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Medical hoaxes - are they harmful?

Last post by Pyrrho « Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:21 pm
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by Willywizz » Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:30 pm
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Some examples of a medical hoax meme/trend - (there are other examples in this particular trend, but I'm just posting two of the most notable ones)...

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Ms Gibson has been fined for five separate contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law Act.

The fine includes:

$90,000 for failing to donate...

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Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:21 pm
Is world cup fake?

Last post by TJrandom « Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:54 pm
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by mirror93 » Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:56 pm
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Why so many shitty conspiracy theories about the world cup being fake?
Anyway my country (Mexico) is playing today, actually now and I'm drunk...

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Yup - my free snails were waiting for me....

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Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:54 pm
Simulation Hypothesis - Matrix Hypothesis

Last post by Shen1986 « Sun Jul 15, 2018 6:39 am

by Shen1986 » Sun Jul 15, 2018 6:39 am
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Hi

Its been a while I posted but I am kind of busy with my real life. However a week back I friend and I had a discussion about the Simulation...

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Sun Jul 15, 2018 6:39 am
Strange Coincidence and magic thinking

Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist « Sun Jul 15, 2018 4:23 am
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by Dvarty22 » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:41 pm
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Hi I want to be a sceptical and reasonable person but I have this problem of being irrational for example lots of strange coincidences have been...

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What does a man dream is stroking him when playing the cello?
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Sun Jul 15, 2018 4:23 am
Who is the Knower of Knowledge?

Last post by mirror93 « Thu Jul 12, 2018 11:54 pm
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by placid » Fri Jan 26, 2018 2:52 pm
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First question is..

Can the knower be known and by who?

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Nar, not if you ignore your belief.

Watch the thoughts, they come and go in you
if you mean subconscious/unconscious thoughts, no they don't come...
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Thu Jul 12, 2018 11:54 pm
Don't feed the Trolls

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by placid » Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:58 pm
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That which does not exist except in this conception cannot do anything.

That which believes it is the doer is an illusion, simply because if it...

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May suggest we restrict Placid's, beat poetry to one thread in the religion sub forum. That way their "wisdom" can be found in one thread...
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Wed Jul 11, 2018 11:16 pm
IF YOU BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES, SCIENCE SAYS THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR BRAIN

Last post by Gord « Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:23 pm
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:12 pm
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Borrowed from elsewhere:

They posted this article which they talk about research on people who believe conspiracy theories and how they might...

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Third Rock from the Sun was a documentary.
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Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:23 pm
If glob were real

Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist « Tue Jul 10, 2018 6:25 am
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by mirror93 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:37 pm
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I got some questions here, let's imagine the mythological figure and the whole story of glob was real and there was a glob and you were him

would...

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…..and if we want to respect our gods....we should honor their desire to be hidden/out of sight/of no consequence. No holy book, no golden plates:...
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Tue Jul 10, 2018 6:25 am
Organic Portals and Soulless People NONSENSE

Last post by OlegTheBatty « Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:06 pm
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by mirror93 » Tue Jun 19, 2018 4:17 pm
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There seems to be growing a gnostic movement of loonies claiming that there are some people who are soulless beings or "organic...

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are we talking philosophical zombies at least?

Luckily, there is a simple test: take a person who is convinced they have a soul, and a person they...

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Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:06 pm
Politically correct nonsense.

Last post by Gord « Mon Jun 11, 2018 3:25 am
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by Lance Kennedy » Fri May 19, 2017 11:42 pm
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The reference above is to an article in the on line free version of Skeptic. The authors describe a hoax, in which they write a totally meaningless...

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All I see is a black screen.
Yup.

This looks undoubtedly like a
black cat in a coal mine.
Hi landrew! :wave:
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Mon Jun 11, 2018 3:25 am
Sam Harris vs Ezra Klein, + the podcast venue

Last post by Lausten « Sat Jun 09, 2018 2:15 pm
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by JO 753 » Wed Mar 28, 2018 3:46 am
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Started getting into a kerfuffle thats brewing between Sam and Ezra over the Charles Murray racial IQ disparity thing. Both interesting in themselvz,...

