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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... |
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Belacqua |
Politics
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April 22, 2024 at 7:03 am |
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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... |
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Belacqua |
Islam
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April 22, 2024 at 5:15 am |
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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... |
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Belacqua |
News & Current Affairs
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April 19, 2024 at 7:59 pm |
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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 ... |
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Belacqua |
News & Current Affairs
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110245 |
April 11, 2024 at 8:34 pm |
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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 ... |
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Belacqua |
Lifestyle & Personal Matters
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April 11, 2024 at 8:48 am |
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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... |
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Belacqua |
News & Activism
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April 10, 2024 at 4:34 am |
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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 ... |
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Atheism
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April 8, 2024 at 3:28 am |
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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... |
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Atheism
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April 7, 2024 at 8:10 pm |
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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. |
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Atheism
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April 7, 2024 at 8:03 am |
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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... |
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Atheism
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April 7, 2024 at 4:45 am |
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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,... |
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Atheism
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April 7, 2024 at 4:12 am |
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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.
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Serious question, and to answer it I'd say we'd n... |
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Atheism
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April 7, 2024 at 2:55 am |
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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... |
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Belacqua |
History
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April 6, 2024 at 7:34 am |
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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... |
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Belacqua |
Politics
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April 5, 2024 at 2:36 am |
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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... |
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Belacqua |
History
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April 5, 2024 at 12:03 am |
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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. |
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Politics
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April 4, 2024 at 11:45 pm |
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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... |
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Belacqua |
Christianity
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April 4, 2024 at 10:46 pm |
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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... |
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Belacqua |
Christianity
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April 4, 2024 at 9:37 pm |
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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... |
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Belacqua |
History
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April 4, 2024 at 9:29 pm |
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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... |
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April 2, 2024 at 5:12 pm |