Tuesday, September 1, 2015

New Thoughts on an Old Legacy

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LEGACY by John Dobbs I leave you this space which I have occupied temporarily, now clean as a vacuum to hold short sorrow, and bri...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Atheists and the Traditional Faiths

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beliefnet I'm ROMAN CATHOLIC.    Your gonna tell me what my rules are "FOR ME" HOW T F does that work?  RCCan It does...

Social Support for Deconverts.

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beliefnet The issue here between beliefs even buddhist and proper humanist will tell you.    It aint that a humanist is better then a b...
Friday, August 28, 2015

The Arrow and the Song

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The Arrow and the Song By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I shot an arrow into the air, It fe...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Love Thy Neighbor

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beliefnet I can’t believe that one would seriously suggest that a widely believed good found in the text doesn’t exist.  “Thou shalt lo...

Male Dominance and Evolution

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beliefnet Primitive small groups were generally a bit larger than 50 but about 250 seems to be maximum community size.  They generally we...

Agricultural Commiunities vs Marauders

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beliefnet I certainly can deny out warlike nature.  All evidence is that before Abram came along and invented God, humans were agricultur...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Meme Theory vs. Concepts

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beliefnet So, I'll ask you again: Can you think of any new insight gained from calling it the 'God meme' than we had when...

Group Selectionism

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beliefnet To many if not most biologists, the selfish gene approach is the best idea anyone ever came up with for explaining altruis...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

The Brain Preparing for Death

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beliefnet NDEs that is extremely high stress experiences, OBEs, anoxia, awe, wonder and are common human experiences.  Not all humans hav...

Bayesian Jesus

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beliefnet JC do you have ANY idea what the elements of this historical method even is?  Fact is that your dimissal of people's lif...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

New Atheists Vs Progressives

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beliefnet The debate centers around how to criticize Islamic fundementalists who promote violent views.  New atheists point to the rol...
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A Brief History of Abrahamic Religions

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beliefnet Bottom line: For good or evil, the Bible didn't motivate people to do anything they weren't already doing. freespirit...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Evolution of War

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Aug 16, 2015 -- 12:35PM, onefreespirit wrote: When the popes led their faithful to war, they didn't do it by changing human nature...

How to Sing a Prayer.

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beliefnet The hard part for theists is admitting they have become the moral source they wanted to worship. In fact, they are now in a ...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

War Poster Boys

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beliefnet Lets not draw cave men BS conclusions from a Christian BS study.  Women's taste in male appearance changes like hemlines.  ...

War. Nature or Nurture

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beliefnet I certainly can deny our warlike nature.  All evidence is that before Abram came along and invented God, humans were agricultur...

Bible as the Source of Misogyny

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beliefnet Since Torah establishes the moral context of the relationship of husband, mainly in Deuteronomy 24 but throughout the Pentateu...

Violent Men and Evolution.

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beliefnet Yes this is what I think about. And you can go further than 'culture'. Science says men evolved to be violent. And ...

Us vs. Them Dogma

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beliefnet Perhaps some modern versions of Christian, Muslim and Jewish have reinterpreted the "us vs. them" teachings of their...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Humanists With Children

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beliefnet Your thesis then, is "the very existence of religion is an affront to womens' progress", correct?  IronLDS Ta...

Imaginary Reality

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beliefnet But until we have good evidence of their existence, they don't exist for us. The best an example can be is in the 'p...

On Transcendence

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beliefnet (And I'm leery of that word 'transcending' - it's too often an attempt to smuggle nonsense into conversations...

A Life Worth Dying For

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Aug 13, 2015 -- 1:45AM, Kwinters wrote: The fear of death and loss are enough to turn some people's brains off and stop them from ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Men that are Supportive of Women

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beliefnet It might be helpful to some of us if you could illustrate what you mean by 'really supporting women'..... JewOne ...

Biological Destiny for Women

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beliefnet So, let's discuss.  How does a woman's biological makeup contribute to the actual physical requirements placed upon ...

Feminists Hate Moms?

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beliefnet I find it ironic that feminism is supposed to be about women being able to choose their lives, yet so many actual feminists...

Human Worth

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beliefnet I could suggest that such feelings of moral outrage offer survival value, which is why we have them; in which case they off...
Sunday, August 9, 2015

Cain, Abel and Yahweh.

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beliefnet People have hypothesized that perhaps the issue wasn't the offerings of Cain and Abel themselves so much as the condit...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Women in Prehistory Agriculture

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Most studies of aboriginal tribes give lie to this assertion.  Women have equal value in agricultural settlements which predated the Hebre...

Bible Study

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beliefnet No, it does not. Only the most superficial and facile reading ( and one which leaves out most of the narrative)  would suppor...

Marauding and Misogyny

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beliefnet Something of great significance happened early on in the history the Middle East. Some life altering event left an indelibl...
Thursday, August 6, 2015

Jewish Misogyny

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beliefnet Kristi, it's interesting that you claim to be oh-so-rational - yet when I make a simple comment disagreeing with your t...

George Carlin, Rudeness, Mockery and Ridicule

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No one who engages in rudeness, mockery, and ridicule to try to affect oppression is doing so for personal gain of any sort, let alone an ...

Thinking About Beliefs.

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beliefnet I think at this point the only thing being achieved with this thread is "people from various backgrounds coming tog...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Positive Religious Memes

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beliefnet The guy most of the positive religious memes came from was executed in a joint effort of religious and secular authorities.  M...

Art Music and Beliefs

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beliefnet Opinions on art and music are subjective. You tell me that your taste is better and criticize mine and I will treat you like ...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

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beliefnet   I communicate very clearly and insure that what I write means exactly what I want it to mean.  The fact that what I writ...

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beliefnet I was a Boy Scout and an atheist and a Scoutmaster and an atheist.  Most of my ancestors that I know their religious inclinati...

Atheism on God

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Beliefnet Atheists just don't care about God.  If someone wants to believe in God that is their problem not mine.  It boils down t...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Authority, Love, and God.

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beliefnet I suspect that the "Presence within" is part of the deference to authority genetic basic moral imperative you argue for...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Meaningful Living

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beliefnet Whether or not there is a God, meaningful living is all there is to being human.  We all die, and return to the stardust from w...

Meaningful Living

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beliefnet There are many ways gays can have biological offspring if they want them.  Others may adopt which is just as beneficial for the...

Objective Evidence for God.

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beliefnet ff. God, god(s), and goddesses (henceforth referred to as God) is defined as an imaginary creation of a human mind or a grou...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Give me the child until 7 ...

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Beliefnet The cerebral cortex, that which makes humans sapient, isn't fully developed until two and is overdeveloped at that point un...

God of the Credo

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beliefnet Blü : Yes, gods don't have objective existence. The objective existence of God for Catholics is rationally observed in ...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Nyah Wynne on UBI

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Nyah Wynne 3 hrs   ·   Thoughts on the value of a Universal Basic Income The biggest reason I support UBI(Univ...
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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Religious CV

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I do not need to defend my knowledge of religions of all cultures including the dominant ones of the cultures I have lived in.  My bookshe...