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Intelligence, Memory & BrainBlind-Spots…
2 Posts • 2577 Views Psychology Forum |
Consider vision…
When the faculty of sight is used a compensating visual mental area makes a blind-spot disappear…
After the use of that compensating area has dropped off, it may be po... |
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RelationshipsSoul Mate?
30 Posts • 9737 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
Decius, very well put all around. I am a person who is lucky enough to believe that i have found my soul-mate. The first time i saw this girl i knew she would be mine. I was never anything but my comp... |
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ChristianityThe Exodus - decoded
12 Posts • 2948 Views Religion Forum |
Just because we can explain these events doesn't mean they were any the less miraculous to the people of the time
Absolutely true.
And even today magicians appear miraculous to the people o... |
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The Tard Thread.
6 Posts • 2631 Views Talk Talk |
My tard of the week is a nobody called Kim Kardashian, trying to seek fame a' la Paris Hilton style. By releasing a sextape that of course "was leaked without her knowledge or consent."... |
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BiologyChimps - are they really that close to us?
13 Posts • 4351 Views Science & Technology Forum |
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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Life & DeathWhat does our existence in life mean?
20 Posts • 9097 Views Philosophy Forum |
Just came on this forum and thread. My take on the exsistance of life, and the reason the humans are so bent on destruction is that we are the only creatures who are capable of creating intelligable l... |
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SpiritualityI'm think I'm losing faith in God.
48 Posts • 17102 Views Religion Forum |
First off, I'd like to say that this situation you find yourself in is one that thousands and thousands of people find themselves in on a day to day basis. To me, praying and reading the bible do... |
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Exsistential Angst
7 Posts • 3715 Views Talk Talk |
The only reason why you can not understand non-existence is because it simply isn't real.
That's part of the truth as well as the fact that very definition of existence and reality is quest... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismAetheists Are Illogical
70 Posts • 24756 Views Religion Forum |
Since you neglect to rebut my most pressing points, I'll asume you haven't read my post properly. Do so.
In the meantime, I will answer your call for a more cogent impeachment of the conc... |
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FuturologyThe end of the universe
40 Posts • 18342 Views Philosophy Forum |
In my more unfettered descents into metaphysical reverie I like to think that the universe (including life) exists only conceptually.
If you insist on a nuts-and-bolts kind of physicality to the un... |
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War & TerrorismAmerican Soldiers getting Owned
0 Posts • 397 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
And those of us who have experienced such things first hand, know how hard it is to determine who deserves to live and who to die. The ones killing and the ones being killed are every bit as lost. Bot... |
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Is it so bad?
12 Posts • 3557 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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Reality & MetaphysicsCan we know only what we are prepared to know?
2 Posts • 1924 Views Philosophy Forum |
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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ConsciousnessALTRUISM and SELFISHNESS
23 Posts • 26521 Views Philosophy Forum |
Altruism is a nice ideal, a nice idealistic spin to put on human behavior. But there's idealism, and there's reality. We do something because it meets our needs -- even if that need is to he... |
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Religion & HumanityThe End justifies the Means
13 Posts • 3098 Views Religion Forum |
What exactly did Jesus teach? Do you really know?
All you know is what the bible says, and you probably never read it but have an opinion.
I have an opinion too. We were not put on this earth wi... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismWhat is the root cause of atheist's disbelief and are they qualified to debate theism?
54 Posts • 15125 Views Religion Forum |
Response to Brother Bob,
I don't fear or loath you. I have had to deal with many religious followers the majority of my life now. You have been just another one but glad we could discuss and review... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismAetheists Are Illogical
70 Posts • 24756 Views Religion Forum |
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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SpiritualityThe Logical VS The Faithful
0 Posts • 10410 Views Religion Forum |
oh leftwood, i've got some passages over a few of your questions...
i'm not claiming absolute knowledge (i know how we hate that), but maybe these will give you a beter idea of "their... |
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BooksHave you achieved a sense of fulfillment?
21 Posts • 12072 Views Talk Talk |
Currently I am in school completing a joint major in economics and political science. I have found great reward in what I do although sometimes I don't. Sometimes I try things or different topics... |
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Ethics & MoralityThe Morality of Action
24 Posts • 8865 Views Philosophy Forum |
MiA...we are discussing morality. Responsibility for your actions is directly related; if you can claim you have no responsibility for your action, then you can say your action was moral. But can you... |
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GovernmentJesus for President?
45 Posts • 9526 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Well unless you are keeping tabs on the nefarious activities of the CIA then all your learnings will simply be for not. Its a sad fact but deception has been the name of the game since the end of WWII... |
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What truths would a wise person pursue?
5 Posts • 2810 Views Philosophy Forum |
A person can become a self-actualizing self-learner and thus reduce the level of naïveté in the world
i believe that the main problem in education systems today is that it's simply a subject... |
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Science vs ReligionEVOLUTION
226 Posts • 63395 Views Religion Forum |
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"
emphasis... |
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Physics & CosmologySomething out of nothing
40 Posts • 8799 Views Science & Technology Forum |
No!..of course not!...Science and its efforts are the greatest and most effective means by which man can at least approach Truth within the confines of physical perception...but those confines limit m... |
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Physics & CosmologySomething out of nothing
40 Posts • 8799 Views Science & Technology Forum |
because we have satellites looking at the earth?why do we have sattelites? because some took steps to understanding nature and then used all these ideas and though hey why don't we go into space?... |
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