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"Even though, of course, they are not such very prominent personae and belong to what is called the secondary or even the tertiary category, and even though the chief actions and mainsprings of this...

Wow, old thread. :)

I have to say though that I feel a little vindicated by recent trends in eBook reading, though even I'm a little surprised by how quickly things are progressing. Personally I...

Soooo.... Did anyone else read it?

There has been more votes but the top 12 hasn't changed so comic is still in the cut. I imagine there can't be many more people left to vote so this is probably pretty much how it's going to end up.

Yep, i've got the 1969 edition of the complete poems and plays. I've been meaning to start reading it at some point and this is just the excuse I needed :)

Indeed, this is really two questions though :-

What is the soul, i.e. how do we define it?

Does the soul survive the body?

To the first question I would say that the soul is that part of...

I think this is a common misconception, the vast majority of Christians (in my experience) do not act out of fear of any kind (not even fear of God) but purely out of love.
I often hear people say...

Amen :D I do love the Catholic music.

Well so far as I know there is no evidence for creationism, and a lack of firm contradictory evidence is not evidence, although it is worth noting.

Science is about evidence, empirical evidence...

I'm sure there are many reasons why the Anglican church has declined.

Firstly Christianity looses its punch with out fundamental interpretation, it becomes rather a pack of nonsense. That's not...

The purpose of anything is only from a certain point of view. Purpose is about meaning as you say and meaning is subjective.
From my perspective the purpose of me going to work is to be paid,...

I see a lot of fairly irrational criticism thrown at the Harry Potter books, I can understand a backlash against the popular, there's not much I like about pop culture myself, but is it really...

Colour is clearly not a property of light, we see different colours at different wavelengths of visible light but the colour is created by our brains as a way of distinguishing between the...

Hey JBI! vote for your nomination and put us in the lead! ;)

Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Central Europe
Western Europe

I think Europe is typically divided into just western, central & eastern. You might find you're...

Well this is how I approach others in terms of respect:

Firstly I believe that all human beings deserve a certain minimum level of respect, we are all brothers and sisters and we are not so...

Our understanding of physics and reality isn't good enough to say what the chances are, its an assumption based purely on the fact that it seems remarkable. For all we know it could be inevitable....

Perhaps I'm stretching my point a little but I do believe I have a point, I'm not saying however that sex has no mental component, that would be silly and i'm surprised what i'm saying is being...

I don't like that definition either, and I reject the label too. Its just that using the stricter definition on this forum often leads to misunderstandings, in my experience anyway.



I can't...

Oh yes, I made it clear to my pastor that I don't believe the bible is a literal document and that I believe evolution is the best theory to fit the evidence and many other things of that sort.
He...

I know, I didn't say it was a good or well put example, in fact I think I said it was crude. but the basic principle of my argument was by reductio ad absurdum (although I seem to of failed).


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Don't get me wrong, it is a fundamentalist church, you just wouldn't know it unless you asked some of the senior members specific questions about the contentious fundamental issues. I mean, I'm...

I'm sure you realise I was actually trying to highlight the flaw in the argument by Reductio ad absurdum so I won't bite, but you do understand my point right?

yeah, but God already knows who is going to cash the cheque.

I remember a bit better what my pastor was saying now, it was something along the lines of there being people who just simply weren't...

Oh come one Virgil, human life did not come together by chance, no one is saying that. life evolved in the environment available to it and human beings are one of the evolved manifestations of that...