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Strange. I had a semi-deist phase in my teenage years that went away after an experiment in which I extracted LSA (ergine) from planting seeds turned sour. Before setting off on this psychedelic trip, I was convinced there was a deterministic nature of the universe and that regardless of my...

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It's amusing considering that H.W. was a good friend of Saddam Hussein during the 1980s war between Iraq and Iran. It was very simple. We wanted to get back at Iran for their disposal of Pahlavi, and we wanted the secular leader of Iraq, (Saddam Hussein) who already harbored aggression toward...

You really can't, their data is cached. The only thing which limits them is their disk capacity and server bandwidth/existence. My name Kalimar is also a photography company, which I had not known prior to the naming of my World of Warcraft warlock (Kali Ma [MolaRam]). Anyways, the best you...

Yeah, there is a subgroup of humanists known as religious humanists. These adherents to humanism find reason alone insufficient in their moral lives.

Humanism is a recognition of the aspect of faith in human life, and secularism is the acceptance of pluralistic religion. If one were a humanist, they'd recognize the history of religious beliefs in humans as a species and the requirement of "religion" in daily life. Neanderthals, while a...

I agreed with Maher's thesis up until he got to Islam. He focused on Muslim aggression toward the west as being based in religion, not out of anti-Imperialism. It is a combination of both, but their actions toward the west's intervention -- I need only cite the Balfour Declaration, or the...

Wiki "The Problem of Induction" -- I'm not allowed to post links yet. Read David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and you'll realize that scientists too recognize that what they can only do is work in theory. There is still a theory of gravity. Objects do not necessarily...

Have you considered the sustainability of our current use of resources in any way at all? Do you believe that we can continue to live as if we are in the 1950s despite a growing world population with the developing countries of India and China matching our rate of consumption? Do you believe...

If only there was some way to remove ourselves from these carnal and banal pleasures which we as humans are shacked to and aspire to become one with the God head. That way we'd be transcendent and stuff, you know, like totally not nasty and primal.

This is the rational (no pun intended) solution to an unsustainable market of meat. The arable lands required to sustain the American diet of meat is just too much to ask of the world, honestly. You can feed much more people with much less land when you're concentrating production on fruits...

Good question Sartre, here's my crack at it. Social philosophy (and religion) must exist in that these institutions allow deliberation on what it is to be a Just human. They are also required institutions despite unfalsifiable nihilism as there are, I believe, individuals which cannot, and...

That's a fine suggestion you make until coercing children to favor your own belief system in relation to others. I know that if I were to have a child, that child would be free to choose whether he or she is an atheist, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, etc... you get the idea...

Why not treat them as autonomous individuals in regards to theology? Teach them all religions, and accurately, not the Karl Rove version of Christianity. What's wrong with environmentalism, socialism, feminism, homosexuality, euthanasia and inappropriate contentography? What is "The Atheistic" lifestyle? If you...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Vampirism is acted on because of its perceived vile nature, not because one is authentically a vampire.

I am Kalimar, and I have joined your wonderful board to observe the dynamics of faith. As an agnostic (functional atheist), I wish that the experience here provides insight not yet reached regarding the will to believe. I am very much a reader of Kierkegaard (Christian Existentialist) and enjoy...

Now let's see how the Austrian School of economics fares. :thumbsup:

I hold that there are certain individuals, ordained by priests and cardinals, who possess a divinity, and by their divine nature, have the justification to rule a Westphalian state. So, yes, I agree with a monarchical system, and perhaps even moreso, the feudal caste system as it allows proper...

It only hurts legitimate customers. The people DRM was made for can be circumvented by the very people, and quite easily too. If you buy a program once, does that not give you the right to modify the program to your ends so long as you're not selling it to others for profit? They already do...

Basically, if you disagree with Zionism or neoconservatism, they'll regard you as a member of history's favorite villains. It's how they win "debates".