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If the evidence against a worldwide flood isn't convincing, it's unlikely anything will change your mind.

I see the bombing as a tragedy for the entire world; the question is not who should be blamed, but how we can avoid it ever happening again. We all must carry the responsibility for what was done.

Advice from someone who did similar comics, drop the elemental cliché. It's overdone to the point that it's just painful and the show Avatar: The Last Airbender has already perfected the genre. There is nothing you can do with elements that hasn’t been done a million times before. Another...

So I have two choices, I can choose to make a reasonable conclusion and be wrong or make a ridicules conclusion and be right. I think I would take the former even if I ended up being wrong, better to be a reasonable person who is wrong once in a while due to their judgment then a unreasonable...

The problem with this argument is that the level of complexity in reproductive organs found in mammals isn't universal. Frogs have a single opening for waste excretion and reproduction and fertilize their eggs outside of their bodies much like the way single celled organisms reproduce. This...

Wouldn't it be nice if all the bad things in the world tied up so nicely together? I just got a D in History, damn Illuminati!:mad:

My friend's mom was a teacher at that school. Like all stories I think that there is a certain degree of sensitization going around. From my understanding the two boys had been locking horns for a long period of time and the teachers had told Larry multiple times to stay away from Brandon (whose...

That's what people have been trying to tell you, evolution =/= atheism.

Eastern: Buddha, Dogen (one of the most proment teachers in Zen), and Lao Tzu. Western: Dostoevsky, Epictetus, and Sartre.

Pain cannot be escaped from, death, age, and sickness will come to us all no matter how much we pray, meditate, or see the doctor. From my understanding, Buddhism is a path that promises the internal stability to face life as it manifests itself, not a way to escape from life and hide in our own...

I’m not sure that I would fully consider myself a Buddhist, but I have been studying Zen philosophy and practicing Zazen for the last few months, so I’d like to do my best to answer some of the questions (from my point of view, I’m not preaching any specific dogma). The form of love that...

If anything labeling it as a 'gay disease' is a way of hiding your head in the sand. Everyone is responsible for preventing the spread of diseases. Look at AIDS it started off as a 'gay disease' and now it's primarily killing not gay, but straight people. The virus could care less about its...

This is no laughing matter, I know people who have lost loved ones in the War on Christmas. I support the troops, but we need to achieve peace before we all kill one another.

Well of course not. Finding meaning in life is a burden that rests on your shoulders alone. Even if you pick a pre-packaged meaning, you still made the choice to accept it.

By using the context to justify the act, are you not using a system of relative morality? If the existance of a god assures an absolute system of morality, why did what was previously just become unjust all of a sudden? If absolue morality exists, it should be the same regardless of time and...

Someone's been reading too many L. Ron Hubbard novels...

You're looking in the wrong place. Few good people make history, they rarely even make the news. The greatest aspects of humanity can only be experenced firsthand (and maybe in books and art). History is just one long naughty list.

I don't think it's as simple an issue as not sharing; giving aid in excess will only hurt the under-developed nations in the long run. It seems to be more tied to a consumerist system of waste that requires a certain degree of poverty and dependency to function.

It basically takes something that should be common sense (thinking positively make you more likely to achieve your goals), and dresses it up in pretty pseudo-science/relgion. Keep in mind I’ve never seen the movie, so I may be jumping the gun. This is just gathered from what I’ve read and...

We're wired to feel good when we contribute to other's well-being; it's a perfectly natural feeling. Someone who helps people without feeling anything isn’t mentally healthy; there is nothing admirable about apathy.