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Recent content by Socrastein

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    Materialism versus theism

    You seem to be making some rather negative and unjustified assumptions friend. I think my pointing out that online forums are geared toward personal discussion, not so much for reading articles in private, is reason enough for me to ask for someone's personal thoughts and opinions on a topic on...
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    Materialism versus theism

    Paul you seem to be posting a lot of links and pasting works written by others. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be more interested in hearing YOUR thoughts and opinions on the subject matter in question. If people want to read articles and websites they tend to surf around on Google and...
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    Credentials of Theism and Intelligent Design

    Read through a good portion of it but honestly had to stop due to an overwhelming number of very fallacious arguments. Affirming the consequent, appealing to ignorance, appealing to tradition, conflating association with causation, and more! The two recurring arguments I kept seeing could be...
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    Help lossing weight and getting in shape

    *Socrastein wears his shame face* For whatever reason, that's the impression I got and that's the picture I had in my head.
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    Input Requested: Health Books

    I don't mean to be rude, but I've checked out the Maker's diet and it is a sub-par attempt at a health book. Any book that advises against eating ostrich, a very healthy and incredibly lean complete protein, needs to be put in the clearance bin. Tuffguy The fact that bad books are readily...
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    Help lossing weight and getting in shape

    How does the water not freeze in -30 weather? Better yet, how do wet kids not routinely get hypothermia standing around in -30 degree weather?
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    Input Requested: Health Books

    The point is Tuffguy, there are better books out there. Books that aren't full of shameless self-promotion. Books that aren't full of good and bad advice. Books that are scientifically based full of efficient exercises. Given this, why bother with a sub-par book?
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    Input Requested: Health Books

    No, I'm sorry, Charles Atlas is NOT always good. The self-proclaimed body-weight and isometrics guru was taken to court on charges of fraud when it was suspected that he actually used weights. He admitted in court that he did. His books are completely outdated, based on ridiculous...
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    Input Requested: Health Books

    Body for Life is actually the most elaborate advertisement you'll ever read. Did you not notice Tuffguy that Bill Phillips was shamelessly plugging his own Myoplex ever 3 paragraphs or so? It contains some decent information, but for every factual tidbit theirs a piece that's absolute bollocks...
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    Help lossing weight and getting in shape

    Get your diet in order, that's the first thing you need to do. Check out John Berardi's 7 Habits of Highly Effective Nutrition here: http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/7habits.htm Then form your shopping list (or encourage your parents to form their shopping list) around the...
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    Atheist's biggest problems with GOD and religion in general

    I think the biggest reason I do not believe in any God or gods is that the concept is not only illogical, but completely unnecessary. There is no need to believe in God. The reasons people popularly suggest God must exist to explain this or that are all very unconvincing. We do not need God to...
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    At What Point Are You Using Someone?

    A very safe assumption indeed.
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    At What Point Are You Using Someone?

    Pertaining to physical involvement between two people, what constitutes one being used by the other? I am of the premature and underdeveloped opinion that a relationship that plays out like the "Little Red Hen" story is not a relationship at all, but one person using the other sexually...
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    Refutation of the First Cause argument

    Dominus: http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Found/08Void.pdf
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    Refutation of the First Cause argument

    What a brilliant way to put it.
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