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Philosophical Movements: Existentialism

I, myself, fit in nicely with existential ideas, for the most part but I also fit nicely with Objectivism (which Ayn Rand wanted to call Existentialism). But what is Existentialism?  Read More »

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How do we define what is moral? Morals are objective not subjective.

Most religions have a set of morals they follow and laws. The funny thing out of all of them is that even the religions that claim to be revealed by God follow the two fundamental laws(for the most part) I've talked about constantly.  Read More »

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The West Memphis 3: The Juvenile Side of American Law

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I first heard about the WM3 about 3 years ago from a pastor who is into the whole metal music can be Christian. I still send him emails and talk to him even though I am no longer a Christian. But what horrified me, was what happened to these young men.  Read More »

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Logic is subjective, but when is logic a logical way to look at logic, or is it ever?

We all know what logic is, or at least we say we do. Recently there was a discussion on here about logic and how logic really isn't logical, lol. It isn't logical in the sense that what people define as logical, is really subjective. What is logical to me, isn't always going to be logical to someone else.  Read More »

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Phelps and his Speech Problem: How far is too far?

So American's most infamous Christian extremist of the 21st Century in my opinion, Fred Phelps, is in the news again. He hates gays, the war on Terror and claims God is punishing America...funnily the last part is part of the Bible but it is about followers of Christ, but that's not the point of this.  Read More »

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Insanity: Step up to the stage.

I was watching Con Air today, it's a very good movie. There is a part where our stories anti-hero, Cameron Poe, calls a fellow prisoner, mass murderer, Garland Greene, insane. Greene's respone is something about semantics where Poe comes back and says something about debating semantics.  Read More »

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The Draft Needs To Be Reinstated...

I'm sure I've just pissed off the majority of people...well then good. I hear in the news all these similarities to the Vietnam War. While I concede there are similarities, there are also vast differences in these wars, but that's not what I'm here to talk about. Perhaps another time.  Read More »

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TAKS and other Standardized Testing Are Ruining our Students

Here in Texas and around the country now, we have standardized tests.  When these first came into effect, people praised them, however they are failing us now.  Kids are getting stupider because of these tests.  All in the name of teaching the test and not what students really need to know.  Read More »

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