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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Is it conceivable heavier elements than H and He formed... |
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Posted: 29 Dec 2011, 11:40 pm
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| It's my understanding that Deuterium and Tritium, the isotopes of hydrogen with 1 or 2 additional neutrons can ONLY be made in the big bang. Deuterium is stable, and it has no known natural source of any significance besides the Big Bang. While the Big Bang did produce tritium, it's unstable with a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: In a socialist society everyone is equal |
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Posted: 29 Dec 2011, 2:12 pm
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Sweetleaf wrote: So its a point to criticize socialism on, but a point to overlook when it comes to capitalism on the grounds that not everyone will be able to live out their dreams? [...]
No. However, under capitalism the free market determines who does what job. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: In a socialist society everyone is equal |
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Posted: 29 Dec 2011, 1:01 pm
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| Funny it seems this also happens in a capitalist society, hence the reason so many college graduates are flipping burgers for a living even though they went to college to avoid that and get a professional career......because there simply aren't enough jobs in the fields people study availible. So p... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it antichristian to battle antihomosexual discrimination? |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 7:46 pm
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| Laws, but which laws? Stoning seemed a law that Jesus did not support, we could say to be about reinterpreting the laws. Are you referring to the story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (John 8:1-11)? It seems to be a favorite of many Christians. Unfortunately for them there is serious doubt... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Political Ideology |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 12:29 pm
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In the past I would have described myself as a paleoconservative; but it seems that the older I get the more libertarian I become, so I chose "Property Rights libertarian (Minarchist)" in this poll.
You might find this test useful: http://www.okcupid.com/politics |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Supporting the troops = glorifying war? |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 12:15 pm
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donnie_darko wrote: [...] I know it's a horrible, politically incorrect thing to say, but when even self-proclaimed pacifists claim to respect the army (yes, I have heard pacifists say they do), it really seems like the peace movement is dead and someone has to defend it.
Si vis pacem, para bellum. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it antichristian to battle antihomosexual discrimination? |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 12:05 pm
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donnie_darko wrote: Well to be fair, the Old Testament also bans eating shellfish.
That would appear to be a special case: "not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man" (Matthew 15:11). |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it antichristian to battle antihomosexual discrimination? |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 11:52 am
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| I suggest you look at the 'Ruby Tuesday Law' http://helives.blogspot.com/2010/05/internet-atheist-facts-o-fun.html The laws of the OT certainly continue, but we do not live under the a covenant of law. Rather, we live under a covenant of grace. The laws matter but they must be interpreted in line w... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: After reading this, I'm convinced that Ron Paul is.... |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 6:12 am
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| Honestly, some members of the American Anti-War left devolved into a blinkered, single-issue stupidity in embracing Ron Paul. I recall on different Web Forum, back in 2007, there was some left-progressive who regularly stridently advocated for pro-choice positions, in very moralistic terms. Then, o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it antichristian to battle antihomosexual discrimination? |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2011, 2:36 pm
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| My point was its ridiculous to use quotes from the bible as a reason to discriminate against homosexuals....considering Jesus never mentioned anything about the bible or the Tanakh or that people should be following what either say. I think it goes without saying if Jesus existed discrimination aga... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it antichristian to battle antihomosexual discrimination? |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2011, 1:57 pm
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| The Tanakh and the Bible are not the same thing.....so that is kind of irrelevent to my point. I'm afraid I've missed your point entirely. The Christian Bible comprises the Old and New Testaments. What Christians call the "Old Testament" is, more or less, the Tanakh. I ask again, to what was Jesus ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it antichristian to battle antihomosexual discrimination? |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2011, 1:38 pm
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| Does Jesus ever even mention the bible.......nope, because it did not exist yet when he was around. So bible verses do nothing to prove to me that Jesus would be cool with discrimination against homosexuals. The Tanakh (i.e., Hebrew Bible), whence comes Leviticus, certainly did exist in the time of... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it antichristian to battle antihomosexual discrimination? |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2011, 12:28 pm
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| "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them" (Leviticus 20:13). "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For ve... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How can Aspies be conservative except under duress? |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2011, 8:18 am
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Tequila wrote: [...] I think in Britain there is a big lack of people taking responsibility for their actions which also explains it.
The general trend, in First World countries at least, appears to be toward "protection" from responsibility. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: In a socialist society everyone is equal |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2011, 6:25 am
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| nice appeal to authority, :wink: in his day he had quite another definition of socialism from what is commonly used today, That wasn't intended as an appeal to authority. I simply appreciate the quote, and I thought it was apt. How did Churchill's definition of socialism differ from that commonly u... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Before God... |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2011, 6:17 am
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| Before God there was the universe and everything in it, everyone going about there business, information being processed until it finally became self-aware and said let there be light. Endlessly repeating process. What's interesting is, while I learned this on an acid trip, it fits Roger Penrose's ... |
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