I'd prefer to avoid risky behavior with both sex AND the bullet. I don't play Russian Roulette for the same reason I'm not promiscuous.

Maybe THIS era is. But science and technology doesn't progress steadily. It jumps in fits and starts.

I can identify a rough 700 year cycle to it. Rough because it varies from 2 to 15 centuries between the peaks and troughs, but the average is about 7 centuries.

We are just completing a peak. The dark ages are coming. They will be typified, I believe, by growing worship of science and a resulting denial of the main tenant of all rational religion, that no scientific or theological model made by a finite human brain can possibly be 100% correct. But sometime between 2200 and 3500 A.D. there *will* be another renaissance, and we WILL see changes in paradigm and growth anew.

To the deaf community, is why. Sufficiently quiet miniaturized internal-to-ear-canal speakers work for anybody else, and are much cheaper to manufacture (given that I can get a set for $1 on the "cheap Chinese stuff" store shelf)

When you notice that almost all non-procreative sexual behavior has no survival-of-the-fitest value whatsoever (and in most cases, is just a waste of calories, but in some cases, can actually kill you).

He's far more rational than any atheist I've ever met. The only people who don't think so are bigots who have never bothered to read his stuff on it's own merits.

All that post revealed is something about ONE divorce. The problem of divorce *causing*, or *exasperating* mental illness in the children is the meta problem that needs to be addressed.

Our post-sexual-revolution culture has failed. Maybe it is time to go back to *enforced* fatherhood duties?

How is science coherent in a framework before constants, measurement, and natural laws? If there are no scientific principles to discover, how do you discover scientific principles?

I thought the central tenant of any rational religion is that human beings cannot be right.

What's funny is that this e-mail exhibits an effect of original sin- denial of authority.

To drag this back on topic though I'd like to ask Dr. Bakker what he thinks of the Pope's Proclamation on Reason and Creation yesterday.

In my 17 year career in the tech industry, I have worked for 12 companies, with the average length of contract being 13 months.

Any HR person who is even looking 5 years down the road in this industry is cookoo for coco puffs.

And I still wonder what happened to these kids fathers. It is a well known fact that single parents make autism worse.

The need for H-1b visas is due to a lack of training dollars, not people.

Lying in exchange for money? Sounds like most industries in America to me!

Margaret Sanger....

Article I section 8 of the US Constitution proves that this isn't a free country, and was NEVER intended to be one. It is reinforced by Article I Section 10, and slightly modified by the 10th Amendment, though not enough to matter.