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Society & SociologyGOD and goofy belief systems.
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back to the topic
why do we seek reward and punishment?
the easy way out is because we are all egotistical pricks.
a less pessimistic approach would be to blame our ability to adapt and understand,... |
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War & TerrorismIran-US: the next war?
6 Posts • 3139 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Watching the boob tube, A female islamic type who had written a book on the Koran and reinterpeting it into modern society was the guest for this Pro Bush (War?) talk show. Toward the end he did menti... |
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SocietyAnarchy, misundersood
41 Posts • 13028 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Ok, here's the idea. I am an anarchist and basically we believe in anarchy because we see the world as corrupted only by the state. (All governments.) History tells us that people have lived thei... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85175 Views Science & Technology Forum |
25 January 2013
Matijevic Hill Panorama
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizo na State U.
On January 25 (UT) 2004, the Opportunity rover fell to Mars, making today the 9th anniversary of i... |
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Why are aesthetics such a muddle?
2 Posts • 3883 Views Philosophy Forum |
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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Paen to Common Sense
1 Posts • 2175 Views Philosophy Forum |
It is a verity amongst creationists that science is a faith system, equally problematic, and yet more dogmatic, than religion itself. Sometimes this claim is justified (should we dignify it with such... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsQuestioning Reality: Are we for "Real"?
118 Posts • 36379 Views Philosophy Forum |
The world "out there", external reality, is a shared universe of common experience. It is the lowest common denominator of all our experience. We take it for granted and it supplies us with... |
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Alternative BeliefsPieism
30 Posts • 11502 Views Religion Forum |
JoJo Pieism!
Heres some ihfo about JoJo Pieism, a recent verison of pieism!
JoJo Pieism believes the pie has come to earth in the form of a man, JoJo. They follow the sacred scrolls of wisdom. T... |
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Societythe Marxist debate
7 Posts • 3822 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
And here we go again...
I will start with one of your sentences "can survive the current inividualistic and embrase the collective ?"
I have a better question : can you name a country wh... |
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meditation
33 Posts • 9962 Views Philosophy Forum |
Going to have to ask you to be more specific.
Not believing there is supernatural means what to you, because what is even natural to me includes all existance in all its forms and dimensions, I only... |
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LawThe Draft Law
11 Posts • 4384 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
The 'necessity' is that society as a whole will benefit. Persons entering college will be more mature and will probably have a better idea as to what they want to be when they grow up. In ad... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
94 Posts • 26983 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
you mention earlier that other relationships with problems..or w/e-could have just as easily been homos.( because they were dysfunctional..and so on.)
I'm not sure what you are saying, but... |
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Law & GovernmentCivilization and government
26 Posts • 7762 Views Philosophy Forum |
In terms of human creation, I don't think over population is really a problem. I read a paper stating that we could fit 4.5 billion people in the state of texas and that each person would have ab... |
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God in ReligionConstructs of God.
1 Posts • 2348 Views Religion Forum |
Once there was a religion who had different ideas about a well known god.
They said God was everything. Every rock, every branch, every star in the sky was akin to the flesh of God. He existed in, an... |
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Mental Metamorphesas- A Cacoon Of Revalation
7 Posts • 2838 Views Philosophy Forum |
o.k.
self analysis = break things down to their principle parts
self examination = detailed inspection of what is present
self correction = straighten yourself out
then engendered is self... |
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Emotions & FeelingsMixed Emotions/Open Your Mind
16 Posts • 7712 Views Psychology Forum |
Okay, normally, I would ignore this, but it's too good to let go.
1. You say that everywhere you look is pretence. Have you ever thought that these people might actually be like that? That it is... |
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Child & Family PsychologyDenial
32 Posts • 12127 Views Psychology Forum |
I think hating actions makes more sense than hating a person. Mostly because an action doesn't make up the whole person, therefore you are hating someone based on one or a couple of aspects of th... |
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PedophiliaPaedophilia
189 Posts • 72505 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
I'd say that due to environmental factors, it is unfortunate that pedaphiles are the way they are, but I would venture to say it can be remedied using therapy whereas being gay is something in yo... |
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ChristianityVoices in my head
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I'd be interested in hearing more of your analysis concerning how one experiences a relationship with the universe? Are you simply referring to ones perspective? Or is it some kind of a two way c... |
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AnimalsThree reasons I hate Orcas (Killer Whales)
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Mmmm, well at the risk of dredging up some more ire…
I think such interesting things have risen out of this thread.
Attolia: you are so intelligent and I adore the things you say, are you RE... |
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Ethics & MoralityWar - What The Hell Is It Good For
164 Posts • 32537 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... |
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God in ReligionThe Problem with God
13 Posts • 3346 Views Religion Forum |
I think they are right in what they say but they are incapable of thinking about what it insinuates. It's like they don't want to know what their dreams of what God are. Like a child who is... |
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PedophiliaPaedophilia
189 Posts • 72505 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
Well logic dictates that until your body develops in a manner conducive to reproduction you will not be sexual since sexuality is biologically used for reproduction. Hence, scientifically a child is n... |
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People hate vegetarians
104 Posts • 31581 Views Talk Talk |
Dear Awakeningmystic,
"The only power a woman has to turn the act of rape into an act of "love making" would be her consent."
CLANG!! Nail on the head! That's correct, h... |
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SpiritualityIn any Spiritual Text is there a way to give up Free Will?
5 Posts • 3110 Views Religion Forum |
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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