2008-08-19 06:59:29: My instinct is that they wouldn't get along. They might collaborate well on things like chasing the money-changers from the temple, but Jesus has the whole turn-the- other-cheek thing going on that I don't think Batman could understand:
"My parents are dead!"
"Turn the other cheek my son, and forgive."
"I going to ...
2008-07-09 08:18:49: I come from a place where I believe that if we are anything beyond the merely physical, we are similar to what the Minbari of Babylon 5 believe - we are projections of the Universe, trying to figure itself out (and I know that belief is probably based on something ...
2008-06-25 08:12:53: I think we are over-thinking this.
Cars are shiny, because we like shiny things. We're like crows that way.
My point is that our basic psychological makeup (and there is probably a whole learned behaviour versus genetic predisposition argument to have here) is inclined towards....oooh, look! Shiny! Be right ...
2008-05-13 10:33:58: "We are that which we pretend to be."
Perhaps too long for your tastes, but this one sticks with me.
Speaking of sticky: "Ideas are sticky."
2008-05-12 14:49:52: As with all things, it's all a question of the particulars and details:
-solitary confinement? With or without books, computer (I'm assuming no internet), TV? Even with just a bunch of paper and a pen, I could do this for a while.
-sex with a stranger? I could do ...
2008-05-12 09:36:26: I would like to see a leader - of any nationality - express their understanding of the fact that the human race is completely interlinked and interdependent, and that the future of the species depends on us learning to acknowledge that fact and work together on large issues - that ...
2008-05-09 08:16:13: I am doing well, thank you. I would be doing better if I had a bottle of scotch on my desk, and some idea of what to do with the chapter I will soon be writing for the great MeFi novel. Perhaps I should ask that of the ...
2008-05-08 14:54:24: Interesting question - the way you frame it is very different from how I would. When I think of "team" I tend to think of a group brought together in pursuit of a specific purpose - a work team, a sports team, etc. Your question, in my ...
2008-04-21 09:20:12: My wife and I do lots of little things:
1). CFLs pretty much everywhere.
2). Cloth bags for the grocery store.
3). Composting.
4). Our own little garden.
5). Insulating the basement.
6). Putting in new windows with better insulation.
7). I gave up my car two summers ago; we're ...
2008-04-14 15:10:32: What an interesting coincidence that you post this question, and a few hours later, I come upon this.
I personally struggled through most of Atlas Shrugged one summer, with my parents prouldy encouraging me. I kept going "wtf? Are they really advocating me to adopt a philosophy that encourages ...
2008-04-04 10:25:43: One of the purposes of art is to provoke a new way of seeing/perceiving things in the viewer/reader/listener; to that end, sometimes the depiction of ugliness is important and valuable. I am always struck by photographs that capture these ugly moments - the horror/terror on the faces of people ...
2007-12-20 11:14:41: Two things would be necessary for me:
Fuck you money as already mentioned and an unbelievable experience (such as walking on Mars, going to Jupiter, meeting an alien, etc).
Without both of these, I'm pretty sure I couldn't leave my family.
2007-12-19 11:51:30: If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.--George Carlin
I do think there is other life out there, but I suspect that we will never make contact. Even if we could ...
2007-12-10 15:47:47: I have to say I've become such a skeptic over the years that I think I'd have to witness either event first hand.
Give me a spacecraft coming in for a landing over my hometown, or someone turning water into wine right in front of me. Then I might believe ...
2007-12-10 13:18:56: So, I'm a little bit confused. You're creating the Kitchen/Backyard/Pit/Drip Pan/Igniter or whatever we're going to call it, where we can post our own questions. Then, said questions can be voted on, with the best ones being selected for the front page? Wouldn't we have beaten that ...
2007-12-19 12:11:06: I think the big issue is the role of the media. The media, as currently constituted, likes to have concise sound bites and non-challenging ideas being expressed. This is because challenging ideas require more air time - they need to be explained, put in context, and discussed. ...