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ConsciousnessALTRUISM and SELFISHNESS
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Well, I hear ya there, Eye. But I suspect the notion of altruism is really just idealism. The reality is that you'll never take the "I" (self-interest) out of it. If it's your choi... |
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Life & DeathVoluntary Human Extinction Movement
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VHEMT states FACTS
VHEMT is not an organization,. There are no official initiation procedures, membership dues, or leaders. The movement is "a state of mind," and all you have to do to jo... |
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BiologyChimps - are they really that close to us?
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Ive heard many people and scientists remark that our d.n.a is 98% the same as chimps. many of us try to explain human intelligence and behaviour by looking at apes but are these creatures really that... |
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The Tangent Universe
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Dark. Darker. Darko. Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions. What would you do if you knew the future?
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to believe or not to belive
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Why believe in God? for as long as many of you have been Christians or any other religion in the world, and even atheist..Why believe in God or not?
Belief is not reality, it can be taken down at a... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
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homosexuals do not procreate..they do not concieve "offspring"..
Yes, they do. They either get artificially insemination or use a surrogate donor or carrier. It happens all the time for... |
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God in ReligionDivided in belief, but united in Love
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What if those of you who believe or believed in God, at a very young age, that our God was a God of only Love? Would the world be in the shape its in? If you were taught of such a God (of "only&q... |
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SocietyThe Pekka-Eric Auvinen Manifesto
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Reading about this person and seeing some of his ideas in the clips, I feel very confused. Mainly because there are some things he says that I agree with.
I dont go in for all the 'being free' or '... |
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EconomyWar on the Euro?
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The T-shirts sold on this website..first go free enterprise...are confusing to me. Are they trying to say the Euro is some how better than the dollar in anything other than its market strength? Becaus... |
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Society & SociologyIs Jail a mild form of torture
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Chained wings, shame on you!
Time to wake up from primitive tribal slumber.
No you won't find this story on CNN. Yet this is not something new. The Dutch, the Quakers, and post-structuralis... |
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Is it so bad?
12 Posts • 3550 Views
Talk Talk |
Difference is the opposite of similarity. The word 'balance' springs to mind.
Anyone who does condone this type of behaviour would be called an extreme bad in society. And those that prac... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismWhat is the root cause of atheist's disbelief and are they qualified to debate theism?
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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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Physics & CosmologyWhat does it mean there are Four Dimensions?
57 Posts • 26966 Views
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A conditional statement is implied (like the unspoken STP) that the molecular nature of atoms gives rise to those characteristics of our existence including the aspect of Inertial Mass , an extension... |
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LawRacism and reverse discrimination
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The human species will lose its humanity, and all that entails, if it's not given a chance to sort out its problems through understanding at the individual level. In my view, the legislation of t... |
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Would You Tell?
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I had this understanding theory, and that truth(all there is) cannot be limited to the acumen of the human mind.
I wouldnt share the meaning if i knew it. Even if i could somehow project in a way t... |
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Society & Sociologyman's nature to desire God's existence
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When the nature of a human is in sin and bondage for so long, our hearts become heardened and our minds are warped. so much so that we LITERALLY shut ourselves off to the voice of God, which noone can... |
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Religion & HumanityReligion has history
55 Posts • 13427 Views
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To accomplish peace we need to live by two tenets:
1. Live and let live, and
2. Turn the other cheek (and I don't mean 'moon' them).
Peace isn't Christian or Jewish or Muslim... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismAetheists Are Illogical
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It's just that the atheist and agnostic point of view is more responsibility and much less magical and wondrous. Think back to when you were a kid, didn't everything seem to have a glowing a... |
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God in Religionwhy do you believe in god?
253 Posts • 122203 Views
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Do you think that the human mind is capable of understanding something like God?.....I think its a little more complicated than that.....I think that quantum physics is starting to point to God. We do... |
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PerceptionThoughts on Perception,
5 Posts • 2990 Views
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going through one of those spells where you start getting new understandings really fast.
i relate the feeling of a new understanding the feeling like a teenager, but i dont think thats where it be... |
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HinduismSexism within Hinduism
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With respect to the manu smriti, let me first explain that this is a smriti , and not a Shruti.
The Shruti are the eternal spiritual teachings in the Vedas, while the Smritis are social customs cre... |
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BiologyEvolution
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Evolution, as a process, is a fact. We see constant change all over. The question is like this. You have an ape. You change time and space. Then you have a human. Can this be proved.
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God in ReligionProblems with God
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I just wanted to say thank you to Iornwood and all of the others who have posted on this thread, which I discovered only today!!!
As I read through these posts, I have laughed out loud (not in mock... |
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ElectionsRemarkable State of the Union Speech...
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"I have had good Arab friends that were so brainwashed when it came to Israel it was depressing and no amount of historical facts would alter their opinion."
So you agree, they perhaps misg... |
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