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Theists; Allahu Akbar !
Atheists; 'The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weakness'
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@clokflokleberrymojimbo
Yes, In an interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the host asked Mary Trump if she’s ever heard President Trump use racist or anti-Semitic slurs, or express other racist sentiments. “Yeah, of course I did,” Mary Trump replied. “And I don’t think that should surprise anybody, given how virulently racist he is today.”
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Where is the Mac Hash Key?
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Judge FLRW finds for the defendant RationalMadman !
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@Yassine
@Unpopular
Yassine, the future of Man is Humanism. Humanists reject the idea or belief in a supernatural being such as God. This means that humanists class themselves as agnostic or atheist. Humanists have no belief in an afterlife, and so they focus on seeking happiness in this life. Apparently if there is a God, he agrees with this approach because he has not appeared on the Jim Bakker Show in a burning bush to refute it. Either that or he really is dead.
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@Tradesecret
See the following letter to Albert Einstein (my third cousin) and his reply.
Dear Dr. Einstein,
Last summer my eleven-year-old son died of polio. He was an unusual child, a lad of great promise who verily thirsted after knowledge so that he could prepare himself for a useful life in the community. His death has shattered the very structure of my existence, my very life has become an almost meaningless void — for all my dreams and aspirations were somehow associated with his future and his strivings. I have tried during the past months to find comfort for my anguished spirit, a measure of solace to help me bear the agony of losing one dearer than life itself — an innocent, dutiful, and gifted child who was the victim of such a cruel fate. I have sought comfort in the belief that man has a spirit which attains immortality — that somehow, somewhere my son lives on in a higher world.
With heart-rending and utterly disarming despair, the grieving father goes on to wonder whether some evidence of immortality may be found in the principle of energy conservation in science, then adds:
I write you all this because I have just read your volume The World as I See It. On page 5 of that book you stated: “Any individual who should survive his physical death is beyond my comprehension … such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.” And I inquire in a spirit of desperation, is there in your view no comfort, no consolation for what has happened? Am I to believe that my beautiful darling child … has been forever wedded into dust, that there was nothing within him which has defied the grave and transcended the power of death? Is there nothing to assuage the pain of an unquenchable longing, an intense craving, an unceasing love for my darling son?
May I have a word from you? I need help badly.
Sincerely yours,
Dear Mr. M.,
A human being is part of the whole world, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish the delusion but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.
With my best wishes,
sincerely yours,
Albert Einstein
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@Yassine
Bare with me.
It's actually bear with me.
So, bear with me or bare with me: which is correct? Well, the long and short of it is that, in its verb form, "bare" means to reveal or uncover. "Reveal with me," doesn't quite have the intended meaning of "hold on a moment." Consequently, "bear with me" is the correct spelling of this common phrase.
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OMG, janesix is the new ebuc.
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@Reece101
Yes, Buttdingus, the god that created hemmoroids.
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@Yassine
Ok, no debate. I accomplished what I wanted to.
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@SkepticalOne
Yes, Key not only profited from slaves, he harbored racist conceptions of American citizenship and human potential. Africans in America, he said, were: “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.”
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@Yassine
Yes, as long as we define the Satanic verses as Surah (“Chapter”) 53, verses 21–22 of the Quran.
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@oromagi
‘The truth is still out there’
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@ebuc
It was one of the earliest computer models looking at the environmental sustainability of our civilizations.
The model is likely out dated now and we will have better computer models with more accurate predictions.
But it’s entirely correct that the way we live now is not sustainable it’s a question of how accurate it’s timings are and newer computer models are probably a lot better.
The model is likely out dated now and we will have better computer models with more accurate predictions.
But it’s entirely correct that the way we live now is not sustainable it’s a question of how accurate it’s timings are and newer computer models are probably a lot better.
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@Yassine
Do you wanna debate: "The satanic verses are real"? I would argue that they are fictitious, you can argue the opposite.
