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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Post a book you're reading |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2020, 7:46 pm
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| I'm reading The Name of the Rose in Italian. I already know Spanish, and I'm using the book as a crash course in Italian. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 13th Doctor Who Will Be A Woman |
| carturo222 |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2017, 8:45 am
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emmasma wrote: Somebody better rescue River from the library though! (unless that happens in season 10 and I just haven't seen it yet)
If you've only caught up until the library double episode, I'll just say... you both will and won't get that request. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2017, 11:03 am
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Replies: 153
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| To answer your question: yes, I link the objective right to live with the subjective urge to live. Then the next question is why and where from? The only reason why we care about other people's wishes is our evolved ability for empathy. If I do not want to die, I can put myself in the shoes of some... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2017, 8:13 am
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| For my hypothetical, let's assume the wish is genuine and not the result of madness. Then let the suicidal person do the deed. Letting anyone else do it would always leave open the possibility of misinterpreted intention. In the case of someone who clearly communicates the intention but is so physi... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What did you achieve today? |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2017, 8:11 am
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| Woke up for the first time in my new apartment. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 3:21 pm
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| I don't trust my imperfect mind. If you believe in your beliefs, you do trust your mind. You trust it every time you have an opinion or make a choice. How are we to read and interpret the Bible correctly? Under the conditions laid out no one including myself can know what it actually says If you ca... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 3:16 pm
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| Is it acceptable to kill anyone who has expressed suicidal thoughts? Kill them? No. Let them kill themselves? I'm not sure. I had suicidal feelings several times, and it just so happens that now my current life has improved to the point that I'm glad I lived. But nothing guaranteed this improvement... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 2:26 pm
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cubedemon6073 wrote: I don't understand what the Bible says because it is to perfect for my mind to understand and grasp. It is my sinful and autistic nature that makes it incomprehensible to me.
Why do you trust your imperfect mind when it judges the Bible to be perfect? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 2:25 pm
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Mikah wrote: Why is it wrong to kill an unconscious, anaesthetised person?
Because they presumably wish to continue living. That assumption doesn't apply to fetuses because they don't have the necessary organs to have wishes, and it's the same reason why it's OK to euthanize the braindead. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 11:33 am
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cathylynn wrote: the god of the old testament thought that the life of a mother is worth more than the life of a fetus.
That's the same god who killed every Egyptian child and who was perfectly fine with slavery and who commanded military campaigns of extermination, so on balance, he's still a monster. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 11:21 am
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| God is perfect, holy and divine. God is infinite and his holy word is perfect. Mankind including myself is filled with sin and unrighteousness. My mind is but finite. Plus, I have an autism spectrum as well. How can one who is filled with sin and unrighteousness, who's mind is finite plus being on ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 11:19 am
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| You've avoided the question. Went and read your thought experiment. You're committing the continuum fallacy. The fact that a fully grown adult is a person does not imply that a just conceived zygote is a person. The zygote is of course human, in the sense that it's genetically related to our specie... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: I'm obsessing over Lojban |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 10:26 am
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| For a long time I've wanted an artificial language that was deliberately unambiguous. At times I even felt the urge to try to create it myself, but other obsessions also demand their time. Then I, entirely by chance, found out about Lojban. An international vocabulary, no exceptions, no irregulariti... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 10:21 am
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| It's not ok to kill someone while they are unconcious or numbed by anasthetic. To know why that is wrong, is coming half way to my position on abortion. Before a nervous system has developed, there isn't even a "someone" to speak about. Without a nervous system there's no mind, and withou... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: your favorite anime? (i need recommendations) |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 10:14 am
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| I recommend Hell Girl (Jigoku Shoujo), Steins;Gate, Bakumatsu Kikansetsu, Paranoia Agent, Planetes, Witch Hunter Robin, Ergo Proxy, and Watamote. |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Anyone interested in Terminator 6? |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 10:09 am
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Replies: 4
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| They should have stopped at 2. The storyline was finished perfectly. 3 was entirely needless, although 4 was somewhat OK. |
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