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- Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:10 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Can we accept defeat in Iraq in order to move forward?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5923
I think they do differ if not in strategy, then certainly in tactics and tone. The Israeli/Palestinian issue is the great elephant in the room. Clinton put much effort into that cause. And he was backed by the left and moderates and even most conservatives, at the time. He tried but failed to keep t...
- Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:05 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Purpose of Life
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10075
Life and death are not separated. They are two parts of a whole. From this, you can see the quandary I find myself in, for I’m not able to ascertain whether you consider life and death to exist inherently – or not. And what is the significance of bringing other people into the picture? Inherentl...
- Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:41 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Can we accept defeat in Iraq in order to move forward?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5923
If a Democratic president is elected, which will most likely happen, I'm moving out of the country. Regardless of if I have more time in the military or not. I will retreat. There is a reason why American soldiers are dying in the Middle East. That reason is mujahideen. I truly believe the only thi...
- Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:01 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Purpose of Life
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10075
Sue, are you leading me down the Socratic hallway? What do you mean by “mortal component of existence� Is it your idea of enlightenment? "mortal component of existence" = the understanding and acceptance of personal mortality. "enlightenment" = the absence of delusions. What is the “parameter...
- Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:11 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Can we accept defeat in Iraq in order to move forward?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5923
Can we accept defeat in Iraq in order to move forward?
The last two paragraphs of this article are key to understanding what happened in Vietnam and what is happenning now in Iraq. Do we have the strength to look past our pride? I would have to actually see it from the American people for once to believe it. Otherwise, we deserve Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld an...
- Tue Nov 07, 2006 4:56 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The New Atheists
- Replies: 112
- Views: 15422
- Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:38 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Christian Conundrum
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4365
passthrough wrote, Some people consider me a “smart†person, but at this point I feel very stupid, foolish and unwise. Be aware of how the pendulum swings during the time of your realignment. The equilibrium point is in the middle, but there is a natural tendency to take the apparent conversion ...
- Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:52 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3813
- Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:42 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3813
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:45 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3813
The grandson can kill his grandfather for the simple reason that he travels backward in time and the grandfather doesn't. There is no paradox. The time frame in which he was born was not the same time frame in which he encounters his grandfather in the act of murder. It is a comparison of apples and...
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:02 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Purpose of Life
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10075
Sue wrote, What is happening in the mind of the person having the “personal experience†that isn’t happening in the ‘belief stage’? The "personal experience" is one that exposes the individual directly to the mortal component of existence. It is not padded or diluted by the safety of numbe...
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:08 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Purpose of Life
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10075
To my eyes, Tibetan Buddhism IS a religion and has many parallels with Catholicism. DalaiLama/Pope, constant rituals and prostrations, dreams of reward in some afterdeath setting, idol worship, etc. Truth is always a personal experience. Whenever you find groups of people banding together to validat...
- Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:01 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Purpose of Life
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10075
If humans are going to eat & survive in a sustainable and balanced way, then they are going to have to kill. This 'non-violence' ideology is just an emotional stimulant used to intoxicate the minds of those longing for the mere sensation of divinity. You guys are aware that the New Age movement of ...
- Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:44 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Purpose of Life
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10075
Cory wrote, It’s highly unlikely that slugs, butterfly’s and the like are capable of introspection, imagination, and dreaming, Overall, I really find such speculative subject matter un-interesting. It might be uninteresting to you, but it goes straight to the matter of moralizing about what "sho...
- Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:23 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: David Quinn: A=A Redux
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1070
Question: Why do you choose Jesus as your mentor over the other prophets of the Abrahamic God? Was it your upbringing? Habit? Have you heard the story of the blind men in the room with the elephant? I know you addressed this thread to David and I prefer to let David speak for himself, but if he is n...
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:10 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Middle East Revisted - The Iraqi Insurgency And Iran
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7257
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:03 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Science and the Universe
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1561
Re: Science and the Universe
Will someone explain to me why science considers the universe to be finite and expanding? And as a corrollary how they can think that the universe has "edges"? I have tried to read articles about it but am too stupid to grasp their reasoning. It is finite when relative to itself. It is infinite whe...
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:53 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: David Quinn: A=A Redux
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1070
Who said anything about God? You threw that in there. I throw in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You cannot PROVE he does not exist, and thus we should teach the controversy. Anything that cannot be PROVEN to exist, must necessarily be considered possible and thoroughly discussed with our children. I ...
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:45 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Purpose of Life
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10075
You say giving all things equal significance, not valuing yourself above a slug, or whatever, is rational. I say it's buddhist zealotry. It is political Buddhism. It is entirely delusional. I said the way a human functions is different from a slug. A human should not try to be like a slug obviously...
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:36 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: All Things are Illusory?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2471
I am not deying the existence of soil, air, sunlight, bacteria, cells, minerals, atoms, electricity, anions, cations. Those things are what the tree is. Tell me how this is not so. It is so. And all "things" are caused to exist. It is an Absolute Truth. Not much more is spoken to be true here. And ...
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:39 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What are emotions?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3162
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:51 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The word "pretty"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 855
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:53 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Music that moves
- Replies: 1086
- Views: 225331
Aphex Twin. Watch them in the dark. On reminds me of some of the old Peter Gabriel videos; stop action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toS-QvUtbfY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XesEuvwVjYI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Az_7U0-cK0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULvEZ78NVfo And just when you take h...
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:29 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The word "pretty"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 855
The word "pretty"
No, not that one. This one: "pretty good, pretty much, pretty sure" Is that just an American thing? A Vietnamese friend of mine asked me about this the other day, and I had never thought about it before. Where did it come from? Is it a form of "very?" "Somewhat?" "more or less?" How did those descri...
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:07 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3813
Is that so? Define time. There are levels of reality where cause precedes effect and X = X. Then there are levels of reality where casality and predeterminism appear to break down and X = not-X Quantum Trickery No, they were not sprawled along a sunny windowsill. To a physicist, a "cat state" is th...