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  1. Halcyon

    What do you believe in without having any evidence of?

    Okay, firstly - 6 year old post. Secondly, the OP was just asking if there are things we believe that we only believe because someone else has given us the information. The things I listed are simply things I believe without personally experimenting/experiencing their reality for myself. I...
  2. Halcyon

    So what's wrong with UKIP?

    ^ This. On a personal level, UKIP seems like the type of thing you'd get if the Daily Mail decided to transform into a political party. Really not my cup of tea.
  3. Halcyon

    Faith in Christ is Completely Logical

    It's a bit hard to try and cause a person to entertain doubts when they're "impervious" to our fiery darts though isn't it? Anything we say shall bounce off of your shield of faith, shall it not? So I won't bother, I'll let the Bible give it a go, you might listen to that; God's plan looking...
  4. Halcyon

    who created "cancer"?

    Cancer is just a by-product of how our bodies grow and repair themselves. In a way multi-cellular organisms are just a controlled form of cancer, all our cells are designed to replicate themselves ad infinitum. It's only through chemical mechanisms that this growth is kept in check, when a...
  5. Halcyon

    Gospel of Thomas and Women

    It's code. In some gnostic systems male equates to spiritual whereas female equates to mundane/physical - probably because of the female's capacity to procreate (and thus trap more spiritual energy in physical bodies). You can see this in the myth of Barbelo, the feminine Hand of God, yet she is...
  6. Halcyon

    Babies Born Racist?

    I'd say that for descendants of African slaves it's very much a matter of racial pride, being proud of who they are in simple physical terms as well as cultural. Just being a POC can be significant and important, historically and personally. That's xenophobia. Xeno = foreign, phobia = fear, so...
  7. Halcyon

    Babies Born Racist?

    I'd class it as shared superficial morphological characteristics, so pigmentation of skin, hair and eyes, skeletal structure (i.e. prominance of brow ridge/nose bridge/mandible width), presence of epicanthic folds, structure of the hair shaft etc. Personally I also extend it to shared cultural...
  8. Halcyon

    Babies Born Racist?

    This is a weird conversation. It makes me wonder what all those forensic scientists who can tell a murder victim's ethnicity from a piece of jawbone would make of the concept proposed here that there are no racial differences. Granted, the genetic differences within an ethnic group may be...
  9. Halcyon

    Uncleanness in Christianity?

    My understanding is that Paul removed most of the Jewish restrictions to diet and ritual cleanliness to broaden the appeal of his new Christianity to the pagans of the Roman Empire. It's why Christians ignore the restrictions against pork and shellfish, despite the fact that they're as important...
  10. Halcyon

    Bye

    I didn't leave a goodbye message when I stopped coming here before, so here's one now. Believe whatever makes you happy. Don't take to heart other's criticism, their opinions aren't important. People don't like being told they're wrong or made to look foolish, so they rarely back down...
  11. Halcyon

    Why is an athiest and athiest?

    Deleted: Forget I brought it up.
  12. Halcyon

    Why is an athiest and athiest?

    Except of course that theists rarely lump themselves as "theists" unless it's in an argument with atheists. They're Christians or Muslims or Hindus or Wiccans, they share significant aspects of their lifestyle, diet, marriage views, political outlook etc etc, because their worldview has been...
  13. Halcyon

    "Your Belief in God is Merely an Escape from Your Monotonous, Stupid, and Cruel Life."

    People tend to believe what they want to believe. In his case he wants to believe that belief clouds people's ability to experience.
  14. Halcyon

    Respectful Question to Gnostics

    It's also exceptionally hard work to read.
  15. Halcyon

    One reason why homosexuality is not a mental illness

    Of course it's not a mental illness. For a person who is gay, homosexuality is the normal way for their brain to function. Ironically it can be a cause of mental illness when people choose to repress their homosexual nature because of societal pressures.
  16. Halcyon

    The Debate of God.

    To use the video game analogy again, the illusion of continuity of nature and form from one level to the next of the game is solely a projection of the underlying code. It doesn't matter that the next level might use utterly unrelated data from a totally different area of the system memory to...
  17. Halcyon

    Why is an athiest and athiest?

    That atheists are considered a coherent minority as also weird to me. There is no reason for any two randomly selected atheists to share any common aspects to their worldview, other than that they don't worship any kind of deity. I also don't see why an atheist should feel the need to defend...
  18. Halcyon

    The Debate of God.

    Believe what you desire to.
  19. Halcyon

    The Debate of God.

    Does it? If you observe the mind you'll notice that it isn't a continuous, interrupted flow. Rather, it's more like a series of separate yet interrelated snapshots, built around a basic feedback loop. One thought/experience filters back to the brain which induces another. In addition, modern...
  20. Halcyon

    Why is an athiest and athiest?

    It's only really in the last couple of years that the oddness of the atheist label has actually instilled itself upon me. I mean, in how many other aspects of our lives do we define ourselves by that which we lack? Not having a belief in a deity should affect our personality about as much as...
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