspects, but that is all. So the assumption that women are this way, and...

Or perhaps, like surgery, a bit of both, eh? Linguistics is a science. Archaeology is a science. These should influence translation (expanding what we know, the context, etc.). But retaining the poetry and mystical depth is most certainly art.

Why is art a desecration of the body? Isn't that culturally defined? I can entirely see why, for example, overeating junk food, or drinking immoderately, or smoking would be desecrating the body. Because all of those things actually harm the body. However, putting ink on one's skin, so...

Yes. Genetics is a lot more complex than this. There are a variety of reasons why homosexuality, as a genetic basis, could fail to die out. Even relatively simple traits assumed to be deleterious (such as sickle-cell) don't die out because they have other advantages to them. Rather, they...

I think there are far too many factors around suicide to have a blanket statement. Chances are, we don't all agree on what suicide even is. Is euthanasia suicide, if the person is terminally ill? What about a Jain's decision to end their life (in the face of terminal illness) with...