Every day and I'm an old man, youngster! Uncle Pen to many here!
Do you prefer Batman or Superman?
Every day and I'm an old man, youngster! Uncle Pen to many here!
Do you prefer Batman or Superman?
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
I'd rather be Superman, but I'd rather read about Batman.
Do you prefer heroes with superpowers or ordinary men who made themselves extraordinary?
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The latter.
Do you ever get massages?
Only from the wife. Paying for it is sucker's game.
Is it more important at the moment to pressure the Turkish government into calling what happened to the Armenians a genocide, or to develop more cordial diplomatic relations to facilitate an effective response to ISIS?
We need to focus on ISIS as it is an ongoing threat to cause WWIII if we aren't careful. The classification of the destruction of Armenians as genocide should be a given, but if it isn't the world will still know that is what happened.
Would you say that Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci was the better artist?
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
I like Mike.
Do those who were not alive before the African slave trade bear any responsibility for it by virtue of their skin color?
ISIS isn't even close to the threat the Nazis were. They are not an established army with an established homefront. They do not have the greatest scientists in the world as the Nazis did at the time, And while, they are committing loathsome horrors, they are not systematically marching members of a certain ethnic/religious group from all over a continent to their deaths. They are not yet worth the deaths of young American men or women.Originally Posted by Pendragon
Michelangelo...not even close.
Will there ever be any new great jazz artists and new forms of jazz or will jazz remain primarily a nostalgic art form?
Last edited by Pike Bishop; 04-22-2015 at 11:05 AM.
Michelangelo for me too.
No they don't, all of that should be buried by now in the US, a proper welfare and free health insurance established, and the education system improved.
Pike: "Will there ever be any new great jazz artists and new forms of jazz or will jazz remain primarily a nostalgic art form?"
Jazz will continue to mix various influences from popular and classical music, but it will stay in the niche position it has.
Should da Vinci have not wasted his time with all those war/flying machines, and done some more paintings or even anatomy study?
Absolutely not. Da Vinci's true genius lay in his scientific genius and prescience and his demonstrating the possible fluidity between the scientific and artistic mind. I'll stand corrected by a more informed person with a better argument here, but DaVinci just wasn't one of the greats in painting. He wasn't particularly innovative in vision or style, and his technique was surpassed by his contemporaries--Michelangelo not included--as well.
Is Abstract Expressionism the final rung on the painting "ladder," or is there another substantial innovation to come?
da Vinci is allowed to do whatever the hell he wants.
The drawings are great.
How often do you expect Christian people imagine God to be a corporeal presence?
When encountering unintelligent or very young Christians.
What's for supper?
Probably two slices of sourdough with jalapeno yogurt cheese and tapatio sauce and and habanero sauce and some salami. It's been my nightly dinner for weeks now.
Kinda makes sleeping hard though.
What to do when your coworker thinks WB Yeats is a local author on consignment?
Retire.
Every time an orthodox Trinitarian (the vast majority of Christians) imagines Jesus, he or she is conceiving as God as corporeal. Or were you talking about the doctrine of Transmutation of the Host?
For dinner is lentils on jasmine rice with spinach or kale if we're out of spinach.
Does a sovereign nation have a right to ratify a constitution in which homosexuality is criminalized?
Last edited by Pompey Bum; 04-22-2015 at 03:47 PM.
I don't believe in intrinsic rights, (I think they are arbitrary), so no, but they may as well have.
Does construction fascinate you?
Constructing buildings? No.
Does theology fascinate you?
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