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Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeDo truth and lies really have a purpose?
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By it's definition, truth is not relative. But we make it so. We rationalize. We rationalize to make ourselves feel better, or more secure, or more important or whatever... We lie to ourselves.... |
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God in ReligionDoes it add up??
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The sacrificing of animals was done because God told Adam that if he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he would die. Romans 6:23 tells us the wages of sin is death. Now God doesn... |
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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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I was raised in a Christian family and lived my entire 53 years as a Christian, so it is safe to say I have much Christian knowledge and know Christians. I have many atheist friends and some relatives... |
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What is a Basic-Level Category?
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What is a Basic-Level Category?
Consider the category hierarchies: {furniture--chair-rocker} and {vehicle--car-sedan}. The middle categories--chair and car--have been discovered to be 'basic'-they... |
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Society & SociologyLabeling
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We label everything else, music, movies, and styles to name a few, why not people? Biology has a very specific classification system, but who really wants to class people into seven categories of Lati... |
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Physics & CosmologySomething out of nothing
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This is from the Rutledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It pretty much says what I have always been taught about what Kant's views on space and time were...I've found numerous scholarly works... |
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developing your existence through experience?
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^^^precisely.... why would you want to know everything? If you did then what would be the point of existence? knowing everything is the understanding that you know nothing at all, and in that scenario... |
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ChristianityAll those with a good knowledge of christianity, please post.
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a) if jesus died, why didnt the other parts die along with him. i mean the holy spirit, and god.
b)god is in three parts.. but its still a monothiest religion
c)will all of mankind be saved because... |
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Life & DeathLife, Death, Choice
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^^^I love humans........I mean we're slow...but it's all to the good, most of us will realize what we are and where we're supposed to be in this twisted up reality we've created...... |
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FuturologyEvolution of thought
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I had an epiphany the other day. Looking at a trend.
It seems very few people are capable of imagining beyond there knowledge. I have formed a theory that these individuals follow a religion unquesti... |
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Christianitycommandments
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Yeah, but unfortuantely, humans are imperfect. We don't always want what's right, even if we know what right is. Mean people suck, but what they do isn't subjectively right. They just c... |
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ChristianityGenesis
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I think someone made "Genesis" up and that it has nothing to do with anything.
And if god is testing people, he's probably testing their bullshit detectors, which dont seem to work... |
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Religion & HumanityWhat is truth?
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The truth is that we do not know everything, we know somehow something got things moving that created our existance. Our knowledge of an conscious power greater than ourself's is unknown.
We may... |
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EconomyEducate Yourself About Money
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Unless you have super powers or know someone with the ability to defeat or win over a shadow world super power whose sole intention is to enslave and depopulate the world then the answer is simple.
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Life & DeathVoluntary Human Extinction Movement
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TO: 'Squarepants'
It's obvious that you didn't read my previous posts or research (hours – not minutes) the
VHEMT web site.
And, your two statements* are illogical – which is due to you... |
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Science vs ReligionEVOLUTION
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That would depend on what you mean by "evolutions." :)
What I meant was I believe due to the fact that you're open to the metaphysical elements of life; you're sensitive to &quo... |
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Fake?
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if your talking about a boyfriend girlfriend situation then maybe thats good.. now you can be open with him or her and accept each other for who you really are..
not to sound like a preacher but i&... |
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BooksBook dissection
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thank you i'll check it out.
here is something from Nietzsche in "Gay Science"
"Our ultimate gratitude to art."- If we had not welcomed the arts and invented this kind o... |
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The importance of university and higher education?
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The importance of higher education?
The school of hard knocks vs degree program . . . ya spent years working low paying jobs to learn (apprenticeship) certain trades yet does that provide proof of ab... |
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Life & DeathTheories on Death
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There is no way to know what death is like because death is the abcense of everything, feelings, knowledge and all. So if you can not feel, if you can not think, if you do not exist, you can not feel... |
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Life & Deathwhat defines life
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I don't claim truth. Your perceptive powers of what I'm saying may be true. I'm not perfect. I don't claim laws of knowledge.
I'm not here to pursue the mighty aim of find... |
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How does the mind display itself to us?
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I guess what I was asking was about the feeling you get from your mind mostly... the display of feeling may well be a little different than what you would expect considering all the anatomy... The que... |
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God in Religionwhat made God?
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I'm apologise if my communication was not clear.. What I meant is this.. in order to come to conclusive answers about anything to do with the universe at large, and that includes discovering whet... |
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Are all Philisophical minds elitists?
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elitist:
adjective: Characteristic of or resembling a snob: snobbish, snobby. Informal high-hat, snooty, stuck-up, uppish, uppity.
noun: One who despises people or things regarded as inferior,... |
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The Mind
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I find it interesting that the thought that the mind is useless formed, in your mind. The language with which to explain this thought to others was conjured, in the mind. But most importantly, the kno... |
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