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PerceptionMake Believe........?
5 Posts • 2764 Views Psychology Forum |
This is a very large debate in the study of philosophy. It deals with what we believe vs. what is actually true, and how we can prove that it is true.
I believe it was Rene Descates who thought th... |
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Life & DeathWhat is the soul?
194 Posts • 41956 Views Philosophy Forum |
There is no such thing as 'a' soul. No one has an 'individual' soul. The soul is not some 'lifeforce' or something.
Everything has a soul, or rather, a being. The rock i... |
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God in ReligionGod?
88 Posts • 20400 Views Religion Forum |
hey u know, how we feel confident and certain of certain things.. but we also have the side to us that says we may be decieved by even things that seem certain.. so tyou think god can think like that?... |
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Paranormal & PseudoscienceDeja Vu-Theories
74 Posts • 39597 Views Science & Technology Forum |
MIA, I was agreeing with (your) the De Javu, it is memory that doesn't seem to improve with age. But it is nice to know that it is not your opinion but more of a consensus of thought to which you... |
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ChristianityWas Christ really resurrected?
67 Posts • 17264 Views Religion Forum |
I don't even know if you are recanting or being sarcastic, what is sealed about my mind, I have never witnessed even the possibility of such events let alone actual ones, and am skeptical towards... |
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Society & SociologyOver population and the effects it has on the human psyche.
8 Posts • 12758 Views Psychology Forum |
I think overpopulation does have a drastic effect on our minds and bodies. Living in cities and being constantly overwhelmed with human contact we tend to be more stressed and more on edge. And that s... |
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Mind "Lag"
6 Posts • 4559 Views Philosophy Forum |
Yeah, the mind is always behind reality, but then so is the body. The body acts when the mind tells it too. How can the body always be in the present, it doesn't have a conciousness of it's... |
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Gender Psychologywhy do guys lie???
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O WTF IS CRACKIN! alrite, lieing. first wtf is a lie? it is a bunch of words that when said makes someone in a way not express as much emotion as they need to at that certain time. and we lie b/c we d... |
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Sexual PsychologyLoss of Virginity
33 Posts • 15235 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
"A choice made from the mind is only to be judged by the mind who made it."
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Reality & MetaphysicsThe Matrix Is Real
123 Posts • 36549 Views Philosophy Forum |
As I said once before:
The world "out there", external reality, is a shared universe of common experience. It is the lowest common denominator of all our experience. We take it for granted... |
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Conscious and Sub-ConsciousConsciousness is just the tip of the iceberg
24 Posts • 12803 Views Psychology Forum |
Thanks for the meditation idea Angel of death. I'll try it next time I'm camping, since there are so many mirrors around here.
From what I understand about the brain, consciousness/sub-consciousnes... |
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Let it go anywhere
38 Posts • 8344 Views Philosophy Forum |
it is an interesting question, who will get to go to heaven. I had an argument with my sister the other day about hitler. As I told her how did she know he was evil? She said becuase of the things he... |
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PerceptionPreconceived notions
8 Posts • 11310 Views Psychology Forum |
One of the main problems I encounter on the web is preconceived notions. That is people reading something into what is said other then the intended message because of my handle or their limited knowle... |
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Poetry*Smiles with in Solitude*
202 Posts • 49399 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
I retreat here tonight now to the depths of my mind
this wonderous lace of neurons so ingeniously intertwined
but as I look deeper, It's unnerving to find
There is destruction were'ere I... |
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DrugsLSD
5 Posts • 3391 Views Psychology Forum |
It always seems like whenever something is enjoyable and therefore has potential to be given allot of value, someone in power will step in and try to control it. And if they cant control it they will... |
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How does the mind display itself to us?
11 Posts • 2961 Views Philosophy Forum |
Essentially you are correct, to be sure we would need to scientifically prove what the divisions of the brain would be doing.
But by mere thought we can at least have a hunch, a hypothesis, an idea... |
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ChristianityA question for a devoted Christian.
235 Posts • 42595 Views Religion Forum |
but we can not be unsinful. we will sin. its gonna happen. he made it impossible for us not to.
But we can be made clean by the acceptance of Jesus as our Saviours.
Yet, GOD is unchanging then h... |
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Emotions & Feelingsare emotions what define human beings?
42 Posts • 26327 Views Psychology Forum |
Enlightnment is about getting rid of this 'illusion', that we are our mind. When we realize that we are not our mind, our personality, our character, then we getin touch with the true '... |
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Control?
3 Posts • 2474 Views Philosophy Forum |
If we can control that would imply that we are liberated.
But we cannot be liberated if we are holding on to the environment(s) in an attempt to console our identity.
When the brain has control its... |
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Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeWhat is TRUE KNOWLEGE
6 Posts • 3963 Views Philosophy Forum |
How do we KNOW there is no such thing as true knowledge?
(An annoying but apt question)
I believe there are 'givens'. Things that one intrinsically knows, but can never convey to another... |
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Habits & Behaviorzoning out
6 Posts • 4319 Views Psychology Forum |
Actually, thinking more about it, the kind of zoning out I'm talking about is where you just stare kind of vacantly and your eyes take on a glassy look and nothing's really going through you... |
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DrugsBad Trip: The Worst Experience of my Life
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Love the detail you managed to implement and remember in your trip report.
Firstly i think you made a few fatal errors which no doubt contributed to the reaction of your trip.
The first is you t... |
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Emotions & Feelingsare emotions what define human beings?
42 Posts • 26327 Views Psychology Forum |
I didn't see the pitcure, but I know what ur talking about. It's being talked in detail in the thread 'what is the soul'
Basically, he's asking the question, 'who am I... |
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GodWhere do the ideas in religion come from?
42 Posts • 12206 Views Philosophy Forum |
i guess that god is important in every person's life no matter wut religion that person believes in but a being tends to feel an emoitional support of any kind from a greater source of intellegen... |
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainRemoval from Working Memory...
12 Posts • 2808 Views Psychology Forum |
your working memory is working on semantic and episodic information in your lond term memory get it, the only way to get rid of and incident completely out of your mind is if it is insignificant and d... |
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