We still don’t understand quite how the brain works or how consciousness comes from neurons.

Israel fires on any ship that breaks the blockade of Gaza. They killed 9 people last time the aid ship Mavi Marmara tried to help. Israel will likely shoot this one too.

The moron overplayed his hand. He promised he would fight to the death, so who would make a deal with someone who is that genocidal?

There’s a lot of trolls and bad people out there. When talking to people or debating someone, a handy tip is to try to assume the other person is acting in good faith until they give you a reason to doubt them. That way you’re not attacking a person for asking a legitimate question.

It’s not distance, it’s more frequency.

Blame the French.

RISE AND SHINE

Melatonin helps. It’s a natural chemical your brain releases to help make you drowsy at bedtime and you can get it over the counter to help sleep. It also resets your biological clock which makes it helpful for jet lag.

That with noise cancelling headphones or earplugs, a sleep mask to cover the eyes, and laying as flat as possible (even paying for business class) all help.

Because people are not caricatures and don’t have 100% agreement with one political side or another. That’s why you have some Democrats who oppose gun control and some Republicans who support abortion. Politics is a spectrum, not something to pidgeonhole people into.

This isn’t hard if you understand the words and their meanings.

So he’s Leftwing on abortion and rightwing on vaccines.

Not this again. Just because you can end a war faster by intentionally targeting civilians doesn’t mean it’s ever going to be moral or ethical. The U.S. government considers that act terrorism by definition.

I’m not going to relitigate the whole argument again. The U.S. government knew women and children were in the cities and the military proceeded to nuke the cities instead of an uninhabited because they wanted to show off the power of the weapon and observe the level of urban damage it could do.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were deliberate atrocities, not sure how you’d list them as blunders.

I’m not familiar with this story, could you give some details?

Zoolander.

It’s like trying to have the hero fight a giant spider in every movie you make.

The police did come and check the house out days prior, and deemed it a false alarm.

One correction: the preacher is irrelevant, he’s the equivalent of Daily Mail finding an awful YouTube comment and trying to generalize people on that basis. That’s why I said this is not how any of it works. I have yet to meet a Muslim who agrees with what he said.

The Taliban are the only place I know of that have mandatory burqas and they said that they’re doing it for cultural norms, not religious reasons. There’s a reason Muslim leaders worldwide have been trying to pressure the Taliban to allow women in school etc as the religion actually commands women (as well as men) to be educated and learn to read etc.

Well I’m not a fundamentalist but I can help you sort that out. There’s nothing actually in the religion that says to force beards on anyone, they are considered a good deed if done to emulate the Prophets but there’s no sin on anyone who can’t have one. ISIS basically made that rule up, but then again they did the exact opposite of so much of the religion it’s hardly a surprise anymore.

Second, there’s nothing in the religion saying women have to cover their faces, it’s explicitly allowed by hadith. The reason some people do it is because they have a different mindset than you do; to them its about having privacy. Muslim women who cover their faces are trying to keep out of the public eye and ask you to judge their ideas and speech rather than focus on what makeup they have on. You may not realize it, but they generally think that ‘western’ women are oppressed because nobody takes them seriously or gives them attention unless they make themselves prettier. The other part of the mindset is that when you treasure something you guard it and not necessarily show it off to everyone. Muslim men are expected to guard women in their family with their own lives.

Covering oneself is therefore NOT about “making your own lust everyone else’s problem” but its about one’s own privacy. You can never control other people’s lusts and even ISIS didn’t claim to try to do that. The Taliban claimed that they were doing it for CULTURAL reasons not religious ones, because they knew they had no actual religious textual basis to make such a claim and that’s why they were condemned by Muslim countries worldwide. Lastly, men AND women are expected to cover themselves, which is why you see men in turbans and women in headscarves.

That’s not how it works with fundamentalists and I wouldn’t trust the freaking Daily Mail tabloid to define any culture at all.

I suppose we shall agree to disagree.