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Laudate_Dominum, on 02 December 2009 - 04:06 PM, said: Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Laudate_Dominum, on 02 December 2009 - 10:46 PM, said: Haven't really thought about it in recent years, but it would seem that my own view on the matter is influenced by realist phenomenology. I suppose for starters I would ask how it is that anything persists from time 1 to time 2? How you answer that question, and how you understand the concept of 'person' will surely come into play in any attempt at answering your question....

Hassan, on 01 December 2009 - 04:02 PM, said: Then according to that verse they should be stripped of their dowry. Anyway, are you now shifting your claim to that only women who are guilty of lewdness are to be generically treated as dogs? Lewdness in Islam is a justifiable reason to beat ones wife, and lock her away until her death. In Islam women are compared to dogs and domestic animals, and clearly have less the worth of a man. This post...

KnightofChrist, on 30 November 2009 - 04:55 PM, said: Hassan has made clear with numerous posts that he has little to nothing of subsistence to state. We are just a game to him when he has time to waste. If he's not going to post anything of worth then he should waste his time elsewhere. Besides which, the criticisms you and I have received for criticizing others is absurd hypocrisy.

Nihil Obstat, on 02 December 2009 - 11:15 PM, said: Does anyone here know enough about the philosophy behind personal identity to have a conversation with me about it? I find the whole concept very perplexing as one examines it more closely. The question is "how does a person persist from time 1 (t 1 ) to time 2 (t 2 )? Basically we have three theories: Soul theory: A person persists from t 1 to t 2 if their soul persists from t 1 to...

hot stuff, on 02 December 2009 - 01:34 PM, said: Why is it easier now? Because in those days, popular sentiment had not yet made it bad form for police to break non-violent protester's arms with nunchucks, or to rip off their badges and begin dishing out mahogany shampoos. Police Doing Their Jobs Intending to inflict suffering as a means of "pain compliance"/coercing the will is also known as torture. It was and is...

Apotheoun, on 01 December 2009 - 05:32 PM, said: I have no doubt that the acid throwing men were good pious Muslims, and of course that is the problem. Because pious Muslims believe that they should do whatever they want and it will be fine because God has willed it.

Socrates, on 02 December 2009 - 07:16 PM, said: Let's not put Descartes before the the horse. It would be a tragedy if this man from Francis Bacon in hades for his unorthodox views. :mellow: ( Disclaimer: I do not necessarily believe that M. Descartes had unorthodox views, nor do I wish his soul ill or make any claims to know the status of his salvation. He simply served as the vehicle for my wordplay. ) This post has been edited by...

Nihil Obstat, on 02 December 2009 - 02:40 AM, said: Like Miroslav Satan. :D Really! (As he raises a Spock surprised eyebrow) What does the little curl above the S denote?

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