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  1. linwood

    Is Love Anything More than an Oxytocin Addiction?

    Stop trying NOT TO BE! Human relationships cannot teach you about the interactions of our neural systems. Education about our neural systems can shine light on our human relationships and perhaps even allow us to understand exactly what they are and how to make them stronger. Read a book.
  2. linwood

    Is Love Anything More than an Oxytocin Addiction?

    You said that "Love does not occur in all cultures" Now you`re moving the goal posts. The "western idea of love" was never specified until now. Do you stand by your earlier statement that "Love does not occur in all cultures" or do you abandon it? Because regardless of whose "idea" of...
  3. linwood

    Religion in Public Schools.

    I disagree. Exodus is nothing but religious dogma, the best scientific theories of the rise of civilization are directly opposed to the tale of the Exodus. Not to mention Christians and Jews have been searching the deserts for many thousands of years to find evidence of said Exodus only to...
  4. linwood

    Is Love Anything More than an Oxytocin Addiction?

    Please name a culture where love is non-existent. I`ve never heard of such a place. No actually if you`ve ever felt love you`d know it most definitely is a feeling and it does happen inside you.This is why it brings pleasure and pain. You`d also know it`s not limited to people. A person can...
  5. linwood

    Boyd Packer: Mormons cannot change

    Every bit as firm as they were with their claim that American aboriginals were descendants of the Hebrews and just as firm as they were when they defended polygamy..oh wait....nevermind. Any part of LDS theology that becomes a genuine political liability will be "amended" or abolished as soon...
  6. linwood

    Is Love Anything More than an Oxytocin Addiction?

    This is very simplistic but check it out. Are you going to tell me that a... grieving widow,....(withdrawal, just had the source of her oxytocin cut off.) a quarreling sibling, ..(I myself have never witnessed juvenile love between siblings, no addiction:) and a lovestruck teenager...
  7. linwood

    Is Love Anything More than an Oxytocin Addiction?

    Like what? You mean they don`t use sentences that contain actual objectively evidenced facts about the correlation between human emotions and neurochemical reactions? I thought it was human beings who actually made these amazing discoveries. You should read about some of them.
  8. linwood

    Math and science jokes -- GO!

    The funniest part of that joke is that the only place a Higgs-Boson has ever been seen is a church. More irony.
  9. linwood

    What book(s) are you reading now?

    I`ve been trying to read... Amazon.com: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (9780142003343): Steven Pinker: Books But work and life have left me with very little time lately. It`s an excellent book that speaks about the fallacy of the western "Nurture over nature" culture...
  10. linwood

    Is Love Anything More than an Oxytocin Addiction?

    Nope, you still don`t get it. Oxytocin is a chemical manufactured by your brain. When enough of this chemical interacts in a particular way with other chemicals/transmitters in your brain you feel the emotion we know as "love". It is for all intents and purposes a drug and a high...
  11. linwood

    New name for those who refer to themselves as atheists?

    Maybe I`m missing something. I`ve been an atheist for a very long time and while I`ve had to deal with some persecution and a plethora of moronic theistic idiots I`ve never felt my life was in danger over my lack of belief. Why do you?
  12. linwood

    New name for those who refer to themselves as atheists?

    Why do you care what they think?
  13. linwood

    Free Speech or Hate Speech?

    I dunno. They started getting mainstream when protesting Matthew Shepards funeral. Nobody cared but they did start getting some PR through that. Before that I`d seen them in a few "Weird News" type reports and was incredulous.
  14. linwood

    Free Speech or Hate Speech?

    I did! :p
  15. linwood

    Sister wives under investigation

    The crap the LDS gets over their previous stance on polygamy comes mostly from other Christian denominations.
  16. linwood

    Firefighters intentionally let a home burn to the ground

    This is nothing more than a legal protection racket. If it were my house the fire department would have woken at 4 am with the front of their station having been thoroughly bombed with molotov cocktails.
  17. linwood

    Religion in Public Schools.

    LMAO! I love the ACLU!
  18. linwood

    Religion in Public Schools.

    No actually it`s not. Maybe you should read it sometime. The Constitution that is.
  19. linwood

    Sister wives under investigation

    The state wouldn`t ever dare to prosecute this. They`d be overturned and declared unconstitutional on the first appeal. That`s why they aren`t going to prosecute.
  20. linwood

    Free Speech or Hate Speech?

    Agreed.
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