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Thread: Living with less money
Post: Living with less money
| (November 29, 2013 at 8:13 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: (November 29, 2013 at 8:00 pm)Zazzy Wrote: But where DO you live?
Everybody can consume less, yes. But most people have areas where they aren't w... |
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Politics
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December 10, 2013 at 5:53 pm |
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Thread: Is science the only way to knowledge?
Post: Is science the only way to knowledge?
| The scientific method is a means of differentiating perceptions, observations, and conclusions that are true from those that are false. Since human senses and conclusions are so frequently incorrect, ... |
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JDFlood |
General Science
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November 29, 2013 at 8:28 pm |
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Thread: Living with less money
Post: Living with less money
| I guess it has to depend on you personality. As a child I alway saw myself as an intellectual, athletic, explorer, with the desire to experience some of the best things in life. I always loved astrono... |
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JDFlood |
Politics
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November 29, 2013 at 8:07 pm |
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Thread: How do you prove your religion/holy books were not corrupted.
Post: How do you prove your religion/holy books were not...
| Add check sums to them. JD |
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JDFlood |
Religion
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March 6, 2013 at 6:55 pm |
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Thread: The "atheist movement"
Post: The "atheist movement"
| The scientific method is a process of developing hypothesis, collecting data... Etc. it strives to prove what exists. But seldom can prove what does not because you cannot collect all data about all t... |
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JDFlood |
Atheism
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March 6, 2013 at 11:51 am |
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Thread: The Case for Theism
Post: The Case for Theism
| "Theism to me is a belief and an opinion, I don't claim it's a fact."
Stop, go no further, read and reread your above quote, until you understand it's meaning. This is where folks go wrong, they ke... |
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JDFlood |
Religion
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March 6, 2013 at 11:35 am |
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Thread: How can we be sure this is reality?
Post: How can we be sure this is reality?
| Everyone should probably ponder this for a while. But I also have to agree with above. A little bit in private is good, but looks silly in public. In one line of standard reasoning we suspect our perc... |
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JDFlood |
Philosophy
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February 14, 2013 at 5:32 pm |
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Thread: Consciousness
Post: Consciousness
| (February 11, 2013 at 2:06 pm)JDFlood Wrote: (January 11, 2013 at 2:37 am)Youssef Wrote: It has been driving me crazy. Why am I not a gorilla in the amazon or an old lady's poodle? I don't have an... |
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Philosophy
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February 11, 2013 at 6:20 pm |
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Thread: Why is life worth living as an atheist?
Post: Why is life worth living as an atheist?
| So believing in something that does not exist is safe because it cannot be destroyed. Clever. JD |
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Philosophy
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February 11, 2013 at 5:17 pm |
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Thread: Consciousness
Post: Consciousness
| (January 11, 2013 at 2:37 am)Youssef Wrote: It has been driving me crazy. Why am I not a gorilla in the amazon or an old lady's poodle? I don't have anything else to add really...
Personally I think... |
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JDFlood |
Philosophy
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February 11, 2013 at 2:06 pm |
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Thread: conciousness
Post: conciousness
| I have read an enormous amount of that crap on the subject. The philosophers point of view is frequently attempts that start from knowing little and thinking themselves into understanding what it is. ... |
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JDFlood |
Philosophy
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February 11, 2013 at 11:08 am |
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Thread: Why is life worth living as an atheist?
Post: RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist?
| (February 5, 2013 at 8:34 am)AtlasS Wrote: Quote:My question is not what is the meaning of life, because I don't feel you can give meaning to life and I think life just is.
Hi : ) I'm not an atheis... |
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JDFlood |
Philosophy
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February 10, 2013 at 2:05 pm |
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Thread: conciousness
Post: conciousness
| Something we all posses, the perception of what is around us, our emotional responses and the inner conversation we have with ourselves. Poorly defined, you can't be serious, it is something we all ex... |
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Philosophy
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February 10, 2013 at 12:06 pm |
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Thread: Why is life worth living as an atheist?
Post: RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist?
| I must admit the question really throws me. I think because it conflates three different unrelated topics. It is asking for meaning in life, I think. So Atheism has nothing to do with it. Meaning doe... |
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JDFlood |
Philosophy
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February 8, 2013 at 10:33 pm |
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Thread: Let's say that science proves that God exists
Post: RE: Let's say that science proves that God exists
| There would be no change to most religions. They would maintain what they do now, deny reality and maintain the dogma. Personally, if shown proof I would spend a lot of time verifying, and then think ... |
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JDFlood |
Atheism
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February 8, 2013 at 11:25 am |
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Thread: How do you find meaning as an atheist?
Post: RE: How do you find meaning as an atheist?
| I have never had to look for meaning. I have always had interests and desires to know and learn (as well as to eat and be successful). This motivates me to achieve. Achieving goals, learning and exper... |
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JDFlood |
Philosophy
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February 8, 2013 at 12:02 am |
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Thread: conciousness
Post: conciousness
| That is one book, I read it, didn't leave a big impression on me. I highly recommend "The Psychology of Emotions", by Carroll Izard. To me this really helped add meat onto the basic ideas of sensory i... |
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JDFlood |
Philosophy
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February 7, 2013 at 5:44 pm |
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Thread: In pursuit of...
Post: In pursuit of...
| (February 7, 2013 at 1:09 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: Hello fellow fractal art lover (?) and welcome to AF! ^_^
Yes, I love fractals. I have burned up a lot of MIPS exploring the Mandelbrot. Chaos theory als... |
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JDFlood |
Introductions
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February 7, 2013 at 5:04 pm |
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Thread: In pursuit of...
Post: In pursuit of...
| I have always questioned things. I realized what people said and did was vastly different in my early teens. In high school my school had a philosophy class actually taught by teacher with a PhD in ph... |
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Introductions
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February 7, 2013 at 1:07 am |
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Thread: Brain Cells and the Universe
Post: RE: Brain Cells and the Universe
| With respect to the similarity of cosmology and brain. When I was studying geology I was struck by the amazing and perfect relationship between the underlying atomic structure and the shape and relati... |
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JDFlood |
General Science
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February 7, 2013 at 12:19 am |
