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Could there be a pill for that?...
17 Posts • 6023 Views Philosophy Forum |
First off, cool story pupa. It helps confirm my intuition about the relationship between our body, mind and the food we eat.
No, I don't think synthetic man-made pills are the answer to anythi... |
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What will happen when we die?
26 Posts • 6548 Views Philosophy Forum |
lol.
Bantam, you should read posts more carefully. Though you're certainly smart for 15.
You'll see that beyond my colourful sceptisism :) there is only suggestions to find an answer t... |
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SpiritualityThe Logical VS The Faithful
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God, I suppose, can take many forms. Some people refer to him strictly as fate, others as karma. Some people project him into nature, into tangible forms. And some, recognizing that we are made in the... |
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God in ReligionGod?
88 Posts • 20386 Views Religion Forum |
Hmm...science is going way to quick nowadays. To be simple; lets say that these contemporary views probably stem from physicists. We had relativity; wicked. It showed us some truths at our "scale... |
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i need opinion please on a story
7 Posts • 2826 Views Talk Talk |
Remember fire is symbolic, archetypal, of transition. Usually destructive transition, complex (usually organic) structures are broken down in dead, homogenous, ash. On the other hand it can also repre... |
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SpiritualityI'm think I'm losing faith in God.
48 Posts • 17142 Views Religion Forum |
I think I'm beginning to see pupa ria and wittgenstein's argument more clearly.
In reality, the only way you could be a true agnostic was if you were only exposed to the labels and their... |
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War & TerrorismOfficial Captain Cynic WTC 9/11 Thread
0 Posts • 6685 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Something can always be done about it.
Keeping your eyes open to not let it happen again puts you in no different posistion than the one you speak so negatively of.
Dissinformation, missinformation,... |
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Life & Deathwhat defines life
63 Posts • 18283 Views Philosophy Forum |
heyjme, if we construe an Analytic answer as one for which the golden rule is Define Your Terms, this isn't a bad go. But, as far as I can see, you anthropomorphise "life" in a way that... |
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meditation
33 Posts • 9985 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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ChristianityVoices in my head
9 Posts • 3946 Views Religion Forum |
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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Urban climbing
23 Posts • 9511 Views Photos, Videos & Music Forum |
Decius, if you consider these people to be 'posers' but then simutaneously stating that it may be beautiful and spectacular, negates the fact that they are athletes in martial arts, gymnasti... |
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Ethics & MoralityWar - What The Hell Is It Good For
164 Posts • 32639 Views Philosophy Forum |
- call it intuition or clarity paired with knowledge and experience - but it is possible to recognize truth
That is an outright assumption. Especially in regards to people and lying, as well as spe... |
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The Zero Conjecture
10 Posts • 3985 Views Philosophy Forum |
Human beings are drawn to simplicity. We have an intuition that no matter how intractable a problem may seem it must ultimately be reducible. And as to confirm our hunch the path of enquiry has led us... |
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Aesthetics & BeautyOn Art
11 Posts • 5791 Views Philosophy Forum |
so what makes something art? nowadays you see a lot of this postmodern stuff, like a 10 foot pot filled to the brim with cigarette butts, for instance, and a lot of people are thinking, what the hell... |
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Life & DeathWhat is the soul?
194 Posts • 41919 Views Philosophy Forum |
"DT, I could go into great detail regarding the work that I have done over the past 16 years and I could explain at length why I know the difference and what happens within me when I 'just f... |
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Ethics & MoralityWar - What The Hell Is It Good For
164 Posts • 32639 Views Philosophy Forum |
"The point is, you cannot know, no matter what high and mighty road you take, your information is just as subject to human lies, National Security censoring, Conspiracy, etc. etc. "
This... |
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainOf Computers and Minds
6 Posts • 2392 Views Psychology Forum |
I agree wih Blackgold here that this seems to be a question of free will and our inability to determine if we have it or not.
On regards computers, intelligent design works on the principle that ac... |
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Paranormal & PseudoscienceWhy do you think people can have psychic abilities?
17 Posts • 11172 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Do you think my approach here is an attempt to blow off psychic phenomena?
No, but I do sense the general resistance that most people have. I still have it to a degree as well.
On the point of r... |
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Life & DeathWhat is the soul?
194 Posts • 41919 Views Philosophy Forum |
Sub-conscious is definitely a better term to describe this part of us than instinct and agree with what you say about the sub-conscious mind. Intuition would have been my choice but I know that would... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsTruth, reality and the meling pot
13 Posts • 2964 Views Philosophy Forum |
I don't know what reality is.
However, I think I'm starting to understand truth. I believe truth is something to be acquired, or a void to be filled, between the descriptors of what is ... |
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Religion & HumanityWhat is religion?
40 Posts • 10485 Views Religion Forum |
religion, for me, is a resource, like science is, to help guide. It should be treated, like science, with caution and be comapred to other (historical) sources and ones own feelings and intuition. It... |
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God in ReligionDoes GOD Not Existed?
171 Posts • 42101 Views Religion Forum |
We did not inherit 'sin' from Adam and Eve, we only inherited imperfection.
Imperfection is the sin of Adam and Eve. ;) Otherwise, we would not have it, would we?
Anyway, It'... |
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Science vs ReligionEVOLUTION
226 Posts • 63573 Views Religion Forum |
Ironwood,
Look at what you are saying. God hasn't left us to wallow in ignorance. You know full well what God desires of you, that is why you can't let this go. You know you must submit... |
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Science vs ReligionScience: The One True Religion
27 Posts • 7207 Views Religion Forum |
Good points: just think a little deeper. Theres a big but, we have to be careful what we consider religion, what we consider science, what we consider art, what we consider philosophy. I think psychol... |
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BiologyEvolution
12 Posts • 3444 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Tibby, you are right - on the whole. However, I'd like to take this as a start point:
A Scientific law defines how nature will react in a situation, while a Theory is normally an all-encompass... |
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