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Aesthetics & BeautyBeauty
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Nature is the biggest one for me, and social events where everyone is laughing, in a way that is obvious and inclusive, genuinely friendly.
I love nature walks, trees, animals, and creeks or rivers... |
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Physics & CosmologyPhilosophical Science questions of the sci -fi kin
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What creates heat? http://www.captaincynic.com/th read.php3/thrdid=20300-u-frmid =21
What keeps the sun burning all the time? Some scientist believe the sun (interior as opposed to surface) exist in co... |
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Religion & HumanityWorld Religions:
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I will be as objective as possible.
If God is supposedly just, then He would not punish those whom He did not warn of eternal punishment. Are you sure you read your scriptures right? I thought reli... |
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Science vs ReligionIntellagentdesign
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Ancient: thats a very valid point.
cturtle: Your examples are well established and understood in evolutionary biology. "Odds" refer to logical statistical probability, something that is a... |
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Drugstrips (drugs)
54 Posts • 17626 Views
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Danny, although most would say no, the truth is walls do breathe? yes air circulation with in the wall & the environment.
The old wood frame houses were actually designed to allow the nature flow... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views
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23 October 2012
Mammatus Clouds Over Saskatchewan
Image Credit & Licence: Craig Lindsay, Wikipedia
Normal cloud bottoms are flat. This is because moist warm air that rises and cools will con... |
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Vegetarian or No?
58 Posts • 13734 Views
Talk Talk |
personally i think that the issue is not necessarily with the killing of the animal, but with how they are treated prior to death. i don't think there is anything morally wrong with killing for f... |
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PerceptionGravitating Towards Perspective
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Modern life is different from earlier time. Because of remarkable technical advances, information is burgeoning, choices and alternatives are expanding, and knowledge is exploding. I this avalanche of... |
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Anarchy... don't you need a rule for that?
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How does that fit with this:
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the idea behind anarchy is not to simply remove all the rules and watch the chaos begin... |
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LawDigressing to older methods of punishment
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The main reason they don't cut people's hands off for littering is because of the idea that the punishment should be commensurate to the crime (see the 8th Amendment "Excessive bail sha... |
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IslamContradictions in the Quran
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Been a while since we added to the thread so . . . The Quran wasn't revealed all in one day, but in pieces. So certain parts were revealed at certain times. was revealed to him at separate interv... |
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Ethics & MoralityWar - What The Hell Is It Good For
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Bush Sr didn't go to Baghdad. I suspect because he had seen the battlefield first hand and knew what he would be getting us into.
Bush Jr. however was unafraid to send us in harms way, because... |
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Religion & HumanityThe Meaning of Living
103 Posts • 24950 Views
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If I am correct, their neighbor, Aphganistan is a democracy. ;)
If I do not err in what I have read where Iraqi's have prayed and hoped for the americans to take control, written by Iraqi... |
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LawEmployers and Life Insurance
2 Posts • 2424 Views
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That has happened on movie sets and the director changes the movie to an extent to fit the event. The actor is also not getting paid the royalty and paycheck so that is money that is not being spent.... |
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Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeWhat is TRUE KNOWLEGE
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How do we KNOW there is no such thing as true knowledge?
(An annoying but apt question)
I believe there are 'givens'. Things that one intrinsically knows, but can never convey to another... |
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Religion & HumanityThe Meaning of Living
103 Posts • 24950 Views
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evolution - sometimes specified as 'macroevolution' - refers to one basic type transforming into another. Textbooks often describe adaptations that have taken place in biology - small changes within c... |
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FuturologyNature of Technology?
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Wisdomseeker, I am not versed in modern epistemology, nor am I well read in Jean-François Lyotard or Bruno Latour. However, I find that both of these modern French philosophers discount rational co... |
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Posting Movies and Other Files on CC
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Jokes & Games |
I\\\'ve been a member of CC board for a while, and I\\\'ve
noticed people posting picture and movie files. Most of the hosts use
they use allow only 100 MB, some even accept files only up... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views
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5 September 2012
Airglow Over Germany
Image Credit & Copyright: Jens Hackmann
Does air glow? It does, but it is usually hard to see. When conditions are right, however, a faint glow about 90... |
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Life & DeathVoluntary Human Extinction Movement
233 Posts • 131485 Views
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"Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less de... |
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Relationships & Lovefutility of romantic 'love'
76 Posts • 20485 Views
Psychology Forum |
for all that big talk, i had near breakdown conditions today.
after dealing with that one question and there seem to be no . i was weak and made the mistake of breaking the silence. and we went in... |
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Riddles & PuzzlesSolve Buriden's Ass
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Buriden's Ass.
Here's a problem devised to challenge ideas of free will and determinism.
An ass is hungry and can see two bales of identical straw, one the the left and one to the righ... |
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SocietyArguments for the prohibition of drugs
22 Posts • 9070 Views
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Personally I believe that Marijuana should be legalized, why? One it can't be fatal, doesn't cause anger (Not that I've seen...I have seen it cause paranoia, but I've seen the same... |
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HistoryPrehistoric Human Brain Found Pickled in Bog : Discovery News
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A brain in near-perfect condition is found in a body-less skull of a person who was decapitated over 2,600 years ago in England.
One of the world's best preserved prehistoric human brains was... |
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Life & Deathlonger life expectancy: good or bad?
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"Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?" Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. "This long." He snapped his fingers. "A second ago you were stepping into college... |
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