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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 21, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by noworry28

He was great

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 21, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by MajesticHero

That the universe may be… unbounded, and that none of us has a corner on… the truth, are not particularly… commonsensical observations, but merely point to a cosmos which is at the bottom… a kind of… divine nonsense.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 21, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by puff

BIDEN DECLARES PANDEMIC OVER This is a blatant lie from the POTUS The WHO declared a pandemic, only the WHO can declare it is over. And when WHO does declare it over, emergency powers finish for governments around the world. This means emergency ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 21, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by Lorajay

According to a 19th century legend, the Truth and the Lie meet one day. The Lie says to the Truth: "It's a marvellous day today"! The Truth looks up to the skies and sighs, for the day was really beautiful. They spend a lot of time together, ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 20, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by Word

P and not P were sittings in a tree K.I.S.S.I.N.G ... ok, just being funny there. But, in viewing P and not P. The word Not changes the P. Instead of the word Not, how about the words upside down. So, we have upside down P. Is upsidedown P, ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 18, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by SpikeTalon

For those of you out there who value your individual rights and have a sense of justice, the following is something you should strongly consider. Not sure which category this would fall under, so just leaving it here. A post I did awhile back on ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 31, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by racocn8

I haven't seen whether the site is continuing, but just in case it doesn't, thanks for 'social' interaction. Good luck to those who have enriched or ennobled my experience, which is what I take as goals. So if a God existed that created the universe...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 12, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by HippieChick58

LINKEverything I Like about Religion I Learned from an Atheist - TheHumanist.com

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 12, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by misstuffy

LINKPensacola mother arrested for allegedly overdosing child so they could 'go to heaven'

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 11, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by godfree2

Latest Secular humanist declaration 2022

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 8, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by creative51

Ideas from Brights Central Expressing Your Kind of “Worldview” Here at Brights Central, what defines a bright has two parts: (1) naturalistic and (2) worldview. Let’s take a closer look at each word separately The naturalistic part: A ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 9, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by barjoe

Charles III is the head of the Church of England. Evangelical right and fascist maga call themselves Christian Nationalists. Our constitution is supposed to prevent that. The Founders established this nation as a secular nation. This is not a ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 22, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by AtheistPeace666

POLLWhat kind of philosophy do you side with?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 6, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by Castlepaloma

Is everyone technically an agnostic? Or is everyone technically an bio organisms, a human being.and individualism first?. Or all above? Whatever beliefs anyone holds is a mix between what they experienced growing up as children and the efforts they ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 6, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by FrayedBear

I tried hard but just had to share this with you in between rofl's:

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 6, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by Captain_Feelgood

One has to ask....

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 5, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by Captain_Feelgood

Soooo... tell me how he is wrong... 😏

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 5, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by Captain_Feelgood

Just a little bit of a difference to look at. You have to admit, he does have a point.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 2, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by Matias

Here's a glimpse on the other side of the liberal coin: A free market ideology that seeks to free individuals from all kinds of constraints in order to maximize their ability to work and to consume. The atomized workers with no commitment to any ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 2, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by antman

Somehow I’ve ended up in a YouTube rabbit hole learning about Taoism. Have you guys found anything interesting I could look into for my next rabbit hole adventure?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 31, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by towkneed

Just discovered Eliminative Materialism and I keep wanting to know more and understand arguments for its validity. Anyone have any opinions?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jan 3, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by CarlSagan72

Can you be scientifically based and follow astrology?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 23, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by Sofabeast

I pose a broad question. What is a god? Humans all over the world have gods, but due to cultural differences the design of a god differs markedly. Here are some examples. Some cultures have man-gods and god-men. Physical entities where a person is ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 24, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKJeanette Winterson: Is humanity smart enough to survive itself? | TED Talk

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 12, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Matias

Is it wrong to pigeonhole people and judge them not according to their personal merits and actions, but according to the label of the pigeonhole? Most people intuitively would say: of course that's wrong. That's what racism, sexism and other -isms ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 25, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by Matias

What is the right side of history?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 22, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by Castlepaloma

Where black slaves mostly shipped to America?. Or were most blacks already here?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 19, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by Matias

A liberal society is a society in which dominate: the primacy of the isolated, "free and autonomous" individual, the ideology of inevitable progress, the fiction of universal human rights, the obsession with growth (because more and more people are...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 15, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by TheMiddleWay

My personal contribution to good faith communication is a graceful exit. Instead of leaving the conversation when I'm proven wrong, I will try to admit to that wrongness and thank my person for changing my point of view. Conversely when a ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 16, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by Matias

What we call Modernity has old roots. In most respects, it represents a secularisation of ideas and perspectives borrowed from Christian metaphysics, which spread into secular life following a rejection of any transcendent dimension. Actually, one ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 14, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by TheMiddleWay

LINKWhy religion without belief can still make perfect sense | Psyche Ideas

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 15, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by Matias

The best definition of "modernity" is the following, from one of my intellectual heroes, Alain de Benoist: Modernity designates the political and philosophical movement of the last three centuries of Western history. It is characterised primarily ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 31, 2017Oct 2017

