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fate
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This question keeps coming up.
Everyday we have choices to make. If we don't make those choices the world does not stop turning. We can control our destiny to a certain degree if we want to, o... |
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What makes you Happy?
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My Bosnian neighbors lived through a war. Their house was burned down. Their relatives got raped repeatedly. Half of their community was killed. They hid in the forest from the soldiers. They had no f... |
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War & Terrorism900 years of the West against Islam
24 Posts • 6487 Views
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Greed is the basis of life for anyone in a high income bracket. You do not become rich unless you are greedy. If you are greedy, you care only for what people can give you, not what you can give them.... |
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Society & SociologyOld People
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Almost stopping for old folks? I wonder if Australia is like te UK when it comes to pedestrians ie walk across the street at your own risk. The north Americain or at least Canadian mentality is differ... |
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Police Taser Use Increase
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Now this is hopefully a rare and extreme case, but it is worth telling, as disabled people get tased far too frequently.
Cops Tase Barely Conscious Boy With Broken Back 19 Times For Non-Compliance... |
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Free Will
33 Posts • 9186 Views
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"Just a thought, but maybe we're looking at this the wrong way. Maybe its not really that we have free wil but that we achieve more and more free will"
An interesting thought... let&... |
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Does time really heal?
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I believe time exists because distance exists. If you think about it, really niether of them do. They are used more so in comparison to scales. Big or little. Its the difference between one piece of m... |
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BiologyWhat About Eugenics?
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I found this recent article. Quite interesting to think about it once you read it.
23 Apr 2006. Zack Smith
Tyranny of the breeders
"Tyranny of the breeders" is the concept I have coin... |
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Human Nature & EmotionThe power of thought.
10 Posts • 4863 Views
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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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Religion & HumanityThe True Religion?
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Basicaaly, Abram...aka Abraham, believed in a single God, because God spoke with him.
He spoke to Moses, and the tribe of his choosen people. Deut 6; 24
...and said'The Lord, our God, has indee... |
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If You Forgive Yourself - Are You Forgiven?
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heh, i almost made this thread myself but you beat me to it :)
lets take away the word "sin" for a moment, as its probably only going to spark pointless religious banter somewhere down t... |
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War & TerrorismSADDAM HUSSEIN CAUGHT!
62 Posts • 21500 Views
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"And I again state that it is not your perogative to judge another society's method of government, nor to think it is appropriate to impose our method of life on others."
Saddam wasn&#... |
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GovernmentThe Role of State
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There are three schools of thought on the airwaves spectrum and its 'rightful' ownership:
1. Some folk argue that it should be strictly a 'public domain' where band width is assigned by the Governm... |
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Homosexualityborn gay
182 Posts • 44877 Views
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Do you think Homosexuals would freely "choose" to come out in light of how difficult a life a Homosexual lives ? I dont think its a decision -- I dont think there is a choice for a true Homo... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsReality does it have meaning?
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I think what NGKnightfell says is close. The world around you is sort of yours to interpret and you can draw a lot of conclusions from one instance and the way you choose to define it is what it becom... |
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Relationships & LoveYour dream girl (or guy)
109 Posts • 31134 Views
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Huh...
Well, my "dream guy"... Brown or black hair. I don't care much for red or blonde(there's only been one blonde who I liked, but now that I think about it, it was brown nea... |
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how good is the average person in bed?
25 Posts • 6175 Views
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Wyote, of course it has a vague answer, it's an OPINION QUESTION.
I'm sorry you're so stuck in your own head that you can't answer a simple opinion question without going overbo... |
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SocietyThe Capitalism Debate!!!!
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Ah! So we should have left Korea decide its own fate? If the USA had let Korea the freedom of choice, it would today still be a Communist state. Openly hostile to the rest of the world with a stagnant... |
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A Universal Morality that Works??
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A review of "Universally Preferable Behavior: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics", by Stefan Molyneux
(Sold here: http://www.lulu.com/content/12 70751)
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Moral philosophers conside... |
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student
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Stories & Poetry Forum |
She rested her head on the table and burst out laughing. He looked at her from acroos the table wondering how she could have possibly landed herself into such a situation. she was drunk, yup totally d... |
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Kallenites, x-liberals, and Neocons, oh my!
19 Posts • 7062 Views
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America is about multi-culturalism.
The original colonists were english, dutch and germans. Then many believed there was a crisis in america because catholic irish, italians and poles came. Today is... |
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BiologyScience versus Instinct
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but what did we do, before we had that technology. did cavemen have any instincts that helped them predict the weather etc?
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LawWhy is Prostitution Illegal?
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My point is that the probable effect (adultery) that legal prostitution will have in society
You cannot take away a persons right, because of what you fear another "might" do, or what you... |
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Nature & GeographyAre natural disasters more frequently nowadays?
28 Posts • 13363 Views
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Yes, as Wyote mentioned; assuming humans survive, we will experience a lot of cataclismic climate events, in the next 1000years.
Throughout the last 4.5 billion years (age of the earth), the globe... |
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People
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"He who prescribes the diameter of your knowledge prescribes the circumference of your activity."
The ignorant have not the faculties to appreciate the thoughts and actions of the intelli... |
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