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  1. She also didnt say that Obama had the solution for HIV. She said "vote Obama". Dont you think she is implying vote for him so he can lead you? If you and the McCain camp are somehow registering vote for Obama so he "couldnt lead you" than we need to work on some listening skills. The McCain camp couldnt come up with anything better than what Clinton didnt say. That's a come back from a point of weakness. We dont need weak leaders. She didnt say a lot of things, but she did say vote for Obama. Why would she say vote for him, if she didnt imply him leading you. That's retarted (or senile) McCain, using the Karl Rove techniques, is looking like a kid at the playground who isnt getting his turn on the swing. 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  2. hahaha...that's a good one. i'll have to steal that one from you. 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  3. So the best response to Hillary's speech the McCain camp could come up with is - Clinton did not say Obama ready to lead. Wow!!! What a clever response!!!! That will score some undecided votes....riiight. Senile old fart. 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  4. Here is what we have: - National bird is chicken - White House sponsored by KFC - Front lawn of WH filled with best tastin’ watermelons ever - State of Union speech starts with “My dawgs here is the dealieo” - Charlie Murphie as Speaker of da House - 24’s with spinners on every government ride ....Im just playin... 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  5. am I. WORD!!! 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  6. My brotha!!!! Im well I have a 9 month all now believe it or not. He rocks. This shuold probably be a PM, but fuk it. 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  7. Which, depending on his age, probably means he has had hundreds, maybe thousands of weeks when his dreams did not play out. Kind of takes the oogie-boogie out of it, huh? Events quantified. Not all dreams exist for the purpose of foretelling. Scientists currently believe for example that the reason why we get a recurring dreams is because it is a way for our mind to resolve some issue that is bothering it. When it cannot resolve the issue the dreams reacurrs. You have to pick what you are quantifying. Dreams have more than one purpose, at least thats what the scientific journals are pointing to. 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  8. Are you familiar with the concept of attempting to prove a negative proposition? It's a basic logic issue and essentially comes down to, "it can't be done". For instance, if you ask me to PROVE that little green mean in UFOs have NEVER visited the planet earth, there's actually no way anyone can do that. Science can't "prove" something didn't happen, only something did happen. It does that by looking at evidence. There is currently no evidence the soul exists. It can't be measured or tested for. That's not to say it doesn't exist, but it is not something that science prove at this point, therefore most scientists would simply state that, there is no evidence to support any theory that a soul exists. If you're a different kind of scientist and see the world with an alternative viewpoint, I would propose you design an experiment and see if you can define what a soul is and how to test for its existence. People have tried before. There is a fairly famous experiment where one scientist attempted to measure the "weight" of the soul as it leaves the body. It was pretty bogus but . . . hey . . . at least it was an attempt. Check it out; http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp I'd say that brain injury is fairly good evidence against the idea of a soul. Significant brain damage definitely changes a persons personality, or even destroys it completely whereas damage to other parts of the body does not. Even an induced chemical imbalance in the brain can have a significant effect Just because the vehicle is damaged does not mean there is anything wrong with the driver. Take Stephen Hawkins as an example. Thanks to technology we can bypass the physical, and get to the non-tangible aspect of a human. Can you quantify origins of a thought? (no one has yet
  9. I would say that your soul is your mind. But I would also say that your mind and your brain aren't necesarily the same thing. Mind is a product of the brain. prove it. is a driver the product of a car or does the car run simply because it has a driver behind the wheel? 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  10. Is it your position I'm not a skeptic, or are you just making a broad statement for the benefit of everyone? Both. One a bit more than the other, but I'll let you decide if the shoe fits or not. I will say this, I don't think a truly skeptical person says "I believe in (insert thing here) because it may be possible," but rather, "show me the proof and then I'll believe." My brother three times in his life had dreams which played out in real life within a week. How is that possible? It happened but our society has not been able to show proof for these types of things, because you cant really quantify these events. Science is designed to measure and experiment. How the hell do you measure a dream? We can pinpoint where chemicals for dreams are made - pineal gland. We can show figures about the chemicals that are firing during sleep - melatonin, DMT. But none of these figures explain the contents of a dream. And I agree...healthy amount of skepticism is good!!! If we didnt question things these forums would be BORING!!!! 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  11. Scientists have been trying to locate the mind in the brain for quite some time but with no success. If we cant locate it, how can we create it? 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  12. Are you familiar with the concept of attempting to prove a negative proposition? It's a basic logic issue and essentially comes down to, "it can't be done". For instance, if you ask me to PROVE that little green mean in UFOs have NEVER visited the planet earth, there's actually no way anyone can do that. Science can't "prove" something didn't happen, only something did happen. It does that by looking at evidence. There is currently no evidence the soul exists. It can't be measured or tested for. That's not to say it doesn't exist, but it is not something that science prove at this point, therefore most scientists would simply state that, there is no evidence to support any theory that a soul exists. If you're a different kind of scientist and see the world with an alternative viewpoint, I would propose you design an experiment and see if you can define what a soul is and how to test for its existence. People have tried before. There is a fairly famous experiment where one scientist attempted to measure the "weight" of the soul as it leaves the body. It was pretty bogus but . . . hey . . . at least it was an attempt. Check it out; http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp I'd say that brain injury is fairly good evidence against the idea of a soul. Significant brain damage definitely changes a persons personality, or even destroys it completely whereas damage to other parts of the body does not. Even an induced chemical imbalance in the brain can have a significant effect Just because the vehicle is damaged does not mean there is anything wrong with the driver. Take Stephen Hawkins as an example. Thanks to technology we can bypass the physical, and get to the non-tangible aspect of a human. Can you quantify origins of a thought? (no one has yet
