SwingingTheLamp

But, here's the kicker, if we don't know anything about this other plane of existence, then how can we know that our universe couldn't spontaneously arise from it without the intent of a creator? That's the crux of the question: We have a mystery about the origin of our existence, and "solving" the mystery by saying, "God did it," is just sweeping the mystery under the rug and pretending it's not there. What OP was able to see at 7 or 8 years old was that the mystery was still there, but with an unexplained extra step added.

No.

This is kind of like asking a man being attacked by a bear, "When did bears become your whole thing?"

The land-value tax is the only fair tax, after all.

I don't have to try, since here you're claiming that hospitals in countries with brown-skinned people are substandard and unhygienic.

Not a myth, I've seen it.

And she was not one of the grossest humans alive, but just had some hangups about "down there" that kept her from washing her vulva well.

And then there are people who envision all brown-skinned people as performing FGM with a piece of broken glass in a grass hut, when in fact, most instances of it are also hospital-performed medical procedures.

It's not controversial to say that women differ sexually, right? For example, some women can orgasm from penetration alone, and others need more-direct clitoral stimulation. Everybody knows this, or should know this.

Would it be controversial to claim that, hey, perhaps men differ, too? What if we're not exaggerating how much of a difference it makes? There are intact men right here in this discussion who say that most of their sensation comes from their foreskin, and they don't feel much from their glans. It would destroy their enjoyment of sex to cut it off, even while many men wouldn't notice much change, because most of their sensation comes from the glans.

id rather bust fast than not be sensitive down there

For what it's worth, my friend tells me that in his experience, intact men have better awareness and control of their level of stimulation, and therefore last longer.

The struggle is real! However, if you look closely, the U.S. capitol has a row of oval windows inset in its dome that the Wisconsin capitol does not have.

With all due respect, this sounds like sophistry. The U.S. is generally very laissez faire in many things, but very much not so in the realm of land use. We have plenty of habitable land yet, but Euclidean zoning restricts what we're allowed to do with it. In my city, which is typical in this regard, most of the land area is locked-in by law to single-family dwellings. We had a pretty contentious fight at the city council about easing the restrictions on the number of unrelated people who could live together in a house. (Typically, only family members are allowed.) It passed, which increased our available housing supply by a marginal amount.

Changes like this one, the Transit Overlay District zoning, and an apartment construction boom have not solved our housing woes, but we have had among the lowest growth in rental rates in the nation. And, not conincidentally, private equity has very little presence in our real estate market. Other cities that have allowed construction of new housing have similarly kept rental rates lower. Hence the states passing laws to eliminate single-family-only zones, and allowing the next increment of density by-right. Compare to California, the epicenter of the housing crisis, and the effect of very restrictive zoning, and Proposition 13.