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- Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:16 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Rollings Stones - Dead Flowers (live 1971)
- Replies: 296
- Views: 82310
Re: Poetry for (THIRD WORLD WAR)
The Convert _____________________________________________________________________ What territory should I defend? Towards what ideal let my soul bend? Once answered, such questions style The fit of his uniform, as he takes The offensive for something Authoritarian, tight-lipped or corrupt. Then, his...
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:09 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Barack Obama, next president of the U.S.?
- Replies: 651
- Views: 64977
Re: Barack Obama, next president of the U.S.?
Obama is just another establishment stooge. Nothing will change under his rule. The hedge funders are among some of his biggest supporters: University of California $909,283 Goldman Sachs $874,207 Harvard University $717,230 Microsoft Corp $714,108 Google Inc $701,099 JPMorgan Chase & Co $581,460 Ci...
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:27 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT BEFORE YOUR XMAS SHOPPING SPREE:
- Replies: 105
- Views: 5065
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT BEFORE YOUR XMAS SHOPPING SPREE:
According to the IMF in 2007 83% on all manufactured goods were consumed by the richest 20% of the world's population - that's us. A large percentage of this consumption is in the form of Christmas gifts. We export the ecological and social justice costs of those goods to the developing world, mostl...
- Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:22 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Certainty
- Replies: 57
- Views: 6044
Re: Certainty
I don't feel hatred or resentiment for any of you mindless metaphysicians, only for what you BELIEVE, which you know and I know is mindless conjecture based on nothing but your WILL to believe in abstractions and fairy tales...you may dress up your ignorances in articulate strains of verbage, rhetor...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:42 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Certainty
- Replies: 57
- Views: 6044
Re: Certainty
Certainty, grace, faith, tao, bla, bla, bla, all indicate a SUSPENSION of reason, and in its place WILL - the will to believe where no reason or proof exists ( IGNORANCE, NO MATTER HOW YOU DRESS IT UP). You twits are not worthy of respect, but ridicule, for the closed minded fools you are. I spit on...
- Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:42 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: absolute certainty - the ultimate drug
- Replies: 1
- Views: 669
- Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:14 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: absolute certainty - the ultimate drug
- Replies: 1
- Views: 669
- Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:12 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Totalitarianism vs Polytheism
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1217
Re: Totalitarianism vs Polytheism
Be good if you read the whole thing and responded 'in context'...It's about totalitarianism and polytheism. I don't ascribe to either, but am interested in where the ideas came from and how much they have influenced human thought and deeds, particularly in the west. By the way, your argument PROVES ...
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:29 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Myth of Cause and Effect
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1293
The Myth of Cause and Effect
Most of us think linear when it comes to what happens in life: “My cheek hurts, because someone slapped meâ€; “And now I am angry, because I did not deserve it.†Scientists, at least the overwhelming majority, are certain that consciousness is caused by the grey matter residing in our head. S...
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:13 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Totalitarianism vs Polytheism
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1217
Totalitarianism vs Polytheism
Nietzsche well understood the meaning of "Athens against Jerusalem." Referring to ancient paganism, which he called "the greatest utility of polytheism," he wrote in The Joyful Wisdom: There was then only one norm, the man and even people believed that it had this one and ultimate norm. But, above h...
- Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:01 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How to PROVE GOD EXISTS?
- Replies: 395
- Views: 25992
Re: How to PROVE GOD EXISTS?
It is often claimed by believers, and sometimes by nonbelievers as well, that we can't prove the nonexistence of God. While the inability to disprove a claim is true in some cases, disproof can be achieved by a logical method. For instance, if a claim is specific enough (supplying enough detail), we...
- Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:29 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Are Blacks Inferior to Whites?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 26212
Re: Are Blacks Inferior to Whites?
Perhaps the moderators could design an intelligence test as a prerequisite for entering the forum, to weed out the geniuses from the rhetoriticians, plagurizers, religious nutters, racists, fascists, women haters, blacks, dole bludgers and so on...But then, as history has shown, many of our best gen...
- Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:14 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
- Replies: 235
- Views: 20487
Re: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
When applied to metaphysics - no.
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- Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:54 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
- Replies: 235
- Views: 20487
Re: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
Carl, QRS's philosophy is philosophy, not science. He can believe what he likes, which doesn't make it varifyable according to scientific method. Its not the job of science to speculate about the existence of god or whatever, but to test hypotheses according to scientific method, and from that (the ...
- Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:49 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
- Replies: 235
- Views: 20487
Re: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
Because a theory is popular doesn't mean it's false. Even if the theory of evolution is wrong, this doesn't make intelligent design right. The point: you can't, scientifically speaking, PROVE intelligent design or creationism. And THAT'S THE REAL ISSUE... To prove intelligent design, scientifically,...
- Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:25 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Are Whites inferior To Jews?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6497
Re: Are Whites inferior To Jews?
All races have levels of 'propensity' for certain things...but these levels can be inhibited by socio-economic conditions, which allows them the 'freedom' to pursue higher education or do not make that freedom available. Many working families in Australia, America, Africa and elsewhere lack access t...
- Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:37 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
- Replies: 235
- Views: 20487
Re: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
Michael Behe's "Irreducable Complexity" Theory, and the "ID Trial", Behe's argument: "Irreducable Complexity" is something that Evolution "CAN'T explain",... Basically, any precursor to an irreducably complex organism is, by definition, non-functional; and would not be produced by evolution, and if ...
- Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:01 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Are Whites inferior To Jews?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6497
Are Whites inferior To Jews?
In America alone Jews have earned 27% of the Nobel Prizes awarded to Americans, 25% of ACM Turing Awards, and 26% of the Fields Medals. They account for more than half the world chess champions. Jews, 2 percent of the US population, make up 30% of elite-college faculty, 30% of Supreme Court law cler...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:15 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
- Replies: 235
- Views: 20487
Re: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
Kevin, I get it...read it wrong. So if the totality is not conscious,it would also not be 'unconscious', but something else. The problem with that is, if you eliminate consciousness and its antithesis - what are you left with? Further, if you haven't witnessed, felt or experienced the mysterious wha...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:37 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
- Replies: 235
- Views: 20487
Re: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
The 'totality is conscious'--- Kevin, is there any evidence for that? Or is it just a belief thing?
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- Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:54 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Plato: On Truth and Falsehood ( Texts: Phaedrus)
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6050
Re: Plato: On Truth and Falsehood ( Texts: Phaedrus)
like cordial when you add water....
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- Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:35 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
- Replies: 235
- Views: 20487
Re: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
Is there any observation (EVIDENCE) which supports any feature of your theory? (An adequate answer to this question will not be something which is a problem for evolution, but is rather evidence for YOUR theory. Remember that it is logically possible for both evolution and your theory to be false. S...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:46 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Plato: On Truth and Falsehood ( Texts: Phaedrus)
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6050
Re: Plato: On Truth and Falsehood ( Texts: Phaedrus)
Firstly, we're not talking about trees we are talking about ultimate truth. Captain Kierk's trees are no different to Plato's cave, in that he asks you to 'visualize' something using FORMS, LIGHT and SPACE. Plato did EXACTLY THAT, but there is no way you can ever get BEYOND THAT, and that is what So...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:04 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Plato: On Truth and Falsehood ( Texts: Phaedrus)
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6050
Re: Plato: On Truth and Falsehood ( Texts: Phaedrus)
[quote="David Quinn"]A Zen teaching:
Socrates used to go around Athens saying "You must know yourself". Once a student of his asked him "Do you know yourself? ". Socrates said "I don't know, but I understand this don't know.
So?
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Socrates used to go around Athens saying "You must know yourself". Once a student of his asked him "Do you know yourself? ". Socrates said "I don't know, but I understand this don't know.
So?
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- Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:30 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Are Blacks Inferior to Whites?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 26212
Re: Are Blacks Inferior to Whites?
the catchcry of a nihilist!!! Has the great wisdom of philosophy really come to this: isolation as a precondition to......nothing.
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