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I think a lot of you here are missing the point entirely . The question is not deciding whether Portugal should conquer and colonize eastern South America. They already did that 500+ years ago. Brazilian civilization is already at their doors, in fact its all around them. Contact with Western Civ is...

[quote=""Dutch_labrat""] If Linnaeus , a botanist and Lutheran pastor, didn't know about evolution, why did he classify animals into families? You read too much in the meaning of words, they were just a series of collective nouns he used. What other words should he have used? Whe...

[quote=""Syed""] You asked that question the other night. Yes, I do enjoy my life, but I would rather not exist if hell is a requirement for my existence. you wont go to hell if you do the right thing If even one person ends up in hell, your god is an evil, selfish dick. hell is ...

Syed, if people had free will, education and preaching would be useless. You were brought up a Muslim by our parents, so you are a robot. Or human, rather. We humans have our behaviors set up for us by our genes and educational environments. People living in Christian countries grow up to be Christi...

Tremendous difference. Get a dictionary: clapping implies the use of both hands--it is really not a well constructed phrase, this time from the point of view of semantics. The question of physical existence at all just has your argument from authority against it. And for it, mine has simple scientif...

That's great. The rest of us are just more inquisitive than Heidegger and Wittgenstein. What to say? You don't like the question, great. I don't like beer. We don't agree but that doesn't mean a perfectly grammatically and semantically constructed question is not a question, and I don't think preten...

Who is afraid of Zeno of Elea? The zenophobes of course.

Grammar nazi checking in. Xenophobia not zenophobia. I'm ashamed of myself. You can hate me if you wish. I cannot promise I will not cave into OCPD again.

[quote=""Syed""] God created man, according to you, because he was bored with his other hobby creatures. He did it without concern for the evil and suffering that he knew in advance would occur. This looks an awful lot like a selfish, evil being, and his power and carrot and stic...

[quote=""Half-Life""]Syed seems to be saying,

"God needs evil to exist. Evil must exist. Evil is necessary."

That sounds more like Satan than God. Maybe Syed is worshipping Satan and dooming himself to Hell. :frown:[/quote]

Masterful perception. :notworthy: