Ben Stein just wants a woman who wont laugh at him, I think. That explains his traditional values rantings, he just wants arranged marriages to be back in fashion.
Today, for a brief second, I thought of a life without Roger. It was much like my current life, except that this forum was a bit nicer.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: GA on November 06, 2008, 02:06:24 AMQuote from: Cain on November 05, 2008, 03:23:16 PM
The spread of information will not necessarily encourage stability. Johannes Gutenburg's invention of movable type in the mid-fifteenth century led not only to the Reformation, but to the religious wars that followed it, as the sudden proliferation of texts spurred doctrinal controversies and awakened long-dormant greivances. The spread of information in the coming decades will lead not just to new social compacts, but to new divisions as people discover new and complex issues over which to disagree.
I don't think sure we'll see another Reformation-like event, at least in the West. My (limited) understanding of the violence attending the Reformation was that a lot of it was due to the fact that the Church ruled through ideology/theology; people who disagreed with that ideology could not do so without also challenging the power structure. Now that Western governments (and by 'Western' I mean North America and Europe) have variations on constitutional democracies, the ruling class is not tied to ideology. Every couple of election cycles, the ideology in power shifts; there's nothing revolutionary in disagreeing with the current ruling ideology anymore.
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on November 05, 2008, 08:24:03 AMQuote from: Cain on November 04, 2008, 03:16:00 PM
book of 1 John
This should be plastered all over the internet. Especially in response to that goddamned Leviticus passage. Why isn't it?