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[physicsbabe]

In the last 30 minutes of checking email, journals, blogs and the like, I've seen at least 1/2 a dozen ads for diets. It's starting to bug me that Facebook thinks the only thing I'm interested in is being skinny

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[veyasar]

My attitude with my professors, colleagues, and (when I start teaching next year) students is to avoid discussing politics except in the most factual and neutral fashion. Partly, because I've been warned that people on my side of the aisle are held to a different standard when it comes time for tenure. Mostly because you really can't talk about this stuff in a classroom environment without causing more harm than good. I suppose if I were studying poly sci, it would be different, but even then it would have to be handled delicately.

As for good and evil, my understanding is that the christian view of good and evil, heaven and hell were borrowed from zoroastrianism, weren't they? In other religions, good and evil are viewed differently. Though I agree that most religions I can think of off-hand do draw a dichotomy between the two.