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Life & DeathMeaning of life in DNA?
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DNA has few mysteries right now.
DNA is just a language which tells a cell how to make a kind of protein. There's very little mysticism left in it IMO. |
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Astrology, Myth Or Magic?
6 Posts • 2737 Views Talk Talk |
By the way word to the wise stay away from fortune tellers. Though what they practice has some merit it is rather dangerous to take seriously. use astrology and mysticism as theorys to help expand you... |
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Christianity2 Candidates for Jesus's daddy - you pick...! ;)
19 Posts • 5941 Views Religion Forum |
I haven't read the Bible so I can't really debate about that but I've heard the story how Mary could have lied about an illegitimate child and was forced to flea and claim that the baby... |
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God in ReligionThe Problem of Evil
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that latter is self substantiating.
but the bible (and other religious doccuments) attempts to take mysticism and logically or empirically argue for it as being "self-evident" truths- con... |
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ExistentialismExistentialism
47 Posts • 14852 Views Philosophy Forum |
Practice meditation.
meditating and laughing... altho the laughing gets on other peoples nerves when its not appropriate, at least i still have a good time!
Do you guys believe it is somehow m... |
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Christianity2 Candidates for Jesus's daddy - you pick...! ;)
19 Posts • 5941 Views Religion Forum |
I have said this will lead to an end to "mysticism" because the foundation for most of the mystics, (which includes the religous), is western philosophies...(of which christianity is the pre... |
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ChristianityTwo more Popes shall reign and the End is come
33 Posts • 14249 Views Religion Forum |
Frightened? Hardly, merely pointing out yet another contradiction.
And Nostradamus would be chilling, if he had used concise description, as opposed to the vague prose in a language already dead in... |
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Life & Deathwhat defines life
63 Posts • 18343 Views Philosophy Forum |
It is not the case that we must "first be anthropomorhpic" - Kant showed decisively that the conceptual frameworks with which we think are ineluctably so. And I'm sorry, but to say that... |
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Famous PhilosophersSocratic and Platonic philosophies
34 Posts • 10320 Views Philosophy Forum |
This response is a tragic cocktail of hostility and charlatanism. You leave unimpugned the most salient parts of my argument, and your thinly veiled
jibes, since you know absolutely nothing about me,... |
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GodWhy did God create the universe
119 Posts • 39474 Views Philosophy Forum |
I really liked the old mystical "illusion of the world" idea that The Matrix converted into a modern, technological concept. A truly inspired idea. But I only liked it in the first movie. It... |
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God in ReligionThe Problem of Evil
202 Posts • 41773 Views Religion Forum |
One must associate oneself with logic for a moment and disassociate oneself from mysticism. If humans have choices, how can the universe and humans in the universe operate according to God's divi... |
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Christianity2 Candidates for Jesus's daddy - you pick...! ;)
19 Posts • 5941 Views Religion Forum |
It's really curious that with so little comment there are still the prevailing questions and answers going on with the other religon-"threads"... .
Is it too final to address the iron... |
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Do ghosts exist??
2 Posts • 2547 Views Science & Technology Forum |
I don't kno what a ghost is. I'm skeptical though. I think a lot is just people making money from stuff- or their belief in mysticism is quite far fetched! I don't think spirit's s... |
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Famous PhilosophersSocratic and Platonic philosophies
34 Posts • 10320 Views Philosophy Forum |
well witten, if ive collected your ideas correctly. it would appear that you believe there is no reason for there to be a higher 'dimension' of existence because that dimension has no proof... |
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Famous PhilosophersSocratic and Platonic philosophies
34 Posts • 10320 Views Philosophy Forum |
LOL!...I like you, Kid...But, honestly, I'm probably in alot better shape than you--physically and mentally--and I probably don't look much older...Alas! It's my curse. But I do like yo... |
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ConsciousnessThe Divided Quantum and the Implicate Order
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I have for some time been interested in what comes after quantum theory -- what is beyond it -- and how this relates to the human nervous system. Pilot Wave theory and David Bohm's "Implicat... |
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Famous PhilosophersSocratic and Platonic philosophies
34 Posts • 10320 Views Philosophy Forum |
I don't want to be patronising - you are after all a lot older than me - but... is this serious? Like most bombastic things, this is interesting, and you deserve to be applauded for that. You obv... |
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God in ReligionIf god exist why doesn't he show himself to the world?
145 Posts • 33780 Views Religion Forum |
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of... |
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SocietyKhat, your thourghts?
22 Posts • 6159 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
ChrisD -
I would be more than happy to elaborate as far as I am able...
You may be familiar with the synaptic gap... they teach about it in the first year of psychology...
this is where elect... |
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The Zero Conjecture
10 Posts • 4000 Views Philosophy Forum |
Human beings are drawn to simplicity. We have an intuition that no matter how intractable a problem may seem it must ultimately be reducible. And as to confirm our hunch the path of enquiry has led us... |
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Astrology, Myth Or Magic?
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i do not have alot of time to write this post so i will be brief. I have studdied mysticism for years and have read alot of books on the many aspects of this subject. I am ashamed to say that the book... |
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Physics & CosmologySomething out of nothing
40 Posts • 8862 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Could science survive without reference to sense-experience?
Well, you need to ask someone deprived of sense experience. Scientific thought can exist within a mind independent of sense experience.... |
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ChristianityExcerp: America is not a Christian Nation
155 Posts • 43795 Views Religion Forum |
Ekimup, it is very refreshing, and welcomed, to have an intelligent debate.
Concerning the rights of gays, we will have to agree to disagree. Our morals, though so similar in many ways, do differ s... |
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Science vs ReligionScience: The One True Religion
27 Posts • 7223 Views Religion Forum |
Good points: just think a little deeper. Theres a big but, we have to be careful what we consider religion, what we consider science, what we consider art, what we consider philosophy. I think psychol... |
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Life & DeathWhat happens after death?
107 Posts • 90996 Views Philosophy Forum |
Eotw has said what I would say. Those facts are universal and plain as day. People who embrace any type of mysticism in regards to that are just madlib'ing "unconscious" and "decom... |
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