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Recent content by NZEN

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    Do atheists believe in Karma?

    There are a few ways to look at it. One is to dismiss karma - Because you will find people doing things that you consider wrong receiving all kinds of luxuries and good fortune (Take George Bush, for example), and having a good time, while all kinds of bad things happen to the innocent. This...
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    Fear of eternal torment

    I assure you I have no New Zealand money, not one current coin, to give to Somalia. I also haven't seen any pictures of the place, nor do I know how to send money there. As for the heaven thing, I assume you believe you only go there if you do enough good in the world, therefore, if that's...
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    Fear of eternal torment

    Firstly I don't have any money to send, secondly if "prisoners" of alcohol or drugs needed more money they would not be able to afford their "imprisonment", thirdly I can't find any lonely people other than myself and when I do they won't let me help them, and finally I am convinced that money...
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    NDEs - Relevant or not so much?

    Well, actually you're wrong. I'm surprised and disappointed to hear that from my fellow agnostic. What I was trying to say, in a nutshell, is that if we can disregard NDEs, why can't we disregard the bible or any other assertion about what happens after death; What do we have that's more...
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    Bell curve question... Anyone good at math?

    According to Wikipedia: ; The bell curve that represents the iq of the human population can be used to calculate the chance of a randomly selected human having an IQ higher or lower than a given number; I would like to know how the equation of this curve can be modified to represent the top...
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    NDEs - Relevant or not so much?

    If NDEs cannot be considered valid, what more convincing evidence is there which we can base the bible on? Also, if a person's consciousness reduced to nothing, how can it be here in the first place? If it comes from nothing, can't it come back from nothing? If it comes from something, doesn't...
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    NDEs - Relevant or not so much?

    Your statement is highly questionable; NDEs are too consistent to be random. It seems to me that by this logic, once you're dead there is no "True" perception. By extension I deduce that your definition of "True" is limited to the physical universe; After death, if you survive, you will have...
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    NDEs - Relevant or not so much?

    NDEs or Near Death experiences - A good thing to search for on google (Since I can't yet post links). Near death experiences tend to be vivid consist mainly of a bright light, overwhelming feelings of love and acceptance, and various elements from one's fantasy or culture, along with much...
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    Cat translation dictionary

    Edit: It removed the spaces... Cat translation dictionary Volume I -- Common phrases compiled by T. U. Oracle Cat phrase Means ========== ===== miaow Feed me. meeow Pet me. mrooww I love...
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    It's an Obama World: Black Mob Attacks Whites at State Fair in Wisconsin

    If presidents caused angry mobs full people of the same race as them, and there was a Maori U.S President, I'd still be more worried about New Zealand.
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    Fear of eternal torment

    I love the way you express your certainty that Hell is not where you will go after death. My question was asking how you reach this level of certainty. The thing is, from time to time things can shake my certainty that there is no Hell. For example, I read somewhere that someone was digging a...
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    Fear of eternal torment

    I would like to know how people, especially those who doubt hell, cope with the possibility of a place of eternal torment believed in by so many. Certain depictions of hell are quite frightening, but I find reading certain books can make the fear go as fast as it came, if not faster.
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    The importance of

    I quite Dissagree: Asking what something is is merely requesting a statement of logical context: It is asking how to define god, which of the many definitions to use. Asking what soemthing is does not imply it exists: It is like asking "What is a dragon?"; One might then refer to a mythical...
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    The importance of

    No, I got my information about it from the wikipedia article for mu (Negative).
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    The importance of

    Your point being?