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War & TerrorismThis Nation is behind its leaders!
10 Posts • 2923 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Ok, here is something to keep in mind Tao. War readiness on an individual level is important to the survival of all. No matter how much one love's love and hate's war, if you are invaded by... |
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Poetry*Smiles with in Solitude*
202 Posts • 49162 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
My role, patient advocate. My title, basic guardian. My job... My job... I don't know anymore. I'm supposed to speak for the patient, but rarely, if ever, is there someone to listen. My mora... |
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Consciousnesswhat is free will?
20 Posts • 31950 Views Philosophy Forum |
Simply being able to weigh options and come to a decision does not mean you have free will, so saying that you chose not to run a red light because you'd possibly get in trouble, or chose to take... |
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Venting!!!!
28 Posts • 7073 Views Philosophy Forum |
"So why the fuck are all these damn people waiting for some physical God to come from the sky?"
God isnt presumed as a physical being..
Wise men dont intend to argue with fools, bu... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
94 Posts • 26943 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
im not comparing homosexuality..to murder.
Im comparing a serial killers psyche to a homosexuals.
though i agree-that until we "find a purpose". Or place for these homosexuals...then... |
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Emotions & FeelingsFear IS the problem
10 Posts • 3750 Views Psychology Forum |
In terms of basic survival for humans and other mammals, probably other animals too, fear is definitely an important motivating force. Pleasure is also important, though. There might be other motivati... |
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Life & DeathWhat is the soul?
194 Posts • 41743 Views Philosophy Forum |
Sub-conscious is definitely a better term to describe this part of us than instinct and agree with what you say about the sub-conscious mind. Intuition would have been my choice but I know that would... |
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The dilemma of Choice
9 Posts • 2958 Views Philosophy Forum |
I suspect "choice" is a matter of perception: A moment before, free will; a moment after, destiny. I suspect "choice" is an illusion -- that there is ALWAYS a reason that we make t... |
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GodOBVIOUS EXISTANCE OF GOD
64 Posts • 19086 Views Philosophy Forum |
"Well, assuming God exists-seen as how you do not have sufficient evidence and dont understand or know, you cannot take or use this argument."
What are you saying I don't know or und... |
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AnimalsDifferent Species Playing Together
9 Posts • 6701 Views Science & Technology Forum |
After watching videos of cats and dogs playing together, cats and birds being friendly, a bird patting a cat, a chimpanzee bottle feeding a tiger baby, a cockatoo feeding spaghetti to a dog, polar bea... |
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GovernmentJesus for President?
45 Posts • 9507 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
"Peace is not a force, and that is why it will lose, you cannot keep peace in the face of adversity without violating peace or just dying as you are invaded."
I believe it is a force, jus... |
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Ethics & MoralityInherently Good or Evil?
15 Posts • 12880 Views Philosophy Forum |
I think Jali sufficiently answered Billyboy so I'm not going to add. However I would like to take into account that the existence of good and evil outside of the human mind is purely fictitious.... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
94 Posts • 26943 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
"No, an irrational reaction does not take precidence over innocuous existing reality. Just because some people fear the dark does not mean there should be no darkness... or clowns (though clowns... |
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FuturologyChance Theory of Evolution
8 Posts • 2990 Views Philosophy Forum |
I don't agree with the term, adapted, to the environment. Evolution appears to not be the striving for a species to reproduce offspring and some how dictate them to be more efficient or superior. But... |
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Life & DeathLIFE AFTER DEATH QUESTION
13 Posts • 3685 Views Philosophy Forum |
It seems to me that this "thing" that you speak which may survive after death is consciousness, awareness, and evolution, as it's called, may be more complex than it seems. I once read... |
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BiologyChimps - are they really that close to us?
13 Posts • 4344 Views Science & Technology Forum |
I don't see violence as a differentiating factor, as a matter of fact I find such a notion silly.
Strong pair bonding, a romantic notion that at its roots has little solid basis, and comes fro... |
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People hate vegetarians
104 Posts • 31548 Views Talk Talk |
{ in response to Joel:-
"Man who cares."
I do. For one. I'm vastly outnumbered I know. There's a heck of an echo in here, but I surely do care - a lot.
"So we eat fuc... |
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God in ReligionThe God Thread
158 Posts • 41700 Views Religion Forum |
What do you think life would be if they hadn't done this. Do you ever stop to think of what this life of Adam and Eve consists of? I don't have a clear memory of what exactly was stated to d... |
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HistoryAquatic Ape Hypothesis
21 Posts • 12129 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Interesting theory at least. Got a couple of thoughts to share.
1. Was it perhaps hunt for fish back then and the sensation of weightlessness that now make us take pleasure in it?
3. The dense... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
94 Posts • 26943 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
you mention earlier that other relationships with problems..or w/e-could have just as easily been homos.( because they were dysfunctional..and so on.)
I'm not sure what you are saying, but... |
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Child & Family PsychologyDenial
32 Posts • 12113 Views Psychology Forum |
It seems your only grateful for your physical survival, they have actually taught you more than you know. Namely how to not live life in a narrow corridor of thought, like them.
Let me respond to t... |
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Relationships & Lovefutility of romantic 'love'
76 Posts • 20400 Views Psychology Forum |
so then, as per your model what happens when the hunter meets the mother and vice versa. do all the allurements of society become invisible ? does the beast die altogether ? are these mutually exclusi... |
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Relationships & Lovefutility of romantic 'love'
76 Posts • 20400 Views Psychology Forum |
i think instinct is self driven and morals are superimposed byt others.
a child sees a candy in a store and reaches out for it instinctively. but the mother stops the child - its not yours and so u... |
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LawEvolution vs Creationism
19 Posts • 6327 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
"I don't know much about it, but I watched a documentary where they were talking about certain cells or components of cells or something where there are five different parts of the machine t... |
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Life & Deathorigin of life(through the eyes of nonliving beings
1 Posts • 2805 Views Philosophy Forum |
When somebody is studying the phenomenon of viruses ,he can see that when viruses are not coming in contact with a host organism , they are a sum of chemical compounds that not fulfill the criteria to... |
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