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If? Sure, when you start there almost anything is possible. If not though?... ... I'm most interested, however, not in what others here [including myself] believe about this, but what they are able to demonstrate that all rational men and women are [philosophically or otherwise] obligated to believ...

_______ This thread, which is supposed to be about Donald J. Trump, has morphed into a brazen display of hypocrisy and irony, for it has been hijacked by a proponent of "objective morality," of all things, who, himself, is a staunch supporter of Trump, who just so happens to be one of the ...

Of late, I have been experiencing mind games that truly baffle me. I use THC gummies to help me fall asleep. About an hour or so after taking them, while lying in bed, the drug takes effect. Then for an hour or so I get these "images" in my head. Sort of half way between sober and stoned....

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I do so love to hear a beautiful and powerful female voice singing. The video claims this to be a "live" performance. If it is live, then it is pretty amazing...

https://youtu.be/2Kw8g6PjnvA

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This powerful song is called "Energize Me" by the group "After Forever"...

https://youtu.be/nXjBEfFOSVI

The fantastic singer's name is "Floor Jansen."

I have often wished she could be the singer for the prog-rock band - Dream Theater.
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_______ "The Ordeal of the Three Tents" A Russian army general and an American army general were at a summit meeting arguing with each other about which of the two countries had the toughest soldiers. The American general insisted that he himself could whip any Russian at anything. The Rus...

_______ Perhaps I'm a bit of a prude, but this outtake from the movie "Being There"... https://youtu.be/vsQ_ClWBeRI?t=16 ...is funny to me because it makes me think that Chauncey Gardner (Peter Sellers) is referencing the same sort of mentality as those on this very site who are constantly...

You speak as if the need for a spiritually-based mode of providing comfort or solace, say, for instance, in the case of the death of a loved one, is some antiquated human failing that has no place in modernity. Why is that? You can speculate all you want. Rejecting a comforting absurdity cannot be ...

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The Bible tells us that when Jesus returns to earth, he will physically raise all those who have died, giving them back the bodies they lost at death.... Umm...everyone, all together now, let's give that a great big... ...yikes!!! :shock: ... https://thingssaidanddone.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/jo...

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Another favorite:

Maybe a great magnet pulls
All souls towards truth
Or maybe it is life itself
Feeds wisdom
To its youth

From the song:
Constant Craving
by k. d. lang
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This site is completely screwed up. If I try to submit a post, it tells me to log in and when I do, the post is gone. Editing a post, I have to submit twice. Rick and Bora are trying to come up with a solution to the slowdown that, apparently, a huge number of bots were causing by accessing the for...

Men seek in the metaphysical an explaining for the physical. Once, the sun was a mysterious object in the sky. Men mystified it, converted it to a supernatural deity..... They attempted to make sense of what was, to them, incomprehensible. Yet when the greatest of human minds dive deeply into the p...

Men seek in the metaphysical an explaining for the physical. Once, the sun was a mysterious object in the sky. Men mystified it, converted it to a supernatural deity..... They attempted to make sense of what was, to them, incomprehensible. Yet when the greatest of human minds dive deeply into the p...

_______ One of my all-time favorite verses is this: If I've built this fortress around your heart Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire Then let me build a bridge For I cannot fill the chasm Let me set the battlements on fire From the song: Fortress Around Your Heart by Sting What's yours? _______