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Curious as to how many here have a Facebook account. And also how much time you spend on that site. I resisted and resisted for years because of a host of objections (one example: having 200,000 'friends' and not a one you could call at 3 a.m. to help in an emergency). But a couple of years ago...

This is a cautionary tale about how easily humans can be fooled into thinking something miraculous has happened. Emergency workers were trying to extricate a woman trapped in a horribly mangled car and despaired of being able to get her out. The head rescue officer told the policeman at the...

This is a book by John Bevere. I have not read it from beginning to end, although I did browse through a lot of the material. This is the kind of Christian book that makes my blood boil. Here is the basic premise of the text: This book can transform our thinking and our desire to fall in love...

Why is it that whenever I call a company to ask a question I ALWAYS get "We are having unusually high customer requests at this time, blah, blah, blah. If a company is always having a higher volume of customers calling than normal, isn't the higher volume the new normal?!?!?!?!? Grrrrrrrrrrr.

He has been noticeable by his absence for some time now. I hope he is okay.

This is the MOST awesome speech I have ever heard a Christian deliver. https://www.facebook.com/OneWorldVoice/videos/598767663633145/

The questions raised by the 'atheist' are worth asking and worth discussing by everyone, religious or not. https://www.facebook.com/officialsevenfactor/videos/643603435676129/

Recently joined a group on Facebook which bills itself as the largest FB page for atheists. I'm not an atheist myself; as a Deist I have many of the same opinions though. I was looking for some intelligent conversation from the opposite end of the Theist equation. There have been times here on...

Joe said in another thread "Not unless it (punishment) is undeserved. An authority of good judiciousness wouldn't cause harm to those who didn't deserve it, but to those who did, they would receive it. There is no good in letting a mass murderer free out of pity. it just doesn't work. A judge...

The Pew Institute did a poll of Americans about religion, both Abrahamic and others. This short video is a discussion on CNN with two of the Pew researchers about how poorly religious folk knew about religion in general and even their own religion in particular.

Thomas said The laws, as we construe them, of the empirical universe. We might be obliged to revise them, in which case even our laws are ephemeral. Aupmanvav responded Sure, no need for premature conclusions (such as that there is a God :)...

Here's an interesting take on what the Bible says. And I'm going to go ahead and say that the same goes for the Torah and the Koran. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-austin-fitzgerald/the-bible-doesnt-say-anyt_b_8822834.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592&ref=yfp

Lux said "I used to call myself an atheist too. But I realized naturalism doesn't have an explanation for what we humans consider beautiful or noble. That led me to rethink. Now I think some "transcendent mind" must be at work in our world." Lux made this statement in another thread; seemed...

Thoughts?

From the article: If the body generates consciousness, then consciousness dies when the body dies. But if the body receives consciousness in the same way that a cable box receives satellite signals, then of course consciousness does not end at the death of the physical vehicle. In fact...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/07/22/old-quran-manscript-found-united-kingdom/30509965/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

Well, not quite. A fascinating step in the right direction though. http://news.yahoo.com/origin-life-story-may-found-missing-123319318.html

This recent survey by the Pew Institute was already mentioned on the forum. http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape/ My focus for this thread is the group who say they hold no religious affiliation. From the survey: As the ranks of the religiously unaffiliated...

And the point of this dissertation is what exactly? Cause I really do not have a clue!

Here is yet another (of a long, long list) of quirks of modern day society that leaves me bewildered and bothered. There is a movie called Kingsman, The Secret Service. It is an ultra violent comedic spy thriller, far as I can tell. Supposedly the violence is cartoony; too over the top to be...