Catholics have just as much right to vote for candidates and policies that they believe to be in the best interest of the country as anyone else.
Everyone else who advocates for a particular political position is voting based on their beliefs, whether they are derived from religion, philosophy or just plain self interest, are they not?
Sounds like you are talking about some government policy about only having one child, where you are forcibly taken to a Hospital (if you are lucky) and the second child is aborted. Is that what you are talking about when you say "force"?
No one is forced to be a Catholic. No one is forced to follow their teachings. It's not the Eleventh Century anymore.
No, maturity is understanding what the appropriate manner is and then comport yourself accordingly. Because despite what you think as a teen, your parents DO know what's best for you and you decidedly do not.
One of the other mainstays of a world class symphony's revenue is wealthy donors. Principal Chairs are usually sponsored, as are many assistants. Not everyone makes $50k a year...far from it. My local symphony has great seats for $20. If DSO commands higher prices, it's because there's a market for it.
With Jazz, it's acceptable and even encouraged to applaud after a solo.
With Classical, sit on your hands until it's over.
Have you ever been to a rock concert, and despite the two story speakers, not been able to hear the music very well because of all the idiots around you screaming their heads off and lighting each others hair on fire?
Mr. Williams does exactly what the great composers did in their day...compose for their livelihood; they were working composers. Back then the greats worked for the Royalty, but they still had to produce. They had critics and competition and people expected good stuff. Today, they write film scores. =
Did you know Mr. Williams wrote the Star Wars score with a pencil? I bet fewer than 1% of the people on Slashdot have any idea of the knowledge and skill required to compose symphonic music fit for a film score or symphony, on schedule and to specification. Truly one of the great composers of our time and in the same class as Bernstein (Elmer and Leonard) , Gershwin, etc.
Umm...you don't pay Beethoven or Mozart because they have a copyright. You pay the Dallas Symphony for the performance...their work...it's their job to play music.
Twitter is for those narcissistic people who have run out of loved ones, friends, and acquaintances willing to put up with them incessantly prattling on about themselves and how great they are.
There is no such thing as unknowable, it just can't be known now. We can't know what the universe was before the big bang, but that doesn't stop some pretty smart people from thinking about it.
Is there "research" that you feel should off limits, or are you going all in with Dr. Mengele?
If you do think some research is off limits, why? Because any reason you offer has its foundations in ethics/philosophy, which is inextricably entwined with religion.
Actually, he simply portrayed Religion and its place in Science an History in a way that doesn't jive with your cartoonish and bigoted understanding of it.
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Seems people always manage to find a way to make something the fault of the U.S.
It's like having a bitch of a wife that makes everything your fault.
4,143,077 Texans live in poverty. 1,655,085 of them are children. http://www.census.gov/
90% of them are illegal aliens.
Do you have blisters from spinning this so much?
Sorry, forgot the bemused sarcasm tags, whatever those would be.
PS 1 A.U. is the distance of the Earth to the Sun, just in case you didn't/don't know.
Doesn't that make us "earthists"? It's like the Interstellar equivalent to the Imperial system.
As Carl said, "...billions and billions..."
Coming soon to the fracking industry.
Actually, already arrived with Gas Land.
Catholics have just as much right to vote for candidates and policies that they believe to be in the best interest of the country as anyone else.
Everyone else who advocates for a particular political position is voting based on their beliefs, whether they are derived from religion, philosophy or just plain self interest, are they not?
"Forcing"?
Sounds like you are talking about some government policy about only having one child, where you are forcibly taken to a Hospital (if you are lucky) and the second child is aborted. Is that what you are talking about when you say "force"?
No one is forced to be a Catholic. No one is forced to follow their teachings. It's not the Eleventh Century anymore.
Best keep that straw and chimney handy.
No, maturity is understanding what the appropriate manner is and then comport yourself accordingly. Because despite what you think as a teen, your parents DO know what's best for you and you decidedly do not.
One of the other mainstays of a world class symphony's revenue is wealthy donors. Principal Chairs are usually sponsored, as are many assistants. Not everyone makes $50k a year...far from it. My local symphony has great seats for $20. If DSO commands higher prices, it's because there's a market for it.
With Jazz, it's acceptable and even encouraged to applaud after a solo.
With Classical, sit on your hands until it's over.
Have you ever been to a rock concert, and despite the two story speakers, not been able to hear the music very well because of all the idiots around you screaming their heads off and lighting each others hair on fire?
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Mr. Williams does exactly what the great composers did in their day...compose for their livelihood; they were working composers. Back then the greats worked for the Royalty, but they still had to produce. They had critics and competition and people expected good stuff. Today, they write film scores. =
Did you know Mr. Williams wrote the Star Wars score with a pencil? I bet fewer than 1% of the people on Slashdot have any idea of the knowledge and skill required to compose symphonic music fit for a film score or symphony, on schedule and to specification. Truly one of the great composers of our time and in the same class as Bernstein (Elmer and Leonard) , Gershwin, etc.
Umm...you don't pay Beethoven or Mozart because they have a copyright. You pay the Dallas Symphony for the performance...their work...it's their job to play music.
Twitter is for those narcissistic people who have run out of loved ones, friends, and acquaintances willing to put up with them incessantly prattling on about themselves and how great they are.
I quickly figured out that I hate being told what to do all the time.
It's called being immature.
There is no such thing as unknowable, it just can't be known now. We can't know what the universe was before the big bang, but that doesn't stop some pretty smart people from thinking about it.
"Hunters"?
Yeah, numbnuts. It's called "faith".
Is there "research" that you feel should off limits, or are you going all in with Dr. Mengele?
If you do think some research is off limits, why? Because any reason you offer has its foundations in ethics/philosophy, which is inextricably entwined with religion.
Just about everything qualified as "cannot be known" at some point.
No, and we wouldn't have physics if he were Redd Foxx, either.
We would, but it would be much funnier.
Actually, he simply portrayed Religion and its place in Science an History in a way that doesn't jive with your cartoonish and bigoted understanding of it.
There are two kinds of people: those who do things in their life and those who write about them.