Ruby456
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incident going on in central london
by Ruby456 inunfolding now - could be terrorist.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/22/man-shot-police-outside-parliament-officer-reportedly-shoots/.
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how can navigate if our desire is for absolute truth...
by Ruby456 inor do we give in to social constructivism?
to relativity?
or is there a way to be real and then to say whats real that everyone agrees to?.
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was Darwin an atheist?
by Ruby456 inasking this q because my own feeling about this is that he probably believed in god but his evolutionary thesis is used to support atheism.
how come?
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a sense of responsibility
by Ruby456 indo parents here feel a strong sense of responsiblity for raising their children as witnessess?
an xwitness friend was saying she and her husband feel very bad for having brought up their children as witnesses and they feel they want to make amends but are unable to do so.
what advice would you give them.
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Easter, the memorial ... is there any worthwhile message for secularists?
by Ruby456 inan innocent man killed in the most awful manner replayed countless time all over the world has desire for justice writ large all it.
is this something that secularists can take from a religious event.
i think so.
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most of the universe is made up of dark energy and dark matter
by Ruby456 inabout which we know very little.
so how can atheists make assertions about reality when they challenge religious reality?.
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The Liars' Gospel
by Ruby456 ina wonderful uplifiting book i'm reading.
it is the story of jesus (yehoshuah in the book) told from a jewish perspective and situated in jewish family and village life as it was then.. at one point in the book jesus' mother wants to capture the moment and install it in eternity so she says to her companion, a young follower of jesus(yeshoshuah) who has come to visit her after his death and who wants to know about her son's life growing up.
so mary (miryam in the book) after resisting the young man for a long period finally gives in at a point in the book when something magical happens between them drawing them close together as mother and son and so she relates what she knows is a lie but as it is a lie that brings her son back to her, a lie that comforts her and a lie that the the young man embraces with love and enthusiasm, she continues her story - the story of jesus.
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what is truth - Pilate asked Jesus
by Ruby456 ini think pilate was being socratic when he asked jesus - what is truth?.
my question is to do with whether or not jesus was also being socratic when he said he had come to bear witness to the truth.
my idea is that both pilate and jesus were talking about a kind of ethics to live.
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human rights versus mental health?
by Ruby456 ini don't know if i am correct in the direction my thoughts are going in - .
but ought mental health be considered when we insist on human rights?
is there a clash here?.
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what is the difference between chance and randomness and non randomness?
by Ruby456 ina recent thread made me think about this.
here is a link and a quote from a thread that ran 2 years ago and was started by cantleave.
also please don't tell me or insinuate that i am stoopid .