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Atheism & AgnosticismA case for atheism
34 Posts • 10565 Views Religion Forum |
Seem to have gone FAR off topic.
No longerarguing for or agains Atheism, but for or against the existence and/or truth of science.
Absolutely correct we have gotten pretty far afield
Now, parado... |
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Issues with Hate…
8 Posts • 3099 Views Talk Talk |
You make some good points Black Gold.
But on the subject of what do you hate?...
I hate those who seek to enslave or imprison others (whether physically or intellectually). Enslaving a work-force... |
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Child & Family PsychologyInescapable Human Emotion
27 Posts • 6628 Views Psychology Forum |
I appreciate the insight, but I think my point got missed in my example.
Can a set of circumstances where an individual is placed in a position where their mind function improperly prevent that mind... |
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Free Will
60 Posts • 14983 Views Philosophy Forum |
does it exist?
i personally think its an illusion--our brain causes us to be conscious and have a mind, and our brain acts according to its own wiring when a choice is made, and chemicals or whatever... |
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The Thinker
19 Posts • 6409 Views Philosophy Forum |
Sometimes, after hours of thinking and questioning such complex and abstract issues, I wonder if it would be better had I never questioned.
Then the battle begins. My dearest companion in life, Opt... |
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Life & DeathWhere did 'mid-life crisis' come from?
7 Posts • 4032 Views Philosophy Forum |
Too subtle. Too abstract. Too nuanced.
It doesn't appear to me that most folks have any interest at all in "technology as an extension of self". They work, they sleep, they eat, they... |
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God in ReligionGOD
23 Posts • 8804 Views Religion Forum |
Yeah I do want to go with that. The logic is blinding to your abstract and vauge view of how you make your choices everyday.
i'll take your rose colored glasses and put them on. God or the Ar... |
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Life & DeathTheories on Death
41 Posts • 51466 Views Philosophy Forum |
Some interesting thoughtss here...
here is a link to an ongoing reincarnation thread....
http://www.captain cynic.com/thread.php3/thrdid=1 1743-u-frmid=
I like the earlier thought that without sh... |
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i need opinion please on a story
7 Posts • 2816 Views Talk Talk |
P.s chiron: as a mathematician I would contest there is no distinction between reality and abstraction.
True, but in the experience of everyday life a distinction is made between abstract thought... |
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communication
4 Posts • 2965 Views Philosophy Forum |
okay so i was just thinking about something i wrote and i had a new idea, something that almost contradicts what i may have said about free will or maybe im just looking at it from another angle ....... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsWhat If Everything Is Fake And You Are The Only Thing That Is Real?
46 Posts • 44719 Views Philosophy Forum |
why? do you want to become kind of famous for an original thought? im still on that mission.. and i still have a whole list of ideas theories etc.. that i havent heard of yet... perhaps most what i ca... |
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Exsistential Angst
7 Posts • 3714 Views Talk Talk |
Have you ever contemplated non-existence? What is it? That is something we can never understand.
Because it isn't real. You know that there must be SOME existence out there other wise you wo... |
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More guys than girls on these forums...why?
39 Posts • 11159 Views Talk Talk |
I personally have never met a girl that had the power to think as abstractly as I can. Then again, I haven't met any guys that could do it either.
Girls, I find, are more likely to stop thinki... |
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BiologyElectric Universe
3 Posts • 2952 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Physics Lecture 29: The Electric Field
Faraday's vision of lines of constant force in space laid the foundation for the modern force ... all » field theory.
This series helps teachers... |
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Religion & Humanitypro-life v. pro-choice?
18 Posts • 5964 Views Religion Forum |
"How do you determine what has the right to live?"
All things have the right to live. That is why it is ok to defend yourself. What we are trying to figure out is when does a fetus become... |
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Free Will
60 Posts • 14983 Views Philosophy Forum |
well, for one thing i dont think that "we" are our brains. i can explain this by saying that different parts of our brains do different things. one part is responsible for vision, one part i... |
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GovernmentThe meaning of democracy
65 Posts • 34023 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Good, we are making progress. Now what are the principles of this ideology?
This is wikipedia'a definition of an ideology, and you can use it for a frame work for discussion.
An ideology i... |
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Is ideology the bane of intellectual sophistication in the US?
13 Posts • 4920 Views Philosophy Forum |
Is ideology the bane of intellectual sophistication in the US?
Marx is perhaps the first intellectual of great stature to coin the word 'ideology' and to study its epistemological foundations. Marx... |
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Ethics & MoralityCan we connect philosophy with racism?
2 Posts • 2496 Views Philosophy Forum |
Can we connect philosophy with racism?
In Antebellum South the white man would not work for anyone because he considered laboring for hire made him no better than the black slave and his superiorit... |
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Can we compare physics and psychology?
3 Posts • 2297 Views Philosophy Forum |
Can we compare physics and psychology?
Libido is an energy source-Heat is an energy source-there is potential and kinetic energy
Emotion aka instinct is an energy source-
Narcissism is a forc... |
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Speed Of Time
64 Posts • 16792 Views Philosophy Forum |
I'd love to but where is it?!
Anyway, Time is an abstract concept. We r not saying that time slows down, we r talking about wheather our perception of it slows down or speed up.
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Free will
12 Posts • 3824 Views Philosophy Forum |
HI im mike heres my thoughts...
how about deterministic vs. probabilistic...
details*part icles control movement? mechanically, quantum particles, and their behavior is random...should freedom be a m... |
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Ethics & MoralityMale Racism and its Parallels to Male Homosexuality
10 Posts • 3677 Views Philosophy Forum |
The lack of cohesion is internal not extant in the writing
All that i have written is well researched, supportable through science of historians and otherwise...
Pretending that the ideas are ab... |
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Speed Of Time
64 Posts • 16792 Views Philosophy Forum |
Yeah, it is currently beleived that the fabric of space time is frozen. I personelly beleve that there is no 'tense' in time, only 'now'(whatever that means) It is beleived that ti... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsWhy do we exist?
83 Posts • 60444 Views Philosophy Forum |
I think we live life, to learn how to pass that life on.
What I mean by that is, it takes years to understand the abstract metaphors of the universe, and solidify them into a clear and vivid image.... |
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