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Atheism & AgnosticismMy article in American Atheist Magazine
4 Posts • 2843 Views Religion Forum |
What a good read. To think that science could need theology..
I would describe myself as agnostic. I've come to dislike the the term "atheist." Etymologically, It seems to denote a... |
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SocietyWould society be better without money?
92 Posts • 67281 Views Philosophy Forum |
I think that a society free of our biggest current barrier would be the key to the future of logicall human development and evolution . But people are still way too locked up in the box by years of do... |
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LawSame Sex Marriage Should Be Legalized Worldwide!
59 Posts • 22015 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
^^re read what you just said good sir and you'll realize that you need to "slap yourself"......I'm not for or against anybody...I'm my own person...I did state that all of thi... |
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Religion & HumanityAllegorical or Literal?
21 Posts • 7100 Views Religion Forum |
ExplodingGopher said:I must agree with you that scripture should only be looked at as a series of parables intended to teach morality.
But, if Scripture conveys what actually happened in time, should... |
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Ethics & MoralityDay of Yahweh
4 Posts • 2667 Views Philosophy Forum |
Morality was apply within only a particular tribe's agreements, and the rightness of action on its collective mood towards addressing other groups, it's individuated and localized to only particular g... |
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SocietyThe Capitalism Debate!!!!
95 Posts • 28940 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
I will agree that capitalism fuels democracy. Our car gets us to work, we would be hard pressed without it. However our automobile has no virtue. Capitalism is like the soil for a tree. It is, it will... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics
1 Posts • 2147 Views Philosophy Forum |
Okay, I'm going to take a different approach with ethics, largely because it is now considered a sort of dead duck. While post-modernists like Jameson, Lyotard and Derrida revel in morality's new-foun... |
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ElectionsRemarkable State of the Union Speech...
85 Posts • 21534 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
I'm glad you can be so high-minded now but your country practiced ethnic cleansing and colonization when there were no threats to its continued existence. Oh yes, I forgot that was the past.
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Gender PsychologyHIghly dissatsified with sexual stimulus
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one of the primary struggles for people in their twenties is seeking out and understanding the intricacies of intimacy. when searching for an appropriate mate, it is neccisary for a person to look wit... |
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A Thing Called Shame
19 Posts • 5849 Views Philosophy Forum |
Very well said Attolia...
Of course I agree that people should in general mind their own business but it should not apply to all aspects of morality and people should be willing to butt in when ne... |
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LawWhy is Prostitution Illegal?
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By allowing morality to fall this far you make it very easy to slip just a bit farther. You don't seem to find prostitution to be amoral but there are others who don't find pedophilia to be... |
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LawSame Sex Marriage Should Be Legalized Worldwide!
59 Posts • 22015 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
I feel a lso that Gay marrige is just fine with me. More so I feel that gay couples should have protected rights as do heterosexual couples. As stated in earlier posts I really don't understand w... |
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Science vs ReligionThe "What if I'm Right?" Argument
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Do not confuse wisdom with knowledge, wisdom is the result of and attained by the accumulation and discernment of knowledge, as not all knowledge is truth. If a speaker assumes that every listener has... |
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God in Religionproofs for God's existence
23 Posts • 7346 Views Religion Forum |
"so because we exist, we have to have existed? the argument makes little sense. by that reasoning, if i flip a coin and get a head, looking back, i would have to have gotten a head, because i got... |
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainOf Computers and Minds
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Perhaps judging is just comparing two different entities. You can't say that 1 is better than 1 because they are the same thing. But you can say that 2 is better than 1 because 2 is greater than... |
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God in ReligionGod's Will
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^^hahahaha....I don't worship anything on this earth, and I don't worship God....I know God!...he's my homie/friend/buddy
And I never said God created evil....man did!...Nothing Bad ca... |
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Gender PsychologySon Wanting Sex With Mom VS Daughter Wanting Sex With Dad
2 Posts • 30478 Views Psychology Forum |
I think it depends on where in the world you see this desire brought up, but for the most part men are bias to the thoughts of other men and most of the time their morality comes second to desire, so... |
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Religion & HumanityThe Disease of Religious Fundamentalism
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Different cultures lend themselves to different trains of thought. All these multiple religions can serve to confuse people, create miscommunication between cultures who do not understand each other.... |
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RelationshipsViews on sex(ladies reply please)
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If, however, one believes sex has a revealed meaning--say, it must always "nurture a relationship"--then there's no room in the model for sex to have a dark side. One has to deny that i... |
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Science vs ReligionCreation or Evolution?
67 Posts • 18877 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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Elections2004 Election
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I totally meant that Christianity, and its ridiculous teachings are what won the election for Bush.
I agree with you there, wholeheartedly.
an average of 70% of the people wanted gay marriage to be... |
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BiologyCloning
93 Posts • 25177 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Your right. Just laws are a good thing. But allowing clones to live among us, as us..is creating an equal setting, where not everything is equal. ( as in the present, everyone is derived from the whoo... |
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GodOBVIOUS EXISTANCE OF GOD
64 Posts • 19100 Views Philosophy Forum |
I have one thing to say......If you believe that Jesus is God.. the supreme God...the ONE....then you have nothing else to search for and your life should be easy flowing...you should have understandi... |
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two questions
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i'm pretty sure i agree with everything you've said, Decius. good points that make a lot of sense.
however, to me, in a way what you've said describes "what" you are. what... |
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why continue?
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"You live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality but you do not know this. When you understand this, you will see that you are nothing, and being nothing you are everything.... |
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