The recession metaphor is imperfect, of course. Most people need jobs; that’s not the case with relationships and sex. I talked with plenty of people who were single and celibate by choice. Even so, I was amazed by how many 20-somethings were deeply unhappy with the sex-and-dating lan...
Cheryl Harris (UCLA)’s essay Whiteness as Property does pretty much what it says on the tin: rather than a social designation, a part of a code by which people are sorted and separated from each other, she proclaims whiteness as a thing that some people get to own and others do not....
Ariel Castro gained international attention for abducting, brutalizing and keeping three girls in his house for over 11 years. This was before he forgot the door unlocked *one* time when he left the house, and Amanda Berry was finally able to run out and use a strangers phone to dial 911....
Then Araunah asked, “Why does my lord the king come to his servant?” David replied, “To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.”New Revised Standard VersionAraunah said, “Why has my lord the king come ...
People need to believe in god / Without god people will do bad things. Argument from adverse consequences [2]. Just because something is perceived as having good consequences if it is true, does not actually make it true. The fact that religiously free societies with a proportionally large ...
Therefore, she does not [immediately] regret her vow and the thoughts that inspired it, rather, she remains with them. At that time, she believes that she will never be intimate with her husband again. Therefore, the Torah, which understands her mind, commanded that she be impure like a ...
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. — Soren Kierkegaard 86 No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on — J. Cole 268 The God of the Bible is also the God of ...
Does God work with imperfect people? Well sure. That’s all there is to work with. But I take issue with the suggestion that Donald Trump is God’s soldier. Taking the Name of God in Vain In the Old Testament in the Bible, one of the 10 commandments is in thebook of Exodus, chapt...
79. “A woman of God may look like other women but she is unique, because she looks up to God in all that she does.”― Gift Gugu Mona 80. “There is only one you in this world, so embrace your uniqueness and let it shine brightly.”― Matheesha Prathapa ...
If a treatment simply does not work for some number of people, or they would not have needed it, but the treatment is otherwise benign and of low cost, a high NNT might be quite acceptable. Vaccinations at the population level, for example, have high NNTs; many people must be vaccinated...