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A number on numbers
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A crank is someone who sees the truth through a fool's eyes. It is a barb I hope the following will not earn, although that is, I dare say, preferable to the mute indifference I expect it to elicit. W... |
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Why live if you're just going to die?
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Let me tell you a story:
A great wizard walks across a vast desert. He wears a long purple cloak and a high pointed hat. His white beard touches the ground. He carries a large bucket. He stops and... |
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SpiritualityIn any Spiritual Text is there a way to give up Free Will?
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Hey Vamp....
Well... as I have come to grasp... the Free Will of Humanity is the actual difference that God Makes between mankind and all other of the Creation... it is sooooooo important in fact i... |
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StoriesThe Stories we write...
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"This is an exercise" muttered the headphones in Danielle's ear. "This is a test of your mental capacity and my intuition. A trial by fire of the mind, for the benefit of those who... |
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GovernmentThe meaning of democracy
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Are you questioning if public education was used to mobilize us for the first and second world wars? I can quote from books if you like? It was the focus of the 1917 National Education Conference. Pic... |
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ChristianityTruth about 666, the beast and seal of the beast
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Even then he claims the "mark" is a "special" mark...
on his cheek... not his fore head or his hand or anyplace one would expect...
something like a birthmark or a mole... bu... |
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ChristianityIs anyone here...
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Tibby asks who among us is a christian.
I offer a short dissertation on this question as I see it.
From: Biggles MSN Groups: Theism vs Atheism Sent: 12/3/2008 2:31 PM
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Human's Inevitable Downfall
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"What i reckon is, war is a necessary part of any modern 'civilization'. This is because, with the massive increase in productivity, luxury commodities and leisure time, the human race... |
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Basic Friend, What are the Fundamental Trusts?
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What does a friend expect of himself? And you? Between two people, expressed and implied 'contracts' structure cooperative, supportive relationships where goods, services and intangibles, ( like emoti... |
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ChristianityXX XY XYZ?
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let us not ommit or exclude, marginalize and or supress anything in our dialectic
"...and in the image of god made He them both, male and female and called THEIR name adam"
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Is there anything you shouldn't educate children?
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Iron I would like to start off by saying that calling people names is childish and that i take little offense to them but if this is your method of debate then is suggest review.
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GovernmentThe Peter Principle
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This is why things will always go wrong with government or anything for that matter. The Peter Principle states that in a hierarchically structured administration, people tend to be promoted up to the... |
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Random QuestionsKarma
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I understood what he was saying. I understood what he was defining karma as. I merely disagree with him, reasonably so. I do so because I see no karma in a rock accidentally being kicked, at any level... |
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StoriesA short story
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Joey looked down at his watch. 22:51, only 9 minutes until he had to be home. Oh well, he thought, as he closed the book he had been reading and shoved it into his pack. Might as well head home to see... |
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Fate
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In response to Decius
D -" Well, I believe in a very logical sense of fate: If everything is cause and effect, then everything is pre-determined because the future is an effect of our present,... |
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ElectionsVoting about abortion and Roe v. Wade.
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*dead* There seems to be far too much pressure for voters to vote based on that one and only issue of abortion and so people really need more information about this subject.
President Bush has been... |
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Religion & HumanityReal Religion Or Cult?
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*confused* To begin with I am a Rastafarian; this is not because my ancestry can be traced to Africa. Jamaica or Ethiopia. It is because of choice. Which ultimately I feel is a greater grounding in be... |
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GovernmentLeftwing Fascism...
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"Leftwood, if you believe Bush is all about big government then we simply do not agree. Yes more should be done to limit government however after 70 years of democratic congressional rule transfo... |
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LawKerry strikes again.
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I'm not posting this as a knock on Kerry (there are plenty of other issues to do that with...lol). I'm posting it as a perfect example of just how complicated and stupid most of our gun laws... |
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Are all Philisophical minds elitists?
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Am I an elitist?
An intellectual is not synonymous with an elitist mentality.
Intellectuals have an afinity for the "Facts" and the details because they know intellectual power is de... |
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Philosophy Needs a Visceral Connection
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Philosophy Needs a Visceral Connection
The visceral (instinctive, unreasoning, and 'earthy') domain of human reality is not exclusively the domain of intellection but is a partnership with the crud... |
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Religion & HumanityThe Disease of Religious Fundamentalism
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I know that I should quote, but sometimes I don't, I figure the person I'm talking to knows who they are, Anyways.
Regardless you claimed theories and statements were made that I have not... |
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Science vs ReligionEVOLUTION
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You said "manbible, your arguement destroys your own desired assumption."
That assertion is false. It was that assertion I referenced.
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SocietyRed Vs. Blue: Who Picks Who?
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I recently saw the movies Yes Man (good movie go watch it) and really liked it, so I decided to come home and look up some interviews with Jim Carry (played the lead role) in them. He was on Larry Kin... |
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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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