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L: you are conflating a number of different issues. No reason not to treat everyone the same on the issue of skin color, then treat people...

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Sat Jun 09, 2018 2:15 pm
Dogma (No, not the movie)

Last post by Cadmusteeth « Sun Jun 03, 2018 2:13 am
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by Cadmusteeth » Sat Jun 02, 2018 9:55 pm

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Sun Jun 03, 2018 2:13 am
Bruce Lee Myths

Last post by SEG « Sat Jun 02, 2018 8:37 am
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by SEG » Sat Jun 02, 2018 3:53 am
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As I play competitive table tennis, my FB friends keep sending me this video of Bruce Lee apparently playing against two experts with a pair of...

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I wonder how many other "feats" of his were fake?

Bruce Lee died in 1973. The "Bruce Lee Nokia ping pong" TVC advertisement is...

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Sat Jun 02, 2018 8:37 am
Bald men have gold in their heads

Last post by Hex « Thu May 31, 2018 2:45 pm
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by Gord » Thu May 31, 2018 8:46 am

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Bald Men Are Being Hunted Down In Mozambique
June 9, 20172:34 PM ET

Authorities in Mozambique say bald men are being killed, allegedly because of...

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Bald Men Are Being Hunted Down In Mozambique
June 9, 20172:34 PM ET

Authorities in Mozambique say bald men are being killed, allegedly because of...

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Thu May 31, 2018 2:45 pm
Skeptics and paranormal proponents might be jumping to conclusions

Last post by Gord « Thu May 31, 2018 8:24 am
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by Omniverse » Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:16 pm
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Quote: "The road to truth can be a long journey and there are no shortcuts."

Always Keep An Open Mind And Never Jump To Conclusions: I am...

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:wave: hi Matthew Ellard

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Thu May 31, 2018 8:24 am
Better than average ?

Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist « Thu May 24, 2018 8:59 pm
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by Lance Kennedy » Sat May 19, 2018 10:42 pm
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Reference, New Scientist, 12 May 2018, page 42

Talk about irrational, non skeptical thinking !

Researchers back in 1965 interviewed 50 people...

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bobbo is your long time friend.

Bobbie is unknown to me. I don't believe in coincidences until proved as such, so I presume some intentionality in...

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Thu May 24, 2018 8:59 pm
Eggs and logic.

Last post by SEG « Thu May 24, 2018 4:07 am
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by Lance Kennedy » Tue May 22, 2018 10:36 pm
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Remember when the nutritional advice was to eat eggs only in small quantities because of the cholesterol they carried ? I worked out for myself that...

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Iway on'tday etgay itway.
Pig Latin?
That's racist!
:lol:
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Thu May 24, 2018 4:07 am
No test for age.

Last post by Lance Kennedy « Sat Apr 28, 2018 7:48 pm
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by Lance Kennedy » Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:03 pm
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Reference, New Scientist, 21 April 2018, page 22.

Something else to be skeptical about.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child...

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Aztexan

Divide the result by zero.

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Sat Apr 28, 2018 7:48 pm
Is it really rape when the victim in question does not exist?

Last post by Io « Sat Apr 21, 2018 7:03 pm
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by Abdul Alhazred » Sat Apr 21, 2018 2:00 pm
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Peezus himself, The Real-o True-lo Pope of No {!#%@} This Time True Atheism TM wants to know ...

Have you ever wondered why the #MeToo movement...

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OTOH, an anonymous accusation does not a criminal make. I know none of the substance of these allegations. Neither do you.

There. That's exactly...

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Sat Apr 21, 2018 7:03 pm
Remember History....

Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist « Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:56 pm
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by Detrelucide » Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:55 pm

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....is just his story ...
..and he is more than likely related to she ...

from "that's what she said".

foiled again. :lol:

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Even when compound words end in -man I still argue that they don't need to be changed to -person to be gender neutral. The word man itself comes...

