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    Kohlberg's stages of Moral Development

    The needs, Vaj, the needs. :)
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    Maine

    Maine is one place in the USA where I would really love to go. There's a great pedirgee of horror authors I'v read who have covered the place - Edgar Allan Poe, HP Lovecraft, and Stephen King - and I'd love to visit these landscapes that they've written about. It sounds both haunting and...
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    Namaste all

    Hi Vaj (is that acceptable??) - I've emptied my Hotmail account - it's safe to send your new avatar now. :)
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    New Subatomic Particle Found

    Thanks for posting that - it's great news. :) I love reading about the sub-atomic world. :) There was a reference in New Scientist about the possibility that this particle has already been detected in Cosmic Ray experiments - there are apparently some specific anomalies that could tie in -...
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    authors?

    I'm an aspiring novelist - my main interest is in communcatnig ideas. :)
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    Encounter With The Beloved

    I personally use the term "empathy" as a blanket reference to a lot of what is described - ultimately, because a lot appears to occur through a sense of "feeling" of being, rather than thinking.
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    Is belief a necessity?

    No - not using Pascal's Wager - but I like playing with concepts in general. :) And acceptance of the opposite of belief seems a very good way of exploring personal belief. Do you see what I mean? In other words, I consider it necessary to accept the possibility that I may be wrong. That...
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    Greatest Proof of a Lack of a Deity?

    One of the problems with the notion that "God wouldn't allow suffering" is that it entirely demands that God has a culturally agreeable and very human perception of morality. The universe is a dynamic place - life requires cycles of birth/rebirth in order to exist. Without death life here...
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    Greetings

    Hi Blue Canary - and welcome to CR! Feel free to settle in - we sincerely aim to be civil. :)
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    Picture

    Was just checking through the site logs, when I came across a blog with a picture that just spoke so much to myself. It's little Skye's birthday today - she's 2 - and just at that stage when she can really appreciate something of the world around her. I don't know who the picture is of - but...
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    Ancestors' Bones

    You make the point earlier of rivers being boundaries, but to me this is a ghost story. Not the cheap tacky "boo! ooh! I'm scary!" type you can buy in a shop, but the real thing - something that creates a very real haunting feeling. The experiences in this peice are pretty rich and very...
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    Is belief a necessity?

    I actually have difficulty accepting that morality is anything but relative. An issue I am trying to explore elsewhere on this forum. :) I tend to reinterpret morality as "constructive vs unconstructive" use of self. For example, if I have Free Will, then at any time I choose I can therefore...
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    Homo Erectus Art?

    Certainly true - and welcome to CR, mahogan! There was an article in this week's NewScientist that featured a worked piece of flint, that had a piece of wood purposefully placed within flint wedges. It looked somewhat like a face, and is identified as Neanderthal. If that remains a...
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    Power of Magick?

    If I may return to the original argument for a moment: if Magic of some form does exist (as in that our minds and consciuosness can shape material reality), then what is the solution to the Randi-esque criticism that psychics and magicians should therefore be able to produce winning lottery...
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    Encounter With The Beloved

    Sounds like a great experience. Had about 6 months of ascetism and solitude in 1997 that did great things. Multiple expansions of consciousness, and the real climax to a process already in the making. Direct communion is darn hard to maintain, though - you've got to drop so much conscious...
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    The Bible as Astrology

    You are spinning the semantics - there's a hypothesis to be discussed. How often have you made a reasonable argument, rather than simply protested that such an argument is being made? This gets my goat up - bananabrain, you have objected - often quite loudly - about any perception of...
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    Michael Jackson - it's getting ugly

    Check out the recommendations for his new album on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/music/B0000DJE9R/advice/002-2890669-7726429
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    The more I know, the more I don't know.

    Hi Rob12080 - and welcome to CR!
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    The Bible as Astrology

    Whether someone is or may be lying is an irrelevant and unwelcome distraction from the topic of this post. The discussion topic is that of interpretating various books of the Bible through astrological subjects. I expect to see this thread settle into calm and reasoned arguments.
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    Hello

    Hi Nightfire, and welcome to CR! :)
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