Recent content by Tony of Santa Clarita

US rockets strike Afghan home, kill 12 civilians (AP) MARJAH, Afghanistan – Two U.S. rockets slammed into a home Sunday outside the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah, killing 12 civilians after Afghanistan's president appealed to NATO to take care in its campaign to seize the town. Does...

...in school. Why don't you? I am a secondary education teacher of over 20 years, and I just don't get how students can act like the future simply doesn't matter. If you are a teenager, and you don't try in school, explain to me why you don't. To what extent do you feel pressured by friends not...

foods. Does this seem fair? Specifically, he went after a doughnut chain, and lawyers that own the chains had him fired. What kind of country is this where someone gets fired for telling the truth? Are profits always more important than people?

...all of that? 1 hour ago" A major earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck in the Indian Ocean off India's Andaman Islands early on Tuesday, but a tsunami alert for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh was later cancel... Iraq bombs kill 42, fears of sectarian strife grow "- 5 hours...

In Johnathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal", he suggested that two related problems, the overabundance of people and the scarcity of food, could be dealt with by eating the babies, his "modest proposal". So, you have at least one great writer who suggests the babies are the better choice.

It seems that a position of compassion is inconsistent with punishing someone for a bad habit. I am not talking about people who harm others as a result of or related to the drug habit. That is a very different issue, just like driving under the influence is very different than getting drunk...

There isn't much point responding to your question, because everything I say is probably being controlled by some demon, devil, or other being that is has taken possession of my mind. Free will only used to be a human attribute. Not any more. Wait, help, there are invisible monsters attacking...

The answer is man. It is from Oedipus Rex. That is the riddle posed by the sphinx, which Oedipus solves and thereby becomes king

I once read a quote that "If triangles had a god, it would have 3 sides" We tend to anthropomorphize God, since we only know how we think, and cannot help but imagine that God feels and thinks the same. The idea that God would create us to worship him is interesting, in that it makes him vane...

I suppose it depends on what they believed in. Certain systems of adopted thought might be more beneficial than others. For example, if everyone agreed that cooperation and compassion should be the basis of some shared belief system, the world would have a better chance than if they agreed...