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Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeIs there a path to wisdom?
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Is there a path to wisdom?
A formal path -- with a name? A fair number of folks claim there is. I suppose they'd only know that if they already reached the destination and so were already wise... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsCan inanimate objects carry expressive meaning?
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i think the key question here is if that expression is intended or not. Or at least if it is a "common" meaning.
After all we can interpret anything by forcibly connecting it to everythin... |
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SocietyThe Threat of Religious Extremism
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I have some choice words for those fixated with "Islamo-Fascism" and "Muslim-Extremists".
All the calls to wake up to the this sudden overwhelming threat of muslim only extremi... |
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War & TerrorismSADDAM HUSSEIN CAUGHT!
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"But what does that truely have to do with 911 except for the United States declaring an Official war as opposed to a cold war with whom ever the United States chooses?"
Irak wasn't fo... |
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Writing AdviceTricks of the trade: things to consider when writing
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Okay this thread is spawned from a discussion between chained wings and myself over the speech aspect of his story about vampires. We were discussing how a big problem in lots of fiction is a tendency... |
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What is ' Existence ' ?
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Let's start off what "Life" is.
As we all know, plants came first, then the creatures showed on on planet earth.
Because of this, it would be logical to assume that creatures came... |
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A New "school"
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Not necessarily a class, but if the new school put a more emphasis on after school clubs and activities. That would definitely help with a sense of community, so to speak. And with that emphasis, crea... |
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Waking the Sheeple. A tribute to Alex Jones.
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Then there is the other usage, from the Neocon thinktank Project for a New American Century.
A 'core mission' for the transformed U.S. military is to 'fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneou... |
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Gender PsychologyYou Are Not A Feminist If...
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I plan on dedicating a thread to the topic of birth control pills/natural female contraception methods and why it's such a farce that women have been taught to believe BCP is the best option for... |
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SpiritualityWe didn't exist before we got here
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Leftwood: please don't claim it speculative, if you can't put forward evidence against this 'theory'. you need to read what i've said again, because I never made claim that hu... |
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why continue?
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Hello all. Gem here in New Mexico, USA.
Why why why asks why we should continue living, and what is the purpose of "existence"?
For me, as Erik has stated, the purpose of living is to... |
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Life & DeathWhat happens after death?
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I have thought about this on and off and i have come to the conclusion that death is merely a transformation not an end. There are soo many people that believe death is death n ceise to exist well i c... |
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God in ReligionIf there's a god, why is there evil?
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An alternate explanation for evolution has to do with quantum mechanics (modern physics). In quantum physics, particles have more than one property at any given time, as if several variations of the p... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
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But tell me what makes homosexuality ok?
What makes it not?
Its ok because...
1. It does exist (and we don't know why, but we don't know why we exist either), and it exists under th... |
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Poetry*Smiles with in Solitude*
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It's been a while since I showered, I'm beginning not to care. My decorum and pure form become a ploy to win your love and admiration, something I care not to have. I'm descending in to filt... |
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Commonsense Australian Politics
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Yes Ironwood; but you may be forgetting the opposite; The Islamic extremists also don't want to hear the West's view.
The thing we need to remeber is the incentive of people. And its quit... |
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GovernmentPro Communism in America
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Communism to me is essentially leaders leading a people but pretending not to be. Capitalism is the same but the leaders don't pretend. And on that basis, there is more truth in capitalism. Its j... |
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SocietyAnarchy, misundersood
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Anarchy, as we would like to believe it, is being confused with an autocracy, in which case a nation runs itself without the need for laws or enforcement of said laws. Everyone would know exactly what... |
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Society & SociologySave us from puritanical soul-torturing 'Green' people.
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I understand where you're coming from Ophion but I can't say that I don't understand where the green cause is coming from either. If we look at the earth as a mother common to all of us... |
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Martial arts
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*alien*
Wudang Weng Shun Kuen - by Grandmaster Rien Bul
The WUDANG style of Weng Shun Kuen was unknown to general public until recently, when Grandmaster Rien Bul opened public schools i... |
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Calls For Visual Artists - Exhibition Opportunitie
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Exhibition Dates - Calls For Artist Entries 2003 -2004
Establish Artists
Emerging Artists
Art Graduates
Art Groups
Review our notice board for Exhibition Opportunites
Exhibition Infor... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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24 December 2012
Hyades for the Holidays
Image Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light)
Recognized since antiquity and depicted on the shield of Achilles according to Homer,... |
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"It's not all relative"
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It is what it is as well as what you make it.
There are always three sides, one is constant, fixed, a reality created by a power not our own, but never fully understood or seen while always influe... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismAetheists Are Illogical
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It all comes down to humility.
As you age, and if you age and are observant of the universe around you, and you absorb facts and information about how everything around us has come to be, you learn... |
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The "What probably is = what is" fallacy
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You're going to hate me for this I know.
The only way I can think of to illustrate this scenario the best is to imagine a civilization of people who were blind from birth. If this civilization... |
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