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My workplace cafeteria actually has very good food, and today there was a great salmon dish. I thought about Friday fish day, and its relation to this thread topic. What I'm referring to is taking an idea from religion and totally distorting it, but still claiming virtue. So, Catholics weren't allow...

Although I can't see the threads anymore, I can still see the membership statistics. It looks like there has been a significant jump in active members, following years of steady declines. Maybe other people, like me, were pure lurkers and decided to jump in as members? I''m spending enough time here...

Some quick googline shows that there has been significant increase in hte cancer rates, especially colo-rectal, among people under 50 in the last 10-20 years. Of course, the headlines are written to grab as much attention as possible. Is a marked increase going from almost none to twice almost none?...

The health toll from the promotion of unhealthy foods is something we are just beginning to feel. I have certainly read that "experts", (I hate that word because in pop media it's never sourced, so maybe they aren't experts at all) predict lower life expectancy as obseity-related diseases...

speaking of the devil, this little video is worth seeing if you weren't already aware of the insidious conspiracies of the shit-food industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAgn5R3EUnU&ab_channel=MorePerfectUnion (I've been aware of this since childhood because my father worked for a food com...

Indeed, but the problem with this is in determining what God wants. The Catholics have the answer to this too, of course, in the extensive hierarchy through which the wants of God are interpreted, but you get into the more Protestant sects and their "personal relationship" with God, and p...

Good thing the whole mess is a myth. Of course, God judges people in the way that we think we should judge people, because God was created in our image, or in the image of whatever culture came up with whatever god they set up as judge. We, too, mostly give people some sort of credit for doing good...

at any rate, there's a conundrum of morality being self serving in that (in theory) you'll do better if you follow these rules for engagement, which appear to promote selflessness. The Catholics have been doing this for 2000 years, and they've worked out most of the details. Basically, a truly awes...

"He who is last shall be first" is a good one. We get the idea, even without religion, but for followers of Christ, or any believers in life after death in general, trying to be last in line on this mortal coil would be like trying to be first in line...wouldn't it? If i was caught fighti...

One I like is "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you." Not bad, as long as everyone observes it. But there are 8.1 Billion of us now and growing so it seems unlikely that this one will ever work worth two shits in a fruit jar. We're still primates after all. :shock: There is no su...