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Golly! What an amazing riposte.

Meanwhile, back at the topic ...

... The main point I sought to make is that none of us are any more moral than Trump. If we think we are, we deceive ourselves. So we can't say that some people act more ethically than others? How odd, then, that in the Gospel jesus says that at the end of time he will come to judge the world, and ...

What does it even mean? The church is "true". A few years ago there was some correspondence on this board, in which posters discussed when Mormons began the practice of proclaiming that "the church is true". I can't recall the conclusion, but I am pretty sure that the practice does not go back to t...

If a religious person wants to live their life a certain way that doesn't harm anyone else, good. Fine. Who cares? But if they feel compelled to force their emotionally motivated beliefs and codes on everyone else, well guess what? I'm going to tell you what I really think about your idiotic damned...

an idiot who thinks too highly of himself I don't think that is a fair characterisation of Lewis, if that is what it is intended to be. His academic career marks him as, by any estimate, clever - he won a competitive scholarship to Oxford, then after service in the first World War, he won first cla...

Morley wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:44 pm

And I don’t really hate Tokyo.

Good to know! There are other cities in Japan where (given the choice) I would prefer to live, but there are some areas in Tokyo that have an atmosphere not paralleled in more elegant places.

Morley wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:22 pm

I’m sure you know that I’m joking, Chap.

Oh, I hoped you were joking. But on this board one can never be quite sure ...

The city was bombed out during WWII and was rebuilt in the years immediately following the war. Now, it's all uniform, concrete weariness. I love Japan, I love big cities, I hate Tokyo. If the city is an example of what libertarians are going to bring once they become our overlords, I'll go live in...

working legal citizen, taxpaying, people as the founding fathers intended. Um, there is nothing in the constitution saying that a person has to be 'working' to be a citizen, is there? Otherwise, what would have been the status of all those elegant ladies and gentlemen who never did a hand's turn of...

I can focus on Trump’s positive aspects and the benefits of his presidency and not get caught up in persuasion of others who in self-righteousness are quick to point out the speck in someone else’s eye, while ignoring the plank in their own. A speck? Have you not noticed a few rather larger blockag...