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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 30, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Tejas

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 28, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

Who is allowed to be proud?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 27, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKYou Don’t Deserve What You Want | Stoic Philosophy - YouTube

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 25, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

We Europeans know that the US are a world of its own, and that it is kind of weird. It's a place where libertarians call themselves conservatives, and socialists are "liberals". All over the world, people who are in favor of more freedom call ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 24, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Ryo1

Existential Comics The term "supernatural" is kind of funny because by definition it sort of means things that don't exist. If something exists, it is part of the natural world, in that it can interact with particles via the rules of physics. If ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 22, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by pete23445

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 21, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

Sulu is way cool...!

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 19, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKYuval Noah Harari Thinks Life Is Meaningless and Amazing | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 84 - YouTube

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 19, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by ballou

The dumbing down of America has been going on for years. Carl Sagan was right on in 1995.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 19, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Castlepaloma

George Carlin was well ahead of his time.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 18, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by vocaloldfart

Oh so true

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 17, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by jackjr

I am a huge proponent of the Death with Dignity movement (my late partner opted for this) and follow all ideas on this issue. I was able to get a letter published in all three of our local papers which included an NPR link. Thing is this issue, like ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 16, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKPeter Singer - ordinary people are evil - YouTube

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 16, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Garban

“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”-William Kingdon Clifford

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 15, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by jackjr

What is God like. This is waaaay above the average intelligence level of the average religious person but it asks lots of interesting questions with lots of fun and, lots of omni’s. If you have a religious acquaintance ask them a few of these ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 15, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by HippieChick58

Mens Only Ford Explorer.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 14, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

Something strange happened in gender theory in recent years. Long ago, when conservatives and bigots dominated society, gender was virtually unknown. There was only _sex_, and it was biological: chromosomes, hormones, body parts like testicles and ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 12, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKTaoism, Passivity and Naturalism | Tao | Alan Watts - YouTube

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 12, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by BrentMBA2004

Sunday past, I'm sitting at a memorial bench I donated to this park near our home, on behalf of my deceased fiancee. This lady was hiking by and started asking me questions and started sharing with me about dealing with grief. Very cool lady, but a ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 11, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Castlepaloma

Satan Klaus, the Ether Bunny, the Rotten Tooth Fairy, and the Man on the Moon, the Covid , Transgender are women and Banks back by something rather than nothing. Are all real!!!.......🤣 Luckily the fully immerse make-believe that is at least ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 11, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

What does the injunction, "Be yourself!" mean? Does every person have a core, a personal substance within him or her that can and should be recognized and realized? Is "self-actualization" possible and desirable? Or is there no such core, is the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 10, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by SpikeTalon

Some good advice there.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 8, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by laidback1

I'm realizing part of the psychological war to divide & conquer , the enemy will use hate filled offensive language and want us to give it back , because the enemy is controling all oppositional angles of political persuasion. This tactic has to be ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 8, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by skado

ON COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (Thanks to racocn8 for initiating this important discussion: ) There are few things that humans like less than having to modify our worldview. It can be terrifying. And understandably so, because it ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 7, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

(This is an addendum to another post about liberalism): It is misleading and wrong to treat liberalism and libertarianism as fundamentally different (as do many people in the USA, where socialists call themselves "liberals", whereas libertarians ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 7, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

One of the central tenets of liberalism, first proposed by John Stuart Mill, is the so-called harm principle : it says that people should be free to act however they wish unless their actions cause harm to somebody else. A different version is that ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 6, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

I stand with the Tennessee Three...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 6, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by racocn8

Do atheists experience cognitive dissonance in their life as it unfolds? Or do agnostics? If so, what is it. Would religionists ever admit to experiencing cognitive dissonance?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 5, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Castlepaloma

Is "Woke" and LGBT outrage culture dying,like the Hippies? I perfer the hippies for peace, love, sex , natural environment and natural food and medicine. And our houses, bills and debts were paid,, and inheritance were most likely, unlike today....

