So living in South Florida as I do it is routine at church to hear prayers asking God for protection from the hurricanes. This kind of bugs me. Do the people think that God is sending the storms as punishment? Or does he simply forget that hurricanes are dangerouse and if we speak up and make...
It is all part of the rules that it takes to have our kind of society. Humans are still animals. Rats don't run the race without the promise of cheese.
Willful ignorcence when faced with questions of core belief is a survival mechanism. People define themselves by their beliefs. When those beliefs are questioned people feel lessened like their own existence is worth less. Thus they take it personaly, feel attacked and get defensive. Also it is...
I think that any psychologists on the board will back me up. Modern Psycology cannot cure and has great difficulty treating pedophilia and other sexualized mental disorders. The more we learn about human behavior the more we are suprised to find is involuntary. Alcoholism is now considered a...
The notion of property is based on force. I own what I can hold and defend. From this tribal origin of property we have build up a system of rules defining how property is acquired transfered and maintained. Remember society is nothing but a system of rules and in our society property is a...
Wow this is s thread that drifted fast. I think the initial post was about the differences between logic,science, and reason, versus faith. My first point to make would be that logic science and reason are three very different things. Logic is at least two things deductive and inductive...
Chartes to me is most beautiful when it is filled with good music. (My choir put on a concert there in college so I have some experience.) Churches are at their best when they are being used for the glory of God.
Ok so the world is actualy a mashed set sense perceptions with no causal connections. A clear starting point. The apparent objects of the world are creations of our mind. Let's see where that takes us.
Is it true that we only have culturaly derived concepts about the world. There are some...
We see here again more propaganda by the secret world organization devoted to the overthrow of America. Seizing upon a weak and inefectual president they have spun unfortunate circumstances and possible crimes by underlings into a vast conspiricy. As they have for hundreds of years they want to...
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0113340/main.php?section=biomes&topic=desert&subtopic=animals
In the wet rainforest these burrows would fill up with water. The foxes would then have to raise their young on the forest floor, mkaing them an easy target for predators
Would you put these fish in...
Well it will change the environment. Desalinization on a scale talked about here will raise the salinity of the ocean causing mass die offs in marien wildlife. The creation of so many new forests will raise the O2 levels in the air making it actualy toxic for animals and cause mass die offs on...
No though there is a philosophy in Buddhism. I was only saything that you cannot criticise philosophy as a whole of being devoid of reason. You can't do that to religion either as you show. I was standing up in defence of my area and did not intend to make any claim on reason present in...
Because it is human nature to create catagories for all things.
or
The same reason we use creationist to label people who made a literal interpretation of the bible
pick the one you like.