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Which religion were you raised in and how old were you when learning the concept of Hell?...
MacStriker
Human beings are fallible, atheists are just as dumb as religious people. Theres no moral ...
Communistbitch
Under which philosophy would you prefer to live? ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Druvius
Blogging again. "AS FOR SELF-DECEIT, MOST PEOPLE FIND IT AS ESSENTIAL FOR SURVIVAL AS AIR.":
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Spinliesel
Another Rumi quote. I like that man, whoever he is.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by ErichZannIII
nobullies lgbtqia
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Word
Reasoning - the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way. Reasoning requires free will to choose. Free will is the capacity of agents to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded. Critical thinking - the...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 7, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by puff
There has been quite a bit of speculation on how Russia invading Ukraine happened, what led to it. Russian expansionism? NATO expansionism? The 2014 coup and resulting civil war? Who is at fault? A thought occurred to me earlier. Intellectuals ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 7, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Matias
It is part of the logic of individualistic modern societies (with a certain tendency toward individual and collective narcissism) to celebrate minorities. Where emancipation and individuality are central values and goals, the minority becomes the ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 3, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Lorajay
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 3, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Sofabeast
Roe v Wade overturned. I open a debate on the controversial subject of human abortion. Please keep it civil and argue objectively on the subject avoiding social clashes based purely on subjective opinions. The question is not reason why an abortion ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 2, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by FvckY0u
I went to the bookstore (Borders) today. It was raining all day and although it's not now the temp is 76 and the humidity is 89%. A good day to stay inside and read. I bought, Seneca, Letters from a Stoic. The philosophy section was just ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 2, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by isaiahfzell1990
So being an atheist, one of the most significant things that I struggling with is that since I also have a strong love for learning about different cultures, people, and countries, and I do not believe in any religous/spiritual/supernatural things ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 2, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Castlepaloma
What is worse, FEAR or GREED? I pick fear, because when people control their fear they can control mass hysteria, which politics , religion and superrich feed off of, so easily.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 2, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Matias
Our minds manage to distract us from the terrible reality by filling our lives with stories about hopeful goals and encouraging us to strive to achieve them. The ups and downs of that struggle are part of our common history of striving for what we ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 1, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by FrostyJim
I didn't know...!
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 1, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by rainmanjr
LINKNothing Exists But You | The Philosophy of Solipsism
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 29, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by mistymoon77
It's a pretty good feeling when this does happen. All about perspective.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 29, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Advin
Islam isn't a religion because this is a Tererism.according to Quran 9:5...Ban the Islam from all non muslim contrys...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 28, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
Some of the leading figures of the so-called identitarian right in Europe claim to be no longer racists, but they call themselves "ethno-pluralists". The basic idea of this concept is that there are different races and peoples, and each of them has ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 27, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by AtheistPeace666
agnostic is the most rational position to have because both Atheist and religious are more definite positions even though there is no possible way to prove or disprove God for certain.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 27, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
Nowadays, many, maybe even most of us do not live in the world described by science, but in some kind of "Fantasyland". In his eponymous book, Kurt Andersen describes and explains how we arrived at this point. The pivotal moment, he argues, was the ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 26, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by FrostyJim
No kidding...?
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 26, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by puff
We have recognised that people have a right to gender identify outside the biological/ physical attributes. I have seen up to 16 mentioned here alone Just kinda made me smile though with all this talk of abortion ie which ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by towkneed
I was thinking about how I had tried to explain Marx's Theory of Surplus Value to someone once when it occurred to me - the starting point of Marx and communism in general is the absolute opposite of market theory. Market theory starts with price, ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by rainmanjr
LINKRebirth | A Shamanic Documentary by David Al-Badri
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
Some excerpts from the book "Inventing the Individual" by Larry Siedentop "The roots of liberalism were firmly established in the arguments of philosophers and canon lawyers by the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: belief in a fundamental ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Ryo1
The definition of being 'COOL'. 😆 Click on the link to see the comic in full size.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Advin
According to Bible(Book of Genesis):-human thinking test with temptation by god...This is god's technology.....😁😁😁😁😁
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Anabucerias
“The pathetic thing that grows out of this condition is called faith: in other words, closing one's eyes upon one's self once for all, to avoid suffering the sight of incurable falsehood. People erect a concept of morality, of virtue, of holiness ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Anabucerias
From the arrival of the earliest humans on earth to the present ,God has always been a human invention intendednto control others.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 22, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
When modern citizens cease to be religious they do not cease to be moral, they still have the same moral mind and the same moral impulses and needs that they used to channel through religion. They still have the same need for a moral identity, for a ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 21, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
Steven Weinberg once said, "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." I've read this quote hundreds of times, and I never liked it, because it assumes ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 19, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by LovinLarge
I hope no one minds if I share this here. I lost my dad last year just before Father's Day. He was 94, a white liberal academic who led a very privileged life and he acknowledged that. He paid significant income tax and was happy to do so. He was...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 18, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
What does liberalism mean to you?
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 16, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by skado
Carlisle, Vervaeke, Spinoza, and voluntary necessities. .
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 14, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
Christians believe in the miracle of the virgin birth : The Holy Spirit inseminated Mary and she gave birth to Jesus Christ. But many atheists and secular humanists also believe in a sort of miracle: the miracle of the Scientific Revolution and - ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 13, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by SpikeTalon
Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 13, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Beachslim7
POLLI want to know how you lefties explain this one Feminist facing 3 years in prison for saying men can't be lesbians Lets say he was born as a man but identifies as a female lesbian. Since he is a woman, why isnt this statement ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 12, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
It is one thing to originate an idea, and it is another thing to live according to this idea. Example: The Founding Fathers deemed it self-evident that all men are created equal, but they did not include black people or women in the category "men"....
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 12, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Silver1wun
POLLSaw this and it reminded me of so much more than mere religions.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 12, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
One of my pet ideas is that one can hardly overestimate the hidden influences Christian ideas still have in our Western societies, even among people who call themselves atheists and rarely miss an occasion to rail against Xtians. One prime example is...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 11, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by KateOahu
To Have or To Be? and The Art of Being In the mid-1970s, twenty years after his influential treatise on the art of loving and four decades after legendary anthropologist Margaret Mead turned to him for difficult advice, Fromm became interested in ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 10, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Jolanta
Paulo Coelho. The Winner Stand Alone. An interesting book with lots to think about.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 9, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by rainmanjr
LINKJoshua Knobe - What is Intentionality?
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 9, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Advin
The sky according to Islam😁😁😁
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 8, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Partyhawk
Our Home is actually in the Milky Way Galaxy, one in a 100+ Billion Galaxies. I've been lately watching a bunch of "The Universe" different documentaries on YouTube. I'm thinking we are no more then a particular Germ inhabiting a grain of sand. I ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 8, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
Many atheists don't like it at all, to say the least, when science is called the child of religion. Nevertheless, this metaphor is correct from a purely historical point of view. First, what we call science today was born in a thoroughly religious...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 7, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Word
For as long as people have been seeking knowledge, they have sought after and philosophized about the secret or hidden knowledge that has and will always elude the pursuit. However, an understanding of the secret knowledge has been revealed to ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 1, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
Why the Golden Rule is overrated. Whenever I write about morality in this forum, or that a society needs something like a social glue, I am always lectured that this is just religious rubbish, and that the Golden Rule is quite sufficient when it ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 31, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
"We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It’s our own concept – our own selves – that we love. This is true in the whole gamut of love. In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another body. In non-sexual love, we ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 30, 2022May 2022

