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  1. Diogenes

    Albert Einstein

    St. Thomas Aquinas and Augustine pondered over the qustion of whether Intelligence is a single thing or a product of multiplicity (inside many bodies at once). This was a response to the church's view that all thoughts came from 2 sources:God or Satan. Personality in this respect is kind of...
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    Who is the most logical?

    I can say from personal experience that I have never won an argument with a woman. Using logic only infuriates them more. But this is true in both sexes to varying degrees. Thomas Jefferson said that he never saw an opponent's opinion give way due to a successful implementation of reason...
  3. Diogenes

    Would you rat out an illegal immigrant?

    The nations experiencing the greatest influx of immigrants need them if they expect someone to pay for the ever expanding aging population. Who will pay for your retirement if you kick out all of the people still young enough to work? And even if retirment was not an issue-who is going to do...
  4. Diogenes

    Point of View

    I liked this one, Angellous. It reminded me of the first day in logic class when my teacher said, "Knowledge is impossible." Keep on writing!
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    Does God Lie?

    I had a philosophy teacher whose beliefs were akin to St. Augustine's describe Hell as a state of perception and awareness. Spiritual death was a mind or soul immersed in meaninglessness, boredom and guilt. If we retained consciousness after death, to him it was logical that we continued in...
  6. Diogenes

    What is happiness?

    Happiness is a smile that shines out of those I love. A smile that shines out of their soul and is not another formality.
  7. Diogenes

    Movies You've Seen Recently

    I just watched Caddyshack again after many years of neglect. The bone headed vulgarities of the priveledged and underpriveledged on display always delivers. Ushpizin is next on my list-an Israeli film about Hasids and anger issues.
  8. Diogenes

    The United States internationally in 50 years.

    America is a debtor nation because we buy and consume a huge portion of the world's goods. So if America falls-who is going to be purchasing all the surplus? The next fifty years may prove perilous, but as much as the rest of the world resents America, many nations have become dependent on her...
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    Just Dropped In

    Diogenes Laertes. His name just seems to flow without any effort, like Placido Domingo or Julio Iglesias. I'm sure he had no trouble meeting chicks.
  10. Diogenes

    Atheism is a faith

    I kind of just stumbled in here...and have not read the whole discussion. I just wanted to add something that I have mulled over from time to time. Jesus uses the allegory "If you had faith as this mustard seed" and it is very troubling. First off, mustard seeds do not use words, and hence...
  11. Diogenes

    U.S. Government: is it time for a replacement?

    The rulers we have now are products of our great institutions. The values they were brought up on were produced by centuries of scientific materialism. If we are unhappy that they seem to only be interested in money and/or power than we need only look at ourselves and wonder what we would...
  12. Diogenes

    Just Dropped In

    I am only familiar with the cynics vaguely (from textbooks and compendiums). But I'm interested in all philosophy, because I like questions.
  13. Diogenes

    Nature shows the glory of God

    I have a fondness for the scholars of the middle ages who saw the microcosm within the macrocosm. They did not live in such a scientific age as ours in which everything has been explained to us and our understanding has formented into boredom. But every age has had it's own share of...
  14. Diogenes

    How Are You Doing?

    I want more light.
  15. Diogenes

    Loving God/Jesus?

    St. Augustine wrote a very moving poem about his version of love for God which goes beyond all his senses and physical needs and attributes. I can't recall the title at the moment. But this yearning that comes from within was love for him. Being such an intellectual, I'm sure that he had an...
  16. Diogenes

    Just Dropped In

    And I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I've posted a few times and noticed there hasn't been any petty bickering or personal jibes. Logic is truly a gift. I hope to be aided by my Logos when the time arrives. Enough waxing philosophic...
  17. Diogenes

    Come and share you God-Concepts here:)

    Mysterium Tremendum.
  18. Diogenes

    Are we worthy?

    I look at my children and I know I am not worthy of them and all the joy they give me. I don't know what I'm doing most of the time. But I know that they love me and would be devistated if I severed my relationship with them. Every day, all I can do is work a little harder to do my best by...
  19. Diogenes

    Have you "known" people before?

    It could be possible that you have known someone before meeting them because you have dreamt of them in a precognative way.
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