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Actually, gravity is the strongest energy in the universe. Love is just an emotion. A damn good one, but nothing that shapes planets and solar systems......

Yes, my opinion. I base that on fact and logic. Of course, this does not apply to things as art or entertainment, as you rightly suggest. But ideology and philosophy is not "art or entertainment." You then mentioned political philosophy.......and there is where you stray out of your comfort zone. Political philosophy can EASILY be defined as right and wrong, good and bad. Isn't that obvious? Show me where in the world and when in history has liberalism EVER created prosperity??? It does not benefit humanity, as the politicians like to smear, but instead it only creates dependents, drones, functionaries, voters, and the like. If you want to carry this debate to it's ultimate conclusion, lets do it. My philosophy takes nothing from you.....perhaps your's takes much from me.....more to the point, it takes much from future generations.....generational theft. Good on ya.... And lets consder this......libs are entirely anti-human/child.....pro-abortion, putting massive debt on our children, stealing from future gerentations....what, you hate our progeny???....maybe atheistic and socialist in origin, perhaps..... but to say that "you don't have to be wrong for me to be right" is ridiculous. Right and wrong are things of morailty, not style (as you suggest in you citation of art and movies and inane television, etc...) Moraility and ethics matters.... not politics!!!

1. Cite those "thousands of individuals." 2. Since when is "mob rules" used as science? 3. Courts of law should refelct law, not mass hysteria. Fuzzy, I was asking the question of another poster, who posed the queastion. But I am glad to engage with you, an OLD partner. Allow me to re-phrase the question: What evidence do you have of reincarnation? While I, like millions of others, want it to be true, on what should we base this fantasy?

Interesting read. But by and large, for someone to be right someone else must be wrong. Most, but not all, things are black and white.

I would suggest that true faith transcends such obstacles. Be who you are.

While he helped bridge the racial divide, he was indeed these things. His wife was worse. Ends justify the means???

Believe? No. Hope? Yes. Not sure why.... Based on what "natural order" do you believe in reincarnation? Natural order infers evidence......

Seriously?

Nature. Specifically, global cooling.

You post/ask as if you've never read and/or understood the United States Constitution. Why do you propose that liberty and "religion" are separate ideas/protections? Who has advanced such a cleaver prior to you?

Why is it sad, and who is doing that? Only the poor, envious and socialist folk espouse such ignorant denouncements. For different reasons, perhaps. Who does that? Cite examples, please......

Speaking of important things......should not the two large-scale messages about Thanksgiving be about the victims of Hurricane Sandy who are still without basic necessities and also to all the victims of horrendous and antithetical economic decisions?? To them, with a heart-felt hug and support, I wish them luck and hope they endeavor to persevere....

Sarcasm on Thanksgiving....I feel your love, as always.... (I'm guilty of the same, just for the record...) But let's address your point.... with WHAT, exactly, do you disagree or not understand about my post?? These hollow drive by posts, such as yours, do nothing to advance the discussion or help inform anyone. Please be specific. I almost hit "post" before I realized something..... you honestly think in controlling and intolerant terms such as "putting you in your place?" Really? Are you so blind as to not be able to glean wisdom and rationality from my posts? Or debate the same? If not, you prove my point....we are doomed by the ignorant and the drones. Please prove me wrong, as I struggle to find a happy path on this Thanksgiving morning....

Most people don't even know the meaning of Thanksgiving (and you would be surprised at the capticalistic origin of this holiday) ......it certainly has nothing to do with this forum, as you suggest in your heartfelt expression (which I share). But....Happy Thanksgiving everyone....

ALL animals live in a world unlike yours, it seems.... And isn't this FACT descriptive of what is happening in the world??

Describe and define pacifism....... To me, the concept is antithetical to nature, and thus is a farce like so much other liberal nonsense......

What a crock of bull feathers (ToS is so confining, isn't it??). The "religions right" had NOTHING TO DO WITH America's choice to go down a failed path, and defines NOT AT ALL the national conservative platform. Religion is NOT important to major American concerns other than the fact that religion is driving anti-American motives. Please tell me you understand the reality of the major, driving issues in America..?

Freedom..... Which is ironic, given that we've spent most of our modern history evolving away from nature. So while we are less free than the animals in the natural world (the rest of the animal kingdom), we still have our fabricated stucture of freedom sustained by social contracts such as the U.S. Constitution. What could man have possibly created that could be more liberating (and thus creative, driven, productive, etc) than a {mostly} free society?? Everything else great can have its roots traced to the freedoms contrived by {some of} mankind.

I will not ignore the greatest contribution ever to any thread on any topic.

In the free market of ideas, the most popular get the market share. I always enjoy assuming that management adopted this Laissez-faire philosophy to see where the people wanted to go.

The best tasting and most tender human flesh is that of a healthy 12yo female. So says The Cannibal's Almanac anyway.....

A worm is what I think of when I think of a pacifist. But Verisoph below refines the term a bit, forcing me to be more specific as well. So, you come to this forum from another universe? In mine, virtually all life is ready and capable of defending itself from harm or death regardless of the threat, which in life happens as a course of nature. Cats kill each other all over the world every day. But lets focus like a laser beam for a moment. Let's agree that a term like "pacifist" can only apply to a predator who has decided not to prey on one's own species no matter what the circumstances. So, examples like birds and bees and worms are silly......they are not predators. Otherwise, we'd soon be talking about the consciousness of grass and then nestingwave will come in with all sorts of 'evidence' and.....

I think this is the question? No, I would not want to live as described with avatars. Then again, if I were to die otherwise, how could I refuse? But simply to live forever as a human animal, yes, I think I would rather do that than to die. I love life that much. The ethical issue, perhaps one of several, is that if everyone could "live forever" in the flesh, our population would grow exponentially and would quickly be unsustainable and catastrophic. Death allows for life.

I think this is a very large part of it, for sure!

The "problem" is all in the eyes of the beholder. I'm hesitant to use your word evil, but as I do, understand that I may mean something slightly different. Progressives will tell you man is mostly evil and thus must inevitably be controlled. There can ultimately be no private winners....and thus fairness is "achieved" and defined as forced, and of course false, equality. Conservatives will tell you man is no angel, but nevertheless on the whole is inherently good; and as such requires a minimal social construct as a sheild and at the same time the freedom to pursue our own individual happiness.....win or lose, equal only in the sense as it pertains to the application of just law. Oh, and other things, too...