I would be glad to debate you. I would use the following argument.
The satanic verses are two lines in the Quran that, according to some versions of Muslim history, Muhammad spoke under the direction of Satan rather than Allah. Some early Muslim sources record that Muhammad admitted that Surah (“Chapter”) 53, verses 21–22 of the Quran, as they originally read, were the result of a satanic trick that he thought was a genuine revelation from Allah. If this tradition is true, Muhammad’s position as a true prophet would be in dispute because he had been deceived by Satan.
The background behind the satanic verses is that, early on, the number of Muhammad’s followers was growing slowly, and he was in conflict with Arabs. In order to ease the conflict, he received the following revelation:
Surah 53:19–20:
“So have you considered al-Lat and al-'Uzza?
And Manat, the third [goddess]—the other one?”
Al-Lat, al-'Uzza, and Manat were three pagan Arab deities.
Following Surah 53:20, the devil interjected his own words onto Muhammad’s tongue, and the result was Surah 53:21–22 (the “satanic” version):
“These are the exalted cranes [intermediaries]
Whose intercession is to be hoped for!”
According to these verses, the three pagan deities are recognized to be legitimate, and Muhammad can seek their intercession on his behalf. By Muhammad recognizing these Arab deities, he was able to ease tensions with the Arabs. Later, he explained what looked like a lapse into polytheism by saying that Satan had tricked him. He also said that the angel Gabriel came to him and told him that occasionally Satan fools even true prophets. At the time, this explained how an error was introduced into the Quran. Later, this admission was seen to be damaging to Muhammad’s character, so the verses were changed altogether, and the story of his confession was squelched. This is documented in early Muslim sources still available today, although Muslim apologists also point out that there are earlier biographies of Muhammad that do not record this story.
The following passage is from one early source (AD 915) that does record it:
“When [the pagan] Quraysh heard this, they rejoiced and were happy and delighted at the way in which he spoke of their gods, and they listened to him, while the Muslims, having complete trust in their prophet in respect of the messages which he brought from God, did not suspect him of error, illusion, or mistake. When he came to the prostration, having completed the surah, he prostrated himself and the Muslims did likewise, following their prophet, trusting in the message which he had brought and following his example. Those polytheists of the Quraysh and others who were in the mosque likewise prostrated themselves because of the reference to their gods which they had heard, so that there was no one in the mosque, believer or unbeliever, who did not prostrate himself. The one exception was al-Walid b. al-Mughirah, who was a very old man and could not prostrate himself; but he took a handful of soil from the valley in his hand and bowed over that. Then they all dispersed from the mosque. The Quraysh left delighted by the mention of their gods which they had heard, saying, ‘Muhammad has mentioned our gods in the most favorable way possible, stating in his recitation that they are the high flying cranes and that their intercession is received with approval’” (The History of al-Tabari, Vol. VI: Muhammad at Mecca, trans. by W. Montgomery Watt and M. V. McDonald, State University of New York Press, 1988, pp. 108–109).
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@Dr.Franklin
Adams equates morality with his personal religious beliefs, which boil down to being “just and good.”
Adams dismissed works of formal religious philosophy and theology as “romances” and equates them to fairy tales.
Adam's correspondent Jefferson, of course, was a celebrated Deist who was so disdainful of religion that he famously cut much of the text out of his personal New Testament.
He and Adams shared very similar sentiment.
Anyone looking to claim a founding father as sympathetic to the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation had best look beyond Adams.
He was not sympathetic, despite efforts to quote mine him and distort his intentions.
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@ILikePie5
From an article by Tony Schwartz:
In July 2016, shortly before Trump became the Republican nominee for president, I was interviewed by Jane Mayer for an article in The New Yorker that was eventually titled “Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All.” Mayer described my experience with Trump over the 18 months it took me to write The Art of the Deal. During that time, I spent hundreds of hours with him.
