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Lawton, your bit on "what would fill the gap?" is actually subsumed into a more comprehensive question-begging notion that, I think, is one of the biggest apprehensions people might feel about doing without religion. I've felt that people kind of exhibit this fear of lacking a purpose- should...

That just wreaks of insanity. "...these people are working with demons..."

I haven't been around these forums for 6 months. It's a pleasure to see a lot of the same faces around here and plenty of new ones. It's not quite such a pleasure to see the same old rhetoric being spewed in both directions in these recurring topics. Everyone's got their moat-gate up and...

I just want to add that unbiased news does exist... Just not in any present mass media format. What's news is news. What's reported is a story.

Haha, I love Edward Current. That guy is hilarious.

Well, by example of your own analogy, you should be able to answer the question. I'll go ahead and answer yours first though and then I'll explain. If I discovered irrefutable evidence that there was no such thing as air or atmospheric gases for that matter, I would continue to breath. The...

Called it. :congratm: Haha, sorry. I just had to. :P

I get the feeling that you're not going to get a straight answer from anyone because that is "unfathomable". Personally, I think there would initially be a lot of suicides due to an overwhelming lack of understanding of existence and meaning otherwise. Increased rates in depression and so...

Well, I can't seem to keep this thread on topic anyhow. So, please, go ahead and explain to me why this is untrue and why I am not intelligent because I don't grasp your point at all. PM me if you really want to be discreet.

*sigh* I give up

I'm sorry for digging up an old thread, but I just felt that it got off topic and I didn't make my point clear enough or something because the discussion I was looking for, never arose. This video does a good job of summarizing what I was getting at (particularly the first couple of minutes)...

Hey, that'd be great. I was actually going to make Korea one of my preferences, but who knows what I'll be getting..

It's very very compelling. It makes you question whether mere human intention is capable of changing the material universe.

hah, I see.

What? I hope that you don't think the principle is limited to physical pain or pleasure