Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?

[Little Rik]

For Christ sake Ton, don't be ridiculous.
What you find in the dictionary is not what come from personal experience and from PRACTICAL experience.

What you find in the dictionary are THE DEFINITIONS OF WORDS.  This allows those words to mean something.  If you simply change the definition to suit your interpretation, the word is meaningless.  Do you understand?  Your buddy spoke of eating sentient food.  This means meat.  If you have a problem with that, take it up with the guy who said to eat sentient food.  Your lack of education is not my problem, it's yours.  And you cannot solve it by posting two paragraphs of meaningless drivel that doesn't address the problem, which is that your boy thinks auras can be made and seen by eating meat.

Ton, you live in a world of pure fantasy.
Definition of words well before they come printed  in a dictionary come from a cultural system build over hundred if not thousand of years like in this case about the word sentient.
The words sentient, tamasic and rajasic have been used for thousand of years in the eastern religions and yoga and they just mean good, bad and in between good and bad.
These meanings are the real meaning followed by not few hundred or thousand people like in the case of the dictionary but by MILLIONS of people around the world (Hindus, Buddhist, yoga etc).
All you can find in the dictionary is none but a vandalize meaning of their original meaning.
The original meaning originate thousand years ago in the Indian subcontinent not in London or NY where the dictionaries are printed.
Just go among the millions of people that know the real meaning of this world and try to sell your dictionary version of the word sentient.
They will spit in your face. 

[Homeless Nutter]

[...]Just go among the millions of people that know the real meaning of this world and try to sell your dictionary version of the word sentient.
They will spit in your face. 

Yes, yes - we all know what your kind considers "civilized discussion". Which is why most of us don't bother talking to illiterate deluded morons in person. 

[Joshua martin pryce]

 how can you not believe in god, theres too many reasons why you should believe.

Because those "reasons" only work on people, who are too stupid/ignorant to comprehend science, philosophy and history. 

Wrong. most of what your saying actually agrees with the bible. when it makes sense of course. but whn it come to the purpose in life only god can give you that, and let it make sense. humans think the purpose is something else. nonsense purpose should be something you couldnt fulfill but always will fulfill.

[pocaracas]

most of what your saying actually agrees with the bible.

Yeah... those parts which are borne out of observing humanity and not out of making stuff up.

when it makes sense of course. but whn it come to the purpose in life only god can give you that, and let it make sense.

Why would you say something like that?
Have you tried every other possibility?

humans think the purpose is something else. nonsense purpose should be something you couldnt fulfill but always will fulfill.

Huh?! care to explain?

[Little Rik]

[...]Just go among the millions of people that know the real meaning of this world and try to sell your dictionary version of the word sentient.
They will spit in your face. 

Yes, yes - we all know what your kind considers "civilized discussion". Which is why most of us don't bother talking to illiterate deluded morons in person. 

Sure, sure i am illiterate that is why i try to know what is the meaning of philosophy and to know who qualify to be a philosopher.
Can you please help little Rik? 

[Tonus]

Definition of words well before they come printed  in a dictionary come from a cultural system build over hundred if not thousand of years like in this case about the word sentient.
The words sentient, tamasic and rajasic have been used for thousand of years in the eastern religions and yoga and they just mean good, bad and in between good and bad.

Really?  And these centuries-past eastern people were speaking English at the time, so that they could define "sentient" differently?  Why are all of the other words in that guy's comment perfectly easy to understand in the modern age, but only the one word that completely upends your bizarre little apple cart must be viewed in terms of word usage by ancient cultures?

Look, you screwed up.  The support you used for one of your beliefs completely messes up one of your other beliefs.  You can try to salvage it by re-defining the key word into uselessness, but that only works for a person so locked into his dogmatic view that he would prefer to re-define reality rather than face it.  And as I pointed out before, that's your problem, not mine.

[Angrboda]

Yes, yes - we all know what your kind considers "civilized discussion". Which is why most of us don't bother talking to illiterate deluded morons in person. 

Sure, sure i am illiterate that is why i try to know what is the meaning of philosophy and to know who qualify to be a philosopher.
Can you please help little Rik? 

Given your tendency to defy convention and define words as you please, answering you is a fool's errand.

Why don't you simply tell us what you think philosophy is instead of playing games with loaded questions?

[Truth]

Check this out!!!!! Guy is dead for 2hrs and visits heaven.Medical records n everything. Interview on CBN......
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Please review our 30/30 rule. Links are not allowed until you have accrued 30 posts and 30 days.

[robvalue]

They wrote in his medical records, "Visited heaven"? Or did they write "Claims to have visited heaven?"

In the first case, the doctor in question should be fired and possibly beaten with a pipe. In the second case, big deal. People claim all sorts of crazy things.

If someone comes back to life, then they weren't "dead", if dead means "cannot come back to life". If dead just means some arbitrary parameters, then all that means is people can come back to life even after being judged dead by those parameters. This is not surprising, since they are arbitrary, even if carefully chosen. So what?

[IATIA]

Anecdotal 'evidence' is proof of nothing except perhaps the need for psychiatric help.

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Wrong. most of what your saying actually agrees with the bible. when it makes sense of course. but whn it come to the purpose in life only god can give you that, and let it make sense. humans think the purpose is something else. nonsense purpose should be something you couldnt fulfill but always will fulfill.

(my bold for clarification and direction)

Huh!?  The only thing that made sense was my bold.  Obviously, English is not your primary language.  Can you elaborate a bit and mayhaps we can understand?