During the drug war, the authorities told us that cannabis affected the testes. In that same time period, health authorities were telling us to eat low-fat high-carb diet to combat high cholesterol.
I find myself wondering if I should pity them. They were likely given these commandments by their parents or churches when they were children, and never bothered to inwardly reflect on them, rather just uncritically accept them -- even as they don't follow them themselves.
Catholic priests are supposed to be celibates. It seems they're celibate in body but not in mind? It reminds me of following the letter of the law but not the spirit.
The value of knowing your neighbors is essentially priceless. Moving from a childhood home into a new neighborhood puts one in a new community of complete strangers, from which it can take decades to develop new neighborly relationships.
Globally, there are at least two relevant definitions in play per Wikipedia:
A child (pl. children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty,[1][2] or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty.[3] It may also refer to an unborn human being.[4][5] In English-speaking countries, the legal definition of child generally refers to a minor, in this case as a person younger than the local age of majority (there are exceptions like, for example, the consume and purchase of alcoholic beverage even after said age of majority[6]), regardless of their physical, mental and sexual development as biological adults.[1][7][8]
It seems reasonable to request clarification as to which definition of child is being used.
Is Mumin a psuedonym or his real birth name? Wikipedia says "mumin" means "believer" whereas "muslim" means submitter. I'm wondering if this is a caste-based naming system.
In my studies, the acceleration of housing inflation began around 1973. Back then a house was about $30K.
Let’s start by going back four decades, to 1984. The movie “Ghostbusters” was a blockbuster that year. And the median price of a new home wasn’t so scary: $79,900 in the fourth quarter of 1984, according to data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Well, there is the pic of dry ground coffee as well as the text that mentions ounces instead of fluid ounces.