Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
27th August 2020, 10:34 PM
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Replies: 53
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
4th June 2017, 11:55 PM
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Replies: 206
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
4th June 2017, 01:30 AM
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Replies: 206
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
24th November 2016, 04:06 AM
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Replies: 10
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th September 2016, 01:50 AM
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Replies: 6
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
4th September 2016, 02:09 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,983
In my country, there is another layer of...
In my country, there is another layer of syncretism added on to the Roman paganism mentioned in the OP: Meso American native deities. Many historians believe that the religious fervor given to the...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
1st July 2016, 01:10 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,909
My story is not as impressive as those posted ...
My story is not as impressive as those posted before, but at least I know it*s true.
About 20 years ago, my father went several miles out if town in his pick up truck with his dog, Rifle. He took...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
24th June 2016, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 4,999
About a year ago, I was returning home after...
About a year ago, I was returning home after drinking a couple of cups of coffee. I had already opened the gate, but before entering I noticed that my wife just arrived at that moment. She wanted to...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
30th November 2015, 12:32 AM
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Replies: 485
Views: 57,413
As far as I can tell, it was inmediately after...
As far as I can tell, it was inmediately after the arrest that one law enforcement officer declared that the killer shouted "No more baby parts !" If that is true, then I would consider Center for...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
29th November 2015, 01:14 AM
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Replies: 140
Views: 17,301
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th September 2015, 11:51 PM
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Replies: 486
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''All bleens are grue''
First, there is a...
''All bleens are grue''
First, there is a non zero chance that the statement was made by a dyslexic and he meant ''all blues are green''. The phrase would be false.
Second, there are thousands...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
4th August 2015, 08:15 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,429
Several years ago I read in a book, (I can't...
Several years ago I read in a book, (I can't remember the author, perhaps SJ Gould, or C Sagan or I Asimov) that during the Manhattan Project a large group of elite scientists left a conference room...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
29th July 2015, 11:59 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,685
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Forum: USA Politics
8th July 2015, 10:27 PM
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
21st June 2015, 10:27 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 4,315
I'm 69 yrs. old and I've never understood what...
I'm 69 yrs. old and I've never understood what was so important about Benjamin Franklin's experiment with the kite and the key during a thunder storm. Why thunder? Why the key? How did that lead to...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
17th June 2015, 09:42 PM
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Replies: 139
Views: 8,162
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
26th May 2015, 09:39 PM
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Replies: 248
Views: 81,320
Yes it does. We are talking about Quadraginta's...
Yes it does. We are talking about Quadraginta's phrase that says: "The handful of priests and nuns who agitate against the political status quo in those Catholic dominated countries are rarely doing...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
26th May 2015, 03:23 PM
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Replies: 248
Views: 81,320
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
25th May 2015, 11:00 PM
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Replies: 248
Views: 81,320
I can't tell if MG1962 is being serious or...
I can't tell if MG1962 is being serious or ironic. Quadrigenta's last sentence is correct. A good example is Father Ernesto Cardenal, a supporter of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. I believe he was...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
18th May 2015, 01:58 PM
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Replies: 681
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th October 2014, 01:04 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 6,632
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Forum: JREF
4th October 2014, 09:55 PM
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Replies: 246
Views: 66,448
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
20th August 2014, 12:24 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,422
The Aztec language, Nahuatl, had an extensive...
The Aztec language, Nahuatl, had an extensive oral literature. Nahuatl poems and prose were meant to be recited, not read silently, but they had a writing system, mainly pictographic, partly...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
19th August 2014, 02:45 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,422
Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc was probably...
Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc was probably Moctezuma II's grandson. In 1598 he wrote Cronicas Mexicanas, a history of the Aztec nation based on testimony from older Aztecs. On chapter 109, Alvarado...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
25th July 2014, 12:55 AM
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Replies: 124
Views: 18,758
''Médicos Invisibles,'' (Invisible Doctors) in...