Like many other Trump critics, I believed that he was driven by an insatiable narcissistic hunger to be loved, accepted, admired, and praised. That remains prima facie true, but it deflects attention from what drives Trump more deeply: the need to dominate. His primary goal is to win at any cost and the end always justifies the means. Ultimately, he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks or feels. For Trump, the choice between dominating and being loved — saving himself or saving others — is no contest.
Like many other Trump critics, I believed that he was driven by an insatiable narcissistic hunger to be loved, accepted, admired, and praised. That remains prima facie true, but it deflects attention from what drives Trump more deeply: the need to dominate. His primary goal is to win at any cost and the end always justifies the means. Ultimately, he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks or feels. For Trump, the choice between dominating and being loved — saving himself or saving others — is no contest.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Maybe a UFO hit the pile foundation of the Condo building that collapsed in Surfside.
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@ILikePie5
In his prime, Donald Trump probably had an IQ that was slightly above average - in the 110 to 125 range. He also appears to have at least one learning disability, dyslexia, which made it difficult for him to read. He may have had other learning disabilities as well (note that General George Patton was dyslexic and graduated at the bottom of his class at West Point, but was still very successful). These learning disabilities explain why he was a poor student and does not like to read.
If you were to watch any interview Trump gave in the 1980s and 1990s, you would see a man who was articulate and focused. Now compare that to any interview that Trump has given in the last five years, and it is very evident that he has suffered some form of mental decline. He is no longer articulate or focused. He sometimes seems to be uncertain about questions that have been asked. He can't seem to stay on topic, and often fails to complete a sentence or thought. His performance in interviews has even declined over the last five years, if you look closely.
If you were to watch any interview Trump gave in the 1980s and 1990s, you would see a man who was articulate and focused. Now compare that to any interview that Trump has given in the last five years, and it is very evident that he has suffered some form of mental decline. He is no longer articulate or focused. He sometimes seems to be uncertain about questions that have been asked. He can't seem to stay on topic, and often fails to complete a sentence or thought. His performance in interviews has even declined over the last five years, if you look closely.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Because the World is very complex now, I say one should have a minimum IQ of 130 to vote if the USA wants to be the World leader.
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@ILikePie5
Why doesn't Trump release his grades? “I’m talking about a man who declares himself brilliant, but directed me to threaten
his high school, his colleges and the College Board to never release his grades or
SAT scores,” Cohen told the House Oversight Committee.”
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@Wylted
I assume his IQnis atkeast 150
Are you a Trump?
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@Wylted
Wharton business school of the University of Pennsylvania, his former professor college professor William T. Kelley had another view.
After Kelley’s death, Frank DiPrima a close friend of Kelley revealed that the professor felt the president was a fool.
“Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had,'” DiPrima wrote for the Daily Kos.
After Kelley’s death, Frank DiPrima a close friend of Kelley revealed that the professor felt the president was a fool.
“Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had,'” DiPrima wrote for the Daily Kos.
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@Wylted
That is ridiculous LOL.
I know, right? There's no way it is that high.
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@fauxlaw
there are much larger isogrammic Roman numerals in English than 5,000
Name one?
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@fauxlaw
The site you are referencing says, When they needed to work with large numbers (4000 and above), the Romans often wrote a bar above a numeral, or parentheses placed around it, to indicate multiplication by 1000.
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@Wylted
The results of an IQ test that President Donald Trump allegedly took during his first year at New York Military Academy have been discovered in a file box in a closet in Brooklyn. According to the test results, Trump’s IQ is 73.
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Here is an interesting side note, mRNA vaccines have become a promising platform for cancer immunotherapy. During vaccination, naked or vehicle loaded mRNA vaccines efficiently express tumor antigens in antigen-presenting cells (APCs), facilitate APC activation and innate/adaptive immune stimulation.
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The founder of the Mormon church, Joseph Smith, wed as many as 40 wives, including some who were already married and one as young as 14 years old. What a joker God is.
