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God in ReligionThe God Thread
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Mother Theresa truely deseveres our respect, I would have to say to all that I agree with you in that respect.
In fact, I would have to admit this about Ghandi, if there is a heaven I would hope to s... |
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Alternative BeliefsWhatever needs to be discussed
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Universal truth is an empty abstraction. If your truth must account for all the facts, and if accounting for all the facts results in inconsistency; only the most empty abstractions can be true. Our o... |
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War & TerrorismWhat Are We Doing In Iraq?
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DumbTeen, not that I am in disagrement with you but to point out distinctions. We were aided by the French in our revolt with the English monarchy. But . . . 1) Before our revolution, they fought agai... |
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SocietyEducation Part ll
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more so...
testing is not a gauge for knowledge, it simply shows the memorization skills in kids.
there wont be these fields to study specificaly on like you claim, the only fields will be economics... |
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How is body and mind one?
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How is body and mind one?
'It is our organic flesh and blood, our structural bones, the ancient rhythms of our internal organs, and the pulsating flow of our emotions that give us whatever meaning... |
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Religion & HumanityWhat defines good or evil?
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Good and evil are not rational or logical things. Consistency and morals do not mix. Because, a person's sense of morals do not come from logic, they come from culture and instincts (usually call... |
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ChristianityWas Christ really resurrected?
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The fish symbol was used extensively in pre-Christian culture as a fertility symbol. For example, it is associated with Aphrodite in ancient Greece, and her other aspects in other religions, such as D... |
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Exsistential Angst
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The only reason why you can not understand non-existence is because it simply isn't real.
That's part of the truth as well as the fact that very definition of existence and reality is quest... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsCan we know only what we are prepared to know?
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Can we know only what we are prepared to know?
If an individual has never learned to add and subtract that individual cannot learn how to divide and multiply.
Our American educational system, K... |
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EconomyWhy not tax the Rich?
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Did a make a mathmatical claim of some sort, all I said was tax write offs and other things alter % rules, and that I don't know all the rules so I asked because of how many times I've heard... |
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GovernmentThe Role of State
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Hmm . . . question?
Who owns the airwaves?
Some businesses, like cell phone companies, pay the government to use their airwaves (also "spectrum" ).
Radio and TV broadcasters, though, use... |
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video games
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with the small introduction of new gen consoles like the Nintendo DS and PSP it is clear that games still have a very long way to go before they reach their full potential.
in the next few years w... |
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Society & Sociologyafrican americans
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Cynic-Al I agree with the first part of your statement about colonization--"whites&quo t; as advanced and superior race--I beleive that is how it was first viewed.
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Infinite universes from Matter and Anti-Matter
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I believe linear time is merely a "subjective" category of thought and perception and not an objective physical property of the external world, and infinity, I think, is merely a symptom of... |
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Ethics & MoralityThe Morality of Action
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Cultural morals in my opinion are not true morals
Then what are true morals? The morals both you and cturtle have given me are based on religion, a piece of culture.
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War of the Worlds
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If I hadn't seen so much recent pop culture blatantly recycled it wouldn't have been so bad, still not very good, but no so bad.
The vaporizing humans with clothes raining, DBZ: Cell, abs... |
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ChristianityCatholics vs Christians
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This cam to me unattributed so I don't know the original author, but I like it just the same as it captures the mythology of Christianity perfectly.
>Top ten signs you're a Christian F... |
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what is a terrorist,
an exploration into the dictionarys deffinition of terrorism
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ter·ror·ism (tr-rzm)
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The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societie... |
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Babel
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Babel: to confuse and confound.
I found this movie deeply disturbing.
It reminded me about that quality of invincible American self-confidence and youthful bravado (which had always informed our... |
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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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God in ReligionIf there's a god, why is there evil?
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"I can't believe that the morals we have come from emotions. Is it genetic that our parents have been raising us since birth to be morally sound? How could it be if the choice to raise your... |
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Society & SociologyExcerp: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
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There was a time when Man used to say –
I work in order to feed my family.
I work in order to put Food on the Table.
Today man is putting a lot more than Food on the Table.
Cars, Compu... |
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Rehab & AddictionAlcohol vs. Marijuana
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Marijuana is still illegal for many illogical reasons due to government policy. Part of the reason is due to the restrictions that the Congress places on medical marijuana research, which makes resche... |
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Society & SociologyRacism on SNL
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that is the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. the very reason that it is hurtful is that it has no truth at all, and is based on propganda and generalization, and yet it is propogated to a race... |
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War & Terrorism900 years of the West against Islam
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We started with the Crusades and have kept it going in one form or another, under one guise or another, our attempt to clear the world of Muslims. We can almost universally agree we screwed up with th... |
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