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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85170 Views Science & Technology Forum |
16 January 2013
NGC 1309: Spiral Galaxy and Friends
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Martin Pugh
A gorgeous spiral galaxy some 100 million light-years distant, NGC 13... |
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How do we describe perfection
49 Posts • 19923 Views Philosophy Forum |
Perfection is theoretical...
EINSTEIN said that it is worth striving for even though you will never achieve it...
It is a theorectical mental tool like "Akhams' Razor"
It is a... |
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Order
9 Posts • 4045 Views Philosophy Forum |
it seems to me like more ordered systems have a tendency to emerge out of less ordered systems. this is probably because there are fewer chances for something chaotic to get int the way the more order... |
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Too much deep thought.
32 Posts • 13704 Views Philosophy Forum |
Well, u know, u have 2 actually be aware of subtle hints in people. For example, there was this one time, when on a trip I was playin around with my geeky room mate, he proclaimed that he wasn't... |
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Speed Of Time
64 Posts • 16795 Views Philosophy Forum |
I'd love to but where is it?!
Anyway, Time is an abstract concept. We r not saying that time slows down, we r talking about wheather our perception of it slows down or speed up.
Well rschulz,... |
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PerceptionWhat constitutes as alive?
19 Posts • 6154 Views Psychology Forum |
I heard that it's the blood flow to the brain thing, that is a deciding factor on whether someone is alive or not...
Although I can understand someone being mostly brain-dead and therefore unawa... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsQuestioning Reality: Are we for "Real"?
118 Posts • 36378 Views Philosophy Forum |
The world "out there", external reality, is a shared universe of common experience. It is the lowest common denominator of all our experience. We take it for granted and it supplies us with... |
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SpiritualityI need absolute Proof
26 Posts • 9744 Views Religion Forum |
ill start with dreamers amazingly dumb comment about evolution meaning we come from the same dirt and rocks as every other animal on this planet. if i remember correctly thats what the bible says too,... |
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Emotions & FeelingsEmotional correspondance
8 Posts • 2480 Views Psychology Forum |
Is the actual feeling felt or is a feeling that is perceived to be the same felt in this situation?
I like Wyotes post, because he beings up a very good point. There are definitely two different ty... |
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Society & SociologyFree Will
16 Posts • 5486 Views Psychology Forum |
I define free will as the ability of a sentinent being to think for itself. Even if everything is predetermined, as Witt has pointed out, we would still be able to think for ourselves, whether or not... |
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Science vs ReligionScience is prooving the Bible
142 Posts • 35902 Views Religion Forum |
Is it a desire to defend it or to understand it? 1:1 God created heaven & earth. End of story or opening line?
1:2 says the earth is a void, a deep above which God hovered? (1:3)Then He created l... |
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God in ReligionConstructs of God.
1 Posts • 2347 Views Religion Forum |
Once there was a religion who had different ideas about a well known god.
They said God was everything. Every rock, every branch, every star in the sky was akin to the flesh of God. He existed in, an... |
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DreamsDreams
37 Posts • 11674 Views Psychology Forum |
i dont know if you guys would be interested but i had this intense dream a while back and it still hunts me.
i saw my self in a green pasture with 3 unfimailar faces. then all of a sudden i shot u... |
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God in Religionwhy do you believe in god?
253 Posts • 122330 Views Religion Forum |
OK, I will do that. Definitely went outside the scope of this thread. But I want to address this right quick since I am going to have to get into this with Ironwood as well...
I believe that you sh... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismAetheists Are Illogical
70 Posts • 24756 Views Religion Forum |
"I think someone mentioned an interesting fact of organic existence: In order for any living thing to continue its existence it must kill and devour other life forms. Life must act as death'... |
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God in ReligionIf you cannot love an ET god
5 Posts • 3411 Views Religion Forum |
I am assuming The god you are refering to is the creator and the absolute omni potent God. If God created all than God created both good and evil (pro and con). God is as evil as he is good. Take Sata... |
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God in ReligionIf there's a god, why is there evil?
222 Posts • 57342 Views Religion Forum |
I made a nice long reply and lost it. I'm a bit annoyed so I'll be briefer. *angry*
" But the blanket statement that scientists are telling the truth and Priests are not is ludacrou... |
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Alternative BeliefsPieism
30 Posts • 11502 Views Religion Forum |
here's the link to join Pieism
http://jojo-pieism.w ebs.com/joinus.htm
Here's the New Sacred Text a la Mode......
The New Sacred Text A La Mode
At first there was nothing. And t... |
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ChristianityThe time is NOW! IT is your choice.
50 Posts • 12341 Views Religion Forum |
It hurts? It doesn't hurt if both partners participate consensually.
You do not know if it is consensual for alterior motives, do you?
Perhaps a woman will sleep with a man in hopes he will... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsWhy do we exist?
83 Posts • 60446 Views Philosophy Forum |
I think we live life, to learn how to pass that life on.
What I mean by that is, it takes years to understand the abstract metaphors of the universe, and solidify them into a clear and vivid image.... |
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Emotions & FeelingsScared of death
6 Posts • 3003 Views Psychology Forum |
The healthy part is this being the type of fear that makes things worth holding onto. But like many things we try to hold onto we end up not only losing but doing so while missing out on other experie... |
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Science vs ReligionIntelligent Design & Teach the Controversy
1 Posts • 3471 Views Religion Forum |
Synopsis: Teach students about 'intelligent design' aka about the notion of a god creating the universe in science lessons under the guise that 'teaching the controversy' is health... |
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God in ReligionThe God Thread
158 Posts • 41773 Views Religion Forum |
The gods worshipped by man were all created by man, not the other way around. If there were a god omniscient, man wouldn't be able to understand the entity's essence and would hence be incap... |
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Life & DeathMy Theory on Life
8 Posts • 3602 Views Philosophy Forum |
before you read, their is more that I did not put in here. A lot more. If I didn't explain some parts clearly, its mainly the wording. Play with the theories in your own mind.
Life...is it r... |
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GodWhy did God create the universe
119 Posts • 39324 Views Philosophy Forum |
Hey guys, just signed up...I'm 15 as well and while I hope I don't sound like some big noob but...here it goes...
A man named Spinoza once said, "the highest virtue of the mind is to... |
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