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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
January 13, 2015 at 4:44 am
(January 13, 2015 at 12:58 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: On a mostly unrelated side note, it's pretty badass that ancient humans like some of the presocratic Greek philosophers explained motion with Love and Strife and modern physics describes such apparently symmetrical properties of positive and negative charge. I agree. Sometimes I get kind of History-Channel crazy, and start thinking that the ancients might actually have known things that we are still trying to (re-)discover. I've even gotten a couple times to the point of "I'm not saying it was aliens, but. . . it was aliens.
I'm also keen on how Buddhist and Hindu philosophers were debating the pros and cons of ideas that were supposed to have been invented in the Enlightenment or later. So much for modern Europe as the cradle of all great thinking.
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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
January 13, 2015 at 4:47 am
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It really does scare me that it is possible some amazing knowledge was discovered in the past, but got utterly destroyed by religion. I've read about certain concepts being discovered, suppressed, then independently discovered after a long interval.
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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
January 13, 2015 at 5:12 am
(January 12, 2015 at 11:34 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'm thinking either something was lost in the translation, -or- Aristotle was a bit of a twat.
Option 2.
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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
January 13, 2015 at 5:18 am
(January 13, 2015 at 5:12 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (January 12, 2015 at 11:34 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'm thinking either something was lost in the translation, -or- Aristotle was a bit of a twat.
Option 2.
Boru
I mean, what's not to hate about Aristotle 
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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
January 13, 2015 at 5:43 am
(January 12, 2015 at 11:31 pm)Losty Wrote: Most things I do are for the sake of coming 
Does that mean what I think it means?
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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
January 13, 2015 at 5:51 am
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
Religious Views: He gay
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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
January 13, 2015 at 5:59 am
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
January 13, 2015 at 6:25 am
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(January 12, 2015 at 11:28 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: "Coming to be is for the sake of being, not being for the sake of coming to be." - Aristotle
'Change is because of being (living, existing), being is not because of change.'
It's seems proto-existential but I totally agree.
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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
January 13, 2015 at 8:12 am
You got a *Shrug* from me.
Too sick to be philosophical at the moment.
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RE: Your opinion on the following statement:
January 13, 2015 at 8:27 am
(January 13, 2015 at 1:46 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Fuckin' philosophers. It's curious to note that while modern scientific ideas about the world find rudimentary and often comically naive representation in the ancient thinkers, theistic dogmas which also possessed the imagination have remained virtually unchanged. Probably not the best indication that believers have attained any sophisticated degree of truth.
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