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Are you a rules skeptic?
1 Posts • 2192 Views Philosophy Forum |
Are you a rules skeptic?
Justice Scalia is an ardent defender of the virtue of legal rules. He says such rules reduce dramatically any uncertainty and indicate a level of justice by providing 'a cl... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
94 Posts • 27060 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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Religion & HumanityUnhealthy Confrontations
12 Posts • 5868 Views Religion Forum |
OK, here is the "Carbon Copy."
Theists versus atheists: are conflicts necessary?
Ludwik Kowalski, Professor Emeritus
Montclair State University
New Jersey, USA
Abstract
Mathe... |
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SocietyThoughts on the School Shooting in CT
11 Posts • 4819 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
I had some thoughts today on the horrifying shooting in CT and on how these shootings keep increasing everyday. I came to a very scary conclusion about my generation and was wondering if anyone else h... |
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Science vs ReligionCreation or Evolution?
67 Posts • 18955 Views Religion Forum |
With all due respect for other opinions, Summit's reasoning for the rationalistic approach on the evolution versus creationism debate complies with both mathematical, biological and empirical dis... |
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Relationships & LoveA logical case for the loss of consent.
1 Posts • 5900 Views Psychology Forum |
Please discuss this, I would like to see the opinions of those both with and with out a "dog in this fight"
Case for the Possible Loss of Functional Consent.
by Anon7
The D/s co... |
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EconomyUmma
1 Posts • 2593 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Andrew Johnson
To What Extent Does the Concept of Umma Tally with that of Globalization?
This question calls forth a whole cluster of assumptions which, I think it is fair to say, cannot be justi... |
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Issues with Hate…
8 Posts • 3110 Views Talk Talk |
First of all to Chiron…
(thanks for the reply by the way)
I guess that acquiescence has quite a bit to do with one part of the idea…
Also, I feel I have been on the other end of receivi... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
94 Posts • 27060 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
So overall "Society" does include both sexualities but is not the specific societies to which I'm refering, which I believe to be opposed to one another and battling for hegemony.... |
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Ethics & MoralityGandhi's views on violence in self-defense
3 Posts • 7238 Views Philosophy Forum |
I WOULD risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of a whole race.
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence...... |
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Genius - How would you know?
13 Posts • 3371 Views Philosophy Forum |
My daughter looked down in her lap where the shiny object (toy) was - and then back up at myself and her female - parent.
She aparently wished to join us across the room but did not wish to leave t... |
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Science vs ReligionIntellagentdesign
82 Posts • 19384 Views Religion Forum |
Okcitykid your within a religious neutrality so its rather odd why you remain confused. The only explination I have is perhaps your slightly naive about evolution. Just to fill you in, DNA originated... |
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SocietySocial Engineering
15 Posts • 3552 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
*mad*I am not a housewife. I am a domestic engineer.*cool*
This thread blooms out of the 'meaning of democracy' thread. While social engineering is most certainly germane to the subject of democrac... |
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IslamDo you know what Islam means?
67 Posts • 16913 Views Religion Forum |
"But these regimes are universally considered despotic, at least today. When you say "Christian" it is almost universally understood to include Catholics and Orthodox. When you challeng... |
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainWhat is effective communication?
18 Posts • 8319 Views Psychology Forum |
What you say about me wanting to see AW as innocent is because I like him. And I don't want to think badly of him. I also don't want to see ppl fight. I know I'm being naive when I say... |
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ChristianityWhat is faith: Why Christianity?
23 Posts • 7936 Views Religion Forum |
I don't know if you are in a position to answer this question because it is sort of posed as a rebuttal to PeterSmith's assertion that Christianity is the only religion that provides "g... |
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Science and Faith.-their applications to truth.
12 Posts • 3488 Views Philosophy Forum |
So if a dream world exists- do you suppose that this "dream world" would effect a persons choices..?" -"What is this blabbering of yours? A dream world effecting a persons choices,... |
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GovernmentBush and God's will...
28 Posts • 7907 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Boy you love to write a lot...lol
>>When they see countless tyrants being aided by
>>>westerners who do little more than secure an area for
>>>their own interests, which... |
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Do we get a kick out of intrigue?
4 Posts • 2516 Views Philosophy Forum |
Do we get a kick out of intrigue?
Shakespeare's insight, as he proclaimed that life is a stage and we are the actors on that stage of life, leaves us pitiful, in nude exposure, of our self to our s... |
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Religion & HumanityThe Meaning of Living
103 Posts • 24950 Views Religion Forum |
Genesis
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth;
*This means He created the earth, and that time was not written. Let me explain in better detail. The time of God is different than... |
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Science vs ReligionEVOLUTION
226 Posts • 63575 Views Religion Forum |
Thanks Aura! I might have to check out those sources you mentioned.
Let me just reply to these few things you said:
"I really don't know why you keep going on and on about illusion, because... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
94 Posts • 27060 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
To break the "social contract" requires on to reject the morality expressed by the social order. A society's moral code organizes individual relationship to the community.
As a fully... |
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SpiritualityI'm think I'm losing faith in God.
48 Posts • 17145 Views Religion Forum |
If you're going to express yourself so eliptically, we'll go nowhere. Do you mean... that we can't rule out the possibility that someone will be born, now or in the future, with the cap... |
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Two Theories
2 Posts • 2076 Views Philosophy Forum |
The only thing worse than an affront to our common sense is finding some common sense to our affront. Which category the following tract falls into is for the reader to decide. I hope it will not be c... |
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GovernmentWas Hayek Right?
1 Posts • 2098 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
I want to assess the arguments for a minimal state in Hayek's classic The Road to Serfdom. I think, and perhaps I can show, that the situation is not so simple as he thinks.
Firstly, he extra... |
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