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    Common virtues, morals and humanity

    I've tried to look for a common factor from a scientific perspective. My conclusions... We all have a degree of "rational attraction to Being" (or, to the planet, to ecosystems, to the social environment etc). By which we maintain personal and social existence according to our values and views...
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    Quran Challenge

    Morals are subjective? Does that mean, if you (or I...) go to hell, the evil of it will be all in the mind? Or, that the problem of evil - a common defence of rejection of faith or unbelief - is rooted merely in personal feelings? This is relevant because i think that evolutionary insight...
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    Quran Challenge

    What I mean is when someone says "the Koran possesses x y z properties uniquely" then maybe use a search algorithm to search those generated competitors (which have been Shakespeare's monkeys generated, or some other AI technique). For example, there may be a billion computer generated Arabic...
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    Quran Challenge

    Thank you KWED. I accept a computer may kind of produce the text of the Koran, but without reference to the original "revealed version" that we Muslims have, the programmers and generators wouldn't even know which language(s) it was written in never mind the exact text. So. That was why I...
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    Quran Challenge

    Ok thank you for the warning, but for the sake of science, can I add that I suppose that a Google supercomputer could produce, at random, trillions of Arabic script texts, using a basic algorithm and a long time? Most would be nonsense, some would be sensible, and one would be identical to the...
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    Quran Challenge

    The Koran is to be applied. In life as a guide, showing how to live. Even a beginner is just a Muslim not a believer. Believers are experienced, they have spiritual life more fully. An outsider has the manifest, and the believer, and the masjid, the sociology of Muslim community to observe. An...
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    Sense of Purpose and Security Without Religion?

    Never mind. Peace.
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    Sense of Purpose and Security Without Religion?

    Sounds like "happiness" is the purpose then?
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    Anatta (An Essay by an individual Buddhist philosopher)

    Hey ty! I learned some emptiness from the NKY (New Kadampa Tradition) they taught some yagachara and also madhyamaka. I use the techniques sometimes, almost instinctively at times, although I am not under spiritual direction from Buddhism nor do I believe those techniques to have salvific...
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    Sense of Purpose and Security Without Religion?

    No sorry tho, I oughnt be rude.
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    Sense of Purpose and Security Without Religion?

    Or... wait, its just a polite way of expressing disbelief.
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    Sense of Purpose and Security Without Religion?

    No idea am a poor psychologist. My guess is either you re being *****y or you want to send me photographs.
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    Anatta (An Essay by an individual Buddhist philosopher)

    annihilating the sense of self can feel nice and make things easy socially, but for me there tends to be a tendency towards doormat philosophy - if there is no self to defend in terms of everyday bad vibes, then there is no negative feedback for other's selves when they get out of order...
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    Sense of Purpose and Security Without Religion?

    I have a p I think your view is based on a nihilism which views the mental as "mere material stuff" and concludes that because it doesn't matter to rocks and sand what we do to rocks and sand, it ought not matter to us what we do to ourselves. Bad logic really. Were a different species of...
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    All Facts Are Based in Faith

    Well its a case of reduction ad absurdum. (A or not-A. Not-A is shown to be absurd, therefore A). If facts require faith, really and truly, then that faith is a fact (i.e. an item of truth). So presuppose facts need faith. Its actually absurd, because the existence of faith presupposes at...
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    Are we simulated?

    Its unfalsifiable but unlikely. Given that it (sim theory) presumes a scientific model of reality, within that model there are likely to be more numerous unsimulated civilisaions than there are simulated ones.
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    Best study Qur'an?

    Word for Word Meaning of the Qur'an by Muhammad Mohar Ali 9780953301904 | eBay This is a three volume translation which goes into the definitions and etymology of the key terms in each verse. And its more or less neutral as far as school of thought/madhab is concerned.
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    Imagine

    For inspiraiton... I am liking this at present, slightly sad, but very beautiful. There are English lyrics soon after a sanskrit (afaik) intro.
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    I hate prejudice!

    Whats so good about tolerance? I prefer to be valued.
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    Why don't we get schooling for emotional control

    I think the OP has a good idea. But the classes should have an opt out option.
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