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SocietyAtlas Shrugged a Cynical Review
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The response to this would be a whole other thread. But here are some short replies:
Before he was the 'first economist,' Adam Smith was an ethicist. He was not writing about what should... |
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spiders
42 Posts • 11597 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
to Josh, I love you and I hope you can see this from way Up there
We made another, Mom killed it,
You hurt too much
I told you how and why she did,
You hurt too much
We broke our connection,
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Religion & HumanityUnhealthy Confrontations
12 Posts • 6483 Views Religion Forum |
Very interesting topic, third party or not. I've long believed God is beyond scientific understanding but science does give us clues as to God's creative power. Not conclusively, but theoret... |
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People hate vegetarians
104 Posts • 34262 Views Talk Talk |
"can we at least entertain this idea, if not only for a moment - "
We can entertain and accept the idea of self preservation as 'a' reason not to eat ourselves, yes.
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JokesCouple of dirty jokes
179 Posts • 67238 Views Jokes & Games |
Put Your Hand In My Pocket!
Once upon a time there lived a king. The king had a very beautiful daughter who had one serious problem. Everything she came in contact with melted at her touch. Many we... |
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JokesClean fun...
24 Posts • 9801 Views Jokes & Games |
Some Like It Hot!
What happens at these Fahrenheit temperatures:
+65 - Hawaiians declare a two-blanket night.
+60 - Californians put on sweaters (if they can find one).
+50 - Miami reside... |
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BooksBook dissection
20 Posts • 14328 Views Talk Talk |
thank you i'll check it out.
here is something from Nietzsche in "Gay Science"
"Our ultimate gratitude to art."- If we had not welcomed the arts and invented this kind o... |
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The "What probably is = what is" fallacy
31 Posts • 10293 Views Psychology Forum |
How can one assert that what most likely existed, exists or will exist IS what actually existed, exists or will exist?
How can someone formulate a definite probability on things unknown to us?
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EconomyGold will go $1,500 to $2,000/ounce this year
11 Posts • 4242 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
615. Gold rush in the end of the year (12/5/2009)
In early September, in #609, I predicted that "Feds is preparing another financial tsunami in the rest days of this year. ..... The price of t... |
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War & TerrorismIraq
1 Posts • 3325 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
I found this new place. Has kept me busy as the site is slow even with my high speed conection. But I was told that if you refresh the browser often, you get through it faster when it runs slower.... |
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ChristianityHoly Trinity
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John 1
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1 2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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He was in the beginning with God.
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3 All things came to be through him, and without him nothin... |
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Religion & HumanityReligion has history
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we might need tp check out the history of where and how Nebuchadnezzar kept his army tools. How he defeated so many nations. (See Kings, and psalms and Exodus....)
And how he was a great and evil co... |
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ChristianityWhen Same Sex Marraiges was a Rite
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When Marriage Between Gays Was a Rite
As the churches struggle with the issue of homosexuality, a long tradition of gay marriage indicates that the Christian attitude towards same sex unions may n... |
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Poetry*Smiles with in Solitude*
202 Posts • 55079 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
Standing on a ledge, looking down
it seems you are higher than anyone.
Here.
You stand upon the ledge looking out
and you see the next one
and the next after that.
Miles of precipices man made a... |
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Is This Freedom?
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NY Law Enforcement Caught Doctoring Video of RNC Arrests
Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention Unrest
New York Times
April 12, 2005
"1,806 people arrested in New York last summer d... |
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StoriesThe Poker Game
5 Posts • 3941 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
There's a table with three chairs.
A single bulb on a string illuminates its surface, worn through the finish where elbows rub the wood. There is a deck of cards in the center; an old deck, w... |
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SocietyAtlas Shrugged a Cynical Review
28 Posts • 10610 Views Philosophy Forum |
THX.
You said"Hobbes, I think we agree that a functioning capitalist society is to be desired, but absolute self interest is a downside.
As example, I offer a period of absolute unfettered c... |
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IslamThe Qur'an
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"BUT what gets me is Muhammad lived by the sword, killed by the sword, and ambushed, and beheaded...."
Trish, every single religion of the face of this earth has committed atrocities and... |
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Writing on the subject of your Authentic Self.
14 Posts • 4130 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
He lifted himself out of bed, grabbing one leg and then the other. His legs draped over the edge of his ten year old futon bed. He clenched the cold metal frame with one hand and reached for his veriz... |
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Genius - How would you know?
13 Posts • 3795 Views Philosophy Forum |
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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Rehab & AddictionAlcohol vs. Marijuana
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I dunno if you guys realize this, but marijuana has been around since religion. Most religions in India some way incorporate marijuana, and China was the first place in the world to use it and record... |
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StoriesFinish The Story
11 Posts • 4080 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
Before the woman could reach the boy she was intervened by a moving shape of black spiders that poured towards the desk.
Gertrude watched as the boy reached his hands towards them, allowing the litt... |
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God in Religionwhy do you believe in god?
253 Posts • 132104 Views Religion Forum |
If you have a million monkeys and a million typewriters, you will eventually get Shakespeare. Darwinian Evolution shows how this process occurs in nature, to eventually get complex organisms like us.... |
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HomosexualityHomosexuality as a comedy theme.
12 Posts • 4269 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
from the age of:
"I can't even remember that far back"
I was given one of the first lessons in life... poop is bad
ya' know, don't touch your diaper... hands off...... |
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Dawn's Greeting
9 Posts • 4165 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
CHAPTER SIX
The time pod materialised in the garden of Kelly's house. It was teatime and Kelly could see the flickering of the TV through the patio doors and her mum getting the dinner ready throu... |
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