ellauri030.html on line 916: Tendentious humor involves a "victim", someone at whose expense we laugh. Non-tendentious humor does not require a victim. This innocuous humor typically depends on wordplay, and Freud believed it has only modest power to evoke amusement. Tendentious humor, then, is the only kind that can evoke big laughs. It's the only kind to be found in religious works.
ellauri038.html on line 154: As for why this deserves to be called philosophy, it depends on how we define the term. There were philosophers at Athens besides Socrates and Plato, who didn’t oppose philosophy to rhetoric and for whom personal authority was essential to their teaching. Nietzsche aimed to bring that back, at least in his own case – which is the only one that really mattered to him.
ellauri062.html on line 208: Oprah taitaa olla samaa perua kuin Ephraim eli vasa. See the full list here. The Forward's independent journalism depends on donations from readers like you.
ellauri063.html on line 87: Only if socialism always means tyranny, and that in turn depends on whose socialism we are talking about —’socialism from above’ or ‘socialism from below’.
ellauri089.html on line 544: § 67. and by "metaphysical Ethics" I mean those systems which maintain or imply that the answer to the question "What is good?" logically depends upon the answer to the question "What is the nature of supersensible reality?" All such systems obviously involve the same fallacy—the "naturalistic fallacy"—by the use of which Naturalism was also defined. …
ellauri089.html on line 552: § 71. and another seems to lie in the failure to distinguish between that which suggests a truth, or is a cause of our knowing it, and that upon which it logically depends, or which is a reason for believing it: in the former sense fiction has a more important bearing on Ethics than Metaphysics can have. …
ellauri111.html on line 584: You don't need a preacher in your presence in order to be saved, you have heard the gospel here. Do you BELIEVE it and want it? Are you ready to be under God's commands or do you want to keep on doing what you want to do? This decision is yours and your future depends on what choice you make.
ellauri146.html on line 674: The success of Poe in translation indicates his possession of a universal point of view. The recognition which he has received in France, Russia, Italy, Germany, Spain and Britain has no parallel among other American writers. Poe has become a world-author, and this fact depends very largely upon the universality of his appeal. “Poe is my spiritual and literary father,” asserted the Spaniard Vicente Blasco Ibanez. Baudelaire prayed to Poe as a literary saint. The Germans regard him as the foremost American writer. The Russians began translating him in the 1830s even before he was known in America.
ellauri151.html on line 765: Edgar Jones has manufactured the following comparison of Jesus' and Paul's meaning differences which exposes Paul as a liar and a false prophet who did not know Jesus. Paul's errors and false gospel are obvious to anyone who follows Jesus as teacher and listens carefully to Jesus' words. Read very carefully, your eternal salvation depends on it!
ellauri151.html on line 805: [16] So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.

ellauri151.html on line 961: [16] So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.
ellauri156.html on line 311: The answer comes to David in the form of a question. I take it that no one else actually saw this woman, but only David. The identification of this woman depends then upon David's description of her age, appearance, and location, and no one could be absolutely certain whether this is the woman or not -- except for David, of course, who would recognize her.
ellauri161.html on line 597: Speaking of “climate,” that’s the main target here – how people are too stupid to come together even when their survival depends on it. Or maybe it’s the pandemic McKay is allegorizing. Probably both. Meanwhile, the writer/director’s left-of-center politics are on full display. Although Don’t Look Up occasionally ridicules the left, it represents a full-on fusillade against the right. Now that is NOT funny.
ellauri189.html on line 478: Team commissions are earned by agents based on the performance of the teams that they form. Each Seacret agent has a team that is separated into two teams – a right group leg and a left group leg. Usually, one leg tends to perform better than the other and is therefore referred to as your greater volume leg, while the other is called your lesser volume leg. These groups comprise your binary tree. You earn commissions on your team of up to $25,000 every week. Your team commission wholly depends on the volume of the lesser leg. From the star rank through to the executive rank, the commission is 10%, whereas bronze and higher ranked agents earn 15% of the lesser group’s volume.
ellauri189.html on line 536: I know why you are curious about Seacret. You are looking for a way to make some extra money. Maybe, like me, you are looking to have your own business. Chances are that you are tired of the 9 to 5 grind. You have a family that depends on you financially and you can’t afford to have your livelihood depend on a fickle boss or an equally fickle economy.
