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    So freakin' nervous right now...

    Haha sounds like good news though. Congrats.
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    Make Scoliosis Your...

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    Inspiration & Motivation Thread

    Best Nike Find Your Greatness Commercial - The Jogger
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    Does God have a form?

    Would you agree with this,.. "Descartes clearly identified the mind with consciousness and self-awareness and distinguished this from the brain as the seat of intelligence." Or do you think the the mind is the brain and can't be distinguished?
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    Where does electricity come from?

    This conversation totally makes up for that :).... So true. I think many are unaware of this massive symbiotic relationship we now have with technology, and that it's happened so fast relative to the life span of human civilization. I wonder if there's going to be a point in time when we...
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    A thread on why we're here

    Great post. Check out A Guide For the Perplexed to help dissolve that cause and effect type thinking, not to get rid of it, but to think more dynamically... it was a great read. And conditioned is exactly the right word, awesome way to put it.
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    Philosophy of Liberty

    Man.. I guess it's just hard for me to see that perspective without being consumed with anger. I'll just throw this song here since it hits this discussion perfectly
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    A thread on why we're here

    Good points moon, explain to a person from the 1800's the capabilities of a cell phone and they would think you're crazy. Problem is a civilizations. Other planets are probably full of life, but the highest chain may be inhabited by giant predatory life forms like was the case here. When was...
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    Philosophy of Liberty

    To compare any older methods of communicating information with the internet, to me, is massively underrating what a remarkable outlet the internet has become. A 13 year old armed with a cell phone is capable of more information than any man pre internet. I think to say the powers that be can...
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    Philosophy of Liberty

    Aaah good to know... I'm gonna check out this podcast later to see what the maker of the movie is all about.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jmDNZ1Tho8
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    Philosophy of Liberty

    Hah, yea I agree that's a great quote, but, and maybe it's just ego, it leaves open an excuse for complacency. Bfdd watch the last 40min of this video someone told me to check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrHeg77LF4Y&t=76m0s and tell me what you think because it's freaking me the fuck out.
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    A thread on why we're here

    I think any word is inescapably humanizing.. language can only go so far. But he was agnostic, as atheism is just as silly as being Christian or Jewish.
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    A thread on why we're here

    The problem is when people hear "creator" they humanize it or personalize it.. As Einstein believed "A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most...
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    Philosophy of Liberty

    Since we brought up Alan Watts, have any of you heard of Terance Mckenna? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygl4ngvXGJM
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    Philosophy of Liberty

    You're bringing up some tenets of a 'resourced base economy'. I haven't done much research into RBE though, but proponents say it's feasible.
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    A thread on why we're here

    Harold Saxton Burr
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    Philosophy of Liberty

    Definitely thanks Perknose... I disagree with you though that Libertarianism(individual rights) has to negate the integration of the whole, or for me at least. I think a freer educational system that is open to discussing the larger philosophical questions leads to a less 'I' oriented mind. It's...
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    A thread on why we're here

    Knowledge is a human construct no?
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    A thread on why we're here

    And I think this is where modern science fails... these "pointless" questions lead us here, these pointless questions inspired Plato, Spinoza, Descartes...to me your faith in a noble pursuit with lack a reason is ridiculous.
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    Philosophy of Liberty

    It definitely is the optimistic way of seeing the future of technology, but check out the mini series Black Mirror for some of the potential ways technology can fuck us up.
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    A thread on why we're here

    So should we stop asking questions of the origin, meaning, and purpose of human existence because it may be a random event? Didn't the pursuit of knowledge spring from these questions? Aren't we self-aware because of these questions?
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    Philosophy of Liberty

    The only thing I can see fixing this without violence is the continuance of technology improving and kind of fixing things slowly and naturally, but this is probably way too optimistic... it seems like violence is going to be inevitable, the current system just seems to unsustainable to continue...
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    A thread on why we're here

    From the book in my sig: "If we present, for the sake of argument, the theory of evolution in a most scientific formulation, we have to say something like this: "At a certain moment of time the temperature of the Earth was such that it became most favorable for the aggregation of carbon atoms...
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    A thread on why we're here

    Check out the book in my sig... http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Perplexe.../dp/0060906111 Goes over much of what you bring up.
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    Facebook IPO watch.

    Guess we have a difference in the word beautiful... uninformed people were manipulated. I see what you're saying, it was an easy read, but don't you think that seeing that as beautiful you're rewarding the behavior that caused the IPO.
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    Philosophy of Liberty

    Yea that's the problem. This is obviously something our generation (<30) has to figure out, how to fix the current broken system of today? It's hard to fix a corrupt system by means of that corrupt system... I think one problem is that it's really difficult for older people to recognize that...
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    Philosophy of Liberty

    Good video, thanks for sharing. It brings up some good general concepts. If you have the time, what do you think about this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66iq40acSGM&feature=related. It goes deeper into the psychological aspects of the general concepts in the video you linked.
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    Facebook IPO watch.

    Why?
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    What would have happened if Hitler was allied with the USSR

    You wouldn't have been born.
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    God may or may not exist, deal with it!

    If the universe(infinity) = god, since you are part of the universe, you z1ggy are god. o_O :)
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    **Updated: So, I've asked about Yoga before . . . *Went to three classes**

    Awesome, sounds like things went well, can't even imagine how hot it gets in there being in Phoenix. If you want to go a little deeper on your own I'd recommend reading this, http://www.amazon.com/Light-Yoga-B-K...+light+on+yoga. Anyway good luck, have fun, and to good health :beer:. :P
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    Facebook IPO watch.

    Whew.. hope you're doing ok, how's your company holding up?
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    Stephan A Smith - WTF

    I think you mean this heh.. Skip Bayless vs. Jalen Rose - heated debate - and Stephan A. Smith
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    Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone

    That is a bold position to take.
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    Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone

    Yes, but it can be argued that 800,000 years ago was a natural accrual in CO2, giving the biosphere time to regulate to excess CO2. If the present 400ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere is artificially cause by humans, how do we know if the homeostasis of the biosphere can keep up. I guess...
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    Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/when-hitting-400-is-not-good-levels-of-key-greenhouse-gas-pass-milestone-trouble-scientists/2012/05/31/gJQAVvwP3U_story.html I don't think anyone can give a definitive answer on what CO2 emissions will do to this planet down the road without a certain...
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    How long until somebody does something about Syria?

    Yea no shit, I know you're being facetious, but what has the US been doing to reduce the now third world nation of Mexico. Take a 20 minute drive south from San Diego, one of the richest cities in the world, and you're in the war zone city of Tijuana. Pretty scary. I don't know what you're...