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Reality & MetaphysicsWhat is existence?
29 Posts • 15285 Views Philosophy Forum |
If you want a ready definition of existence, think in terms of the opposite.
What is nothingness?
Great existentialists have pondered these questions for many years now. Lets take Satre for exa... |
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SocietyBody scanners
56 Posts • 33278 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
It is not about hurting, it is about causing fear.
But terrorists are causing fear by HURTING people.
Do you think America is the only country that is being attacked? Have you heard of the Bal... |
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Life & DeathAre you bored by life?
7 Posts • 4210 Views Philosophy Forum |
I always thought like that,, life is boringg. Especially for those in school facing the prospect of a life in somthing like education or a dead end job.
I always wanted to feel free, i think this is... |
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BiologyScience versus Instinct
37 Posts • 11487 Views Science & Technology Forum |
human instict have almost been trained out of us. our more advanced society has caused us to follow "social norms" instead of instincts, there a re given things that we can and cant do accor... |
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PedophiliaSex and Masturbation
4 Posts • 5601 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
I originally wanted to post this in the pedophilia thread because I just discovered this by accident and had been reading the pedophilia thread earlier today (pretty coincidental) but I realized I cou... |
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Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeHow Long Have You Been Thinking?
14 Posts • 4003 Views Philosophy Forum |
ill assume you mean introspectively/philosophicall y.
i started in second grade, which is very early im aware. the reason for this is due to a major surgery i had. the time it gave me and the questi... |
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Drugstrips (drugs)
54 Posts • 17563 Views Psychology Forum |
Trips are the experience from taking certain drugs. When I was 12 I was sitting in Belize on the beach after chugging a quart size jar full of juiced peyote. At that age it gave me out of body experie... |
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Rant OnRANT ON ABOUT ANYTHING!!!!
124 Posts • 33292 Views Talk Talk |
Thanks, M. Taz! To Wyote- Sorry to hear about your friend's wife. Props to him in this obviously turbulant time.
I just lost a close friend not a month ago to type II Diabetes- It totally tran... |
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StoriesChronicles from the Gutter.
22 Posts • 8509 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
i always had a hard time finding freedom in what i draw. i fix an image in my head and then paint it. but this feels like adding life to a corpse. lately i watched this french movie "la belle noi... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsWhat If Everything Is Fake And You Are The Only Thing That Is Real?
46 Posts • 44686 Views Philosophy Forum |
I think I actually figured out what is going on. One of the reports is on that website is about a woman who died, left her body and went to heaven. She had choice to go back(being reborn) to a civil w... |
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StoriesChronicles from the Gutter.
22 Posts • 8509 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
I ran across this poem from Paul Valery while i was researching about a quraan saying concerning the drunkness of the angels and hence the soul. I have to share this. So beautiful:(
The Graveyard b... |
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Conscious and Sub-Consciousconsciousness - define it! Explain it! Any comments?
17 Posts • 11366 Views Psychology Forum |
Is this existentialism?
Mmmm.. I needed to look up a definition of existentialism to be sure where I stand in relation to this question.
Existentialism: A body of philosophical doctrine that... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsYour definition of existence
23 Posts • 10030 Views Philosophy Forum |
Not trying to sound depressing but I do not think we could exist if we could not suffer. Existence is merely what one little bit of eternity is focusing on at any particular moment in time. As little... |
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God in ReligionWhy Do You NOT Believe In God?
192 Posts • 40408 Views Religion Forum |
oook...
u really think we are too stupid to understand amazing things in this world????...if you really think that way...then there is no wonder you can't figure out if god does exist or not...... |
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The "Void"
66 Posts • 18570 Views Philosophy Forum |
Wyote- i did notice you had disapeared I was starting to wonder if you had been taken by aliens and left for dead- but it looks like your computer was instead (bad joke indeed!). I hope your computer... |
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GodSpirituality: What Does It Mean?
8 Posts • 7256 Views Philosophy Forum |
Spirituality, matters pertaining to or of the spirit. To attempt to answer such a question one must define "spirit". Personally I've come to see the spirit as the individual part of the... |
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meditation
33 Posts • 9950 Views Philosophy Forum |
I have been exploring for about 20 years
I have met hundreds of people claiming they talked to spirits, create reality through the power of thoughts, went out of body and travel, could "feel&q... |
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new boobs
10 Posts • 3653 Views Talk Talk |
hey there awakenedwrai, to be honest i have always wanted a bigger chest. it helps with self image of being femanine. at one point for about a year i was basically just two bumps and bone. not that i... |
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Tears
3 Posts • 2741 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
please give me input / your interpretation
Tears
Tea rs, shed from pain.
pain of mind;
pain of body;
pain of heart.
Fall like the moon.
Falling slowly;
Falling surely;
Leaving behind light... |
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GovernmentThe Role of State
10 Posts • 4183 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Yes we all hate it, but all the stateless societies are dead, so there's a good reason its here.
So what is the GOOD reason?
Because lose gathering of people formed into bands which raided ot... |
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Is This Freedom?
34 Posts • 12755 Views Talk Talk |
Ah, freedom in the UK, but I'm sure we'll share.
More innocents could be shot: UK police
July 25, 2005 - 5:59AM
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LawMedicinal Marijuana
30 Posts • 12454 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Here in California, we have a law that allows for the use of Marijuana for medicinal use. I am all for this, but some people do not get the fact that this "drug" has wonderful benefits for p... |
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JokesCouple of dirty jokes
179 Posts • 61743 Views Jokes & Games |
The most DANGEROUS Snake in the WORLD!!!
NAME: "Expecteria Trouserius" (Trouser Snake)
LOCATION: Throughout the world
DESCRIPTION: One-eyed, with mushroom-shaped head (other types... |
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Just one person hypothesis...
4 Posts • 2661 Views Philosophy Forum |
Could it be true... just one person?
Well what if you consider the smallest amount of time that could possibly be experienced...
Then consider that we may not all experience this time at the same ti... |
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God in ReligionThe Problem of Evil
202 Posts • 41437 Views Religion Forum |
So, one might say that if God is all powerful, then God should have the ability to either keep the little girl from being crushed in the earthquake, or bring her back from the dead if she is crushed.... |
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