''Médicos Invisibles,'' (Invisible Doctors) in several countries of Latin America. Gabriel Garcia Marquez mentions them in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Patients send a letter to the Invisible...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
16th July 2014, 08:16 PM
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Replies: 67
Views: 3,782
Correa Neto's points are not just "still good"....
Correa Neto's points are not just "still good". They are very good and solid. The evidence for a common ancestry with all other living beings on earth is massive. This evidence directly contradicts...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
16th July 2014, 04:45 PM
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Replies: 491
Views: 29,689
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
13th June 2014, 12:09 AM
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Replies: 136
Views: 12,012
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
1st June 2014, 11:53 PM
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Replies: 154
Views: 8,382
The way I visualize -3 times -3 = +9 is this:
...
The way I visualize -3 times -3 = +9 is this:
Suppose your Mom gives you $9 and sends you out to pay $3 to your aunt A, $3 to aunt B and $3 to aunt C. You have 0 dollars of your own, so far. Today...
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Forum: Education
29th May 2014, 07:36 PM
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Replies: 182
Views: 11,727
For most of my life, I've lived at the...
For most of my life, I've lived at the Texas-Mexico border. I went to school on the Texas side for 7 years. One thing I noticed in the speech of my Tejano classmates is that most of the time the...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
29th May 2014, 05:52 PM
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Replies: 506
Views: 28,427
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
28th May 2014, 10:21 PM
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Replies: 506
Views: 28,427
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Forum: Education
28th May 2014, 09:14 PM
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Replies: 182
Views: 11,727
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
11th May 2014, 10:15 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,527
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
2nd March 2014, 02:28 AM
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Replies: 184
Views: 9,352
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
13th February 2014, 01:57 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,214
A stupid question: Is it possible for a water...
A stupid question: Is it possible for a water molecule to have one oxygen atom, one deuterium atom and one regular hydrogen atom? If the answer is yes, is it then possible to have a larger quantity...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
15th January 2014, 06:52 PM
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Replies: 2,348
Views: 196,400
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
3rd December 2013, 12:18 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 21,999
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
30th November 2013, 10:32 PM
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Replies: 86
Views: 8,079
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
20th November 2013, 07:43 PM
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Replies: 262
Views: 11,709
Janadele's signature is significant in the...
Janadele's signature is significant in the context of her post:
Actually, it makes a lot of sense to doubt that there will be a continuation of who we are after we die. This is the only life...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
19th November 2013, 09:57 AM
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Replies: 419
Views: 62,001
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
19th November 2013, 01:04 AM
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Replies: 419
Views: 62,001
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th November 2013, 11:42 PM
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Replies: 63
Views: 3,005
A common misconception (sorry, can't avoid the...
A common misconception (sorry, can't avoid the pun) about the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is that it refers to Mary's impregnation by the Holy Ghost, thereby she remained a...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd November 2013, 07:22 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 2,254
I am not viewing the past nor the future as...
I am not viewing the past nor the future as places at all. That's precisely the problem I see with time travel. The past is a ''time'', not a ''place''. But someone traveling into the past is...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
1st November 2013, 06:06 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 2,254
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
1st November 2013, 01:09 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 2,254
Besides that, I see a problem with an 80 kg...
Besides that, I see a problem with an 80 kg person suddenly materializing in a different time. Perhaps there was a brick wall or a tree on the exact spot where the time traveler poofs into presence....
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
21st October 2013, 02:07 PM
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Replies: 430
Views: 13,509
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
21st October 2013, 01:25 AM
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Replies: 430
Views: 13,509
As an atheist, it is difficult for me to...
As an atheist, it is difficult for me to understand how anyone can commit crimes in the name of non-belief. But it has happened.
I do not know enough about the history of the Soviet Union to argue...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
6th October 2013, 12:31 AM
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Replies: 305
Views: 11,582
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
24th September 2013, 11:09 PM
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Replies: 1,307
Views: 49,254
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