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Nature & GeographyAre natural disasters more frequently nowadays?
28 Posts • 13631 Views Science & Technology Forum |
The weather will get worse but in using a homeostasis example externally, humanity will adapt to abrupt weather changes even through another ice age.
Will humanity adapt? I recently at uni discuss... |
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Religion & HumanityWhy is religion such a violent topoic?
4 Posts • 2835 Views Religion Forum |
You always see news tickers at the subway station flashing phrases like "12 killed in market place bombing in Iraq" or "Israeli rockets fire into Palestine". If you stop to think a... |
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Reality & Metaphysics'reality'
100 Posts • 22840 Views Philosophy Forum |
Shit man, just lost my post!
Literally speaking, for me, the chicken and egg thing is not a problem. Chickens probably descended from some other creatures, so the whole question becomes irrelevant.... |
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GovernmentDemocracy Disrobed
1 Posts • 2156 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
It is a curiosity of history that no sacred text as per democracy exists. There are histories (potted or comprehensive) and there are theoretical tomes, but none (so far as I can see) which serve as m... |
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GovernmentBush and God's will...
28 Posts • 7907 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
"War can be noble. War can be just."
Absolutely!
&q uot;America's role in the war in Iraq is clearly justified. Whether it was the right war at the right time and place only history... |
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Ethics & MoralityWar - What The Hell Is It Good For
164 Posts • 32642 Views Philosophy Forum |
You are the one that wants to now twist the rules. The rules are on the books and now you want to change Geneva so that terrorists will be protected. That's insane - the point of Geneva is to pro... |
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God in ReligionGod's Will
128 Posts • 30022 Views Religion Forum |
what bollocks.... a well known expert on Nostrodamus, James Randi had this to say...."The legend of Nostradamus, faulty as it is, will survive us all. Not because of its worth, but because of its... |
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ChristianityTruth about 666, the beast and seal of the beast
117 Posts • 24487 Views Religion Forum |
Like ALL RELIGIOUS DOGMA
The "Proof" is the statement itself... in other words to doubt it is sacreligious...
It requires a leap in logic otherwise known the world over as....
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SocietyWill the Downfall of Society Save Us?
2 Posts • 2632 Views Philosophy Forum |
I think society as it stands today must fail in order for a new one to take its place, yes. There are too many people afraid of change, who will suffer through depression just because of the familiar... |
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Video GamesSocial networking of now
5 Posts • 2901 Views Talk Talk |
I play a game called World of Warcraft. Played a number of MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) and found this to probably be the best of the bunch. Games like this seem to be the s... |
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Creative MusingsIt was better left in the dark.
35 Posts • 9526 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
Ha, where am I?
And where do i go from here, mr z told me not to start the sentance with and, hmmmmmmmmmmmm okay sir. I know what torments me so much, its that i have not come to terms with that life... |
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SocietyWhat's Best For Our Children
3 Posts • 3374 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
My mother always said that if you tell a child not to do something, that's exactly what they will do. My mom is very smart, she should be, she raised six kids. The Bush Administration is attempti... |
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Life & DeathLIFE AFTER DEATH QUESTION
13 Posts • 3697 Views Philosophy Forum |
It seems to me that this "thing" that you speak which may survive after death is consciousness, awareness, and evolution, as it's called, may be more complex than it seems. I once read... |
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GovernmentThe meaning of democracy
65 Posts • 34075 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
You really got at the heart of the argument, and this is very pleasing to me. We might, of course, join China where fear of change held back progress, and still is a dominant factor in politics.
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Human Nature & EmotionThat Logic is the path to Emotion
0 Posts • 905 Views Philosophy Forum |
Hum, how do you define emotion? What area of the brain is reacting when we experience emotion? Is there a relationship between emotion and survival? Is there a survival reason for emotion to sometimes... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthical Question Relating to Stem Cells From A Baby
5 Posts • 4264 Views Philosophy Forum |
So the idea about abortion was just a sidenote but I can see there are discussions here too.
I find it rather silly really. America is the only civilized country who hasn't figured out and st... |
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Society & SociologyGOD and goofy belief systems.
210 Posts • 40365 Views Psychology Forum |
K I'm going to go out on a limb here and try to define marriage in the simplest terms possible. One person falls in love with another person. Person A courts Person B for however many months. The... |
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A Short History of Medicine
13 Posts • 2827 Views Jokes & Games |
29 Pondering-worthy questions.
1. If all those damn psycics know everything about the past and the future, and they know the winning lottery numbers, why are they still working?
2. Why do they ste... |
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Speed Of Time
64 Posts • 16840 Views Philosophy Forum |
Well, We can travel to the future only if life is pre-panned, but we still can travel to the past regardless of life being planned or not. Of course, many people think that traveling to the past is im... |
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Indigo children?
11 Posts • 3839 Views Photos, Videos & Music Forum |
You can't blame people for wanting a better life for humanity and they see the children as the answer as they are our future as it were.
True, and I don't blame them for this.
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Science vs ReligionCreation or Evolution?
67 Posts • 18958 Views Religion Forum |
Petesmith: One thing wrong with your argument Petesmith, is the familiar, and I have to say rather irritating, confusion of natural selection with 'randomness'. To help you with your confusi... |
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FuturologyThe next stage of Evolution?
36 Posts • 13206 Views Philosophy Forum |
Theory,
Why assume I'm religious? I haven't been to church in years. Haven't gone most of my life. Religion is about as obsolete to me as evolution. As a matter of fact, I think of t... |
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SocietyWrite To Your Senators and Congressman
3 Posts • 2564 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
If you go to the following address: http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/is sues/alert/?alertid=9233036&am p;type=CO
You can compose a letter to your Congressmen and Senators about how you feel about the curren... |
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Human Nature & EmotionOptimism VS happiness
13 Posts • 14156 Views Philosophy Forum |
Is optimism the key to happiness?
well it's a revolving question of sorts.
Is life just as we interpret it, or are there certain things that drive us towards optimist and pessimistic choice... |
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Law & GovernmentWhat about stewardship?
4 Posts • 3279 Views Philosophy Forum |
What about stewardship?
Stewardship-- the conducting, supervising, or managing of something... the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care...
Stewardship is... |
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