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  1. Azihayya

    D.C. Could Be The First U.S. City To Decriminalize Sex Work.

    I certainly don't want to invalidate your personal experience. But I think that it's failing our people to say, "You're struggling? Hey--we've got a job for you--and it's prostitution!" If older people are feeling like they are neglected and lonely, then that's a generational problem that they...
  2. Azihayya

    D.C. Could Be The First U.S. City To Decriminalize Sex Work.

    This is the complete opposite of the truth. Victims of sex trafficking are only oppressed by the criminalization of prostitution. Rather than convicting pimps, law enforcement is most often convicting prostitutes--as a sex trafficker often puts everything in their name. Cars, hotel rooms, credit...
  3. Azihayya

    Why Do Lovers Cling?

    I have a few telepathic relationships and when our minds are merged very deeply this tends to blur the line of who is who. Perhaps its the same way with God. Unlike with others (usually) you are stuck with yourself--thus if your find yourself bored with yourself there is no 'break up'; you've...
  4. Azihayya

    Faith closes the mind. It is pure idol worship.

    What does it even mean that I've become an idol worshiper and what idol do you suppose I worship? You did tell me to adhere to the customs of the Dictionary; to me, this approaches the concept of worship- if anything, I would prefer to be approached on an individual level, which regards my...
  5. Azihayya

    Intelligent design, my version.

    So you're telling me what Intelligent Design is? I don't care that you're taking the source from what ID-Groups suggest- in this scenario, my freedom to interpret the idea of Intelligent Design is hindered by YOUR definition of Intelligent Design, and your will to tell me what is and what is not...
  6. Azihayya

    Does religion impair vital critical thinking skills?

    You may notice if you look at what you quoted, that I began the whole statement by saying, "for all I know" and "as far as I'm concerned" - the latter statement being more relevant to your idea that I'm presenting a "straw man argument"; however, here's a quote from your original post: "I have...
  7. Azihayya

    Does religion impair vital critical thinking skills?

    A collection of straw man arguments, aye? If that's so then your whole entire post is just one big straw man. You don't even need to think about anything that I say when you can just point at it and shout straw man.
  8. Azihayya

    Faith closes the mind. It is pure idol worship.

    Oh, so we're all expected to worship the Dictionary now, aye? Forget personal interpretation, just believe what the Dictionary tells you. There's no room for bias if you just have faith in the Dictionary.
  9. Azihayya

    Faith closes the mind. It is pure idol worship.

    You sure seem to have embraced the close-minded mentality. (only in regards to having told me what Faith is- thanks for that)
  10. Azihayya

    Does religion impair vital critical thinking skills?

    It seems like you have a very strong claim on what 'Religion' is. My personal experience with the Religious of the world has exposed me to some of those most brilliant, honest, and loving sentiments that I've ever encountered in my lifetime. Personally, I don't see the value in pigeon-holing...
  11. Azihayya

    50% Of Occupations Will Disappear In A Couple Decades!

    It's... not even a problem in my opinion. Jobs right now, actually, are the problem, in my opinion. I imagine a world where the majority of the population possess practical skills & knowledge and are capable of teaching them to each other; these kinds of things involve cultivating food for...
  12. Azihayya

    Why Religion Fails

    I foremost consider religion to be a firmly held belief, and not so much the mainstream definition which has also pigeon-holed the meaning of theism to mean precisely one thing which doesn't necessarily even relate to its origins (theos), that being ancient Greece. Theism as an idea was...
  13. Azihayya

    Atheism doesn't mean much.

    I personally don't relate to atheism as an idea, while I do relate to religions of the world. To me, it seems to be essentially nothing of interest, while coming across as non-pragmatic in the sense that I have few clues as to the origins of the word religion or its use throughout time, and in...
  14. Azihayya

    Communication with god

    For me, I find God through the experience of life; God is formless -- a whim, inherent in any quest seeking justice or inspiration, that I've related to through speech & text. Thusly, it's in part due my life's purpose to find the meaning of God from the experiences of others, in all of the...
  15. Azihayya

    Solutions for the Homeless Problem

    Honestly, the best change that could ever occur would be one that occurs within the many of us. For me, that's learning how to live without money, and rather, out of the goodness of one's own heart, which would entail acquiring practical knowledge & skills, such as being able to feed & shelter...
  16. Azihayya

    Looking for God...

    I don't think it will be appropriate to advise you on how to find God, if God means anything to you then you'll find it; but I personally believe that your spirit will continue to live after death. I know that you'll be in my heart, and I hope that you are able to hold satisfaction and meaning...
  17. Azihayya

    Intellectual Defense of Christianity.

    Wow, it's a war in here. There's a lot of not-being-very-humble going on in here. Quell your anger, folks, it's unbecoming. Have some grace, delicacy, articulation -- anything but this lashing out of intellectual barbarism.
  18. Azihayya

    Experiencing God

    Oh yes, I would like to say, God has often represented to me, an inevitable prevailing force of goodness.
  19. Azihayya

    Experiencing God

    My experiences with what I perceive to be God, (God, as a denomination that I interpret, which I relate to as a word over other similar words), has been like, the feeling of profound openness. A lifting of the spirit -- in my own opinion, an ascension of the mind that corresponds to my belief in...
  20. Azihayya

    Why is there something rather than nothing?

    No, I quite believe in infinite space; I do not believe space, as a term relating to 'room' has any real value, and thus cannot expand. Philosophically, this would be implied by saying that, if you go forward in space, you will continue to go forward, but if you are obstructed, it is not by...
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