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    Tau puns?

    This will take some background, but I hope you'll bea with me: A while back somebody proposed that pi is actually wrong, and that we replace it with a new variable equal to 2*pi. His symbol can't be entered on a computer, so last year somebody proposed that we use the greek letter Tau...
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    Explaining Satanism to Christians.

    I have an acquaintance whose going on about how Satanists scare him, and askign why anybody would choose to worship Satan. Whats the best way to educate him on the subject? Or troll him. Either one.
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    Usury in non Abrahamic religions.

    During the filibuster today, Bernie Sanders said something about usury being against all religions of the world. He was talking in typical amerocentric view where Islam Judaism and Christianity are the only ones that count (not to mention ignoring the archaic meaning of usury), but it did make...
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    The traditional filibuster.

    Old style filibuster going on Live on CSpan 2 right now. Bernie Sandars will likeley not change anything with this, but it still warms my heart to see a Senator get up and tell the American people that they can expect their kids to make half the wage they do. C-SPAN2 Live Stream - C-SPAN
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    Advice for seekers.

    I find myself frequently giving out advice that isn't useful for one reason or another, or failing to say things that I didn't realize were relevant, and I thought it might be useful to point out some things that will help me (and hopefully others) help the seekers here. Be upfront about what...
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    Is this Jainish?

    I cam across an essay claiming that the Discordian quote " All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some...
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    Counter book burning.

    Everyone hear has to have heard about the Qur'an burnings scheduled for the 11th. (There are what, 5 threads on it?). Well some freinds and I have decided to hold a book burning of our own, but instead of destroying books we're going to burn them to CDs. I put up a file containing primary...
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    Quaran or Koran?

    Ok, I'm doing a project that's going to involve the Koran, and I just want to check and make sure that the alternate spelling(s) don't offend anyone in some bizzare way I've never heard of so: what should I use? Also, can anybody point me to a good free Arabic ebook of the Koran? If I remember...
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    The easy answers.

    A ball and a bat cost $1.10, the bat costs $1 more than the ball, how much does the ball cost? The correct answer is 5 cents, most people (as 87% in many studies) answer 10. This is not a hard question though, any grade school student should be able to answer this correctly. And most people...
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    Good news everybody, you have no right to privacy on your own property!

    The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS - TIME
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    Chao Te Ching rough draft

    Yet another holy book from the discordian community. This one parodying/ripping off/reinterpreting the Tao Te Ching. Chao te Ching Comments welcome.
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    The book burnings are go!

    A baptist church in Gainesville Florida plans to burn copies of the Koran on September 11th, and invites others to join in. You can see their reasoning on 3Tf9M9HRMWk Youtube. Church Plans on Burning the Qur'an on 9/11 In the meantime, New York public libraries are pulling books that...
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    A question about biblical literalism.

    A common criticism I have heard about biblical literalism from the atheist crowd is that literalists claim the bible is true because the bible says so, I have two questions in that vein. Does the bible actually say this, or something similar, anywhere. Does anybody really use this argument, or...
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    The etymology of 'Left Hand Path'

    Does 'left hand path' take its name solely from the Latin for left (sinister) or is it related to the left and right paths on the tree of life that Crowley talked about?
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    Hi

    I stumbled across this place while Googling for information on the Graber case and thought the people here seemed halfway decent. I'm a Gnostic and a Discordian (wait, you actually have a subforum for Gnosticism?)
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