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And that's something a woman would be better at taking a stab at. I know, but unless they can be consciously ignored they are essentially no different than the forces of nature. Both would be capable of producing the same inevitable mind set. But you do suspect they're there.

They're grasshoppers. Sorry, but your use of "kind" is too loosy-goosy to deal with. Only because no one has defined "kind" yet.

Interesting in the car-crash sense, yet still a pretty bad article, not that this comes as any surprise.

Bit of an overstatement wouldn't you say? I would. As I understand it in this case, the object in being sexy was to feel good. She found being sexing to be fun. So, is being sexy something that should be encouraged, tolerated, questioned, criticized, or denounced? So you're saying that...

Do you mean, do grasshoppers in their locust phase have babies? Yes they do; the polymorphic change takes place over several generations before actual swarming begins. However, should the precipitating causes cease to exist before this happens the population will revert to its solitary phase...

Not to be pedantic, but locusts are the result of a temporary change in nine of some 5,000 species of grasshoppers. And it should be remembered that mammoths were not ancestors to today's elephants. The two evolved independently of each other. Kind of sounds as if a kind is nothing but a...

You mean nature or nurture? I don't think it really matters. Whatever the cause it seems to be part of being female, at least for some. As I said to mont974x4 (post #5) "Just so we don't get off into the many gray areas of attractiveness, I think we should stick to the notion of sexy: 'Arousing...

Hey, Thanks for the link. It explains it very well. :thumbsup:

So, if the girl in question was your daughter you would say that feeling sexy and being sexy, within the bounds of what you deem appropriate, is fine. Just so we don't get off into the many gray areas of attractiveness, I think we should stick to the notion of sexy: "Arousing or tending to...

But a falling object doesn't maintain a speed. It's continually accelerating, until it reaches its terminal velocity, if any. But it's mass would remain the same. And weight is simply the force exerted by gravity, and would still exist even if it could not be measured at a particular moment...

About a month or so ago a friend remarked that lately his daughter, I'm guessing, 20+, had been dressing sort of provocatively. When he confronted her about it she said that being sexy is fun, and that there's nothing wrong with being a little sexy. Not being a female I can't really connect...

On Yahoo news there's an article titled, "Scientists Drop Theory of Everything Down Elevator Shaft" that deals with an experiment to find a T0E. Here's the relevant snippet. "A new experiment offers hope by probing the very boundary between these two realms [quantum and classical physics], the...

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any sign of mocking the church's loss, only the caricaturization. And I don't believe that had the object been a historic building the "spin" would have been any different. Bad art is bad art no matter who makes it or owns it. And while beauty can be in the...

I think Nathan Poe put it well enough when he said in post #25, "Do you know the difference between mocking Jesus and mocking a statue of him?" It's not Jesus, or what he represents that's the subject of criticism, but the atrocious piece of "artwork" depicting him. As I said, the depiction is...

Far safer that way of course.

My apologies. Bad news, it was you, BotanicalBob, who first brought the word into the discussion (post #13). But that's fine and dandy in the 4th grade. But if you're going to address masculine virility in an adult manner, how bout we leave the penis's where they belong...inside Pamela Anderson...

Regardless, were it not for procreation there would be no people eating beets. And being a determinist I don't believe anyone really chooses anything anyway, but that's a whole other issue. However, if the beet illustration bothers you we can consider an inevitability other than dying. How...

Ah, where would creationists be without strawmen to set up so as to divert attention from the fact that they have no arguments for their side. :D But ya gotta give it to AiG, it knows its audience.

That's what I always thought. "You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for...

As I read BotanicalBob's remark,"This debate has nothing to do with "identification with an object" it appeared he was complaining I wasn't addressing the right issue, and I had derailed his thread. I merely pointed out that I recognize that I was not addressing his issue, and that if he feels...