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 5, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

Ultimately, any allocation or distribution (of goods or money or other resources) is always done by political decision. Nothing about this is "natural". Society cannot take something away from someone (in the form of taxes, for example) that it did ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 3, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Ryo1

Reasonable thinking for a bear. 😆

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 3, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by jackjr

So glad I found this site. The age old question how much freedom do we have over our actions? Compatibilism

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 2, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

Viewed through the scientific lens, human beings do not exist as persons, but only as bodies. It takes communities or societies to turn a body into a person. The error of liberals is to assume that personhood and personal freedom is something ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 1, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

The biased reasoning is always the same: my conception of the Good influences my definition of the True. But what if the Truth is not the Good? We would have to suppress the field of research. It is an old idea to believe that the Good is also ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 1, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by jackjr

PBS has a crash course in philosophy. Course 6 focuses on existentialism and the meaning of life. Our group will be interested in this class.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 30, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

...really?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 30, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by FvckY0u

I was reading Marcus Aurelius's Meditations this afternoon and was struck by this passage, book 8:58 "He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if you shall have no sensation, neither will you feel ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 30, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by puff

If the world order was maintained and Bush was prosecuted for the illegal invasion of Iraq, then Putin would have considered far more carefully before invading Ukraine.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 30, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

The meritocratic fallacy. In a meritocracy "merit" is rewarded with success. But we do not know exactly what "merit" or "deserts" means. Does the gifted child deserve to succeed in school? But we quickly agree on what success means, it can be ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 30, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

...the most interesting man

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 30, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by puff

Do you remember when the Ayatollah in Iran called the USA "The Great Satan"? How we all laughed at this repressive regime, total religious nutcases, assertion. Not laughing anymore. The American experiment is a failure.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 30, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by MerlinZap

I'm dealing with it!

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 29, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by puff

An analysis of school shootings in general by Russel Brand. He uses it to push his agenda which is we need to focus on what is common to us all, rather than our disagreements.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 28, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by puff

When European nations and the US label Russia as "Imperialist", at least African's are wise enough to know that is a load of toss. Section of article with link below. "African countries are beginning to recognize their own national interests and ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 27, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by FUNandFAITHFUL

Fires & floods in california: school shootings even 5 more people dead as i write; train and chemical leaks in ohio and pa: tornado in miss: so much devastation and much in the "bible belt!' where was the loving god??? I think that god was on ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 26, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Castlepaloma

World athletes have made a decisions to ban transgender from sports. I'm a live and let live guy even for religion. Yet if any group forces their will and unnatural law upon me. I won't be against it, just not for it. Personally choice ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 26, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by CallMeDave

What does the phrase "bad person" mean?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 26, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by puff

Now this is interesting. The Cambridge Dictionary meaning of insurrection. insurrection noun UK /ˌɪn.sərˈek.ʃən/ US /ˌɪn.sɚˈek.ʃən/ an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 25, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by puff

TSA final definition of a liquid (in order to fly) "A liquid has no shape and it takes a shape dictated by its container." This is a shit definition as powders and gases also fit this definition. Eg put ball bearings in a jar and it's shape is ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 25, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by puff

Biden has started his re-election campaign. He has followed the same old tactic of previous American presidents: Send a few missiles into some "Brown" land, provide some good ratings for the media with some "shock and awe" footage then watch the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 24, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by barjoe

LINKGrace Linn's powerful speech against Book Bans at a Florida School Board Meeting is worth watching - YouTube

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 24, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by puff

"In 2020, the state formed a reparations task force to examine the case for offering payment for what has been called America's original sin of slavery." I wonder how native Americans feel about this "original sin" offer of compensation. I find it ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 23, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by puff

For those who approve of the ICC warrant for Putin's arrest. A good move would be to give the ICC some teeth to actually prosecute war criminals, which I totally agree with. This would involve governments around the world complying with ICC arrest ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 23, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

One of the symptoms of the "age of narcissism" (Christopher Lasch, 1979) is that today everyone seems to be proud of something; "pride" is one of the key words of our time: one is proud of being white or black, of being a true Scot or a Quebecois, ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 23, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

Makes sense to me...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 22, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by fishline79

“A Little Bit of Logic” Who is Donald Trump? Donald Trump is a salesman, and an entrepreneur. He is not a statesman or a politician. He knows nothing about government , but he does know how to sell. ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 22, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by godfree2

Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind RSS address:

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 22, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by puff

Are the days of "American exceptionalism" over? American exceptionalism is the belief that the United States is either distinctive, unique, or exemplary compared to other nations. Proponents of it argue that the values, political system, and ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 22, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by FrancoFran

