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Reality & MetaphysicsQuestioning Reality: Are we for "Real"?
118 Posts • 36454 Views Philosophy Forum |
Plato 2003, questioning reality, asks: "Are we really for real?"
There has been a lot of discussion on this topic, some of it quite good. At this point I'd like to attempt a definiti... |
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ConspiracyExcerp: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
214 Posts • 62355 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
See, I wouldn't even be worried if I knew that things were gonna end up like the matrix or something, thats a far better fate than the things I tend to see in our history.
I'm not too wor... |
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DreamsThe Mind Portal...An Un-Researched New Discovery
37 Posts • 21187 Views Psychology Forum |
Regarding foreign substances and other warnings, I wrote about this in the first book I wrote about the Mind Portal. I suppose I can dig up what I wrote and place it here:
Note: Caution is strongly... |
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i need opinion please on a story
7 Posts • 2827 Views Talk Talk |
P.s chiron: as a mathematician I would contest there is no distinction between reality and abstraction.
True, but in the experience of everyday life a distinction is made between abstract thought... |
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SocietyControlling the masses
10 Posts • 3587 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Religion – an effort to brainwash the populous into a similar belief and creating a bond between members of said religion to unify and stabilize the population. Yes, religious beliefs does help to f... |
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Life & DeathWhat happens after death?
107 Posts • 90913 Views Philosophy Forum |
"Um, not necessarily. I can create I finite baby, but myself am also finite."
I'm sorry - I meant first cause - ultimate cause. A finite object can not be the First Cause of a finite... |
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IslamMocking Muslims and "Virgins in Heaven"
0 Posts • 4379 Views Religion Forum |
Both Islam and Christianity result in the possibility of the populace being manipulated for political reasons,
*clown* which makes them dangerous cults.
Budhism, for example, is a perfect example... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsThe Matrix Is Real
123 Posts • 36535 Views Philosophy Forum |
Take a look around you. Ignorance is everywhere. Do you think that the average human can grasp this concept and would so willingly...that the world could have been intelligently designed by another fo... |
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Ethics & MoralityToward a Definition of Evil Crimes
1 Posts • 3258 Views Philosophy Forum |
A forensic psychiatrist and associate professor of psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine has been trying to standardize definitions of evil crimes based on a societal consensus at http://www.deprav... |
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CREATION OF UNIVERSE
4 Posts • 3209 Views Talk Talk |
The Universe and its elements : all the galaxies, stars, planets, asteroids, the Milky Way, the Sun, the Earth, the Moon and billions of other immense bodies are rotating and revolving in excellent ha... |
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Life & DeathLife, Already Planned?
62 Posts • 24062 Views Philosophy Forum |
I haven't read all this thread in a bit but coming from the last couple....
God's perception of the future isn't the issue, God's control over everything is. And how it is pre d... |
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GovernmentSocial Security
4 Posts • 3581 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
And I for one would love to have the governments retirement funds abolished. Call me small minded, but the fact they are getting huge retirement funds off our taxes
small minded, but the fact they a... |
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Chinese People
5 Posts • 1906 Views Talk Talk |
Here is a nice definition of racism taken from wikipeia: Types of racism
Further information: Race (historical definitions)
In practice, racism takes forms such as racial prejudice, segregation or... |
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social mobility in the class system
15 Posts • 5395 Views Philosophy Forum |
The ideal capitalist society would normally have lots of mobility both ways. I think the mobility we have now is fairly good. There are plenty of stories of rich aristocratic families turning into poo... |
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Getting an old car back in shape
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Well the first thing you should do is drive it to get all the old gas out of the tank. The Idle problem can be caused be old/bad fuel in the fuel system.
As for the smoke it really depends to what... |
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Religion & HumanityReligion fear tactics
30 Posts • 7259 Views Religion Forum |
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"no matter how old, is personally exempt from all labor and services and receives a free ride at the expense of the general public."
Any system is sustainable to abuse.
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Life & DeathPHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
5 Posts • 3375 Views Philosophy Forum |
THEORY....inorganic=mental / emotional; organic = physical, atomic.... which came first? The chicken or the egg? answer: The chicken originated as a thought-form. Through repeated cycllic sequencing o... |
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Internet terms
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Internet Terminology
If your like me an internet fanatic of sorts you may have become somewhat irritated be the rediculous terminology. Most hated is the cyber-this and the cyber-that very annoying... |
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GovernmentDoes the goverment have rights to penalis those it
67 Posts • 17232 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Ok, a system in where politicians have seriously limited power, they only convey what the population says, they have no other power nor position. If people dont like something, they write to the gover... |
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ElectionsJust watched another John Kerry master plan
27 Posts • 6535 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Honestly I haven't heard much on the draft issue, so I can't say, sounds bad, but so does war, and we already have a double helping of that, some of which makes some sense, but its that very... |
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Physics & CosmologyLunacy & Science
17 Posts • 7395 Views Science & Technology Forum |
"Of course I run into the same problem {No?} After all the earth's spin axis & the moon's rotational axis are the same? Now, the moon doesn't spin so the face (light side?) is... |
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Nature & GeographyWho Gets the Flat Earth Award
6 Posts • 3660 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Remember when you posted this:
"Climate researchers are warning that efforts to reduce air pollution could, if not well designed, make global warming worse. Limiting emissions of man-made nitr... |
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Human Nature & EmotionThe power of thought.
10 Posts • 5033 Views Philosophy Forum |
If I understand correctly you are arguing how we choose the value of certain thoughts over others, according to a belief system we also choose. And that is what give certain thoughts power. I asume wh... |
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GovernmentNo More Rubber Stamp Politics
12 Posts • 3813 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Great but a problem exist with our system. We tend to elect those who are best at deceiving the most people, not because of their honest desire & ability to serve the people.
We don't just... |
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Constituion poorly enforced
7 Posts • 3236 Views Talk Talk |
Ok first off, religion, by default, should not be forced on anyone. So if the parents are insistant about going to church/temple/mousk and their kids are too young to be left at home, they're goi... |
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