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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Giants in Antiquity |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2014, 11:51 pm
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Replies: 141
Views: 5,956
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| There are 1,000+ mythological creatures in ancient stories. You know what's true? People like to make up stories. True then. True now. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ferguson, MO |
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Posted: 22 Aug 2014, 3:39 pm
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Replies: 246
Views: 13,213
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| I don't think it's a reasonable reaction to attempt to kill yourself after an arrest but people do it. Unusual things happen when people are under psychological stress and feel they've failed. Brown may have quickly realized that he was no longer going to a technical college in a few days. He was go... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Now HERE is something interesting about the New Testament!! |
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Posted: 20 Aug 2014, 6:54 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,026
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| Interesting that the evil in the prophecy comes in the form of beasts from the sea. The ancient Jews never really got over that sea monster business. Finally comes up again in the NT book of Revelations when the beast is destroyed and the Earth is remade without a sea. I'll admit the deep is scary. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ferguson, MO |
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Posted: 20 Aug 2014, 4:34 pm
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Replies: 246
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| Eh, I just don't think the protests are a big deal or some great sea change in policing. It looks like the standard response we've seen for a long time. Protesters do their thing, small groups of political agitators move in, the criminal element hovers around looking for opportunity and the police m... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Michael Brown shooting - justified? |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2014, 10:57 pm
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Replies: 91
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| There were some more unsubstantiated reports today. The grand jury tomorrow should hear some real evidence and eventually so will everyone else. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Michael Brown shooting - justified? |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2014, 2:24 am
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Replies: 91
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| Too much is uncertain. There are many odd things that need to be resolved but I find it difficult to believe that a trained cop can't hit the center mass of a stationary target with raised arms at 35 feet. He puts 4 of 6 rounds into raised stationary arms? Really? Running arms that blocked the cente... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ferguson, MO |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2014, 2:02 am
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Replies: 246
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| Throughout my life liberals have constantly complained about police tactics. From individual police shootings, to OWS removal tactics, to WTO protest police responses, to anti-war protester treatment during the Iraq war and stretching all the way back to the Vietnam war. Experiencing and complaining... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ferguson, MO |
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Posted: 17 Aug 2014, 7:26 pm
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Replies: 246
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| Honestly, the way incident is described it doesn't sound like there is any way the officer was justified in his shooting. He shot Brown multiple times and supposedly in the back as pursued him and then when Brown turned around after being hit. His friend and eye witnesses say he put his hands up af... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ferguson, MO |
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Posted: 17 Aug 2014, 5:38 pm
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Replies: 246
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| We don't have all the facts yet. The officer's face was apparently swollen after he took a punch through the window. Something happened at the window. There is also a slightly ambiguous account from a witness talking about Brown turning around and coming back at the cop. Which jibes with what the co... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ferguson, MO |
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Posted: 17 Aug 2014, 12:01 pm
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Replies: 246
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| I don't have any problem with the police having the tools to fight a riot. Riots can be very ugly. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ferguson, MO |
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Posted: 16 Aug 2014, 1:39 pm
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Replies: 246
Views: 13,213
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ferguson, MO |
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Posted: 16 Aug 2014, 1:26 pm
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Replies: 246
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| If they don't crack down businesses get looted and business owners complain. If they appear too forceful the media and public complain, police withdraw, and businesses get looted. :lol: It's a common theme with these things. The WTO stuff in 1999 was wilder. Police gassed thousands and thousands of ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The bastardisation of scientific knowledge |
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Posted: 15 Aug 2014, 6:18 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,496
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| Quote mining is easy. You can make anyone support any position by not explaining their full views. I believe it was Sean Carroll who noted that life as we know it appears to be quite fragile and rare so the "fine tuning" is relative. It's like suggesting that a car engine was fine tuned to support m... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The bastardisation of scientific knowledge |
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Posted: 15 Aug 2014, 12:56 am
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| Stephen Hawking and Paul Davies don't support Intelligent Design. :lol: Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory. Fine Tuning versus the Anthropic Principle is more of a philosophical argument at the moment. Then add in the simple fact that we don't know if our form of life is the only life pos... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Life on Other Planets and the Existence of God |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2014, 10:33 am
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Replies: 38
Views: 2,625
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| We couldnt detect Voyager I or II if they werent beaming directly at us on a known frequency. Too small, too far. We haven't even discovered all of the near earth objects that could hit Earth. There are billions if not trillions of small objects in the solar system that we have no idea about. A smal... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How is atheist morality not Social Darwinism? |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2014, 9:35 am
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Replies: 75
Views: 5,005
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| Yes but it is a misnomer so therefore can't be compared to objectivity or subjectivity. It is using a trick of Semitics to make an invalid argument. It has nothing to do with objectivity or subjectivity, Full stop. I agree with this. Anyway, the 10 commandments (ignoring all of the crazy laws that ... |
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