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Tagged > Hypothetical question
THREAD SocietyEducation Part ll
8 Posts • 3204 Views
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question 1. what is going to substitute the income that sports generate, and obviousley you know about school so we both know its ALOT. 2. sports serve as a huge deferment in the vegetation of our ki...
THREAD War & Terrorism900 years of the West against Islam
24 Posts • 6487 Views
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We started with the Crusades and have kept it going in one form or another, under one guise or another, our attempt to clear the world of Muslims. We can almost universally agree we screwed up with th...
THREAD Ethics & MoralityWar - What The Hell Is It Good For
164 Posts • 31775 Views
Philosophy Forum
- call it intuition or clarity paired with knowledge and experience - but it is possible to recognize truth That is an outright assumption. Especially in regards to people and lying, as well as spe...
THREAD Language/Subject Manner
38 Posts • 13378 Views
Philosophy Forum
Alright, Itisasiseeit, who's to say that it's wrong to be a racist? Racism is a belief, just like a democrat or a republican. And it's not a belief that really jumps out at people like...
THREAD ChristianityGive up sin?
22 Posts • 5618 Views
Religion Forum
The first thing you have to think about with this question is what kind of sins we're talking about. Remember that almost all sins come from bodily desire and material desire. Since its typically...
THREAD IslamThe Qur'an
110 Posts • 26774 Views
Religion Forum
The real question is who instigated these wars and oppressions, and who was defending themselves. Quite simply Mohamed was required to live by the sword, as you say, because he was defending his homel...
THREAD A question about adulthood
3 Posts • 2150 Views
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I've held the idea for a long time now, that adults don't truly grow out of childhood activities. It occurred to me while I was walking in a park at night and realized that I was still drawn...
THREAD Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
17 Posts • 5924 Views
Philosophy Forum
An open question: Can an ethical statement be 'true'? Is it simply 'true' that 'thou shalt not kill' in the same way that 'the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second' is true? I believe no...
THREAD God in ReligionIf there's a god, why is there evil?
222 Posts • 56103 Views
Religion Forum
DUGBUG says: <<Why did god make a law about gravity, about respiration, why did he make us have to breath, if he is powerful then why did he do it? How come we evolved? Why do we need energy?...
THREAD Leadership
3 Posts • 2086 Views
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From the 1990s onwards a lot of mistrust has ocurred relating to governments and history and anything with the stamp of authority. All this is well and good for it is imperative that we question thing...
THREAD Would You Tell?
21 Posts • 6380 Views
Philosophy Forum
Last night, while lying in bed, I thought of something. I've been looking through these threads of us (I guess you could say premature) philosophers attempting to uncover things such as the meani...
THREAD SocietyIdeas on education
9 Posts • 3541 Views
Politics & Current Events Forum
I understand if the video is a bit too long for you to watch and ultimately it is not necessary. So, does school kill creativity? My personal experience is that when I was in primary school, we...
THREAD The Zero Conjecture
10 Posts • 3899 Views
Philosophy Forum
Human beings are drawn to simplicity. We have an intuition that no matter how intractable a problem may seem it must ultimately be reducible. And as to confirm our hunch the path of enquiry has led us...
THREAD God in ReligionWake up and discover that God never existed
48 Posts • 12778 Views
Religion Forum
Damn! again i got logged out before I finished. I wonder whether a point in time existed when men started to become less the hunted and more the hunter. I will be juggling around history here, plac...
THREAD GovernmentFive Reality Checks For Democrats
12 Posts • 4387 Views
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Yes Steve it was. The fact that this thread has has been left to wither, without reply or rebuttal for going on two weeks demonstrates that the young liberals here are unready (or philosophically i...
THREAD ChristianityWas Christ really resurrected?
67 Posts • 16794 Views
Religion Forum
I have a fairly old bible, so I do not have that 'added feature' you refer to. I also do NOT use the King James Version, nor the New World Translation. It would depend on the bibles '...
THREAD Paranormal & PseudoscienceTelepathy - Schizophrenia - God, mystery of my life
4 Posts • 2922 Views
Science & Technology Forum
i am myself schizophrenic and have been for the past 11 years. my own experience of the illness was to be constantly aggravated and psychotic about many issues related to my childhood education and th...
THREAD Utilitarianism and Kantianism applied to abortion.
2 Posts • 4162 Views
Philosophy Forum
I am taking an Honors Philosophy course in Ethics. Half of the students in my class are not doing very well; and they decided to start a study group. I am doing perfectly fine in the class myself; how...
THREAD Atheism & AgnosticismAtheist Ideals
21 Posts • 7042 Views
Religion Forum
an agnostic that is not sure if god exists and states it in that phrase is simply a denier of the christian faith. they need to constantly question and rebel against all faiths and all gods which mean...
THREAD Milgram's Studies
2 Posts • 1793 Views
Science & Technology Forum
Just an interesting experiment i saw on BBC4 (a indie channel in the UK). Stanley Milgram was a Jew living in America not long after the Second World War and subsequently, not long after the Holocaust...
THREAD ChristianitySERIOUS BIBLE QUESTIONS
27 Posts • 10480 Views
Religion Forum
Deletion_Of_Me Wrote: "...Oooh, the Bible. Fun. I enjoyed tearing it apart (in a non-literal sense) in the past, and will have more fun doing so in the future, or so I prophecise. Just a ques...
THREAD Philosophy of action
2 Posts • 1937 Views
Philosophy Forum
Most people see philosophy as remote, esoteric and estranged from what they might consider to be 'reality', but this argument - if it is to be dignified with that title - ceases to have mean...
THREAD LawWhy is Prostitution Illegal?
96 Posts • 50884 Views
Politics & Current Events Forum
With prostitution illegal, the government is in position to keep crime on the streets, which we all know is good for government business. It's the same deal with drugs. Think about it. The...
THREAD ConspiracyExcerp: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
214 Posts • 61210 Views
Politics & Current Events Forum
For the conspiracy theorists; it looks as though most of the evidence for DISTRUSTING the government is sound. But, this distrust is still focussed on the EFFECT of the government. I agree with pacifi...
THREAD Religion & HumanityThe Disease of Religious Fundamentalism
19 Posts • 6530 Views
Religion Forum
I know that I should quote, but sometimes I don't, I figure the person I'm talking to knows who they are, Anyways. Regardless you claimed theories and statements were made that I have not...
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