Greetings "a a", Please correct me if my assessment is off, but aren't you directly contradicting yourself when you say "I don't want to reduce it all to...
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bestonnet_00
Aug 17, 2007 6:42 am
... The problem with not trying to use science to answer your questions is that you basically are reducing it to faith. ... Which ignores the fact that he...
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richard
metaschematai
Aug 17, 2007 12:26 am
This is NOT scientism. Probably you lump every idea not in agreement with your religion as "scientism." That's your problem, not that of thinking people....
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a a
praesto12
Aug 16, 2007 8:33 pm
In such questions it would seem that we tread on so many metaphysical issues as well. I don't assume the world-view of scientism to be able to articulate a ...
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a a
praesto12
Aug 16, 2007 8:19 pm
... Then you have no argument,right? Why are you wasting time speaking, if in fact you are not speaking? Where is the self in this nihilistic process you...
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richard
metaschematai
Aug 16, 2007 7:10 pm
Free will is an illusion that we make our own free choices for actions. Actually science, including brain studies in neurobiology, show an essential ...
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bestonnet_00
Aug 16, 2007 6:44 pm
... The many worlds conjecture is untestable (at least as far as we know) so we'd do well to just ignore it for now. It doesn't look to me like you have any...
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a a
praesto12
Aug 16, 2007 4:37 pm
Interesting questions by the way. ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out...
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a a
praesto12
Aug 16, 2007 4:35 pm
I do think that you have to define the term. Also, I don't think that if you're designing an intellectual finite event of expression of freewill that you are...
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kensharp81
Aug 16, 2007 4:12 pm
Well now, that was quite a mouthful. I think, to even begin engaging such a topic we would need to come to a consensus definition of the concept, "free will"....
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iamthewayandthetruth111
iamthewayand...
Aug 15, 2007 7:10 pm
This topic is strange to me. It never made sense to me at all, never, ever, ever. Yet almost everyone seems to believe in it and believe it is fairly simple....
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john_ryzek
Jul 22, 2007 8:42 pm
What does Ireland, do with sexually deviated males? Answer: Ordain them Priests and send them to the U.S.A.!...
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bestonnet_00
Jul 10, 2007 11:56 pm
Irony, he actually got part of it right, pity he didn't realise that the Catholic Church is also not a true church....
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bestonnet_00
Jul 10, 2007 11:56 pm
Irony, he actually got part of it right, pity he didn't realise that the Catholic Church is also not a true church....
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tarrat47
Jul 10, 2007 3:40 pm
LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that...
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Tor Hershman
yawn_lemming
Jul 9, 2007 8:27 pm
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john_ryzek
Jul 9, 2007 2:52 pm
The POPE wants to return to the Dark Ages, and bring back the Latin Mass ( Question: hasn't the Roman Catholic Church always been in the Dark Ages? ). A. What...
... What's the difference what you call it or what anthropomorphic descriptions you give it? ... Pathologies are just passing trends? Since when?...
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n1n31nchn3rd
Jun 7, 2007 9:48 am
... It's rational to believe in some invisible being beyond all of our senses and obviously without any proof of said existence? What exactly makes it...
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richard
metaschematai
Jun 6, 2007 2:47 am
But the argument is irrational in the sense of not being rational, or more correctly not being logical, since the argument is placed in the form of logic....
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bestonnet_00
Jun 6, 2007 12:13 am
... <SARCASM>Which is a big surprise.</SARCASM> ... It really depends on what kind of god you're referring to. A deistic god who created the world and then...
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bestonnet_00
Jun 5, 2007 11:57 pm
... Part of Marxism. ... I wasn't the one who made it. ... There are people who will tell you that the effects of Heroin are uplifting and not harmful (yes, I...
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mitch
md6666us
Jun 5, 2007 4:03 pm
... <mailto:deathtoreligion@yahoogroups.com> , "Dr. Newton Joseph" <drnjoseph@...> wrote: I did read it, but it is pretty much just the same stuff usually put...
... From: "bestonnet_00" <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> To: <deathtoreligion@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 10:54 PM Subject: Re: [Death To Religion]...
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bestonnet_00
Jun 4, 2007 5:55 am
... I certainly don't know any that do. ... Or maybe not yet up to date. That's a whole other flame war though. ... They exist anyway and there are a lot of...
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bestonnet_00
Jun 4, 2007 4:55 am
... Probably not, though I'm not expecting him to succeed at it. ... A state exists in so far as it serves its citizens, not the other way around. Though of...
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mitch
md6666us
Jun 3, 2007 11:51 pm
... <n1n31nchn3rd@...> wrote: ,,,,,Yes, you can be the sweetest, kindest person in the world but believing in an invisible pink unicorn is... a little... hm,...
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mitch
md6666us
Jun 3, 2007 11:51 pm
... <iruleyoupeople@...> wrote <<<<<Death to religion, good name. Let me get to the point. I want your help. I am going to build a glorious new empire. One in...
