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Society & SociologyOld People
10 Posts • 4612 Views Psychology Forum |
Almost stopping for old folks? I wonder if Australia is like te UK when it comes to pedestrians ie walk across the street at your own risk. The north Americain or at least Canadian mentality is differ... |
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Police Taser Use Increase
16 Posts • 9002 Views Talk Talk |
Now this is hopefully a rare and extreme case, but it is worth telling, as disabled people get tased far too frequently.
Cops Tase Barely Conscious Boy With Broken Back 19 Times For Non-Compliance... |
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Free Will
33 Posts • 10474 Views Philosophy Forum |
"Just a thought, but maybe we're looking at this the wrong way. Maybe its not really that we have free wil but that we achieve more and more free will"
An interesting thought... let&... |
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Does time really heal?
21 Posts • 8791 Views Philosophy Forum |
I believe time exists because distance exists. If you think about it, really niether of them do. They are used more so in comparison to scales. Big or little. Its the difference between one piece of m... |
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BiologyWhat About Eugenics?
23 Posts • 12320 Views Science & Technology Forum |
I found this recent article. Quite interesting to think about it once you read it.
23 Apr 2006. Zack Smith
Tyranny of the breeders
"Tyranny of the breeders" is the concept I have coin... |
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Human Nature & EmotionThe power of thought.
10 Posts • 6635 Views Philosophy Forum |
If I understand correctly you are arguing how we choose the value of certain thoughts over others, according to a belief system we also choose. And that is what give certain thoughts power. I asume wh... |
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Religion & HumanityThe True Religion?
96 Posts • 32353 Views Religion Forum |
Basicaaly, Abram...aka Abraham, believed in a single God, because God spoke with him.
He spoke to Moses, and the tribe of his choosen people. Deut 6; 24
...and said'The Lord, our God, has indee... |
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Life & DeathLife is becoming a bore
13 Posts • 5423 Views Philosophy Forum |
danny... you read through me... and yes i agree with you for i had come to the same realisation as you... that im embrasing my "disease"... years ago...
I DO have people that love me...... |
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GovernmentThe Anti-Bush Thread
0 Posts • 38348 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
america "does not" pick leaders for other nations, that's just plain propaganda... show proof and not anything printed in the la times or the new york times both left wing media outlets... |
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If You Forgive Yourself - Are You Forgiven?
12 Posts • 3753 Views Philosophy Forum |
heh, i almost made this thread myself but you beat me to it :)
lets take away the word "sin" for a moment, as its probably only going to spark pointless religious banter somewhere down t... |
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Dawn's Greeting
9 Posts • 4169 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
CHAPTER THREE
Sharra and Darrow sat close in the pod and took it in turns to shift space and time, using their gift to its limit to reach the time distortion that Kelly was creating, before she di... |
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GovernmentThe Role of State
10 Posts • 4685 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
There are three schools of thought on the airwaves spectrum and its 'rightful' ownership:
1. Some folk argue that it should be strictly a 'public domain' where band width is assigned by the Governm... |
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War & TerrorismSADDAM HUSSEIN CAUGHT!
62 Posts • 23509 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
"And I again state that it is not your perogative to judge another society's method of government, nor to think it is appropriate to impose our method of life on others."
Saddam wasn... |
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Homosexualityborn gay
182 Posts • 53342 Views Sexuality & Intimacy Forum |
Do you think Homosexuals would freely "choose" to come out in light of how difficult a life a Homosexual lives ? I dont think its a decision -- I dont think there is a choice for a true Homo... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsReality does it have meaning?
12 Posts • 8922 Views Philosophy Forum |
I think what NGKnightfell says is close. The world around you is sort of yours to interpret and you can draw a lot of conclusions from one instance and the way you choose to define it is what it becom... |
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Relationships & LoveYour dream girl (or guy)
109 Posts • 34556 Views Psychology Forum |
Huh...
Well, my "dream guy"... Brown or black hair. I don't care much for red or blonde(there's only been one blonde who I liked, but now that I think about it, it was brown nea... |
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how good is the average person in bed?
25 Posts • 7138 Views Talk Talk |
Wyote, of course it has a vague answer, it's an OPINION QUESTION.
I'm sorry you're so stuck in your own head that you can't answer a simple opinion question without going overbo... |
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SocietyThe Capitalism Debate!!!!
95 Posts • 31613 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Ah! So we should have left Korea decide its own fate? If the USA had let Korea the freedom of choice, it would today still be a Communist state. Openly hostile to the rest of the world with a stagnant... |
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A Universal Morality that Works??
1 Posts • 2419 Views Talk Talk |
A review of "Universally Preferable Behavior: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics", by Stefan Molyneux
(Sold here: http://www.lulu.com/content/12 70751)
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Moral philosophers conside... |
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Kallenites, x-liberals, and Neocons, oh my!
19 Posts • 7953 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
America is about multi-culturalism.
The original colonists were english, dutch and germans. Then many believed there was a crisis in america because catholic irish, italians and poles came. Today is... |
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BiologyScience versus Instinct
37 Posts • 12773 Views Science & Technology Forum |
but what did we do, before we had that technology. did cavemen have any instincts that helped them predict the weather etc?
This depends on what timescale you refer to. Before homo sapiens had the... |
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LawWhy is Prostitution Illegal?
96 Posts • 54306 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
My point is that the probable effect (adultery) that legal prostitution will have in society
You cannot take away a persons right, because of what you fear another "might" do, or what you... |
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Nature & GeographyAre natural disasters more frequently nowadays?
28 Posts • 14690 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Yes, as Wyote mentioned; assuming humans survive, we will experience a lot of cataclismic climate events, in the next 1000years.
Throughout the last 4.5 billion years (age of the earth), the globe... |
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People
11 Posts • 4331 Views Philosophy Forum |
"He who prescribes the diameter of your knowledge prescribes the circumference of your activity."
The ignorant have not the faculties to appreciate the thoughts and actions of the intelli... |
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Science vs ReligionEvolution of God
43 Posts • 13741 Views Religion Forum |
Simply put GOD is an entity that exists everywhere within every atom of the universe, he (which is irrelevent since were not talking about a human) could be described as the primevail force and energy... |
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