From the other side of the Atlantic, Ilhan Omar seems a very fine and principled person, although I can see that her views don't correspond to what many American conservatives might think are proper American ideals. I can't see that as any mark against her character though.
Pope, why do you need to say 'I am this, I am that' with these things? Over the years, forum members here have seen you have phases where you are especially inspired by Aghori Hinduism, Shintoism, Shamanism, praying to murder-victims, now fascism, and probably some others I'm missing. What you...
I think it is a kind of appeasement, or perhaps a celebration of the workings of the Universe in general when taken as the whole navagraha.
Personally I don't get involved in it. Guru said 'The planets control your karma but God controls the planets'. :P
What an absolute storm in a teacup.
But also, having been to Sri Lanka and knowing many Sri Lankans, it is both normal and common for Buddhist, Hindus and Muslims there to go to church. When some relics of St Anthony or somebody came to Sri Lanka a load of Buddhist monks came to see. Other way...
If you're arguing a semantic point, then sure I'll concede. But people can have a compulsion to watch porn which has substantial negative impact on their own emotional well-being, as well as on those they are close to in life and cumulatively upon society at large. People also have substantial...
Well r.e. the first point, neither does one generally get life-threatening physical withdrawal symptoms from marijuana, but it's still called a drug. Not that I really have an issue with marijuana consumption.
re the second, porn addiction is totally a thing.
I've seen personal testimonies of women involved in recent times of what the industry is like, and also regardless even of that there is the impact it has on the psychology of the viewer and what that does to their expectations about sex and relationships.
Well, obviously there are differences in opinion regarding masturbation and pornography. I did look at pornography as a teen, but stopped because I feel it objectifies women and isn't healthy for one's own sexual expectations or for society. Masturbation I also stopped, not because of any moral...
Well, @SalixIncendium.
A couple years back, and further back, I used to think about atheism and theism, and while I was in no way carried away over it I would always say I was a theist. The idea of atheism even perhaps made me mildly uncomfortable here and there, maybe a little like you're...
There isn't a sense in which a mutation can increase. A form of a gene different to that previously prevalent in the population can arise through mutation, and can be either heterozygous or homozygous (i.e. one or two copies), but it can't really increase. Further phenotypic changes will occur...