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In the coverage of Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell and her missing children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, people who have known them say they have extreme religious beliefs and are members of a doomsday “cult.”
But the nature of the reported cult is hard to define, especially since the Daybells have not spoken to the media.
What we do know is Chad and Lori are or have been members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
And even though fauxlaw is a High Priest, he says he does not know them.
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@Wylted
Don't forget that Trump has the lowest IQ of any president.
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@Dr.Franklin
There’s a certain basic confusion here, because God is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence (as “Creator”) but not mentioned in the Constitution.
As for the mention in the Declaration, one should keep in mind that Thomas Jefferson wrote it, and Jefferson was a Deist. This means that he believed in a theoretical Creator but was highly skeptical about miracles and even skeptical that the Creator might enter into history at all.
Instead, like a good Deist, he believed that God had given mankind everything we need to build a better world, but left it up to us to do “God’s will”: that is, to bring about a world of maximum happiness and justice.
(Yeah, yeah, he should have started by freeing his own slaves, but still…)
People should remember that this was Jefferson’s belief system before they go about insisting that the Founding Fathers were fundamentalist Christians.
As for the mention in the Declaration, one should keep in mind that Thomas Jefferson wrote it, and Jefferson was a Deist. This means that he believed in a theoretical Creator but was highly skeptical about miracles and even skeptical that the Creator might enter into history at all.
Instead, like a good Deist, he believed that God had given mankind everything we need to build a better world, but left it up to us to do “God’s will”: that is, to bring about a world of maximum happiness and justice.
(Yeah, yeah, he should have started by freeing his own slaves, but still…)
People should remember that this was Jefferson’s belief system before they go about insisting that the Founding Fathers were fundamentalist Christians.
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@3RU7AL
Without memories, the mind is incapable of thought.
Yes, that is true. Memory is normally considered the key to acquiring words and getting used to grammatical patterns in a language.
Without a language, you can't have thoughts. Many writers and philosophers have drawn a strong connection between language and thought. Oscar Wilde called language “the parent, and not the child, of thought.” Ludwig Wittgenstein claimed that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” And Bertrand Russell stated that the role of language is “to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.”
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The U.S. Navy controls patents for some futuristic and outlandish technologies, some of which, dubbed "the UFO patents," came to light recently. Of particular note are inventions by the somewhat mysterious Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, whose tech claims to be able to "engineer reality." His slate of highly-ambitious, borderline sci-fi designs meant for use by the U.S. government range from gravitational wave generators and compact fusion reactors to next-gen hybrid aerospace-underwater crafts with revolutionary propulsion systems, and beyond.
Of course, the existence of patents does not mean these technologies have actually been created, but there is evidence that some demonstrations of operability have been successfully carried out. As investigated and reported by The War Zone, a possible reason why some of the patents may have been taken on by the Navy is that the Chinese military may also be developing similar advanced gadgets.
Of course, the existence of patents does not mean these technologies have actually been created, but there is evidence that some demonstrations of operability have been successfully carried out. As investigated and reported by The War Zone, a possible reason why some of the patents may have been taken on by the Navy is that the Chinese military may also be developing similar advanced gadgets.
I think this will be referenced in the report coming from Congress on UFO's
Among Dr. Pais's patents are designs, approved in 2018, for an aerospace-underwater craft of incredible speed and maneuverability. This cone-shaped vehicle can potentially fly just as well anywhere it may be, whether air, water or space, without leaving any heat signatures. It can achieve this by creating a quantum vacuum around itself with a very dense polarized energy field. This vacuum would allow it to repel any molecule the craft comes in contact with, no matter the medium. Manipulating "quantum field fluctuations in the local vacuum energy state," would help reduce the craft's inertia. The polarized vacuum would dramatically decrease any elemental resistance and lead to "extreme speeds," claims the paper.
