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In reply to the discussion: Religion--just like the rest of life, rests on things that cannot be "proved. [View all]that opinions end at the surface of skin? These opinions seem to now exist between our eyes.
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Religion--just like the rest of life, rests on things that cannot be "proved. [View all]
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
OP
it's tricky to find the boundaries, when we are shedding our skin cells all day long
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#51
Perhaps the heart of reality is not things in motdion, but motion itself.
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#64
If I have a perception of reality and hundreds of millions of others have the same "opinion"
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#13
You should read "The Believing Brain" by Michael Shermer. It would clear up this confusion.
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#81
experience arrives at the brain through all of the senses including the sense of feeling.
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#92
If I want to compel others to agree with my point of view, of course I need to offer something
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#107
Well, I would hope that you do read this book in your quest for knowledge.
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#109
It IS something more, it's called "childhood indoctrination into religion."
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#33
I have come to respect my own perception of reality, regardless of others.
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#52
Evolution! and the very processes of life in which everything is related to everything else.
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#11
Your post's title is something that should have 'meaning', but appears not to, on closer inspection
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2012
#16
I chose evolution as the impetus behind the quest for meaning as it is lived out.
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#22
Sorry, are you saying that you accuse people of 'scientism' so you can thwart conversation'?
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2012
#43
My 29 post was not to thwart conversation, but to suggest that scientism
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#65
Trying to educate you on a scientific theory you obviously have no knowledge of is "scientism"? n/t
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2012
#69
It would take the whole of process theology to offer an adequate answer.
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#23
Is that supposed to be some kind of clever snark or put-down? How about being coherent instead?
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#115
I think the human ability to feel is sorely underappreciated and valued.
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#53
yes. often I've gone with reason, ignoring a feeling, and it was a bad call.
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#57
You can't see the wind, and yet it is real. That's why in the good old days, winds were gods.
dimbear
Sep 2012
#4
It is my very partial listing of notions I and most of the human race encounter. nt
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#12
Looking forward to sharing some of those unproven things with you later this week.
cbayer
Sep 2012
#10
I hate the word "prove".....it doesn't come close to explaining what real science is. Science isn't
Evoman
Sep 2012
#32
Actually, the theory of gravity, as understood through Einstein, has huge holes in it...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2012
#70
Wow, this reads like it was cut-and-pasted from a fundie apologetics website.
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#34
So how does that solid and thoughtful definition square with your POV that no one would want to live
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#44
I have sworn not to respond to about five of you--but let me break that promise.
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#94
And three years later you *still* stand by your indefensible, insulting, arrogant statement.
mr blur
Sep 2012
#103
You seem to have profound misunderstandings of both humans and science...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2012
#67
Other than the last gratituous nasty paragraph, in which you reverted to the dark side of a very
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#74