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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Non-Christian Magical Systems |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2011, 10:59 pm
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| There is also alchemy, which, besides its presence in Christian and Islamic traditions, appears in Taoism as well. Some Khemetic stuff has survived, such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead. There's Tantra, which has some significant magical aspects to it. And of course shamanic traditions from pretty ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: For those that do Tarot |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2011, 7:23 pm
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Replies: 31
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| Tarot decks being of great variety in their art, my first priority is to assess what the artwork in each card is actually showing, and consider the meanings that can be derived from them, rather than thinking about them as I remember them from other decks. Kinda glad I don't have to bleed on a whole... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Religion and Aspergers? |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2011, 7:58 pm
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| When I first told my close friend who lives in Tigard about my Aspergers, she had just come back from church. I'm not a religious person, but my close friend was deep into religion. Every five minutes she would mention something that happened at church. But right before I told her about Aspergers, ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Liberal Media My Ass |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2011, 8:04 pm
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leejosepho wrote: I think it is a liberal mindset overall that helps "conspire", so to speak, to usher globalism -- global governance -- into place.
My limited experience is that it's the liberal mindset which is predominantly present in anti-globalization protests. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: When life comes to an end.... |
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Posted: 03 Aug 2011, 8:49 am
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| On the one hand, I don't think it's inevitable and intend to fight it.. Good luck with that. So far, the house always wins. Unless you buy into Enoch and Elijah. Thanks, I do. And Fulcanelli and the Comte de Saint Germain, etc. I honestly don't think the "house" has a preference for annihilation ov... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: When life comes to an end.... |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011, 9:02 pm
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| On the one hand, I don't think it's inevitable and intend to fight it. On the other, it seems a very hard thing to escape, and will likely be quite terrifying. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are many city dwellers uncivilized? |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011, 8:51 pm
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| Depends on how you define civilized. It could indeed depend upon that, but I think that most people know intuitively what civilized means and to get into the depths of the meaning of words is to merely dwell upon sophistry rather than the actual matter. Most people intuitively know the connotations... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Longterm life strategy? |
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Posted: 31 Jul 2011, 7:37 pm
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| I have certain things I want out of my life, but neither a schedule for getting them nor much of a plan for how to make them happen. At this point I'm pretty much down to trying to be very specific about the things I want and then breaking them down into tiny doable steps in order to get there. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Without music, is life worth living? |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2011, 10:18 pm
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Replies: 58
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| I listen to music almost all day while I'm at work. It helps keep me "sane". Without it I would be even more depressed and self-destructive than I am with it. In that sense, I might very well not be able to live without it. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Your political opinions on abortion and capital punishment |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2011, 1:39 pm
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Replies: 140
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ruveyn wrote: Wrong doing should not be forgiven or tolerated.
Unless of course it is the state doing the wrong, in which case it can be justified for you by rhetoric likening justice to war. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Your political opinions on abortion and capital punishment |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2011, 8:30 am
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Replies: 140
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| No, a person is on death row because they are thought to have committed murder. And many of them (but not all) have actually committed capital crime. As in any war, the war against crime will have casualties due to friendly fire. The pursuit of justice is not a war, you're only calling it a war to ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Your political opinions on abortion and capital punishment |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2011, 8:03 am
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| Pro-choice, anti-death penalty. The death penalty is in place as a consequence of deliberately and maliciously depriving someone else of their right to live. Someone up on death row is on death row because they committed murder, and the death sentence is a consequence of the crime they committed. I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Obsession inhibited by lack of confidence? |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2011, 7:32 pm
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| Ugh, yes, this happens to me all the time and it ruins my life! |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Believers in an interventionist God WHY? |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2011, 4:54 pm
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| So - would you assume the high-minding Earthlings would not terraform Beta Cygni 24 unless it was devoid of all recognizable life? And that we would not gerrymander our definitions so that the slimebugs and the fuzzballs thet feed on do not vcount as "life"? Personally, I assume that civilized huma... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Believers in an interventionist God WHY? |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2011, 7:15 am
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| Well the big trump is personal experience of divine intervention. But even without it your conclusions only make sense following your assumptions, which don't make much sense to me. I see no reason to grant that God' attention would be finite in amount or necessarily wide in scope, or that size dict... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Of Course, NOTHING but a scam and a tool for control |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2011, 6:31 pm
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visagrunt wrote: I bears noting that science is based on faith.
More to the point it bears noting that the science-worshipers act just like the religious dogmatists they rail against. |
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