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Fancy dress party, eh? I spose I should wear a suit. How about my birthday suit?

I don't get the car accident one :confused:

I've never considered myself a social Darwinist. If I'm not mistaken, social Darwinism was mainly used by business tycoons during the progressive era to justify their abuse of lower class workers. You'd be hard pressed to find a social Darwinist to make a reply here. I wouldn't consider...

You lost me, dream. I don't know where you get this. What you seem to be talking about is social Darwinism, which is not necessarily associated with atheism.

This is mostly directed a christians, since I am not very familiar with what Islam and Judaism have to say about these issues, but feedback from any of the above would be nice. In the story of the garden of Eden, God forbids Adam and eve from eating the fruit of knowledge of good and evil...

I don't know why, but i couldn't help but laugh out loud after reading this.

I would like to thank everyone for their replies. Sorry if I don't get around to responding to them all. It seems there is some misunderstanding between east and west. I always thought of enlightenment this way. A light in your head suddenly comes on and *poof* enlightenment! It seems any...

Oh yeah. I think I remember posting in that thread come to think of it! Oh well, a little refresher can't hurt.

Doesn't the concept of enlightenment contradict non-duality? Either you are enlightened or you are not. Sounds pretty dualistic to me. It makes more sense to me to think of enlightenment as a spectrum. Some are more enlightened than others, but there is no clear dividing line. Does this...

I've always been curious about the stories behind all the screen names here on CR. Please explain what your screen name refers to/what inspired it here. I'll get us started. Well, its obviously a star trek reference. It makes me look like a complete Trekkie, but I'm really not. (not that...

Re: Is Sin Real? Hey, I'm not saying you can't use words like "good" and "evil". They can be very nessesary in moral arguments such as the Iraq war. However, when you get down to the fundamentals of what makes something "good" or "evil" it is analogous to a health issue. This is basically...

If by "the spiritual" you mean ghosts, spirits, gods, etc. I think science, not necessarily physics, (or scientific thinking rather--looking at the universe as a quantifiable thing that must be studied analytically) is an alternative to this "classical" way of thinking. I personally don't...

Oh jeez I went off on a tangent there. Sometimes I think too much and talk too little so when I try to explain something it ends up not making sense:p I spose what I was trying to say was that we came from this world so it seems perfectly balanced to us, the same way it would for the puddle...

altruism in nature makes complete sense when explained by natural selection alone. An animal in instinctively altruistic in situations in which their sacrifice benefits the survival of the species. Even if this wasn't the case, altruism=evidence for an all powerful being, how? First of all...

Ok, so you can partially understand God but not fully. And you say God is present in both things we understand and things we don't. But specifically what understandable things do you find God in?

Nice simple image of nature. Do I see a woman in there? why thank you. lol

Please explain. This is exactly what I am talking about. you say that God is infinite, undefinable, and unknowable. What is the point of this belief? How is it different from saying that there is much we don't know? People have always wanted to personify things in nature. Poseidon was...

I think Dream hit the nail on the head here. true true. So, they believe, but why? From my own experience and what I hear from theists it sounds a lot like its because of personal feelings which include a need for comfort. However, I must admit that my own atheism comes from...

Do the evolution by Pearl Jam my all time favorite music video YouTube - DO THE EVOLUTION I'm ahead, I'm a man, I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah, I'm at peace, with my lust, I can kill 'cause in God I trust, yeah, It's evolution, baby. I'm a beast, I'm the man, I'm the stocks on the...