I think Pascal's Wager should have been made for free will, instead of god, because then it would actually make sense. It makes absolutely no...
Depends how you define autonomous I think. Do you not make your own life decisions?
Honestly, I've never even seen them as opposite or competing fields. Comparing science and religion is like comparing science and poetry. They...
Could be good practice though. I suppose it depends what you would hope to get out of writing it with them.
Your friend will learn the hard way, or maybe they'll hit the big-time, who knows? The point is, why are you helping them? If it is for the...
I suppose that rests firstly on one's definition of plagiarism, and secondly on ones definition of oxymoron :P To my knowledge, an oxymoron is...
lol I don't worry about being influenced, but I do hold a sort of weird irrational neurosis about accidentally plagiarising someone. as a result...
I work and write. It's not that hard if you're not lazy. My first book is coming out this year, and I'm seeing some more attention on the...
It's a well established fact that the last of the real hippies left planet earth in 1969, returning to their homeworld to fight in a terrible and...
This strikes me as interesting, a sort of post-modern response to Ibsen's Doll's House. What I liked about it was the message that dreams and...
A lot of the "gnostic gospels" come from much later documents than the "canonical" gospels. I'm a Buddhist, so I don't really have a horse in this...
I found this interesting, There is a preconception amoung many atheist thinkers about what prayer actually is, and they often dismiss it on these...
No single solution, sometimes I just sit and hash out scraps and ideas, and old bits and pieces of writing I never found a use for till something...
Actually "I was just following orders" was a fairly common defence used by nazis at the nuremberg trials if memory serves. It's not really good...
I rigged a device so if my heartbeat drops below 10 bpm Big Ben will explode. I know I'm alive because it hasn't yet.
Howdy Reverend.... lol I'll catch you otherwheres... you're banned already. already. I didn't even get to see how
For better or worse, this poem made me smile :)
Technically no, he never specified that the the thread or this discussion was meant to serve a "useful" purpose, so it's potential absence of one...
Useless in what sense?
I'll bite. I'm a Buddhist, and so an Atheist of sorts. Buddha positing that the existence of god wasn't really an important question, and myself...
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