ellauri198.html on line 724: Roland and his ka-tet travel to Thunderclap, then to the nearby Devar-Toi, to help a group of psychics known as Breakers who are allowing their telepathic abilities to be used to break away at the beams that support the Tower. Ted Brautigan and Dinky Earnshaw assist the gunslingers with information and weapons, and reunite Roland with his old friend Sheemie Ruiz from Mejis. The Gunslingers free the Breakers from their captors, but Eddie is wounded after the battle and dies a short while later. Roland and Jake pause to mourn and then jump to Maine of 1999 along with Oy, in order to save the life of Stephen King (whom he writes to be a secondary character in the book); the ka-tet have come to believe that the success of their quest depends on King surviving to write about it through his books.
ellauri198.html on line 751: Mitä tuubaa! Aivan hanurista! "The paradox of perspectivism is that it depends wholly on the subject/object dualism." Etupiässä takapiässä, takapiässä etupiässä, liikkuuko siitin emättimessä vaiko emätin siittimen ympärillä, ei tiedä ilman viitekehystä, sanoo E. Saarisen suhteellisuusteoria. Milttoni saatana, siinä vasta perspektivisti! Misprision tarkoittaa sanan väärinkäyttöä.
ellauri198.html on line 831: His several boring plays featured fictional heroic ancient Irish warrior Cuchulain. A later poem concludes with a brash announcement: “There’s more enterprise in walking naked.” This indecent departure from a conventional 19th-century manner disappointed his contemporary readers, who preferred the pleasant musicality of such familiar poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” which he wrote in 1890. "I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other person, on strutting as somebody else but yourself", he said. Yeats and his lamentable wife held more than 400 sessions of automatic writing, producing nearly 4,000 pages that Yeats avidly and patiently studied and organized. What an idiot.
ellauri262.html on line 481: Lewis states the problem of pain again in a simpler way: "If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty, He would be able to do what he wished. But the creatures are not happy. Therefore, God lacks either goodness, or power, or both." Lewis says that if the popular meanings attached to the words are the best or only possible then the problem is unanswerable. The possibility of answering it depends on understanding the words 'good,' 'almighty,' and 'happy' in a bigger sense.
ellauri270.html on line 353: The description of the lottery’s formalities builds the reader’s anticipation, as the many seemingly mundane rituals all lead up to a mysterious, ominous outcome. The arc of the story depends on the question of just what will happen to the “winner” of the lottery.
ellauri458.html on line 113: Jim instructs Lizzie on the appropriate response (“Miss Watson, dat sum conebread lak I neva before et.” “Try ‘dat be,’ ” I said. “That would be the correct incorrect grammar.” ) That night, Jim gives a lesson to Lizzie and a group of black children on how to speak to the white people in their lives. He explains that their safety depends on them knowing how to speak to people. They talk about not making eye contact and never speaking first. Also, Lizzie reminds the kids of not “signifying”, which means not addressing something directly because they have to let “the whites be the ones” to know things before them and to name things. When Lizzie worries that they might not be understood if they speak with poor grammar and diction, Jim reminds her that the white people enjoy correcting them and “thinking you’re stupid”. He reminds them that “the more you talk about God and Jesus and heaven and hell, the better they feel”.
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What does the Bible say about dinosaurs? Are there dinosaurs in the Bible? NO So, are there dinosaurs in the Bible? The matter is far from settled. It depends on how one interprets the available evidence. If the first two chapters of Genesis are taken literally, the result is a belief in a relatively young earth and the conviction that dinosaurs and man coexisted. Leviathan, behemoth ja tanniyim oli dinoja. If dinosaurs and human beings coexisted, what happened to the dinosaurs? The Bible does not discuss the issue, but dinosaurs likely died out sometime after the flood due to a combination of dramatic environmental shifts and being relentlessly hunted by God's chosen to extinction.
ellauri480.html on line 175: Counting the casualties in the Bible is a bit like trying to count stars in a galaxy—the total depends entirely on whether you’re looking at the "named" stars or the "estimated" ones. Biblical scholars and researchers generally approach this from two different angles: the explicitly documented deaths and the statistical estimates based on historical context.
ellauri481.html on line 188: It was also inconceivable to him that anything should exist (even universal Being) apart from consciousness; hence, material things exist only as ideas in perceiving minds; the universe depends for its being every moment on the knowledge and creative will of God; and “spirits only are properly substance.” He has so constituted things that “means of grace” (sermons, sacraments, and the fear of hell) are employed by the Spirit in conversion.
