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SpiritualityCan the Supernatural be taken seriously?
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If I believe that truth is absolute and universal then you have to grant that I am right because it is my opinion.
Petesmith: yes you are entitled to your opinion, but that doesn't mean one has... |
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Science vs ReligionDid Darwin Dethrone God?
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It behoves us not to say, and it does us credit to deny, that God has been dealt death-blow, and that atheism is the only 'rational' position available. I prefer to say that if God no longer casts a s... |
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Ethics & MoralityIs Morality an Open and Closed Matter?
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Captain Dave will under no circumstance torture a prisoner (open morality). Captain Jim will torture a prisoner when he considers such action will save the lives of his platoon (closed morality).
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FuturologyThe end of the universe
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Well, I would argue that the Big Bang is NOT "something from nothing".
Two laws of physics sort of sum up the whole debate for me, generally speaking:
1. An object in motion tends to stay... |
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Speed Of Time
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It's hard to say how God would perceive time and ultimately I think it is irrelevant b/c God (assuming he exists) is said to exist outside time. I think if God did look at the world, he would vie... |
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Life & DeathLife, Already Planned?
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Ok all... Let this sink into your heads....
The two sides of the spectrum of life is just this:
Bacteria V.S. Humans (and or animals)
It is scientifically proven that we have evolved from ba... |
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The God paradox
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belief can be a good or a bad thing. when belief is not tempered with rational it will limit human development.
While belief in the after life can provide comfort to some people but it can also lead... |
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AliensIs Bush An Alien From Another Planet?
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I think its more likely that UFO's visited us, maybe still do, and implanted there genes or modes of thinking upon us. Similar to humans and apes...some apes can learn a little sign langauge, for... |
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Ethics & MoralityThe five fingers of ethics
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I have reduced my complete ethical system to five basic principles; the five fingers of ethics
Briefly, these five principles are
-the thumb: the universalist imperative: do what everyone should hav... |
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LawHomosexual Marriage
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I disagree.
If there is some sort of rational and grounded explanation for any sort of moral issue debate, like a gene that determines sexuality, I think that would cause quite a huge reaction amon... |
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PoetryEchoes
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Graduation From Childhood
This heart is beating like a stampede of feeling
I am torn, yeah.
My tounge is twisted, my heart is open, you won't listen.
Rational dawn of your face.
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainEmotions vs Logic
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I enjoyed reading this as I have considered for quite some time to at my best of course without putting asside cirtain circumstance to use more logical thought than make an emotional bias decition. fu... |
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DepressionDefine Depression
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a lack of access to who I am
I think this is the most important thing you said. People amidst depression have feelings of loss. Loss of a love, family, business, or what have you.
These thing tha... |
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Religion & HumanityWhat defines good or evil?
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Good and evil are not rational or logical things. Consistency and morals do not mix. Because, a person's sense of morals do not come from logic, they come from culture and instincts (usually call... |
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SpiritualityCan the Supernatural be taken seriously?
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Decius:
The falsehood of your opinion is that if you believe anything to be true as an individual, you in fact believe that to be the absolute truth, regardless of whether that belief is an individu... |
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Habits & BehaviorTrauma The Source of Ignorance?
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I was thinking about why people can be so ignorant sometimes, willfully or otherwise. Its really easy to say that the ignorant and hurtful people are just idiots or assholes, but the truth is we'... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismThe last leg for Atheism
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But how is it that one does still prefers that he does not exist. Why does the atheist prefer that God doesn't exist?
An Atheist has no means of support from a hypothetical 'God'. Th... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsQuestioning Reality: Are we for "Real"?
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the absence of self doesn't call for reason as much as the need for an answer.........Opinions are miniscule truths to each person.....answers are a truth to everybody, a universal truth.....If y... |
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Framing: Thug, Terrorist, Pirate, any Difference?
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A form of government wherein the citizen is sovereign one must have a citizenry that comprehends the facts. What we have learned is that the facts are often distorted by the framing of the issue. I su... |
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God in ReligionDoes GOD Not Existed?
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"In other words, take it or leave it, but but do NOT expect God to persevere in patience with a world of ingrates, pagans, and disbelievers."
Then this is hardly an all good God. The god yo... |
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Christianitywhat's the logic in x dying for our sins?
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well stated Decius. I would also like to mention the following:
Jesus dying for our sins cannot be logically supported as God's motives are illogical. If one believes that Jesus died for our s... |
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ElectionsJust watched another John Kerry master plan
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Superpowers are safer from small invasions but get the attention of more world based hostility as well as the fear of other existing super powers, foreign terror isn't my biggest concern except i... |
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Physics & CosmologyUniversal consiousness
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Ethereal: I've already said this before. Relative means-dependent on or interconnected with something else; not absolute. Reality is relative to other individual truths. I'll explain this:... |
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Love, love,love
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Why this blog, or thought? I think that this understanding of love is one of the largest parts of happiness once can strive to achieve. If we could adore our partners, with selfless love, giving of on... |
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Having Kids
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hey! boo hiss, I don't agree with that at all! I am *Shock* *Horror* female and have never wanted and -trust me- will never want, children. Neither does my sister. Both my brothers on the other h... |
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