Word: meaningless
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...last point: The indiscriminate use of the word "meditation" is an invitation to trouble. Meditation can describe a serene contemplation of a beautiful flower, as well as a zombie-like trance induced by mechanical mental machinations. The phrase, "meditation is good for you" is about as meaningless as "milk is good for you." What kind, how much, and how often are qualifiers that are needed to validate such vague claims. Richard St. Clair...
...present popular discontent may produce some needed changes in immigration laws and practices. But there is no turning back: diversity breeds diversity. It is the fuel that runs today's America and, in a world being transformed daily by technologies that render distances meaningless, it puts America in the forefront of a new international order...
Novelist Block does a good, convincing job with Scudder and his puzzle, but comes up flat with the solution, which involves two unrelated coincidences. The two deaths on which the story pivots turn out to be essentially meaningless, and this may be closer to real life than a thriller plot can safely walk...
Novelist Block does a good, convincing job with Scudder and his puzzle, but comes up flat with the solution, which involves two unrelated coincidences. The two deaths on which the story pivots turn out to be essentially meaningless, and this may be closer to real life than a thriller plot can safely walk...
...should be obvious by now that Mansfield and Harvard's moral AALARMists are unlikely to be persuaded by rational debate. Their comments come from the gut and from the most blackened corners of the soul, but not from the mind (and certainly not from the heart). It is meaningless to ask them to substantiate their epithets, not only because no empirical evidence can possibly support the claim that something is disgusting, but also because they have no desire...