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People hate vegetarians
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Sleepingwraith, good to speak and debate with you again. I'm heartened to learn that somewhere people are actually taking classes on ethics and humanities. There's hope in the world yet. And... |
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A real question from my son...
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A Black and White World
My six-year-old son David asked me the other day, 'Papá, when you were little was it black and white'? I quickly changed the subject because I didn't want to shoot-off some... |
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SocietyCapitalism Sucks! Sexual Puritanism Sucks!
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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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Life & Deathorigin of life(through the eyes of nonliving beings
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When somebody is studying the phenomenon of viruses ,he can see that when viruses are not coming in contact with a host organism , they are a sum of chemical compounds that not fulfill the criteria to... |
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People hate vegetarians
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"lol yes yes yes "
Stop it with the "lol's" I know you are just doing that to wind me up!
"thats all true."
I'm rubbing my eye's right now, that... |
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God in ReligionThe God Thread
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I'd hear people say it all the time, it's a huge cliche and everybody uses it: "thank god" or "oh god" or "god damn-it" I believe these term's were first i... |
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People hate vegetarians
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My quote : 'This is a purpose percieved by whome?' and your response :"This is a purpose that can be readily seen, if one studies animal behavior."
I note with interest that this was the... |
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ChristianityHomosexuality and the Bible
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Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen have written the book: (After the Ball: How America Will Conquer its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 1990s (1989). This book is American's gay movement guiding and... |
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Society & SociologyExcerp: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
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Cynic-Al,
What you have written about Depression is very true - people avoid depression by keeping themselves occupied all the time. I have written about this in my article.
As soon as we stop... |
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Ethics & MoralityGandhi's views on violence in self-defense
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I WOULD risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of a whole race.
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence...... |
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Is there anything you shouldn't educate children?
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I know in the world of logical thought telling kids all they want to know and making them hard at a young age is a great idea.
I'm not talking about hardenning kids, I'm talking about not... |
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Society & SociologyExcerp: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
34 Posts • 12754 Views Psychology Forum |
Dear Group Members,
This article is about the link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues. The fast-paced lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological probl... |
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SpiritualityThe Logical VS The Faithful
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Ok, another thought just popped in my head. I often hear the notion that ascension and religious piety come partly by controlling natural urges and instincts, that to be truly civilized and advanced a... |
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Science vs ReligionEVOLUTION
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Ironwood,
Your "reorganization" per se, is appreciated.
Let me clarify something for you real quick. When I posted my original post on this thread it was just a passing thought on the... |
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Why are aesthetics such a muddle?
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Why are aesthetics such a muddle?
Aesthetics are such a muddle because this domain of knowledge, which we call aesthetics, contains a vast kinship of human meanings, attractions, appreciations, nee... |
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SpiritualityWe didn't exist before we got here
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We do not know the entire history of biological enitities that have existed on this planet, it is fine to say that humans are the most developed to our knowledge, not as an absolute of past or even pr... |
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ChristianityTruth about 666, the beast and seal of the beast
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Those who accepted Christ believe themselves and convince others in their own nullity and helplessness.
Well, a man is that how he thinks about himself.
If he had not hoped for himself if he is weak... |
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People hate vegetarians
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"vegetarians and vegans live longer more healthy lives? since when?"
Since about the 70's after the discovery of lack of vitamin B12, the last good argument that omnivores had agains... |
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I am saddened by the situation in the courts
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Terri Schiavo, is in no pain at this time, and she deserves the right to die. I do not believe that any judge, politician, including our esteemed President, or right to life group has the right to tel... |
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Smell
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I got his from the website http://www.hhmi.org. This pretty much explains the sense of smell.
"We think that we smell with our noses, [but] this is a little like saying that we hear with our e... |
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Is there anything you shouldn't educate children?
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... please, if thats one of my twigs snapping, just wait till the the hole damn tree comes one day.
In dire anticipation, I assure you.
Do you not understand that humans push each other as a soc... |
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Are we on a 'Ship of Fools'?
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Are we on a 'Ship of Fools'?
From Katherine Anne Porter's novel, Ship of Fools, which was a big prizewinning best-seller in 1962, the producer and director Stanley Kramer produced a powerful a... |
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War & TerrorismSADDAM HUSSEIN CAUGHT!
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"Firstly, it is spelled "Iraq", with a "q"."
I'm sorry, I live in France and here, its spelt either way, much like Tsar/Czar.
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China's Serious Environment Problem
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China's Serious Pollution Problem
Are you going to China? Then I will tell you pollution in China is very serious. The Chinese and government official's environmental protection consci... |
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Ethics & MoralityThe five fingers of ethics
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A more elaborate description...
With five ethical principles, it is possible to construct a coherent ethical system that best matches the strongest basic moral intuitions that I share with a lot of... |
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