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Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:56 pm
Me too.

Last post by Io « Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:34 am
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by Lance Kennedy » Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:30 am
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Reference : Skeptic magazine (the American one), vol. 23, number 1, page 6.

Article by psychologist Dr. Carol Tavris.
This article is a somewhat...

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Indeed. As the ancient Chinese proverb says "Man with dick out must come to point".
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Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:34 am
Latest Fad Diet: Seems reputable to Me-----?

Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist « Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:15 pm
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by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:19 pm

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The last "diet" I dipped into was the zone diet because it made sense. And like all diets...."if you stick to it" it works. I...

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Oleg: yes, that is what the video says. Write back if you are not agreeing that taking PRE'S can't do any harm?

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Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:15 pm
Joseph Smith Jr. was given his own County, Printed His Own Money, and Claimed to Speak to God

Last post by Gord « Sat Apr 14, 2018 4:41 am
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by trustyoursources » Fri Apr 13, 2018 4:08 pm
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Joseph Smith Jr. is a fascinating American Prophet and conman. He made up an entire new bible from an artifact he refused to reveal. He became so...

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That's nothin'. Donald Trump was given his own country , printed everyone else's money, and claimed to be God!

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Sat Apr 14, 2018 4:41 am
Happy Birthday, Hitch!

Last post by Aztexan « Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:45 pm
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Apr 12, 2018 10:32 am
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Gone but not forgotten! Happy Birthday, Hitchens!

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A guy who pointed out the ridiculousness of people who believe snakes talked, virgins gave birth, people lived to be 900 years old, and a guy built a...

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Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:45 pm
100% convincing, further proof of Jesus through the shroud checkmate atheists

Last post by Poodle « Thu Apr 12, 2018 7:50 am
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by Kamil » Mon Apr 09, 2018 6:11 am
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William Guy gave an outstanding presentation, and while he gave many decent points for proof of the shroud, these six were the best (in my opinion)...

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A two-post turnaround, Kamil? I'm disappointed - you should have been able to put up a better fight than that!
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Thu Apr 12, 2018 7:50 am
Ideological Possession

Last post by OlegTheBatty « Fri Apr 06, 2018 6:45 pm
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by Tom Palven » Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:21 am
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I haven't thought about this enough to have an opinion on whether it is a new or useful term or concept (You tell me.), but ya gotta love the name....

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Possession is 9 tenths of the law.

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Fri Apr 06, 2018 6:45 pm
Belief (not just religious belief) ought to be abolished!

Last post by _exit « Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:13 am
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by _exit » Thu Mar 22, 2018 3:02 pm
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As Neil deGrasse Tyson says, science is true whether or not one believes in it !

Pertinently, that one may believe in science, does not suddenly...

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I bet anyone here that _exist is another non dualist troll

Contrarily, as somebody who seeks to contribute to the development of artificial general...
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Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:13 am
Life's purpose is to make Artificial General Intelligence

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by _exit » Thu Mar 22, 2018 3:11 am
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Reminder : One ought not to confuse the teleological argument (purpose in the realm of subjectivity/deities/religion), with teleonomy (purpose in the...

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Exit, you should rephrase and restate your argument: what you have posted so far is insufficient to convince.
You are making the claims, not me, so...
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Thu Mar 29, 2018 9:07 pm
Consensus is not an argument

Last post by Lausten « Sun Mar 25, 2018 11:45 am
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by Lausten » Sun Feb 11, 2018 2:58 pm
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Richard Carrier published a peer reviewed book on the historicity of Jesus, and has been arguing with the consensus on this topic ever since. In this...

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The consensus on the historical existence of Jesus is a weak consensus. The authorities are unqualified. That's why it makes a good example for my OP.

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Sun Mar 25, 2018 11:45 am
Athene's Theory Of Everything

Last post by _exit « Sun Mar 25, 2018 5:14 am
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by Cygnus_X1 » Thu Nov 09, 2017 5:15 am
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This 'theory' is a classic example of utterly disingenuous 'science'....

