I thought that at first, too. Then I realized that snail mail is now effectively the most potentially anonymous form of communication. It beats email, phone, fax, etc.
Actually guns are a remarkably entertaining pastime. That is a positive use that goes overlooked all the time. Many, many people use guns recreationally to shoot at targets such as Pepsi cans. This does no harm to anybody. OK?
Then came the dark ages when everything good was lost of considered bad, the church considered it unholy to examine a body and taking a bath is bad because it removes the layers of protective dirt covering your skin.
Don't be so quick to think that social norms didn't limit medicine before the Roman Catholic church did. The ancient doctor Galen was not allowed, because of 2nd century social norms, to dissect or examine dead bodies. As far as I understand it, the vast majority of his knowledge of anatomy came from treating gladiators and peering into their gaping wounds. Note that this was long before politicized "Christianity" took control of the Roman world. Commonly-held beliefs routinely prevent examination and questioning of the world around us. The people who try to do so are typically labelled in one way or another and written off as heretics or fundamentalists, rather than listening and carefully examining whether what they are saying is valid or not. It happens today routinely, such as when scientists try to challenge other scientists' staunchly-held views on certain topics or when somebody mentions the matter on Slashdot... cough-evolution-cough...
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Like Ed McMahon to laugh at my lame jokes... *sigh*
I wonder who spaced out on the job and let this happen...
I thought that at first, too. Then I realized that snail mail is now effectively the most potentially anonymous form of communication. It beats email, phone, fax, etc.
Actually guns are a remarkably entertaining pastime. That is a positive use that goes overlooked all the time. Many, many people use guns recreationally to shoot at targets such as Pepsi cans. This does no harm to anybody. OK?
Then came the dark ages when everything good was lost of considered bad, the church considered it unholy to examine a body and taking a bath is bad because it removes the layers of protective dirt covering your skin.
Don't be so quick to think that social norms didn't limit medicine before the Roman Catholic church did. The ancient doctor Galen was not allowed, because of 2nd century social norms, to dissect or examine dead bodies. As far as I understand it, the vast majority of his knowledge of anatomy came from treating gladiators and peering into their gaping wounds. Note that this was long before politicized "Christianity" took control of the Roman world. Commonly-held beliefs routinely prevent examination and questioning of the world around us. The people who try to do so are typically labelled in one way or another and written off as heretics or fundamentalists, rather than listening and carefully examining whether what they are saying is valid or not. It happens today routinely, such as when scientists try to challenge other scientists' staunchly-held views on certain topics or when somebody mentions the matter on Slashdot... cough-evolution-cough...