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BiologyScience versus Instinct
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Ok, lets start with the term 'instinct', to help settle some confusion. "Instinct' means the inherent disposition of a living organism toward a particular behavior. Instinct is pre... |
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Gender PsychologyChances are high when it comes to rape
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Under Canadian law, consent is deemed not to be obtained if:
"the agreement is expressed by the words or conduct of a person other than the complainant", or
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Nature & GeographyAre natural disasters more frequently nowadays?
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The rate of the current extinction wave appears to be greater in comparison to the last five great waves of extinctions. Recent temperature, precipitation and sea level fluctuations are causing the sh... |
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EconomyEducate Yourself About Money
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Is it really fair to say that building societies were part of a socialist labor movement? They were formed by the people under conditions of free enterprise because of a demand for low interest loans... |
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Human Nature & EmotionOptimism VS happiness
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Optimism is, in my view, pretty much synonymous with "hope" -- the optimist is hopeful that the future will be either better or at least no worse than the present. Hope is a fundamental comp... |
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Life & Deathwhat defines life
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You're right, actually. And wrong as well.
Look: Socrates is a hero of mine, chiefly because he showed that a rational man is, at bottom, a virtuous man. He gave himself to reason, granting h... |
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Godreincarnation
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I posted this remark about my thoughts on death in a previous thread:
"Life and death are so much more complex than we ordinarily think...and the concept of linear time with respect to life af... |
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Can science explore nothingness?
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"If there was SOME 'spot' in the universe that occupies 'nothingness' then where is this spot?"
-This is my point exactly. There is no such spot. If there were a spot of... |
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Physics & CosmologyPhilosophical Science questions of the sci -fi kin
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What creates heat? It takes two elements to make water, how could the big bang [theory or possibility or fact] happen without heat, maybe a reaction of gaseous elements, is it possible that two elemen... |
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SocietyWould society be better without money?
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So one recession and half a decade later, have your thoughts changed about that notion?
Good response Cswriter. I think the real question is: what would replace money? The answer, to me, seems unfa... |
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HistoryAncient Astronaut Theory
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To extend information on Decius' last post:
Chlorella...
' ;Chlorella is a genus of single-celled green algae'
'Chlorella contains the green photosynthetic pigments chloroph... |
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SocietyAtlas Shrugged a Cynical Review
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I do not see a necessary problem with a centralised economy at all. Just because it has failed in the past.
Capitalism has failed the majority of the population. In this sense it has never been a suc... |
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Is there anything you shouldn't educate children?
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But it only takes one to change.
It can take one instance and one person to start it, but it takes a society to change a society.
Large school shooting are one of the reasons i tend to think tha... |
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GovernmentLet The Proceeding Begin
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www.democracynow.org/article.p l?sid=05/06/24/1348249 Friday, June 24th, 2005
UN Investigators Accusing U.S. of Torture At Guantanamo
A team of United Nations human rights investigators said Thursda... |
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End of "the World"...
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Yup, what a lot of people wonder about, myself included. I mean society-wise, not Earth-wise. It has to come at some point. Whether the world ends with an explosion of the sun(which I don't think... |
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Habits & BehaviorShort Men
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sorry that last post didn't really look as good as i had hoped--i typed it up real quick like, cause i was gonna be late for work.
basically, im for equality--short people, tall people, black,... |
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DrugsAcid as a Catalyst
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Writing in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, the Johns Hopkins researchers note that most of the 36 volunteer subjects given psilocybin, under controlled conditions in a Hopkins study published in 20... |
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GovernmentProp 8: A Different Approach
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Okay so in the wake of the religious arguments and the linguistic arguments, (and those arguments aside) I thought I would take a look at this proposition from the legal/democratic aspect. So bear wit... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismO no, Atheism
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Yes, evolution could be God's way of creating. In fact, if God exists, then evolution must be God's way of creating -- since it appears that evolution is a fact whether God exists or not. Ho... |
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Human Nature & EmotionOptimism VS happiness
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You have some control over some of the conditions in which happiness is likely to occur, but setting the conditions you have control over doesn't guarantee happiness, but just increases the proba... |
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Random QuestionsInteresting Things
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Post here if you find something interesting, be it a website or a particular article, and think it's worth sharing.
For instance, I found this website quite a while ago.
www.wefeelfine.or... |
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainThe Train of Thought…
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The idea basically centres around a nearly literal train of thought…
Where the rails for the train are the neural passageways, the trains are the chemicals that travel the passageways and the n... |
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The universe is finite
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x We can only "see" about 14 billion light-years in every direction from the Earth to the cosmic light horizon (or in other words, anything that might exist beyond this horizon we can't... |
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SocietyUnlocking Human Potential
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i just made a couple of researches on it
( i'll get into it more later)
Descartes saw it as the gland that unites the immortal soul and the body. It is high in Melatonin(darkness hormone) sec... |
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GovernmentDemocracy Disrobed
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It is a curiosity of history that no sacred text as per democracy exists. There are histories (potted or comprehensive) and there are theoretical tomes, but none (so far as I can see) which serve as m... |
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