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What Is A Woman?

Freethought Now ✏ written by Kat Grant: 4-November-2024.One of my favorite stories from my classical philosophy college courses is a particular episode between Plato and Diogenes the Cynic, who were both attempting to define a man.According to the tale, Plato had proffered the definition of “a featherless biped.” Upon hearing this, Diogenes, absolute chaos gremlin that he was, plucked a

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Five Hundred And Twenty Four

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Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousDC plane crash, funding freeze, NLRB firings, and what Trump's chaotic directives mean for laborTrump’s Wrecking BallFederal

A Morning Thought @ 2420

A Morning Thought @ 2419

Time Marches On In Derry

Dixie Elliot ✍ We will never forget the brutal murder of innocent men and boys on our streets on Bloody Sunday, 30th January 1972. We will never forget the innocent people of Ballymurphy, slaughtered on their own streets between 9th and 11th of August 1971. Murdered by the British King's Parachute Regiment. We will never forget the people of Palestine and the US backed Israeli

Maybe Speaker Poots Should Also Lecture The Clergy On Dress Codes?

Dr John Coulter ✍ Given the dressing down which Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots gave MLAs recently over their attire, maybe one of the knock-on effects could be that all the Christian denominations should insist that their clergy wear the clerical collars when preaching, affectionately known as the dog collar.In the Sixties and Seventies, it was virtually unthinkable for many Christian

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A Morning Thought @ 2418

A Morning Thought @ 2417