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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 02:23 PM Original message |
How far can we get as a species if we can't even agree on what reality is? |
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Parche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. Reality |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. not very far... |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
3. Like Stalin, Pol Pot, knew, the way to eliminate religious superstition was to kill religious people |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao went after religions not because of their seperation of reality with science |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
4. Reality? With the toxic-mortgage mess, we can't even agree on ... |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Ah, now I understand. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. The problem is Gay Mortgage!!!! |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 11:01 AM Response to Reply #9 |
27. That's no problem, I'm sure the alliance to preserve traditional (interest-only) mortgage |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. Some people know that crystals cure illness |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Yes, but those folks who you mention |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:15 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. How unbelievably rude |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:19 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. What was rude? The Bible being a very horrible book? |
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NOW tense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
6. Do you know everyones reality? |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. So, you interpret M-theory to mean... |
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NOW tense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:05 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I interpret that science hasn't even decided what reality is. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Reducto ad absurdum |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:17 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. That's just a silly game of pretending that until ALL knowledge... |
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NOW tense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. You guys are awesome |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 05:48 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. I didn't question your "belief" in science. |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
17. Perhaps progress is the process of elimination of mythology. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 05:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Now this seems possible |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 05:29 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. But I think over all we are winning |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 05:31 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Well true, reality can only be one thing |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 05:39 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. and perhaps it is not. |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
22. At least as far as we have gotten |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
25. Guess it depends on where we're headed nt |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
26. Because until we can get beyond perception, we will never understand it anyway |
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