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This being isn't passive because it also supposedly made us fully knowing each and every decision we were going to do. Everything was planned, predete...

Well, that's interesting! At any rate, this is also why I think there's a tremendous drop off in such events since the advent of commercially availabl...

Our state is dependent on both the environment as well as how we choose to react with regards to the environment. We cannot choose what happens to us ...

Our morality is based on our biological and cultural evolution. The biological part is based on what humans as a species need to survive and thrive, t...

Well, I have questions about this event as well. The dancing sun phenomenon itself was said to have been some supernatural miracle but is it? Back in ...

I have a couple of questions regarding this event. Nowadays, we don't really consider witness accounts to be very reliable. We need additional evidenc...

Hate is not the opposite of love. The opposite of love would be indifference.

Yes that would be more accurate.

It may not be a virtue but self-interest is why most people do what they do. If laws weren't in place to protect our interests then we would be less c...

Its security. The feeling of safety. The group provides us with most of our needs and the authority figures are there to ensure that these services co...

Thank you for pointing out my habit of placing judgment. To be honest, I find it difficult with my catholic background and my now non-theistic perspec...

Interesting how they used the awareness of nakedness to show the effect of this knowledge of evil. I'm curious to know the cultural significance of na...

haha yes. But what else can we expect when we just launched the first space telescope in the 60s?

Yes indeed. The text does not explain exactly what "evil" is. They only show the after effect - for instance, how adam and eve suddenly discovered the...

At any rate, the point still stands that we don't exactly know what 95% of the universe is made of.

I completely agree. It is a human construct and we are constantly changing these values. Another interpretation is that their eating the fruit resulte...

Indeed. And we're talking about G7 powerful countries here. What of the rest of the world, who are far more and growing exponentially, who don't give ...

Well, it's too late for that anyway. All we can do at this point is try to survive what's coming and cancer and heart disease will likely be secondary...

Yes, I think our group oriented nature is what's often forgotten when we talk about human nature. Our world view, moral compass, living habits are sha...

I expect that life expectancy to reset itself because, no matter what we do, climate change will continue to cause massive deaths worldwide and mankin...

This is a great question. I think by nature, man is group oriented. We're born in a group setting that has authority figures. Then, we're placed in va...

Based on the fact that, apparently, 95% of the entire universe is made up of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, two things we have little knowledge of, it s...

I'm a little confused by the Adam and Eve story to be honest. First, this god creates this place and everything in it. Then, this god forbids the two ...

When it comes to proof, I think there are accepted standards in place for us to consider something as proof. Its "evidence" that's more tricky. As you...

The reason why kids can pick things up easier than adults is that their brains have more plasticity. This plasticity stops when we reach about 25 year...

Hello all, I think there is a basis for what we call "human nature." In my opinion, it is based on two things: 1. We generally share the same aversion...

I agree with VagabondSpectre. I was baptised and raised as a Catholic and so, formed God-connections with unrelated phenomena all the time. There was ...

Hello xinye, This is my first post on this forum. I was looking for an introduction page where I could give a background of sorts but unfortunately co...