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    Thread: understanding time
Post: RE: understanding time

(July 18, 2012 at 11:02 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Time is a very intriguing thing to me also. I can't explain what it really is, but there are many different theories as to how time behaves, whether or not i...
twocompulsive Physical Sciences 20 10602 July 20, 2012 at 7:26 pm
    Thread: Atheists who changed the world
Post: RE: Atheists who changed the world

Was not Socrates an atheist? Darwin became one after the death of his daughter. Is that acceptable or do they have to be a life long one? What about Zappa? He was definitely one, though being Italian ...
twocompulsive Atheism 54 21214 July 20, 2012 at 3:41 am
    Thread: Church of England warning on gay marriage
Post: RE: Church of England warning on gay marriage

The Church Of England's sole raison d'etre was the legislation of divorce. Without that, it would not exist. It does seem odd that a religious establishment is founded on such a principle. But anyway....
twocompulsive Christianity 27 11232 July 20, 2012 at 12:49 am
    Thread: Can Creator create morality from nothing?
Post: RE: Can Creator create morality from nothing?

(July 12, 2012 at 3:51 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: twocompulsive...I think you misunderstood my argument. I'm not trying to prove if God exists, then morality is objective/absolute. I'm rather stating, i...
twocompulsive Philosophy 37 20584 July 12, 2012 at 4:18 pm
    Thread: Can Creator create morality from nothing?
Post: RE: Can Creator create morality from nothing?

If God exists and He created morality, then that morality is by definition absolute and objective, since there can be no higher source to define it. The problems start however if God starts being capr...
twocompulsive Philosophy 37 20584 July 12, 2012 at 3:37 pm
    Thread: Why do we allow chrisyian sites to Function?
Post: RE: Why do we allow chrisyian sites to Function?

I joined a Christian forum and was banned after only two posts and the reason given was that I had engaged in an out and out attack on their belief. Not true but I know why. It was because I stated th...
twocompulsive Atheism 97 27578 July 12, 2012 at 12:11 am
    Thread: My perspective - truth or delusion?
Post: RE: My perspective - truth or delusion?

Morality is a human concept that originated with evolution when Man had to abide by certain accepted norms of behaviour : to guarantee the over all well being of the group or groups : it has nothing t...
twocompulsive Philosophy 22 11158 June 9, 2012 at 10:40 pm
    Thread: NJ Doctor Would Reportedly Rather Let Patient Die Than Treat Him For Gay Disease
Post: RE: NJ Doctor Would Reportedly Rather Let Patient ...

Unless she can be found guilty of negligence she keeps her licence but has zero contact with gays or lesbians : does not contact any other doctors asking them to deny treatment to her patients : docto...
twocompulsive Christianity 44 15212 June 5, 2012 at 3:28 am
    Thread: A personal and worry question
Post: RE: A personal and worry question

apophenia has touched on an important issue here : namely the inadequacy of referencing anger as a mechanism for problem solving : Buddhism teaches us that one must remove desire as that is the caus...
twocompulsive Off Topic 14 4875 June 4, 2012 at 11:22 pm
    Thread: Interesting take on black holes.
Post: RE: Interesting take on black holes.

And what scale of star would be necessary for creating such a black hole : this would violate a general principle that they can not have indefinite mass and any thing inside it would be atomised due...
twocompulsive Physical Sciences 15 7506 June 4, 2012 at 2:41 am
    Thread: Interesting take on black holes.
Post: RE: Interesting take on black holes.

Now that is interesting and raises some bizzare questions on the nature of quantum gravity amongst other things since if we are inside a black hole then we should in theory be capable of finding a ma...
twocompulsive Physical Sciences 15 7506 June 4, 2012 at 1:13 am
    Thread: "Pure OCD"
Post: RE: "Pure OCD"

I have obsessive compulsive disorder as some of you may already know : it is not severe and is manageable without medication : now am obsessed with symmetry but does manifest itself in rather bizarre ...
twocompulsive Life Sciences 35 14783 June 3, 2012 at 10:53 pm
    Thread: A personal and worry question
Post: RE: A personal and worry question

Do you have anyone : is your phobia directly related to all this or is it separate from it : no doubt it is exacerbated by your past but it may not be the cause of it : can you provide more detail ab...
twocompulsive Off Topic 14 4875 June 3, 2012 at 9:40 pm
    Thread: Is absolute 'nothing' really possible and/or coherent?
Post: RE: Is absolute 'nothing' really possible and/or c...

Certainly in physics is no such thing as nothing : because even in a vacuum there will be energy but absolute nothing cannot exist any way because of the Uncertainty Principle which states that an ...
twocompulsive Philosophy 49 19848 April 20, 2012 at 2:18 am
    Thread: Famous people from your area.
Post: RE: Famous people from your area.

Napoleon [ the one here : and not that other one ] and Black Sabbath : not much in terms of quantity man but sure as Hell makes up for it in terms of quality though as those four arguably invented the...
twocompulsive Off Topic 23 7308 April 12, 2012 at 11:52 pm
    Thread: STUDENT IN NEED OF HELP
Post: RE: STUDENT IN NEED OF HELP

I just did your survey Finley but the questions on death and dying should have been separate as the two are from each other since I am not afraid of death as I shall never experience it far as I know...
twocompulsive Introductions 14 3734 March 19, 2012 at 1:23 am
    Thread: I hate it when christians say...
Post: RE: I hate it when christians say...

Do not hate anything Christians say and maybe some thing to do with my age : I am forty seven but whatever the reason is important one examines the reasons why things are said and not go off on one...
twocompulsive Atheism 62 28699 March 18, 2012 at 8:57 pm
    Thread: New anti-homosexual legislation
Post: RE: New anti-homosexual legislation

I would have thought that free speech was guaranteed under The First Amendment so why the need for more legislation Obviously there is a thin line between that and hate speech which is illegal but who...
twocompulsive Politics 6 2883 March 18, 2012 at 5:10 pm
    Thread: Gay marriage in UK
Post: RE: Gay marriage in UK

The real tragedy here is not denying gays equal rights though that is bad enough but the state of marriage itself : we have the highest divorce rate in Europe here in the United Kingdom : marriage s...
twocompulsive Religion 10 6390 March 15, 2012 at 4:15 pm
    Thread: This is How It's Done
Post: RE: This is How It's Done

(March 12, 2012 at 3:01 pm)Niqabi Ninja Wrote: I wish to see that you guys can treat me with more respect in return when I come back Salaam Alakyum Niqabi : I see that some of my atheist brothers an...
twocompulsive Off Topic 63 19515 March 15, 2012 at 9:10 am