dimreepr

Nevertheless, both teach forgiveness and tolerance; would you can blame the teacher if a student chooses a different path?

Which is?

I should, maybe, have said 'major religions', but even "an eye for an eye" stops short of revenge.

Indeed, a common thread in religions is forgiveness, which is a pretty decent position to hold.

Why?

A swallow doesn't consider its existence, it flies and eats them, breeds and dies; how would a swallow benefit if it did consider such things?

Only one thing to change "The purpose of the page is to complete add to the book, even if that page can never know the whole story."

In case you are replying to my post, her opinion asked for my opinion, does that count?

Expect a doozy on the morrow, maybe.

Just a little too much whisky on board to provide a reasonable answer tonight, tar, the irony is not lost on me though...

But we are in a position to give our opinion.

You're going off topic with this argument, tar, so I'm not going to reply in this thread but please start a new topic, there's much to discuss.

If there was no follow up I'd tend to agree.

I realise yours and others, in this thread, reticence in jumping on the harassment band wagon given the scant information available. However, I have to say that since he's married and a friend (assuming his wife is also a friend or at least a nodding acquaintance) and the texts are unsolicited with no contextual description, for me, puts it firmly in the harassment ball park. But I do agree with the majority he needs to be asked for an explanation, it maybe just a case of a wrong number.

I see, well that does throw some light on the OP and so my answer would be yes I think it does constitute sexual harassment, provided it's not just a case of the wrong number.

You're not giving us much to go on, was it a friend of his or a friend of yours, was he trying to hide it from you, have you asked for an explanation etc...

There's no way of knowing without context.

I stand corrected but does that make my point less valid?

There is a rule book, it's been written many times, throughout history and in many different cultures/languages; essentially it says be kind to others and don't judge those that aren't.

But that's a different scale of pressure, much like my likelyhood of surviving in100 feet of water, compared to 10.000 feet of water/

I would never suggest Aristotle or Socrates is less intelligent than me or my fellow man; it's just that circumstance has changed. Brain size versus body size seems to be the determining factor.

That reminds me of a physics joke, that relies on a spherical chicken in a vacuum...

Indeed, but it's much easier and cheaper to point a hairdryer at it...

But if they're essentially dead, why not try?

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=164820