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  1. Bob in Iowa

    Debate Q3: In your opinion, what is love?

    Quite the contrary, Mr. Maciamo. It was merely a simple statement that I made highlighting the importance of being able to recognize love as such. The ablity to do this requires a great deal of introspection, sometimes rational and sometimes not, and it gets better with experience. LOL --...
  2. Bob in Iowa

    Debate Q3: In your opinion, what is love?

    I don't know what love is, but I know when I feel it.
  3. Bob in Iowa

    Religion Are North Americans more reactionary towards religion?

    Maybe it would be good for the country if gee dubya would have some young honey give him a blowjob in the oval office -- it might loosen him up a bit.
  4. Bob in Iowa

    Religion Are North Americans more reactionary towards religion?

    As a point of clarification, that was said not by gee dubya, but by his dad, Geo HW Bush in the summer of 1987 when he was the incumbent vice president. Put into historical perspective, Geo HW was, at that time, beginning to square off with Pat Robertson, who was also in the race to become the...
  5. Bob in Iowa

    Philosophy Descartes

    Feel free to do so if you think that it is applicable. LOL!!! I wasn't really advocating the act of grasping anything, but I was having a bit of fun by administering some poetic license through metaphor and pun, the interpretation of which, in an existentialist point of view, I will leave to...
  6. Bob in Iowa

    Philosophy Descartes

    I have always had a great appreciation for both existentialism and rationalism, and have long thought that the two philosophies can compliment one another. For example: If one accepts the premise of "I think, therefore I am", then it would logically follow that: I thought, therefore I was. I...
  7. Bob in Iowa

    We can all feel safer now

    LOL!!! I saw that too. I wonder if having one of those puts a person on some kind of potential security risk list. :p
  8. Bob in Iowa

    We can all feel safer now

    I am sure that everyone will breathe just a little bit easier, and will sleep a whole lot better after reading this, knowing that Homeland Security is diligently watching out for us all. Personally, I haven't felt this warm and fuzzy since Tom Ridge issued official advice for all of us to stock...
  9. Bob in Iowa

    Sponge Bob is Too Happy

    Oh yeah, that makes sense. Some guy in the Christian Coalition pops a woody while watching SpongeBob, and that makes SpongeBob gay. uh huh, ok
  10. Bob in Iowa

    imaginary friends

    LOL Kirei !!! Good plan!!!
  11. Bob in Iowa

    Philosophy Descartes

    Monty Python helped to ruin my ability to take philosophers seriously. Every time I hear or read a reference to Descartes, the "Philosophers' Drinking Song" goes off in my mind. THE PHILOSOPHERS' DRINKING SONG Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger...
  12. Bob in Iowa

    Al-Qaeda, a politically-driven fantasy?

    That is an interesting article, and I hope to be able to view the entire program although I doubt that I will have the opportunity. I commend BBC for presenting this point of view. I have always been of the opinion that the greatest possible threat to America is not from the terrorist...
  13. Bob in Iowa

    America's downward spiral.....

    If nothing else, in growing older I have learned that in looking at most situations, whether to be annoyed or amused is a personal choice.
  14. Bob in Iowa

    America's downward spiral.....

    Shooter -- my apology if the post above is out of sequence. I did not see your last post when I posted. That'll teach me to post before having the second cup of coffee :-). One of the things that I really like about this forum is that debate is usually done with civility and respect. You...
  15. Bob in Iowa

    America's downward spiral.....

    I would echo what Mad P said in response to your post, in that in science there is no presumption of wisdom, and that certainly finding new unknowns determines the direction of new theory and research. It is interesting that your statement is one that I often hear from people who, while not...
  16. Bob in Iowa

    America's downward spiral.....

    Assumptions? like the basic premise of creationism in which it is assumed the literal interpretation of the biblical account of creation as written in the book of Genesis is the irrefutable word of God? As for a group of people who believe that they "have all the secrets of the universe...
  17. Bob in Iowa

    Do you brush your teeth in the kitchen sink ?

    The only time that I have brushed my teeth in the kitchen sink is when I lived in places where the only sink was the one in the kitchen.
  18. Bob in Iowa

    America's downward spiral.....

    Den4, thank you for the invitation to join your club of the unknowing, however I have always been of the opinion that unknowing is something that is best done on an individual basis. That way I am solely responsible for my own unknowledge. :-)
  19. Bob in Iowa

    America's downward spiral.....

    Frank, I prefer to contemplate life during life. As for my soul, and to the questions of do I have one, where was it before, and where will it go after, the only honest answer that I can give is -- I do not know. Furthermore, having had a lot of practice in not knowing things, I feel quite...
  20. Bob in Iowa

    Mass Transit Problems

    Jeff, I really hate to see that sort of thing happen. There is so little mass transportation in America as it is, and it would be a shame to see the people of one of America's great old cities suffer from the diminished capability of an established transportation system through the negligence...
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