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  1. Runt

    The world is massively overpopulated

    Hi back, hehe, and namaste. :) The article I vaguely recall reading (it was one of those assignments I didn't devote much energy to :/) seemed to be suggesting that by optimizing our use of the world's resources, we'd be doing 2 things. First, we'd be ensuring the continued availability of...
  2. Runt

    Bibles In Hotels

    They come with porn?! :eek:
  3. Runt

    Post your pic!

    Been four years or so, I think, since I last posted a picture of me, and I don't have anything more recent than like a year ago on my computer. I'm doing a dance photoshoot on Tuesday, though, so I may have one or two interesting pics to show from that, assuming they don't turn out like crap...
  4. Runt

    The world is massively overpopulated

    I read somewhere---I think in an article for my Science, Ethics and the Public class last semester---that the earth's critical capacity is 11 billion. We're not there yet. However, 11 billion people is what the earth can support provided humans learn to live in a way that optimizes our...
  5. Runt

    Dictating Beliefs

    I've been gone for a while... have we seriously reached the point where the site and the staff are utterly above even the most indirect criticism and posters are required to never comment upon either? If things were indeed falling apart----and everything looks great, as well as I can tell----it...
  6. Runt

    Please Explain how Joseph Smith could have possibly authored the Book of Mormon.

    I haven't read the Koran in its original language, and so I can't really speak to the degree of sophistication of its use of language. The Book of Mormon appears to be generally well-written, however.
  7. Runt

    Dictating Beliefs

    Meh, nobody's making decisions for the staff or demanding a certain course of action. We're just stating our opinions on the topic. Besides, should not posters have a right to speak their mind on what kind of forum they want to participate in? Feedback is always nice, provided it doesn't get...
  8. Runt

    Please Explain how Joseph Smith could have possibly authored the Book of Mormon.

    Even if the Koran and Book of Mormon are both fabrications, and knowing that their authors were not well educated, It does not necessarily follow that Smith or Muhammad are unintelligent or uncreative... or incapable of obtaining an adequate education outside of a formal school setting. It...
  9. Runt

    Dictating Beliefs

    If posters present an argument to back up their conclusion---and are willing to defend that argument---then I personally don't mind them dictating their beliefs or even openly telling people what they believe is wrong. But, as I said, they better be able to back up what they argue, and respond...
  10. Runt

    Please Explain how Joseph Smith could have possibly authored the Book of Mormon.

    Scribes.
  11. Runt

    Please Explain how Joseph Smith could have possibly authored the Book of Mormon.

    I don't believe in God or the Book of Mormon, but I recognize the possibility that the former exists and the latter is true.
  12. Runt

    Do insects feel pain?

    Beetles and other insects can feel pain, but they do not suffer because they lack the brain functions necessary to experience suffering on an emotional level.
  13. Runt

    Please Explain how Joseph Smith could have possibly authored the Book of Mormon.

    Divine aid?
  14. Runt

    Which part of the God Delusion did you find most offensive?

    I found his analogy to be pretty apt, provided we don't compare the totality of expressions of human religiosity to one drug used to cure one disease. Instead, I would compare each religious expression to a different drug. Each drug (each religion) has specific characteristics which...
  15. Runt

    Quality of text vrs Live

    He actually does something that's unfortunately fairly common in the academic study of religion: attempts to view it through the lens of other academic disciplines. He's a biologist and he looks at religion like a biologist looks at a virus. The problem is, cultures do not operate in the same...
  16. Runt

    Quality of text vrs Live

    I heard Dawkins speak on campus a few weeks ago. Personally, I liked him better in person than in text, although I find "The God Delusion" to be simultaneously amusing, interesting and problematic. My main criticism of him---in person or in text---is that he focuses too much upon whether or...
  17. Runt

    What book(s) are you reading now?

    I just evicted all of my textbooks from my room now that I'm all gradumuhcated. Now that I actually have time to read for PLEASURE again, I've started working my way though William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition", a book schoolwork kept forcing me to put down during the last... year? Year and a...
  18. Runt

    Do You Know Why You Don't Believe?

    And yet there have been many mystics and religious individuals who claim to have had experiences---both sensory and supersensory---of God. Some of the more interesting examples include textual accounts such as the hierophanies and theophanies of Moses and Ezekiel in the Bible (burning bush and...
  19. Runt

    Do you believe we all have souls?

    Wow. Here's a shining example of how much my beliefs have changed... I no longer believe we have souls. Nor do I believe that Consciousness mumbo jumbo I talked about last time I visited this thread. :P
  20. Runt

    Do You Know Why You Don't Believe?

    So you're saying you believed in God.... despite not having been exposed to the idea of God (by your parents, by the Bible, by a pastor at church), despite not having had any kind of relationship with God (a dream, a feeling that your prayers were being answered), and despite not having looked...
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