Recent content by Ruth Harris

I know that Unknown Soldier annoyed many people here; I am among them. After our first interaction I refrained from any future activity on their comments. Annoying activity can be easily avoided so it is not really a bannable offense. But "promoting self harm" is far more than just annoying so...

Interesting article, but I agree with one of the comments I saw - they made a mistake lumping those without a particular religious affiliation with those who are agnostic/atheist. I no longer have an affiliation with any specific denomination, but I still have my faith. It seems to me that the...

In your view. Fair enough, but that is not my view. Like I said before, philosophy is not a strong suit for me so I don't typically get into deep discussions or arguments about it. I won't derail this thread with my reasons for holding this position but you can guess it pretty easily by looking...

Thanks for the good article! It has one paragraph which explains clearly what I was trying to say in my opening post but could not manage to do well: We are more than just physical beings ruled by our environment. Ruth

Guilty as charged :D But I have to say I was taken aback by the ferocious debate that started from my little opening post. I didn't expect that; I was just posting something I found interesting and thought others might like it too. Philosophy is not one of my strong suits. I have tried to...

I read a sample of his newest book "Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will" (link here) and found that he is coming from a place that I can never understand or accept; everything we think or do has to be sourced from biological occurrences. There is nothing outside of that. So he is...

Gift link to NYT article. This was an interesting read, but I disagree completely with his reasoning. If this was actually the case, humans would be no different from animals which live on instinct. I firmly believe that we have something within us that makes us separate from typical animals...

I hold to only the fundamentals – the Gospel message of salvation and the greatest commandments of love To me that is the “base set of rules” which determines who is Christian and who is not. All else is window dressing and is up for discussion. Yes, you can be a Christian and yet not follow...

I decided to sign up on Post too. My username is RuthH1937. Look me up if you desire. I only have a few posts there but I comment regularly on other posts. The reason I decided to go with Post is that I am a news junkie, and they fill that need nicely. I looked at Mastodon but I was a little...

@Cheerful Charlie, I neglected to tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed the Youtube series with archaeologist Israel Finkelstein that you linked to last year. It is a very well done series and has excellent expositions on many scriptural topics which definitively shows the exaggeration used in...

Absolutely this 👆 And I am not even considered a "liberal" Christian. I am in the moderate camp. But I despise the far right's insistence that the scriptures be read as literal and infallible "God-breathed" dictation to humans, rather than what they actually were - the writings of ancient...

Well, I sort of disagree here. I really don't want to see most of the people I know without clothing...that would be a ghastly sight. And I guarantee you that other people feel the same way about seeing me naked :lol: To be serious, though, I really feel like this was a very disrespectful act...

Oh, I didn't realize that; I thought he was an American. My apologies, @Tigers! Just ignore everything I said regarding your post :oops: Ruth

Ah, I see. I think we are talking at cross purposes here. I was addressing this particular statement: That is what I don't understand. Good service should be rewarded; I was not flatly stating that all servers should receive good tips. I apologize for the lack of clarity on my part. Ruth

Sure, they work for the money. Everyone does. But the simple truth is that if you don't enjoy the job, you are not going to stay in food service unless you are unable to get any other job. And if you enjoy a job you want to do it well. There are bad employees in every type of job out there; it...