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    Who Else Misreads Titles?

    We'd have called that poll blocked.
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    Eternal unconsciousness and religious belief

    Not in the least. It is what I've always expected since early elementary school. What is cool is that I now understand there is something wrong with the presumption that the entire universe is mindless material stuff from singularities to stars to atoms to Bach and Shakespeare. As a result I...
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    Agree or Disagree: voting age should be 25+

    I agree with the sentiment about being old enough to be conscripted is old enough to have a say in politics. But my real motivation is to encourage young people to start voting young and to acquire the habit. Only a party so out of touch with voters that it needs to subvert the will of the...
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    Question: "Is Trump more Christlike or more the opposite (danger as President)"

    Trump is a cancer for civil society. He has brought out the worst in so many people who would be less vile otherwise.
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    Do all Pan-ists hold "God" as a placeholder name for something beyond our reckoning, as I do?

    Postulates are what underlie all our conclusion. Not that we need to know what they are, of course, but we all have basic beliefs about the world .. a disposition we turn toward the world. What would there be to show? I'm not arguing everyone should think as I do; just sharing my POV.
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    Do all Pan-ists hold "God" as a placeholder name for something beyond our reckoning, as I do?

    I'm far more likely to underthink than over think. I don't try to settle very much on the strength of brute thinking. My preference is reflection and passive recognition occasionally stirred with a measure of imagination.
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    Do all Pan-ists hold "God" as a placeholder name for something beyond our reckoning, as I do?

    I'm no physicist but it seems wrong to see quanta and nothing as equivalent. I agree that materiality isn't everything but it is something. More importantly neither atoms nor points are the building blocks of everything. Perhaps it makes no sense to ask of everything "what are the underlying...
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    The only reasonable non-revealed religions

    What really do we have an in-built knowledge of? I'm quite sure we have an in-built capacity to recognize awe and wonder and these point us to the divine albeit not in any simplistic, can't-miss manner. The capacity for recognizing what is sacred offers access but doesn't guarantee everyone...
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    What Age Is Acceptable To Identify As The Opposite Sex?

    Probably there is no age at which one should identify with the opposite sex of what one feels oneself to be.
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    Do all Pan-ists hold "God" as a placeholder name for something beyond our reckoning, as I do?

    I think you are addressing @endlessvoid2018 here but I have to say I think people underestimate nature, the ‘animating force’ as you suggest. But I don’t know why you emphasize the universe being nothing. Seems both real and substantial to me. But I also think “God” is perhaps best imagined...
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    Click here for happiness!

    Have you found any resources that can ameliorate megalomania?
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    Do all Pan-ists hold "God" as a placeholder name for something beyond our reckoning, as I do?

    My sense of God is pretty new and was instigated not by thinking I suddenly had reasons to think such a being exists but from thoughts about how a purely material universe gives rise to us and Shakespeare and Bach's fugues and so much more. Basically I conceive of God as the fount of all that...
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    Tampon Tim

    But if the fertile ground of a young woman’s uterus is viewed as property of the state in MAGA land how can they not share the cost of controlling the flow? Having to use the products is imposition enough for one sex to bear. This ad reminds us of their hatred of women as well as of their...
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    Tampon Tim

    They can’t help but give him a creepy spin. It’s who they are.
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    Do all Pan-ists hold "God" as a placeholder name for something beyond our reckoning, as I do?

    I assume the universe encompasses being like us by way of also being us but it is also like everything else by virtue of also being everything else.
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    Do all Pan-ists hold "God" as a placeholder name for something beyond our reckoning, as I do?

    Agreed. I do not think our understanding of the laws of nature is conclusive regarding what something we might refer to as a higher power can or cannot do. In saying that I'm not imagining a causal agent anything like us but rather something all inclusive which brings everything else into...
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    Is religion necessary for social order?

    Perhaps, that is probably why it evolved in human societies. But it certainly isn’t sufficient. Religion like any other institution will seek to perpetuate the biases and blind spots of those who control them. I would concede that religion at its best is a boon for societal cohesion. I...
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    Lawyer sends warning to GOP election officials with plans to refuse results

    So much unsolicited advice! You’re too generous but no thanks.
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    What is God?

    God is the unity that encompasses the many. But “G-o-d” doesn’t single out any one thing. It requires an intuitive leap to see how the word doesn’t function the same way most do since most words are for singling out particular elements of the many. I’ve been imagining God as a higher order...
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    Opening ceremony for Olympics has drag queens resembling the Last Supper

    Is it just me or do the most vocal critics of 'woke' seem to others especially indignant in their woke stance against it?
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