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    Thread: why superpower countries do not overthrow Islamic government of Iran?
Post: RE: why superpower countries do not overthrow Isla...

(April 22, 2024 at 5:09 am)Anti.Enslave Wrote: The people of Iran and the people of the world have become poor and wretch, because Iran is an Islamic government.  Why don't you overthrow the Iranian...
Belacqua Politics 18 335 April 22, 2024 at 7:03 am
    Thread: Does the Quran support Theocracy?
Post: RE: Does the Quran support Theocracy?

(April 21, 2024 at 6:46 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote: My theory is that something is not working at its full capacity inside of us. And even saying that is one of these “deep” issues of spirituality. I'm sur...
Belacqua Islam 84 2755 April 22, 2024 at 5:15 am
    Thread: RIP thread
Post: RE: RIP thread

(April 19, 2024 at 1:32 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (April 19, 2024 at 1:14 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Daniel Dennett This is a big loss. I've never been a fan of Dennett's work, but today on Twitter the...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 1733 110245 April 19, 2024 at 7:59 pm
    Thread: RIP thread
Post: RE: RIP thread

(April 11, 2024 at 11:21 am)Jackalope Wrote: This is one of the rare times I rooted for cancer. Cancer has issued a statement claiming it was not the cause of death, and will continue to search for ...
Belacqua News & Current Affairs 1733 110245 April 11, 2024 at 8:34 pm
    Thread: Concerts (First, Favorite, Fail, and Future)
Post: RE: Concerts (First, Favorite, Fail, and Future)

(April 10, 2024 at 11:52 pm)Jamie Boy Wrote: Hello, all. I just spent (or maybe wasted) an hour or two of my evening watching YouTube clips of favorite bands from my past. If you're breathing, you ...
Belacqua Lifestyle & Personal Matters 33 778 April 11, 2024 at 8:48 am
    Thread: Decline of religion
Post: RE: Decline of religion

(April 10, 2024 at 4:15 am)MR. Macabre 666 Wrote: What a load of shit, everything has to be political with these losers. All you need to know is which network this clown is on. The clown news networ...
Belacqua News & Activism 184 11961 April 10, 2024 at 4:34 am
    Thread: Dying Well
Post: RE: Dying Well

(April 8, 2024 at 1:09 am)Jamie Boy Wrote: I'd like to suggest that we need to be careful about using the words dogma and norms interchangeably, which is something you are doing in your most recent ...
Belacqua Atheism 34 938 April 8, 2024 at 3:28 am
    Thread: Dying Well
Post: RE: Dying Well

(April 7, 2024 at 11:33 am)Jamie Boy Wrote: (April 7, 2024 at 2:55 am)Belacqua Wrote: We live in an extremely liberal time, in which living one's own way is seen as the best thing. People will ass...
Belacqua Atheism 34 938 April 7, 2024 at 8:10 pm
    Thread: Dying Well
Post: RE: Dying Well

Humbert Humbert was free to live as he wanted, and not as others thought he should live, for a few years anyway. I don't think very many people would say that he lived a good life.
Belacqua Atheism 34 938 April 7, 2024 at 8:03 am
    Thread: Dying Well
Post: RE: Dying Well

(April 7, 2024 at 4:22 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: (April 7, 2024 at 4:12 am)Belacqua Wrote: You assert this dogmatically. Do you have an argument as to why this is true, or is it something you just k...
Belacqua Atheism 34 938 April 7, 2024 at 4:45 am
    Thread: Dying Well
Post: RE: Dying Well

(April 7, 2024 at 4:06 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Living well means living as you want and not as others order you to live. You assert this dogmatically. Do you have an argument as to why this is true,...
Belacqua Atheism 34 938 April 7, 2024 at 4:12 am
    Thread: Dying Well
Post: RE: Dying Well

(April 6, 2024 at 11:37 pm)Jamie Boy Wrote: [...] For me, I wonder if religious dogma might actually limit a person's ability to live well.  [...] Serious question, and to answer it I'd say we'd n...
Belacqua Atheism 34 938 April 7, 2024 at 2:55 am
    Thread: The Real Easter
Post: RE: The Real Easter

Recent historians (not Internet memes) tell us that there may well have been a goddess with a name similar to Eostre or Oestre. (Or I should say, people believed in such a goddess, not that she actual...
Belacqua History 26 873 April 6, 2024 at 7:34 am
    Thread: 2024 US Presidential Election
Post: RE: 2024 US Presidential Election

(April 5, 2024 at 12:26 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: [...]Trump would be much worse[...] There you go, that's exactly how the one-party US government (the war-monger government) keeps itself in power. Th...
Belacqua Politics 1060 50545 April 5, 2024 at 2:36 am
    Thread: The Real Easter
Post: RE: The Real Easter

(April 4, 2024 at 11:49 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: You sound like the typical christer denier. Christeranity stole a bunch of formerly pagan holy days in order to covert the pagans. I sound like Jacquelin...
Belacqua History 26 873 April 5, 2024 at 12:03 am
    Thread: 2024 US Presidential Election
Post: RE: 2024 US Presidential Election

I don't think Biden should send weapons to a country that's committing genocide, targeting aid workers, and bombing foreign embassies.
Belacqua Politics 1060 50545 April 4, 2024 at 11:45 pm
    Thread: Some thoughts on "god"
Post: RE: Some thoughts on "god"

(April 4, 2024 at 10:29 pm)brewer Wrote: (April 4, 2024 at 9:37 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Recently, Richard Dawkins has begun calling himself a "cultural Christian." He seems to be taking a view (similar...
Belacqua Christianity 19 482 April 4, 2024 at 10:46 pm
    Thread: Some thoughts on "god"
Post: RE: Some thoughts on "god"

Recently, Richard Dawkins has begun calling himself a "cultural Christian." He seems to be taking a view (similar to that of historian Tom Holland) that although Christianity itself is declining, soci...
Belacqua Christianity 19 482 April 4, 2024 at 9:37 pm
    Thread: The Real Easter
Post: RE: The Real Easter

(March 31, 2024 at 12:21 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: [Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...Gehrts.jpg] Ēostre This is a popular Internet myth. It's false. The Christian holiday of Easter has noth...
Belacqua History 26 873 April 4, 2024 at 9:29 pm
    Thread: Transexuals
Post: RE: Transexuals

(April 2, 2024 at 4:56 pm)requiredfield Wrote: (April 2, 2024 at 3:14 pm)GUBU Wrote: Transvestite is simply an older term for a transgender person, dropped largely because of the negative connotat...
Belacqua Off Topic 45 1335 April 2, 2024 at 5:12 pm