Secular Café Archive

[quote=""Hermit""]They are traitors of the working class. They should not have bricks thrown at them. They ought to be stood against the wall and summarily executed. If there are not enough bullets to go around, some lengths of rope and a sufficient number of trees or lamp posts ...

The sour feeling I get in my stomach when I hear the word "union" started with TV news coverage of a meat-packers strike somewhere in the upper Midwest. Strikers were shown throwing bricks at vehicles entering the facility's parking lot. To see if I was understanding what was going on, I s...

clown car

desert plant

Green River

Rollen Stewart would have been fun to be around in small doses.

I wonder what the other kids made of child evangelist Michael Lord.

[quote=""Roo St. Gallus""]All Christians are liars. Is that the net result?[/quote] Someone who was paying close attention to the witness of Ray Comfort capsulized his assertions thusly-- 1) All humans are liars. Every single one. 2) I, Ray Comfort [a human] , am to be trusted wh...

[quote=""Jobar""]I have known people who claimed the latter, but it's always easy to catch them out in beliefs which specifically contradict Biblical pronouncements. [/quote] I brought up "Suffer not a witch to live" in conversation with a Christian. He assured me that ...

[quote=""DrZoidberg""] I also don't think that making a profit from healthcare is a problem. [/quote] I wish I could remember her name (Adler? Greiner? Schrieber?), but about 25 years ago a deceased accountant's retirement portfolio endowed a women's college in the US with someth...

[quote=""MattShizzle""]somewhere in the Bible says being celibate is even better than restricting sex to marriage. [/quote]

Paul writing in I Corinthians chapter 7.

turkey shoot

On the topic of Planned Parenthood here in the US a black female tweeted this at a nonblack nonfemale: "Y’all don’t even care about the kids that are already alive ..... complain about the foster care system then let’s talk about abortions." Is it generally thought that people who are anti...

wall off

A hobo, possibly in an inebriated state, falls down and part of his hand is taken off by a freight train wheel. In our current system, who paid for his helicopter ride to the hospital and his months of medical treatment?

[quote=""Jobar""]Back at the turn of the century, I was of the opinion we'd see 'real' AI by 2010. But it seems that human mentation is harder to emulate than I thought.[/quote] I don't have access to the defunct IIDB/FRDB board, but I remember someone there ~ 2005 starting a thr...

cured meat

Haven't heard this on the radio in many years.


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[quote=""Rheanne""]
The point I'd like to make is that gender is a social construct.[/quote]

What is your explanation for gender roles seen in nonhuman species?

Wow, guys!

Current population of the USA is 325 million. If we ramped up our socialism to be in excess of Mexico's, would it reverse immigration statistics and get our population down to a more reasonable number like 200 million?

In the pre-Internet days the best my ears could do was--- All my dollar bills seem to fly away Then she looks at me as if to say I imagined the singer being so infatuated with his girlfriend that he spent all his income on her. But the Net claims--- All my silent fears seem to fly away And she smile...

stripes painted

worn jeans

[quote=""Ozymandias""]... noticed that I had "declined to answer" questions about my sexuality and race (which are presumably asked to monitor diversity). [/quote]

The script writers for TV's 'Big Bang Theory' could get an episode's plot out of that, I'd bet.

Put me in the pilot's seat with my current state of aviation knowledge, and my answer to, "How do you plan on navigating to John Wayne" at 7:33 would be, "Uh... I've got a sectional map in my hands and I'm going to look around at the ground." What are some real-world responses th...