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    What is the meaning of existence?

    I ma my national insurance number, that's it.
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    Important notice to everyone

    I like the phenomenologist Husserls idea of value, values are constituted via feelings. I never read his work directly, but I guess lets say yore in love or feeling hungry - the value of the beloved or the value of food, as it appears in experience, is directly tied to these moods and drives...
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    Meaning of life - a fuzzy tautology

    Well we have a purposive faculty, so there are at least micro pusposes.... even if theres no macro purpose. I think that's the existentialist position.
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    Meaning of life - a fuzzy tautology

    After a while I think I got it, purpose equals reproduction.? What about people with issues tho, who cant replicate... does that make nihilism true for them?
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    Meaning of life - a fuzzy tautology

    Thatnks for that!! My idea "araiotnal attraction to beoing" set off as evolutionary, we are evolved to prefer health, but than turns out to be a transcendent. Whilst evolution may be false, and alternatively were created etc or in a computer simulaiton etc theres an essence to choosing...
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    "A Heap of Trouble." An Award Winning Short Movie

    Surreal to me, like a Monty Python clip. Reminds me of the concept of "ethnomethodology" in sociology, where IIRC people breach conventions in a staged manner. Leaving people nonplussed, then maybe somehow more aware of the original limits of the "definition of the situation". Maybe the men...
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    All non Christians ought to be crucified....

    I am presuming crucifixion because we all die in any case. I would like to hear any thoughts on the secular interpretations too. I like to compare the "revelation" of end times with Rawls "veil of ignorance" being lifted. If were good, and promote that which promotes life, then our "end...
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    Division of the psyche (animal, human and divine)

    One of the queations is: is there an innate neurological basis for "three types of mind" perception. Another it what is the evolutonary function of this, if so. As an ex atheist I can say that theism really opened my mind, and I can access "spirituality" in a "obvious" way now, whereas it was...
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    Division of the psyche (animal, human and divine)

    I read in this book that across many cultures the psyche has been viewed in three aspects, the animal, the human and the divine immortal aspect. In Medieval scholasticism it was anima bruta, anima humana, and anima divina. In Islam its the nafs, the ruh and the sir. He (apparently) gives good...
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    Idolatry in Islam

    The face of Allah, I think it means the brighter side of life. You see his face, not literally, but its the opposite of His wrath. You don't see his wrath either, just signs of it.
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    All non Christians ought to be crucified....

    Well the Christian often say He took the punishment due to us. So, ok I have been no angel, but I wouldn't like to be crucified - if that's what God has in mind as appropriate punishment for my lies stealing etc. Its odd that in the Roman Church they're quite pro life, and defend even the "most...
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    For believers - do you believe that angels still appear to people?

    Was in a car coming very close to a serious collision with a truck in the mist one time. Moments before, literally for a second, I had a "vision" of the grim reaper - very detailed. There are various interpretation for this, a sub conscious projection, a coincidence, pot, an angel, a spirit. I...
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    Meaning of life - a fuzzy tautology

    I need help with the equation. I don't know symbolic logic, but here are the terms. If life then variable health. If variable health and choice, then good health ought to be chosen because eits preferable. If something ought to be chosen it is a legitimate purpose. If life and choice and...
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    Are transgender/transsexual people accepted in your religion?

    Well religiously I am in for me. I think socially Id be ostracised by many other faith or even secular groups. Ive tried many, and there is always a glitch, whereas in Islam I have many good friends. I wouldnt like to be mentally Ill in some of these so called "muslim" countries, and by the same...
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    Happy Birthday NHS!

    NHS ranked 'number one' health system - BBC News This is great news.
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    Do creationists have anything new?

    True of false: Even if there were evidence for YEC, the scientists would lop off the "C" with Occam's Razor.
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    Do creationists have anything new?

    What about the "Darwinists go to hell" rebuttal. We potentially have contradictory double standards here (I'm a scientist bent on falsificaitonism and yet I still I take the religious idea of "hell" seriously). By the Bertrand Russell's principle of explosion, anything follows from a...
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    Mathematics

    Axioms are invented, but their implications are discovered? But, aren't axioms meant to be intuitively true...?
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    How does your religion address the problem of evil?

    AFAIK in Islam the creation could have been simply people obeying, but God wanted to do justice in rewarding the good and punishing the evil. On the ground level its like anyone else, try to do some good.
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    All non Christians ought to be crucified....

    Is this the logical implication of rejecting a Christ who suffered the punishment due to us?
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