Forum: Politics
04-06-2007, 01:37 AM
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Replies: 197
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Forum: Politics
04-06-2007, 01:35 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 110
Re: Human nature and government
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Government makes wars profitable by externalizing cost of war onto duped taxpayers
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Let us not forget another ever-popular externalization of the cost of war:...
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Forum: Politics
04-06-2007, 01:19 AM
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Replies: 197
Views: 652
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
03-22-2007, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 104
Re: Conscious of Unconscious - Paradox?
There is an assumption about the conservation of these objects. If something appears consciously it must have come from somewhere. Hence the unconscious. Quite simple really.
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
03-22-2007, 10:54 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 104
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
03-22-2007, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 142
Views: 479
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
03-22-2007, 10:30 AM
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Replies: 142
Views: 479
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
03-22-2007, 10:19 AM
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Replies: 142
Views: 479
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Forum: Politics
03-04-2007, 11:25 PM
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Replies: 145
Views: 514
Re: Why Is AC/Libertarianism So Bothersome?
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And of course you're a neutral party here to make that decision...NOT.
Too ridiculous.
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Hey bud, you need to lighten up on these clowns like now or you're gonna flip...
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Forum: Politics
03-04-2007, 12:48 PM
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Replies: 145
Views: 514
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
02-10-2007, 12:10 PM
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Replies: 83
Views: 304
Re: The \"disease\" of alcoholism.
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Very different kind of compulsion. With alcohol you're seeking out a substance to satisfy internal cravings or dull feelings - it becomes a behavior of habit and eventually your brain...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
02-10-2007, 12:02 PM
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Replies: 83
Views: 304
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
02-10-2007, 02:02 AM
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Replies: 83
Views: 304
Re: The \"disease\" of alcoholism.
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There are plenty of differences. If you want to consider them critical, thats your prerogative, but I think you'll have to make a better case than you have here. ...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
02-10-2007, 01:09 AM
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Replies: 83
Views: 304
Re: The \"disease\" of alcoholism.
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There are plenty of differences. If you want to consider them critical, thats your prerogative, but I think you'll have to make a better case than you have here. And can I ask why it is...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
02-10-2007, 12:40 AM
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Replies: 83
Views: 304
Re: The \"disease\" of alcoholism.
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You could have chosen a disease that is less like alcoholism, but why?
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Interesting. I'll have to think about that.
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As to your second point, I would bet that...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
02-10-2007, 12:23 AM
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Replies: 83
Views: 304
Re: The \"disease\" of alcoholism.
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Alcoholism has a biological component. In that way it is a disease. Though it is one you can self-cure using will power, unlike diabetes for instance.
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
02-09-2007, 11:49 PM
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Replies: 83
Views: 304
Re: The \"disease\" of alcoholism.
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Alcoholism has a biological component. In that way it is a disease. Though it is one you can self-cure using will power, unlike diabetes for instance.
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What...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
02-09-2007, 11:38 PM
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Replies: 83
Views: 304
Re: The \"disease\" of alcoholism.
Alcoholism has a biological component. In that way it is a disease. Though it is one you can self-cure using will power, unlike diabetes for instance.
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Forum: Politics
01-05-2007, 06:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 53
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
05-10-2006, 01:15 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 468
Re: Religion: invented to control the masses?
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The laws of our universe also create a significant problem for those who advocate a de novo universe creation.
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The origin of the universe is completely outside the scope...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
05-10-2006, 12:36 PM
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Replies: 21
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Re: Excellence, the only virtue
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All other qualities; kindness, sympathy, benvolence and intelligence are but shallow companions of greatness.
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Without other people having those qualities, many a...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
05-08-2006, 05:45 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 468
Re: Religion: invented to control the masses?
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In Hegel, and in Christianity, man is created by god, in god's image. But Feuerbach said the opposite was in fact true: God is created by man, in man's image.
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Do you...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
05-08-2006, 12:42 PM
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Replies: 234
Views: 1,064
Re: The Appendix
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Well, the actual, generalized, found-everywhere phenomena themselves aren't, and can't be observed.
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If a causality works every time it’s tried, at will and under arbitrary...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
05-07-2006, 08:01 PM
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Replies: 67
Views: 277
Re: Intelligent Design
Okay, I took your sorry self off ignore.
Even thought you’re a hostile ad hominoid who likes to sling some smelly stuff from the back of your cage, maybe you occasionally say something with a hint...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
05-07-2006, 07:21 PM
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Replies: 67
Views: 277
Re: Intelligent Design
None of those quotes or any other posted in this thread represents a denial of all, rather than merely some, theism or contains anything that requires Einstein’s own statements referring to a God...
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