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GovernmentOccupy Wall Street
33 Posts • 8485 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Capitalism can work but it would require a greater self-awareness throughout the general population than there currently is.
If the focus of everyone is purely on themselves then the greater pictur... |
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God in ReligionDoes GOD Not Existed?
171 Posts • 42114 Views Religion Forum |
To put it bluntly, since I have joined captain cynic, by far this has turned out be the worst thread. It's like everyone is having a petty school argument. Majority of the people here are just vo... |
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BooksTwo Kinds of Color
4 Posts • 3018 Views Talk Talk |
i had intended that my last post would be my last. but i was so touched by this post. i am from canada and was adopted into a multi race family. my wife and i adopted a child from the states of africa... |
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The Pain Project
1 Posts • 3273 Views Promotional |
http://www.davidbain.org/pain
The Pain Project is an international, interdisciplinary research project focused on relations amongst pain, perception, and emotion, as well as pain in non-human anima... |
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War & TerrorismIraq buildings NOT burning.
42 Posts • 12051 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
I hate to be so glib, but each soldier that signed up for duty, did it because they wanted to be a part of our freedoms, and fight for their own, and everyone elses freedoms.
The parents who lost,... |
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Self-centered or introspective?
28 Posts • 16524 Views Philosophy Forum |
"I can talk to any adult for hours, and pray to one day find some people my age to actually hold good and meaningful discussions with."
Don't stress, go with what works, you'll... |
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Free Will
33 Posts • 9422 Views Philosophy Forum |
lol. Then then lawyers would make less money....It would also mean it wouldn;t just be them who knew how to bend the rules. . .Good idea! :P
I like the idea of a booklet for foreigners; they would... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismAtheist Wins Right to Wear "Religious Pasta Strainer" in ID Photo
2 Posts • 3684 Views Religion Forum |
This Austrian Athiest - Niko Alm - has just won a three year battle against authorities for the right to wear a pasta strainer on his head as religious head gear for his drivers license photo.
Niko... |
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HistoryAquatic Ape Hypothesis
21 Posts • 12155 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Okaaaaayy, :D
1. If you don't care, I don't either. :)
2. EVERY animal has a layer of adipose directly under the skin. How bout you the google that word and have a bit of a read before y... |
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Society & SociologyRacism on SNL
0 Posts • 14665 Views Psychology Forum |
Unfortunatly I do not watch any of the recent SNL episodes. (I perfer the comedy central old school stuff). Yet I have seen a lot of SNL and it might have changed with the new cast, I can't reall... |
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Society & SociologyMy American nightmare
34 Posts • 89929 Views Psychology Forum |
101. Sniper case
I think the sniper case was done by government insider. It's a case similar to anthrax attack. I believe it was done by law enforcement agency. The anthrax attack was done to... |
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About You / IntroductionsWhat's In Your Name?
92 Posts • 26912 Views Talk Talk |
ehhh......mine doesn't really make sense when you break it down, which makes it more like slang.
Pent up - enclosed, restrained from willful movement
Entropy - A study of chaos as related to... |
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Kahlil Gibran Discussion on one writing of his pro favor? (No it is not in espanol)
17 Posts • 9348 Views Philosophy Forum |
well...heres a poem for you by Rabindranath Tagore, another poet/philosopher they fed our brains while we were at school. Btw i'm going to be visiting Gibran Khalil Gibrans homevillage/Bcharre ne... |
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Child & Family PsychologyInescapable Human Emotion
27 Posts • 6642 Views Psychology Forum |
Secondary emotiona versus primary emotion. Very interesting.
So, if I have been taught to need a strong male not myself (i.e. my father) then I can teach myself that i don't need it.
Here'... |
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ChristianityTwo more Popes shall reign and the End is come
33 Posts • 14217 Views Religion Forum |
According to some scholars, the list is a fraud, possibly made by a school of Jesuits in the 1600's, and claims as evidence the clear mottos mentioned up until that time, and the 'stretching' to fill... |
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why continue?
63 Posts • 20544 Views Philosophy Forum |
Hello all. Gem here in New Mexico, USA.
Why why why asks why we should continue living, and what is the purpose of "existence"?
For me, as Erik has stated, the purpose of living is to... |
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Society & SociologyThe mentality of a soldier
0 Posts • 7803 Views Psychology Forum |
If only such philosophies could be applied to reality.
You're not some illegitimate child of a mother who can't even support herself because the job she has doesn't even make it to the... |
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Kids these days!
29 Posts • 6704 Views Talk Talk |
suicide is a complicated thing though, because the person commiting it is generally gonna be clinicly depressed, which can be hard for parents to figure out, especially during teen years when kids hav... |
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Phone Etiquette
3 Posts • 2835 Views Talk Talk |
I am a helpdesk agent I work in a call center environment. My job is to help people over the phone with computer related issues. Unfortunately the client I am assigned to is State Users. I've als... |
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Please read
15 Posts • 3563 Views Philosophy Forum |
--------------------yess- the wordiness is quite unbecoming. I had the concept but it was too large for me to fully interpret into sufficient wording.(at the time...i was trying to go to bed.-so) i un... |
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Cesspool of our youth
14 Posts • 4643 Views Philosophy Forum |
I had this posted on a different site...but hardly any replies. Hopefully I'll get some here.
What do you get when an old friend shows up in town with a full bag of zooms? A fucked up night of... |
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Which bands did you grow up on?
9 Posts • 2650 Views Talk Talk |
I feel ya on this one Oblivion! Me and my younger sister used to listen to all that crap, N'sync, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears. A little while before that my older sister had an Ace of Base ta... |
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The "What probably is = what is" fallacy
31 Posts • 9249 Views Psychology Forum |
You're going to hate me for this I know.
The only way I can think of to illustrate this scenario the best is to imagine a civilization of people who were blind from birth. If this civilization... |
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Ethics & MoralityScience of Morality, Anyone?
1 Posts • 2310 Views Philosophy Forum |
Science of Morality, Anyone?
Where, in American culture, is the domain of knowledge that we would identify as morality studied and taught?
I suspect that if we do not quickly develop a science... |
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How do i cope with the death of a loved one
5 Posts • 5488 Views Talk Talk |
I am very sorry, to hear of your recent loss. I too recently lost a friend of mine...about 4 months ago. His name was JP Molenda....he died in a motorcycle accident, he was the rider. He struck a fami... |
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