Peoples lives are controlled by fear and greed. Greedy get a job thinking about what they can buy. Fear keeps the job thinking about what they can lose. Greed buy stuff they dont need. Fear keep going to work. The rat race. Tell me: what does ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 21, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

Imagine that, with regards to a given question / problem, two kinds of reality are on a collision course: objective reality "out there" on the one hand (as studied by science), versus subjective reality (personal convictions, beliefs, ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 19, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by jbrooks46

All thinking men are atheists. Ernest Hemingway

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 18, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Willow_Wisp

Are you an absurdist? As an absurdist, you likely embrace the idea that life is inherently without meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Absurdism, a philosophical stance closely related to existentialism and nihilism, was popularized by ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 18, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by barjoe

Saw this on Facebook of all places.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 18, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by fishline79

My way of trying to justify my life to this point.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 18, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by SpikeTalon

Thoughts on this one?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 17, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by MerlinZap

This just might not be funny! Truth hurts.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 16, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Captain_Feelgood

If I was religious I would yell out AMEN BROTHER! He gets it. Dr. Peterson will go down in history as one of the great minds of our time.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 16, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

What happened to the common good ?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 14, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by mistymoon77

And only if it affects them in some disturbing way.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 14, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by mistymoon77

Here's where we start that...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 14, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

Can ethics be based on science ?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 9, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Secretguy

William Shatner, 91, is living long, prospering and taking it all in

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 4, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKSartre's Existentialist Ethics - From Socrates to Sartre (1979) - YouTube

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 2, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

Who of you would self-identify as nihilist?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Mar 1, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by callmedubious

What do you think of this quote?: "Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease." —Marilyn Duckworth a depressing, morbid way to look at it but difficult to argue against. unless, of course, one is religious & really believes in a hereafter. i ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 25, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

...it still makes no sense to me?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 23, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

For all those who still believe that wokism is a sub-species of liberalism, here's an interesting quote from the book "Critical Race Theory: An Introduction", from Delgado and Stefancic : "Unlike traditional civil rights, which embraces ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 21, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by fishline79

""PROJECTION POLITICS" EXPLAINED: (This millennial-old "ego defense mechanism" has been used as a vehicle for propaganda or psychological manipulation by tyrants and autocrats throughout history, such as Hitler, Mussolini, and more recently Donald ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 19, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by fishline79

LEST WE FORGET. We are the few in today's U.S. “Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 18, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by Archeus_Lore

Most of the time, anticulturism, that is, bias toward another culture is rooted in FEAR of the unknown, and some humans are just as skittish as chickens when it comes to the unknown, so much so that instead of actually being brave and exploring and ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 16, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

A tree fell in the forest and landed on Bigfoot, but nobody was around ...so it didnt make a sound!

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 15, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by Jenny101

Physiology is the science of life. It is the branch of biology that aims to understand the mechanisms of living things, from the basis of cell function at the ionic and molecular level to the integrated behaviour of the whole body and the influence ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 15, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by K9JetLee999

"He strung these (words) together with other foolish remarks, all in the manner his books had taught him and imitating their language as much as he could. As a result, his pace was so slow, and the sun rose so quickly and ardently, that it would ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 12, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by rainmanjr

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 12, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by redbai

Hypothetical scenario. Premise 1: Everyone on the planet that believes in a god believed in the same god and practiced the same religion. Premise 2: The religion promises a savior for the planet that will one day come and solve all the negative ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 12, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by ClareCK

So I was driving to the grocery store and then stopped in the parking lot when I got there to look for my phone I dropped. I get out of my car and grab a cart and start to go inside. A woman next to me says it must be god punishing us with this ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 11, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by Ed_Benj

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 11, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by godfree2

zoom meetup What is Consciousness?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 10, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by towkneed

I was recently reminded of one of my favorite secular parables and I wanted to pass it along in case no one has heard it. I don't know the author and it certainly isn't mine, but I love it. A boy and his father are walking through busy downtown ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 10, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by ClareCK

What Comforts You as an Atheist While Enduring Suffering

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 10, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by ClareCK

Funny mutually exclusive lines I hear all the time are these: God has a sense of humor! Followed by, god doesn't joke about things. Ahahaha cognitive dissonance to the 10th power anyone? Is god a comedian or lacking in a sense of humor? Or ...

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