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Huge coincidence, but I'm actually planning on writing a paper on this subject. I think you have to be much more specific if you want book recomendations. What exactly is your paper about? Like do you have a header/subtitle? Well, the paper is supposed to focus on humans and their relationship with...

Huge coincidence, but I'm actually planning on writing a paper on this subject. I shit you not, I just came here for the first time in a long while to make a thread about this... Anyways, does anybody have any book suggestions that cover this topic? I'm currently thinking of checking out Kurzweil's ...

Missouri lawmakers crack down on porn industry By STEVE KRASKE The Kansas City Star JEFFERSON CITY | Sen. Matt Bartle’s eight-year quest to crack down on strip clubs and adult bookstores finally succeeded Thursday night. The Missouri Senate voted 27-4 to ban full nudity and prohibit adult businesse...

Wait, what? Indian doctors are studying an 83-year-old holy man who claims to have spent the last seven decades without food and water. Military doctors hope the experiments on Prahlad Jani can help soldiers develop their survival strategies. The long-haired and bearded yogi is under 24-hour observa...

A friend recently sent me this link. I have to admit, it's the first time I've heard of it, although it seems to be decently popular on the internet. In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one ...

Interesting thread to say the least, found this forum on a random search for "ISD MK II," lol. Best one I've seen so far is Perry Marshall's Genetic Code argument The basic argument goes like this: P1. The Genetic Code (he shortens this to just DNA) is literally a code. P2. All codes we c...

Perhaps the most annoying thing I see when arguing is one of the following: "Science doesn't deal with the supernatural." "God's omnipotence means he's not subject to...*insert something here, like natural laws, logic etc*." (or, "He's outside of our universe, so...") I...

A very, very cool article discussing Project 880, a scriptment written by Cameron after Titanic. For those who don't want to read this all, some bullet points. Read the entire piece for in-depth description and analysis, but these bullet points are the main, stark differences between Project 880 and...

Knobbyboy88 wrote:GHETTO EDIT: Does anyone here know Arabic? This isn't some kind of elaborate hoax, is it?

I can understand Arabic fairly well, and that translation was accurate.

I haven't been able to talk to him very much. From what I was able to gather, however, I think his parents will be the main problem. To all of those wondering whether he is Asian or not - he's Indian. Interestingly enough, I've always thought of his parents as being like the stereotypical Chinese pa...

My friend, who is in his second year of college, just found out he's going to get a B in Organic Chem, and is devastated. It's really been nothing but bad luck on tests so far with this class, and he knows he could have been doing better. Regardless, the professor reluctantly informed him recently t...

The first one is excellent, obviously, but I really like your rationale behind the second one. Just for kicks, I'll employ the second one. I'll let you know the responses.

Special pleading fallacy. Also, such an entity is literally meaningless. That gives me an idea. Perhaps something like the following: "Who said that the Flying Spaghetti Monster has to adhere to logic? Why can't he exist outside of it?" Essentially, replace God with FSM (or something else...

I'm curious... Has this type of thing been tried before? People have been studying the Bible for a long time, so it definitely wouldn't surprise me if this idea has been brought up before.

Lately, this is has been something that I've encountered frequently when debating. Here's an example of a recent question posed on a forum: "Being a supernatural being, why can't he exist and operate beyond the formulations of what man's mind creates? What demands he be comprehensible and consi...

This has been one hell of a week.

I just encountered one, called "The Modern Holocaust", which has sparked fierce debate on facebook. "It is the grimmest of ironies that one of the most savage, barbaric acts of evil in history began in one of the most modernized societies of its time, where so many markers of human pr...

Ahh campfire discussions... Gotta love 'em. An interesting topic came up at my most recent campfire discussion - I heard things I had never heard before, as well as being reminded of things that downright scare the shit out of me. Everybody at the discussion was an atheist. We didn't really disagree...

The topic of moral relativism came up in a discussion I was having with my friends the other day. I was against it, but most of my friends were for it - even going as far to think that I was nearly insane for my stance. I was doing some reading on the subject, and came across this article from Dayli...

I just noticed this, but this is on the front page of Google...

I used to administer over the phone surveys for different companies. It's not telemarketing, but is was definitely mistaken for telemarketing frequently. No job has ever made me feel like shit so badly. Almost constantly, you're hung up on. If you do get a human to stay with you, they either dump yo...

My 19 year old friend is getting married to a hyper-religious wacko... I can practically smell the divorce coming. It's quite a long and entertaining story - I've witnessed a transformation right before my eyes, as well as his life going to hell in the process. I'll try and keep it short. He started...

Havok wrote: Seriously NoName. You can't expect the man to do all your work for you.

I was just looking for some suggestions...

Much appreciated Thanas. If I may ask, what is your historical background?

Thanks man. I really do think I'm at a distinct advantage here compared to my opponents overall. Any suggestions for dealing with Truman, Elizabeth and Luther?

What kind of arguments do you suspect they'll make against me?