It is tearing at my soul and I cannot speak rationally about it.
This is because the acceptance of Darwin's theory of evolution was at the expense of the ideas of the French philosopher René Descartes, who held that there is a rigid distinction between man, who has a soul and can think and speak rationally, and all other animals, who are mere automatons.
The reality, she said, is more complicated: "It certainly interferes with your motor functions and your ability to speak rationally, but it doesn't cause you to go up to people, say 'Oy, what are looking at?' and start punching them".
"Gregory K , who at age 12 was able to speak rationally and persuasively to support his petition for new adoptive parents, made a good case for recognizing childhood agency in a family court.
While Tom tries to speak rationally, Anabel just.
The report also speaks rationally about water scarcity, organic production capacity, re-organizing the food market structure and removing crop subsidies.
A curious by-product of these "shit-for-brains" shenanigans is that when genuinely smart people who possess fierce and formidable intellects (Barney Frank, Bill Nye, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama) speak rationally, some listeners can't help but feel intimidated, insecure, irate, and impotent.
"To them, 'recreational' use translates into out of control behavior, bad judgment calls, inability to focus or speak rationally and any number of other purported reactions that hover more in the realm of 'Reefer Madness' than reality.
She may not be in a position to speak rationally or to give a detailed account of her symptoms.
Shake your head as you walk away from such attacks to make it clear to her that you are not listening, nor will you, unless she begins to speak rationally about what is bothering her.
