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By all accounts, Hume was one of the most affable philosophers. Scepticism gets very negative press, generally from people who have a specific ideology they are peddling. The advantage to Humean scepticism is that the world remains a thing of wonder and discovery, and always will. I think many peop...

jackles wrote:yeah a straight forword question.may be you dont believe that sin exists.sin to me is thinking your something when the truth is we are all nothing.fasle pride being the first sin and the sin that leads on to other forms of sin.

That is correct.

Diversification is to take an object and try it out in similar circumstances where the point of factuality still holds domain but is not the same as any earlier circumstances. By diversifying the number of circumstances, you prove that it's true about the point of factuality, what you say is the ca...

WanderingLands wrote:

madera23 wrote: Don,t take it personal, I was referring to the book.

I did not know that a book was being mentioned.

It was an article by Rick Lewis. My error.

Be held captive? When people become insane or "mad", they loose certain aspects of social and personal functionality. Socially they loose the ability to socialize and come to understanding with others, and personally their ability to do things critical for their well-being or survival is ...

"It is good to have behaved children, but it's bad to exhort force on them and to indoctrinate them to believe anything instead of thinking for them selves. "QUOTE If children spoke their minds there would be less mental illness in The world. It is being taught a child to suppress that cau...

"How many Marxists does it take to change a light bulb?” “None – the light bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution!” Quote The seeds have been tainted, trust no man's tainted thoughts. I am by no means a Marxist at all. My somewhat "political" philosophy deals more with a more ...

kep wrote:I think our brain has connections to other dimensions besides the usual 3. Ghosts exist in every culture. What do you think of this?

Not ghosts, but entities that speak to us through thoughts and most think it is their own thoughts.
There is one in everyone. Many have been exorcized.

It's a generally agreed upon truth that how you perceive something affects what it is to you. If you see someone as good, he will be good, if you see someone as irritating, he will be irritating. So far so good, right? In fact, it could be argued that the entirety of anything is exactly how you per...

WanderingLands wrote:

madera wrote: They do, that is their problem.

Okay then, how (or why) would that be a problem?

"How many Marxists does it take to change a light bulb?” “None – the light bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution!” Quote

The seeds have been tainted, trust no man's tainted thoughts.

Pure nonsense! So the psychopaths would rule with an iron fist, and introduce death penalty, whilst the beine would talk about it and hold hands and punish lightly. In Europe we find sex as a natural thing and parents try to teach their younglings when they hit 15, but abore guns. In USA they think...

It doesn't matter how I put things into context, you will never understand. You ask people about their jobs because you love to judge a book by it's cover and miss seeing the depth of their souls. They say " you can't judge a book by it's cover", but, its really very simple. Have you ever...

Arising_uk wrote:

madera wrote:...
Wandering
Don.t waste your breath trying to explain the spiritual to the worldly minds.

How very spiritual of you.

Their minds have been closed and their understanding is of this world.

And yet you wish to claim that your understanding is of this world?

Where did you ever get that idea?

I've seen about everything movie wise I can think of at least and am running out of ideas. So recommend me a movie... To start the ball rolling: two movies I saw I liked recently This is the End, and The End of the World. Bit of a comedy thing, liked both: one is a sort of end of the world thing wh...

cycle ˈsʌɪk(ə)l/Submit noun 2. move in or follow a regularly repeated sequence of events. You are illogical sir. To cycle is to move. Either that or you fail to stipulate the way in which you intend to use the word cycle. Alright well, please note that I'm not really taking it in a literal, etymolo...