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    Thread: Cannabis
Post: RE: Cannabis

The reason why people who use harder drugs also use marijuana is .... why not? If you are someone with a mindset to eventually use hard drugs, then you will have no reason not to use weed, since it's...
IamAwake Politics 87 39500 May 29, 2009 at 4:14 pm
    Thread: Is it selfish to have more than two children?
Post: RE: Is it selfish to have more than two children?

If everyone in developed countries only had one child to replace themselves when they die, the population problem would be solved. Our population would seriously decline, which would really benefit ea...
IamAwake Life Sciences 7 2704 February 18, 2009 at 1:33 pm
    Thread: Philosophy Assignment
Post: RE: Philosophy Assignment

this may or may not be obvious to you, but Waking Life deals with philosophical subjects, but maybe too many to do a report on since it's mostly dialogue the whole time. Also Sunrise to Sunset and Fro...
IamAwake Off Topic 13 4417 February 10, 2009 at 10:22 pm
    Thread: How do you do chaps!
Post: RE: How do you do chaps!

Hey there... I think humanism is the way to go. I was prompted to look into it by Kurt Vonnergut Jr. Before reading all his books I'd never heard of humanism. I realize he wasn't really active, but ju...
IamAwake Introductions 10 3516 February 10, 2009 at 8:15 pm
    Thread: Evolution Part 2
Post: RE: Evolution Part 2

It was always explained to me as a kid that one day for God could be a billion of our years, and that's how it could have happened. I just imagined they meant that God uses evolution to make stuff. I ...
IamAwake Life Sciences 10 3417 February 9, 2009 at 5:57 pm
    Thread: What would you do if...
Post: RE: What would you do if...

I would probably get murdered
IamAwake Atheism 11 2666 February 9, 2009 at 11:37 am
    Thread: Religion - the accepted way to express hatred?
Post: RE: Religion - the accepted way to express hatred?

very convenient how people's gods usually hate the same people they do. Bora Bora: It isn't immoral to be an atheist. You don't have to believe in anything supernatural to have morals. they are not ...
IamAwake Religion 16 5524 February 8, 2009 at 10:03 pm
    Thread: Going to church for family events?
Post: RE: Going to church for family events?

The marriage represented more than a religious ceremony. The christening, however, is solely a religious ritual. If you don't want to go watch or participate by supporting them, in my opinion that is ...
IamAwake Atheism 23 7665 February 5, 2009 at 10:50 am
    Thread: Do you believe in Evolution?
Post: RE: Do you believe in Evolution?

http://anthropology.si.edu/HumanOrigins/ha/a_tree.html Here is a site with some pretty good information, including pictures, of old skulls and bone fossils documenting some ancestors of us humans. We ...
IamAwake Politics 36 20422 February 3, 2009 at 6:15 pm
    Thread: Interesting Story
Post: RE: Interesting Story

You need some really good arguing points that your 15 year old peers will have trouble with answering or at least will make them think. Any suggestions forum people? This may give them an idea of wher...
IamAwake Converts' Corner 31 11331 January 28, 2009 at 6:19 pm
    Thread: Atheism and my girlfriend
Post: RE: Atheism and my girlfriend

I was in a similar situation. I was dating someone for years and we were madly "in love" and whenever I came out of my religious stupor, he wasn't really bothered by my new outlook on the world, but I...
IamAwake Atheism 20 9758 January 27, 2009 at 1:45 pm
    Thread: Abortion?
Post: RE: Abortion?

I know how you feel. Dead kittens are sad to me. So are dead babies. Things that are usually cute but are dead and gross looking can be quite shocking. I know it is easy to be moved by intentionally m...
IamAwake Off Topic 35 14237 January 20, 2009 at 6:46 pm
    Thread: Abortion?
Post: RE: Abortion?

Most abortions occur within weeks of the girl or woman (not "mother" yet) finding out she is pregnant. Up to six weeks and sometimes more depending on the pill, you just take a pill to sort of dislodg...
IamAwake Off Topic 35 14237 January 20, 2009 at 4:28 pm
    Thread: escaping the Mormons
Post: RE: escaping the Mormons

I have often wondered about the best way to approach the subject with children. I don't have any of my own, but my six year old nephew did ask me while we were walking one day why God made the sky blu...
IamAwake Converts' Corner 28 10882 January 20, 2009 at 12:46 pm
    Thread: Reason for converting Good Christians
Post: RE: Reason for converting Good Christians

I would be relieved to find out he's a Christian, because the whole idea is almost offensive coming from an atheist. There is obviously some kind of emotional attachment to the idea there, or he would...
IamAwake Atheism 76 25877 January 20, 2009 at 10:40 am
    Thread: escaping the Mormons
Post: RE: escaping the Mormons

A very rocky relationship. I live a couple of hours away from them, so I don't see them very often. Two of my brothers live in Utah, and I went to visit them last year at their request, but it was jus...
IamAwake Converts' Corner 28 10882 January 19, 2009 at 9:47 pm
    Thread: Reason for converting Good Christians
Post: RE: Reason for converting Good Christians

I have imagined men sitting around, feeling superior to the masses, saying the same things about how to get more people to cooperate and do "good", and then coming up with a religion to better control...
IamAwake Atheism 76 25877 January 19, 2009 at 5:08 pm
    Thread: escaping the Mormons
Post: RE: escaping the Mormons

(January 6, 2009 at 2:39 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: Welcome IamAwake, Your story is a pretty compelling case for reconsidering the 'freedom' of religious education. What interests me is what was the b...
IamAwake Converts' Corner 28 10882 January 6, 2009 at 3:16 pm
    Thread: escaping the Mormons
Post: escaping the Mormons

I was raised Mormon. This is no simple thing to endure. Church EVERY Sunday and Wednesday, until you go to high school, and then it's also every morning for an hour before school (seminary) as well as...
IamAwake Converts' Corner 28 10882 January 6, 2009 at 1:19 pm