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Thread: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
Post: RE: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
| okay, laymen, let's learn some evo-bio. start with [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_inheritance_theory"]dual inheritance theory[/URL]. evolution and DNA are not conjoined at the hip (is that fu... |
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April 30, 2015 at 12:25 pm |
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Thread: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
Post: RE: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
| Quote: Look, sorry it steps on humans toes, but there is NOTHING original about any human invented religion.
wow, that's a doozie. you contend that every posit put forth by every religion existed out... |
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April 30, 2015 at 9:41 am |
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Thread: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
Post: RE: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
| so, what defines this 'scientific age'? are the greeks involved? the egyptians empirically tested medicines (in some cases). did it start with aristotle? so everything before was hogwash and after shi... |
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April 30, 2015 at 6:03 am |
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Thread: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
Post: RE: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
| okay. first, we most likely do not at all agree about the structure of reality. i *know* that each instance of reality is a process created by some external source triggering my senses and being chewe... |
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April 30, 2015 at 5:14 am |
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Thread: Five things about animal taxonomy that may or may not surprise you.
Post: RE: Five things about animal taxonomy that may or ...
| I noticed that there is an odd tendency to name primates after mythical devils....there are baal, moloch and even an asomodeus - know any? |
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Life Sciences
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March 23, 2015 at 6:30 am |
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Thread: Five things about animal taxonomy that may or may not surprise you.
Post: RE: Five things about animal taxonomy that may or ...
| Linnean taxonomy is in DESPERATE need of replacement. It is predicated on the view that species are absolutes, rather than genetic ranges. Basically, it assumes creation, not evolution. I had to build... |
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Life Sciences
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March 21, 2015 at 4:01 pm |
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Thread: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
Post: RE: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
| (March 15, 2015 at 11:43 pm)Chuck Wrote: Does quantum mechanics stand to such reason as you might learn through Buddhism? And does Buddhism expand your common sense so much you can intuit the pred... |
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March 16, 2015 at 3:43 am |
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Thread: Psi: How Open Minded are You Really?
Post: RE: Psi: How Open Minded are You Really?
| Absolutely no proof. Don't believe it. A problem, since I spent several years learning to manipulate probabilities and got fairly good at it. Hell, I had a disciple. I've DONE things I can't explain, ... |
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March 15, 2015 at 11:31 pm |
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Thread: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
Post: RE: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
| How I lapsed:
Buddhism works. Period. When I really applied it, my life changed so much that every day was a joy to live. I ate good stuff, lived well, did meaningful work, helped others and LOVED ev... |
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March 15, 2015 at 11:26 pm |
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Thread: Global Warming: Long term observations yield unsurprising results
Post: RE: Global Warming: Long term observations yield u...
| The danger of global warming is from rapidly industrializing nations. If China, India, et al begin emitting carbon like the west, even like France, the world is screwed. Present level are bad enough,... |
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Physical Sciences
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March 7, 2015 at 2:18 pm |
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Thread: Lucid Dreaming
Post: RE: Lucid Dreaming
| I've had dreams in which I remember previous dream as history. It gets very convoluted, but I'm really enjoying it. |
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Life Sciences
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March 7, 2015 at 2:14 pm |
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Thread: Moral law in Humans and other animals
Post: RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals
| This is a moral law, showing the average benefit to a reciprocal altruist in a society of doves, who can only share and hawks, who can only fight. The RA thus shares with doves and fights with hawks. ... |
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Philosophy
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February 23, 2015 at 9:12 am |
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Thread: Come Oh Ye Rational Thinkers...and explain race theory to me
Post: RE: Come Oh Ye Rational Thinkers...and explain rac...
| Curious fact - most rifles are too long for a person to shoot themselves in the mouth - you can't reach the trigger. So i bent down and pulled it, and missed my head. I injected 30 days worth of insul... |
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Politics
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February 23, 2015 at 1:03 am |
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Thread: Buddhists apparently not Immune to stupid:
Post: RE: Buddhists apparently not Immune to stupid:
| Do I have to say it? They are neither alive nor dead but in a permanent state of toasty martyrdoom. As I understand the monastic rules, that kind of thing is *strictly* forbidden. Thich Nhat Hanh's En... |
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February 22, 2015 at 11:42 pm |
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Thread: Damned Racists
Post: RE: Damned Racists
| Okay - see, I wanted to explore the artistic concept of the 'fourth wall' - making your art interact with the audience. So I painted a mural showing Ganesh (elephant headed god) capturing a storm demo... |
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Politics
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February 20, 2015 at 6:21 pm |
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Thread: Buddhists apparently not Immune to stupid:
Post: RE: Buddhists apparently not Immune to stupid:
| (February 8, 2015 at 10:25 am)robvalue Wrote: Clever people can believe dumb things.
And create complex and manipulative rationalizations for their beliefs th at suck other people in. Robvalue, are ... |
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Other Religions
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February 20, 2015 at 12:00 pm |
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Thread: Damned Racists
Post: RE: Damned Racists
| (February 17, 2015 at 2:58 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: How about racism combined with a staggering ignorance of anything cultural or religious?
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/swastika...ell/nkB68/
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Politics
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February 20, 2015 at 11:52 am |
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Thread: Come Oh Ye Rational Thinkers...and explain race theory to me
Post: RE: Come Oh Ye Rational Thinkers...and explain rac...
| Quote:You sound like a real pill to be around. For what were you incarcerated, if you don't mind my asking?
It's personal, but I'll summarize. My mom died from cancer, the slow dehumanizing kind. I w... |
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February 20, 2015 at 11:28 am |
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Thread: Come Oh Ye Rational Thinkers...and explain race theory to me
Post: RE: Come Oh Ye Rational Thinkers...and explain rac...
| (February 15, 2015 at 7:40 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Quote:There are gene lines, yes, and the East Asian Blush is true, but they don't track with 'races' at all. And, generally, they are mixed and mixed a... |
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Politics
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February 16, 2015 at 1:13 am |
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Thread: If there was a religion, what kind of God would you want?
Post: RE: If there was a religion, what kind of God woul...
| I'd enact the mythology of Parliament/Pfunk. Starchild would be the messiah, disciple of Dr. Funkenstein, who comes to Earth to reveal the secrets of the pyramids. Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk will rise to o... |
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February 15, 2015 at 5:20 pm |