Posted by skado
A little Spinoza for your Memorial Day from Will Durant’s “The Story of Philosophy” published in 1926 “The essential principal of is that the language of the Bible is deliberately metaphorical or ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 30, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
We in the lucky countries of the West now regard our two-century bubble of freedom and affluence as normal and inevitable; it has even been called the "end" of history, in both a temporal and teleological sense. But this new order is an anomaly, it's...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 30, 2022May 2022

Posted by Julie808
What are your thoughts on the idea of "collective consciousness" as something we absorb not necessarily through religion or formal education but through the shared real world experiences of humanity? By that I mean as told through stories, ideas, ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 29, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
To borrow an expression from novelist Margaret Atwood, I'd say that we are "doomed by hope". Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 28, 2022May 2022

Posted by puff
When there is more action done regarding restricting access to books in schools when compared with restricting assault firearms, something is severely awry with society.
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 28, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
Question : Is something morally wrong, reprehensible, because individuals , or a whole society, judge it so, or is something intrinsically wrong, no matter what people think? Example: Imagine a world where slavery is ubiquitous and universally ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 27, 2022May 2022

Posted by MizJ
LINKWabi-sabi
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 26, 2022May 2022

Posted by skado
Does love exist?
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 24, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
I am not a Conservative (at least not in the American meaning of this word), but I have to acknowledge that this political "tribe" has understood something about politics in general that their opponents and critics seem to have forgotten: that in ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 23, 2022May 2022

Posted by TheMiddleWay
It's not a perfect rule, but it's as close as we've gotten.
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 22, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
Nowadays it is fashionable to constantly pillory white people and to put Western culture in the dock. The list of charges is long: sexism, racism, imperialism, colonialism, slavery, etc.... Shouldn't we also remember once in a while that most of ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 20, 2022May 2022

Posted by Archeus_Lore
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary. - - "Karma" - - "The force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person's next existence." . I do not...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 18, 2022May 2022

Posted by callmedubious
While sitting at our breakfast bar this morning, with a coffee, i watched my neighbor walk her dog by our house & had an epiphany: the actual weight of human beings is only about 3 lbs. our brains are what makes us human so, basically, the rest is ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 17, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
Do animals have morality? - - - - No. One may say that they show 'moral behavior', but this would be a kind of behavior that we - the only moral animals on earth! - interpret as 'moral'. Morality is a set of norms, rules, commandments and values. ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 16, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
A thought experiment: Let's imagine a utopian society that wants to abolish all differences between male and female. This society raises children in a completely gender neutral, uni-sex way: same haircut for girls and boys, same clothes, same ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 15, 2022May 2022