ellauri483.html on line 828: Public figures use profanity like "fuck" because it grabs attention, signals authenticity or anger, bonds with certain audiences, and cuts through polished political language. Profanity can make a message feel raw, urgent, and emotionally honest — which helps with persuasion for some listeners — but it also risks alienating others, reducing perceived professionalism, and undermining long‑term credibility. Effectiveness depends on audience, context, and goals: short‑term mobilization vs. sustained influence and diplomatic impact.
ellauri488.html on line 557: 4) It can be meaningful or evasive You’re also right that it can function as a crutch—but that depends on context:
ellauri490.html on line 484: AI systems influence labor markets, with both harms and benefits; ethics depends on design, deployment, and policy. Concise overview:
ellauri490.html on line 620: Consequence: Freedom doesn’t require alternative possibilities; responsibility depends on the structure of the will, not on “could have done otherwise.”
ellauri497.html on line 667: Whether he was a “good communist” depends on the standard you mean: by one measure (sticking with communist ideas and organizing work), he fits; but by another (uncritical alignment with Soviet policy), he doesn’t. By the end of World War II he was an explicit critic of the Soviet regime—particularly around disputes like Lysenkoism and the suppression of genetics—and he later left the Communist Party in 1950. Vide hoc.
ellauri499.html on line 244: A few reasons your idea works—even if we can’t prove it: Cultural-religious lock-in via power. Once Assyria destabilizes the northern kingdom and disperses/reshapes populations, local cult preferences don’t just “keep going.” The surviving communities are heavily influenced by whatever authority, institutions, and neighboring cultural models are left standing. Baal is not a single stable “brand.” Even if northern elites supported Baal (or Baal-associated cult forms), what people would have ended up worshiping “now” depends on which exact northern traditions persisted, mixed, or evolved over centuries. Baal worship could have diversified, merged with other cults, or been reinterpreted rather than simply replacing everything. The Yahweh-only program also depended on political survival. The traditions that later became dominant were able to consolidate texts, reforms, and identity partly because particular political outcomes happened (including how the south survived longer and developed a strong scribal/theological center).
ellauri499.html on line 471: The "last word" on Job 19:25–26 depends entirely on whether you are asking a linguistic text critic or a theological reader.
ellauri501.html on line 273: Yes, Jehovah’s Witnesses are permitted to engage in sexual intercourse in Paradise, but this allowance strictly depends on their individual circumstances and survival status. The religion's official doctrine teaches that sex is a divine gift exclusive to marriage, but how marriage operates in the upcoming "New World" varies by category.
ellauri504.html on line 92: But the specific phrasing “fumbling demiurge” isn’t a standard scholarly label for a particular sect; what is standard is the idea that the demiurge is ignorant/incompetent or otherwise flawed, and some Gnostic writers explicitly treat him as the “god of Israel.” Whether “Marcionite/Gnostic Marcionist” groups used that exact identification in the way you’re describing depends on which text and tradition you mean.
ellauri507.html on line 359: Whether leaving or staying constituted a betrayal depends entirely on which side of the ideological divide a person stood on during the Soviet period.
xxx/ellauri075.html on line 400: When asked in an interview in 2002 whether he was gay, Ellis explained that he did not identify as gay or straight but was comfortable being thought of as homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual and enjoyed playing with his persona, identifying variously as gay, straight and bisexual to different people over the years. In a 1999 interview, Ellis suggested that his reluctance to definitively label his sexuality was for "artistic reasons", "if people knew that I was straight, they'd read [my books] in a different way. If they knew I was gay, 'Psycho' would be read as a different book." In an interview with Robert F. Coleman, Ellis said he had an "indeterminate sexuality", that "any other interviewer out there will get a different answer and it just depends on the mood I am in". Mod tai ei, aikaa myöden Bretistä paljaatui ihan tavallinen hintti. Siinä se muistuttaa toista pahan apostolia Herman Melvilleä, joita Pippa Fitz-Aamobi päätti vertailla ylioppilasaineessa.
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 329: And here’s an even better question than the first one: Why would the idea continue to have so much currency despite having absolutely no demonstrable basis for belief? And the great Upton Sinclair gave us the answer to that one: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.”
