Scientists have for the first time scanned the brains of people using LSD and found the psychedelic drug frees the brain to become less...
Two errors here; one, I don't see how being against organized religion bears any relevance to my critique against the concept of "god" spoken of...
I see a flaw in defining god to be so beyond the realm of human understanding and then being sure we have defined it correctly in such a way :)...
Keep fighting the good fight Zzap. I'm sure you're choosing the right battles and the right sides in this big, wide, old world.
The word "meditation" is used to describe a vast array of contemplative techniques; some are the source of a great deal of scientific research and...
"The only thing bad about fundamentalist Islam, are the fundamentals of Islam" - Sam Harris Are we under threat by radical Buddhists? How about...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN6UFQcNOw8
[IMG] I really, really hope you don't actually give lectures to young students about anything, and I pray to zeus that you have never had a...
How do you know? I've gotten most of my life's meaning from science, including buddhist science. Many scientists are metaphysically fulfilled...
What is experience but a kind of knowledge?
Yes, many, there is a large south asian population where I live. I have been good friends with many muslims in my life, and most are "nominal"...
If you read every cookbook and don't know how to cook, what you lack is knowledge that was not provided in those cookbooks. You learned knowledge...
I think it's even worse than that; intrapersonally, most of us are internally baffled by our words which are kind of steampunkesque contraptions...
[IMG] Gays are being slaughtered in the muslim world, and oppressed otherwise in every way you can imagine, and you are the guy sitting behind...
That sounds like a problem of not enough knowledge, not too much of it. If you have every cookbook ever written, and cannot make breakfast, you...
And what about their gays? Their atheists? Their apostates? The penalty for apostasy in Islam is death. DEATH. For leaving the religion....
I never used the words "stupid" or "retard" so what's your beef? Stop with the pop psychology please, you talk about projection in like 60% of...
"He's so closed-minded, if he would only look at the beautiful poetry after the chapter on beheading infidels but before the chapter on the lesser...
Reality being defined as "The state of things that actually exist", or "All that which is", I don't understand what an alternative reality would...
I don't believe that adjective goes with that noun.
Separate names with a comma.
