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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What Happens When We Die? |
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Posted: 20 Jul 2020, 1:20 pm
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Replies: 173
Views: 5,972
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| When the eyes decay, vision degrades and fades away. When the ears decay, auditory phenomena degrade and fade away. When the brain decays, mental phenomena degrade and fade away, and the same goes for all other sensory phenomena. When vision, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling, and thinking are gon... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it all the baby boomers fault? |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2020, 11:46 am
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Replies: 90
Views: 4,857
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| Life used to be so simple before the eukaryotes came along and started ruining everything. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Musings on Health Care |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2019, 6:39 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,260
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| Medicare exclusively covers the most expensive patients in the insurance pool, the elderly and disabled. It is not reasonable to treat that cost as representative of cost of coverage for everyone else. Yes it also operates at absurdly low administrative costs, that likely can't be maintained at sca... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Musings on Health Care |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2019, 5:34 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,260
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| Medicare exclusively covers the most expensive patients in the insurance pool, the elderly and disabled. It is not reasonable to treat that cost as representative of cost of coverage for everyone else. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you know anyone who hasn’t broken the law? |
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Posted: 17 Jul 2019, 9:20 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 825
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Quote: *Hit a deer?
Unless you mean something other than accidentally hitting a deer with a motor vehicle, hitting a deer is not illegal. Not where I live, anyway.
There is probably also no law against walking up to a deer and smacking it. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: [ LONG ] What "Make America Great Again" Really Means. |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2019, 9:17 am
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Replies: 44
Views: 1,597
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No, there isn't something that it really means;
It's a catch-all for your fondest wishes, hopes, and dreams.
For some, it means undo the mess the other party made,
But what that means, for some at least, is better left unsaid. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Nihilism |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2019, 8:31 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 755
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| It looks like another prayer for a perch, another way of trying to find a solid intellectual foothold where there isn't one, and one which lends itself to rationalization of a kind of enlightened inactivity. If your view were drawn out, then, "...they don't accomplish anything for the world and... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The human soul |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2019, 8:17 am
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Replies: 46
Views: 1,272
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| As a counterpoint, when you believe that another individual is solely responsible for hurting you... Sometimes it's like a squirrel trying to figure out where a dog hides his acorns. What I'm saying is that there is a sense in which the sense that we do make our own choices matters, and there are u... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The human soul |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2019, 9:39 am
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Replies: 46
Views: 1,272
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| When you believe that you are not really responsible for your actions because 'it's all conditioned', that is a condition . It's a condition that inclines some to absolve themselves of any sense of responsibility for their lives. They blame their parents, bullying, abuse, society, whatever injustice... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it odd that I only realize lately that I'm mentally slow? |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2019, 7:21 pm
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Replies: 8
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| No, slow people are always the last to realize. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Time doesn't exist, clocks exist. |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2018, 8:00 pm
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Replies: 73
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b9 wrote: Fnord wrote: Time exists, or else everything would happen all at once. if time did not exist, nothing would ever have happened.
If nothing had ever happened, time would not exist. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you believe in a soul? |
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Posted: 23 Oct 2017, 2:07 pm
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Replies: 26
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| Ok, I may have either misread your first response or taken it for implying something that it wasn't. It sounded like you were suggesting that paranirvana and what people call, in the context of life on earth, getting 'enlightened' were the same thing or I might have at least read (perhaps per lack ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you believe in a soul? |
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Posted: 23 Oct 2017, 9:43 am
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Replies: 26
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| You've achieved paranirvana? I would not put it that way. Serious Buddhist practitioners, who find qualified teachers, go on retreats, and follow instructions, tend to get enlightened, more or less. If you sincerely inquire into the matter, you can see for yourself. What I remember of it made it so... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you believe in a soul? |
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Posted: 22 Oct 2017, 7:28 pm
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| One of the more interesting descriptions I've heard of the nirvanic experience is it being called The Great Day 'Be With Us'. It's the day where the sun rises and never sets again (in a grand metaphysical sense). The day when one realizes they're floating on a vast sea in a bubble and they figure o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you believe in a soul? |
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Posted: 22 Oct 2017, 7:18 pm
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Replies: 26
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| The Great Mistake™ is attempting to hold a fixed self-image at all (i.e., defining yourself). It is, apart from being totally unnecessary to human functioning, a source of grief for all concerned. We become ourselves as our encounter with the world, and it is not entirely up to us how that plays out... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you agree with baby girls having ears pierced? |
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Posted: 02 May 2017, 9:07 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,105
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| I can't even imagine what the basis would be for the criticism. What on Earth would they even say? :? when you don't do something that everyone else does, some people are liable to perceive in that non-conformity a conscious rejection of their behavior. the implication is that you believe everyone ... |
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