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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A challenge: debate the issue of religion with yours truly |
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Posted: 05 May 2012, 7:54 pm
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Replies: 133
Views: 11,644
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| Luke: You're all over the place. I've read this entire thread twice and have come away with very few positive claims on your part. What I've taken as your positive claims amounts to, basically: 1: Supernatural explanations that confirm your worldview are more likely than natural explanations that su... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is nature inherently cooperative or competitive, or both? |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2012, 7:16 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,414
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| Darwinian evolution is largely based on national selection, which is an unintentional form of competition. However, we have things like families and symbiotic relationships as well. Do you think it would be possible to eliminate conflict, or reduce it to say, a game, in the human world? There is ac... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: So, what did happen in that basket? |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 11:18 pm
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Replies: 31
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| Also: why conjure dead fish? I can understand conjuring food and I understand that bread, by itself, doesn't supply as much nutrition as a meal of bread and fish but we're talking about magically conjuring food, here. There's no obvious reason that Jesus, being god and able to conjure food, chose to... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: When Someone Prays for Someone? |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 10:35 pm
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Replies: 9
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| Indeed that is quite appalling! Of all the things to worry about in a world full of genocidal dictators, neglected tropical diseases, sexism and famine, why choose someone's gender to get all worked up about! I didn't know asking a question was "getting worked up". I could say something very snappy... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: So, what did happen in that basket? |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 10:16 pm
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Replies: 31
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| I'd like to have seen inside that basket that Jesus fed the multitudes with. I know the feeling. Such an amazing secret seems so tantalizing. What would you really expect to see, though? Loaves of bread and fish that continually regenerate when pieces are taken from them? A swirling vortex or brigh... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: This PPR forum could be enjoyable, but it's oten not. |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 10:03 pm
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Replies: 212
Views: 14,282
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| Reality is relative. No, just our perception of it. This is one of those things that is impossible to prove (although I have a hypothetical test that involves a handgun) I prefer to believe in objective reality as it makes human endeavor meaningful What kind of questions did you plan to ask the han... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: So, what did happen in that basket? |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 9:54 pm
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Replies: 31
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| I'd like to have seen inside that basket that Jesus fed the multitudes with. I know the feeling. Such an amazing secret seems so tantalizing. What would you really expect to see, though? Loaves of bread and fish that continually regenerate when pieces are taken from them? A swirling vortex or brigh... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: This PPR forum could be enjoyable, but it's oten not. |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2011, 9:08 pm
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Replies: 212
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| I took a look at the other thread that keeps getting mentioned and I must say, when someone is offended that other people point out the imaginary quality of their imaginary friend, it's only "being a dick" when that person is 5. Getting mad over being told there's no Santa, as an adult, is just sill... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: DoJ goes off the deep end |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2011, 8:43 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,523
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| Holy crap. PPR got way more hilarious since I was here last. That was a good laugh. Thanks, J_B! |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: This PPR forum could be enjoyable, but it's oten not. |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2011, 8:34 pm
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Replies: 212
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| Or was it just that they were being dicks about it? bingo. Yeah. For some reason, when we're dicks about stuff, people get a bit turned off. Just remember that different people, being different, by definition, have differing sensibilities and are offended by different things. Some of us are offende... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: DoJ goes off the deep end |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2011, 8:22 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,523
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: This PPR forum could be enjoyable, but it's oten not. |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2011, 8:16 pm
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Replies: 212
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| Yes, I would love to have see inside the basket that Jesus fed the multitude with. What was going on inside there? Could you see what was happening? Not that the basket itself was special, just what it was used for. That's the kind of stuff I would enjoy, or when Moses struck the rock and the water... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: This PPR forum could be enjoyable, but it's oten not. |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2011, 8:12 pm
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Replies: 212
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| Anytime an interesting discussion between believers begins, someone that doesn't believe drops in to tell us how stupid and backward we are, and if our god did exist, they would want to know him anyway. Just let us have our discussion, without telling us how you can see there is nothing there, and ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: "Which Bible" is the "right" one? |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2011, 7:48 pm
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Replies: 87
Views: 5,936
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| Before you call me a freak, today I was at a meeting of Christians and Catholics who are...well I can't say the rest. We read passages from Peter 1 and Romans 10. Everyone had a Bible, except me. I am considering taking an English class for Winter Term that focuses on the Good Book as literature. S... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Cracked, the best editorials on the web? |
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Posted: 09 Nov 2011, 10:34 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,991
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Vexcalibur wrote: The hypefad and teabagger parts are a reminder that cracked is not to be taken seriously.
wait... the dick jokes weren't enough?
cracked is awesome. i can't tell you how much time i've lost looking up things i read on cracked.
also: great source of dick jokes. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mississippi proposition could outlaw birth control. |
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Posted: 09 Nov 2011, 8:49 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,255
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| This scare tactic was already debunked unless you are considering abortions to be birth control. This has no affect on the morning after pill or things of that nature. Actually the Mississipi law isn't affected by Roe V. Wade, and is in fact the achilles heel of Roe v. Wade. Also this would make on... |
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