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Are you a rules skeptic?
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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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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
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you mention earlier that other relationships with problems..or w/e-could have just as easily been homos.( because they were dysfunctional..and so on.)
I'm not sure what you are saying, but... |
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Religion & HumanityUnhealthy Confrontations
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OK, here is the "Carbon Copy."
Theists versus atheists: are conflicts necessary?
Ludwik Kowalski, Professor Emeritus
Montclair State University
New Jersey, USA
Abstract
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SocietyThoughts on the School Shooting in CT
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I had some thoughts today on the horrifying shooting in CT and on how these shootings keep increasing everyday. I came to a very scary conclusion about my generation and was wondering if anyone else h... |
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Science vs ReligionCreation or Evolution?
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With all due respect for other opinions, Summit's reasoning for the rationalistic approach on the evolution versus creationism debate complies with both mathematical, biological and empirical dis... |
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Relationships & LoveA logical case for the loss of consent.
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Please discuss this, I would like to see the opinions of those both with and with out a "dog in this fight"
Case for the Possible Loss of Functional Consent.
by Anon7
The D/s co... |
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EconomyUmma
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Andrew Johnson
To What Extent Does the Concept of Umma Tally with that of Globalization?
This question calls forth a whole cluster of assumptions which, I think it is fair to say, cannot be justi... |
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Issues with Hate…
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First of all to Chiron…
(thanks for the reply by the way)
I guess that acquiescence has quite a bit to do with one part of the idea…
Also, I feel I have been on the other end of receivi... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
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So overall "Society" does include both sexualities but is not the specific societies to which I'm refering, which I believe to be opposed to one another and battling for hegemony.... |
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Ethics & MoralityGandhi's views on violence in self-defense
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I WOULD risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of a whole race.
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence...... |
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Genius - How would you know?
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My daughter looked down in her lap where the shiny object (toy) was - and then back up at myself and her female - parent.
She aparently wished to join us across the room but did not wish to leave t... |
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Science vs ReligionIntellagentdesign
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Okcitykid your within a religious neutrality so its rather odd why you remain confused. The only explination I have is perhaps your slightly naive about evolution. Just to fill you in, DNA originated... |
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SocietySocial Engineering
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*mad*I am not a housewife. I am a domestic engineer.*cool*
This thread blooms out of the 'meaning of democracy' thread. While social engineering is most certainly germane to the subject of democrac... |
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IslamDo you know what Islam means?
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"But these regimes are universally considered despotic, at least today. When you say "Christian" it is almost universally understood to include Catholics and Orthodox. When you challeng... |
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainWhat is effective communication?
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What you say about me wanting to see AW as innocent is because I like him. And I don't want to think badly of him. I also don't want to see ppl fight. I know I'm being naive when I say... |
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ChristianityWhat is faith: Why Christianity?
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I don't know if you are in a position to answer this question because it is sort of posed as a rebuttal to PeterSmith's assertion that Christianity is the only religion that provides "g... |
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Science and Faith.-their applications to truth.
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So if a dream world exists- do you suppose that this "dream world" would effect a persons choices..?" -"What is this blabbering of yours? A dream world effecting a persons choices,... |
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GovernmentBush and God's will...
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Boy you love to write a lot...lol
>>When they see countless tyrants being aided by
>>>westerners who do little more than secure an area for
>>>their own interests, which... |
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Do we get a kick out of intrigue?
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Do we get a kick out of intrigue?
Shakespeare's insight, as he proclaimed that life is a stage and we are the actors on that stage of life, leaves us pitiful, in nude exposure, of our self to our s... |
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Religion & HumanityThe Meaning of Living
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Genesis
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth;
*This means He created the earth, and that time was not written. Let me explain in better detail. The time of God is different than... |
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Science vs ReligionEVOLUTION
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Thanks Aura! I might have to check out those sources you mentioned.
Let me just reply to these few things you said:
"I really don't know why you keep going on and on about illusion, because... |
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
94 Posts • 26425 Views
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To break the "social contract" requires on to reject the morality expressed by the social order. A society's moral code organizes individual relationship to the community.
As a fully... |
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SpiritualityI'm think I'm losing faith in God.
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If you're going to express yourself so eliptically, we'll go nowhere. Do you mean... that we can't rule out the possibility that someone will be born, now or in the future, with the cap... |
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Two Theories
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The only thing worse than an affront to our common sense is finding some common sense to our affront. Which category the following tract falls into is for the reader to decide. I hope it will not be c... |
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GovernmentWas Hayek Right?
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I want to assess the arguments for a minimal state in Hayek's classic The Road to Serfdom. I think, and perhaps I can show, that the situation is not so simple as he thinks.
Firstly, he extra... |
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