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    What are your regular spiritual practices?

    I do not pray, perform any rituals, nor attend places of worship. I do wash my hands because it is hygenics. I think at the moment the closer thing to religion in my life is to go out to the nature parks and see nature as it is, to ponder about the deep thoughts of life, and to above all be...
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    What were the reactions of your friends and family?

    When you become an atheist how the people around you act? I was fortunately not near my parents when I left my religion. I think my mom would have a heart attack. But when my father heard about it he threatened to cut me out of his will and give my portion to my oldest sister. We have grown...
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    Disabled Registration

    I just clicked at "REGISTER" the red text at the top, and it says "Registration has been disabled by the administrator". I wasn't trying to create a new account, just curious though because the topic was brought up.
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    How can we know "God" exists?

    I do not think we can know "God" exists, but if we rationally examine the idea of ​​"God" as a kind of supernatural being who is omnipotent and omnipresent, then I think the evidence would be more against its existence than for it. The idea of being omnipotent and all-knowing is...
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    Palestinian Muslims convert to Judaism (video)

    You could have easily searched on Google. Islam and Freedom of Religion
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    Is America good for the world?

    I would say in general America has been pretty good for the world. Americans gave the world many important inventions, liberated the Europeans from the Nazis too. America is not a perfect country and I even say that a few actions under Bush were questionable, but it does not mean that they are...
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    Have you ever been conservative, or have your views ever changed?

    Yes, my educational process for me was a huge eye opener. I resided in Europe as well as the United States for several years and one of the things that drove me away from social conservatives in general are Republicans. They always gave a "bad taste in my mouth" as people say. When I first...
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    Does your brain determine your political views?

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    Behind the Campaign to Smear the Pope

    I'm not really sticking up for him. But I do hate dishonesty and was just pointing out a fact that the Dalai Lama was only talking about Buddhist monks being celibate, and not about the rest of the people who are not monks. Besides I'm sure that in 50 years people can change their opinions on...
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    Racism: The Arab world's dirty secret

    Most Arabs are racist. This is a fact. Look at how Pakistani workers are treated in Dubai. The rich Arabs have million-dollar penthouses while the Pakistanis live in slums. Look at how Filipino maids are treated in Saudi Arabia. Look at how they described African-American politicians in...
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    Racism: The Arab world's dirty secret

    How many articles, other than this one, are there that expose the vile racism of Arabs? And this one had to be written by an Arab. It seems white people go around and criticize Jewish and Blacks of being racist, but never would write an article like this one.
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    Comfort foods

    bakmi (chicken over noodles) bakso (beef meetballs with soup) mi goreng (fried noodle) nasi goreng (fried rice) bubur ayam (porridge with chicken meat) soto ayam (chicken curry soup) Ironically the first 5 are basically Chinese food, but adapted for Indonesians and the last one is mainly Indian.
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    Racism: The Arab world's dirty secret

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/opinion/10iht-edeltahawy.1.18556273.html?_r=0 The author of the article is an egyptian muslim woman, so she is by no means exaggerating or trying to lie. I myself experienced racism from Saudis even when I was on the Hajj and when supposedly all men are...
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    Have you ever been conservative, or have your views ever changed?

    I used to be very conservative in the past. Both in a religious sense and in a social sense. I believed people should get married to have relations, that abortion is wrong, that nearly everything is a sin. I had a very strict, conservative upbringing. In fact when I was a child in middle...
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    What to you constitutes "modest" dress?

    Many women are forced to wear it by their husbands, but if they choose to wear it more often they are openly flaunting their religion for others to see. But another important point is being forced to do something is not individual modesty. A person can be confident, indepndent and...
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    Behind the Campaign to Smear the Pope

    I don't think His Holiness has actually made explicitly anti-gay statements. Rather, he was saying that Buddhist monks should be celibate no matter what their natural orientation. That's like saying that the police captain hates beer because he said that officers are not to drink while they...
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    What are some legitimate, general criticisms of Israel?

    It has quite a lot actually to do with the treatment of non-Japanese in Japan. I've been to Japan and although I think highly of their culture the way I was treated there made me feel bad. And I had an American friend who lived in Japan now for 4 years, and cab drivers will still try to speak...
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    What are some legitimate, general criticisms of Israel?

    Just as a reminder if we want to claim that Israel is an apartheid state because there are security checkpoints, or supposedly segregated buses, then what are people saying about Mecca, which is entirely off limits to non-Muslims. You are technically allowed to be killed under Shariah law if...
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    Behind the Campaign to Smear the Pope

    His anti-gay statements and his association with a far-right military regime for instance: New Pope: Francis believes gay adoption is child abuse | Gay Star News The sins of the Argentinian church | Hugh O'Shaughnessy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Or the fact that he was involved in...
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    What to you constitutes "modest" dress?

    Sunstone, I agree. The definition of "modesty": The quality or state of being unassuming or moderate in the estimation of one's abilities. Therefore we can say that clothing is not modest of itself, but actually the individuals are modest. Individual human beings are modest when they are...
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