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    Trump is our new president.

    You already had been paying for them. You were paying for people who went to the ED for all their healthcare and couldn't subsequently pay for themselves. Except with the ACA, people could go for checkups, preventative care, and have much lower medical bills because they didn't have to wait...
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    How do Satanists approach Shiva?

    I like Lord Shiva academically. I haven't made up my mind whether to consider it one of the names of Satan yet, I'm leaning towards no. I agree with Mindmaster that it's better to look at what Shiva is in his native culture, rather than what my culture thinks of him. Honestly, few christians...
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    An Eye for an Eye?

    That human Christians don't forgive is consistent with everyones' experience.
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    Wiping out Christianity and all other condemning religions

    I don't think you have as much freedom to choose a religion as that. You either believe in the god or you don't.
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    US Returns Land to Japan

    ****, we're telling them to build this **** for us and making them pay for it. What's next, a wall on the Mexican border?
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    I have a date yay!

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    US Returns Land to Japan

    a play by play reading. "Ooh, is it the military base in Okinawa? I wonder if it's Okinawa." "It IS Okinawa! Sweet!" "Oh, it's just part of the base in Okinawa" "And Japan has to build 6 helicopter pads for the US military" "...Aaand the US will still use it for military training like they...
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    To those who follow Joy of Satan and do the Dedicating your soul Ritual to Lucifer/Satan.

    This reminded me of the Addams family movie. The kids are rehearsing a sword firght from Macbeth. Uncle Fester stands up and shouts "No No! It's all wrong! Havent either of you ever run a man through? It's much uglier than that!".
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    An Eye for an Eye?

    I say do what suits ya'
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    To Atheists & Agnostics: When did consciousness first appear?

    Also, out of curiosity, is this coming from your conversations with scientists or science fans? There's a huge difference.
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    To Atheists & Agnostics: When did consciousness first appear?

    I like what you said in general, but I don't think this part's justified. You haven't met most scientists, right? Replace the word "scientists" with some ethnicity and some would call you bigoted.
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    Climate Change: Ask Me Anything

    Assuming you don't believe that climate change is caused by humans, why do people use that as an excuse to not try to do anything about it? Do we not still struggle when there's no hope that it'll save us from drowning or falling to our deaths? Or do these people deep down still not believe in...
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    To those who follow Joy of Satan and do the Dedicating your soul Ritual to Lucifer/Satan.

    To me the power of ritual magic is the impact that it has on your mind. I would not be doing it to make some god happy. I do a painful ritual where I go out in the cold severely under dressed. I walk barefoot in the snow. When I'm done, I feel very strong, like I can overcome any challenge, and...
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    To those who follow Joy of Satan and do the Dedicating your soul Ritual to Lucifer/Satan.

    Pain in a ritual can be powerful and useful. But the pain shouldn't cause harm.
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    What's your Carbon Footprint?

    I did a similar quiz once and found that pretty much everything you do is cancelled out by how much you fly. If you fly once a year, you have the average carbon footprint for an American. If you fly twice, you are twice the average American, etc.
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    To Atheists & Agnostics: When did consciousness first appear?

    I totally agree that there's a place for non-science in this. But your OP gave us a scientific context so that's what I went with. I agree with you about the beligerence and stuff about lots of scientists, but not science itself. It looks like there's a strong link between skepticism (essential...
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    Is Switzerland Libertarian?

    I was listening to an interview of my libertarian candidate for US senate. Someone asked the question I hear all the time about the precedence for a libertarian state. Where has thee ever been a successful one? Without hesitation he said Switzerland, citing high personal freedom, a strong...
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    Any Astrophysics Books?

    I think sunrise was asking if you were looking for more of a textbook or a pop-science book. Do you want all the math in there? Either way, you'll enjoy "Black Holes and Time Warps" by Kip Thorne. It tells all about how stars die and how their mass dictates their fate, in a very straightforward...
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    To Atheists & Agnostics: When did consciousness first appear?

    Yeah, in that case, you're right. I think it originates from the old western philosophical battle between the rationalism and empiricism.
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    To Atheists & Agnostics: When did consciousness first appear?

    I didn't say that nothing is beyond science, I don't agree with that**. I am a religious person after all... I also don't believe that many scientists believe that the answer "must be in the physical realm", given enough context. How many scientists have you actually had the whole drawn-out...
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