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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Secular Point of View & a Theory of Everything |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2015, 12:31 am
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Replies: 30
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| Why would your stance on a specific deity affect any of your non-god-related views? The sceptical approach is to draw conclusions based on the individual merits of each situation, not to jump on an ideological bandwagon with those who happen to share a single point of concordance. What is certainly... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Secular Point of View & a Theory of Everything |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2015, 11:18 pm
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| And yet, underlying all of this remains that assumption, about whether a God exists. If a God doesn't exist, we have no choice but to have faith in man, that we can get this right, and don't need to wait around for a messiah to make our heaven on earth or redeem justice in this lifetime. And we can ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Secular Point of View & a Theory of Everything |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2015, 11:11 pm
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| No. See: China, Bhutan, Russia, Japan, North Korea. Very different societies to each other, and very different to Britain, Canada and California (which are also different from each other). There are some ways in which secularism pulls nations to the "left". Hell, secularism and freedom of... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: GO JEWS!! ! |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2015, 10:14 pm
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Replies: 66
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| There are radicals on the Left, but there is no "far left." There is a weak-left, and then there's the Left, and then you have leftists with balls who will actually fight to bring about the world that the balls-less Left is willing to wait more patiently for. Those radical Leftists and no... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: GO JEWS!! ! |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2015, 9:51 pm
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| This is the reference old age cliché anti-antisemitic view, equating Judaism with Marxism, even though only a fraction of Jews are Marxist or even far left. There are radicals on the Left, but there is no "far left." There is a weak-left, and then there's the Left, and then you have lefti... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Nietzschean affirmation. |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2015, 9:06 pm
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Replies: 13
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| I wonder if Nietzche actually believed any of this. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Total equality possible? |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 9:16 pm
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Replies: 13
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| It's something that many have faith in, so it's always given the benefit of the doubt even when it produces less then stellar results. As I see it, the real myth/conundrum isn't whether full equality is achievable, or even whether an equal world would be a beautiful one, but whether the state can be... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should the public subsidize Left-wing curriculum at colleges |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 8:23 pm
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Replies: 76
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| I don't think we should be experimenting with the next generation in this way, but if we don't, how ever will we ever know, whether our ideas work or not lol But it can't hurt children to experiment with them in this way because we have good, peaceful, loving intentions . And nothing evil can ever c... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: let's post weird music |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2015, 12:34 am
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Replies: 104
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I don't think this is weird but I think others might find it, if not strange, then certainly "different."
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND? |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2015, 11:50 pm
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: American Military Bases Overseas. |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2015, 10:55 pm
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Replies: 34
Views: 2,020
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| Americans would be paranoid, and rightly so, of foreign military presence because, well, most don't share our vision of the world order we want to create. Others want a second polarity to counter the existence of US power. Others want a multi-polar world where power is leveled equally between all c... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ashley Madison and the moral high ground |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2015, 10:37 pm
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Replies: 88
Views: 2,756
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| The hackers stole personal information to use for their own personal gain. That's wrong. The site's users actively sought to stray from their commitments. That's also wrong. It's actually worse then that. Those who rationalize the behaviors of these hackers as having contributed something positive ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ashley Madison and the moral high ground |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2015, 10:31 pm
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| And so is cheating, but unlike cheating, the hacker's actions may have a positive benefit to society. Sorry, but that's a win for society in my book. Yes, both groups did immoral things, c'est la vie ; at least this time there may be a net positive to society and let's face it the way society's bee... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: American Military Bases Overseas. |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2015, 10:01 pm
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Replies: 34
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| Americans would be paranoid, and rightly so, of foreign military presence because, well, most don't share our vision of the world order we want to create. Others want a second polarity to counter the existence of US power. Others want a multi-polar world where power is leveled equally between all co... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: American Military Bases Overseas. |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2015, 9:57 pm
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| Because we live in the Capitalist, Liberal, Western world that America made, since WWII, and even more so since the fall of the soviet union. Our pact with Europe has mostly been that they don't go to war with each other, and in turn, America will provide them protection. It would be nicer if Europe... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ashley Madison and the moral high ground |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2015, 9:42 pm
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Replies: 88
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| It's not right what they did. Unless it involved someone younger then 16, or a situation where there was no consent between humans, it isn't a moral issue that should concern others. I don't care about people's affairs or sexual lives, and I certainly don't want to know, and don't think that it's a... |
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