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GodQuestioning God's Existence
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If you took 100 people and put them on their own separate island at birth...and came back to them 20 years later...you would find they all believed in some higher being but that their explanation of s... |
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SocietyWould society be better without money?
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I went into a supermarket today and in my shopping, I had a chicken. I took my chicken to the counter and passed it to the checkout operator, who then passed it over a machine that made a very smug (... |
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BiologyCloning
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Cloning whole people would certainly make for a race of third class citizens, a race everyone would be able to loath with a 'clear conscious'. Is that a good thing?
As for separate body parts, I ca... |
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Original thought.
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We as indivdual's often think that we are all just indivdual's. We are an unawaked mass-consiousness.
In other words there is orginal thought it just doesn't occur until the entire g... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsThe Matrix Is Real
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Conway This is known as a true understanding. you see my point of view and/or programmed reality and i see your's, this is the open source that i hope to accomplish...but the best part is niether... |
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Consciousnesswhat is free will?
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The current understanding according to neuroscience would suggest that there is no short term free will.
The brain processes information and sends signals to react to a situation far quicker than y... |
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Society & SociologyFree Will
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Simply because something is tracable in an infinite number of directions, does not infact mean that it is infinite. It is just percieved as infinite because no end has been found and/or it is belived... |
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Is There are real right and wrong?
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"Right" or "wrong" is all based on your perspective of things. What's "right" to someone is always seen as "wrong" to someone else. Of course, there are th... |
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Reality & Metaphysics'reality'
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Sorry to interrupt the current "flow" of this thread but I read an interesting story about perceptions and reality the other day... and it fits in this thread.
There is a documented case... |
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SpiritualityIn any Spiritual Text is there a way to give up Free Will?
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To find a text which shows you how to give up free will is really finding a text to change your own nature.
From an Islamic perspective having free will is the most valued thing about humans. In the... |
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ChristianityA Little Quiz
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Excellent point, but then who knows enough to determine which recorded "facts" are the real ones.
(Do you think anyone who has ever lived has read all accounts of history?)
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Ethics & MoralityInherently Good or Evil?
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The vast majority of people are evil. Especially us in the develloped countries, we are obscenely rich and yet we give only crumbs to the starving poor. We prove everyday by our inaction that we are e... |
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Child & Family PsychologyInescapable Human Emotion
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I want to start this by saying that I have no father figure in my life. My father and I have no relationship because I have had to seperate myself from him because he is incredibly destructive to hims... |
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Can we escape our pre-conditioning?
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and in answer to your question, yes, you can actually "loose" your "memmory" by choice. It's called repression.
However repression is a conscious act of will and therefore... |
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Ethics & MoralityWhat is Moral Folk Theory?
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"Kinds exist and are defined by essences."--Perhaps this may be true for the unconscious fully programmed animals, but humans are born prematurely because of our big heads, thus existence pr... |
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What the Bleep
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I finally saw this movie last night. I have been hearing about it from family, friends, and people all over the world from various magazines and web-related sources. It lived up to what everyone said... |
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Emotions & FeelingsExplaining your emotions
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We would still exist. Emotions help dictate our decision but they are not the final say. I feel that emotion is something that can be replaced with logic. For example someone pushes you. You get angry... |
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Having Kids
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What about the natural way of life? The most basic reason for wanting kids is because it's programmed into our bodies. The main purpose of life is continuation of your species - for all creatures... |
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Freinds With Benefits, I Think Not
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My scientific understanding is that humans are programmed for monogamy. That sex releases chemicals in the brain such as oxitocin that promote an imprinting effect. So simply having sex is going to al... |
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Habits & BehaviorQualities of Reaction derived from Qualities of Stimulus
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In inanimate objects, the reaction to stimulus is rather straight forward, action-reaction. With a living creature however, it becomes much more complicated with the introduction of DNA programmed rea... |
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Is There are real right and wrong?
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Do you believe there is really such a thing as a universal right and wrong? Or is it all just a system that we all have been programmed to believe?
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Religion & HumanityDoing good: Universal Religion
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surely population control is a sorry excuse of an arguement for whay to have war and mass murder.
i'm well aware that trusting ones own government, and especially americas is stupid (i nearly we... |
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Gender PsychologyWhat Is Wrong With Being A Slut
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"Why is it that when a male sleeps around - he is known as a "stud", conversly when a female sleeps around - she is known as a "slut" ?! Can anyone say Double-standard?"... |
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ConsciousnessALTRUISM and SELFISHNESS
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Like many or even most things, appears to be a matter of definition to me.
"Altruism" is what it may appear to be to others. But, in my view, everything we do is a product of self-interes... |
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God in ReligionProve the existence of god
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Don't get me wrong Ironwood I completely agree with you, especially when it comes to preachers and door to door pushers of religion. And yes I completely see the scientific, neurological evidence... |
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