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EconomyPetro dollar and Iran war
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587. A nuclear bombing to justify Iran war (2/10/09)
For the false flag nuclear terror attack planed on 8/30/2007, there was a big pre-psychological propaganda. Here are some. It indicates that the... |
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Religion & HumanityReligion fear tactics
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"That's weird, it sounds like nature to me."
Ahh yes nature, monkeys eating each others shit, reproducing to the point of over population, inability to develop advance techn... |
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Is there anything you shouldn't educate children?
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What i'm getting at is not the holding back of idea's from children, concepts can be taught with very little harm. The thing i fear is a world full of children who are taught things to early... |
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SpiritualityI need absolute Proof
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Dumbteen, this is not a debate about 'what if's' I am in need of where aetheists get their beliefs, or rather lack of belief.
I need to be shown why they disbelieve.
I want them to sh... |
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Physics & CosmologySomething out of nothing
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Good arguments...but, unfortunately, I'm a mystic at heart and I doubt if that will ever change...It would take me forever to explain how I came to this state of mind (It developed when I was ver... |
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Religion & HumanityHow come the transition for polytheism to monotheism?
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Hi. The two relevant words not being used in this discussion are animism and anthropomorphism. Early peoples tend to be animistic in that they attribute spirits to the outside agencies that affect the... |
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Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeThe Price of Wisdom
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So...what the hell is a philosopher?
Main Entry: phi-los-o-pher
Pronunciation: f&-'lä-s(&-)f&am p;r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, modification of Middle French philosophe,... |
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainRemoval from Working Memory...
12 Posts • 2812 Views Psychology Forum |
well eyes little technique things are all nice and dandy but perfect control of your thought is nirvana or enlightenment in budhast and hindu. This is supposed to be achieved through complete purity o... |
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Conditon of the average American
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I am a prison guard. Our uniform intails long sleve shirts. And it is because of this that no one I work with has yet seen my tattoes. But today I rolled my sleves up. I have a riseing sun on each of... |
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Life & DeathWhat would I Die For? Heaven (Forbid)
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In a world shorn of the soothing sooth of God, in a midday sky with a star but no sun, in an age when the telly is man's telos - what do we say? - that Nietzsche was perhaps right? - that Camus w... |
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Reality & Metaphysics'reality'
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I think it depends on the religion. What some religions see as human forgivable mistakes, others see as sin. And this whole thing goes back to the existence of God. What is sin? Is t something that Go... |
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Universal Constants
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Yin/Yang philosophy
Each thing depends upon its opposite in order to exist; thus Yin 'creates' Yang and Yang 'creates' Yin.
Everything in the physical world has an opposite.... |
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Life & DeathI feel pointless.
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I used to be busy building a life just as we're taught, but at some point I started to notice how hollow and empty it was, that I'm only maintaining a facade, and that I actually felt quite... |
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Life & Deathwhat defines life
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Lol.
Wittgenstein, heres an analytical answer for you:
Life is that part of time which occurs between the bringing into existance an entitiy which is capable of inner stimlus to direct its actio... |
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StoriesA Fly
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Again, this is ONLY my interpretation of the writing.
Try and see the fly within existence, as the so called 'problem' we find within it.
Forcing us to ask questions and look elsewhere for ans... |
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Life & Deathwhat is your theory on life?
270 Posts • 55142 Views Philosophy Forum |
I find what you say to be wise ekiump. However sadness must take it's part in all philosophy's because it is a part of man. One can not just take parts he finds appelling and use them only,... |
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Religion & HumanityAn answer
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Knowledge is information based. I have knowledge of this because I have learnt it- school, university (at the moment), and have gathered my own scientific concepts and philosophy. I never claimed it a... |
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why continue?
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"You live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality but you do not know this. When you understand this, you will see that you are nothing, and being nothing you are everything.... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsWhy do we exist?
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I wouldn't be surprised if a super old civilization from another galaxy came close by on an experimental quest. Find the nearest capable and/or habitable planet even at a molecular level and star... |
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GodWhy did God create the universe
119 Posts • 39475 Views Philosophy Forum |
Angel of Death you asked "why did God create the universe?". You put this discussion forward to hear peoples reasons for your question. I know (and as i said before) our curiosity on questio... |
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FuturologyNature of Technology?
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Wisdomseeker, I am not versed in modern epistemology, nor am I well read in Jean-François Lyotard or Bruno Latour. However, I find that both of these modern French philosophers discount rational co... |
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Ignorance: acceptable?
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Back to trying to learn everything... trying not to be ignorant... perhaps the best you can do is work on core topics and where you stand. Sometimes one simple thing can go a long way like the old lin... |
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God in ReligionThe God Thread
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Sorry I don't have anything poignant to say, but I just had to say I like Rage's answer to the god question. Very thoughtful and with deep understanding and a very human, humane, philosophy.... |
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Now and Then...
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This is a classic example of how the ambiguities of language can create problems which don't exist. The "now" must remain elusive by its very nature, because the label must always be ap... |
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Life & DeathPHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
5 Posts • 3381 Views Philosophy Forum |
THEORY....inorganic=mental / emotional; organic = physical, atomic.... which came first? The chicken or the egg? answer: The chicken originated as a thought-form. Through repeated cycllic sequencing o... |
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