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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...

All intelligence is artificial. Except yours, of course. Yours is the real deal, surely. This is just the thing. However stupid we humans may be, our minds have formed without finely tuned guidance under the same natural laws that also let stars and living cells form spontaneously. Intelligence is ...

Why not?

I don't wash all my clothes or my dishes by hand, and I don't cook over an open fire that I've kindled by rubbing sticks together. Why should I make all my own article summaries the hard way?