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@Unpopular
The Quality of Life Index presented here is based on eight indices:
- Purchasing Power
- Safety
- Health Care
- Cost of Living
- Property Price to Income Ratio
- Traffic Commute Time
- Pollution
- Climate
Based on these indices, the ten countries with the highest quality of life are:
- Denmark (192.53)
- Switzerland (190.92)
- Finland (186.40)
- Australia (185.03)
- Netherlands (184.18)
- Austria (181.68)
- Iceland (180.74)
- New Zealand (178.22)
- Germany (177.25)
- Estonia (175.99)
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@oromagi
Christian Republicans will never vote for DeSantis. He has only beem married once and his wife was born in the USA.
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@Wylted
Myself, Intelligence_06 and TheUnderdog are working on a cryptocurrency for the site. We call it FITcoin.
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Hmmm, one Nation under gods, I like that.
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"Testing is killing me!" Trump reportedly exclaimed in a phone call to then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on March 18, yelling so loudly that Azar's aides overheard every word. "I'm going to lose the election because of testing! What idiot had the federal government do testing?"
"Uh, do you mean Jared?" Azar responded, citing the president's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Just five days earlier, Kushner had vowed to take charge of a national testing strategy with the help of the private sector.
"Uh, do you mean Jared?" Azar responded, citing the president's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Just five days earlier, Kushner had vowed to take charge of a national testing strategy with the help of the private sector.
Does anybody really think that Trump is presidential material?
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@fauxlaw
Hint: Melania is not Russian.
Well, she did grow up in a Communist country. Yugoslavia was renamed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946, when a communist government was established. It acquired the territories of Istria, Rijeka, and Zadar from Italy. Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito ruled the country as president until his death in 1980.
The state of Slovenia was created in 1945 as part of federal Yugoslavia. Slovenia gained its independence from Yugoslavia in June 1991. Melania was born in Slovenia in 1970. Trump voters gave the USA the first Communist born First Lady.
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@oromagi
After holding the Miss Universe pageant in Russia in 2013, Trump tweeted "TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next." I think when New York indicts Trump, he will move to Moscow. I'm sure Melania would like that, MEEK RASSA GREEET AGEEEN!
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No, brain-injury research from the University of Missouri provides evidence that feelings of spiritual transcendence are the product of specific brain activity.
Two University of Missouri psychologists are proposing"a neurophysiological model of spiritual experience" that explains what is happening inside the brain when people experience feelings of selflessness and transcendence.
The model “suggests that all individuals, regardless of cultural background or religion, experience the same neurophysiological / neuropsychological functions during spiritual experiences,” according to co-authors Brick Johnstone and Bret A. Glass. It also attempts to explain why these brain activities are interpreted in such different ways by people from different religious traditions and culture.
The model “suggests that all individuals, regardless of cultural background or religion, experience the same neurophysiological / neuropsychological functions during spiritual experiences,” according to co-authors Brick Johnstone and Bret A. Glass. It also attempts to explain why these brain activities are interpreted in such different ways by people from different religious traditions and culture.
“People with injuries to the right parietal lobe of the brain reported higher levels of spiritual experiences, such as transcendence,” said Johnstone .
Hence we can see why religion is called the opiate of the people.
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@Greyparrot
My pit bull terrier took a trump about an hour ago.
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@Wylted
I told you that I sent you one flrwcoin which is worth 1 million wlyted bucks. Therefore, I should have a credit of 999,750 wylted bucks.
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@Wylted
I just sent you one flrwcoin. It is worth 1 million wylted bucks.
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@Dr.Franklin
Trump said he lost his virginity when he was 14. Trump is a Christian, right?
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@n8nrgmi
Why didn't God cure smallpox? Smallpox is estimated to have killed more than 300 million people since 1900 alone
“The word God is for me nothing but the expression of and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends,” the message reads. “No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this.” Albert Einstein 1954
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@Wylted
Bailiff, please remove Mr. Wylted.
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