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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Are we about to make a truely fantastic discovery???? |
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naturalplastic wrote: B) Your DNA data, if anything, confirms that there must have been an ancestral Dravidian language.
Correction ancestral tamil language. Dravidian does not exist. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Are we about to make a truely fantastic discovery???? |
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| A) The Bible doesnt mention "Sumerians". I recall starting a thread on this very subject and if I remember correctly it was because I postulated that sumerians escaping invading armies who were the ancestors of the Babylonians/Assyrians/Persians, some travelled west. I suggest Abraham was... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Why Are Dolphin Attacks Rising In Japan? |
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| In contrast the Japanese have a long standing flipper hate. Texans have "rattlesnake roundups". The Japanese do the same thing to porposes...make events out of killing them in great numbers because they are viewed as competitors to human fishermen. it's not just the japanese https://www.b... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Real Reasons Why People Become Atheists |
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| Folks become atheist because...their PARENTS become insecure in their faith but fail to acknowledge that even to themselves...forcing said insecure parents to double down and force the faith onto the children in an oppressive way that cause the children flee religion...and sometimes to become milit... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Real Reasons Why People Become Atheists |
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| JWs believe 144,000 will go to Heaven while the rest of the good believers, presumably millions of them, will be resurrected on Earth. Oh I see! so rebirth back on earth. Actually that sounds weirdly like hinduism and buddhism. Enlightened ones become one with the universe and the others must go th... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese |
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| Apparently the lyrics use "becoming Japanese" as a metaphor for ...being an outcast or something. So then I guess that it would technically be "racist". I'm sure Japanese males wouldn't find the metaphor of having their identity associated with being an social outcast with white... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Are we about to make a truely fantastic discovery???? |
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| The Dravidian language family was the original paint that covered the whole subcontinent of India (the Indus Valley Civilization was probably Dravidian speaking) for thousands of years. The Indoeuropean intruders covered the northern two thirds in Sanskrit (which evolved into the modern Indoeuropea... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Real Reasons Why People Become Atheists |
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| Jehovah’s Witnesses do not believe in a literal Hell. They believe those Bible passages are figurative. NonJWs will just be dead while good believers will mostly be on a paradisaic Earth. 144,000 will be in Heaven. One of their leaders (a Governing Body member) is black. That’s not to say that ther... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Sarah Palin's Lawsuit Against NYT Has Been Brought Back |
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| Hmmmm Palin publishes a map with democrats being targeted with gun crosshairs on March 2010 https://cdnph.upi.com/pv/upi/a567f3ee9cf7bdea390ed68f02e15e7a/PALIN-CROSSHAIRS.jpg Arizona Democrat Gabrielle Giffords, was targeted and shot and critically injured on January 8, 2011. Even if Palin did not i... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese |
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| " When the Japanese cherry blossoms bloom here in Washington DC, and when the Moon is full at night, anyone of any race might find themselves...turning Japanese...turning Japanese.... the song is technically racist. When you turn Japanese (assuming the Vapours mean a Japanese man) - No sex, no... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Real Reasons Why People Become Atheists |
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| Jesus had various other teachings which were significantly more harmful. Sure, a person can sift through scripture and take the pleasant bits although even the pleasant bits aren’t perfect. Still, as I mentioned previously, they could be a good starting point for further discussion. “Do unto others... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Are we about to make a truely fantastic discovery???? |
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| Tamil is NOT "a linguist isolate" any more than English is. And no linguist claims that it is. Tamil is part of the Dravidian language family that covers the southern third of India. Its many cousins include Malayam, Telugu, Kannada, and Brahui. Other languages of neighboring provinces of... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Real Reasons Why People Become Atheists |
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| Most religious people have the best of intentions when they engage in that sort of behavior. In my experience, it’s often an unintentionally manipulative thing they do to help a person’s faith which they genuinely believe in. Yes this is probably right. to her I was a young catholic boy on my spiri... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Real Reasons Why People Become Atheists |
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| I prefer to avoid the Bible altogether as a source of moral instruction although it’s interesting from textual, historical, and literary standpoints. Obviously, some people will think differently, but many of the commandments and Jesus’ own, supposed teachings are problematic in some way. You don’t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Real Reasons Why People Become Atheists |
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| It’s concerning when believers tell you to just focus on the nice bits and to not “overthink scripture,” “judge God,” or whatever else. It’s a form of thought-stopping. We are free to research, analyze, and critique to whatever extent feels appropriate to us. Doing so is important if we want to mak... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Are we about to make a truely fantastic discovery???? |
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| Not wishing to offend the Tamil speakers, but apparently, the order of appearance was: Proto Tamil, followed by Old Tamil, then Middle Tamil and then Modern Tamil. There are no languages that don't change, but there are prescriptivists that try to halter that change and keep it artificially "p... |
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