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Religion & HumanityHas religion done more harm then good?
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http://www.captaincynic.com/th read/75930/bad-things-by-chris tians.htm
It does come up a lot. The answer to my mind is a bit like saying do people do more harm than good? Because it is people that... |
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Science vs ReligionScience gives proof of God.
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Booky I really like that you made a thread like this because we're coming to a time in our evolution that we have to renew our ideas of what religion really is.
I highly doubt the ones respon... |
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Riddles & PuzzlesSolve Buriden's Ass
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AgentChaos, The argument about freewill is an age old philosophical one. If there is freewill, then you cannot have prophesy, prediction, nor a deterministic universe. Therefore a most of the world�... |
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Emotions & Feelingsare emotions what define human beings?
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Here's another possibility or furtherance of the above possibility...
Above the suggestion is that we were created to be a part of the "free will experiment". What if we have chosen... |
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Philosophy Needs a Visceral Connection
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Philosophy Needs a Visceral Connection
The visceral (instinctive, unreasoning, and 'earthy') domain of human reality is not exclusively the domain of intellection but is a partnership with the crud... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismHands up if you are an atheist
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I agree with leftwood.
I don't think idea of "atheism" can be applied, it's just another philosophical idea. Agnosticism, on the other hand, makes more sense. I think all atheis... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismThe last leg for Atheism
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Ancient and Summit
Let's take this from your point of view. Let's say that for arguments sake that there is no God. Let's say that you are both right. The question that neither of yo... |
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Famous PhilosophersCritique of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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It may be asked whether impudent perversity or idle vanity impelled me to write, let alone submit, the following article. I can only attest to what my powers of insight tell me, that this work sprung... |
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Religion & HumanityWhy I don't preach anymore
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Decius: Probability is a measure of the degree of belief that any well-defined proposition (an event) will turn out to be true. I recommend you to read into Bayesian probability and/or subjective prob... |
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Human Nature & EmotionHaTe
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I've felt this sort of feeling before as well. I consider this to be a good place to start your life over. Obviously you are not happy with the current state of your existence, and you most likel... |
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DrugsThe timeless infatuation with drugs
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Well, you are right, drug use is a timeless activity that has been going on for a lot longer than some people choose to recognize. Modern recreational drug use, like pot, is typically an activity pick... |
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Religion & HumanityIs Budhism a religion or philosophy?
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Ok Decius you said
"Obviously your definition of being a "Christian" is different than what my definition is, and is more different than the average definition of a Christian than my... |
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Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeConstant Truth
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I don't belevie that any of us can wright anything down here, and have it be presented as a final truth in our society. Shure we could write that "murder" is wrong. And we would mostly... |
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Conscious and Sub-ConsciousThe Source of My Evil
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There's a deep philosophical/religious dilemma I keep coming to in my life. I am in a cycle or pattern where things seem to go well for a while and I feel like I'm gaining traction and contr... |
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Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeThe Price of Wisdom
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So...what the hell is a philosopher?
Main Entry: phi-los-o-pher
Pronunciation: f&-'lä-s(&-)f&am p;r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, modification of Middle French philosophe,... |
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Conditon of the average American
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I am a prison guard. Our uniform intails long sleve shirts. And it is because of this that no one I work with has yet seen my tattoes. But today I rolled my sleves up. I have a riseing sun on each of... |
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The "What probably is = what is" fallacy
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Lol, I think this last post of yours is the most absurd of all!
Your need to assert a philosophical idea ("all that is certain is death", "there are no absolute truths, just percepti... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsWhy do we exist?
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I wouldn't be surprised if a super old civilization from another galaxy came close by on an experimental quest. Find the nearest capable and/or habitable planet even at a molecular level and star... |
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Life & DeathWhat would I Die For? Heaven (Forbid)
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In a world shorn of the soothing sooth of God, in a midday sky with a star but no sun, in an age when the telly is man's telos - what do we say? - that Nietzsche was perhaps right? - that Camus w... |
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Emotions & Feelingsare emotions what define human beings?
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Interesting. That's a concept that I hadn't considered before... who were we all at the very beginning, when we were created? My first thought is that we were all created as equal souls with equal pot... |
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Life & DeathWhat happens after death?
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i've thought about this for a long time, and the most logical thing to me(it ties in with a lot of my other philosophical theories, which i don't really want to write out) is that time cease... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsThought and Reality
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I man once explained a theory to me which in essence is that thought becomes real but usually on a different plain/dimension alternate reality he did an experiment wherein he created a simple room in... |
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ChristianityScientific Proof of the Bible vs Theories
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Yeah it did rain frogs, the amusing joke in Magnolia if you've seen it. ;)
Here's another theory: Hope is an evolutionary advantageous trait for the human race, as it has already proven t... |
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Movie ReviewAnyone see Donnie Darko?
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That was definitely one of the themes.
While I enjoyed the social aspect of the movie and its commentary on life, I spent most of my time trying to figure out the whole time travel aspect of the mo... |
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Life & Deathwhat is your theory on life?
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I find what you say to be wise ekiump. However sadness must take it's part in all philosophy's because it is a part of man. One can not just take parts he finds appelling and use them only,... |
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