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Godreincarnation
28 Posts • 13913 Views Philosophy Forum |
Hmm, I wrote an essay about this a short while ago.
Anyhoo, Buddha says:
1. Ignorance is the condition for mental formation.
2. Mental formation is the condition for consciousness.
3. Conscio... |
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Intelligence, Memory & Brain4a.m. Terror
6 Posts • 2777 Views Psychology Forum |
I'd like to explore an unusual phenomenon within my own mind, primarily because I am curious as to whether others have had similar experiences.
It happens between the hours of 2:30 and 4:30 i... |
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EconomyWar on the Euro?
4 Posts • 2938 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
The T-shirts sold on this website..first go free enterprise...are confusing to me. Are they trying to say the Euro is some how better than the dollar in anything other than its market strength? Becaus... |
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ConsciousnessALTRUISM and SELFISHNESS
23 Posts • 26520 Views Philosophy Forum |
Altruism is a nice ideal, a nice idealistic spin to put on human behavior. But there's idealism, and there's reality. We do something because it meets our needs -- even if that need is to he... |
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Religion & HumanityThe Meaning of Living
103 Posts • 24871 Views Religion Forum |
If small bombs were attatched to children. If we didn't threaton war then those children wouldn't be strapped with bombs, if we didn't go to war they wouldn't have to use them. Wha... |
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BooksHave you achieved a sense of fulfillment?
21 Posts • 12072 Views Talk Talk |
Currently I am in school completing a joint major in economics and political science. I have found great reward in what I do although sometimes I don't. Sometimes I try things or different topics... |
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GodBecome Your God
11 Posts • 3464 Views Philosophy Forum |
"You completely misunderstood everything I said. I'm guessing you believe in originality and uniqueness, and I find that thought hilarious. The fact is, we have no original thoughts, we are... |
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GovernmentThe Anti-Bush Thread
0 Posts • 38348 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
In reality there can be no anti-Bush thread and pro-Bush thread, only a Bush thread and a thread for idiots.
I feel guilty belittling a mental midget.
Cutting Bush down to size should be easy, i... |
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What does God have to say about it?
10 Posts • 3752 Views Talk Talk |
TO: The teacher
NOTE:
Due to your simplistic theorizing and subjective conjecturing, the majority of your statements will
not be evaluated
The following is my evaluation of your two (2... |
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Physics & CosmologySomething out of nothing
40 Posts • 8799 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Oh, and as for infinity: I believe infinity is more a symptom of mental limitations, a kind of "curving of thought" as the external world seems to extend beyond our perception of three-dimen... |
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GovernmentKatrina and Bush
0 Posts • 3964 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Why did FEMA cut communications?
This would go along with other reports of Navy ships using electro magnetic interference to control all flow of information, telephones, cell phones, recording e... |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat Gods or Goddesses do you believe in
31 Posts • 9864 Views Religion Forum |
Well actually, I was commenting on a "conspiritorial" point made by okcitykid... which was in referrence to a movie, he is the one that added the reality based point.
"There's a... |
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GovernmentPro Communism in America
14 Posts • 18397 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Communism to me is essentially leaders leading a people but pretending not to be. Capitalism is the same but the leaders don't pretend. And on that basis, there is more truth in capitalism. Its j... |
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PerceptionI Find Myself Here
20 Posts • 7302 Views Psychology Forum |
does anyone know who created this server? or whoever hosts all these forums...(could it possibly be oriented this way for people just like us to ourselves give them our thoughts and kinda stay in chec... |
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ChristianityUnderstanding
1 Posts • 2672 Views Religion Forum |
'God works in mysterious ways'
To us, yes.
To Him, no:
God knows what 'he' does.
Therefore to get to God we must do so through understanding so that the mysterious is... |
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Is it so bad?
12 Posts • 3557 Views Talk Talk |
I'm at a crossroads on this issue, not for a freakin second would I ever desire everyone and or everything to be the same, but that is not the opposite of our "shit-hole" world, which o... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismAetheists Are Illogical
70 Posts • 24756 Views Religion Forum |
I LIVE THIS EFFING THREAD
I don't even think it's right to believe in the concept of God as one being maybe its just a force and we are all apart of it Agnostic to me is believing with c... |
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Life & DeathLife, Already Planned?
62 Posts • 24009 Views Philosophy Forum |
Yup i agree the Matrix Trilogy really got me thinking along those lines, even although i had been having similar thoughts before,the Matrix just clarified it.
Also the Terminator Films. The conclusi... |
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God in ReligionProve the existence of god
52 Posts • 12824 Views Religion Forum |
Don't get me wrong Ironwood I completely agree with you, especially when it comes to preachers and door to door pushers of religion. And yes I completely see the scientific, neurological evidence... |
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GovernmentThe Anti-Bush Thread
0 Posts • 38348 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Althoguh terrorism is a serious issue in the american community it will always be around as long as people see the great wealth of the united states.
True - and this was realized by the 9/11 commis... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsQuestioning Reality: Are we for "Real"?
118 Posts • 36378 Views Philosophy Forum |
the absence of self doesn't call for reason as much as the need for an answer.........Opinions are miniscule truths to each person.....answers are a truth to everybody, a universal truth.....If y... |
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Do we really exist?
31 Posts • 19012 Views Philosophy Forum |
Your thought parterns, and their subsequent accumulation of quantum/electric ghosts(Your Mind), have existed throughout all time, perhaps even lent form to this universe in some way
Care to elabora... |
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Framing: Thug, Terrorist, Pirate, any Difference?
3 Posts • 2191 Views Philosophy Forum |
A form of government wherein the citizen is sovereign one must have a citizenry that comprehends the facts. What we have learned is that the facts are often distorted by the framing of the issue. I su... |
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Christianitychristians?
110 Posts • 23982 Views Religion Forum |
Yes, I had better qualify what I mean by personal, before I am misunderstood.
It seems to me the religious order to which people generally ascribe themselves is a product of where and when they wer... |
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Society & SociologyIs Jail a mild form of torture
35 Posts • 11322 Views Psychology Forum |
Have you ever had a look back in history, at the history of punishment? If you did, did it phase you at all? Did you get the part about how those were people? At all? Burnt at the stake? Punishment is... |
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