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    Does morality exist without God?

    this, i gotta hear.
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    Why are so many Christians fans of Ayn Rand?

    Matthew 19:21 "Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, sell what you own. Give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then follow me!"" oh, i'm sorry, you meant Supply Side Jesus! that question deserves it's own topic, though reducing it to "capitalism vs...
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    Report Says Obama Moved $85 Billion To Honduras

    depends on whether or not Obama's reptiloid alien masters compressed it into a hypermass or not. or if he used a TARDIS.
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    Why are so many Christians fans of Ayn Rand?

    there has never been a truly "free market" in the history of the planet, the main reason why being that such a beast can't effectively compete with mercantilist / protectionist systems a la 2010 China. you think government involvement in the economy is bad? how about monopolistic corporations...
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    Report Says Obama Moved $85 Billion To Honduras

    yeah that's "Sorcha Faal" aka the Queen of Internet Hoaxes. you gotta really be careful about that kind of insanity -- what ever happened to the days when people assumed everything on the Net was BS until it was actually proven from reliable sources? that article is so many kinds of fail...
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    Report Says Obama Moved $85 Billion To Honduras

    that's how it goes when you have a global hegemony to maintain.
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    Does morality exist without God?

    this is a good thing to watch: FORA.tv - Daniel Everett: Endangered Languages but yeah, they are super-strict empiricists, lacking any sort of history longer than 1-2 generations. and so far, completely immune to the fundies trying to missionize (is that even a word? :P) them. in fact, they...
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    Entertainer Arrested for Thoughtcrime

    THIS! more like stupid bobbies, as they didn't follow the law. but yeah stupid all around. in honor of this event i will be posting the entire lyrics to Kung Fu Fighting into my facebook status today :P
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    Entertainer Arrested for Thoughtcrime

    the situation in northern ireland has affected every aspect of internal british security since the 1600s -- i wasn't saying that the Troubles period itself was the sole cause of this particular situation, but that any discussion of UK security laws has to take it into account. the various...
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    Does morality exist without God?

    haha really? you seem to think it's "supernatural" yourself. and plus, there's no monolithic "christian" viewpoint on supernatural entities anyway -- and even those sects that do go on about that stuff have a remarkably impoverished system of dealing with the supernatural, when compared to...
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    Does morality exist without God?

    not if you ask the piraha. it's just nature to them, and concrete experience, regardless of Everett's inability to see them. and they don't worship them or give offerings either, nor do they have any sort of shaman-equivalents. then again i'm not totally convinced that Everett is all on the...
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    Why are so many Christians fans of Ayn Rand?

    so has anyone brought up ms rand's unequivocal support for unrestricted aborton yet? or that she was a passionate atheist who considered the very concept of god as "degrading" to man?
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    Entertainer Arrested for Thoughtcrime

    it's got much less to do with "political correctness" and much more to do with continuing social problems dating back to the 1970s, often directly related to the troubles in northern ireland, riots in the 1960s, as well as the changing face of Britain in the post-WWII era. but that's really...
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    The Esoteric nonsense thread

    Wabbajack.
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    Attributes of God

    and for a "perfect being" it's a rather terrible engineer. must have been drinking the day he handed out eyes, not to mention knees.
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    Attributes of God

    ah, sammich, that's not as wacky as the whole "god created the universe and people so that he would have someone to worship him" thing. i mean, come on people, a perfect ultimate superbeing does not suffer from low self esteem.
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    Attributes of God

    more like mind-boggling.
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    Attributes of God

    Alex, i would suggest you lighten up a bit. And perhaps also learn a bit about your religion.
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    Attributes of God

    although it is relatively easy to show that various things attributed to the christian god are logically inconsistent :)
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    Is masturbation bad for health?

    oh almost forgot it's a mitzvah (in the modern sense of the word).