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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All the problems with Christianity |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2013, 1:24 pm
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| ... I think that the most valid perspective on life is the one which most closely matches what you ... are experiencing at any given moment; the view which *does not deny* your subjective experience. ... 'Subjective experience' is the biggest delusion. Sorry. As you said on another thread "Quining ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All the problems with Christianity |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2013, 4:14 am
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| aghogday, I'm sure you think that your seeing everything as one is deeply meaningful. It isn't though. The problem and the fact that you and we all have to come up with is that we all have broken minds. The whole of reality is broken. No, even worse, it is not something where the terms "broken" and... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sovereignty of God & No Free Will: Islam |
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Posted: 20 Jul 2013, 10:42 am
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Replies: 68
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| Thank you all very much for some really interesting replies. :) Am mulling them over. Then why are there punishments in Islamic law (Sharia)? Why punish people for their actions if the very same actions are all under God's control, and thus preordained by God? I answered "I don't know" to this yeste... |
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Forum: WrongPlanet.net discussion Topic: For the love god, PLEASE STOP with the CAPTCHA. |
| ouinon |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 1:15 pm
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Replies: 238
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| I've been getting it too, sometimes as often as twice per post, and every time I edit or preview, and I also seem to have to write something in the comment window too or the Captcha tests go on for ever. :( :? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr eg. http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt235795.html BUT *... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sovereignty of God & No Free Will: Islam |
| ouinon |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 1:11 pm
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| Then why are there punishments in Islamic law ( Sharia )? Why punish people for their actions if the very same actions are all under God's control, and thus preordained by God? I don't know. I am only just beginning to read about it all. I was rather hoping that people with more experience and/or k... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sovereignty of God & No Free Will: Islam |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 12:50 pm
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| So you have a favourable opinion of a particular religion simply because it does not (by your account) have a concept of free will? Care to elaborate on why you hold this belief? Seems like a quite arbitrary criteria for approval compared to the substantial tenets of a religion... Islam, ( Edit. or... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sovereignty of God & No Free Will: Islam |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 12:34 pm
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| Golly! I had to pass that Cloud Flare Check Test thing *five* times, including a short comment in the space provided every time, to post this New Topic/Thread!! ! :O :( ... Subject matter a problem much? ! ... or is it this always this hard to post a New Topic now? PS. ... Can't even edit the above ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sovereignty of God & No Free Will: Islam |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 12:33 pm
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| Been looking, on and off, this last few years, for a religion/church/Monotheism which doesn't believe in Free Will, and failing. The closest I was able to find for ages was Calvinism, but it wasn't quite right because the absence of free will only seemed to apply to spiritual acts or something ... (... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What are your thoughts on the campaign to cure Alzheimer's? |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 12:26 pm
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| My English grandmother had it too. Apparently Alzheimers is being increasingly referred to as Diabetes 3, because of the role that refined sugar/carbohydrate consumption may be playing in its development, so a system/method for preventing it may be possible ( not sure if it can be cured/reversed tho... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Ketosis, beneficial for people with ASD ? |
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Posted: 08 Jul 2013, 9:47 am
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| I am currently exploring this myself. And I know that another WP member, Morgana, has been following a very low carbo diet for a while and found/finds it very helpful/useful. I have in the past followed gluten-free and casein/dairy-free diets ( for periods ranging from a few weeks to a couple of yea... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Bodily, emotional, and sensory perception questionnaires. |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2013, 4:25 am
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| Autism Q 35 out of 50 Alexithymia 58 out of 100 ( borderline ) Somatosensory 35 out of 40 ... I was interested by the explanation of this on the Qu. saying that it is probably/possibly a measure of differences in "long-latency cognitive processing", because that would fit with how incredibly long it... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Advice for my 9 year old boy. |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2013, 2:23 am
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Replies: 27
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| I *wish fervently* that my parents had deigned to talk to me as if I was capable of understanding this sort of thing, rather than saying all the time that I was too young to understand/that I wouldn't understand until I was older etc. I accept that there were some/still are some :lol things that I d... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Advice for my 9 year old boy. |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2013, 10:31 am
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| My AS son dealt with this by asking not to go, to be able to do home-unschooling, and I said yes. He tried pre-school aged 3 for a morning and hated it desperately/seemed practically traumatised/deeply shocked in some way by it in fact and I didn't make him go back. He tried school again aged 5 for ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stuck in female role |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2013, 3:29 am
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Replies: 33
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| Well, now I've been told off at work for not meeting the dress code--I wasn't wearing a bra. So I've come home to put my bra on and I've started taking my hormones again because I'm not going to have male sweat smell on a bra--eww, :( Am stunned that a workplace has the right to make a woman(-ident... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Does anybody else just not want to get a job? |
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013, 6:09 am
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| I haven't managed to solve this one either; as soon as I "grew out of" the routine/rhythm which school had instilled in me, of getting up and going somewhere for 7 hours a day etc, which process of deconstruction started at uni, ( irregular lectures, non-obligatory tutorials etc ), and continued whe... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Nothing but a lazy, conniving liar......I am lost... |
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013, 4:14 am
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Replies: 25
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| I don't think enough attention is paid to this aspect/experience of the 36%/subset of people on the spectrum, that of feeling as if the world is inside one's head, and that other people are "mere" avatars ... no less fascinating or important for being so, just not "real" in the same way as oneself. ... |
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