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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Kids entertainment in the USA

« on: January 12, 2014, 07:01:40 AM »

Who said WWE was kids entertainment?

They have a WWE show for kids on the CW channel.  They also make WWE toys.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: York University Supports Religiously Motivated Prejudice

« on: January 11, 2014, 01:42:18 AM »

Thork was the professor.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: You are selfish.

« on: January 10, 2014, 10:08:04 PM »

Every decision he makes is for his own benefit (or perceived benefit). There are no exceptions.

I was shopping at the grocery store the other day. I saw a credit card on the ground that did not belong to me. I gave it to the woman at the service counter in case the person that lost it went looking for it. I received no award, nor did I receive any "good feelings". I was just trying to help out another person.

Please explain how, by potentially assisting in helping a stranger find their lost credit card, I was motivated by my own benefit.

You have posted this on an online forum.  By making this public you reveal that you have sought to increase your own positive reputation.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Satan comes to Oklahoma

« on: January 10, 2014, 04:38:50 PM »

It would be difficult to phrase most questions, because something like "sheep" is a commonly known symbol in Christianity and people would probably know which answer was for which question.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: York University Supports Religiously Motivated Prejudice

« on: January 10, 2014, 04:30:02 PM »

Well good for the professor.  Doesn't the student know that all-male colleges exist?  He knew this would be a problem wen he went to college.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Daily Contact Prayers in the 3 Major Faiths

« on: January 10, 2014, 04:24:38 PM »

I just believe he exists.  I believe he's the only God, and that a personal element can still exist, but as I said before, divine intervention is probably rare in life.

It's like Beowulf or Gilgamesh. They probably did exist as great kings, but people made up stories about them when writing their legends.  Just because the stories are faked doesn't mean the people they were written about never existed.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Atheism vs. religion

« on: January 10, 2014, 01:00:44 AM »

I believe that God mostly leaves the universe to itself, only occasinally intervening in subtle ways, and in following basic teachings of Christ such as love, compassion, and forgiveness.  That's my brand of Deist Christian, and I don't really care if it makes sense to anyone else, because it's my own belief, makes sense to me, and I'm not trying to force anyone else to my beliefs.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Atheism vs. religion

« on: January 09, 2014, 10:11:28 PM »

Fair enough.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Atheism vs. religion

« on: January 09, 2014, 09:46:14 PM »

One of the main reasons I became atheist is that almost everyone I've met that is religious (or at least Christian) just isn't a good Christian. Church is just a social club, and a lot of people just cherrypick sins like cursing, premarital sex, and homosexuality. It's just something I didn't really care to be part of.

You probably hate me then, being a non-biblical, non-churchgoing, deist-christian christian.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Atheism vs. religion

« on: January 09, 2014, 04:52:42 AM »

If your parents would take offence to the fact that you're an atheist, then they're terrible parents and deserves to be offended.

Not everyone has open-minded parents, and he never said he hates his family so I imagine he doesn't want to get disowned.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Atheism vs. religion

« on: January 09, 2014, 12:27:55 AM »

That sucks.  I've never been forced to go to church, which is probably why I'm not atheist.  And yeah, you're not gonna get positive benefits from a stressful situation.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Zetetic Council Election Thread.

« on: January 08, 2014, 07:51:20 PM »

Are members suppose to be able to sticky threads in the Zetetic Council board?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Satan comes to Oklahoma

« on: January 08, 2014, 02:58:51 PM »

Making stupidity a sin is a damn good idea.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Atheism vs. religion

« on: January 08, 2014, 02:54:22 PM »

There are statistics that show higher spirituality increases life span.  I think it has something to do with lower stress levels.  Also, you don't have to have religion to be spiritual.  Just meditate or take some yoga or tai chi.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Mormonism & The Book of Mormon

« on: January 08, 2014, 02:49:36 PM »

Yaakov'd. The only thing I know about Mormons is they're annoying and come to my door once in a while, and something about magic underpants.

Are you sure that's not the Jehovah's Witnesses?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: January 07, 2014, 06:11:26 PM »

Can't you people take this to PM? This isn't even about something that happened on this site.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Satan comes to Oklahoma

« on: January 07, 2014, 08:15:11 AM »

Huh.  Seems they decided to leave out the graphic display interface for children that I read about.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: January 05, 2014, 07:46:55 PM »

You know, putting druggies in the same jail only strengthens their connections...

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: My Simulation Hypothesis

« on: January 04, 2014, 05:47:08 AM »

I will delete the Universe's system 32.

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Technology & Information / Re: Error Code Purple

« on: January 04, 2014, 05:08:49 AM »

I tried googling it before but the links haven't been helpful so far.  I was hoping someone on this forum had some experience with it.