Posted by GothRik

Racism is a misnomer, what term should replace it?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 11, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by Matias

The dark side of liberalism is that its philosophy rejects some important ideas which are required for human self-limitation. It rejected first the idea of a natural order to which humanity is subject, and later the notion of human nature itself ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 11, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by IAS1

"Not only is there no God but try finding a plumber on Sunday"

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 8, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by FvckY0u

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. There's a lot of truth to this. A philosophy I've pretty much adopted on my own later in life. This showed up in my youtube feed and I thought it worthy of sharing. I'm enjoying listening to it.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 6, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by Matias

"Many elements of what we today call our environmental crisis—climate change, resource depletion, groundwater contamination and scarcity, species extinction—are signs of battles won but a war being lost. Today we are accustomed to arguing that we...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 1, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by puff

Who remembers the days when the US sought people, apprehending them to bring them to face justice, upholding important principals like trials/ evidence and allowing both sides of the story to be heard in a court before judgment? The days we refused ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 1, 2022Aug 2022

Posted by MajesticHero

The world and other things…

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by skado

Consciousness Question: Given what I perceive as a long-standing skepticism of scientific progress in the understanding of consciousness, whether Chomsky has seen any promising shift toward good ideas in this domain. Noam Chomsky says: ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by dalefvictor

A school of thought states that everything is determined, preordained, and measurable. This rather blunt message for humanity would lead one to think that we are just living the chapters in a book already written. I listen and read to arguments ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Matias

LINKWhat does it mean to be a "person"? That depends on your culture - Big Think

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 26, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by TheoryNumber3

“If I had my life to live over... Someone asked me the other day if I had my life to live over would I change anything. My answer was no, but then I thought about it and changed my mind. If I had my life to live over again I would have waxed ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 25, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by imtiyaz_ex-m

Rule 5 - Delete games from your mobile. It's a electronic device for your success, not to be a sucker.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 25, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Kutty58

Who believe in this

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 23, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Archeus_Lore

The ultimate Turing test would be giving an advanced Artificially Intelligent being power and money . . . To see if it starts abusing the power it has, becomes more greedy, starts invading and bombing other countries, committing mass murder, and ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 3, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Sofabeast

Roe v Wade overturned. I open a debate on the controversial subject of human abortion. Please keep it civil and argue objectively on the subject avoiding social clashes based purely on subjective opinions. The question is not reason why an abortion ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 17, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Unity

"This is a man's world, but it would be nothing without a woman or a girl"

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 17, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Matias

Every society can be described as a struggle for power among several groups (example: the bourgeoisie against the proletariat in Marxist theory). In many cases, especially in democratic societies, there is a majority holding the key positions of ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 16, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by SpikeTalon

Since there are some folks on this site who for reasons unknown cannot take some dark humor well and in the process jump to conclusions and start in with the fingerpointing, I'm reposting the image below. Sarcastic/cruel/and or dark humor is hardly ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 13, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Archeus_Lore

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." . "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." . "Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 13, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Jolanta

If you want something you never had, you have to do something you never done. Thomas Jefferson

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 13, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by FrostyJim

He has a point...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 12, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Word

Agnosticism is another way to prove the statement illogical. Knowledge is a subset of belief being illogical. Agnostic does not hold the existence of gods to be true nor false. So, agnostic has no belief. What does agnostic have? Agnostic...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 10, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by cseajay

If you could, would you

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 10, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by FvckY0u

Why It's Better to be Single | 4 Reasons

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by ErichZannIII

nobullies lgbtqia

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Druvius

Blogging again. "AS FOR SELF-DECEIT, MOST PEOPLE FIND IT AS ESSENTIAL FOR SURVIVAL AS AIR.":

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Spinliesel

Another Rumi quote. I like that man, whoever he is.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Word

Reasoning - the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way. Reasoning requires free will to choose. Free will is the capacity of agents to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded. Critical thinking - the...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 7, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by puff

There has been quite a bit of speculation on how Russia invading Ukraine happened, what led to it. Russian expansionism? NATO expansionism? The 2014 coup and resulting civil war? Who is at fault? A thought occurred to me earlier. Intellectuals ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 7, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Matias

It is part of the logic of individualistic modern societies (with a certain tendency toward individual and collective narcissism) to celebrate minorities. Where emancipation and individuality are central values and goals, the minority becomes the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jan 2, 2018Jan 2018

Posted by Sluggs

I am pretty new to this site, but is christian slamming a normal part of things here?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 2, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Castlepaloma

What is worse, FEAR or GREED? I pick fear, because when people control their fear they can control mass hysteria, which politics , religion and superrich feed off of, so easily.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 3, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Lorajay

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 2, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by isaiahfzell1990

So being an atheist, one of the most significant things that I struggling with is that since I also have a strong love for learning about different cultures, people, and countries, and I do not believe in any religous/spiritual/supernatural things ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 2, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by FvckY0u

I went to the bookstore (Borders) today. It was raining all day and although it's not now the temp is 76 and the humidity is 89%. A good day to stay inside and read. I bought, Seneca, Letters from a Stoic. The philosophy section was just ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 2, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Matias

Our minds manage to distract us from the terrible reality by filling our lives with stories about hopeful goals and encouraging us to strive to achieve them. The ups and downs of that struggle are part of our common history of striving for what we ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 1, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by FrostyJim

I didn't know...!

