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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The concept of God |
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Posted: 18 Sep 2014, 4:40 am
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Replies: 12
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| If God doesn't make sense, how is that surprising considering a great many wise people have thought about life in general and concluded that it doesn't make sense? As Mark Twain said- "Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense". Basically, anyone who is a theist doesn't really... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Any autistic clergy? |
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Posted: 18 Sep 2014, 4:34 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 9,644
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| I've encountered a few blogs from ministers that were diagnosed with Asperger's. Stereotypically, clergy are thought of as people persons but most are actually introverted. Many Protestant and Catholic religious denominations require advanced learning to be ordained, so that probably accounts for th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm quitting Atheism |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2014, 8:59 am
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Replies: 65
Views: 5,994
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| I was never really into Sam Harris. Reading him just now, he seems to be completely believing of the Bush administrations war on terror narratives, and this has unfortunately coloured a lot of his anti-theist writings. Harris buys into a lot of the Islamaphobia of American populism, then, unlike ma... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm quitting Atheism |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2014, 7:38 am
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Replies: 65
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| He was talking about groups like the Taliban. It's fundamentally anti-humanistic and illiberal, his ideology would be more at home in Stalinist Russia. Everyone has the right to believe whatever they want, it's really a question of when people act on those beliefs that violates the rights of others... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm quitting Atheism |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2014, 3:34 am
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Replies: 65
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| For example, Richard Dawkins once called the Biblical God "a capriciously malevolent bully", but failed to mention what objective standard he was using as a comparison. I think it's obvious to most thoughtful individuals that was just his opinion, and he isn't really claiming to have some kind of a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do Germans have Asperger's Syndrome? |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2014, 3:13 am
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Replies: 98
Views: 29,737
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| The premise of this thread rests on ridiculous stereotyping of Germans. Mechanically inclined? I don't think so. More educated and culturally homogeneous, definitely. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do Nts lie more than AS folks? |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2014, 2:58 am
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Replies: 24
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| I think its a myth that someone with Asperger's finds it difficult to lie. I've always been very blunt and I personally view that as something that isn't a bad thing. I'm not particularly skillfull at lying well, that doesn't mean the inclination is any different from any other human being. I don't ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Asperger's and the math stereotype |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 7:52 am
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Replies: 188
Views: 54,348
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| I'm terrible at math. In fact I was told I have Dyscalculia (dyslexia for math). |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm quitting Atheism |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 5:40 am
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Replies: 65
Views: 5,994
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| Marx was firmly committed to the destruction of family life, .............. Marxian socialists have continued to denigrate the traditional family ever since. As did Jesus. What is your proof of this assertion? Jesus was a Jew. Judaism is a family-oriented religion. Jesus only gives a few exceptions... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm quitting Atheism |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 1:14 am
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Replies: 65
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| My late dad had been a union man who was also a family man and had held his religious beliefs seriously. As a matter of fact, people belonging to unions generally have families and are religious. Please don't denigrate the roots the union movement has always had in traditional society. I'm not deni... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm quitting Atheism |
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Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 12:55 pm
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Replies: 65
Views: 5,994
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| You believe that religion is the only means by which "community" can be promoted? Working class solidarity groups used to do that mass scale too, Marx was firmly committed to the destruction of family life, he viewed it as a product of capitalism that was unnecessary and would disappeared in his so... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers and Depression |
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Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 12:45 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,948
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| Rumination is a problem for me. Not so much forgiving other people, as feeling guilt and shame. It's hard to shake. I don't always get a lot out of trying to talk about it either. I find it really easy to obsesse about my own faults and negativity in general. Anger is not as big a problem as when I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did Elliot Rodger have Asperger's? |
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Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 2:22 am
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Replies: 58
Views: 13,569
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| The concern is with the recent tendency to rush to associating spree killings and other violence directly with autism when no such association actually exists. Of course autistic people can be violent, but they are not necessarily autistic because they are violent. What if spree killing really is m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did Elliot Rodger have Asperger's? |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2014, 7:14 pm
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Replies: 58
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| It's not an archmair diagnosis, his mother said he had Asperger's, she testified to it in her divorce settlement with Rodger's father. I can understand not wanting to be assosciated with a heinous act but the fact is that even people with Asperger's can do very horrible things, the same as anyone el... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm quitting Atheism |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2014, 7:08 pm
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Replies: 65
Views: 5,994
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| Theistic evangelism is a battering ram which constantly works to undermine secularism. Without atheists willing to stick their neck out to teach and publicly challenge theistic claims, our society would revert to theocracy pretty quickly, I think. People that criticise atheist teachers should refle... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hey Christians, how can you believe in this??? |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2014, 7:01 pm
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Replies: 147
Views: 10,206
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| Christianity had its day with the Crusades and the slaughter of the Cathars. Which amounts to tired rhetoric that has nothing to do with the veracity of the truth claims of Christianity. Especially tired since some of the most irreligious societies in the 20th century killed many more people than t... |
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