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Can we escape our pre-conditioning?
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Im not very good at getting my thoughts out in a logical, scientific way so Ive found this post very hard to write.
But this is my interpretation of Chiron's question, the resulting conversat... |
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Mental IllnessI am not exactly sure why I am writing here
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I don't think I am really able to explain what exactly is happening. But sometimes I just tend to write down what I think. I just write whatever is running a marathon through my little useless mi... |
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ChristianityWhat makes people so angry about the Christian faith?
23 Posts • 18531 Views Religion Forum |
You tell 'em!
Unlike Decius, I do not consider myself, nor have I ever, a christian. I'm just not. I have no religion. But I have plenty of reasons to be mad at christians.
For instanc... |
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Corruption of Power
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Truth of War
http://www.captaincynic.c om/thread.php3/thrdid=34277-u- frmid=1
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
http://www.captaincyni c.com/thread.php3/thrdid=40062 -u-frmid=23
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Famous PsychologistsFreudian psychology... Ha!
9 Posts • 3687 Views Psychology Forum |
I may have gotten a little carried away with my opening post but let me try to get to the essence of the idea.
We don't experience the future or the past, but such categories (which comprise w... |
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Religion & HumanityAbortion
76 Posts • 20232 Views Religion Forum |
Morality isn't being kind; you can be kind and stupid; like giving a beggar whose a crack addict money and then he goes and buys more. You just add to the problem. You could buy him a cake and th... |
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Life & DeathVoluntary Human Extinction Movement
233 Posts • 131502 Views Philosophy Forum |
TO: Deep Purple
Yeah, I'm the guy.
With honor, I accept your nomination for 'Spokesman'. But, only if you accept my nomination of you as 'Head Honcho'. :D
Seriously though, every single... |
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War & TerrorismExcerp: Truth of War
124 Posts • 30442 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Excerpt: Routine and Systematic Torture Is at the Heart of America's War on Terror
George Monbiot
London Guardian
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
In the fight against cruelty, barbarism and... |
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Life & DeathLife, Already Planned?
62 Posts • 24062 Views Philosophy Forum |
I haven't read all this thread in a bit but coming from the last couple....
God's perception of the future isn't the issue, God's control over everything is. And how it is pre d... |
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GovernmentIraqi Statue honoring President Bush
63 Posts • 14713 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
"Having lived in Japan I can competently say you are indeed and ignorant and judgemental ass. Like any country there are fanatics of any posistion, such generalizations continually mar you as a c... |
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Physics & CosmologyQuantum Physics Double Slit Experiment
50 Posts • 16898 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Some times I really have wonder why people will do the things they do.
I have an austic child/adult. So one day aas we ride along, he points at the lights along the road and states, "Light Broke... |
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Gender PsychologyHow are women more discrimated against than men?
4 Posts • 3304 Views Psychology Forum |
I PROMISE I'm not trying to vent or troll by this thread. I simply have had a professor push this issue so hard at me all semester in a class not even related to the subject, so I naturally think... |
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Religion & HumanityAbortion
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I think it's unfair and a sign of your own insecurities, awakenedwraith, that you afford me no charity for the things I do not say.
This was what I said a few posts ago:
"To your defen... |
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ChristianityClear Definition #1
0 Posts • 2363 Views Religion Forum |
tolerance: to allow to be or to be done without hinderance
bigot: one intolerantly devoted to his or her own prejudices or opinions.
empathy: as experiencing as one's own the feelings of anothe... |
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Forgiveness
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I tend to not have a problem actually forgiving someone. Forgeting is a total problem. I remember everything. Every conversation, every event, what people were wearing at that time, the EXACT words th... |
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Society & Sociologywhy is suicide frowned on???
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Despair:
That right there is the biggest load of bull shit I've heard in a good while. Yes, the world is a scary place, but is it also a joyful happy place. There are just as many good things... |
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"It's not all relative"
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My understanding is that the bone structure and musculature of the women is almost identical to the mans except her pelvis and pelvic floor differs to accommodate child birth. Beyond that physically t... |
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Internet Safety- Exaggerated or Underrated?
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At the moment it is left up to parents and as we can see they arent doing a very good job because they dont take the internet safety risk seriously.
The internet risk isn't as much of an issue... |
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The Turning of Belva Goode by Gene Hensley
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THE TURNING OF BELVA GOODE - GENE HENSLEY
Gene Hensley's novel, The Turning of Belva Goode, is set in the coal mining town of Cyclone, West Virginia around the time of the Korean War. West Vir... |
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SocietyCapitalism Sucks! Sexual Puritanism Sucks!
1 Posts • 2974 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Capitalism Sucks! Sexual Puritanism Sucks!
By Wolf Larsen
American Capitalism is characterized by sexual puritanism. In a case that was recently in the news a 45-year-old woman was put on trial for... |
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Rehab & AddictionMy drug
5 Posts • 2755 Views Health & Wellness Forum |
A drug is an outside substance coming into your body. I would not tell a child that when they are utterly lost in their imagination that they are under a drug, because imagination is a normal part of... |
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Feral Children
6 Posts • 9035 Views Talk Talk |
Excerp: A review of 'wild children' was recently on a 60minutes program.
Heres the transcript:wild child
August 6, 2006
It's an extraordinary story. A little girl, neglected, rej... |
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SocietyThe White Man's Burden
1 Posts • 3643 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
The White Man's Burden
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
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Materialism and Spirtualism?
2 Posts • 1970 Views Philosophy Forum |
Okay here's some questions. Lets start off with the ideal with materialism. Why do we need to feed off material things so much. Furthermore who said materialism feeds all of us? Well seems like i... |
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Religion & HumanityMorals for sale
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That's my moral standard, the golden rule, older than any religion for a reason.
Well lefty, I sure would not treat you as you treat others...because I have seen the rude and crude if not nast... |
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