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jul 1, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKNothing Exists But You | The Philosophy of Solipsism

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 8, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias

Many atheists don't like it at all, to say the least, when science is called the child of religion. Nevertheless, this metaphor is correct from a purely historical point of view. First, what we call science today was born in a thoroughly religious...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 29, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by mistymoon77

It's a pretty good feeling when this does happen. All about perspective.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 27, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias

Nowadays, many, maybe even most of us do not live in the world described by science, but in some kind of "Fantasyland". In his eponymous book, Kurt Andersen describes and explains how we arrived at this point. The pivotal moment, he argues, was the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 28, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias

Some of the leading figures of the so-called identitarian right in Europe claim to be no longer racists, but they call themselves "ethno-pluralists". The basic idea of this concept is that there are different races and peoples, and each of them has ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 27, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by AtheistPeace666

agnostic is the most rational position to have because both Atheist and religious are more definite positions even though there is no possible way to prove or disprove God for certain.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 26, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by puff

We have recognised that people have a right to gender identify outside the biological/ physical attributes. I have seen up to 16 mentioned here alone Just kinda made me smile though with all this talk of abortion ie which ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 26, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by FrostyJim

No kidding...?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Dec 15, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by TheMiddleWay

POLLPrompted by the disbelief of one of our members that atheists would ever visit a theist site, I created this poll.

Have you ever visited a site similar to agnostic.com but religious in nature?

10 votes Yes
85 votes No

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 13, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Beachslim7

POLLI want to know how you lefties explain this one Feminist facing 3 years in prison for saying men can't be lesbians Lets say he was born as a man but identifies as a female lesbian. Since he is a woman, why isnt this statement ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by towkneed

I was thinking about how I had tried to explain Marx's Theory of Surplus Value to someone once when it occurred to me - the starting point of Marx and communism in general is the absolute opposite of market theory. Market theory starts with price, ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKRebirth | A Shamanic Documentary by David Al-Badri

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Advin

According to Bible(Book of Genesis):-human thinking test with temptation by god...This is god's technology.....😁😁😁😁😁

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias

Some excerpts from the book "Inventing the Individual" by Larry Siedentop "The roots of liberalism were firmly established in the arguments of philosophers and canon lawyers by the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: belief in a fundamental ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Anabucerias

From the arrival of the earliest humans on earth to the present ,God has always been a human invention intendednto control others.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 23, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Anabucerias

“The pathetic thing that grows out of this condition is called faith: in other words, closing one's eyes upon one's self once for all, to avoid suffering the sight of incurable falsehood. People erect a concept of morality, of virtue, of holiness ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 22, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias

When modern citizens cease to be religious they do not cease to be moral, they still have the same moral mind and the same moral impulses and needs that they used to channel through religion. They still have the same need for a moral identity, for a ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 18, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias

What does liberalism mean to you?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 19, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by LovinLarge

I hope no one minds if I share this here. I lost my dad last year just before Father's Day. He was 94, a white liberal academic who led a very privileged life and he acknowledged that. He paid significant income tax and was happy to do so. He was...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 14, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias

Christians believe in the miracle of the virgin birth : The Holy Spirit inseminated Mary and she gave birth to Jesus Christ. But many atheists and secular humanists also believe in a sort of miracle: the miracle of the Scientific Revolution and - ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Nov 9, 2017Nov 2017

Posted by THOTH

Capitalism is a Religion! Banks are Churches,Bankers are Priests Wealth is Heaven...Poverty is Hell. Rich People are Saints, Poor people are sinners. Commodities are Blessings MONEY IS GOD! Miguel de Lewis

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 16, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by skado

Carlisle, Vervaeke, Spinoza, and voluntary necessities. .

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 27, 2022May 2022

Posted by MizJ

LINKWabi-sabi

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 12, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias

It is one thing to originate an idea, and it is another thing to live according to this idea. Example: The Founding Fathers deemed it self-evident that all men are created equal, but they did not include black people or women in the category "men"....

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 12, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias

One of my pet ideas is that one can hardly overestimate the hidden influences Christian ideas still have in our Western societies, even among people who call themselves atheists and rarely miss an occasion to rail against Xtians. One prime example is...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 12, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Silver1wun

POLLSaw this and it reminded me of so much more than mere religions.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 9, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Advin

The sky according to Islam😁😁😁

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 11, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by KateOahu

To Have or To Be? and The Art of Being In the mid-1970s, twenty years after his influential treatise on the art of loving and four decades after legendary anthropologist Margaret Mead turned to him for difficult advice, Fromm became interested in ...

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