Tag: philosophy
group name: forall
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December 27, 2006 04:47 PM EST --
Infinite is a difficult concept to grasp, and one which leads to much generally good natured contention in discussions of a theological nature. Sometimes people take it almost as a sign . . . more
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October 17, 2006 10:17 AM EDT --
There is a phrase folks use a lot that is rather misleading; 'People of faith'.
You see, there is no other kind. Though many like to think their view of reality is based on something solid, that . . . more
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April 24, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
I am Rome, and Rome is me. I am Greece, and Greece is me. I have in me the best of humanity, and the worst of humanity, as we all do. I am Aurelius and Caligula. I am Socrates; I am also and . . . more
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October 02, 2006 10:47 PM EDT --
I hate to get mean about politics. It usually isn't necessary or productive, but things have gone too far in this country. We are drifting perilously close to the abyss of fascism, and it's time . . . more
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March 09, 2007 12:27 PM EST --
‘' KNOW THY SELF''.............
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January 08, 2007 11:14 PM EST --
There seems to be a bit of confusion about what a person is. Well, actually the problem is better described as confusion about what a person is not . . . I guess.
I often hear persons speak of . . . more
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December 05, 2006 06:29 PM EST --
Recently there has been a lot of talk about free will, sparked in part by advances in our “understanding” of particle physics. If by “free will” we mean some impulse out of . . . more
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November 25, 2006 09:50 PM EST --
It has become clear to me that many people do not grasp the notion of "God". The general concept this notion revolves around is that such a "Being" would have capabilities . . . more
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April 16, 2007 09:14 AM EDT --
Most of what you've heard, read or been told about the End Times is wrong. We have come to accept a wide range of beliefs and teachings about the future, about the ultimate battle between good and . . . more
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July 17, 2008 08:32 AM EDT --
In the thought of Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin , the noosphere (sometimes spelled nöosphere ) can be seen as the " sphere of human thought" being derived from the . . . more
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October 27, 2006 08:34 AM EDT --
The mind is an investigator. That is why we have a mind.
The mind is for figuring things out. It is extremely good at this, and if we don't misuse it for other purposes, it makes us very intelligent . . . more
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June 12, 2007 11:34 AM EDT --
It’s all the rage, and apparently has been from the get-go, to proclaim some wonderful thing we have concluded to be true, and insist that all ought to agree with it. It’s that last . . . more
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November 29, 2006 06:28 PM EST --
Back when I was 19, my home town only received one bad TV station, KREX out of Grand Junction, Colorado. KREX was a pretty low-budget affair, and would make questionable broadcast decisions from . . . more
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April 23, 2007 03:20 PM EDT --
[Note: This excerpt references Tim LaHaye, the author of Left Behind, a widely-read fictional series about the apocalypse.]
CONTINUED FROM PART I of excerpt >>
Real Estate
Finally, at issue . . . more
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November 19, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
There's a lot of trouble created by having various beliefs being held by various people as "Truth". If we could get rid of all these variations, we could surely act . . . more
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January 29, 2007 07:54 PM EST --
I think we’re going down. I think we’ve crossed a line, reached a "tipping point", entered a death spiral from which we cannot pull out. Like the cartoon character . . . more
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January 31, 2007 09:29 PM EST --
That’s right folks, we’re in a very complex universe. This can be quite frustrating, and it can lead to much mischief, and many difficult decisions, but . . . would you really . . . more
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February 09, 2007 08:39 PM EST --
It is clear that a human being cannot be absolutely certain of anything. Regardless of what one may think is true at any given moment, it is conceivable that one is dreaming, drugged, mentally . . . more
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January 08, 2008 03:56 PM EST --
This title does apply, as this is about the Gather "deletion" function we now have, where comments can be removed from threads at the discretion of the article's author. This CAN be a "tool" . . . more
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February 22, 2007 09:19 AM EST --
Roughly a million years ago, when I was a young boy, Len told me a joke. Len was my grandfather, but I didn’t know that at the time. He was my step-grandfather actually, and that, when one . . . more
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