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Depends on the Muslims on how color/ethnic/national blind it is. Don't be too shocked if you convert and head out on the Hadj as a white person if you are denied entry, they shove suspect Muslims in Saudi Arabia into special hotels, and you can be left for a long time till they are convinced. Whatev...

I support gays, as people (never would punish them merely for that, would be absurd) and am consistently Trixie's chief defender, I'm certainly not the one covering his thinking up. I've also come out in defense of Muslims and Islamic philosophy multiple times, even the short time I've been here on ...

Expect when it isn't about defining principles, then religion is not about that, but other stuff instead.

You'll have better luck bottling the ocean, than containing religion to one mode of thinking, of one type, of one thing.

That matters little S57, even if they ban Trixie, the underlining phenomena of people posting with schitzophrenia and sexual issues, as well as being a general annoyance, will only increase over time. It isn't legitimate to base one person's sanity or ability to post respectably off of one nameless ...

bobevenson wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2017 7:04 pm Please, everything I post is backed by evidence, but unfortunately you are afflicted with brain diarrhea.

He makes a good point, as far as the brain diarrhea is concerned.

I hereby challenge any Solipsistic or Advaitian Non-Dualist to convince me that the world is not real, using the very arguments you use to convince me that I'm merely a figment of your imagination, on yourself. I'm holding a IPad, typing with my thumbs. What arguments can be given to completely dest...

You can't buy a gun in the U.K., Bob Evenson, former leader of the AEP, debunked that myth.

Naw, Shaw works great on a pragmatic level. In concrete applications, terrific. In attempts to make it albsolutely perfect, no, you'll have to switch over to some computer generated wavelength program. But it is certainly great for what I use it for. My big difficulty is getting Koine words translat...

You got about a 3rd realized Eod, , and this thread WTF is more focused on a engineering issue with a classical cosmological system, that is more Pythagorean in it's physics. He is on the right track so far, but as I pointed out, another unexpected supertask barrier sits behind the supertask solutio...

I believe I was the first to discover the below, a few years back: http://ambrosiasociety.org/images/p030_0_00_1.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithrai ... efvert.jpg If you look at most Roman Mythraic icons left, depicting the sacrifice of the bull, Mithras cape always I'm inclined to think t...

You are the contradiction, and your insights are cliche.

Oh you win. Collect your prize.

Sacrifice is the common denominator found within all religions as the bond between man and God that enables any form of wisdom or understanding to be obtained. Certain philosophers have observed this commonality in religious figures such as: 1)Prometheus who in giving knowledge to man was crucified...

Hmmm.... That essay does look good. I've focused on authors like Aeneas the Tactician, who talked about the development of the concept of a "fire guard" while a defensive force held out during a siege, because many times a soldier would awake in a panic, hearing some sound, and think it wa...

How do you know that is the case, what if they did figure it out and you just can't see it? You gotta acknowledge the possibility someone somewhere can solve the problem, even if you can't tell if they did or not.