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I was thinking of children younger than ten, like two to six. By ten I think most kids do have a lot of moral awareness. Some are mean and some are kind; some have lived in circumstances that make one or the other of those easier to be.

Hmm, the condensing dryer probably does take longer. We run it overnight, or in the day while we're at work, so it has plenty of time. A lot of our clothes we hang to dry, over a day or two, because we don't want them getting slowly shredded into lint by any dryer. That seems to be common practice h...

Children, especially young ones, are often selfish, impatient, and inconsiderate. It's not really their fault that they're that way. They don't know any better. They feel their own desires and injuries strongly, and don't really understand that other people have needs and feelings as well. So I gues...

As I understand the history, Smith didn't really think he was going to be killed until the mob was there at his cell door, at which point it was obviously too late to try to save himself by recanting anything—it was too late for any words to do anything. Smith may have made some grandiose statements...

Do people in North America use condensing dryers? These are models that don't vent their hot, damp air to outdoors, but instead let it cool in a radiator to condense out the water into a little tank. If the tank is full, the dryer will show a warning light and not run, so you normally empty the tank...

"NeueLicht" is hard to read because Licht is a neuter noun. You can have das neue Licht or you can have neues Licht . I don't think a native German speaker would pick that name. Maybe they would, for some reason I don't know. I don't have native-speaker instincts about German genders. I have the ins...

It’s understandable that a church would want everyone to call it “the Church of Jesus Christ”. All churches that consider themselves Christian believe they are that, or part of that. For a Christian church to call itself THE Church of Jesus Christ, though, and not just a part of that body, is tantam...

That's an interesting point, except for me it's dauntingly large. The relationship between religion and politics must be too big a topic even for a fat book, let alone a thread. If anyone does undertake a book within the topic, just figuring out how to carve out a book-length subtopic is going to be...

When did God become God rather than god? I think it's an interesting question. On the one hand I think that theistic theology is really different from just imagining a sort of superhero. It's not enough to say that humans are to God as characters are to an author. It's not even enough to say that hu...

One of my brothers has described Mormonism as "the most obviously made-up religion". My liberal approach to religions makes me want to defend most religions as having at least some amount of good insight, but I haven't been able to argue against my brother on this one. You might point out to your b...