tomasdore

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by tomasdore 7y ago
I agree that fear of an invisible sky god is not required. But wrestling with the questions I listed may still be required. Caution: this may not lead you to 'shallow judgements' nor provide 'easy rule following'. YMMV -
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by tomasdore 7y ago
Your second paragraph perhaps needs more justification? Religion seems to PUT questions: 1. Physical-world questions, the classic being, "if God is good and omnipotent, why does suffering exist?" 2. Moral-world questions, such as
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by tomasdore 7y ago
Username checks out!
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by tomasdore 8y ago
Or maybe he/she means that the government shouldn't be able to record your kids' political activity? And connect this in a big database to you.
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by tomasdore 8y ago
I don't really get this. Until I re-read this, I thought the point was that you need more time than your wife will let you get. But you can outsource these chores simply by hiring help. That will provide jobs to others and it's cl
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by tomasdore 8y ago
Perhaps the answer is as simple as an extension for you to work in, which is set up as an airlock-style system of doors, so that you are not really disturbable by your wife. I mean simply three or more doors in a row, with a little gap betw
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by tomasdore 8y ago
On finding talks with "inequality" in the title: they do not show on the first page, but I found two by clicking 'See all 114 talks on Inequality' and then clicking on through the results pages; ie "A visual history
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by tomasdore 8y ago
If you can use 'clickers' aka "classroom response systems", then you can make the lecture lively by having it focused around questions, which importantly provide you with proper data on misconceptions in the students&#x2
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by tomasdore 9y ago
This is genuinely a fantastic comment. You dealt with a cold, rude comment with grace and calm, then provided an easily understood statement of what defines a country with both freedom and rule of law.