Posted by FvckY0u
I'd like to explore stoicism more in depth. Any comments regarding stoicism?
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 11, 2022May 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
I think the kids have the moral high ground on this one. And that's not even considering climate change.
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 11, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
Shouldn't those who call themselves humanists protect human life just as bird lovers protect the lives of birds ? They also protect nests containing eggs from which chicks have not yet hatched, because they know that inside those eggs are ...
7 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
May 10, 2022May 2022

Posted by FrostyJim
There are many creators on here that may enjoy this video...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 10, 2022May 2022

Posted by TheMiddleWay
There's no better example of dogmatic thinking in some atheists.. ... than some atheists' response to their thinking being called dogmatic. 😏
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 9, 2022May 2022

Posted by puff
Timeless advice
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 8, 2022May 2022

Posted by VickyGraham
Atheism is a gateway drug to genoi, doodaaa
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 7, 2022May 2022

Posted by TheMiddleWay
LINKTwitter thread on "How religion evolved and why it endures" by Robin Dunbar
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 6, 2022May 2022

Posted by yvilletom
Ma and Pa Nature, aka natural selection or whatever other epithet you want to hurl in their direction, don’t care that we’ve been dealing with Covid and its variants for more than two years. They’re saying, “Get over it, or get out!”
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 4, 2022May 2022

Posted by A77RPUNISHED
LINKSam Harris - Taking the Redpill on Freewill | Joe Rogan - YouTube
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 4, 2022May 2022

Posted by FrostyJim
Makes sense to me...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 2, 2022May 2022

Posted by skado
A great discussion about Free Speech absolutism and Social Media moderation.
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 2, 2022May 2022

Posted by TheMiddleWay
LINK103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 30, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Spinliesel
Why did you tell me ?
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 28, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by digifilm4
As a former patron and patient (as well as all of the women I dated) of Planned Parenthood, I am very familiar with the wide range of services the institute offered financially disadvantaged communities. Abortion is but one of hundreds. So this is ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 28, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Mcflewster
IMO The most important word of the DECADE is " awareness ' . I.e NOT "WOKE" . This latter word is too ambiguous . Reason : Awareness "switches on" science. Which is your word of the last decade?
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 28, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by puff
EU: You can't use our payment system anymore Russia: OK then, if you want something from us, you will have to use our payment system then. EU: That's blackmail!!!!! Gotta love the logic here
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 26, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Jolanta
There comes a time when silence is betrayal. Martin Luther King. Jr.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 25, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Democracy dies in darkness. Every fascist wants to turn out the lights.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 24, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by ChestRockfield
You can be just about anything you feel you are these days. There are more pronouns and genders than I could even get an accurate count of. Really. Try searching for it and you'll find some incredibly long lists. You would have to make a ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 24, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by ChestRockfield
You can be just about anything you feel you are these days. There are more pronouns and genders than I could even get an accurate count of. Really. Try searching for it and you'll find some incredibly long lists. You would have to make a ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 22, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Archeus_Lore
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." Aldous Huxley
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 21, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Flyingsaucesir
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." -- Samuel Johnson
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 20, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by CourtJester
And another win
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 20, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Matias
Wound up like toys by some force—call it Will, élan vital, anima mundi, physiological or psychological processes, nature, or whatever—organisms go on running as they are bidden until they run down. Only the force is real, not the things ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 19, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Castlepaloma
The five laws of Stupid people. This theory was echoed in In 1976, when Carlo M. Cipolla, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the 5 fundamental laws of a force he perceived as ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 17, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Archeus_Lore
How men are ruined . . .
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 17, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Word
Knowledge is a subset of belief, they say. I do not see the logic in the statement. Knowledge, information and communication are synonymous used in different context. Information communicated becomes knowledge received. I explain: ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 17, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by AlanCliffe
I recently attended a memorial service also attended by the children and grandchildren of the decedent, three sisters from each generation, all but one dressed in black, becomingly. Two groups of three sisters each, an unrelated man glad to see ...
5 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 16, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Matias
The question of whether consciousness – seen from an evolutionary point of view - is an adaptation or a by-product cannot be answered. But one thing is obvious: Consciousness is not a gift from Mother Nature to her children, it is a curse that ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 14, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by CourtJester
I think I won the argument
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 14, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Wendy91604
LINKWOTMQ: He Is Risen! So what? - YouTube
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 13, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by ChestRockfield
First, a little background you need: I hate textspeak. I mean, some of it I have to be okay with. Items and acronyms that have been in the lexicon for so long that virtually everyone knows them like 'LOL' are too ubiquitous at this point to argue ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 12, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Matias
Like defenders of libertarian free will, transhumanists believe we can make ourselves into who we are today and, should the mood strike us, remake ourselves into who we will be tomorrow. But this is impossible. Because of evolution, we got made. We ...
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