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Comment on Problem with the world by Viscount/Pug

Viscount/Pug — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:07:22 +0000

I think its a negative dialectic, unfortunatley. To be wise is to have doubts, to be skeptical, while to be stupid is to be unreflective, unchallenging.

Comment on Richard Dawkins - more videos by moody

moody — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:38:14 +0000

Here’s a link to that interview.

http://richarddawkins.net/article,1454,Richard-Dawkins-on-Hardtalk,BBC-Richard-Dawkins

Comment on Richard Dawkins - more videos by Max Barlin

Max Barlin — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:31:14 +0000

I missed an interview between Richard Dawkins and Stephen Sackur on a bbcworld/Hardtalk
program. Is there any way I could get a repeat of this debate.

Comment on Cosmic Arrogance by xcwillix

xcwillix — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:21:26 +0000

I dont think “we” could exist with about a bunch of I’s

Comment on Cosmic Arrogance by Fyodor

Fyodor — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:16:34 +0000

I think that Rush the fatso is the greatest example of evolution gone awry. If these creationists really believe in the Universe pre-ordered by the perfect Creator, look at this miserable excuse of a human being? I have to ask myself: “Is this God’s creation?”

Comment on Next President Will Have An Easy Job by Fyodor

Fyodor — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:14:04 +0000

I completely agree. I think that if you put a five year old in the Oval Office, he would do a better job. Although one thing that worries me is Iraq. If Obama starts withdrawing troops (and I know we have to do it eventually), there really is a serious potential for a horrific civil war. The US has been arming Sunny militias and giving them money in return for their promise not to shoot at the Shiites, but the Sunnies have been preparing for an American pullout which might be interpreted by the Shiites as a signal to start ethnically cleansing the Sunnies. This in fact might pull in Saudi Arabia, a staunch ally of the Iraqi Sunnis. So, can you imagine if President Obama orders a pull out and this happens. The world will say: America fucked up and all they want to do now is leave, causing this massacre. On the other hand, if we don’t live, things will get worse or remain as bad as now, with no end in sight. And the world will say: “America is still occupying Iraq and drenching it in blood.” My point is, whatever the next President does in Iraq, it will not be a pretty sight and it will take generations for this stain to blur on the face of America. Shame on you Bush!

Comment on Atoms - Way to know ourselves by xcwillix

xcwillix — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:22:26 +0000

Man, however, is not an ordinary mass, consisting of spinning atoms and molecules, and containing merely heat-energy. He is a mass possessed of certain higher qualities by reason of the creative principle of life with which he is endowed. His mass, as the water in an ocean wave, is being continuously exchanged, new taking the place of the old. Not only this, but he grows propagates, and dies, thus altering his mass independently, both in bulk and density. What is most wonderful of all, he is capable of increasing or diminishing his velocity of movement by the mysterious power he possesses by appropriating more or less energy from other substance, and turning it into motive energy. But in any given moment we may ignore these slow changes and assume that human energy is measured by half the product of man’s mass with the square of a certain hypothetical velocity.

Comment on Life After Death by Thozman

Thozman — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:03:38 +0000

The only evidence I can provide would be in the form of anecdotes, i.e. personal experience.

Everyone has “rules” or “beliefs they live by. Each belief takes faith.
Even atheism has to be based on the faith that God doesn’t exist.
Science will never be able to prove anything spiritual to anyone because spirituality is not physical or material.

Simply, the evidence you’re searching for is unattainable without faith, or belief in verification without the use of science.

I could tell you of the times I’ve had face to face communication with non-earthly entities, but it wouldn’t do any good.
I don’t expect anyone to blindly believe me, just keep searching and maybe someday you’ll have an experience(s) that will convince you as well.

As for me, I wouldn’t believe in any evidence without proof that the evidence was valid.
It’s a catch 22.
Cheers!

Comment on Life After Death by moody

moody — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:05:50 +0000

You’re talking about these things like you’re certain, but you cannot provide any credible evidence for it. It all comes down to belief. Which is believing in something with no evidence and that’s something i don’t do. Sorry.
To convince me, or at least get me interested, you’re gonna need to provide at least some evidence. Not a proof, but some evidence. without it, I don’t buy anything.

Comment on Life After Death by Thozman

Thozman — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:53:02 +0000

I don’t believe in ghost’s, only angelic and demonic activity.
When you die, you’re in a state of non-being that is timeless.
There is an afterlife, but the fact is we all arrive there at the same moment.
Everyone who has ever been born and dies, (all of us), arrive at the same instant.
So the afterlife won’t exist, “until” we all die, and awake at the same instant.
Until then, time will continue to pass slowly for those missing deceased loved one’s as if they’ve been gone a long, long time, when actually the dead see it as only being gone an instant until awakening, much like receiving an anethstesia before surgery.
Once you lose consciousness after an anethstesia, it seems you awake an instant later in recovery, while in reality it may have been many hours.

The only entities that exist outside our plane of physical existance, throughout the time of our birth, death, non-being, and awakening, are either angelic or demonic……no ghosts.