There's plenty of valid science at the start. But that's the problem....

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This 'theory' is a classic example of utterly disingenuous 'science'....

There's plenty of valid science at the start. But that's the problem....

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Sun Mar 25, 2018 5:14 am
"Feminist scientist" is an oxymoron.

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by Lance Kennedy » Sun Jan 07, 2018 10:28 pm
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Reference : the American magazine 'Skeptic', vol. 22, number 4, 2017, page 46

To be a scientist requires a form of intellectual honesty which denies...

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Your illogic is fallacious.

My thesis was that rape has, as it's basic cause, the sex drive.
When drugs are used to suppress the sex drive,...
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Mon Mar 19, 2018 1:16 pm
Infinite Consciousness

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by renancastro » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:49 am
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I was reading some pseudoscience, to get some laughts, when I read a text that said that "We are all one" after death. Meaning that "I...

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Indeed - we are all one... in that eventually, we will all be nothing more than dust, or whatever matter results from being consumed by our dying...
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Fri Mar 16, 2018 3:57 pm
Finally a video criticizing non duality

Last post by mirror93 « Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:43 pm
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by mirror93 » Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:25 pm
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I dont agree with everything he says about free will , but he does a good job exposing one of these advaita frauds on youtube, Jim Newman...

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enlightenement not real

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Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:43 pm
Joseph Smith Jr. Glass Looker and Coin Digger

Last post by ElectricMonk « Fri Mar 09, 2018 6:10 am
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by trustyoursources » Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:04 am

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The Biography of Joseph Smith Jr. - Ep. 1 The Glass Looker

This is the biographical series about Joseph Smith Jr. the founder and prophet of the...

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let me know when it gets to the part where an angels tells him to bang his maid and the wives of his followers.

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Fri Mar 09, 2018 6:10 am
Why I conclude that sleep paralysis might really be a supernatural phenomenon

Last post by Gord « Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:56 pm
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by Omniverse » Mon Feb 26, 2018 3:44 pm
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Most skeptics would think that sleep paralysis has nothing to do with anything supernatural and that it is instead a natural phenomenon. But if this...

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During REM sleep, you're paralyzed anyway. This is to stop the body from acting out dreams, it'd be pretty inconvenient if that weren't the case....

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Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:56 pm
What is YOUR most extrodinary coincidence?

Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist « Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:16 pm
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by SCriminal » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:35 pm
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Mine -

My 7-digit college ID was the same as my 7-digit phone number. About 1/4,000,000 chace.

I met a girl with the same highly unusual first...

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I once got on a very busy train here and rode the distance of several stations before the person seated in front of me got off, allowing me to take...
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Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:16 pm
It's not Christ, it's Leonardo da Vinci

Last post by Gord « Sat Feb 24, 2018 2:27 pm
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by Flash » Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:56 am

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The face of Christ on the Shroud of Turin? No way. Now we know, it's Leonardo da Vinci, a self portrait no less. What a sneaky man, wasn't he?

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Thanks for that, Sergey_Romanov.

Wow, look at those old posts of mine! I sounded so intelligent back then! Ah, how things can change in only nine...

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Sat Feb 24, 2018 2:27 pm
Skeptoid's Movie [a Review]

Last post by SkepticallyPwnd « Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:23 am

by SkepticallyPwnd » Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:23 am

A review that has been a long time coming.
Hope you enjoy:

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Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:23 am
A twister during Twister at a drive-in movie?

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by Gord » Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:47 pm
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Here's an interesting story concerning the reliability of memory and eyewitness testimony.

In 1996, the town of Thorold in the Niagara Region of...

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Better yet - for those young couples engaged in their own private and first experience at twister - it would leave a lifetime memory. ...of when the...

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Sat Feb 03, 2018 4:49 pm
What is Truth from the Skeptics Society Approach?

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by placid » Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:03 pm
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Placid wants to learn the truth from the Skeptics Society Approach of what constitutes truth according to their logic.

I'm listening - I want you to...