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 331: It started out as a cynical exploitation, but the idea is earnestly believed today by many, many people. Thousands of whom are career politicians, conservative think tankers, or academics whose salary depends upon their vigorous pursuit of the idea.
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 510: “A healthy economy depends on a functioning government,” said Owen Zidar, an associate professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University.
xxx/ellauri169.html on line 45: In principle, conspiracy theories are not always false by default and their validity depends on evidence just as in any theory. However, they are often discredited a priori due to the cumbersome and improbable nature of many of them.
xxx/ellauri183.html on line 194: Moral absolutism is certainly compatible with an acknowledgement that monetary value depends on circumstance. Jesus, for example, reinforced the 10 commandmenz, which unconditionally prohibit murder, adultery, theft and so on. But one day, when he was teaching in the temple, Jesus watched a poor widow put two small coins in the donation box, while rich people made much larger offerings. “This poor widow has put in more than all of them,” says Jesus, “because she, out of her poverty, has put in all she had to live on.” But by the criterion of moral absolutism they were just the same.
xxx/ellauri255.html on line 111: This was exactly what Lenin and the Bolsheviks needed. The upsurge of chaotic violence was actually bulldozing a way through for the Bolsheviks to seize power, because the liberals were incapable (and actually unwilling) to do anything about it. What Lenin perceived – and he was absolutely right – was that the success of a coup depends on the apathy of the majority, not on how many real supporters you have. Trump and Bolsonaro made the same observation.
xxx/ellauri298.html on line 646: God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being. Those are categories of thought. I mean it's as simple as that. So it depends on how much you want to think about it. Whether it's doing you any good. Gets you closer to your bliss. Whether it is putting you in touch with the mystery that's the ground of your own being. If it isn't, well, it's a lie. So half the people in the world are religious people who think that their metaphors are facts. Those are what we call theists. The other half are people who know that the metaphors are not facts. And so, they're lies. Those are the atheists.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 590: The modern novel generally depends on:
xxx/ellauri474.html on line 402: Bayle might be advocating faith in God or he might be undermining belief in the existence of God—it depends how you read him. Pierre Bayle (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2023 Edition) 12.1.2023 — Bayle's controversial “doctrine” on the problem of evil that caused so much commotion was carefully summarized by Bayle himself in three points, like brown-tongued President Stubb, omitted here for brevity.
xxx/ellauri487.html on line 517: Conclusion: Complexity depends on the dimension measured. Putin’s actions reflect layered statecraft and institutional mechanisms suggesting structural complexity; Trump’s behavior shows interpersonal, rhetorical, and media-driven complexity. Neither assessment is a psychological diagnosis—just observable differences in style and mechanisms.
xxx/ellauri487.html on line 532: Both are complex in different ways; which feels “more complex” depends on whether you weight unpredictability and persona (Trump) or layered statecraft and long-term planning (Putin).
xxx/ellauri489.html on line 127: If "untouchable" means strictly forbidden contact (ritual purity), then no—prostitution conflicts with that definition in most major religions. Whether prostitution can be called holy depends on the definition of holiness you adopt—legal/ritual purity definitions reject it; ethical/spiritual dignity frameworks may allow it.
xxx/ellauri491.html on line 320: Many people and institutions agree — acknowledgments and apologies have been issued in various contexts for harms caused by colonization and missionary activity. Whether a “big desculpa” (apology) is owed depends on the actor as follows.
xxx/ellauri492.html on line 196: 5. She Uses Emotional Blackmail. A narcissistic daughter-in-law often employs emotional blackmail as a way to maintain control and manipulate others. She might use her potential husband and children as bargaining tools to get her way, making it clear that access to them depends on her terms. For instance, she may threaten to reduce or cut off the time you can spend with your son or potential grandchildren if you do something she disapproves of, such as setting boundaries, disagreeing with her, or questioning her decisions.
xxx/ellauri493.html on line 276: Erection: Neurovascular response where sexual stimulation (sensory, visual, mental) triggers parasympathetic signals causing dilation of penile arteries and engorgement of erectile tissues; venous outflow is compressed, producing rigidity. Erectile function depends on neural, vascular, hormonal, and psychological health.
xxx/ellauri493.html on line 560: Her pension is only about $4 a month, and it’s far from enough to live on, so she depends on subsidized food and special bonuses distributed by the government.
xxx/ellauri495.html on line 272: He is also well remembered for the quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."  He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor as a way to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms.
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