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Consciousnesswhat is free will?
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I understand the argument that there might not be freewill. Certainly if one could believe in predestination in any form, then freewill must be excluded. This would include any prophesy, metaphysical... |
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IslamDefending Muhammed
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Religion is also about belonging to a certain group. And as long as its a group thing, you bet there will be social control of one form or another. That group will protect its reputation. So you can&#... |
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Christianitywhy hell is not eternal
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.."The effect of the flames (death) will be eternal; but no one is going to twist and turn in hell-fire for endless ages.
Separation from GOD is to be separated from (eternal) life.
the life o... |
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AstronomySuns Boiling, and Black Holes Freezing…
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I think I know what you mean, to an extent space is a void & therefore isn't curved at all. What we generally call space is more technically the E-M field that are related to matter.
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Sexual PsychologyIs kinky sex a more natural form of intimacy?
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I wonder if the restriction of "vanilla" sex which is like straight missionary is actually counter to our nature. What I mean is, do you think having kinky sex, whether it be positions or di... |
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ChristianityJesus's death was faked
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So, what are we to make of his suffering? If Jesus was what he said he was, the suffering and death was faked, a massive guilt trip but nothing more. In what sense is the fake death of an immortal bei... |
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Alternative Beliefsreal or just a myth?
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my thought is that "ghosts" as defined in the dictionary is incorrect. That is OK, I stated the dictionary definition as a point of departure (base) of defining.
Ghost- 1) the soul of a dea... |
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SocietyWould society be better without money?
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It's an interesting puzzle... difficult to think of society without money or even barter and trade...
My family is immigrant to this country from a country that is severly underdeveloped by co... |
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Physics & CosmologyPhilosophical Science questions of the sci -fi kin
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What creates heat? It takes two elements to make water, how could the big bang [theory or possibility or fact] happen without heat, maybe a reaction of gaseous elements, is it possible that two elemen... |
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SocietyThe Capitalism Debate!!!!
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You cannot bash something without comparing
I think 2 things are a problem here;
1) we are comparing Post WW1 (PreWW2) Germany with post WWII Japan and
2) the value of efficiency. {Cost analaysis... |
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Natural Cures & Alternative MedicineGreen Tea and Cancer
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You said you were skeptical of using concentrated extracts, why is that?
In regards to concentrated extracts, whereby a specific molecular part of the plant is isolated, my concern is that our bodies... |
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PedophiliaPaedophilia
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some people are down playing the effects and brutality of pedaphiles.......excuse this imagery but, think of this .....a 40 year old man forcing his pennis into an 8 year old little girl....he's... |
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Emo
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Emo is one of the newer terms used to describe the group of self proclaimed outsiders in youth culture. This group almost certainly always has and always will exist, constantly mutating in order to pr... |
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SpiritualityThe Logical VS The Faithful
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Well that OK, it was rather a mute point to begin with but as I was reading through this section I had noted that it seemed the point and counter-point form was basically defined by logic vs faith, so... |
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GodWhy Question God's Existence
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Ultimately, if we were absolutely pedantic, there is no factual reality.
However, there is factual reality in terms of we as people have made so many things from our principles in science. The comput... |
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Physics & CosmologyParadox?
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So science states that the at some level, we have the inertia => rotational momentum of our spin. Then another is represented by the earth-moon spin, then another by our solar system; as our system... |
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Does rap music insight violence amongst young peop
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Parents of the jazz age believed the music was a terrible influence upon their children. Almost every new form of music is looked upon as scandalous when it emerges. Often, the creators of the media a... |
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Sexual PsychologyAsexuality
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My offfhand question here is...
"Do those who consider themselves, or defines asexuality, as asexual, still feel sexual?"
This is similar to the questions of those who consider homosex... |
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things were meant to b
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Ah, the age-old belief in fate. Belief in fate serves as either a comfort or an excuse. For your situation, it brings comfort. But do you really want to attribute it to just fate? Maybe you two are ju... |
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Society & Sociologycults
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As far as I can see, a cult is only a small group (fewer than a thousand I suppose) of separatists' worship that is looked by negatively from whatever society they live in.
Every religion starts off... |
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Life & DeathWhat happens after death?
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A lucid dream researcher, Stephen Laberge, once used a snowflake analogy do describe his views on death. Basically we are all individual snowflakes floating towards an ocean. Each flake is unique and... |
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Life & DeathLife, what is it?
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Yes, I like to believe that a part of us (in an unknown form and through an unknown course) carries on to another step in an (again unkown) process. Frankly, that possibility is one of the few things... |
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ChristianityCatholics vs Christians
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Can others be saved? Yes!.....Jesus knows our hearts...and our souls. He judges accordingly...
For the record my own neice sought advice about joining the Church. I did not advise her to one particu... |
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Religion & HumanityWhat is religion?
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say man, i didnt read all that was written above this is just my two cents on the concept of religion. i think it developed conceptually out of two seperate but equally essential needs of primitive ho... |
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Gender PsychologyIf women ruled the world...
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Wouldn't you consider that making excuses?
No, I call that society influencing children early on. You may it's an excuse because, to you, the toys you play with seem to have no effect on th... |
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