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Reality & Metaphysics'reality'
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To say we are not part of an infinite entity is to say that something can exist other than an infinite entity, the thing about infinity is that it doesn't leave room for anything else. All things... |
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Negative...
15 Posts • 3681 Views Philosophy Forum |
Decius my understanding of Buddha is limited. From what I've read this is the impression i have gotten of him, Buddha walked the earth in search of the betterment of man though the betterment of... |
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ChristianityWhy does everyone have to be sinners
17 Posts • 5544 Views Religion Forum |
They had it all.
They were perfect, they had God teaching them, talking to them, giving them what they wanted, and they had the pleasure of sitting next to a tiger and not being eaten for lunch. ;)... |
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Poetry*Smiles with in Solitude*
202 Posts • 49222 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
Striding into the next room
I see ropes criscrossing before me
like a fatal spiderweb, all impossibly intertwined
with barely enough space between to squeeze.
All the strands pulled taught, tied a... |
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ChristianityMisrepresentation
81 Posts • 21453 Views Religion Forum |
parthenogenesis. It was explained to me once. Something about the female gene the woman already has. Its a freak thing, not very common, but has been known to happen.
I don't claim to be an ex... |
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Free Will
60 Posts • 14983 Views Philosophy Forum |
does it exist?
i personally think its an illusion--our brain causes us to be conscious and have a mind, and our brain acts according to its own wiring when a choice is made, and chemicals or whatever... |
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Science vs ReligionCreation or Evolution?
67 Posts • 18894 Views Religion Forum |
okcitykid:
Just because they're experts doesn't mean they are always right.
Can you justify this?
more healthier then anyone in the world
Wrong. What is your criteria for making thi... |
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ChristianityWas Christ really resurrected?
67 Posts • 17194 Views Religion Forum |
I remember now - It was Sturgeon who intruduced salvation by grace, I think it was the 1800s. A teaching that is now the norm, back then, un heard of. People traveled great distances just to hear him.... |
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No more SANTA
17 Posts • 6702 Views Talk Talk |
I really don't see a problem with telling kids about Santa. Kids believe many things, and when they get older they realize they made no sense. It's part of growing up. I wanted to be a super... |
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ChristianityThe Devil
7 Posts • 2860 Views Religion Forum |
I have read and been taught that the only unforgiveable sin in the bible is -
To blaspheme, not against God...
But to Blaspheme against the Holy Spirit.
This being the case - refer to an old... |
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Is there anything you shouldn't educate children?
28 Posts • 5924 Views Philosophy Forum |
Who's to decide whats enough. Well I'll tell you who, people who have dedicated their lifes to educating children and have spent more time on educating them selfs and spent more time then bo... |
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Selflessness vs. Selfishness
14 Posts • 15619 Views Philosophy Forum |
Extreme Selflessness is in my opinion higly self distructive, people dont take what they deserve, giving it over to undeserving ungrateful fools. I believe that we as human beings need to be both self... |
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PoetryOnce gone Two return
13 Posts • 6902 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
I move through my life without knowledge of why
Looking to the world, hoping for answers it might supply
Adopting ideals from sources of thought
Always learning but refusing to be taught
I have... |
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SpiritualityEnlightenment
7 Posts • 3617 Views Religion Forum |
I think Solomon is right under the condition that wisdom is information. Surely we must first see that the apple is red, then must understand that it is red, then know that it is red. Information thro... |
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Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeThe Use of Types of Thought
8 Posts • 8372 Views Philosophy Forum |
Bare with me, I'm not exactly sure how to express this.
The common examples of two types of thought are realistic vs idealistic thought. Realistic thought being how we actually observe the wor... |
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ChristianityWhy do teens find Chruch Boring?
50 Posts • 21389 Views Religion Forum |
Ok, on the point of teens...they are already unsettled in all facets of life.
This is where 'self discipline' becomes in gr8 need, and meditation could be just what they need.
Teens ar... |
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Science vs ReligionCreation or Evolution?
67 Posts • 18894 Views Religion Forum |
Ya know, I Live in Kansas....Here we have 2 major events...Brown V Board of Edu...and the Evolution/Creation theory...the latter very debatable...I'm proud to say that I was taught in my High Sch... |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
67 Posts • 16621 Views Religion Forum |
a person who is nihilist could kill themselves or they could simply live, it doesn't matter to us.
But why voluntarily submit yourself to pain that has no meaning?
I don't need to be... |
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Life & DeathI feel pointless.
19 Posts • 7628 Views Philosophy Forum |
I used to be busy building a life just as we're taught, but at some point I started to notice how hollow and empty it was, that I'm only maintaining a facade, and that I actually felt quite... |
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Who is you favorite teacher
11 Posts • 4918 Views Talk Talk |
"sorry if i butchered anyones name"
I doubt you have to worry, if there is something teachers are bound to have a great sympathy and understanding of, its butchering peoples names, every... |
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Is there anything you shouldn't educate children?
28 Posts • 5924 Views Philosophy Forum |
Wow, did you just snap like a twig.
Iron I would like to start off by saying that calling people names is childish and that i take little offense to them but if this is your method of debate then i... |
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Alternative BeliefsNovus Spiritus
4 Posts • 4883 Views Religion Forum |
A tenet as simple as "killing is wrong" must be liquid - it must be possible that killing is right, and protecting everyone from using this liquidity from exploitation is the tenet of logic... |
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Alternative BeliefsMormon
6 Posts • 4849 Views Religion Forum |
One of the reasons that the (Church of England) was appointed by the English King, Iwas out of his desire to divorce to remarry. Which may seem bad but then better than murder to remarry?
Banishing o... |
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Paranormal & PseudoscienceMEMES!!!!
12 Posts • 3601 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Memes are similar to parasites in the way that they are copied and spread, but a human still has the ability to choose to copy a meme. Some have become so ingrained in society that it would seem as th... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismAetheists Are Illogical
70 Posts • 24754 Views Religion Forum |
It is their choice to believe in something.
A belief cannot be chosen. A belief is merely the working model of the best attempt to understand an unknown truth based on the most convincing evidence... |
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