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To suggest that it was licit to use contraceptives would be contradictory to the important and essential procreative nature of sex

Brief question: do humans (and animals such as bonobos) use sex purely for procreation, or does it also serve to maintain social bonding?

As sex education and contraceptive provision have increased, so there has also been a dramatic rise in the incidence of STIs. The Church predicted this would happen 40 years ago. See Humanae Vitae The Catholic Church has not changed its position on this issue and I believe that the statistics in Br...

bring back the cs server . . . i miss it so

. Of COURSE God exists . . .

Suppose that fine-tuning does need an explanation: how does positing a fine-tuner not just move the bump under the rug?

excellent, up and running.

going to read the manual now

when do you lot usually play?

shame - am therefore trying to install ET; have installed wolfet.exe and et_patch_current. what else do i need to do, and in what order? the startup thread wasn't too helpful on this . . .

. . . what happened to it? i miss it

Would anyone be interested in getting together to do some african drumming this term? I'd suggest meeting somewhere outside, either North Haugh or Castle Sands, so long as it isn't raining. African drumming being broadly construed - any hand percussion. No snares

email me if so: iem@...

I'm going to attempt a classic Long Drop, here, and play Turnpike Lane (southbound). Unless I'm mistaken, this successfully nullifies the last triangulation and leaves only one possible next move.

island gardens? under Rushton? is that wise?

Elephant & Castle

Stuff the Jubilee line. That'll teach them to attempt an early triangulation.

avoid DRA. it's absolutely terrible. and horribly expensive (about £100/week). with paper-thin walls and it's too far away from town to be pleasant - especially in the winter. and the en-suite bathrooms are miniscule; even the ones in new hall are better. but 100/week? you can get a decent room in a...

. . . much much worse if you've got a silly haircut and a habit of wearing ridiculous bodywarmer puffa jackets.

not that people with silly haircuts and similar jackets are banal and gauche, as such, but some have definitely suggested it.

If anyone's interested, there's a couple (at least) of us meeting tomorrow at 3pm. If anyone fancies joining in, then bring something with a skin and a couple of beers (optional). Contact iem for location.

Anyone interested in getting together for some drumming sessions? So far: iem phd2 blfm interested, plus one other. I think mostly djembeists. We're planning to meet sometime (lunchtime?) next Friday, *possibly* castle sands (depending on how much we think we'll piss people off). contact iem for fur...

I play djembe and would be interested in getting together for a jam sometime. Email me at iem@. . . if you're so inclined.

or a third option, which nobody has yet considered, is that there's no such thing as an identity condition for fictitious characters unlike in the case of ordinary reference, where you might think that we refer to whatever is causally responsible for our use of the term (or somesuch; there are other...

at the end of the day, I am pro-life, that will not change Oh, Sid, you make me wonder. Munchingfoo's been perfectly reasonable; he's not trying to 'prove his own intelligence', he's just pointing out that there are serious holes in your argument - which you yourself haven't noticed. For instance: ...

Sorry Sid, I'm just not willing to let you get away with that one. In your own words: . . . if someone is terminating what could have been a living person like myself I see it as a form of murder. So you clearly think that embryos are (potential) living people, and that killing them is murder; allow...

Here's a hypothetical situation: You find yourself outside of a burning fertility clinic. You rush inside: in one corner there is a petri dish with five newly-fertilised embryos, ready for implantation. In the opposite corner there is a two-year-old girl. You have time to save either the petri dish ...