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Atheism & AgnosticismThe last leg for Atheism
185 Posts • 40088 Views Religion Forum |
when any trully logical mind examines the situation such creatures become childish vagaries.
This has a thought provoking message no matter how you believe. Does evil exist?
The university pr... |
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Physics & CosmologyWhat does it mean there are Four Dimensions?
57 Posts • 27004 Views Science & Technology Forum |
So time is the first dimension with a relative value of zero?
Space having the values of 1,2,3 and time the value of 0, as space forms a geometrical progression?
So what i am asking is 'if dime... |
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Video Games
76 Posts • 24982 Views Talk Talk |
Excerpt: Chinese go online to torture, kill corrupt officials
AFP
Thursday, August 2, 2007
An online game in which players can torture and kill corrupt officials that a Chinese local governmen... |
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ElectionsRon Paul on the Constitutional Crisis
2 Posts • 2423 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Ron Paul: We Are Enabling A Future American Dictatorship
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
May 31, 2011
2012 Presidential candidate Ron Paul has warned that a lack of oversight from Congress, the... |
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Gender PsychologyYou Are Not A Feminist If...
20 Posts • 9392 Views Psychology Forum |
For a long time I have had an aversion to the term feminism. Even now, I take offence if someone were to call me a feminist. I think this aversion has been created in me over time from witnessing the... |
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Physics & CosmologyReality in the melting pot
11 Posts • 10509 Views Science & Technology Forum |
This is an interesting refutation of the multiverse concept.
Paul Davies.
According to 'multiverse' theorists, life as we know it could be nothing but a Matrix-style simulation
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Society & Sociologywhy is suicide frowned on???
85 Posts • 25153 Views Psychology Forum |
Suicide is a polemic topic, such as everything that involves death, I've read some of the posts and my position about suicide is this:
Suicide is a decision that you can take, maybe it's the easy w... |
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GovernmentThe meaning of democracy
65 Posts • 34022 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
awakendwraith, thank you! Yes, our government has spun completely out of control and many books have been written about this subject. One of the most important would be "Big Government" expl... |
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GovernmentThe Anti-Bush Thread
0 Posts • 38348 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Unpopular Bush (Bush 2)
Even before Iraq war, the world viewed him a villain already. It was from report of his own State department.
Quote,"Many see Bush as villain, US embassies report... |
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SocietyIs America playing with fire ?
141 Posts • 33551 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Chairman of 9/11 Whitewash Commission sets stage for Al Qaeda Nuke Attack
Four Looks at the Thomas Kean Affair
Infowars | April 4, 2006
By Bob Dacy
Thomas Kean, the chairman of the 9/11 Commi... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismMy article in American Atheist Magazine
4 Posts • 2847 Views Religion Forum |
Futile Confrontations Between Theists and Atheists
Futile conflicts between theists and atheists, often amounting to "we are better than you" confrontations, are common, as one can verify... |
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Society & SociologyIs Jail a mild form of torture
35 Posts • 11321 Views Psychology Forum |
DECIUS
You clearly have no grasp of reality.
Is reality the sort of thing which is at a distance from us and graspable...? But never mind, this is off-topic.
Okay. You pay for it. Or in la la lan... |
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Scholars in the Tank
1 Posts • 2611 Views Philosophy Forum |
Scholars in the Tank
Few top ranked scholars are going into government or academic professions; many are going into Think Tanks, which are supported by private interests that are guided often by i... |
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IslamDo you know what Islam means?
67 Posts • 16867 Views Religion Forum |
"However, you understand my point well, just because some one claims to be something does not make it so!"
And you miss my point completely. When you question a definition MAKE IT CLEAR. IE... |
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What truths would a wise person pursue?
5 Posts • 2810 Views Philosophy Forum |
What truths would a wise person pursue?
The book Beyond Alienation by Ernest Becker attempts to clarify the nature of the human problem and to provide a solution for this problem. If humanity is to... |
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Into the Wild
1 Posts • 2519 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
I just read this book by Jon Krakauer:
This is the story of Chris McCandless, a young man from an affuent family who graduated with honors from Emory University in Atlanta. In April, 1992, Chris se... |
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ElectionsA very good read.
8 Posts • 3546 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
This piece best describes what I believe makes this election so important to all of us.
From the Wed 06 Oct 2004 issue of the Ellensburg Daily Record
(Ellensburg, Washington)... by Mathew Manwel... |
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Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
1 Posts • 4312 Views Talk Talk |
My take on this crazy novel:
Forrest Gump introduces himself. He is an idiot with an IQ of 70. He is from Mobile, Alabama. He is named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Civil War General. Forrest r... |
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War & TerrorismThe Iran War
23 Posts • 8070 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Excerpt: Neocon Flubs Keep On Rolling: Iran Does Not Manufacture 81MM Mortar Shells
BBC
Monday, February 12, 2007
Pentagon carelessness fabricating bogus “evidence†against Iran i... |
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Are you a rules skeptic?
1 Posts • 2182 Views Philosophy Forum |
Are you a rules skeptic?
Justice Scalia is an ardent defender of the virtue of legal rules. He says such rules reduce dramatically any uncertainty and indicate a level of justice by providing 'a cl... |
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ConspiracyExcerp: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
214 Posts • 62186 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Excerpt:
Why "NOT" to Fight for 9/11 Truth
Bill Douglas / Op Ed News | September 19 2006
Why "NOT" to Fight for 9/11 Truth
"Propaganda is not meant to fool the int... |
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SocietyJoe Bialek
2 Posts • 4265 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Permit me to introduce myself. My name is Joe Bialek and I was born on September 12, 1963 just 40 days before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. My family was originally from Cleveland, O... |
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ConspiracyDid the government create AIDS?
26 Posts • 32017 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl d-us-canada-13700490
\Steri lisation: North Carolina grapples with legacy
By Daniel Nasaw
BBC News, Washington
Ms Riddick, now 57, suffered decades of depression a... |
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ConspiracyAre ANONYMOUS....activist or terrorist???
2 Posts • 3903 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
THIS IS THE MESSAGE ON THE ABOVE VIDEO...............
Dear brothers and sisters. Now is the time to open your eyes!
In a stunning move that has civil libertarians stuttering with disbelief, the... |
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Kallenites, x-liberals, and Neocons, oh my!
19 Posts • 7188 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
To qualify ones thinking by assuming that if one believes in x, he must also 'therefore' believe in y, is a mode of reasoning which is not a priori. I.E., the conclusion should have some relationship... |
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