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... It is clear to me that Placid has never studied Advaita and is making up his posts as he goes. It's clear to me that you'd be extremely hard put...
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Sat Feb 03, 2018 4:12 pm
Restraints

Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist « Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:28 pm
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by Lance Kennedy » Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:23 am

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One of the great thinkers of the past was Edmund Burke, who in 1790 wrote a dissertation called "Reflections on the Revolution in France."...

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All of which matters not. We can get a few pearls of wisdom from otherwise deity bound idiots. If I searched hard enough, I could probably find...

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Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:28 pm
Here is Practical Explanation about Next Life, Purpose of Human Life, philosophical/religious facts, theories etc.

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by Gustaave » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:16 am
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Practical Explanation ( For Example ) :- `1st of all can you tell me every single seconds detail from that time when you born ?? ( i need every...

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Ah, well. I can't knowingly allow this to continue in this topic, so I am locking it until Wednesday.
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Sun Jan 28, 2018 2:50 pm
You say tomato I say tomatoe

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by placid » Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:48 am
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Nondualism is so alien to the Westerner mind that they would sooner put the white jacket on us than actually think about what we are saying.

And...

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... a word is just a sound with attached meaning ...
And it's taken you how long to reach this astounding conclusion?

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Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:30 am
where is the critical analysis on advaita vedanta?

Last post by Dubious « Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:12 am
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by mirror93 » Sun Nov 26, 2017 10:55 pm
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I see atheists all around youtube debunking christianity, which is of course a waste of time, cuz we already know that christianity is nonsense and...

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Dualism is nothing more than a duel between heads & tails. So, then, it should be 'duelism?' :P :duel:

I think even that would be more apropos...

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Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:12 am
Norberg, the optimist.

Last post by Io « Thu Jan 25, 2018 4:56 am
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by Lance Kennedy » Thu Jan 25, 2018 2:59 am

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Johan Norbert, a Swedish writer, in his book, Progress, points out that the world is becoming a better place for humans, and that the present day is...

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I suppose it's common sense, when you think about it, that things in general are improving. There are lots of horrible things that used to go on in...

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Thu Jan 25, 2018 4:56 am
Diogenes

Last post by Gord « Tue Jan 23, 2018 2:09 pm
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by kennyc » Tue Jan 23, 2018 12:38 pm

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"Along with Antisthenes and Crates of Thebes, Diogenes is considered one of the founders of Cynicism. The ideas of Diogenes, like those of most...

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Diogenes and Plato:

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Tue Jan 23, 2018 2:09 pm
Cynicism

Last post by Austin Harper « Thu Jan 18, 2018 3:23 pm
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by Lance Kennedy » Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:32 pm
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This is the Skeptic forum. Not the cynical forum. Cynicism and skepticism are two quite different things, and we need to be well aware of it.

Yet...

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Isn't it often egocentric, psychopaths/sociopaths that have that left brain critical thinking advantage and thus naturally see most others as feeble...

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Thu Jan 18, 2018 3:23 pm
argument for god

Last post by Gord « Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:55 am
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by mirror93 » Sun Nov 26, 2017 4:57 am
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I've read this comment on quora and I can't sleep without someone helping me to debunk this {!#%@} with a good argument

"If you can prove that...

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...To have the idea, any idea, requires sentience which obviously we are proven to have....
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Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:55 am
Mass hysteria

Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist « Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:26 am
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by Lance Kennedy » Mon Nov 13, 2017 7:30 pm
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Mass hysteria is a reality. People have been shown many times doing something irrational as a mass. The reference above has lots of examples. The...

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Snowden would get a pass from me (so much for letting court trials establish guilt?). but I would be motivated for a whole list of lesser...
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If telepathy were proven to exist, would that demonstrate that we have souls?

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by Kamil » Tue Dec 19, 2017 6:56 am
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I am aware that all tests concerning telepathy have failed, and all ESP for that matter. My question to you is, if someone one day came along,...

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In those days they didn't have Netflix or central heating, so they'd hafta stare at the stars and chill.
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