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GovernmentSocial Security
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A friend emailed this to me...
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT, CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERAL!
2008 Election Issue!!
GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECUR... |
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How are you?
9 Posts • 3454 Views
Philosophy Forum |
Disenchanted - I went through a very VERY similar experience about two years ago, junior year of high school. Let me tell you that throwing your garbage to the curb now is the best thing for you. Ther... |
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SpiritualityWhat happens after we die?
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All emotions can be given evolutionary origins I use "good mate" as meaning healthy strong men, beautiful women or politically powerful/wealthy men :
- embarassment occurs when your rank in... |
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BiologyPreliminaries to Social Advancement and Intelligence?
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I was thinking about how humans came to become so intelligent and socially advanced as compared to animals. With this observation, this must mean certain preliminaries exist before social advancement... |
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GovernmentPoltical Philosophy
3 Posts • 3234 Views
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you are absolutely right, i always thought that philosophers should be in control of thinking a way through the social, but i think politics has always been about economical, territorial power strateg... |
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Emotions & FeelingsThe Source of Guilt
6 Posts • 2404 Views
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"You can't recognise yourself and live in harmony"
I find this to be a very interesting statement and I like the way you are thinking. Yes I believe you are right when you talk about t... |
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EconomyStock market and social security
23 Posts • 8116 Views
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Well, lets see first they garnish wages to (profit) provide for retirement social security. They transfer those funds to meet their needs then when they can't repay.
So now they want you to inve... |
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Society & Sociologyfashion
26 Posts • 8565 Views
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i've got to admit that i changed the way i dress quite a lot recently, however, i still dont really think i dress in any particular fashion, though i did change because i thought the wat i dresse... |
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Religion & HumanityAn answer
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very very good question. Thank you heyjme1, you have striked a nerve in me, because I was thinking exactly the same thing last night.
To me yes, thought is a form of matter. All matter is physical.... |
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Rehab & AddictionAlcohol vs. Marijuana
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Health & Wellness Forum |
smoked since 5th grade. im not addicted. i can go for months without smoking its really not a big deal. i remember in school when all these kids would be talking about it like it was some kind of soci... |
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SocietySOCIAL SCIENCE: DEVIL'S ALLIANCE?
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The physicist Richard Feymman famously questioned the credibility of the social sciences, suggesting that they deal with phenomena too complex for the theories they fashion. Is this true? Surely not.... |
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Human Nature & EmotionLove
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Ah...love, love....the quintessential modern pastime.
Love?
An evolutionary product produced to deal with the already existing fight/flight mechanism.
An emotion, a sensation, found amongst s... |
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GodGod Life and Mind
41 Posts • 9768 Views
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i feel that everyone believes in the same god which is the existance of life. do you agree?
Yes in the sense that all beliefs in a 'God' are a social construction. But, No, for the follow... |
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HinduismSexism within Hinduism
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With respect to the manu smriti, let me first explain that this is a smriti , and not a Shruti.
The Shruti are the eternal spiritual teachings in the Vedas, while the Smritis are social customs cre... |
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We all talk about a better way
13 Posts • 3011 Views
Talk Talk |
I am in the middle of my self claimed journey. i got the idea to live a life void of everything that causes stress which in turn makes us insecure. i am going to keep a daily journal and take life as... |
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GovernmentWhy Today's "Conservatives" Cannot
12 Posts • 3717 Views
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Maggy Thatcher and Ronald Reagan brought great revivals of conservatism.
Both of them challenged the power of the unions and brought them down.
In fact, I think the word 'conservative'... |
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Science vs ReligionEVOLUTION
226 Posts • 63411 Views
Religion Forum |
True, we are different. But it seems (at least to me) that parts of us are so animal like to think we are different is silly.
Like many social animals, social status is of incredible importance to us... |
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Homosexualityborn gay
182 Posts • 45873 Views
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how to gays harm?
how do gay harm mor than reigious fantatisim?
how do gays harm more than the man who bears up his wife?
how do gays harm more than abolihment of contracption?
how do gays har... |
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Society & SociologyGOD and goofy belief systems.
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God, I just lost 30 minutes of typing. Okay, here it goes again:
When I made my original post I had a very specific subject in mind. That subject is SOCIAL ENGINEERING.
You're probably sayi... |
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AliensWhy do people assume Alien lifeforms are smarter than us?
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Does "smartness" really make us better or worse than an possible aliens out there?
Would an alien be better at art, music, or social life than us?
We're the only race on are planet... |
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Order
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When is something conscious? That's a very difficult question. For me, consciousness is basically just knowing that oneself exists. How do we know the AI (dolphin/chimp/whatever) knows it exists?... |
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God in ReligionGod Is Greater Than My Understanding
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Because there is no logical reason why you should believe an omnipotent supernatural being created life. We should have a logical reason to believe not a duty. There are many other reasons of course,... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
94 Posts • 26983 Views
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If homosexuality is a choice, (not based on a genetic predisposition towards homosexuality), it makes several blaring declarations about the individual's perspective towards traditional membershi... |
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SocietyAtlas Shrugged a Cynical Review
28 Posts • 9295 Views
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Hobbes: very much agreed, though I would not have used the word 'aggrandizing.' I was trying, perhaps to hard, to stay on topic (Rand). It perhaps should be a separate topic. That does not n... |
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GodGod Life and Mind
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'God' is a social construction |
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