  13. First it has to drop the car keys off with the valet. Then it has to talk its way past the bouncer. As someone pointed out in a PM...The soul enters your body the first time you take a hit off a bong
  14. Beat me to it. We're just a bunch of chemical and electrical impulses. When we die, we're just dead, period. There is no soul left over to go to heaven or hell. Prove to me or at least point me to even one scientific study proving/shows that the chemical and electrical impulses are NOT a mere representation of the state of your consciousness, which IS your driving force. Without it you don’t exist, Let me ask you this...do you know exactly what consciousness is, and why you have it, or where it came from? What is itm exactly? Now if your answer to that is along the lines of Im not sure, I have some ideas, not rreally clear, but here is what I think it is, etc…then the picture is painted that is you don’t really know who you truly are. And if you dont know who you really are, then how can you claim that we are merely electrical/chemical impulses? Show me the data that says our consciousness is driven by chemicals/electricity and not vs versa. If you know the answer to even one of these question, enlighten me please. 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  15. It doesn't seem to me that this law prevents that. It's AggieDave's assertion that the casual workers/laborers are illegals. I'm quite certain the law doesn't say that Home Depot must provide for illegal workers. Blues, Dave \ This sounds like a fair punishment on the comanies that hire them in the first place. These comanies are just as guilty as the illegals. 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  16. My kind of answer!!! 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  17. Humanity HAD one purpose, to pass down DNA, but with 6.8 billion people on the planet, that's not really all that important right now. Unlike animals humans have a capability to question if they have a purpose, and come up with a personally satisfactory answer to that question, which will generally shape their outlook on life. Why do you suppose we have that capability? Does that capability in itself have a purpose? If so, why don't animals have it? 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  18. We are ALL experts in everything (everything we know at least)
  19. A lot of people are likely to do a lot of things. Some people are born with a genetic make up that mkes them more likely to be criminals. Should we jail them right away based on what they are likely to fo? 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  20. taking life (unless in self defense in an immediate situation) - murder - priceless Attempting to save money by taking life is smply rediculous. What is this....minimizing overhead? WTF? 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  21. The original old testament doesnt say anything about 10 commandments or stone plates. It says Moses came down with 10 utterances. Utterances do not exist in written language.. Men created the 10 commcandments based on the utterances. Men also instructed themselves to kill, and used God as an excuse, Happens today all the time. 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  22. This is the part I wish more people understood, religion being but one topic to which it is applicable. If more people were willing to admit, "I don't know", this forum would get 80% fewer posts. Blues, Dave And I was under the impression we were all experts in everything....we are god :) 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  23. Something cannot come out of nothing, and by nothing, as I was telling Bill, I mean no empty space, no dark, no potential energy, no NOTHING. Here is a thought. Think about how our vision works. We take in data though the eyes, data is transmitted down the optical nerve to the part of the brain that decodes it via three stages. That data is first structured into vertical and horizontal lines. Second stage is where color and definition is added. In the third stage we assign memory and emotion to what we see. All of this happens inside your brain. All reality is created inside of you, not outside. You brain is never exposed to the outside world. Other senses work in a similar fashion. Imagine if your brain is sitting in a jar and USB chord is plugged directly into the part of the brain which decodes data. We are sent sensory information such as pictures and we make visuals out of them. We think we really see something, but in reality all these pictures are simply binary code…ones and zeros. For all we know we are a computer simulation 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  24. If there is a God, I would like to think he's the kind that wouldn't use FEAR as a reason to believe in him. Fear is typical BS used by organized religion to scare people into staying with a specific religion. Good for business. Why would this entity who is supposed to be all loving use fear and punishment? It makes it sound like God is a parent. Do you think God really cares if we go through the motions made up by men such as rituals and non-genuine repetetive prayers. If we are made like God then our purpose is to love unconditionally and to create.... God isnt out there....God is here. God is everything including us....we make up God like cells make up organs. We are devine...... 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer
  25. I really dont get why people struggle to accept that How is it you can believe matter is and has always been, but it's so hard to believe a higher power exists and always has? I tend to agree...there is no real beginning or end in the sense we understand. Space time is a continuos loop with no starting or ending point. In physics we can go back in time just like we go forward. Time is an illusion which we can manipulate simply by moving at faster speeds. If you look around anything and everything around us is in a continuos cycle....even life and death. 7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer