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Do you believe that there is a cure for cancer but they are keeping it well hidden from the public? Since cancer is actually a cluster of diseases, not one, it would require a cluster of cures. And no, I do not think so; you simply couldn't keep a secret that well. In order to make it worth while, the tens of thousands of people whose incomes you are protecting would have to know to pay their share. And one of them would talk when they or their loved ones got cancer. (Cancer technicians are...

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Now that burning jet fuel melts steel, what will they use to build jet engines? The internals of jet engines are continuously cooled via ducts built inside them. The hotter parts are made of titanium, often single crystal titanium. Even the bits made of steel are very special steels, not ordinary industrial steel. (The name steel covers a huge range of materials, all iron based but with a wide variety of additives). Even so, keeping the temperature low enough is one of the...

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Ewwww! Le-s-bi-an and bi girls are so GROSS. I'm freaked out to go near them because they can think stuff about me. Whereas men thinking stuff about you, probably worse stuff, doesn't faze you? Men's sex fantasies often include violence; women's rarely do. So you would prefer a man fantasizing about dragging you away by your hair, caveman style, to a woman thinking of seducing you in a fantastic night club? It is actions that count, not what is inside people's heads. And lesbians are very, very unlikely to...

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Will the women of Afghanistan every be free? Will the the laws of Islam bring this treatment to other countries? It will take a long time before they are free. But it is not Islam that is the cause of their suffering, though it is the means. it is being a poorly educated and backward mountain countries. As Islamic countries become more educated and developed, their women become freer. Peace, education and open access to the world are the way to get freedom for Afghanistan's women.

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People say love is blind, is that true? Love is indeed blind - and needs to be. For a couple to form, each has to commit to the other. If each member of the couple was sitting there rationally saying "this partner scores 95%, but if I see someone scoring 96%, I'll go with them", people would never be able to make a commitment. Love makes people thing "Against obvious logic, my beloved scores 110%. I'll never find anyone else as good,...

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Is it up to SCIENCE to prove LIFE elsewhere or is it up to us to BELIEVE? Neither. Until we have evidence of life elsewhere, it has to go in the Unknown category. You shouldn't believe in something for which there is no evidence. Science will look, and reports what it finds. My personal opinion (not belief) is that, while there almost certainly is, has been or will be other life out there, it is quite likely that we will never know about it because of the distances...

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How big was the bang? As big as it could possibly be. As big as the whole universe! There is no way it could be bigger.

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Psychologists claim that 50% an individual's character/personality is genetically determined. Would it affect your choice a partner? NO. I would be choosing a partner who I considered attractive, intelligent, and likeable enough to start with. If they are good enough to be my partner, be it nature or nurture, they are good enough to co-parent my children. It doesn't matter how they got good enough, only that they are good enough. This is the weakness of nature-nurture arguments. It doesn't really matter in most situations...

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Should rapists and pedophiles be given a choice between a long prison sentence.. or voluntary castration and a shorter sentence? and why? Castration does not stop the impulses that lead to rape and child molestation. And I would be very, very, reluctant to return to any sort of physical punishment, even voluntary.

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Is there a limit to the amount of knowledge we can get before it turns dangerous as per society's standards? You are simply wrong. Read "The Better Angels of our Nature" y Stephen Pinker. Things are getting better, and he has the historical records to prove it. Overpopulation may be a problem, but the other ills you mention are simply false. You are suffering from Good Old Days syndrome - the past was much, much worse than people believe. As for problems the Vatican may have - without any disrespect...

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Why is it sick to enjoy giving cruel people a taste of their own medicine? I don't think it's sick, I think it's a good thing. By doing so, you become one of them. If it is right to punish cruelty with cruelty, you should then be cruel to yourself. Someone who behaves cruelly is a cruel person, for whatever reason they do so.

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Politics. I suppose the only folks who love it are politicians and those they service. Politically speaking, what causes you to recoil? Why? I would disagree, if you look at the big picture. Politics, in the sense I think you are objecting to, is simply manipulating people. Office politics is common, and some participate with gusto. All forms of social one-upmanship are basically politics, and again some climb with pleasure. Electoral politics are just where social manipulation intersects with money and power. But just because there...

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True or false? A vote for anyone but Ron Paul is a vote for a known liar. How about Jon Huntsman? It seems to me that he is trailing precisely because he does not produce the bombastic lies all the others do. But that may be because I have heard so little from him.

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Is greed regulatable or boundless and unconfinable? Greed for what? It is, I think, one of the problems with money that greed is much less easily sated. Greed for clothes, sex, cars will sate eventually, even if sometimes at levels most of us regard as ridiculous. The greedy person runs out of space, energy, time. But since money is just a number on a page, it is much harder to sate a desire for it.

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If American slave owners hated black people so much in the past why did they rape so many of the black female slaves? They didn't hate them. They used them. A farmer doesn't hate his cattle. He may even have a certain affection for them. They just treated blacks as other than human, as property. You are applying modern values in an inappropriate way.

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do you agree with inter-racial relationships? ie black marrying a white I don't even care about so-called multi-racial relationships. I think race is a very loose construct, and every relationship is between two individuals. I don't even want to honour the concept with an answer.

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Where did fur hats originate? On animals.

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I just started dating a guy and I'm already feeling bored, antsy and a little irritated with him. What should I do? Don't you feel that this is a silly question? If you don't like him, move on. That is the purpose of dating: to find someone you like being with.

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Who are the name coiners? "Coalition of the Willing"/"Operation Desert Storm"/"Weapons of Mass Destruction".Who gets the credit/debit? I have to say that the American sound-bite engine makes European's cringe. "Operation Desert Freedom", "Patriot Act", "Axis of Evil". Nut that our politicians are entirely innocent, but our satirists tend to get hold of such unsubtle summaries and mock them pretty fast. In our armed forces, operation names are intended to conceal from spies, not tell everybody what it is about. It was...

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Are humans evolving as a society into something better, worse, or are we the same as always? Definitely getting better. Read "The Better Angels of our Nature" by Stephen Pinker, in which he shows, at length and in detail, how our behaviour in all areas has got steadily better since the 18th century. While wars and atrocities have not gone away, they are smaller and fewer wars and atrocities. We are, actually, much, much nicer people than our ancestors. But because our ancestors...

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If there is no known particle related to gravity what is the nature of its existence? Gravity is a distortion of space-time. Gravity is well described by one of the two incompatible master theories of contemporary physics, General Relativity. Particles are described by the other master theory, Quantum Mechanics. It is a running sore at the core of modern physics that we have two separate theories, each of which makes incredibly accurate predictions within its domain, that are...

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How do you pray, or look at it if you don't believe in the "one nation under God" saying? I think it perfectly reasonable to consider God as a metaphor, just The Nation is. While a nation in principle has finite boundaries, it is not the rock and soil that people love and fight for, it is the people. Likewise, I see God as a metaphor for The Community. "God" say "thou shalt not kill" because it is bad for the community. God is a label for all those good instincts we have to act...

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Can a Prime Minister be both head of government and head of state at the same time?. It would certainly be possible. It would generally be regarded as a bad idea.

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I'm a teen and my generation will destroy culture? Agreed? Since this is what every older generation has said for at least three thousand years, it has got to be right. Just look at the cultural wasteland around us, created by people, /every single one of whom was at one time guilty of teenagerhoood/.

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Did an insect with the brain roughly the size of two grains of sand figure out papermaking and nest architecture by itself? When examined, it is usually found that the building behaviour is governed by one or two very simple rules. E.g. build in a straight line until you have reached one body length, then turn sixty degrees. Start at (say) thirty degrees to the airflow. These can be investigated by subverting them. E.g. gently changing their airflow, and observing the curving nest thus built. Of "pre-finishing" a...

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Could a guy be gay if he takes great pride in his clothes/fashion/grooming? Why or why not? Any guy could be gay. Or not.

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Are brussel sprouts disgusting things? No. I really like fresh, properly cooked, brussels sprouts. The problem is that most people encounter them at school, when they are grown too big, boiled to death, and then kept warm for hours before serving.

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Should Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady, get a state funeral like the royals? There has been talk of it here in the UK, what do you think? No. She should get a respectful funeral as have previous Prime Ministers (assuming her family so desires), but not a state funeral. She was a multiply elected, hard-working PM, and deserves reasonable honour. But not qualitatively different from other PMs.

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what made Satan so bad and evil? The concept of Satan was invented as a repository for bad and evil, a symbol to use to describe the base side of things.

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Why are true Christians organized? Why would organization be needed to carry out God's commands, will? If you are to meet together in Jesus' name, someone has to book the room, arrange the refreshments. If you are to help the poor, someone has to buy the food, someone has to cook it, and someone arrange that these are done in the right way at the right time. If you are to do anything as a community, you need organisers. That doesn't mean you need a great hierarchy, and organisers can be on a...

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Would the IP addresses for my phone and my laptop be different? Yes, inside your house network. But if you are connected to the internet through a router using NAT (which you probably are - don't worry what it means) then your household has a single IP address as seen from the Internet, which is split up into local ones by the router. So the answer can be yes or no, depending upon where you are looking from.

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If one could know the meaning of "astroid deflector" would one give us its definition please? An asteroid deflector is a conceptual machine intended to change the course of an asteroid which would otherwise hit the Earth. None have been built, and they would be very expensive. But there are various designs which have been discussed, in case we should need them

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Neither time nor gravity require a particle in order to exist; that would suggest their existence must be infinite -no beginning, no end? You have put your finger right on the huge crack in current physics. We have two theories, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, which are both highly effective at solving problems in their areas - and are completely incompatible with each other. Quantum Mechanics knows nothing about gravity at all, and uses a simplified model of time (essentially Special Relativity only). It is Quantum Mechanics...

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My bf wants me to move in with him. We've dated 4 years but it's been unstable - he says the fighting will stop once we move in together. I agree with previous answers. It is very, very unlikely to get better if you move in together. In fact, it is likely to get worse, and be harder to break up. If after four years, you do not think it is highly likely that he is your life partner 9and you obviously do not), then it is high time you moved on. Take him up on his threat - let him do the dirty work of the breakup. If he does - but...

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What is a double-blind experiment? What would single-blind or zero-blind experiments be? A double blind experiment is one where neither the subject of the experiment nor the experimenter knows whether the subject is being given a treatment under test or an old treatment or a dummy. In a single blind test, the subject being given the treatment would not know if they were being given the test treatment or not, but the experimenter would. In a zero blind experiment, the subject would...

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Is there a different time differential to earth and the depths of outer space.Earths time is linked to earths orbit of the sun.Not out there The linking of time to the rotation of the earth around the sun is a very human concept. The is not how time is, it is how humans choose to measure it. It is convenient way for people who think in seconds, do jobs in minutes, have working sessions in hours, need to sleep every day, and adjust their clothes and farming to the years. But time itself cares nothing for the numbers people stick on...

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Atheists - Do you continue your atheism in the coming new year too? Whence should come the sudden light of revelation? Why should preachings that have sounded like rubbish for forty years suddenly become wisdom? Why should I abandon the rationality that has been my guide for decades? Which brand of poppycock should I suddenly adopt? Be clear: if I were to persuaded out of my atheism, paganism rather than Christianity would likely be my first port of call. The...

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Atheist: Why don't you believe that there is a creator? There is no evidence for a Creator. Now, we don't know what caused the Big Bang, so there is room for a possible creator there. But if there was a creator then, there is no reason to believe that it has shown the slightest interest in its creation since then, and certainly not to this minuscule scrap of it where we live. I.e., if (despite the lack of evidence), there is a creator, there is no...

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Multi-vitamins: Why have 3330% of a vitamin or 200% of mineral of a daily dose. Isn't this just hype. Literally, money down the toilet? Exactly. For healthy people on a healthy diet, vitamin supplements are a complete waste of money. There are a few cases - pregnant mothers, dark-skinned people in northern climes - where supplements may be useful. For others, if you need vitamins, change your diet, don't buy pills.

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How can you tell when a guy's penis is demon possessed? When the special effects men have finished their job. Demons exist only in fiction.

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Were the German people themselves at least partially to blame for the Holocaust? As individuals who looked the other way. But aggregating this into blame for "the German People" does not help, because it includes those who did not look the other way, those who came before and those who came after. It puts a mark of guilt by association on the innocent. Those who knew of the Holocaust and could have spoken out, have some guilt for not doing so. Many of those were of "the...

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I read there are 10000...(80 zeros) particles in the universe. Does this mean that we cannot count beyond that? Not unless your concept of counting is limited to counting on your fingers and toes. Mathematics needs no tie to the physical universe. What is surprising, as some have said, is how often mathematics turns out to describe the universe. But we have representations for, and uses of, numbers far, far bigger than 10^80. Numbers are useful for other things than counting numbers. For example, there...

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What day was Jesus really born? Nobody knows. But if the story of the Roman census and the journey to Bethlehem are true (which I certainly doubt), certainly not in the middle of winter. If you are to force people to move around the country, you do /not/ do so at the time the roads are at their worst. Remember that there were almost no made up roads, and in the Mediterranean all the rain falls in the winter months, so the...

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Were neanderthals smart and peaceful but wiped out by dumb and violent homo sapiens sapiens? Nor particular reason to believe so. Or, to be honest, to believe otherwise. Recent studies have show that the range of Neanderthals was sufficiently small that an Ice Age could have squeezed them out without intervention from Cro-Magnon man (roughly, us). And it is now believed we interbred with them, so at one level they are not extinct - they are us.

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How is atheism reasonable? How is it unreasonable? We do not believe in things for which we have no evidence. There is no evidence for God or Gods. So it is reasonable not to believe in them.

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My sons girlfriend is bisexual and a tomboy and my son is going to marry her.? I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO? Start planning what to wear at the wedding. The details of the girl's sexuality really shouldn't matter to /you/ at all. It is /his/ choice, not hers. If she chooses to remain faithful to him, her sexuality doesn't matter. If she is going to cheat, does it matter whether she cheats with a man or a woman, provided she uses contraception? (If she doesn't, wouldn't a woman be better?)

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If someone uses your name without your permission saying you support something/someone you don't what can you do? Can you sue? Probably, provided you can show they were doing it. What you get will depend on what damage the court thinks has been done. The rules vary /a lot/ with jurisdiction.

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Ignorance is no excuse. We are responsible for what our staffs do in our name. But what if we really didn't know? Doesn't that count? Unless you can show that what your staff did was totally unpredictable exceptional, you are responsible for the way your office is run, and hence for the general trend of their activities. If the soldiers of an army form death squads, their officers cannot say the did not know; they should have. Likewise, the head of an office is responsible for the broad trend of what his staff doo, but not...

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Does true romantic love exist at all? Apparently so. Brain scans of those who claim to be in love show a distinctive pattern of activity when shown a picture of the beloved, which is similar to that produced by cocaine.

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What if scientists accidentally woke up Mitochondria Eve, and she started terrorizing people with killer plants? But what of ordinary people woke her up? Wouldn't that be much worse?

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Do you think electric companies are monopolies? We really only have 1 choice. Why aren't there at least 2 options? Especially in cities. In the UK we have a choice. There are four or five major suppliers, and a dozen or so minor ones. But it does depend on a National Grid, so that generators and users can be completely separate. The US has a much less well developed Grid (or rather, several).

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Why don't more Muslims condemn Hamas? An awful lot of them do. Including fatwas from leading clerics. But they don't get reported because it ins't News when a leading cleric talks common sense. But when some hothead spouts venom, it is News. And it becomes Archive News, and is repeated unto boredom. And you can always get a crowd to shout vile things, especially if a camera is pointing. But support for Al Quaeda is now below 10%...

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Should marijuana be decriminalized or even legal? Why or why not? Anybody who wants marijuana can get it. But there is a huge criminal industry to supply it, one of the highest paid sales forces in the world, and a hugely expensive anti-drugs police system. So we have a choice: 1. Drugs. 2. Drugs plus drug related crime. No Drugs is simply not an option, much as people might like it. I choose 1.

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Would you like to watch Jon Huntsman play Go, Johnny Go!? This is really good. Have to put the video as my answer. Too many letters! I like him even more.

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Cosmology, Evolution and other sciences just come up with theories so are speculative but God is a fact. Thoughts? In scientific terms, a Theory is an explanation for Facts. Facts are measurements, experiments you can make. Fossils, DNA, galactic photographs, maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background are Facts. For God to be a Fact, you would need to be able to weigh, photograph, or otherwise measure God. God is used by his believers as an explanation for Facts - that we exist, that we have certain senses...

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Is an orange (fruit) called an orange because it is orange in colour? Or is it the other way around? I understand that the fruit comes from the colour. The ruling family of the town of Orange in France, the House of Orange, took the colour we now call Orange as their house colour. They later became the leading family in Holland. When a fruit of the same colour appeared, it was named after the colour, and hence the French town.

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Who the he** does she think she is? Mrs. Obama wants us to eat healthy! Some nerve! Just like our doctors do. Who the he** are they? Almost as bad as those bastards who want peace and prosperity!

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If you found a stack of money outside, would u keep it or turn it in to the police? just curious what someone else would do :D Yes, if small enough. Coppers found anywhere, small sums in my own home. Just too much bother to try to find the owner.

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Lao Tzu (604 B.C.)has said Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end." What is he suggesting? How do you feel about it? People believed a lot of strange things that far in the past - gods, dragons, witches etc. I feel absolutely nothing about a 2500 year old superstition.

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to kill or not to kill? What? I will kill disease bacteria by the billion.

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Stubborn/bullheaded doesn't mean you're strong. What does it mean? I disagree - it can mean that you are strong - in a bad cause. Or, of course, a good cause. ML King was stubborn in a good cause. Are you saying that therefore he was not strong? Hitler was stubborn in a bad cause. Are you saying that it was weak to kill six million Jews etc. and conquer a dozen other countries? This is one of many cases where there is a spectrum, the extremes of which are...

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If you took vows of chastity, silence and poverty, which one would be the most difficult for you to honor? Which would be the easiest? Chastity - no problem. I have been effectively chaste for years. Silence. Frustrating, but I could do it. Not that I see the point. Poverty. Depends, of course, on what you mean by poverty. I have dependants and expect to live into old age. I don't want to be rich, but I want more than just a robe and a begging bowl. I would want to own (in the sense of having a permanent right to use) a home...

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Why can't we have normal first names for politicians? David, Nick, Ed. Seem perfectly normal names to me.

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Being considerate: nature or nurture? Being considerate at all: nature. To whom we are considerate, and what we actually do to be considerate: nurture. Everybody is considerate to their immediate family, but that can still be in the framework of a very dominance-based culture. The idea of treating women equally, rather than being considerate to inferiors, and the idea that people not of our tribe still deserve consideration, is...

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Is Ron Paul our last hope? I like Ron Paul, and think him honest unlike most of the others, but I disagree with him to much. I wish people would pay more attention to Huntsman, who seems to have made the fatal mistake of being sensible.

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Would you vote to legalize prostitution? Yes. In my opinion, the current situation is the worst possible one for the prostitutes.

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At birth we should be implanted with a computer chip that controls our intentions..eliminating any that are harmful. Pro/con and why? Obvious no. Who gets to define "harmful", by what right? And who supervises them?

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Can you say one POSITIVE thing about McDonald's? There are no Macdonalds in Antarctica. Somewhere is safe.

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How do men sit/walk w/o their penis scrotum getting in the way? How do they go about it? They are not actually between the legs, they are in front. In order for them to cause problems, which occasionally happens, they have to be pushed back.

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How can atheists deny what you do during life doesn't affect what happens to you after you die? What evidence is there that anything at all happens after we die? It is a matter of observation that overeating makes us fat. What observations have we about life after death? Ho many people have been spiritually "weighed" and the results returned to us? It is the atheist view that when you die you stop. End of game, no more happens. If you have evidence to the contrary, tell us. But what you...

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Did you know that scientists at Cern have discovered neutrinos travelling faster than light? /May/ have discovered. The measurement has not yet been confirmed, and something as startling as this requires more than a single experiment to be regarded as proved. The possibility of experimental error must be taken into account, especially when the measured excess if speed is very small indeed. However, the experiment is to be repeated in the US with different equipment, and we may get...

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Are electrons composed of quarks? No. So far as is currently know, the electron is a fundamental particle and has no internal structure.

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Maybe the 2012 end of the world prediction is a prediction of an economic collapse. Thoughts? The prediction is complete cobblers. It is an invention in the 1960s of a prediction by the Maya that they did not make. It has no authority at all. So there is no point in interpreting complete bullshit.

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What do fossil findings reveal, the multitudes of creation, or a gradual evolution of lifeforms? The arrangement of the fossils and their dating shows evolution. Your quotes, stripped if their theology, just show that there are many different species, wherever they may have come from. The quotes give no idea whether the species are those that exist now, or some hypothetical list of species that have ever existed. They give no suggestion of the sequential development shown in the fossil...

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Do you know someone like this: they say they prefer their home cooking to eating out.Have they tried all the restaurants to eat out then?! It may be not the food, but the environment. For example, I know people who really, really do not like being watched while they eat. No matter how good the food, if strangers watch them eating, it tastes bad. Other's find the pleasure of their food spoiled by the knowledge of the price.

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If physicists find the basic building block of the universe will that solve all mysteries of existence or will it create more questions? Almost certainly. Apart from anything else, knowing the rules doesn't tell you how they work out. To a reasonable approximation, we know all the rules for atoms and electrons at the temperatures we live. But that doesn't mean that chemistry, the study of the interactions of atoms and electrons, is a done deal.

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why does every u.s aspiring president/previous/current/ and politicians kiss isreal's butt??? Because pro-Israel lobbies have the US political system under control. Anybody who enthusiastically supports Israel will find their political coffers filled. Anybody who criticizes Israel will find themselves under attack from all directions.

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Should zoos be banned b/c they limit animals freedoms/space & disturb their natural habitat? why/why not? Zoos need to be well regulated. The best zoos give their animals quite a lot of space. Generally, it is quite easy to give the smaller animals a fulfilling environment. It is much harder for larger animals, especially the predators, which are used to a huge range. Therefore I feel that large animals, and particularly predators, should only be kept in captivity if there is a real conservation...

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Do u know anything about Bermuda Triangle.. Yes. There is no mystery. It is just an area of sea with turbulent weather and a large number of ships and planes crossing it. The number of accidents match what you would expect for the traffic crossing it.

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explain the volatile and non-volatile Volatile memory loses its contents when the power is turned off. Non volatile memory keeps its contents when powered off.

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Scientists have now discovered what they are calling the God particle, the cement that holds the universe and all life together? Thoughts? Not that /they/ call the God Particle. That one or two called the God Particle, to the intense embarrassment of the rest of the physics community; a name which has, unfortunately, been picked up by the press and spread everywhere. It is one further step in our understanding of the universe. It suggests that the current favourite theory for how all the basic particles are connected is probably...

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Are atheist protected by this law (found in the description)? kindly elaborate it. Atheism has no "establishment". However, they are protected by the last sentence, so you cannot be required to be a believer to get a job (as, I believe, is legally if not actually the case in Indonesia).

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It's well documented that the Fed's WON'T enforce immigration laws, how should the SCOTUS rule on Arizona's law? The problem with Arizona's law is not with enforcement when people are shown to be illegal immigrants, it is with the drastic weakening of the presumption of innocence for people who the police think /might/ be illegal immigrants. When the law does not explicitly say so, the only reason police might have this suspicion is race: someone who is a blue eyed, tall, and blond, or someone who is...

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who was the wizard in financing who bailed out the nation during the depression? Nobody. It is widely agreed that the reaction of financial experts and politicians made the Depression much worse than it needed to be. When money supply was shrinking dangerously, central bankers cut money supply. When trade was shrinking, politicians put up trade barriers. The Depression probably lasted twice as long as it needed to, and was much worse at its worst, because of this.

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Can someone legally be fired for not doing their agreed-upon job duties for religious reasons? Which is correct: Christians do not have any rights not held by everyone else. Nothing in the law does, or constitutionally can, give Christians a privileged position. Of course, Christians have the same right that non-Christians have to the free practice of their religion where it does not infringe the rights of others.

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Can someone legally be fired for not doing their agreed-upon job duties for religious reasons? I cannot answer for the US, but in the UK people certainly can be fired. Churches are allowed to specify believers for specifically religious duties such as priests, but not non-religious ones such as, for example, cleaning the church. Someone who got a religious job by falsely claiming belief could be fired for false statements. A female Muslim teacher was fired because she demanded the right...

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When all doubts about the existence of God Almighty are finally removed, it will be too late, why do you wait? Which God? Why should it be your God of all the other improbable ones that turns out to be real?

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With all the evidence of Life being behind life, does God need to provide more evidence of His existence, are there grounds for doubt really What evidence?

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Why do we simply return the illegial immigrants back across the border, only to have them come back? Alternatives: Kill them: immoral. Physical punishment: still immoral. Imprison them: expensive. Prisons already at bursting point. What else do you suggest? They have no possession or money to confiscate.

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What vibrations are the highest on this planet? Hugh energy gamma rays from cosmic sources.

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What would you use to escape from prison? Lawyers

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Given the averse conditions to life that exist on other planets and moons is the earth's multiple life sustaining attributes a chance event That is something to which I would say we do not know the answer, but are researching hard. Recent discoveries have shown both that the formation of life roughly as we know it is, if circumstance are right, much more probable than I at least had previously thought, and that the right circumstances are much more likely than I had thought. Therefore I now think it highly likely that life will...

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Tho' Gingrich is gaining support, some on the right don't like him and are saying so. What is it they know? Why don't they like him? The profile I heard recently is that he is full of ideas.some good and some bad, and can't tell the difference. If you look only at his good ideas, he is great. But it you take all his ideas, there are some really rotten ones as well. One (Rep) speaker said he is simply not Presidential material. He is a great salesman, but a rotten executive. Cannot stick to one idea (hopefully good) but will...

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We've eliminated all constraints. No rules, no regs, no taxes,no government, no nuthin'. Anything left about which to complain? What? People

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California school district allows students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in both English and Spanish. Should this be allowed? Why the hell not? If you cannot recite the Pledge in Spanish, you should certainly not read the Bible in English. All churches should be forced to teach the Bible in the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.

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When those college kids try to get you to give money to Greenpeace, do you ask "why, need more AKs to attack whaling vessels"? Have you any evidence of Greenpeace attacking whaling vessels with AKs, ever? Personally, I disapprove of people giving money for Tea Party Baby Roasts.

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Fossils = evolution? No, fossils are clues. From fossils yo can deduce evolution - because it happens to be true. If, for example, creationists were right, fossils would show no relationships. The pattern of fossils that actually exists proves evolution. There are an infinite number of other examples which would not prove evolution. One fossilized rabbit reliably shown to come from, say, the Cambrian would break...

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What year did you live your first house? 1980

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matter had to come from something? true or false? matter somehow came from nothing? true or false? We don't know. So far as we know, the Big Bang, when all the matter/energy currently in the universe appeared or was created, came out of nothing, But we don't actually know anything before about 10^-35 seconds after the putative Big Bang.

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Why would anyone who truly understands science, believe that intelligence can arise from non-intelligence without Intelligent input? Anybody who proper understands the concepts behind Natural Selection. I bet you cannot do a 1000 piece jigsaw at first try. Rules: once you have picked up a piece, you cannot put it down anywhere except its right place. Impossible. Therefore you cannot do a 1000 piece jigsaw. QED. Actually, you can do a 1000 piece jigsaw. You don't do it all in one go. You observe two pieces that fit...

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Should a 17 year old woman be tortured to get her to confess to or provide vital information on a terrorist attack on which she is involved Nobody should be tortured. Full stop.

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Do you think the UK should have a ZERO TOLERANCE on religious violence ? ( 1 strike and you are out of the country ) I think we should have zero tolerance as in "One strike and you get the appropriate sentence for the crime". We should never tolerate religious violence, but we should not be mechanistic about it. And it wouldn't work: a number of of the most violent were born and brought up here.

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Does technology hurt as many people as it helps? No. Without technology, the world could only support about one hundredth of the population it actually has. Of course, I am including all technologies, such as the plough, fertilizer, antibiotics, the wheel and so on. Did you mean some subset of technology - such as that invented since you grew up?

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GOD = everyone always complains about there being no " Evidence " but if there was evidence around you, would you even recognise it ? There are many, many ways God could make his/her/its presence known. Visibly granting prayers, for example. The fact that there is not obvious evidence for God means either that God does not exist, or that God is deliberately hiding from us. If the latter is true, I do not trust such a devious God. Even if the claimed revelations come from God, how do we know they are true, coming from such a...

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Was Salman Rushdie right about the Satanic verses? What do you mean by "right"? It was a novel, a story, written for entertainment. There is no suggestion that it has any particular truth in it.

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WE ARE GOD - WE SENT US HERE TO EARTH TO PROGRESS & LEARN IN MORTALITY IN ORDER TO ATTAIN POWERS BEYOND GODHOOD -possible ? Not the slightest evidence for it. Wishful thinking.

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All the atheists convert back to theist -and YOU are the only atheist.. What would you do? What should i do? I cannot suddenly believe just because everybody else does. The God story strikes me as totally implausible. Atheism is not a choice. If the idea of God seems unlikely, you cannot suddenly command yourself to believe.

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Did your respect for John Huntsman increase or decrease after reading this quote? He is about the only Republican hopeful for whom I have any respect, and hence has no chance. I think he is just building up his name for a real run in 2016. He reckons Obama will win 2012, and he will be better known in2016

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Atheist: are you not doing the will of your Father? (the best liars confess to nothing & deny everything) What father? Who is alleged to be lying?

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RAPE is legal in Africa and L.A. but do you think the UK will ever legalise it ? Could you present evidence for this? It may be tolerated, in the sense that there are so many rapes that the police never get round to investigating it, but I very much doubt it is legal.

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Can God change the value of pi? Rephrasing the question slightly to exclude God: could there a universe in which Pi had a different value? The multiverse hypothesis is becoming ever more popular with physicists. My guess, like yours, is no. Pi is a product of the structure of numbers, not of space. Though that is the way we discovered, the fact that pi describes the definition of a circle is actually a side effect. Pi is the...

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Was the distribution of all particles produced by the Big Bang theorized to not have been possible to have happened any other way? I don't think anybody suggests that the distribution of particles could not have happened any other way. The only things suggested are that certain facts, such as the ratio of hydrogen to helium in the universe, are exactly consistent with the Big Bang. On the contrary, the Cosmic Microwave Background is being examined in detail to see what it tells us about the early distribution. However,...

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Christians: Are you aware, Statue of liberty, the olympic torch run and columbia ent are all Honoring Satan? Rubbish. Just because two things share a likeness, they are not the same thing. One can hold up a light without in anyway paying attention to your mystical Lucifer. Could the not equally be honouring Jesus "I am the Light of the World", John 8:12? In fact, the light bearer is a common symbol across all cultures.

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Atheist: if there was no money in the world for you to Love & pursue than who would you love & serve? I find it extremely insulting that you assume that atheists are motivated solely by money. I am a Humanist, as are many atheist. A Humanist "loves and serves" humanity. This translates into the same injunction that Jesus gave: "Love they neighbour as thyself". We just do it of our own accord, rather than under orders from God.

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Is any country currently energy-independent? If not, which one is closest and which one farthest/furthest away? By design or circumstance? Most of the energy exporters would be energy-independent, I would have thought. Saudi, Russia, Norway, most of the Gulf States.

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Would you read bible if there was cash hidden between the pages? ..But for unknown reason the dough won't appear unless you study each page If it was enough money, of course. But I already have read much of the Bible, and I simply don't believe it. I dee no reason why reading it again, even if bribed to do so, would cause me to see it as anything more than an interesting folk document. (Or, as Stephen Pinker described it, a wiki).

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A Firefigting force member deliberately put on fire a forest here. He has been sentenced to 10 years on prison + 800.000E penalty. Oppinions? Sounds about right. Endangering life and property for personal gain - pretty bad.

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If your adult child had to move in with you but had a job, would you ask him/her to help pay rent? Yes, I do. Not necessarily a "commercial" rent, but they should contribute to the house now that they are adults. I have two sons at home with different incomes, and I ask different contributions from them.

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can u delete a question after u have already asked it on answerbag? You can't delete questions. the idea is that answered questions should build up as a resource on the Internet, indexed by Google.

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Since when have women been guys? I have seen references to "you guys" on all-female comment threads today. Why? Since at least 1972. I remember being surprised when an American friend uesd it to a group of women then.

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Is Israel a warring nation or a peaceful people? Politically, Israel is split down the middle. Roughly half are hawks, who think the only way to ensure their safety is to ensure that the can cruelly punish anyone that attacks them, and show a willingness to do so on even minor provocations. The other half would like to live at peace and would be willing to make significant concessions if they were certain to work. The dividing line between...

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Ron Paul was once found to be the most conservative of all 3,320 members of Congress from 1937 to 2002. Would you agree? Which shows how slippery labels like "conservative" are. He is certainly the most "small government" person around. But on personal and social matters, he is quite liberal. He thinks everybody should be able to do what they want, and government should neither help nor hinder them. Sometimes that comes out conservative, sometimes a bit liberal.

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Atheists & theists- what brings you to answerbag? I don't come as an atheist, I come as someone who likes answering questions - and happens to be an atheist. If I see a question I think I can answer helpfully, I do so.

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They're selling the Six million Dollar Man for $39.95 + tax almost 30 years later. Did he depreciate, Or Is it just the economy? The inverse of Moore's law. Computers double in performance every two years, so prices for old models halve. That is just about right: fully thirty years later, he would have devalued by 1 billion fold. So nearly thirty years, $39.95 is about right.

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Atheist, do you realize you are living this brief moment on this earth to deny the only offer to eternal life? I simply don't believe you. You have only the Bible to support your case, and i regard the Bible as an unreliable folk document.

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Are australian aboriginals negroes by race? Or are they a race of their own? Why do they say only three main races-mongoloid, caucasoid and negroid exist? nly serious answers please How many races there are depends entirely on a relatively subjective human evaluation of what constitutes a race. But if any group should be regarded as a separate race, it is the Australian Aboriginals. However, I am not sure where I would draw the line between "caucusoid" and "mongoloid" as I walk from France to China via, say, India. Many people would say that either you cannot split the...

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Romney calls Gingrich a career politician. Gingrich hits back. What else is Gingrich if not a career politician? Is that so bad? The idea is that a politician should have done something in the "real world" before becoming a politician. Then, supposedly, they will know more about how people actually live. While I agree that it is good for a politician to have had a bit of a career outside politics, I don't see it as essential.

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A monster that is in your closet is frightening you every night, what would you use to kill the monster? A blanket over its head. It is well known that pulling a blanket over your head makes the monsters go away. So pulling a blanket over the monster's head should really dispose of it.

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BP is suing Halliburton for allegedly destroying evidence that would prove Halliburton's guilt in the Gulf oil spill. Who's lying here? God knows. I wouldn't trust either of them as far as I could throw an oil rig, but it would be a bigger oil rig for Halliburton.

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Can women also be sent to prison for domestic abuse or is the law only for men? They can. But women are much less likely to be violent in any situation, and are usually smaller and weaker than their spouses, so violence rarely happens.

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If your child swears you hit them to discipline. If your wife/husband swears you hit them to discipline. What's the difference? Both are wrong. The children are less able to defend themselves, so hitting them is even more wrong.

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Trump on Ron Paul: "Many of his views and presentation make him a clown-like candidate" Is Trump serious? Isn't Trump clown-like? I agree that Trump makes himself look foolish. Paul and Huntsman, who are boycotting him, are the only GOP candidates for whom I have the slightest respect. I like Paul, and I think he is honest and sincere. I disagree with him on a lot of matters - but at least I feel that I am disagreeing with a man of principle, not a squirming polymorph.

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Fox news calls The Muppets commies Are they? Do the muppets have a leftist agenda? Anybody still taking Fox News seriously is already a lost cause to reasonable discussion.

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Who had the FIRST EVER automobile accident? And what caused it? Google is no help at all with this question. Thanks! Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Joseph_Cugnot in 1771.

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Read that if Cain hangs in til January he'll receive matching funds. From government? Matching what? The contributions received so far? Yes. If you agree to keep your total spending below some huge figure (something like $200million), the government will match your direct contributions so you only have to raise half that. But you can choose to forego the matching, and then there is no limit to how much you can spend, if you can raise it. As Obama can and did. The idea was to provide some kind of natural cap to campaign...

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Religious, The rigveda is twice as old as the bible or quran. Why don't you believe and follow that instead? Is antiquity the sole virtue in scriptures?

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Do people attack when they are afraid? Doesn't that increase the degree of fear rather than reduce it? Fight-or-fly seems to be a very basic response, going back to before mammals separated from other vertebrates. If a situation becomes too complex to handle, pick one of those two options and do it as hard as you can. It resolves the situation. Or, at least, for wild animals it resolves the situation. In our complex world it can just make the situation worse. But our primitive reflexes were not...

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Will you name your baby BigBang to emphasize a THEORY you believe in? As a general principle, I would not use a baby as a billboard for my beliefs. While no name is totally without overtones, I would always give my babies a name that sounded like an ordinary name.

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You know how some of the really bad criminals(eg serial killers)are "made" by the crap thats happened to them? Can they be "unmade",too? To some extent. But almost certainly not totally, because experiences laid down in early life are built in to the structure of how our brains work. The human brain is more plastic than most other species, but even so, patterns formed in youth get hardened by age.

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If your internet social site life is better than your real life social life does that mean you prefer fantasy to reality? Why? No. It means that I am very shy, generally not good at getting to know people in real life. It is inability, not unwillingness, to "get a life".

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If christians have churches, where do all the atheists hang out? They don't. Atheists have no reason to hang out together, so they tend not to.

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You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance? If they did, the plane would be so heavy that it could only carry a few passengers, and tickets would be twenty times the price. And the gizmos inside the black box are much less fragile than people.

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How did a few companies come to monopolize the internet and mobile markets (when these were supposed to be bastions of freedom)? I somewhat contest your argument. While there are indeed big companies around, there are still plenty of small ones. Of course, all you see is the big ones, because they are bound to sell something you want. You don't see all the small specialist shops selling stuff that does not interest you. Insofar as it is true: economies of scale, and name recognition. Amazon can get bulk purchasing and...

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If all drugs were deregulated and legalized, how long do you think it would take people with addictive personalities to wipe themselves out? For ever. Alcoholics and smokers have not wiped themselves out - why should other addicts? Of course, the most extreme cases might kill themselves quickly. But addiction is not the death sentence that inveterate anti-drug campaigners believe it to be. It has been estimated that a third of Victorian doctors were heroin addicts - they had free access to indefinite supplies. But they could fit it...

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Do you take things literally? What does "suspend" mean to you? Temporary stoppage or just ending completely? Is it code for "I give up"? Suspend literally means hang up, as with a rope or from a hook. The metaphor is of something being take out of use and returned to its place of storage. That return could be temporary or permanent. Which makes it mean "I give up, until I change my mind".

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Why is "The Satanic Verses" hated by Muslims? It contains a section in which one of the characters is the Prophet Mohammed, portrayed in a way which they find insulting to their most venerated founder.

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What causes girly men? People arbitrarily deciding that certain things that they themselves do not do are "girly".

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It's been said people who torture & kill small animals may become a serial killers; should animal abuse laws be stricter? That is treating the symptoms, not the disease. People who have that malformation in their brains need psychiatric treatment, not imprisonment or whatever. Treating them with the harshness of the law is more likely to make them worse, not better. They have probably been hurt badly in their past, and will see the law as hurting them more, which they will want to pass on. Part of serial killing...

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The claim that rainbows never existed before the flood: science or fairytale? The flood: fairytale.

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Men:do any of you have gfs/wives who are older than you? If so, by how much? My wife is 3.5 years older than me.

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Can't stop thinking about future. Don't want to be a bum and don't want to go to college. What should I do? Get a job. There are plenty of jobs that don't need a college education, though they tend to be the less well paid ones.

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Atheist: (Science is the work of the flesh) therefore how can we use the works of the flesh to deny the works of the spirit? Define spirit, and how you could identify its works. The very concept of spirit is a religious concept: an atheist would say that all works are works of the flesh, and insofar as there exists something you see as spirit, it is a manifestation of the workings of the flesh. You are using words whose meaning is particular to you and those who share your beliefs. This makes your question...

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Other than for the money, why would anyone stay with a betrayer? Love is gone. Only money remains. Would that be enough for you? Doesn't family count for anything? Maybe a home and lifestyle you have spent a decade creating? You may not think so, but some people can remain friends when love and/or sex have departed. Companionship doesn't demand screwing. Or is sex the only thing that matters in this life?

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Christians: Why do you worship on the same day (Sun-day) as the pagans? (are you not aware they worship the sun) Every day of the week is named after a God - in English. Would you rather people worshipped on Wotan's day, Thor's day, Freya's day and so on? That is, assuming Jesus spoke English, as you obviously believe.

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Do you think at this point Al Qaeda regrets f'ing with America? On the contrary. Al Quaeda has won. They have converted America from a free country into a police state where the government is taxing the people to pay to keep them under surveillance. I think history will show that 9/11/01 was the date when America's start stopped rising and its fall began. The hurt to America was not the destruction of the WTC, it was the destruction of America's...

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Why am I considered a supporter of abuse if I feel a spouse CAN be justified in hitting some cases? You believe in what I consider a basic fallacy: that violence solves problems. You assert that your use of violence in the situations you describe will solve problems. I suggest that this is simply false - or so often false that it is stupid to think of it. Slapping a hysterical woman to calm her down only works in the movies. "The rod" has been shown to create repressed violence, not...

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Is it true that only infinity can create infinity? If so how could the universe be infinite? It is not true. Something finite can create something infinite. We have no idea whether the universe is finite or infinite. It is bigger than we can see, but we have no idea how much bigger.

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"atheist"(non-believer)is a term which needs not to exist?No one ever says they are a "non-psychologist,a non-catholic,a non-artist." There is still a widespread belief, true or not, that the majority of the population are believers of some sort. People think that having a faith is a human norm. To the extent that many who don't care one way or the other tend to give a religion when asked because it seems more respectable. Therefore there is a need for a word to describe a member of a minority community. It is the norm not to...

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When was a Christmas tree EVER called a "holiday tree"? Do Jews have one? islam? Buddhists? Or is it just anti-Christian liberals? The Christmas Tree is actually a Pagan, rather than Christian, symbol. It was brought from Germany to Britain by Prince Albert, and subsequently spread through the English--speaking world. But it has no association with Christian theology: it rather represents a Pagan view of life persisting through the dead of winter.

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Obama Motors Volt: Taxpayers pay for its development, subsidize its purchase, and now buy it back. Tax dollars at "work"? And if it is profitable, get the profits it returns like other stockholders.

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Should they abolish immigration, or at least pare it down to ONE family per continent/ethnicity granted citizenship per year? It has been proved that immigration is a net benefit to the receiving country. And, surprisingly enough, to the sending country. Rich countries need immigrants to do the poorly paid, uncomfortable work. If they don't, better educated natives are wasted on simple but necessary jobs. Countries which raise massive walls against immigrants suffer in the long term. America's greatest days followed...

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What is your preferred mode of travel? A chauffeur driven limousine, executive jet, or yacht with scantily dressed young women offering me fabulous delicacies.

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Should anyone caught hyphenating their citizenship, even in casual conversation, lose their US citizenship? And if their old country won't No. I vehemently disagree. People can have many roles. What you are saying is like demanding that someone who claims to be a parent to their children cannot at the same time be a spouse to their husband/wife, an employee of their employer, a friend to their buddies. It is perfectly possible to be a member of two communities - or many more. Until the two communities are at war, there are few...

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Atheist: isn't it awkward to be taking a strong stand against a belief many of you believe are calling pure mythology? You don't understand the difference between the symbol and the thing it symbolises. America is not red, white and blue, the American flag is. The flag is only the symbol of the country.not the country. Santa is only a symbol of Christmas, and not the only one. The nativity is another. But Christmas is only one of the names of the midwinter festival - it is also Yule and Saturnalia. We are...

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Were you aware foreigner was becoming a politically incorrect term? What are we meant to name people not from our country now? Are you sure it is always a politically incorrect term? Or only incorrect when referring to a (legal) immigrant? That is, someone who was once a foreigner (lived in another country) but now lives in this country and is therefore no longer foreign. Foreigners are people who live today in other countries, not people who once lived in other countries.

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Are you excited that NBA is gonna play on Christmas day? It is difficult to think of anything that would interest me less. But then I don't live in the US, don't follow sport, and don't watch TV.

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Do you live by the adage: to err on the side of caution? Could believing in God, come under this adage? Why, or why not? Erring on the side of caution would lead to atheism. Simply because there are so many Gods. If you concede the possibility of God, then if you believe in God A, you will be offending God B, and vice versa. If you are a believer in the wrong God, and proof of the right God appears, you will have some baggage from your old God to discard: beliefs and habits inappropriate to what is now revealed...

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How to cut down the 'anchor baby' problem ? Change the law. A new-born baby has no sense of the country they are in, so making them a citizen just because they were born there is ridiculous. It was a rule of thumb that worked in the days before air travel. Change is so that a child below the age of five has the same rights as their caring parent(s). When they reach five, they acquire citizenship if they have spent more than half their...

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I've discovered the TV show "Jeeves & Wooster", and love it. Can you suggest similar comedy shows I might like? You might like "The Good Life", though it is a bit dated. Or, closer to J&W, "To the Manor Born". If you like British humour, but very different, try "Porridge".

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Do you think some people are more evolved than others? Also: Next step in human evolution? "More evolved" is not a meaningful phrase. Evolution has no direction, no more or less. Differently evolved - well, cautiously, yes. People have different traits, and some have been selected by evolution. But the human race is busy mixing its genes most of the time, so I don't expect any splitting into different species.

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Atheist: Was is not the bible who stated the universe is expanding? I don'r read "expanding" into that, I just read "widespread". It is actually quite a nice description of how the stars appear on a desert night. Of course, with a lot of creative interpretation, you could stretch it to that meaning. But that is post-facto justification,

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Atheist: Was is not the bible who stated the universe is expanding? I don'r read "expanding" into that, I just read "widespread". It is actually quite a nice description of how the stars appear on a desert night. Of course, with a lot of creative interpretation, you could stretch it to that meaning. But that is post-facto justification,

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What will you do, when the price of coffee, doubles or tripples? News says it is going to, have you heard? The market price of coffee beans, or the inflated price i am already paying for coffee delivered to me? My guess is that it is only the former. I don't expect the price I pay at the checkout to rise by more than 50%, and the price I pay at the coffee shop to rise by more than 10%.

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When will we end medicare and medicaid? You caused yourself to get sick, so you should have to pay for it, not me. I suggest you join the Christian Scientists, who believe this. Otherwise, I suggest you get your head out of a box and move back into the real world. Unless you can explain why no determined individual has yet achieved immortality.

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Why there isnt any movie on evolution theory? It is difficult to make a movie about a theory. What movies are there about the Theory of Gravity, Quantum Theory, Electromagenetic Theory? There are several movies and TV series about the life and journeys of Charles Darwin, his discoveries etc. But they are about the man rather than the theory - though they dramatize they making of the discovery.

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Atheist, If the bible is false, Because it was written by men shouldn't the same be considered for Science & History books? Any single book of Science or History could be false. Indeed, there have been inaccuracies in earlier science, and I am sure that time will reveal inaccuracies in our current books. But scientific knowledge is based on literally hundreds of millions of people over hundreds of years, where anything surprising is cross checked by repeating observations and experiments that seem surprising (and,...

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Is a poor person just a rich person that didn't give themselves the motivation to become successful? No. There are plenty of people who are highly motivated but incompetent or unlucky. Motivation is very useful in getting rich, but neither sufficient nor necessary.

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How do you feel about WiFi? a new report says that WiFi changes a mans ability for reproduction and even changes his DNA. Scary? or Bunk? Wifi damages sperm in a dish on top of the transmitter. When you say "even changes his DNA", that is tautologous: the way it causes damage is by smashing the DMA, almost certainly making it non-functional. To put it in proportion, it trebles the amount of damage that would occur without the WiFi. Obviously, any damage is bad. But this is not a huge amount of extra damage, it is a moderate...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: maniacal despot or liberator of Europe? Do you have an opinion on the man and the myth? Neither. He certainly was not a liberator, but nor was he a maniac. He is someone who came to power at the top of a liberation movement, and therefore continued to use the rhetoric of liberation even when it had become conquest. And he needed the conquest not because he was a maniac but because the profits and glory of conquest were central to keeping him stable on his throne. If he had settled...

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Why are there charities? Isn't everyone responsible for their own lives? Aren't most people just cheating charities and welfare? You mean that blind people became blind in order to get charity? That famines in Africa are organised as a big scam to get western aid, and they starve their children to get us to give them food? That cancer was invented by cancer researchers to get us to fund their research? That earthquakes and tidal waves are a scam to get charitable help? That veterans got themselves maimed to get help from...

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At what age should i teach my child sex education? In stages, several times over. Starting at about five, or even younger if they ask questions, with the simplest facts, then adding detail up to about 12 for normal sex and up to about 15 for all the variations that people may indulge in.

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If the sign says 55, but they won't stop you unless you're going 70, what is the speed limit? Is it what the sign says, or the cop? The limit is what it says - 55. In theory, a limit of 55.001 is exceeding the limit. But in order to fine or prosecute, they need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you were exceeding the limit. So they add some safety margin: in the UK there is a convention of allowing 10% + 2mph, which means they would not prosecute below 60. Secondly, the police realise that drivers are not perfect...

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Atheist, do you not realize the ways of your heart were written down long before you were born? Well, according to a rather well publicized book of folk-tales which I regard as no more than an interesting philosophical document. When will believers realise that quoting the Bible to atheists is pointless? If there is no God, neither the Bible nor any other book can contain the word of God. So quoting books at us is useless.

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Content was king. Has the internet overthrown the king and put a jester in his place? No, it has just vastly increased the quantity of both. We have more knowledge available to us then ever before, and more silliness. It is up to us which we choose to select.

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If all the airlines go bankrupt! Will the tea party condone government intervention to bail out big business? Most of them fly! If all the airlines went bankrupt, new airlines would buy up the planes and facilities, define new wage and staffing levels, new prices at which flying would be profitable, and it would all start up again. There would, in the worst case, be a month or two of disruption and then a new and healthier airline industry would spring up. The problem is that a number of large, old airlines have wage...

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"Making the same mistake repeatedly, while expecting different results" Reminds you of what? The criminal justice system with extreme sickos. Being very nasty didn't work, so let's be extremely nasty.

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A Canteen of cutlery, a Canteen of water, a place for the workers to eat is also called a Canteen, why the same name? As far as I can see, the meanings of a bottle and a cafeteria are of completely different derivation, just happening to end up the same. The bottle is said to be from the sound (?), the cafeterias from cantina, a small cave, whence a bar, whence an eating place. I think a canteen of cutlery was packed up so that it resembled the bottle for easy carriage.

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Which do you prefer a socialist or capitalist economy? Please explain The two are not incompatible. You are confusing socialism with communism. A socialist society needs capitalism to generate the wealth it redistributes. Economies such as Sweden and France are both Socialist and Capitalist.

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If you delete a letter (e.g., "a") you've typed then do Ctrl-Z, how can you be sure that you're getting that same "a" back? You open a big can of worms: what makes two things "the same"? How can you be sure that the person you said goodbye to this morning is the same person who you meet again this evening? After all, they have changed. They have ingested, they have excreted. Shin and hair has been shed, and grown. They have had new experiences. And yet, they are similar enough that we consider them the same person....

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Who benefits most from redistricting? The politicians or the people? How? Depends entirely how it is done. It can be done to the benefit of politicians - and often is in the US, where redistricting is usually done by partial political committees. Where is it done by impartial non-political organisations with strict and visible criteria and a right of public appeal if those criteria are breached, it can work for the people.

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Target is selling Christmas trees. Do these big box stores have to put everyone out of business? Do they have to cut costs for all shoppers? Why can't we leave some overpriced markets to be a hidden tax on consumers to keep old-fashioned shops in business. Wasn't it better when big shops didn't exist and your local store had a monopoly and could charge whatever they wanted? If someone is providing the same goods cheaper, that represents a saving for the customer. Any artificial barriers...

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What health problem(s) run in your family? In my father's family the men die of heart attacks in the late 70s or very early 80s. In my mothers family, Alzheimer's comes on in the early 80s.

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Would there be any negative impact to the economy if one million Americans each invested in the stock market and made $50, 000 profit? It depends how they made that profit. If it was a bubble, stock prices rising for no reason other than that everybody was buying, it would be inflationary. If it was because they invested in companies that earned profits by providing goods and services, it would be a good thing, and their spending the money they gained would speed up the economy and create new jobs and new businesses.

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Do you think the euro will collapse? More likely than not at the moment.

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If one twin travelled supersonic and the other remained stationary would the travelling twin be younger than the other when he stopped? Yes, by a very tiny amount. The theory has been tested experimentally by sending highly accurate clocks around the world on ordinary commercial flights. Not supersonic, but quite fast. And the time measured by the clocks agreed with theory. In fact, the theory is tested every day by Satellite Navigation systems. If they did not correct for both the effects of the satellite's speed and its...

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If technology advances are incomprehensible to the average person, and/or not marketable, then what tech do we really have? Plenty. You don't have to know how a nuclear power station works, you only have to know that when you flick a switch a light comes on. Of course, if it is not marketable, then it is not delivering value to the user: technologists need to take it away and either reorganize it so that it does deliver value, or drop it if there is no way of making it usable, rather than just working. But the...

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If anti-abortion rights activists are not full of hate and violence, why do they call Planned Parenthood criminal? It is perfectly legitimate for them to call it a crime, because they believe that. What is not legitimate is to tale law enforcement into their own hands. They are allowed, in a free country, to call for the law to be changed to reflect what they believe - and those who think otherwise are allowed to campaign against such a law. If such a law were passed, the police would close down abortion...

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Is prostitution really legal anywhere in the U.S.? It is legal only in a few counties of Nevada.

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(We know a dead man by his work) Why can't we do the same for an invisible creator? I see no such proof. If there is such a creator (a) they are damned incompetent, and (b) they designed their creation with all the evidence for evolutionary evidence. Life as we see it is a huge pile of lash-ups which are "just good enough".

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Are our mindsets/consciousnesses/souls/moral values the result of whatever is evolutionarily advantageous? Yes - but as often with successful evolutionary developments, they have consequences far from their original causes. Feathers were probably initially developed for insulation, maybe with advantages in colouration, either in camouflage or display. But they turned out to be useful for flight, and led to the vast proliferation of birds. Mammals developed the ability to sweat for thermoregulation,...

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WHY DO YOUR MALE FRIENDS TRY TO BE CHARMING AFTER YOU DIVORCE YOUR HUSBAND? Thy no longer have to worry about your husband getting jealous. Maybe, as others have said, they are after you. But a man generally feels free with a single woman than a married one even if he isn't immediately after sex.

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Moving forward in time doesn't mean you are making progress or things are getting better. It does mean you're still here. Is that enough? It's better than the alternative.

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WHy are parents so bent up on having their kids move out once they have jobs & finished school & are grown? Both my sons, 23 & 26, are still living at home, with girlfriends. I don't recognise what you say.

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Are many non whites wrong to say they do NOT want to adopt white people's values? I don't. I think there are millions of white people in Europe who would vehemently disagree with your description of "white people". I would guess you mean "White middle class Americans". I may be wrong, but you seem ignorant of the would outside your little bubble. One of the problems with Aids in Africa is that in many cultures black men feel free to be very promiscuous, particularly when away from...

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Why does it seem like the poorest among us have the largest number of children? It seems to be a human instinct. If life is uncertain, reproduce as fast as you can why you have the chance - maybe some will survive. If life is certain, take your time and have few, well-resourced children. Wealth drives people to small, pampered families; poverty to large, starving families. The countries with the highest birth rates on earth are Afghanistan, Congo, and Somalia - the...

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we have cancer and hiv awareness. What about SIN AWARENESS? Please give a definition of "sin" which does not depend upon religious teaching. As far as I am concerned, "sin" is a word belonging to a faith I do not share. What you are proposing is state-imposed religion.

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Would you buy a $41,000 Obama Motors Volt, knowing it can catch fire if the batteries get dinged? Whereas, of course, a car filled with gasoline, that well known fire retarder, cannot possibly catch fire.

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Understanding Atheism: Is one allowed to commit suicide, under this religion? Why? or why not? Atheism is not a religion. It has no rules. There is no scripture. In a way, every different atheist is a "religion" to themselves: each atheist has to make up their own rules for life, because there is no God or prophet to do it for them.

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atheist if life was an equation atheist do you choose to believe x is 0 and is neither the beginning or a solution? I don't understand this question at all.

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Is it good idea to be a Buddhist, as they are reborn and so do not clog up heaven, like Christians and others ? You cannot mix the beliefs of two faiths. "Heaven" is a Christian concept, "Reincarnation" a Buddhist one. "Heaven" is simply meaningless in Buddhist terms, and reincarnation would contradict Gods plans in Christian terms.

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What do you guys think about the mayan calender ending next year? About as much as I think about the Western calender ending at the end of 1999. The calendar doesn't end: the Great Cycle ends - and a new Great Cycle starts. It is the Mayan equivalent of the end of a Millennium. Note that no Mayan thought it was more than a sort of giant birthday: the idea that it marked the end of the world was an invention of 1960s New Age hippy types. Peace and Love, man!

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If money isn't an accrate measure of a person's worth, then why are some professions paid more than others? NO. Their /labour/ may be worth more, but it says nothing about what they as a person are worth. You are making what I consider to be a too common mistake, of confusing someone's income with their worth. Apart from anything else, that implies that women who stay at home and raise their families comfortably are worthless which is, if you will excuse my presumption, rubbish.

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Should Pamela Anderson play the part of the BVM? every orifice on her body has been violated! While having no respect for Pamela Anderson per se, I do not feel that an actor's private life has anything to do with the parts they should be allowed perform. You do not have to be a serial killer to act a serial killer, you do not have to be a virgin to act a virgin.

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Are you For or Against Scottish Independence and why?. I would be against it, while entirely respecting the right of Scotland to have independence if it wants it. I think the world is too fragmented already, and adding another micro-state (which is what Scotland would be) just adds to costs and complexity. More different laws for companies to comply with, more representatives jetting all over the world to international conferences, more paperwork...

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I LOVE the piano. Loads of people play including some famous blind people, some autistic, etc. Why can't everybody play? Why can't I? You are not prepared to put the work into it. One thing common to playing any instrument well is practice. Even those who are already brilliant have to practice every day. For those who are not good, the opnly way to become good is to practice.

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Do you think the first human/s -in the theory of evolution- eventually came to believe a higher power created all of what is natural.... I think the tendency to believe in a "higher power" comes from the way our brains work, and our brains were developed by evolution. So, weakly, that tendency came about through evolution. But only because of the particular way our brains developed. It is increasingly apparent that the brain is a group of interacting, and sometimes contradictory, "modules", rather than a coherent whole. We have...

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Is caring about/for others instinctive or learned? Are there some people whose emotions cannot be reached/touched for some reason? Why? There are a few people who are genuinely born without the "emotion module" in the brain, and cannot be reached. They, however, are a tiny number. There are many others in whom the emotion module performs weakly. This may be because they are naturally weak in this area, or because their ability to feel and/or express emotions has been suppressed by early education (e.g the British "stiff upper...

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Why can computer programmers and IT people dress casually at work? Because they work only with computers and long-term colleagues. People make instant judgements based on how you look. If you meet lots of new people in our job, you have to make a good impression on first sight. There isn't time for people to form an accurate impression of you, so that the first impression given by your clothes matters. But if you work with the same people for a long time,...

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what with the unlimited millions being poured in to cancer research why is there no cure yet, just too much greed? Because cancer is not one disease, it is many which manifest in the same way. To expect a single cure for cancer is like expecting a single cure for road deaths. Keeping a cell on the straight and narrow between reproducing too fast, which is cancer, and reproducing too slow, which leads to various wasting diseases, is actually quite an achievement. Many different things can go wrong, all of...

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What do you think about a name for a girl - Diamond? To me, the primary quality associated with diamond is hardness. I wouldn't want my daughter to be thought hard.

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Is there something wrong with a social system where women get a free ticket for choosing to have a baby? We need children to keep the economy running when we are old. We need children brought up properly, so they can run the economy for us. It is a long term investment to ensure that children are brought up properly. Whenever you are giving money away, there will always be people who abuse the system and benefit unfairly. It is simply impossible to design a system that is 100% efficient. If you...

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If swimming is so good for your figure,how do you explain whales ? Whales swim with their feet, not their arms. It is swimming with the feet arms that foes good for the figure. Also, for totally different reasons, whales are covered by a layer of blubber. If you swam in Arctic waters 24/7, you would probably prefer a layer of blubber to a wonderful figure. On the other hand, manatees are believed to be the source of the legend of the mermaid. Which shows...

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Does it make you mad when someone uses foodstamps for groceries and leaves in a brand new suv? It might, if it happened. It would make me even more mad if they climbed into a brand-new executive jet and flew off. But neither is likely to happen.

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I thought Rush Limbaugh was the current Leader of the GOP but everyone tells me "no he isn't". Okay. Who is? One of the (many) problems of the US political system is the lack of a party leader. Just as the US is a federal state, the Dem and Rep parties are federal parties, with no overall leader. National parties, state parties, Senators and Representatives and, for one party, the President, are separate power groups with their own leaders. Many of these people battle constantly to be the first...

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Why should divorce be legal if polygamy isn't? Why should same-sex marriage be legal if polygamy isn't? There is something special about a one-to-one relationship, saying that this one person is your particular special other and that you are theirs. In a polygamous relationship that is not so: for a person with multiple spouses there are two special others, and the polygamist will have to balance between them. Neither can be that one special one to the polygamist even if s/he is to the spouses....

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Should presidential candidates who are in favour of water boarding be water boarded themselves to find out what it's like? I like the idea, but it will never happen. Precisely because waterboarding is torture.

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Do hawks hunt at night? Generally, birds that hunt at night have become owls. While I am not saying that hawks never hunt at night, they are optimised for day hunting and leave the night hunting to owls.

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Why is the bible so ambiguous? Why do you believe the people who tell you that you are going to Hell? What evidence have they. The Bible is not a single document, It is a number of different books, written by different people at different times for different reasons. Everybody agrees this. However, a minority of Christians - and it is a minority - insist that all these separate writers were individually inspired by God to...

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What would happen if one particle accelerator sent neutrinos to another, and the receiving one sent neutrinos back once received, and so on? There is not the slightest evidence that neutrinos are going into the past. They still take positive time to go from CERN to Gran Sasso. They just appear to take less time than light. Nobody, but nobody, is suggesting that they go into the past. Secondly, detectors do not catch neutrinos. The detect neutrinos being absorbed and destroyed, so they cannot be passed on. And they detect only one...

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Can somebody really use the Volcan Neck Pinch on somebody successfully You do know that Star Trek is fiction, don't you?

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If abortion is okay, how would you feel about your parents considering aborting you?? If they had done so early enough, it would be exactly the same as if my parents had used contraception that night, or my mother had a headache and told my father to keep off, or the fertilized ovum had failed to implant, as happens 50% of the time, or as if my parents had never met. I, like everyone else, am the end result of billions of chance happenings. If any one of them were different I,...

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The US Constitution is the final authority when it comes to right/wrong. Just like the Bible. Both infallible? How about the interpreters? But the Constitution can be amended, whereas the Bible cannot. I am sure the Founding Fathers didn't think the Constitution infallible. Indeed, they introduced a raft of amendments after only a few years. It is, or should be, only "the best solution so far", not a sacred document. That said, if you have a rule book, you should obey the rules in the book. If you don't like the rules, change...

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Santorum: TSA profile Muslims they're probably terrorists. Paul: What if the terrorist look like McVeigh What does a terrorist look like? Which is a measure of how much he misunderstands statistics and the cost of false positives. Focussing on Muslims, who are few in or entering the US, means not focussing on non-Muslims, who are many, many more. Even if an individual Muslim is more likely to be a terrorist, the total threat from non-Muslims equals that from Muslims. Concentrating on Muslims is like a drunk searching for his...

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Do you smoke? I do. On another site, this person got on me for smoking cigs and told me it would be better to smoke weed! Say what?! lol I think that is correct. Smoking anything is very bad for you: smouldering is a chemical factory which generated a huge number of highly reactive chemicals which you then release into one of the least protected areas things can get to without penetrating the skin. However, if we disregard this and look only at the active ingredients, THC is probably less bad for you than nicotine. If tobacco...

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Superlatives. We're entirely too enamoured with them. They are lies. The Super committee wasn't and the Supreme court isn't. Why lie? Use of language. The adjectives you criticize have been corrupted by sloppy usage. To a purist, the phrases are accurate. The Supreme Court is supreme in that there is no court above it. Supreme does not mean good, though many advertisers abuse it that way, it means highest, with no other above it. Which is true. It may be incompetent, but it is still supreme. The Super Committee was...

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Would it be in the best intrest of the US if they both cut spending and raised taxes? So a majority of economists believe. The question is, what is the ratio of the two? Most economists I have hears suggests cutting spending more than taxes are raised. Also, taxes are best raised by cutting loopholes and spending cut by reducing subsidies than by increasing baseline taxes of cutting public services.

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What can I not hold a tan??!!!! I am about 5% Native American so I should be able to tan but instead I sunburn quickly even with sunscreen There are only about 9 genes that determine skin colour. Native Americans are not totally black, so they do cannot have the darkest versions of all of them. If you are only 1/20 Native America, it would hardly be surprising if you have inherited light versions of all 9 genes, and are therefore, in skin terms, completely "white".

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I recently seen an instrument. It was set up like a piano but had strings instead of keys and played like a guitar. What's it called? I don't know about "played like a guitar", but an instrument like a piano with plucked strings is a harpsichord.

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If Super-commitee fails, Replicans want to stop auto cuts to military and find deeper cuts to medicare and social security. Your thoughts ? The whole point of the auto-cuts was to make failure of the committee painful to both sides, so that both sides had a committee to work. What this proposal is to renege on a deal made. The bargain was, we get an agreement or we pay a penalty clause. This proposal says that if the agreement fails, one side pays its penalty clause but the other doesn't. It strikes me as deeply dishonourable.

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When is Gmail forcing its new look on everyone who uses it? It is expensive to maintain two different high-complexity pages for many operating systems and browsers. They have decided to allow some changeover time while the new look is debugged, but eventually they want to drop the old. Most sites don't offer you any choice: when they update their page, you get the new one whether you want it or not. Be grateful to GMail for giving you some choice - it...

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Why are the genitals?? I only got one. How many you got? It is short for "genital organs". In males, this would include penis, testicles, scrotum, vas deferens etc. In male, it would include ovaries, womb, cervix, vagina, labia, clitoris etc. In both cases, there are a number of genital organs.

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What is 'Black Friday Deals'? I have heard it referenced on this website and how have an email refering to it. What is it's origin? Others have already explained it. It is a US only phenomenon, so if you are in Scotland it is irrelevant to you.

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Are we being brainwashed to believe there is no God? From the beginning there was always belief in a higher power, but for some years... Since earliest days, we have made gods out of things we didn't understand. Thunder gods, rain gods, gods of pestilence, gods of luck. As we learned more, we realized that these were not gods but natural phenomena we could explain. We have now disproves 99% of these gods: is it not reasonable to assume, absent evidence to the contrary, that the remaining 1% are also made up? To put it another...

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What would an oil rich, developing nation want with nuclear weapons? To threaten retaliation against another nuclear armed nation.

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Forget religions for now and believe there is a GOD...what do you think GOD would be like ? ( name some qualities ) You cannot forget religions: to believe in God, any God, is to have a religion. Looking at the world, if there is a God 9which I doubt) it is at best uncaring and at worst deliberately cruel.

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People who believe in evolution, why are there no half-human/half-apes around? Did evolution just stop all of a sudden? Why do you think we are the finished product? We are still evolving, so we are teh half-ape, half-what-humans-will-one-day-become. More generally, species tend to out-compete those very like them and drive them extinct. There used to be a number of hominid species, but most of them became extinct, possibly because we out-competed them. In order for two species to survive, they have to have...

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If evolution is true wouldnt that mean that everything should be trying to become human since our brains allow us to live in all climates? There no "trying" about evolution - it wanders blindly. But disregarding that, the "human" slot is already taken by us. Anybody that tries to do exactly what we do will lose out, because we got there first and are better at being us. Any species will move into niches /not/ already occupied by a successful species. And the tendency - not universal - for evolution is to move into more...

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With the newly discovered faster than light speed, is there a theoretical minimum distance to travel a minimum amount of time into the past? There is no reason to believe that whatever has been discovered involves travelling "into the past". The neutrinos still take a positive amount of time to travel from Cern to Italy. It /appears/ that time is very slightly less than the time light would take to do the same trip. If this is not an experimental error (which it probably is), there is no theory to explain what is happening. You...

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If OWS'ers are the 99% does that mean that 99% forsake basic proved-effective practices of sanitation, hygiene, and health? If More2Be is human, does that mean that humans ask irritating questions on Answerbag. Basic logical fallacy - because one A is B, it does not prove that all A are B.

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When was the most recent time you rode a train, not an around town train but a real long distance train? How far is long distance? I commute each week from one town to another, through a major city: 3 hours travel, about 120 miles straight line distance but longer by the L shaped route I travel. Longer than that would be about five years ago - half the length of England.

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Do politicians purposely use fuzzy thinking or is that all they got? Any logical politicians you can name or are they all fuzzy? They purposefully use fuzzy speaking. To get elected, a politician has to appeal to many groups. Not all want the same thing. So he has to be able to promise each groups things they want without upsetting other groups who want things differently. This requires fuzzy speaking - words which make one groups hear what they want while other groups are not frightened off. This is an inherent problem...

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Is freedom to say something the same thing as license? Is Freedom of Speech the same as License of Speech? What's the difference if any? No. Freedom of speech does not allow hate speech, incitement to violence, or libellous speech. But it is incumbent upon others to prove that speech falls into the forbidden categories. The default is that you can say anything, and anybody who wishes to prevent you has to prove your words fall into a forbidden category. License of speech implies that you can only say what you are allowed to say...

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Are politicians just sophisticated "car salemen (fast talkers)?" After all, what they promise, never comes to fruition. It is not true that what they say never comes true. But we discount promises that do come true. If they promise to pass ten laws, and only pass nine, we forget the nine and excoriate them for the one they didn't pass. I order to differentiate themselves from their opponents, they have to make promises at the limit of what is possible. If one arty was reasonable and only promised what they were...

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What has Quantum physics main contribution to science since it's development? Electronics, probably. Lasers, nuclear energy.

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Are ANY religions TRUE..? What can be determined as truth in scriptures? Your question is circular. You cannot determine anything from scriptures unless you believe them. But in order to believe them, you must first have determined the truth. By common definition, religion means that which cannot be proved /unless/ you accept that some scripture, prophet, or similar has access to a truth that you do not. That which can be shown to be true is science. That which...

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I have a ZERO TOLERANCE for antisocial neighbours, under no circumstance will i allow loud music or parties - Is this wrong ? How loud is loud? How many people makes a party? I call it a party when I have four friends around for dinner, at which we will chat. We will play chamber music in the background, at a volume that allows us to chat over it. I bet you will tolerate that - and you will get little support from the law if you do not. And you have made no allowance for time: on mid-afternoon on a summer public...

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Is it true that all the littered plastic is swept by ocean currents and has formed a plastic island the size of Britain? Not all, but a heck of a lot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

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Is invoking the right of "free speech" ever used to protect saying something positive or only to protect something negative? Is that odd? When you are saying nice things, people rarely attack you. The only time you need to invoke your rights is when people try to stop you because you are saying negative things about them. You don't need a pump to get water to go downhill, only uphill. You don't need freedom of speech to say positive things, only negative things.

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Blogs...propaganda tools of the big bucks boys or real opinions of real people in real time? How do you know for sure? You don't. Read many sources, cross correlate. Nobody (including me) has the whole truth. But if you deliberately choose sources from different backgrounds you will have a closer approximation than those who depend on a small, highly interrelated, pool of sources.

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The Galaxy Nexus looks sexy and I am tempted to buy one when and if I can. Is there anything wrong with it? If so, what? The biggest negative on Android devices that I know is that they are very rarely updated, whereas Apple devices are always kept up to date. In today's aggressive internet environment, you need security fixes, and Android devices don't always get them.

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Is science absolute? No. Science is a method, not a fact. And the core of science is institutionalized doubt.

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Is there any Religion without God? No. To believe in God is religion. God without formalised religion, certainly. But to believe in God is to be religious.

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Who was the greatest mad scientist of all time in your opinion? What makes them the greatest and why do you think they're mad? Leonardo da Vinci. Painted great art, designed weird war machines, wrote in mirror writing, made inventions centuries before the could be built - and looks the part.

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Do you believe that the human soul is eternal? Agree - the soul never dies, and is never born. It does not exist.

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Floppy drive has write protection. Why no other devices have it? Some USB sticks have it as well. But people have stopped putting it on because users didn't want it.

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Are we to be grateful for gas prices "down" under $3.40 just because that's less than double the $1.79 of when Obama took office? Be grateful. Prices are going to rise further. Nothing to do with Obama. The easy oil is gone; the hard oil is more expensive. Simple supply and demand: demand is rising, supply falling.

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Those who live in countries with National Health of some kind - would you rather scrap it and make everyone pay on their own? Most definitely not. I see Americans spreading their symptoms across the Internet because they are so frightened of the cost of a visit to the doctor; for me, the cost of a visit is a one minute phone call. I see Americans impoverished and living a miserable old age because chronic illness has eaten up their savings and more; I have no such fear - if I am ill, I get treated essentially for...

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Since suicide is not a crime, is it a crime to talk someone into committing suicide? In Britain it definitely is.

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Can anyone provide a brief summary of the evolution theory? 1. Individuals vary. 2. That variation is inherited by their offspring, if any. 3. More are born than can live to reproduce. 4. The individuals which manage to reproduce will be the better adapted. Therefore beneficial variations will, over the generations, accumulate. Since these four rules are always true, this process is never-ending, and has taken single cells to the huge range of species...

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Should Congress pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP,all members of Congress cannot be re-elected? Congress is on performance related pay. They get a base salary, and if the country is in credit they get a bonus proportional to the surplus; if the country is in deficit, they get their salary docked in proportion to the shortfall.

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To become and remain one of Jehovah's Witnesses you must refrain from smoking and other immoral behavior, by Choice. How is that Cultish? It is not the smoking ban that is cultish. It is the attempt to cut members off from others, to keep them in by not allowing them to hear other arguments. Saying you must cut yourself off from people who are not members for whatever reason (either never, or ex) is cultish. Non-cultish religions allow people full knowledge of alternatives, so that their faith is not inhibited by ignorance....

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Is the perpendicularity of a line through the diameter of Earth from the north to south magnetic poles relative to the sun a coincidence? As Marky Mark has pointed out, the rotational axis of the earth is not perpendicular to the ecliptic (the Earth-Sun plane). And the magnetic poles are not aligned with the rotational poles. However, you would expect, in the absence of other effects, planetary spin axes to be roughly aligned with their rotational axes and therefore perpendicular to their plane of rotation, because they were...

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XXIII – Question: Do you think education leads to conservatism or liberalism, why? Education can be of a conservative or liberal bent: it can be used to reinforce either viewpoint. As a person of liberal tendencies, I would like to say that the wider (rather) than deeper the education, the more likely someone is to be liberal. But that may be my prejudices. What has been shown is that travel tends to make people more liberal.

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How fast are we traveling through time relative to a truly stationary object? There is no such thing as a "truly stationary object". There is no absolute rest frame for the universe - everything is at rest relative to itself, and moving relative to nearly everything else. You cannot make absolute statements about how fast time is passing: you can only say how fast different observer perceive time passing, for themselves and for others. The models which people use to...

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Do you believe that a virgin birth is impossible, regardless of the circumstances? Why or why not? As far as I know, no mammals are ever parthenogenetic, though some reptiles and fish are. However, I think it would be going too far to say that it is absolutely impossible. However, the child would have to be female - there is no way a parthenogenetic mother could generate an X chromosome.

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How do Hertz and Ohms really effect a headphones sound quality? Is it better to get one with more Hertz and Ohms? You need the right ohms to match your system: it will be designed for a particular impedance, and will not work as well with an impedance (measured in Ohms) that is either too low or too high. More is not better: you need the right one. Hertz is a measure of the range of notes that the headphones can produce. So generally a wider range is a good thing. But if you are older, your hearing will...

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God vs sin; Without sin, where is the choice? Define "sin". One always has choices. Some choices are better, some are worse. Just because one does not use the religiously-weighted word "sin" does not mean that one is unaware of consequences, and prepared to choose good rather than bad. The word "sin" implies being driven by a pre-built rule set 2000 years old rather than making decisions on the world as it is today.

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how possible to predict the number combinations in the future draws in Lottery? A lot of clever people have worked very hard to ensure that it is not so. Good mathematicians have said that they are unpredictable in the current state of mathematics.

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How come do men never show how much pain their in??? To show pain is to show weakness. In a primitive environment, the strong pick on the weak. predators pick off the weakest prey, bullies pick on the weakest person. Better to show a strong front, even ir you don't feel it.

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What did Feminism ever do to benefit me? 23yr old female. Can anyone think of anything positive Feminism brought me? The vote. The right to own property, and not have all your property become your husbands on marriage. The right to go to university. The right not to be beaten by your husband. The right to get any job you are capable of, and not be locked out from well-paid positions. The right to access your children after divorce (some countries).

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Believers tend to become upset when someone professes unbelief; but do atheists become so upset when someone professes their theism? Not until the beliefs of the theist impact on the atheist. Believe all you want, go to church as and how you want. But when you want to change the law or the education system because of your beliefs which I do not share, then I get upset.

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Newt Gingrich: Spanish is “the language of living in a ghetto” Agree/disagree? Or is this statement by Newt just plain offensive? An extraordinarily blinkered attitude. He judging Spanish just by the little bit he has heard in his tiny locality. He is not making any allowance for the millions of Spanish speakers across the world (and across the US) who are not in any ghetto.

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With Elena Kagan so obviously cheering Obamacare, shouldn't she recuse herself from its upcoming arguments before the Supreme Court? No. Judges are not meant to have no opinions. They should be able to put their opinions aside when they are acting as judges. They should have no personal interest in a case and should not have had such a significant interest in the past. But to expect a judge to come to the court with no interest in current affairs is to hope for people totally out of touch with the world they live in - not a...

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'Life is not MEANT to be Easy' True or false? Too long. "Life is not meant". Life happened - by accident, if you want to put it that way. It has no meaning, no design, no purpose. It is up to us to take it and make the best we can of it.

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Why is it so hard for people to accept Jesus into their hearts??? Jesus was a man who dies nearly 2000 years ago. What does it mean to "accept him into my heart"? That phrase only has meaning to those already convinced of Christian doctrine.

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Should they outlaw genetically modified foods, with their production and distribution punishable by death? No. There is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods - it is pure superstition that is frightened of them. Or, to put it another way, every farmed species of animal or vegetable is genetically modified by selective breeding. So every single one should be banned - and the world would starve to death in a few weeks.

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Is there an atheist's version of mea culpa? Why cannot an atheist say "mea culpa"? It just means "my fault" - it has no special religious meaning. Atheists can own up to mistakes as much as believers.

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How can I be certain that the universe isn't merely a figment of my imagination? You can't. But what could you do about it if you were alone? The world may be an illusion, but it is a convincing one. If the world causes you pain, you feel pain, even if it is imaginary. If the world gives you pleasure, you still feel that pleasure even ifi it is imaginary. Best to live in the world your perceptions tell you about, even if your perceptions are lying - you have no other source...

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Is it racist for professional sports teams to be named after animals, as if Bears and Lions were all ferocious beasts? No. Naming a team after something does not mean the team think they are that thing. The Baltimore Orioles don't think they can fly, the Green Bay Packers don't slaughter their opponents, the New York Jets don't strap themselves to aircraft.

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When i lived in Africa, i was well within my rights to kill someone if they robbed or tried to rob me but Now im in UK, i cant kill them? You are entitled to use only sufficient force to protect your life or the lives of others. If it is obvious they they are threatening only your property and not your life or health, you are not allowed to use extreme force. So if you find a burglar sneaking round, but they are not threatening you, you are definitely not allowed to kill them.

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With regard to her position on torture Bachmann says that Dick Cheney is on her side. This is a good thing because.....? ... it proves beyond any doubt that you don't want her. Dick Cheney is an infallible test for wrongness: if he supports it, you don't want it. Not that it is much of a surprise.

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Matthew Vadum thinks registering poor people to vote is un-American “like handing out burglary tools to criminals” Agree/disagree why? Which is totally to misunderstand the Constitution. The whole point is rich and poor are treated alike. The first immigrants were poor people trying to get the tools to run their own lives instead of being serfs to the rich. As were many subsequent immigrants, who9 went on to build the country,

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Did you know that espousal of atheistic views was rare in Europe during the Early Middle Ages and Middle Ages...... Which is not surprising. The human mind has two "explaining" modules, one for inanimate things (bricks, water etc) and one for animate things (people, predators, prey). Something you don't understand can be assigned to either module. Physical things are easy to assign to the first module - magic potions, rocks etc. But things with no apparent physical cause (disease, weather, luck) tend to be...

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Should the world be mostly socialist with allowance for capitalism if the individual wants more but strict adherence to either/or is cruel? I don't see socialism and capitalism as conflicting alternates. Capitalism is about how we run business, socialism about how we run society. The main interaction is at tax levels: capitalism allows people to make profits; how much of those profits should we expect them to contribute to the common good?

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Are the attacks on Romney increasing/decreasing or leveling off? Is he the only hope for the GOP or is there someone better? Who? Huntsman is by far the most reasonable of the GOP candidates - and has not chance precisely before that. Ron Paul is, unlike the others, sane and honest, but far, far over the right-hand horizon.

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If all the misinformation, hype and lies about the MORMON faith can be explained, vindicated and justified - would you believe ? I do not believe in the existence of any God. Before I can believe in any religion, including Mormonism, you have to convince me there is some sort of God who inspired the scriptures or prophets of that religion. Until you do, I will regard them as made-up.

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Some try to apply logic to belief in God. God is a product of faith not logic. It is illogical to do so. Why do they continue to try? One wonders why God requires that his believers take him on faith. An omnipotent deity could demonstrate his existence very easily. And yet, for some perverse reason, he chooses not to do so. Surely that alone makes God either unkind or incomprehensible?

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Agree or disagree - God sends suffering to those He loves so our sins/karmas can be cleansed more quickly? This is one of those desperate explanations invented by those trying to reconcile the existence of a loving God with the unloving world we find ourselves in. A much simpler explanation would be is that there is no loving God, but that is emotionally unacceptable to such believers.

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What % of people are ugly and unattractive? 100% - to a warthog.

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Would you fly if you knew it was the pilots first professional flight? Yes. Because there are two pilots on every large aircraft, and if one is brand new the other will always be considerably experienced.

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Sandusky is drawing a pension of about $59K a year from Penn State. Should he? Firstly, as others have said, his guilt should be proved in court. That money represents payments into a pension system made for him over the years. The money is "his" as much as his house and car are "his". You should not confiscate pensions unless you have a general policy that criminals should financially recompense victims generally. If you have such a policy, then his pension pot is as...

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Name a Famous person with a Beard...? Karl Marx had a pretty impressive beard. He couldn't shave because of the sores on his skin.

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What Accounts For The Diversity Of Languages? The vigour of use. Language changes all the time: the language we use is not that which our fathers used and theirs was not that of their grandfathers. Language is the extreme example of a shared possession - it is owned by all people because it is used by all people. Within one community, the need for mutual comprehension will ensure that everybody changes in step. But if communities have...

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Why don't modern singers/musicians sing Christmas songs that reflect the true meaning of the holiday? Definitely - they should be singing Yule Wassails or Saturnalia ermm... dirty songs. The midwinter festival is much older than Christianity. If Matthew is to be believed, whenever Christ was born, it certainly was not midwinter - you don't force people to travel to their place of birth at the time when the roads are impassable. Christianity took over the midwinter feast for their own purposes,...

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Is Sony really the best in technology production or are there better companies out there? From a company which tries to sell to Sony, they are a pain in the backside. They think they are Apple (to whom we also want to sell, and don't) but they are not. They are good, but not nearly as good as they think.

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If bacterial life can be carried through space on meteors, be reanimated, then is it possible a new life form can start evolving on Earth? Possible, but very unlikely. Any new lifeform arriving would be very badly adapted to earth, and would be eaten by the highly-adapted residents very quickly. If something arrived on the sterile early Earth, it might have been able to survive and reproduce, and adapt to the Earth it found itself on. But a new arrival today would stand no chance.

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About how many books do you have in your house? 3-5000, possibly more.

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On NY state police exams, 10 extra points are given automatically to African Americans. Only 5 extra points for combat vets. Your thoughts? It somewhat depends on the reasoning. If it is to give African Americans a better chance to compensate for their disadvantages, I would say it is somewhat racist, and disproportionate compared to the vets. If it is because they need black faces on the street, because they want African Americans on the street to think as the police as "us" not "them", it may be reasonable. Sometimes you need...

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can science always show an answer? and if it can't then who or what is right?? No, science cannot always give an answer. Some times it is simply that we don't know - yet. Sometimes it is that the question is not in the domain of science, such as questions of morality or taste. Sometimes the question is not meaningful. Sometimes the question simply cannot be answered. What you do next depends both upon which category it falls into, and your personal taste. But always be...

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Are you for or against gay marriage? And why? For. It harms no-one and it allows the gay couple the rights everybody should have.

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When calculating E=MC2 - what numbers get plugged in? You just need to use a consistent set of units. Mass in grams, speed of light in m/sec will give you energy in joules. Use any other consistent set of units and you will get the result in the same units.

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Is the Truth-- the answer to the mystery of life-- long, or is it short, that is, what's the long and short of the Truth? The truth is that there is no "answer" to the "mystery" of life. Life is. No mystery, no question, nothing to "answer". You have it - make the best of it.

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How important is gravity to the formation of the universe? Before the Big Bang, what existed? Anything? Gravity is crucial to the universe as we know it. On a large scale, the universe is entirely formed by the expansionary force that caused the Big Bang and seems, under the name of Dark Energy, still to be tearing it apart, and Gravity which is trying to squeeze it together. On the "small" scale - mere galaxies - Gravity is winning. On the large scale, Dark Energy is winning. We have no idea...

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Is there a political or religious group that is free from dogma, encourages independent thought and does not engage in vilification? Name? Since dogma implies a shared belief, it is difficult to imagine a group a group without some dogma: it would mean a group that has nothing in common. The dogma is what makes you join. Even if it is a discussion group, it has a dogma "we like discussion". I think the Quakers encourage independent thought and discourage vilification. About their only insistence is that to join them, you must...

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how much hours daily u spents on different gadgets? Define "gadget". To a medieval person, a fork was a sophisticated gadget. To someone used only to scrolls, a book was a gadget. Is a car a gadget? A fountain pen?

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if the phantom of the opera is supposed to be french than how come the perfomers sound english? It is about France in English. People translate things for other countries - the Bible is no longer in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, for example. Films about the Romans are not usually in Latin.

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When will they understand that God is not for sale? "They"? Who? "God"? Which God? Context needed.

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THE new atheists envision a world with no religion—no suicide bombers, no religious wars, and no televangelists fleecing their flocks. Does that vision appeal to you? /Some/ atheists. There is no central atheists belief. The people who say that have no more authority to speak for other atheists than any Christian in the street has for other Christians. I believe that religion is a cloak that people use to justify what they were going to do anyway. Good people do good in the name of religion, bad people do bad in the name of religion. The suicide bombers...

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Do you think Haarp is the cause of superstorms and earthquakes? Hardly. A program of a few shots thirty or more years ago? Tiny compared to, say, the shuttle launches. And even those will have small, but not zero, effects. To seriously screw up the atmosphere, it needs something big - like 1/3 of the world's population burning tons of fossil fuels every year.

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Do you trust the word of a wiccan, a witch, or a worlock? Over the word and testimony of the savior Jesus Christ.. I find Paganism more rational than Christianity. I have no belief that someone who died nearly two thousand years ago can do anything. His "word and testimony" are just those of a man from a more primitive time. Not to mention that most of what is called Christianity actually came fro St Paul, not Jesus. Whereas someone who is in touch with nature might know a bit more than me about something.

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What is your opinion of recording video of police officers? Should it be a crime? Why or why not? Definitely not. A public official in a public place is subject to public supervision, whether by the Mk 1 eyball or the most sophisticated camera. And if you cannot photograph a [police officer, they they should most certainly not photograph the public. So if photographing the police were illegal, all CCTV and photographic evidence should also be illegal.

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Is it blasphemous not to believe in God? If it is, then everybody blasphemes, since there is some God that any person believes in. If you are Christian, you do not believe in Brahma; if you are Hindu. you do not believe in Jehovah. Which makes everybody a blasphemer, which makes the word somewhat pointless.

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Why do Buddhists shave their heads? Rather than being a sign of humility, is this not MORE image-conscious, because of the effort required? Those of my friends (not Buddhists) who shave their heads say that it is less effort, not more. Because they have to shave their cheeks anyway, a quick whizz over the top means that it is all dealt with. If you let the hair grow, you have to get someone else to cut it for you: a complete shave you can do for yourself.

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Is Pi a pure abstraction? I a nit sure what you mean by "a pure abstraction". All numbers are abstract: there is no "one", there is only "one of something". Pi is no more, and no less abstract than any other number. It is both irrational and transcendental: see Wikipedia for definitions of these. Which means you can never write it down exactly - it has an infinite number of digits after the point in any number system.

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Percent of minorities that graduate: 50%. Percent of whites that graduate: 75% Is there something wrong here in America? It has been on the agenda for decades. All the efforts, fresh tries, clean starts etc. on inner city education are attempts to solve this problem not only this problem, but repeated attempts to solve it, are so old that they are no longer news. Many good people have tried many hopeful ideas to solve this problem - and, by and large, failed. the problem of ghettoisation remains unsolved.

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Does AMD stealing Intel secrets? No. They take great care not to: they have special internal firewalls to ensure that the people who find out how the Intel stuff works cannot talk to the people who make work-alike systems.

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Do you urinate in the shower? (Yes, this is a serious question, as I've had men tell me that they do.) No. I tried it once, because I had heard that people do, and it felt WRONG.

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What's the historic difference between UNIX and Linux? Linux is a an open-source look-alike of UNIX which was started by, and is still steered by, Linus Torvalds. Unix originated at Bell labs thirty years earlier, written by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (who died a couple of weeks ago).

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Do you sleep in complete darkness, or with your TV/nitelite? I HAVE to at least have on my TV(on mute!) As close to complete darkness as possible. And a TV would be disaster. I /cannot/ ignore a turned-on TV, even on mute. Caused great problems with my father-in-law, who always had the TV on: I would get distracted by the TV and ignore parents-in-law, who got offended. I could not imagine sleeping with that flickering monstrosity. (I watch almost no TV - about 1 hr per week).

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Is god a real person? did jesus really died on the cross?can jesus heal people?from unknown. The evidence for all these claims is unconvincing to those not aided by faith.

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What chemical elements tea contains? Carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorous, manganese, calcium, magnesium... all the usual elements necessary to life.

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Republicans SAY they want a businessman in the White House, but do they really??? After all, businessmen LIVE on OPM - other peoples money. I nominate Bernie Madoff. Look how much money he made!

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If all votes in the House/Senate were secret/anonymous how would that change things? No party affiliation,no names. Same results or not? Probably make things worse. They have this in the Italian parliament, and they regularly have votes in which both sides go in certain of 60% support. If nobody knows how you voted, you can promise support to both sides, then claim your reward whichever one wins.

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Is it true that software cracking is already automated? Not generically, no. But certain kinds of cracking e.e. cracking WiFi networks, can be automated.

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Who was the first hypocrite and what did he/she have to gain by being dishonest do you suppose? God. The Garden of Eden was a cruel trick. He put a tree you mustn't touch at the centre, then gave humans a sense of curiosity. Forget snakes - trying to eat what you are told not to do is basic humanity.

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Do you now eat totally organic? If so, what made you make the change? No. I am not much fussed about organic for vegetables. I am much more concerned about free range hens, cruelty-free meat etc. I wish there was a label equivalent to organic for ethically-raised meat.

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Does gravity work all over the world? If you find somewhere it doesn't work, you have solved our energy problems for ever. Lift something up where it doesn't work, move it to where it does work, drop it and extract energy from it. Repeat until very, very rich.

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If Antarctica is at the bottom of the world, why don't you fall off? The maps are printed upside down - it is the polar bears, not the penguins, who should be falling off.

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Do you believe once you die you die? Yes. that is what the evidence shows.

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Would religion -without God- actually make more sense? To answer the question, you need an agreed definition of religion, which is hard without God. But if you define it as faith in that which cannot be proved (faith, not an interim judgement subject to change when evidence appears), then it doesn't make any difference whether that faith includes God or not. It is still equally without (or with, if that is your view) sense.

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Whats the difference between coffee and toffee? T&C - the Terms and Conditions.

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How can we put an end to feel good liberalism? What is wrong with feeling good? What is wrong with liberalism (defined, as I do, as absence of coercion, as leaving people free to do what they want). Illiberalism is coercion. The opposite of Liberal is Fascist: do as I say, because I rule.

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True or false - Spirituality is the lighthouse to the people who are travelling in the ocean of the world.? False. Spirituality is an essentially meaningless word used to justify beliefs for which there is no truth. "Your facts may contradict me, but spiritually..."

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'Atheists pray to the God secretly when they r in trouble'-true or false. if so why? Total rubbish. One of the self-comforting fictions believers peddle to prove themselves right.

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Is it possible to praise the community efforts of small business while loathing the practices of multinationals? Sure. But where is the dividing line? And are you sure that /all/ multinationals are evil? The moment a good company steps across a border, it instantly becomes evil? If I set up a subsidiary to sell my cure for cancer in another country, I am instantly an evil multinational? Or are you confusing cause and effect: companies that become big by unscrupulous means become multinational because one...

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Name a weapon that can double as an useful tool. A spade. OK, it was designed as a tool, but it works as a weapon. As do pitchforks and aircraft (see 9/11).

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Should harsher punishments for all crimes be implemented? Why or why not? Explain. No. Those who commit serious crimes are, in a deep sense, not like us. People like us would be deterred by the current sentences. Nobody who is like us would risk many hears in prison unless they thought their crime would never be discovered - in which case no sentence would deter. The people who do commit serious crimes and risk sentences of many years have a different view of the world. I...

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how much is a pound in england money worth in the united states Google: "1 gbp in usd" 1.6038 US Dollars

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Are you opposed to helping people become beautiful when they've been genetically forsaken? What on earth is the meaning of "genetically forsaken"? If you are talking about birth defects, the large majority of these are developmental rather than genetic. Particularly those which affect "beauty". Not many people oppose the rectification of truly genetic diseases like MS, Huntingdon's and propensity to cancers.

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Do you like horizontal bobbleheads better than the verticals? Which is more fashionable/classy/desirable? Why? Whose your favorite? What is a bobblehead?

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does anyone have a gay son and feel its somehow your fault? My son is gay and sometimes i wonder if its my faut What do you mean, "fault"? There is nothing wrong with being gay, any more than there is in being tall (or short), blue eyed (or brown), shy (or extrovert). OK, he has a smaller (but non-zero) chance of having children, and hence you of having grandchildren. But that is the beginning and the end of the downside. And you can help with that, if and when he and a partner want to adopt. Beyond...

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Which is easier. Biology or Nursing Major? Wrong question. What do you want to do with your life? Now, can you achieve it? If you can achieve either of these, then the paths they lead to are open to you. But look at the destination, not the path.

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Is the fallacy of non belief be that we NEVER have all the facts and facts we do have are ever changing? Eh? You mean that because I do not know /everything/ (which I freely admit) I should believe whatever story you choose to tell me? I believe that for which there is evidence. if I get better evidence, my beliefs will change. But to believe something because I do not have evidence - that is lunacy.

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If there isn't a God, this world will go on forever with no judgement day? In about five billion years the sun will expand and either absorb this world or make life impossible. But the universe will carry on regardless.

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Up to the '60s (Kennedy) most men wore a hat. Would you wear a hat? I'm talking about a Panama or Fedora. I do, when I can. A Panama on summer, a leather Australian Bush Hat in winter.

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Is Obama looking to auction off America to the lowest bidder? No need - it has already been bought, lock stock and barrel, by the mega-corporations. Obama and all the other politicians are just decoration, kept in place by the corporations, to make the proles think they have some control over how the country is run. Actually, they can achieve nothing: the whole farce of Congress and President is carefully engineered to have so much discord that it cannot...

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Do you believe in altruistic acts, or do the people who commit these acts have hidden agendas? It is not a hidden agenda - it is support for the community. We all do things to help others then ourselves - we are evolved that way. Looking after your family is not commonly called altruistic - but it is unselfish. Generally, we do not do strict accounting in neighbourhood events - people do not charge for, say, running scouting or junior sports. Some people spread the circle of people they...

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Green Wind Farms Disrupting Radar, Scientists Say. Should they be limited or stopped? But not every windmill in every place. The effect on radar should be factored into granting permission for wind farms, like the effect on housing should be factored into granting permission for dangerous, smelly or noisy industry. Just as we should not put oil refineries in residential areas, but should allow them in industrial areas, we shouldn't allow wind farms where they cause radar...

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What if I've already lived this life, and my whole life so far is really just a part of the 'ten second flash' right before someone dies? Then in that life you will get another ten second flash when you live your life again, and in that one you will get another... so you will never die. You are trapped in Groundhog Day. Actually, all I have ever heard is a "split second" flash, not ten - and there is absolutely not the slightest evidence for it.

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Why is there NO war on addictive mentalities within societies? sugar, alcohol, adrenaline, etc.. How else to break the slum mentality too? Actually, there is. The entire public education system is a "war on the slum mentality". But they correctly don't use the hyperbolic and damaging "War On" language. Such language distorts logic and is invented by politicians to hype things up and justify open-ended, brain-dead spending which gives them more power. If there is a "war on" something, the capture of what will signal that the war is...

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If it is confirmed today that Evolution is a fallacy, how many jobs and academic degrees would wind up useless tomorrow? If it were proved that water is dry and flows uphill, how many plumbers would be out of business? Not a meaningful question.

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Should criminals be treated with tattoos? No. I believe in forgiveness, and a tattoo is for life. How big a tattoo for a parking ticket? Should speeders get tattoeed with speed stripes?

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Why do birds lay eggs? And how come nobody has ever guessed which came first? The egg came first - that is well known. Because chickens are descended from reptiles, and reptiles lay eggs. Chickens lay eggs to give their offspring an unfair start to life.

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Ever wonder why most vegetarians look so sickly and inept? They don't. Some do - and you notice them. But it is like the camp gays and the butch lesbians - they fit an archetype so you notice them, but the large majority of gays and lesbians dress and behave just like other people. Similarly, most vegetarians look just like other people so you don't notice them.

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Why do so many windshield replacement shops offer lots of incentives like free restaurant meals, car washes, gift cards, etc.? Generally, windshield repairs are paid for by insurance. If you were paying your own costs, they would get business by offering low prices. But if you are covered by insurance, all prices are the same to you - zero. So they offer you goodies, paid for (effectively) with the insurance money,

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Can you prove GOD doesn't exist ? Not in a general sense - in part because the concept of God is so malleable. I may well be able to prove that any particular God does not exist, but then believers will say "but God isn't like /that/". The old man with a long beard in the sky has long been discredited - but people sincerely believed that at one time.

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Are/were, all suicide bombers religious people? No. The Tamil Tigers, who initiated the current wave of suicide bombers, were a secular, slightly anti-religious, organisation. They did not use religion to brainwash their bombers. When they were copied by religious extremists, those people did use religion.

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Why do they say "your alarm is going off" when if it were off, there would be no sound? Is that expression wrong? In English, "going off" does not mean "being turned off". When applied to something which has a sudden and dramatic effect, like a gun, a bomb, a burglar alarm, it means that it has been triggered and is doing its dramatic thing. One of the many ways in which English has apparently contradictory metaphors.

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If you sign a Confidentiality Agreement and break it, what happens to you legally? Can you be put in jail for it? What happens worse case? You are liable for the losses caused by your breach of confidence. It is up to the plaintiff to claim what those are, and justify it in court if it comes to trial. But by signing a Confidentiality Agreement you are agreeing to open-ended damages if you break the Agreement. Unless, of course, a fixed sum or limit is named in the agreement. I have seen a commercial agreement in which the damages...

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Ok I have to decide today if I am going to have sex with this guy this weekend or not.. ? If you are in doubt, you shouldn't. In contrast to previous posters, I don't thing your virginity is a big deal one way or the other. But, in my opinion, you shouldn't be having sex with someone unless you are bot attracted to them and like them. Love is such an indeterminate thing that I don't think I can say you have to love him. But unless you are really looking forward to snuggling up with...

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The word grace means to do honor or credit to someone, do you give credit and thanks to GOD for the food he has created for you? That is a particular meaning of the word "grace" adopted by the Christian church. It is essentially a piece of jargon which has no meaning to non-believers, just as scientists attach specialized meanings to words such as "curvature", "information" and "theory" which are different from common usage. To me, grace means elegance, style, an attractive economy of manner or movement. Thus a person...

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Do you ever drive 'under' the speed limit? Of course. Firstly, as said by others, if weather determines I adjust speed accordingly: I do not drive at the speed limit in freezing fog. But many of the country roads near my home are "National Sped Limit" i.e. 60mph - but that would be a suicidal speed to drive down winding lanes less than two cars wide with high banks either side. I don't think you could hold the road in a normal car at...

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If you are an Atheist, what would you ask God to do to prove that he exists? A longish answer, so requires a longish reply. For the initial query, as to whether I would ascribe intelligence to seeing a name cut into a rock: yes, precisely for the same reason I said to your radio signal. It is a message in complete contrast to its surroundings. Junk DNA: science does not purport to get it right first time. This is a point at which science got it wrong - for about...

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Is Greece's pickle ours? If they were financially stable how would that have affected us? How tied to world economy are we? The problem is working out who has lost how much money. It is the uncertainty is dangerous. Greece is broke. They overspent their credit card, and are way in the red - so far that there is no way they can pay their debts. The people who lent to them are going to have to write off serious amounts of money. Some of those people may, in turn, go bust, meaning that other people who didn't lend to...

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You know what's in your past. If you run for public office shouldn't you be prepared when "it" is revealed and get ahead of it? You should. But an interesting book on politicians, based on the UK parliament of 2002 but seemingly applicable to many similar bodies, reckoned that about a third of elected politicians are "chancers" - people who will repeatedly try to get away with things that they shouldn't, whose general reaction to a problem is not to fix it but to lie or blarney their way round it. "The Political...

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Is Alaska in the USA or Canada? There is no rule that says countries have to be geographically contiguous. Along many borders there are bits of one country accessible only by sea or from another country. For example, Baja California, Gibraltar, Kaliningrad, the incredibly confusing town of Baarle, St Pierre & Miquelon. Turkey is divided n two by a major seaway. Alaska is just another example of the same. And Hawaii is...

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How knowledgeable do you expect a leader of a country to be about the leaders/affairs of other countries? Is ignorance a dealbreaker? They should have experts who know, and a briefing before they deal with other countries. It is impossible for leaders to know everything, obviously. But they should either delegate, or ensure they are properly briefed if they decide not to delegate. Ignorance in the face of a random question at a press conference is perfectly understandable. Ignorance when meeting or dealing with another leader...

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What do you think about a World Wide Policy banning people from having no more the one child? Disastrous in fifty years: too many old people, not enough younger people to keep the world running. China is going to hit this in about twenty years time. Their acceleration is already slowing, but it will slow dramatically as the last full generation before the one-child policy reaches retirement age. Also, a gross infringement of personal liberty, The best contraceptive is education....

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What do you think about a World Wide Policy banning government from controlling your personal life? Define "personal life". Is it my personal life if I choose to drive drunk?

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Why do we actually need a president? Somebody has to run the government. The government employs millions of people and spends trillions of dollars. It is organised as departments, with workers reporting to bosses reporting to heads and so on. You have to have somebody at the top who all of these departments report to, or at least who chairs the meetings where the departments meet to agree on problems and argue about money. That...

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i am not virgin but this fact how do i hide from my husband? Don't. It will almost certainly come out some time, and will do more harm than being frank up front. It doesn't matter, anyway.

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Why does society expect people to be perfect? Society does not expect people to be perfect. Society pushes people towards being more perfect than they wouldn't otherwise be. And society remembers - perhaps too long. I agree that we keep changing until well into our twenties, and the teenager was in some senses a different person.

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Should children who don't believe in God be publicly flogged in school? No, adults who believe in God should be publicly flogged unless they can prove the existence of their God.

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Do you believe in great message of the Christ that "the Kingdom of Heaven is within you"? No

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Distant galaxies are moving away, but the nearest galaxies are moving towards us. Has the universe started to shrink? There are two different motions combined: purely random motion of the galaxies, and motion caused by the expansion of the universe. Only the latter depends on the distance away from us. So that for nearby galaxies, the random element is larger than the expansion element, and therefore /some/ nearby galaxies are moving towards us. Not all of them - some nearby galaxies are also receding....

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Am I the only one who assumed those old Muppets who hated everything were Republican? Since The Muppet Show was made for a British TV channel, they were more likely Conservative than Republican. They certainly fit the Conservative stereotype.

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What would you think of everyone getting a reversible sterilization at birth and you can't undo it without a marriage license? This has two problems: personal liberty, and technical possibility. This implies that the state owns your body, and that you are only entitled to do what the state permits you to do. This is totally contradictory to the philosophical underpinnings of western states - particularly the US. They are all based on the principle that a state is a free assembly of people which has only the powers...

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Would the CDC deliberately hide information about the link between autism and mercury in vaccines? Good question, if they did. Where is the evidence they did so? All the allegations that I have seen have been based purely on anecdotal evidence, and hence have no scientific value.

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Why is the human race so disappointing? Because your expectations are so high. It is extraordinary that the human race has got where it has got, not that it has not got higher.

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When did you quit watching television? More than ten years ago. I may occasionally watch a program in company with someone else, but my choice is not to watch it.

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Soda pop is flavored water. Is milk flavored water? What about coffee? Coffee is also basically flavoured water. Milk, however, is not: it is an emulsion of fats in water. The "flavoured water" component of milk is whey, the fluid left after the fats are separated.

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If your name was Larson, would you name your son Lars? If it was Peterson, would you name your son Pete? Who does this?? The same sort of people who give their sons the same name as their father.

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Is there such a thing as a combination of AC and DC where you can go from direct current to alternating current with the flip of switch? It would be easy to rig up - and extremely dangerous. Putting AC into DC devices or vice versa is pretty well a recipe for disaster. The trains which run through the Channel Tunnel are AC/DC hybrids, and consequently extremely expensive.

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If the state passes a law that is considered illegal/unconstitutional the Feds just reverse it. Of what use is states' rights? To be unconstitutional, the Supreme Court have to specify which clause or amendment to the Constitution the law contradicts. The Constitution intentionally does not cover everything, and anything the Constitution does not cover is explicitly "reserved to the states". There are huge areas where states can do things for themselves. Of course, people who don't like what the Constitution says will...

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Why are so many people jealous of hard working Wall Street Traders? They worked hard for their money. You're jealous and feel entitled. But some worked in ways that enriched the whole community, and are to be admired, and some in ways which impoverished the community. I admire a hard-working builder, but not a hard-working mugger.

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If I had a serious mental disorder; say I lacked reason, or consciousness, would I be a person or something between a person and an animal? It depends upon the level and nature of the disorder. But generally the precautionary principle would apply - we would assume personhood until proven otherwise. But, for example, if you were in a Persistent Vegitative State, we would say that you are no longer a person.

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Atheists, do you celebrate Halloween? If so, does it truly mean anything to you? No. I have always regarded the "celebration" of Halloween as a commercialized import from America. In Christian terms, All Hallows is just a day to remember those in your life who have died and, you hope, gone to heaven. In Pagan terms, is was the end of the light half of the year and the start of the dark half - a time for a bonfire to ward off the darkness, and maybe a feast. Either of...

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If you are an Atheist, what would you ask God to do to prove that he exists? There are many, many things a God could do to prove he exists. What he should do depends upon what he wants people to do. I could almost turn the question around: if God exists, and is hiding himself to the extent that intelligent people seriously doubt his existence, why is he doing so? What is God's Plan in being elusive? Some say that God wants us to have faith - but that only puts the...

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How would you define specific? Is it not intelligent enough a word? Specific: pertaining to one species or type. Taking species in its wide rather than biological narrow sense.

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How would you define intelligence? Is it not specific enough a word? I entirely agree with you. Many arguments have resulted, and much harm has been done, by over-exact definitions of intelligence. I don't think we really know what we mean when we say intelligence, and so I do not think it is possible to test for it.

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Atheists, how do you feel when I tell you , that it offends me when you use the name of God in vain or a blasphemous manner. I never intend to do so. But if you find the statement "God does not exist" blasphemous, I am afraid I must call you oversensitive. I do not intend to hurt yo8ur feelings, but I am not going to lie to pretend I share your beliefs.

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Understanding unbelievers...If God ran the world the way you think He should, would you then believe? Totally meaningless question. The world is not "run", it just happens. I don't have no opinion about how the world should be run, because I don't think it is possible to run it. There is no control panel that God could grab even if there were a God. "Running the world" is simply a meaningless concept.

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Was god invented to intimidate and keep people in religions or were religions created because people were already scared and superstitious? Overwhelmingly the latter. Gods were invented to explain things people didn't understand. Recent research shows the brain is not a monolithic whole, but a set of co-operating modules. Two of those modules try to explain the world, in different ways. One is the module that explains inanimate things - bricks fall, water flows, a stick can bear just so much weight before it breaks, honey is nice...

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UK living persons answer only please: Have you ever been helped by the National Health Service ? or did they just make matters worse ? Several times. My GP is very good. Members of my family have been treated very well by the NHS.

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do you think there are machines that produce free energy. that are kept secret because they are free. i don't mean wind, water or solar. No. There are simply not any pools of free energy that the laws of physics allow us to tap in to easily.

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Is it true that Queen Elizabeth has her Feces collected when overseas? Very unlikely. This is probably derived from the requirement that a special toilet is allocated for her sole use. It is not to collect her faeces, but rather the opposite: to ensure that she has a clean toilet which other people will not be able to search to collect "souvenirs" of her.

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An artist who said giving birth is the “highest form of art” has delivered a baby boy - inside a New York City art gallery. Is she nuts? Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Whenever anyone declares that something is Art, there is (though they may not realise it) an implicit "to me" in the sentence. It may be Art to her, and maybe to others. it doesn't seem like Art - to me.

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What can i use to remove pet urine from my white berber carpet besides vinegar..and please I am looking for home products to use! Why look for home products? Do you use a home-made car or a home made cellphone? Do you grow your own food? For a particular specialist need, why do you not want to use the specialist products?

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Could the Lord still rule it as suicide and send them to Hell anyway even if they arranged to get murdered? I am amused that you see your God as some sort of a legal clerk, looking up some paragraph and sub-paragraph in some rulebook for a "technical" ruling. Isn't your God big enough to make a wide judgement on the person when they appear for judgement, not bureaucrat's ruling? What a petty God you believe in!

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Atheists, and the like, have you ever used the phrase, "For the love of God.....", if so why? Yes. They are conventional intensifiers. Using them doesn't mean that I believe in God, any more than using the names Wednesday and Thursday means I believe in Wotan or Thor, or living in St Lois would mean that I believed in the holiness of Louis. Language contains many relics of the past, and these are some of them.

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Is there a way to fill a car gas tank completely full, using a gas can, without causing any spills? What need? Full should be to the top of the tank, not to the top of the filler spout. It is positively dangerous to fill your tank to the top of the spout. Gasoline expands much more than water as it warms up. It is usually relatively cool as it is pumped from underground tanks. If you fill to the brim, as it fills up it will overflow and dribble out. Even if it didn't expand, it would still...

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Why do people get offended when I blast my Beethoven in my car? Who sleeps on the road? It is not a question of sleeping - for the driver. it is a question of enforcing your choice of music, distorted by escaping from your car, on everybody around. I I am listening to Chopin, your Beethoven will ruin my mood. And, good as it may sound inside the car, it sounds a heck of a lot less good on the street. And what about sleeping babies? You are probably too naive to realise it, but a...

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Creationists: How do you explain the age of the earth according to tectonic plates? Creationists say tectonic plates don't exist, and the evidence you thought proved tectonic plates is just the way God chose to create the earth. Which is a way of denying any evidence you want to,

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For those of you who voted for Obama and are displeased with him, are you going to vote for him again, Show me better. While I am deeply disappointed in Obama, I find nearly all the Republican challengers frightening. You don't vote for worse to displace bad. The only Rep I like the look of is Huntsman, and he will fail because he is too wiling to work with his opponents (which is exactly what I want).

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What if there was a vigilante superhero serial killer guy dressed as Jesus beating up gay people? Not superhero, supervillain.

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How loud was The Big Bang? Infinitely loud - or so close we cannot tell the difference. A rough measure of loudness is the pressure produced. How loud is something that compresses all the energy and all the matter in the universe into less than the size of an atom?

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I believe in GOD and the christian faith, but my lack of self control turns me against it and i begin to doubt, but only due to my weakness Is it weakness to doubt your faith, or to hang on to a faith you do not really have? If you doubt, you do not really believe. But you have convinced yourself that, for some reason, you ought to believe. Why? If you truly believe, no problem. But if you don't believe, don't pretend. I think your self-image says "I am a believer", and you are embarrassed that you are not. But you are not a...

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Do you pray for rich people to get AIDS? Or lose everything and end up on the streets? No. I want to level up, not level down. Pulling others down is the way to end with everybody in the mud. We need to boost the poor, not attack the rich.

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What's the most British answer you can provide to this question? I'll have a cup of tea wile I think about it.

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Who are some people that would be on the show "America's got no talent?" George W Bush

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Should common sense be a mandatory subject at schools? Define "common sense" in a way that can form part of a syllabus. Most people use it to mean "that which is so obvious that it does not need to be taught". So lessons in "common sense" means lessons in that which 90% of people know already. So 90% of the class will be bored at being taught something they already know. And a class with 90% bored children is unlikely to be able to teach much to...

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What would you do if you happen to witness a vigilante killing a pedophile in the act? Inform the police. Vigileanteism is not the solution to any crime - including paedophilia. Start down that line, and people will give themselves license for crimes /they/ consider bad - like double parking. Justice absolutely /must/ be done through the courts. In the UK, vigilantes threw stones and excrement at the home of a paediatrician because they had misheard. How would it have been if...

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True or false- When You Are In The Light,Everything Follows You,But When You Enter Into The Dark,Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You? Only by switching meanings of the world "follow" you. In the light, everything follows you only in the sense of tracking you with their eyes if they so choose. But shadows follow in the physical sense of remaining close to you. So you get a faux solemnity by playing word games.

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Love is a hierarchy, from the lowest rung to the highest, from sex to superconsciousness-Agree or disagree? Disagree. Love is a word with many different meanings, not all of which are shared by all people. You can take the various meanings and arrange them in patterns which seem appropriate to you, but that does not mean that there is any meaning to that pattern outside your own personal perception.

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I believe in god and science but i dont follow any religion, am i still counted as an athiest or something else? If you believe in God, you are not an atheist: if it is an unspecified divine presence somewhere, people would just call you a theist. I don't think one believes in science, one uses it. One uses it to examine the universe, and believes in the universe. Science is a method, not a presence to be believed in.

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"Life Begins At Conception", is a Fertilized Human Ovum a Baby? I distinguish "life" from "humanity". A zygote may be alive - but so is a mushroom. Humanity, to me, is associated with feeling, with hopes and fears, pleasure and pain. And you need a brain for that. Until there is at least a start of a nervous system, I do not think a zygote has human rights.

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wouldn't it be a good idea if food stamp recipients had only 1 store designated for them in each county in the country? Why would it be a good idea? To give that store, with monopoly power, the ability to rip off its customers - even if they are customers with other people's money? That is why communism fell - if the state provides one store, who needs more? What is this capitalist competition? If they are spending other people's money, give them rubbish goods with crap service at extortionate prices. After all,...

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What musical instrument can calm the insane? It all depends on the insanity. Different people are insane in different ways, and different instruments will affect them.

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All pagans are often called devil worshippers by people of the christian religion. Do you think this is correct? Only by (some) Christian's definition. By their definition there are only two kinds of supernatural being: their God, and devils. Hence anything supernatural that is not Christian is a devil, and their definition is tautologously true. Marvellous what you can do by misusing the language.

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How much does it cost for an iPad 2 64 GB with 3G? Are there iPad 2's with less GB (i.e. cheaper) that are still 3G? I have an iPad2 16Gb 3G.

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Should the Scotland Parliament have all powers devolved to it, and remain in the UK, or should Scotland become fully independent. I don't see what the difference is between the two alternatives. If all powers are devolved there are no dependencies i.e. the country is independent. To be dependent, the UK must retain some powers, even if it is only (say) running the Army, or Foreign Affairs.

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Should religion be taught in public schools? And i mean like a religion class not like praying and stuff in school. Religions should be taught /about/, but not taught themselves. I.e. the existence of religions, the numbers and locations of their believers should be taught. The basic customs and beliefs of the religion should be explained only insofar as they affect non-believers.

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When Bill Gates gets to that special hell reserved for him, ____________________. I don't see him going to Hell. Whatever sins he has committed with Windows, and they are many, the good he has done and is doing with the Gates Foundation far outweighs them.

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Why do atheists base their future on the suppositions of other atheists such as Fred Hoyle, Stephen Hawking et al, disregarding facts? I don't understand your question at all. All that I take from Fred Hoyle, Stephen Hawking et al is statements about the physics of the universe - and only after peer review at that. It don't believe they have any insight into the future. You really REALLY don't understand atheism. Your question is like asking why Christians are cannibals (the Communion service) and promiscuous (love thy...

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Is it hypocritical to oppose cruelty towards animals in films, but eat meat as much as you want? A painless and instantaneous death is not regarded by many as cruel. Animals do not have the same sense of the future as humans do. So an animal which lives a happy life up to the instant is slaughtered is not suffering cruelty. What we want to avoid is animals being in pain or fear - in films or on farms.

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Is faith in God a crutch? I would say it is. For people who find that the world is too scary without the idea of someone really powerful who will help them if they do the right things. But if you have a broken leg, you need a crutch. If people find that believing in God makes life easier for them, I have no objection to them doing so. Provided that they don't try to impose their beliefs or the consequences of them on me.

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Since when does being wealthy mean you have "class"? Since when does being poor mean you don't? So why is it even called "class warfare"? "Class" is a word without an agreed definition, to which may people have applied their own definitions. Since these definitions are often completely incompatible, and yet some people take them very seriously indeed, any discussion involving "class" is likely to be completely at cross purposes, and hence to produce much more heat than light. If anybody raises a question involving class, I would...

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What is the difference between Atheism and Pantheism? Pantheism says that everything is God, that there is a bond between everything, or at least between everything sentient. What that bond implies depends upon the pantheist. Atheism says that we are all separate. We may be similar, and we may join together in communities. But there is no common bond that binds us other than the bonds we choose to forge ourselves. A Pantheist is never alone, an...

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What can an atheist possibly celebrate? All the positive events of life. The joys of spring, the birth of a child, the passing of an exam. Whey do you need God's permission to enjoy something, and to share that enjoyment with friends? An atheist enjoys beauty even if it is only an "accident" not God's creation.

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Can there be such a thing as a religion without god, an atheistic religion or a religious atheism? Buddhism, in its pure form, is a religion without a God. The Buddha was "merely" an extremely wise man who achieved enlightenment - comparable to a Christian saint. It is perfectly reasonable to have a religion without a god. There are plenty of people who believe, for example, that the universe has a "vital force"; this is not a God, but the expression of all the living things in the...

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How could the Recession have ended in June 2009 when unemployment, job growth and wages continued to get worse after that? A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of falling GDP, an ends when GDP rises. Note that this refers to GDP - Gross Domestic Production - not jobs or wages. If the economy grows because of increased productivity - the same number of workers are making more stuff, but no more workers are being employed - then the recession can end without decreasing joblessness. The connection...

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What did your mother used to say? "Any fool can be UNcomfortable".

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If you plead innocent to a crime, and are charged guilty, are you penalized for lying about being innocent? It is rather the other way round: there is, roughly, a tariff for a crime. You can get a discount for saving court time and money, and saving witnesses from a stressful experience, by pleading guilty. An early plea of guilty, followed by a plausible expression of remorse, is the best way to get the smallest sentence. This is not illogical, because you know if you are guilty, even if the court...

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Understanding Atheism... If Heaven and hell were scientifically proven, which place would you rather be for eternity.... If they were scientifically proven, we would probably know a lot more about them than the current stories of harps on clouds or pits with devils pointing pitchforks. Both of these seem to relate more to the imaginations of medieval theologians than to any reasonable interpretation of the Bible. Knowing more, I would be in a position to make a judgement. However, if you believe Revelations...

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How many more "Humanitarian Interventions" must we complete, until the price of oil comes back down? The price of oil is not going to come down. it is nothing to do with wars, speculators, "humanitarian interventions" or whatever. We have pumped all the easy oil, and only hard oil is left. Hard oil is expensive to pump, so we have to pay more to get it.

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What is "true" socialism (as opposed to communism). Socialism says that we, as a community, have a duty to look after each other. Just as one member of a family looks after other members of the family, socialism says that one member of society should look after other members of society. In political terms, this usually translates into the government taxing the richer members of society in order to provide a high level of services to all members...

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Should the burka be banned in UK? No. One is free to dress as one wants. However, businesses should be entitled to refuse service to someone with their face covered, and even to refuse admission to their premises. Whether the face is covered by a crash helmet, a ski mask or a burka is irrelevant. Not only for security, but businesses may set a dress code for their premises.

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Why do people go through their life not caring about God until faced with death or tragedy? Some people do turn to God in dire straits - which implied they believed in God all along. But many do not. Of course, they don't say anything about it, because there is nothing to say. the only ones you notice are those who noisily "come to God".

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if the sun represents a nucleus and the planets electrons, then surely we can extrapolate and predict the shape of our universe? That model of the atom was discredited almost as soon as it was invented, in the early 1930s. Unfortunately, it produces a pretty diagram and the competing, more correct, quantum mechanical model did not. So that model has remained in the public consciousness while physicists have long ago abandoned it.

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Will the world end on December 21 2012? Why or why not? There is absolutely no sensible reason to believe so.

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Atheists: If you HAD to pick one religion to be ultimate truth, which one would you pick? Which one could you live with, or even want to be true? Cargo cult. Just assemble the right kind of control tower, and the Gods send planes full of all the goodies you can desire. If I get to choose a God, i want one who is high on the benevolence and gift giving, and low on the chastising.

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Since Jesus Christ had a fair complexion, where do you think he took refuge from the Sun more than any other place? Nobody knows how Jesus Christ looked. Each culture shows him of one of themselves. In Africa, he is black. The earliest representations, from Byzantium, show him as blonde and often clean shaven. Anybody who thinks that current representations have anything to do with the factual Jesus has an extremely naive understanding of the origins of the Bible.

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Ron Paul's Sanctity of Life Act defines life: beginning at conception. banning abortion, hormonal BC the pill&IUDs. Do you support it? No. I define humanity, as opposed to raw life, as related to the mind. That which I respect is the ability to hope and fear, to feel joy and pain, as I do. If there is no brain and nervous system, there is no mind. At the moment of fertilisation, the egg is less human than a mussel. What it might become in the future is irrelevant.

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I strongly believe that the purpose of our mortal life here on earth is to learn to become great- why do you think we are here ? I don't think there is any /reason/ why we are here - I think we just happened. We now have the opportunity to make the best of a random, but happy, chance.

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Are there products/goods that, when they first came out, were not that good in terms of quality, but over time have improved considerably? Almost all, in a general sense. Modern steel axes are much better than flint axes, today's cars are much better than the Model T, today's computers could wipe the floor with an IBM 360. I suspect you mean brands rather than products. And is is still generally true: brands that don't deliver, die.

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Can you give me a saying that makes no logical sense but is used all the time? "I can't wait for ...". What are you going to do, then? Commit suicide? Because the only alternative is usually waiting, and you can't do that, you say.

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Why aren't we using permanent magnetic motors to generate free energy? How can permanent magnets generate free energy? The only energy you can get out is the energy you put in, one way or another.

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why can't anything in life be easy? Lots of things in life are easy. So easy you don't notice them. Have you had to adjust your pancreas recently? Do you manage to talk OK? how about walking - most people do that fine. Buying a newspaper: what was the big difficulty there? Getting clothes: do you have to sehar your own sheep, spin your own wool, weave your own cloth - or is it easier than that? We only notice the hard things. So...

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If it was not for Christ Jesus would we all be Jewish? No. It was Emperor Constantine who made Christianity the official religion, and imposed it on all the peoples of the Roman Empire. If he had not done so, we might have retained paganism and other pre-Christian religions (Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism) or a completely different religion might have come along.

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Why has divorce become such a common thing these days? Whatever happened to the vows you made in marriage? (As long as ye both may live). Firstly, people live a lot longer nowadays. "As long as ye both may live" used to mean, on average, perhaps ten or fifteen years. Women dies in childbirth, men died of accidents, wars etc. Secondly, we are a lot richer nowadays. Divorce may leave both sides poorer - but in the past, it might have left the partners, particularly the woman, so poor that starvation was a serious possibility. ...

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What is the use of a hydrogen fuel cell car if we have to burn oil to generate the electricity necessary to create hydrogen? Hydrogen is a fuel transport scheme, not a fuel generation scheme. Hydrogen fuel systems are intended to allow energy generated as electricity, e.g. from nuclear, solar, wind etc. to be used to fuel vehicles. The advantage of hydrogen is that it is essentially non-polluting - the only product is water. And it is probably the most efficient input for fuel cells.

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How did the human race start? This is not intended to be serious, so please do be creative. :-) Humans are bloody good at inventing things. The trouble is, every invention has unwanted effects. Fire keeps you warm, but burns the house down. Cars take you around, but bring jams and road deaths. And the biggest example of all this is human beings. Humans invented themselves, and have been regretting the mistake ever since. The unexpected side effect have been horrendous.

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Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural? Panties comes from pants comes from pantaloons. Originally, pantaloons were two separate legs, worn under a smock, to keep the legs warm and protect from brambles etc. They came as a pair, and were therefore plural. Late, people started making a one-piece garment, but it kept the plurality, even to panties (which basically represent the bit missing from the original pantaloons). Brassiere...

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Atheists: tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that. So God exists. "I don't understand X, therefore God". This is one of the most arrogant statements you can make: it implies that you believe that you can understand everything that can be understood. You are so clever that anything you understand can only be created by God. I don't understand Chinese. Was Chinese created by God?

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Why is "Atheism" sub-catagorised under "Religion"? It's clearly not a religion. It is clearly related to religion. Is zero a number? After all, numbers are used for counting things, and zero means no things, so it cannot be a number, can it? Actually, is is useful to consider zero a number, and it is useful to categorise discussions of atheism under religion. If you don't file atheism under religion, where would you put it so that people who wanted to discuss it could...

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The answer is GOD, but rather than accept this ..people find more complex answers that dont even work - what a mess ? The answer to what? I don't even see a question.

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How do you spell Gaddafi? All 3 of the 24hr news stations spelled it differently.(Gaddafi, Khadafi, Qaddafi) How did the man spell his name? مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي‎

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Do you think humans would last longer if we reverted to an Agrarian society with far less advanced technology? Most humans would die pretty soon: low-tech agrarian technology could probably not support more than a few hundred million people, so billions would die.

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Why do some parts of the UK have squiggly lines on the road? Not sure what you mean by "squiggly lines". If it is a series of short slanting bars at the side, looking like a flattened version of "/\/\/\/\/\/\/" , these are either side of crossings, and mean that you should not park there even for a moment, even if you are disabled, just picking iup and putting down, or a delivery vehicle.

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Does tea have caffine in it? Yes. In fact, tea contains more per pound of dry tea than per pound of coffee beans. However, you use less tea per cup, so when made into a beverage, tea contains 1/3 to 1/2 the caffeine that coffee does.

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Reports say Ghadaffi is captured/injured or dead..no confirmation yet. If true,are you mad, sad, glad? Prefer he be alive to stand trial? I am very glad he is no longer at large. It gives Libya a chance to settle down. While I would not condone killing him on purpose, it is better if he is dead. His presence would give opportunities for his supporters to plan a rescue and rebellion, and the trial would be expensive, divisive, and postpone the time when Libya can fully turn its back on his reign. If he is not dead, these problems...

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Should Atheists celebrate Christmas and have holidays? Pl read on! The midwinter holiday, now called Christmas, existed long before Jesus. The spring fertility festival, now called Easter (a pagan name), also dates from the distant past. Why should atheist, pagans, and other non-Christians be deprived of /their/ holidays just because Christians have managed to slap a new name or new customs on old holidays?

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I was told that swine do not sweat and for this pork is poisonous/unhealthy...Why is this ? Pigs hardly sweat, which is why they like to wallow in mud to cool themselves. However, it is a fallacy that sweating removes toxins, which are therefore retained in the pig's body. Sweating is purely a heat control mechanism, not a way of removing toxins. The reason that pig meat can be dangerous is that pigs, as omnivores, are very like humans, and therefore if a pig has any internal...

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Why don't the protestors illegally gathering realize that if they worked hard enough they could be in the top 1% too? I don't agree. I know people who work very hard for very low wages. And some of the people in the top bracket don't work hard at all for their millions. Some of it is ability (taking a wide view of ability, such as the ability to lie plausibly), some of it is luck (choosing the right parents).

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Are the only jobs left computer systems engineer programmers and nurses? There seem to be rather too many bankers around. And politicians. I think we are rather a long way from robocop - policemen will be needed for a long time. Computer generated art has been a total failure - using art in its widest sense (music, literature, dance...). Shops still seem to be full of sales staff.

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Is it a fact about human psychology that the only thing that humans really want is pleasure and freedom from pain? Well, almost tautologously so. That is like saying the only definition of black is darker than any other colours. A broad definition of pleasure is "what people want", and a broad definition of pain is "what people don't want". These are broad definitions, including mental as well as physical pleasure and pain. I.e. they include the pleasure of parenthood as well as the pleasure of a full...

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If a one time homosexual expereince doesnt make you gay or lesbian then a one time murder doesnt make you a murderer, correct? Wrong. The definition of gay and lesbian is someone who habitually or preferredly has same sex relationships, whereas the definition of a murderer is someone who has committed one murder. The definitions are not symmetric. But language is not symmetric - it is not defined by logicians and mathematicians, it is defined by people who use it. And the asymmetric definitions are useful for what...

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Why do people call certain situations a "coincidence" when there's no such thing as a "coincidence"? To say that there is no such thing as coincidence implies a very peculiar and paranoid world view. Most people believe there is such a thing as coincidence, and they use that word whenever two events produce a relationship without planning. To say there is no such thing as coincidence implies that there is some entity planning every single aspect of every single life. Big Brother to the power...

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If I accidently wear my flashdrive through an airport security detection system, will it erase the downloads on the drive? No. The fields required to damage the flash drive would also damage you. The fields in an airport security system are very weak - partly to avoid false positives from small bits of metal around your body.

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Wouldn't it be great if politicians would cut out the crap and deal with what's real instead of blue smoke and mirrors? Any hope of that? If there was an obvious right answer, the Civil Service would do it. Maybe not as efficiently as one might hope, but they would find and do the right thing. The only decisions which get pushed up to politicians are those upon which there are two points of view - points upon which (despite their protestations) nobody knows what to do, they just have opinions. Decisions which reach politicians...

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Legalize marijuana and it will put tax dollars into the bank. Would legalizing all drugs put the drug cartels out of the business? Properly done, yes. Drugs cartels exist only because the illegality of drugs makes them so profitable. Set the tax too high, and the profits are still there for the cartels. This is seen with tobacco in Britain: the tax is high enough that it is producing tobacco smuggling. But the drugs cartels have very high costs, so that the tax can be fairly high, both to increase tax take and keep down...

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Say there were three identical individuals, one birthed entirely naturally, one cloned from someone else and one (in the distant future) No, because by your definition I could not tell them apart. But I think your premise is impossible. Though they may be created from identical DNA, they cannot be brought up in identical environments. Even identical twins are not truly identical - they differ in details like fingerprints and retina patterns, and usually differ somewhat in larger things like character. I do not think it is, or...

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Business owners: Would you replace all your employees with robots/androids/replicants if you could? Of course they would. But, generally speaking, they never will be. This is an imaginary question.

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When everything is automated, who will have a job? The repairmen and nurses to take care of old repairmen? Everything will never be automated. When we automate one thing, we free up effort for other things. When cars were invented, a huge horse breeding, dealing, caring etc industry was destroyed - and replaced by car dealers, repairers, improvers etc. Manual telephone operators have disappeared - but call centres have appeared. Secretaries who took dictation have disappeared - but web designers...

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Tobacco BAD, marijuana GOOD? Both bad. Marijuana is probably less addictive, but has effects on others (e.g. impairing driving) which tobacco does nor. For both, smoking is a truly mad way of taking any substance: it is a factory for highly reactive molecules to be directed straight to your most sensitive organs.

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Do you think cows are angry that humans keep taking their milk? Can you imagine them having a protest saying "STOP TAKING OUR MILK"? Modern cows have been bred to produce far, far more milk than they need to. If they are not milked, cows suffer agony from over-full udders. Whatever their ancestors might have thought, modern cows absolutely have to be milked regularly.

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Do you think marijuana should be legalized? More or less. Except that I would like it, all other currently legal drugs, and possibly later alcohol (at least fortified) and tobacco, to be sold in 100% traceable form. Every single reefer, pill, shot, bottle, or whatever, to have an id which can be traced back to who bought it. So if it gets into the wrong hands, you can chase and prosecute the buyer. Because, while I want consenting adults...

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In the context of a comparison, what is object identity versus object equivalence? You can have two objects of which all the fields are the same, but they are not the same object. A simple example would be a record that contains only a person's name, with no other identifying records. Two people can have the same name, but be different people. Two name record both of which refer to "Smith, John" are equivalent, but not identical. Testing for identity would reveal if they were...

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Is Islam a religion or form of terrorism? In Nigeria, Christians burn Muslims alive in their houses. And yet the US offers tax-free status for this group. Is Christianity a religion or a form of terrorism?

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Why should marijuana be legalized if only potheads support it? The War on Drugs has probably done more harm to America than anything any outside enemy has ever done. The amount of tax you pay for police to chase drug users and prisons to keep them in is enormous. The number of deaths, injuries and damage caused drug dealers and by junkies trying to fund their expensive habit is similarly enormous. What harm do potheads do? What harm do heavily armed...

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Before getting colonised, did the native Americans have a common language? No. There were scores of different languages scattered across the Americas.

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Can you prove that science exists? Yes. Science is just a method, a technique, that scientists use to try and find out about the universe. It can be described as "formalised doubt". So science is what scientists do. What scientists, using the method of science have discovered, is another matter.

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I Have Been Told Many Times, "The World is Unfair", No it is Not, Man is. Thoughts? So man created earthquakes and volcanoes, all cancers which strike the good are created by man, all congenital abnormalities are man's creation, the fact that some are both beautiful and intelligent while others are neither is man's doing? Nonsense. The world is unfair. Man, as part of the world, is unfair too. we notice man's unfairness because we live closest to our fellow man, just as we...

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Have you ever considered burning in the pits of hell (*!FOR AN ETERNAL TORMENT!*) for you life's sin's? No. Doesn't appeal to my taste. So it is just as well that Hell doesn't exist.

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Grasping at straws is the only exercise many politicians get as they sit on their butts doing nuttin' honey. What do we pay them for again? I don't think they do sit on their butts doing nothing. They do lots of things - just not the right things and not useful things. They spend masses of time shaking hands, welcoming visiting firemen, making incendiary speeches to get the attention of the media. The life of most politicians is a whirlwind of pointless activity.

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Does anyone believe that we are witnessing the decline and fall of the United States? The relative, not absolute, decline, and not fall. The effect is known as "regression to the mean" or more colourfully "the curse of ". You cannot keep being extraordinary all the time. People are interviewed by magazines when they have achieved something speciel; their next achievement will be less special. The US has had a century-long run of outstanding achievement. But, contrary to the...

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How many digits of Pi are enough? What about e? For engineering purposes, five or six is plenty. For mathematicians, there is no limit.

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Is it true that everyone in China has the same names? Like Mr. Wang, there are millions and millions of Mr. Wangs? The Chinese name for "the man in the street". the ordinary man, is "Old Hundred Names". A huge proportion of the population share the 100 commonest names.

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When it comes to questions about "God", which ones bother you the most? Why? What boggles me is the detail people seem to know about what God does or does not want that is not mentioned in the various scriptures. God does/does not want you to kill for him. God does/dos not want reluctant converts. So-and-so was sent by God to test you, to punish him, to reward her. People ask the most obscure questions about God's plans - and others answer them, How do they know?

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My sister doesn't believe in evolution because she can't see how an animal/infant could have survived without a parent. Logical answers? Evolution says absolutely nothing about a child surviving without parents. Indeed, the characteristic of our family, the mammals, is the mammary gland, a means for the parent to support the child very directly. So evolution entirely agreed with your sister - it actually predicts that a mammal child cannot survive without parents. Of course, in other branches of the tree, this is not true. Most...

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What is SAFEST mode of transportation? 2 wheels? 3 wheels? 4 wheels? More? You need to define safest. Per mile travelled, or per hour? In what circumstances? Airlines make great play about their safety - per mile travelled. But would you travel if it were not so fast? Many people actually reckon their safety per hour - i.e. they would compare the safety of a three hour trip by car with a three hour (including check-in, waits, and baggage collection) flight, which does...

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Does the brain control the way we perceive reality? Of course. Since the brain is the thing that perceives reality - so far as it does - it not only controls it, it does it.

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"occupy wall street" Their answer is socialism, yet in a socialistic state their protests would be met with tanks and infantry.Thoughts? You over-widen the use of the term "socialism". Sweden is a pretty socialist state. The Labour party that governed Britain for 13 years was also known as Socialist. In bot countries free speech is widely available. Which the extreme leftists who ran over protesters with tanks called themselves Socialists, they were not. East Germany called itself the German Democratic republic. Does that means...

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Electrons go through a wire and power a light bulb. After they light the bulb, are they still there somewhere, or are they used up and gone? No, they have to flow back to the generator or battery. that is why you always need two wires for an electrical device, one for the electrons to get in and another for them to get out. There is no way to store electrons inside a device: they must go in and out at exactly the same rate. (Yes, pedants, I know there are minute exceptions). It is in forcing their way from in to out that they do...

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Do you Think Most of the Members of the Original Tea Party Movement Share Much In Common With the Occupy "Wall Street" Crowd? Definitely. They are both fundamentally cries of pain, from the opposite ends of the political spectrum. The pain is the same, the medicine demanded is very different.

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are we humans, still in the process of evolution? millions of years from now, what we will become? 1. Yes. 2. Nobody knows. And recent research suggest that any guesses are much more likely to be wrong than right. What evolution "chooses" is very often counter-intuitive.

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If you think handicap spaces are annoying what are your thoughts on children spaces? The only time I consider handicap spaces annoying is when there are grossly too many of them. There should be enough such spaces that there is always one free. But when, on the busiest shopping day of the year, there are ten free, I get annoyed.

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Seriously, are the Occupy Wall Street people protesting anything specific or is it just a bunch of people with nothing else to do? It is the same as the Tea Party - from the opposite end of the political spectrum. They are voicing a general sense of pain, which differs in detail for all of them. The Tea Party doesn't really have a single theme, but thy have managed to focus on the single issue of Tax. Occupy Wall St has found the single issue of bankers - but that is not a crisp a point as Tax. Both groups are expressing...

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Cars and human beings have blind spots due to faulty design I suppose. How can we compensate for them? They may be faulty design - or they may be inevitable. You cannot produce 100% visibility from a car; the designers task is not to remove blindspots completely, but to arrange that they do the least harm. And the driver does not so much compensate for them as be aware of them and allow for them in making judgements. So all I can do is to echo Oliver Cromwell: “I beseech you, in the bowels of...

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Should the penalty for false rape accusations be rape? Answer withdrawn - I misread the question.

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I question any man in a long-term relationship with a woman who does not mention marriage - what are they waiting for? Some people that I know regard marriage as inherently humiliating - a symbol of ownership, of one person being regarded as the property of the other. Hence they do not wish to participate in what is, to them, a primitive rite.

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Agree or disagree - Not believing in God is tolerable but insulting God is punishable? No. Insulting a god in whom you do not believe but others do is rude, but not punishable unless it amounts to behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace. In which case it is that which is punished, not the insult. I believe in freedom of speech, which includes freedom to insult within reasonable bounds.

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Do illegal immigrants make more money than legal Americans? Almost never. Because they are illegal, they have to take whatever stingy pay is offered without complaint. If they complain, their employer can shop them and get them deported. Big Agriculture absolutely /loves/ the immigration laws. It doesn't stop the workers coming, but it allows BA to flout all the labor laws, hire and fire as they want, get rid of any activists. It half reverses the...

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Can you name a religion, such as Mormonism, that places a lot of value on money? Mammonism

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How many functions does the most expensive Swiss Army Knife have and what does it cost? Over 100 on 85 tools; $899. http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/8b97/ Totally useless, but makes a point.

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Why do people in positions of authority make the rules up as they go along? Why don't they just leave the status quo as it always was? So slavery is good, and women should be their husband's property? Paint with lead that poisons children is OK? Kings were a good thing and democracy is a new fangled invention? Rules have to change sometimes, and it is people in authority who change them. Of course, if new rules are needed, then people should be told. If you complaint is that you have not been informed of new rules, you may be...

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Gandhi said that truth resides in every heart. You think this is true? can a murderer return to truth and live it ? Regrettably not true. Mental illness can make people totally unaware of truth: to believe "in their heart" things which are simply not true.

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A christian gave me a loaf of bread today! Should i forgive them the crusades in return? Why do you blame anybody living today for events centuries ago. You have a very odd perspective if you think that the deeds of the twelfth century, however regrettable those may have been, are the responsibility of the inhabitants of the twenty first century.

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I am going in for surgery soon. I want specific additional testing done on my tissue but my surgeon has denied me. What are my rights? What do you mean by "denying it"? Saying that he will not permit it to be done, or that he will not recommend that it be paid for? If he is refusing to release the tissue so you can get the testing done at your expense somewhere else, then I would think your rights are being infringed. If he is refusing to authorise or request payment for it (you do not say where you are or who is paying for...

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A major asset of religious scripture is wisdom -so should that mean religious people are wise people? I contest your premise. While not asserting that no religious person is ever wise, the people ascribing wisdom to religious teachings are usually the teachers themselves. Religious teaching are usually a mixture of wisdom, folly, truth and untruth in unknown quantities/

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Money buys the freedom of a guilty man(OJ) but can't buy the life of a dying man(Steve Jobs). Isn't there something terribly unfair here? As I always said to my children, who said that life is fair? Life is naturally unfair. Sometimes, for a little while, we managed to create small islands of fairness. But that is not the natural state. Power )of which money is a crystallized representation) will always tend to prevail; cancer is no respecter of virtue.

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What is so bad about a minority government? It has to do deals to pass every single line of legislation. Obviously, contentious legislation has to be debated. But there is a lot of routine stuff that goes though every legislation, and if you have to secure explicit opposition consent for the Municipal Drains Standardisation Act, it makes things pretty slow. Imagine trying to drive if you had to get the passenger to agree to each...

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Should registered gun owners be allowed to have guns in a place of worship? Up to the place of worship. If I open the Church of the Sacred Bullet, should not all the faithful attend with their guns? Should not Our Lady of the .303 be honoured in her own calibre? If Samuel Colt is canonised, should not his day be honoured by firing many rounds from his own holy weapon?

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What is the average cost per year to feed, clothe and give medical care to a prisoner? Serving life/say 40 years/would cost what? Estimates I have seen range (in the US) from $30,000 to $60,000 per year. Taking the high end, 40 years would therefore be about $2.4 million. This is of the same order as the cost - about $3 million - of enforcing the death penalty.

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Could Chaos Theory provide a reasonable explanation why bad things can happen to good people? No. It is the other way round: you, or anybody who believes it to be so, must provide an explanation why bad things should /not/ happen to good people. The apparent nature of the universe is "Shit Happens". You don't need a theory to explain this, just observation.

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Why are there so many CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom? When were they first all installed and how does the UK government afford it? Few of them are by central government. They are mostly by local government, transport authorities, businesses and so on. They have built up over the years, mostly because it has seemed a cheap way of increasing safety and security. It started out as some obviously good things, like traffic blackspot cameras. Then some were put in areas where camera evidence was often useful, like nightclub...

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If executions were televised live, would you watch? No! Way!

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If something is irresistible, it's probably bad for you. Do you agree or desagree with this? Why? I disagree. The habit of breathing is irresistible, but definitely good for me. If I give up food for several days, it is definitely bad for me. If something is irresistible and good, we take it for granted. Which makes your question tautologous: we only regard things as irresistible after we have removed all the irresistible good things.

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Are male and female really equal, what is the evidence/arguments for this..? thanks.. It is not equal in substance, it is equal in rights. We have no right to say that women in generals should be treated differently from men in general. This is not something requiring evidence: on the contrary, it requires evidence to the contrary. From what evidence do you deduce that man and women do /not/ have equal rights? That does not deny the difference in particular. If a job requires...

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Air quality in American cities is much beter than 50 years ago. Who gets credit? Gobvernment? Industry? Environmental activists? To some extent, all. But it is environmental activists, plus ordinary people woken up by environmental activists, who should get most credit. Industry would not have done it without a combination of laws and public pressure, and government wouldn't have passed the laws without public pressure. The activists lead, but nobody would have done anything until it became obvious that ordinary people...

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UK selfemployment: can you explain tax deductable expenses simply? Eg, if my tax bill is £100 but have £50 elegible items, is bill £50? Not quite correct, I think. If you have an income of £1000, you would normally pay (say) 20% of it in tax i.e. £200. But if you have £100 of expenses, these are deducted from your income before tax. So your taxable income is only £900. You them pay 20% of that, which is £180, in tax. You only save the tax on your expenses, not the whole expenses.

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Those who are opposed to the death penalty are perfect examples of showing mercy to those who showed none. How do they do that? Could you? I don't see it that way, because I regard the whole concept of vengeance as immoral. Since I cannot be taking vengeance, I cannot be dissuaded from vengeance by mercy. The purpose of the justice system is to deter future crimes. The law says to everybody "If you do wrong, you will be punished". There is a tariff of punishments, intended to correlate in severity with the crime. We deliver...

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Do Anglicans and Episcopalians pray to the saints? No. Anglican theology only recognises saints as particularly virtuous people whose example is to be followed, not as special people who have powers of intercession with God. The sainthood, to Anglicans, is just a "Hall of Fame", not a privileged group in the afterlife. Therefore prayers to them would be pointless. In protestant theology, the relationship of all humans is directly with God, and...

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Does the term scapegoat have any religious connection? Why not scapedonkey? Because goats were the animals traditionally offered as sacrifices to God by Jews in the Old Testament times. Goats are a meat animal, suitable for offering as a feast to God, whereas donkeys conventionally were not. The idea was that you could only offer a perfect animal, one without sin, to God. Of course, no animal is without - particularly a goat. So two goats were brought to the temple,...

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If they build the Ground Zero Mosque, would it only be fair to turn the Dome of The Rock into an Apple Store? The so-called "Ground Zero" mosque is several blocks from Ground Zero - there is apparently an existing mosque closer. And they are not trying to convert anybody else's building: they want to build on a lot they have bought. The equivalent would be building an Apple store down the hill from the Dome of the Rock, which people would not protest about.

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Some folks demand links/attribution and other folks just answer the question. What is the difference in character/motive between them? I demand links for claims that I think not true, or that I need more context for. If someone asks "Politician X said Y - doesn't that make him unsuitable for office?", I want evidence of what exactly politician X said, and in what context. E.g. did he say "Illegal immigrants should be deported within 24 hours" or "Illegal immigrants sentenced to more than a year in prison should be deported...

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How much does having ample money in the War Chest make up for lack of support/charisma for a presidential candidate. How loud is money? Very loud. I am reading a book on the conscious/unconscious at the moment and the author says that there is research showing that just hearing a name makes you react more positively to it. Thus if you ask someone classify some things as "good" or "bad", they are more likely to classify unknown things as "good" if they have heard but forgotten the name recently - even if what they heard was "...

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Was creating the Euro (currency) a mistake? With the rules it was created with, yes. It should have been much clearer about who had responsibility for national deficits. It was created with a fudge that blurred this responsibility, in the hope that what has just happened would not happen. This was a big mistake.

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Justice is supposed to be blind. Colorblind too? How about injustice? Is that colorblind as well? Don't stretch a metaphor too far... Since justice is totally blind, this should include colour-blind. But then justice should also, on one level, be deaf: she should not change her mind because of accents or pitch. But she should also net be deaf, because she should hear, and judge upon, the evidence. Which shows what happens when you overcook a metaphor,

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3 US-born physicists won the Nobel Prize for discovering that the speed of universe expansion is accelerating. What are the consequences? The main consequence is that we can be certain that the long term future of the Universe is the Big Dark Chill, not the Big Crunch. Galaxies will gradually spread further and further from each other until they lose sight if each other and are alone in the darkness. The catch is we have no idea why this is occurring. Physicists have given the name "Dark Energy" to the cause, but when you ask...

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If Santa Claus existed, logically would he have to be a ghost or a spirit? What is the difference?

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Why do many people refuse to believe in life after death? There is not the slightest proof of it. A cautious thinker should take a default position against that which one's desires would make true. Wishful thinking would make anyone overly receptive to claimed evidence which agrees with what one wants. Therefore the presumption must be that there is no life after death until it is positively proved.

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Why does fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing? One is meant literally (slim chance) the other ironically (fat chance).

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Does President Barack Obama have the authority to declare you an enemy of the state and have you executed without trial? Should he? Only in circumstances that amount to "war". If you are in a state of war, you are allowed, by current rules, to kill the enemy without trial. Recent US administrations have stretched these definitions to, and arguably beyond, their limits.

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Why doesn't my usb keyboard turn on until windows starts up? BTW it works to get to the BIOS menu and Setup, but then it turns off after. There are separate USB drivers in BIOS and Windows. The Bios driver works at startup, but at some point it hands over to Windows. But Windows takes some time to load its (more complex) drivers. During this time, there are no keyboard drivers, so the keyboard is dead.

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Peoples choices are the most destructive thing on earth...arent they ? No, I would suggest that typhoons, earthquakes and volcanoes are more destructive.

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How big does an Irish elephant get? Very large, because it keeps on Dublin.

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Understanding Atheism... is it better that life has a higher meaning, and a higher purpose, or that, this is it, to life.... To me, it is not a question of what is better or worse, it is a question of what exists. The universe might be nicer if God existed, but it seems there is no God, and this is the universe we have. "Meaning" is attached to communication between beings. Therefore, its seems to me that you cannot use the word if you do not believe in a higher being for who conveys that higher meaning. Which does...

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Can you make at least 3 sentences using the word "joint" with entirely different meanings? On his way back from the burger joint, while smoking a joint, he fell and fractured his hip joint.

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Is the US helping the world by ridding it of terrorists? No. Many of the terrorists were created by US actions, and the actions the US it taking to get rid of them are creating as many new terrorists as are killed - or more. At huge, and unsustainable, cost the US has managed to get the current bunch of terrorists to keep their heads down a bit. But the current military effort cannot be sustained for ever - the US economy is already creaking. The US...

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What did the Aztecs look like before they were invaded by Spain,and bred with, the American Indians?? The Aztecs were American Indians. The pre-Columbus population of the Americas was all originated from a single ingress in the North West about 11,000 BC which then spread southwards over both continents, reaching the far south after about 1000 years. They were all one people; there might have been a slight drift amongst different groups, but they were fundamentally the same people.

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If you're visiting a friend in another country and fly by private plane is a passport required if you just stay with your friend? Yes. Passports are required to enter countries by whatever means and for whatever reasons.

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I am not a creationest but, Can we breed Bacteria until they become multicellular organisms to prove the power of natuaral selection? We might in future be able to do so. But there are two steps in what you describe. First you need to convert bacteria, which are prokaryotes, into eukaryotes, then you need to persuade these eukaryotes to cluster together into a multicellular organism. The second is relatively straight forward: we can see intermediate stages such as sponges in which multi-cellularity is developing but not...

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I read that there was a government considering a two year marriage license. After two years they'd be single again. Thoughts. Can they return the children for credit, too?

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To the West, 69 means sex. To the East 69 means Yin & Yang. Which is correct? Can both be right? 69 represents sex in the shape of Ying and Yang. So they are both the same.

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How long is the average software developer's career? What do they do after the corporations decide they're too old to do programming? Let me know when you find out - I am 57 and still programming.

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How come we can have a Kenyan President? Well, he follows the Irish Presidents, Scottish Presidents and English Presidents, of whom you have had plenty - if you follow the same logic. With only a few exceptions, you are all a load of immigrants. The only legitimate President would be a pure blooded Native American. (And Obama is as much Scottish as he is Kenyan).

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Did King Henry the Eighth sell Indulgences when he made himself the head of the Church of England? No. One of the key inspirations of Protestantism, which he picked up on, was that loathing of indulgences. It would have been, and be seen to be, the most rank hypocrisy for him to do so. He did, however, pocket the huge wealth of the many religious foundations he abolished.

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Does cause of existence -from the big bang to present- suggest a 'cosmic natural intuitiveness' - as in nature's intuitive mind..? There is absolutely no reason, other than our natural anthropomorphization, to believe so. The evolution of both the universe and life on earth could be summarizes as "stuff happens". To see an intentional element is wishful thinking.

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Why can't the GOPTeaParty commit to a candidate? First Palin,then Bachmann,then Perry, now they're courting Christie. Fear of commitment? Have they "committed" to any candidate? All I am seeing is press chatter abut who, in the opinion of the hacks, they seem to be preferring, and a few totally unrepresentative straw polls. All you are seeing is the media trying to create stories out of very little information.

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So many Irish folk died in the potato famine, what did they eat before the potato was brought over from the Americas? Turnips, I would guess. But there were probably not nearly as many of them.

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Why is it that Mares, and Cows stand when taking a leak instead of crouching? What need to crouch? The urine gets well enough away from them that it won't splash. And, due to the design of their legs, crouching would be difficult.

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Why does this make sense? A girl about to get the needle for aborting her baby says she shouldn't be killed because killing is immoral? Some believe that an early foetus does not qualify as a human being. So an early enough abortion is not killing, it is just removal of a growth inside the woman that would become a human if left, but is not a human at the time of the abortion.

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in old movies where there is a stationary steam train railway person walks along tapping under the train.What and why do they do this? They were checking for flaws in the wheels. In early iron wheels, flaws could develop inside the metal of wheel where they could not be seen. They would grow steadily, and the wheel would suddenly fly apart - at a time of greatest stress i.e. when travelling fastest. As well as it being dangerous for the train to lose a wheel at high sped, sharp edged bits of cast iron would fly everywhere. But...

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How much does your appearance affect your fate in court? Unless juries are blindfolded, how can they be certain they are being fair? Nothing is certain. The justice system we have is what is regarded as the least bad system so far. The hope is that a jury of 12 people will be right a lot more times than they are wrong. Nobody, so far, has a better system. We need a justice system, and have to put up with the one we have, faulty as it may be, because we know of none better.

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Is it true that back in the 70's and 80's, men wore more make-up than Woman? Not that I recall

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Some say if it isn't mentioned in the Constitution it should not be allowed. Where does it say Computers,Cell phones, Tv's are okay? The Constitution doesn't mention breathing, horses, clothes, churches. But I bet the authors had these things and didn't intend to ban them.

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My boss called me into her office today and asked, "What do you wanna do with your life?" Why do you think she asked me that? My guess would mean that she thinks you are not putting enough effort and/or enthusiasm into your work. If you want to keep that job, if that is what you want to do with your life, you need to do it better. If that job is not what you want to do with your life, it is time for you to find out what you actually do want to do - somewhere else.

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Should I stop taking antiplatelet medicines such as aspirin before minor surgery? Ask the surgeon, or your doctor, or both. Don't take advice from the Internet - you have no idea how competent responders are.

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Do you think genetically modified foods should be labeled? I, personally, don't mind. but I know that a lot of people do, and I think that they should have the information to make a choice.

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Goldman Sachs invested heavily in Greece when Bernacke was CEO. Was that a wise move? Now that he's head of the FED Reserve, you worried? Ben Bernanke has never worked for Goldman Sachs or any other commercial bank. He was an academic who also served on various government and statutory bodies. I suggest you recheck your sources.

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Describe the difference between a Thread and a Process? Threads operate in the same address space, processes operate in different address spaces. Two threads can therefore access the same variable. In order to do this safely, they need to take care to use some interlocking mechanism such as a semaphore, but they can communicate very fast. Two processes operate in different address spaces and can generally only communicate by sending messages via...

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Why have eight cylinders in an engine? Why not have one big cylinder of the same displacement of the eight cylinders instead? Smooth power delivery. A cylinder in an engine only delivers power on one of the four strokes - and even that dies off towards the end as the pressure in the cylinder falls. A one cylinder engine would deliver power in a series of massive, jerky, bangs instead of the smooth purr which marks the expensive eight cylinder car. It would also be less responsive - you would have to wait longer before...

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In islam can i marry my father's brother's daughter ? is that forbidden to marry her :( ? Cousin marriage is common amongst certain Pakistani (and therefore Islamic) communities in Britain, because they want to marry in their own community and there are not many of them in Britain. I therefore assume it allowed, at least by their flavour of Islam. It is legal in Britain, but evidence is rising that there are significant problems for children if it is more than occasional.

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Do people always retain the "accents" they were born with? How long does it take to develop an accent opposed to imitating it? No. I know of several people who changed their accents at University, because at the time a regional accent was regarded as marking you as stupid. Mostly actors and media folk, who may be more motivated than many. There are records of people losing their whole mother tongue: after WW2, the liberating troops met some old soldiers who had stayed in France after WW1 and had completely switched...

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I think some Communists have moved into my closet. They're claiming it because they're Socialists. How can I get them out? You are OK until they move under the bed. Reds Under The Bed is the worst humiliation - a few Closet Socialists don't matter a bit. If you really want to, you can give them a spray of Money(TM). A health spray with $$$ soon turns Socialists into Capitalists.

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If I've a bunch of insects living on me, does that make me a god? In that case, there are a lot of Gods around - trees, flowers. You live on the Earth. Is the Earth God?

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Where did anyone get the idea that women are bad drivers? Is that a mostly true stereotype or can it be debunked? Actuarially, women have more accidents (by a small margin) but they are mostly minor - fender benders. Men have fewer accidents, but they include most of the bad ones. Men, for example, are overwhelmingly the causers of fatalities. Make your own judgement as to which is the "worse driver".

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what is the diff. between (i forgot calling you) and (i forgot to call you) please any one help me?? "I forgot calling you" means "I have no memory of the time I called you". "I forgot to call you" means "I did not call you due to my lapse of memory". In the first case the call took place but was forgotten; in the second case, carelessly, it did not.

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The legal system should be simplified to crimes of violence and theft. All other crimes should be abolished. Discuss. Commerce collapses... or vigilante law takes over. If you cannot ensure someone will pay their bills, you don't invest in anything. You don't do all the things that make civilisation work, like building factories and large scale farming. We retreat to subsistence farming - and there isn't enough land to support that for the current population. 98% of the population die within a year - murdered...

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The guy who discovered milk...what was he doing with the cow? Probably trying to feed a baby whose mother had died in childbirth.

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Can Scientists use the Scientific Method to disprove God? Only if you can provide a precise description of what God is and does, and probably not then. One problem anybody attempting the task would be that, attempting to prove something, believers would say "God doesn't do /that/" or "That was only a metaphor". If God is omnipotent, and God doesn't want to be found, then tautologously God will not be found.

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Are women involved in politics mostly due to the men in their lives? Where would Bachmann be if Marcus hadn't told her to become a lawyer? It is said that Hilary Clinton actually suppressed her political career for Bill, which goes against your paradigm. More generally, I think that, due to the social conventions of Marriage, women who advance in politics either do so "by permission" of their husbands, or don't have husbands. It is not acceptable for a woman to go into politics despite her husband, whereas it is acceptable for a...

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Can you trace your ancestry back to the days of the "Big Bang"? Yes. I am certainly descended from LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

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The world is suffering from financial chaos. In America some blame Obama for our crisis. Whom do you blame/Obama too? No,then whom/what? It is certainly little to do with Obama. Nor, for that matter, with GWB. Much of the cause comes from the banking community. So far as it applies to government, there was a serious weakness of banking supervision, and there was pressure starting back in the Clinton administration to give mortgages to people who really shouldn't have mortgages. This made the regulators be even more easygoing...

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In California more parents are claiming "personal belief exemptions" to avoid immunizations for their children. Are they making a mistake? Yes. They are saying that they would prefer to have ten of death to one of disability.

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In many countries, citizens are required to serve in the military for a year or more. Do you believe that the U.S. should do the same? Many countries in Europe are dropping this idea. It really doesn't work with a modern army. In the days when soldiers were just riflemen, you could train up a soldier to a minimal acceptable level in about six weeks. Therefore a year or so of service would both give you a standing army of minimum quality and ensure that all young men were capable of being hauled back if a war started, and...

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What is the difference between a two-stroke and a four-stroke engine? A two stroke has one explosion for every rev of the engine. It compresses fuel on the upstroke, explodes at the top, then in the downstroke it has to extract energy from the compressed gas, then release the burned gas to the exhaust, then suck in more fuel for the next cycle. This means it cannot be very efficient: it has to let the compressed gas out before extracting all the energy from it....

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I think being a warrior comes naturally to men, not women. Women need to be toughened up. Why do women enter the political boxing ring? Your assumption is that the skills of politics are those of a warrior. This is true only in a metaphorical sense. There is no real blood and guts in politics, no hand-to-hand combat, no physical damage. Politics is about changing minds, which is in many ways a womanly trait. Men have imposed the metaphor of war, of struggle, of fighting for victory, which fits the stereotype of violent men. But...

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Doesnt it f*ing pisses you off that death is a mystery and this "God" can't tell us what's up. Instead we need to rely on faith. What is mysterious about death? Your brain stops working. The end.

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A President should not go out hustling for re-election funds. I didn't like it when Bush did it and I don't like it now. Do you like it? It is the American Way. All recent Presidents have done it, but as the cost of elections has risen, they have had to become more blatant about it. Until you can persuade the Supreme Court that giving or spending money in elections is not a form of free speech, protected by the Constitution, money will rule American politics. Most other countries have strict limits on political spending, which...

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How can you guarantee that Romney won't try to leagalize polygamy? Laws are the business of Congress, not the President. He would have no power whatsoever to do so. He could, of course, ask Congress to pass such a law, but it would be entirely up to Cogress whether they did or not.

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why is linux trying to kill gui? Eh? When is linux trying to kill gui? On the contrary, having started without one, it now has several.

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Animals kill one another for food. Humans just kill one another. Which species is more evolved/advanced/honorable? Animals also kill their own species for reasons other than food. Usually fights over mates. If you do not have property, mates are about the only thing you have to argue about - and they do. But we humans have invented property - useful stuff like clothes, tools, food stores and so on. So we fight about them as well as mates. So to end wars, simply give up all property and adopt a life of...

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why do people love sin. knowing that the wages of sin is death? So says a book of folk tales in which I do not believe.

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Just heard Rick Perry say "I will guide this country with a deep rudder". Is that a good thing? What does it mean? When you reach shallow water, the rudder will be ripped off and the country will be unsteerable. (But then, it is unsteerable anyway - Presidents simply don't have the power they pretend and others hope they have.)

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How do you trap Neutrons? After reading this article i wondered.. To trap neutrons you first thermalize them. That is you reduce their energy to normal room temperature by running them through a material with a lot of light atoms - typically paraffin wax. As they bounce off bounce off the atoms, they lose energy until they are at the same temperature as as the atoms. This energy is about enough to fire them about twenty feet upwards. So let them escape up a...

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If you are already on a turn lane, do you still have to use the blinkers? Then function of blinkers is to inform other drivers of what you are going to do. You should keep them on until there is no doubt whatsoever of your future plans. Then you should turn them off to avoid overloading the environment with excessive signalling, freeing people's attention for things that matter. When exactly this occurs is a matter of judgement.

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If the garlic has such grand powers, what about the lowly onion? Onions may have some of the benefits of garlic, but the evidence it that the sulphur-containing compounds that give garlic its distinctive smell/taste are also the ones with the antibioptic effects.

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Who is the living GOD on this planet? Not according to the evidence.

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why do some people find prayer so hard? its not a religious thing to pray its just sincere talk with god. tell me what you think It is a religious thing to believe that God exists. If you do not believe there is a God, then what is prayer? Talking to thin air, or to yourself, I guess.

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Has another day come and with it another opportunity to praise God? Or another opportunity to curse God, or to ignore God, or to get on with living your life as best you can, God or no God.

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Are you For or Against Palestinian Statehood. Why? For. They are millions of people with a consistent culture living on a defined area of land. They have as much right to be called a nation as any do. Yes, they have problems that still need to be worked out, but we should not deny them statehood just because of that.

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Was Einstein wrong? If he was, he was wrong like Newton was wrong: right in most everyday circumstances, but with exceptions or with a more sophisticated law in some exceptional circumstances.

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How can a woman please a man without having a physical relationship? The way to a man's heart is though his stomach.

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What are the benefits of an "open" relationship? Why be married or partnered with someone if you still want to screw around with others? Life is more than sex. You might want to raise children, go on holiday, share your hopes and fears for the future with one person, but not have sex with them, or not only with them. A life partner does not have to be a sex partner. Customarily, and frequently in practice, the two go together. But not all people are the same; what is true for the majority is not true for all. Just as most people...

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Meg Whitman failed in her bid for election as Governor of California. She is the new CEO for Hewlett-Packard. How do you think she'll do? Middling to poor. But not as bad as the last guy. The deals he did/started are ridiculous. He vastly overpaid for Autonomy, and splitting off the PC business which, for better or worse, is 2/3 of the company was crazy. For better or worse, HP is a PC/printer manufacturer: focus on doing that well. Don't try to become another IBM - there is already an IBM. Whitman may recover that sense of...

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Is it possible to produce an animal without a brain for meat consumption? Not yet, but it looks like it will be possible very soon. Companies are starting pre-production research: I would not be surprises to see it available - if the market and legislators accept it - in 7-10 years.

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"Calif. Muslim Students Guilty of Disrupting Speech" Nice to see the jury left political correctness outside the jury room. Read his bio - he wasn't.

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I am 48 and my boyfriend is 22, I look younger and he looks older, there is any problem with that in the future? Yes. But problems are part of life, that will not be the only one. If you both work at it, you will be able to work out the problems. Even if it is not permanent, enjoy it for now. "Better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all".

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If something is described as scary does that mean you are scared of it? Why this is in Atheism is explained in description. The natural human society, the one we are evolved to fit, is the tribe. And tribal societies are naturally hierarchical: orders come down from the chief, middle level people order lower level people. People /want/ a Big Chief, a Boss, someone in charge, someone who will make things right. But, being more educated and with wider experience, we know that our human top bosses are fallible human...

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Danishes or danish people? Danes. Denmark (Danmark in its own tongue) is the mark, or land, of the Danes.

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"Calif. Muslim Students Guilty of Disrupting Speech" Nice to see the jury left political correctness outside the jury room. Why? Do you think the jury would have judged differently if the were Christian students or atheist students, or students with no religious affiliation?

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When do you think God established a Plan? There is absolutely no sign of a Plan, so I don't think one was established.

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What is actually IN human faeces? What is composed of? Fibrous residue from your food, bacteria from the digestive system (about 30%), bile (which gives it the colour - breakdown products from scrapped blood cells), anything else indigestible.

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Why can NASA and other scientists not accurately predict when the satellite will de-orbit? Firstly, it is an irregular object tumbling as it falls, so the air resistance is varying rabidly. Secondly, the "top" of the atmosphere is not a fixed place. The atmosphere expands and contracts slightly as temperatures below change and air masses move around. It is neither smooth nor unmoving. It is, apparently, a little higher than normal now because the sun is emitting more ultra-violet...

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What would Christmas be like for you if it was centered around gift giving, sharing time with family and friends and not recognizing Jesus? Just what it is for most people - the midwinter festival, which was celebrated for thousands of years before Jesus lived.

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Reasons for legalizing prostitution Making prostitution illegal does not make it go away. All it does is make it go underground where it cannot be regulated or checked. It means that prostitutes have to solicit on the street, they cannot depend upon the police to protect them, they have no incentive to get health checks etc. If prostitution were legal, we could force prostitutes to get a licence and be regulated. We could then...

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If multi-billionaire Bill Gates chose to shut down the internet forever, what could anyone do to stop him? He couldn't do that - probably. The core of the internet is 14 well-guarded servers scattered across the globe. As long as only one of those remains in service and connected to the net, we have an internet. IP, the Internet Protocol, was designed for use on a battlefield where any node might be knocked out without warning. It is designed to route around damage and keep going as long as any...

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Is there much demand for Chemical Engineers? The expertise needed is very specific and I wonder how many jobs there actually are for them? According to one report I heard on a science radio program, it is the field with the greatest shortage of qualified engineers. Mind you, it was a senior chemist who said it.

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Probably a stupid question, but, why don't we send a guided missile up to destroy the satellite? All that a missile would do is blow it into chunks of metal. But that is what is going to happen when it hits the atmosphere anyway: it will be broken apart into lumps of metal. The smaller bits will burn up, missile or no missile. The bigger bits, while they might be bent and twisted by a missile explosion, will still be as dangerous on ground impact as they would have been without a missile....

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Conspericy theorist say we have seen the last election in the US. They feel martial law will be declared ending elections. Your thoughts? It just shows how crazy some folks can be.

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"How are you?" For example:Fine thanks... Any other alternatives please? Mustn't grumble

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Some people think God is non existent. Are they existing in reality or are they unrealistic? Very firmly in reality. We want evidence from reality before we will believe that something exists. We do not believe something that comes only from inside our heads.

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Are there enough jobs in America (or even the world) for everyone? If not, and hand outs aren't allowed, when do the exterminations start? There are always enough jobs. More people have more needs which creates more jobs. The only question is whether the producer-people have the right skills to make what the consumer-people want. People will always want to consume more. "All" you have to do it produce it. But as machines learn to do the simple jobs, the things people want other people to do become more sophisticated. Unskilled...

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Do you think God took the time to explain His existence, Heaven, The Burning Lake of Fire/Hell to each newly created spirit? If God existed and were omnipotent, he could create the spirits with that knowledge built-in. An omnipotent being does not have to do things the same way that humans would do.

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Is it easier to feel convinced that God exists -or at least just SAY you believe so- than to determine that existence of God is unlikely? Many people have an internal conviction that there must be /somebody/ in charge of the universe. We have a built-in propensity to anthropomorphize - to attribute human-like agency to anything complex whose behaviour is not immediately comprehensible, which certainly applies to the universe. Any statement about the non-existence of God has to fight this propensity. So, yes, it is easier to say...

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If Buffet wants to pay more taxes, shouldn't he write the IRS the BILLION dollar check he owes? He is a bona fide hypocrit ... He wants all billionaires to pay more taxes, not just himself. He gives literally billions to charity, bypassing the government, so I don't think he has anything to be ashamed of in his personal contribution to society.

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When speaking I have been taught to dress a notch above my audience. So what do I wear when speaking to a nudist colony? Body make-up.

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How would you define a fundamentalist Christian? Serious answers only please Someone who, when the Bible conflicts with objective evidence, is certain that the Bible is true and reality isn't.

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Do you do what Jesus would do even though you're a heathen? I think that there is a huge amount of good in Jesus's teaching, and that those teachings have informed the morality of the culture to which I belong. Though I do not believe in the divinity of Jesus (or any other God), I think that my morality is pretty compatible with his.

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Would you change your religious beliefs to marry the person you love? Why? or Why not? I find it strange that you can change what you believe. In fact, I don't think you can. You can change your religious practices - but if you do so, you didn't really believe the ones you had at first.

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Why do some business charge an extra 5% fee when people pay with a credit card (and why do some not charge)? The banks who handle the credit cards charge the merchants. Some merchants, used to cash, resent this and pass the cost on to the customer. Other merchants feel that the cost savings of not having to handle cash, and the benefits of making life easier for both user and customer make it worth their while absorbing the cost. Having said that, they don't actually absorb the cost - they just build...

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Fitzgerald said "the rich are not like you and me". If not, who are they? Could they be exactly like us and are trying to hide/deny it? He was right, because there is an ingrained arrogance which comes from being able to buy anything you want which ordinary people do not have. They were once like you and me: it takes ten to twenty years of serious wealth to imbue the arrogance and self importance which makes their world-view truly different.

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A guy says he's falling for you, but doesn't say falling in love. Are falling for you and falling in love with you one in the same? Yes. Guys really don't like to use the L word, lest someone demand a commitment from them.

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do astronauts hang their beer out of the international space station window to keep them cool? No. It is a vacuum out there, and it wouldn't make them any cooler. In fact, if the sun shines, it would make them hot. And there is nothing as bad as sun-warmed beer. (All right, there are some things worse, but it is pretty bad).

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Was Charles Darwin a madman? I don't see him as "quite mad". Pretty eccentric, yes. In the way of strong minded, intelligent people with an independent income. He didn't need other people's approval, so he did his own thing - which sometimes appeared pretty odd to others. The actions of a determined experimentalist can look pretty mad to people who don't understand the thinking behind them. I have seen the film, but don't...

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What would the fallout be, if a satellite were to explode, and/or fall out of orbit? If it were it explode - almost nothing: all the bits would stay in orbit. Nowadays satellites are carefully dropped out of orbit into empty ocean, rather than letting them fall. If one were to fall, especially one of the big ones, one or two large lumps of debris might make it to the ground - that has happened in the past. The chance of them hitting anything important, while not zero, is very,...

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I've been dating a great girl and we would like to become intimate but I'm confused about the age of consent laws (details in description) In most places, the age of consent is a fixed age, but if both people are young and near the age of consent, they will not actually prosecute. The main objective is to stop dirty old men seducing young girls. Some people take the letter of the law literally, and will therefore prosecute in any case; others realise that a fixed age of consent is only an average, some people can give informed...

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I suppose in ancient times the concept of "fair" didn't exist. When did "fair" show up and why? I think the concept of fair has always existed. What has changed is the number of people one is expected to be fair to. People have always divided the world into "Them" and "Us", and you don't need to be fair to "Them". I think that in the earliest days, "Us", to whom you need to be fair, probably started with your own hunter-gatherer group, perhaps 100 people. Everybody else was fair prey, to...

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Why does my mobile phone keep saying "network not registered", when i try to ring someone, and also doesn't connect to the internet? Your SIM has in some way expired, and the phone company is no longer accepting it for service. have you run out of credit, had your account cancelled or something?

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can you legally ask on job application if applicant is disabled？ I would have thought so, because you might need to make provision for certain disabilities. However, if you then rejected the applicant, you would have to be prepared to prove that you did not do so because of the disability. Rather than asking if someone was disabled at all, it would be safer to ask if they have any disabilities which would require special provision in order for them to do the...

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If a teen from the US is stuck in another country because their only parent died in a fire losing everything with it how will she get home? That is what Consular services are for. The Consul in a country is there to provide help to citizens in trouble.

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Is "The Arab Spring" bad/good/neutral? Isn't spring spring wherever it appears and by whomever it is celebrated? That is like saying "Isn't the 4th July just another day? Isn't the fourth of any month the same wherever it is celebrated". The Arab Spring (with capital letters) is the events of a particular spring in a particular few countries, just as Independence Day celebrates a particular day in 1776 - while the US remains independent every day, so that every day is independence day (without capital...

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What was the original point of giving the first subsidy to someone for not growing something? Does getting paid for not doing sensible? Suppose there are too many farmers producing too much X. The price of X is so low that none of the farmers can earn a living. So in order to earn a living, they scrabble to produce even more X, so that they (individually) will be better off, even though this pushes the price down further and impoverishes all the others. Politician reckons that if you take, say, 1/10 of the farmers out of...

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Does Energy have any weight? Yes, given by the famous equation E=mc^2, which an be re-arranged to m=E/(c^2). Since c is a very large number, the mass of the energy we use everyday is imperceptible.

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Will Americans start to move to China or India for jobs since most jobs are going there? The reason jobs are going to China is that wages are low. And the reason wages are low is that there are already many people willing to work to no pay. The way to deal with a glut (of labour, in this case) is not to add more to it. Americans need to up their skills, not compete with unskilled workers.

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Do you subscribe to any magazines or journals in print form? Have you had subscriptions to any for more than 5 years? More than 10 years? The Economist since 1979 New Scientist for about 10 years. Private Eye, off and on, for a few years

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"Resigned Acceptance" or "Battle to the Death" (figuratively not literally). Which are you when you meet an immovable object? Resigned acceptance, masking an attempt to go under, over, or round.

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In your opinion, is trying to please others a waste of time? Please explain. No. But it can go too far. You should always try to please others - but only at a reasonable cost and only for a reasonable time. Much of the time, you can easily please others, and you should do so. But there are occasions when people basically cannot be pleased: whatever you do, they will up their demands. These you should simply give up on pleasing.

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Could someone please explain to me the differences between Newton and Einstein's views on Gravity? Crowsnest is basically right. I will try to explain further, but if it is too confusing, Newton explained gravity as a force, but without saying what a "force" really is. This worked fine, until Einstein asked how fast a force can travel - having already shown that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. He recast the "force" of gravity as a change in the shape of space in the...

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Do you know anybody who lost, or dropped and broke, more than one expensive phone, IPad, or other similar expensive item? A colleague broke two laptops by knocking them off the checkin desk onto the hard floor in the same airport terminal.

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If the Olympics were cancelled for any reason, would you really care? REALLY?? Personally, I would be delighted, provided the cause of the cancellation was not harmful. I am gritting my teeth at the thought of three weeks of non-stop sport and meta-sport.

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Is using the word "whom" a bit pretentious? Not really: it is often good English. Of course, it can be used pretentiously if you use it in a way that emphasizes your use, and thereby points up your correct usage. "To WHOM am I speaking?". As for the usage, this (first hit on Google) is pretty clear: http://web.ku.edu/~edit/whom.html

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whats the steps to the scientific method 1. Collect information 2. Form a hypothesis which would explain that information 3. Make a testable prediction using the hypothesis. 4. Make an observation or perform an experiment to see if the prediction is true. Repeat 3 & 4 a number of times, preferably using different methods and by different teams. If the predictions work out, the hypothesis becomes a theory and can be used for...

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Was the SR-71 capable of carrying bombs? Did it take part in any bombing missions? No, and no.

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Borders Books is closing all stores today? Is this good for small, independent book stores? How are you affected? I think it is just reflection of the success of Amazon. Books are the ideal think for on-line sales. All identical, not too heavy, not fragile, no need to touch and see. I am afraid that the same effects that killed borders will also affect the independents. Only the very most special will survive.

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When a light bulb runs out of power, why is it always immediately when I switch it on? Why doesn't it go when it's been on for hours? When a light is turned on, it goes quite suddenly from room temperature to about 2000 degrees C. This makes it expand considerably, which effectively "twangs" it. If it is getting weak, that is when it will go. Once it is turned on, it stays at a fairly steady temperature. Since it is very hot, it is losing the odd atom every now and again, but only weakens very slowly. You would have to leave...

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Should a tariff be put on all imports thats high enough so that the same thing made in United States would be cheaper? No. What that does is to, push prices up and impoverish all other Americans in order to subsidise the few who, without competition, produce inferior goods at higher prices. That is what India did for forty years after its independence, and it held back a country which should have become a world leader. Tariff barriers have been found over and over again to be a lose-lose game. Protected by...

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Why is saying "bully for you" good when bullies are very bad? Why/when did bully mean "good" and why/when did it turn to bad? Bully is a word with many meaning. In the late 19th/early 20th century, bully was an adjective meaning good, fine. Read Nark Twain, who used the phrase "that's bully" colloquially to mean that it is all well, it has been done properly, it is fixed.

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Are you for or against the death penalty? I am against the Capital Punishment in any form. To me, avoidable killing is murder under any circumstances. Killing someone, anyone, is a great evil. The only justification is preventing a greater evil. Which is why killing in self defence is justifiable: you are entitled to regard your death as a greater evil than someone else's, and killing to protect yourself and other innocent people is...

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You know your lawn needs to be cut when _______ . ... you can no longer see the elephants.

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When will our UK lib-tory government will call for early elections? Very unlikely. Part of their election platform was fixed-term parliaments - no giving the party in power the choice of preferred time for an election.

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I could go on and on.The question is why do many not live by this ?"shanti,( sanskrit) calmness peace,cont> These are word-sounds that have a particular meaning to you. But they do not necessarily mean the same when they enter the ears of someone else. To exaggerate a lot. when you say "Salaam alaikum" I hear "funny foreign words". Yes, I know it means peace be with you. But it comes over as "peace on my terms". In principle "Allah ul Akhbar", God is great, is a neutral phrase - but it has been used...

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Is the concept of 'law' wrong/ 'immoral', since the law controls people and it's 'wrong to control people'? I don 't see the law as controlling people. I see the law as the bedrock of the social contract, the things we agree to in order to make our society work. if you want to be in our society, obey the law. If you don't accept the law, leave and find somewhere else to live. So the law is not control but the price you pay for the benefits of society.

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My career has turned into the hi-tech industry. I don't like the hi-tech industry and don't seem to have the brain for it. Suggestions? Get stroppy. While I don't agree with all you say, the tech industry had been sadly guilty of forcing people to become techies to benefit from its benefits. You should shout loudly "Make it easy for me, not for you". That said, we are now reaching a stage (about bloody time too) when techies are producing things that are easy to use. Apple are leaders, and are forcing others to become more...

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If god created everything, why did he create evilness? Yup. Paul Erdős called God (in whim I do not think he believed) "the Supreme Fascist". If God is omnipotent, then everything happens because he did it, or he allowed it. No getting out of it: guilty by omission when not guilty by commission.

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Why did homonids evolved faster than the great apes?knowing that they were both living in Africa- Same selection pressure by the environment What do you mean by "faster"? They probably evolved as fast as us - but in different directions. It so happened that the direction in which we evolved lead to the jackpot of civilisation building. But evolution is blind, it could not know that. Chimps evolved to become better jungle-living hunter-gatherers, we evolved to become better plains living hunter-gatherers. It so happens that plains...

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the placebo effect: Can multi-vitamins be effectively replaced with candy coated chocolates? In many, but not all, cases. Most of the people who feel impelled to take multivitamins actually have enough vitamins in their normal diet. There will be a few exceptions, and for real vitamin deficiency a vitamin pill is a wonderful cure. But that is not common in our developed world: if you eat your greens, and otherwise have within sight of a balanced diet, multivitamins are a compete waste...

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Any Jasper Fforde fans in here? Favorite book? Definitely a fan, but not sure about favourite book: still trying to get my head around Shades of Grey.

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Should the government be able to track you using cell phone or other GPS devices without a warrant? I do not see it as intuitively obvious that they shouldn't. That is a decision we have to make. It is perfectly possible and legal to track you by having someone follow you around; having a machine do so is not logically different. It is qualitatively different from the things which require a warrant, which involve entering private buildings and searching personal possessions. Anybody can see...

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Atheists: Is it fair to say atheists can be divided into those who would need proof to believe in God and those who would not accept any proof what so ever? No. I am sure that all atheists would accept proof, if it appeared. The division is between those who say just that there is no proof, and those who say there can never be proof. One group says only that God appears not to exist, the other that God cannot exist. Both groups would accept real, incontrovertible, proof, but one would be a lot more surprised than the other,

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Pick three, discard one. Mom, Dad, Children, God? Who is this God person?

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Merck wanted all State Governors to mandate use of their vaccine in each state. They wouldda made billions. Crafty/greedy/crooked? If it is open, it is merely greedy. Any business is entitled to try and push its products by all legal means. State Governors then have a duty to act in their state's interest. The would have to explain clearly why a single supplier policy was to the state's advantage - something I think they would be hard put to do. The problem comes when the companies soften up the governors by wining and...

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Pat Robinson says it's okay for a Christian man to divorce his wife if she has Alzheimers. Do you agree? Why/Why not? I do not recognise the teachings of the kind Jesus of Nazareth in the unpleasant garbage that Pat Robinson spouts. People such as he distort and pollute the name of "Christian".

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I've been seeing this other dog behind my dog's back, now our other dogs believe we're cheating coz we see each other on a regular basis. "Behind another dog's back" doesn't have the same connotations as with humans, since a dogs back is towards the sky. It would be "behind another dog's tail".

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What do you think is the best Web Browser to use to browse the Internet, based on Security & Speed? Browsers keep overtaking each other: the best browser at any time may not be the best a week later. Microsoft have been doing a lot of work on Internet Explorer, for example: once it wqas a disaster, now it is competitive. But my personal choice is Chrome, which is usually the best or nearly the best, and runs across the OSes I use.

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Atheists -why are you against Religions? We are not against religions. We are against people imposing their religious beliefs, or their consequences, upon us. Religion should be a private matter: you are welcome to follow your religion, or lack of it, and I likewise. Only when people want to change public law or behaviour because of their private religious beliefs do we protest.

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Agree or disagree - Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.? Disagree. I only respond to others statements about God. If no-one mentions Gods, I am more than happy to ignore the subject completely. The trouble is too many people want to push their beliefs into my world.

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Would you agree that as long as there's no outright abuse or neglect it's better for a child to grow up with rich parents who don't love No. Once the basics have been take care of, love and above all security is extremely valuable, I know several poor little rich boys, shuttling between divorced parents who don't really want them around. Children of poor but loving parents are much happier and, in today's world, have a good many opportunities to do better themselves.

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Why the extreme bias against Christianity in our politically correct world? Isn't tolerance all encompassing? I see it as paranoid to see separation of church and state as anti-Christian. Do you suggest that Jews, Muslims, Buddhists etc. are being allowed into the state in a way that Christians are not? You might call it anti-religious. I disagree, but even if it is, tht is what the Constitution says. I invite you to expand on the "adversarial" nature of the separation: I don't see it.

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Why the extreme bias against Christianity in our politically correct world? Isn't tolerance all encompassing? What extreme bias? I see a bias /for/ Christianity. It is very difficult for a non-Christian, particularly an atheist, to get elected in the US. There is an underlying assumption that the default is to be Christian, and all others are the different ones. Please could you explain where you see bias.

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How great an age difference in a serious romantic relationship is appropriate? The rule, from the point of view of the older, if "half your age plus seven" seems a pretty good rule of thumb. Of course, it depends upon the individuals concerned.

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why should prisoners be able to vote ? Deprivation of liberty is the sentence, not deprivation of civil rights. Representation is not a lollipop handed our to good boys and girls: it is part of the fundamental bargain whereby we agree to function as a community provided that they community is governed by someone fairly selected by all of us. Criminals are still part of the community. They may be being punished, but they will come...

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J. K. Rowling says that Dumbledore is gay. Is there anything in the books that actually indicates this? I don't see that implication at all. Actually, I see the opposite implication. Rowling is saying that she, from her superior position, happens to know that Dumbledore is gay, but as a responsible school teacher his pupils are not aware of his sexuality. Nowhere does it imply that you should have been able to deduce it from the stories. As with many competent authors, Rowling has a deeper model...

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Atheists : Have you ever thought about your funeral ? Would your family honor your secular beliefs without being specifically instructed ? Of course, since they are all atheists too. But since I think that funerals are for the living - the deceased is simply gone - I would rather they organised the funeral to suit their needs rather than mine - which do not exist. If they have been converted and find prayer helps them, let them pray. It cannot harm me.

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Are Teachers allowed to boost religion? Read Description please. Where are you? UK, US or somewhere else? State school or private? Rules are different in different schools and systems.

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Do you believe in one God, many gods or no God? Why? None. No evidence.

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Steve Jobs said once that "Nobody uses Java anymore” — is it true? No. That was a very Apple-centric statement. Java has not conquered the world as it proponents hoped. But it has a very solid base in commercial web processing (J2EE0, and it is the working language of the Android system (chief competitor to Jobs' iPad/iPhone).

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why is it called your birthday instead of your anniversary? you are only born once, it's an aniversary! Strictly, it is your birthday anniversary. An anniversary can be of any event - the first time you went to school, your first kiss, the first time you ate lobster. It is purely convention to drop the "anniversary" from "birthday anniversary" and the "wedding" from "wedding anniversary".

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Should crooked cops receive protective custody, or should they be deliberately placed where at least one person they arrested can get them? No. Punishment should be administered by the court, not by random prisoners. The sentence is of imprisonment, not of being beaten up. We have given up flogging and the stocks: your suggestion would reintroduce them by the back door.

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Science vs. religion?how come? He was factually wrong. Masturbation does not weaken eyes or harm the body, And masturbation while not sexually active keeps the machinery working. There is no evidence whatsoever that masturbation is harmful. And if it is, all men are harmed: 99% of men masturbate. But people dislike the idea of masturbation (though many do it themselves) and search their religious texts for arguments against...

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if we could vote on chopping a child molester hands for his crime would you vote yes? No. Physical mutilation belongs in the dark ages, with witch burning and bear baiting.

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Why would Jesus consider sending two of his disciples to take someone's donkey and colt for his personal use as OK without permission? You are jumping to the conclusion that the loan had not been pre-arranged. You are also misunderstanding the traditional Jewish repetition of "an ass, and a colt the son of an ass" to mean tow beasts, not one beast which fulfilled both roles. Just as in the Nunc Dimittis "a light to lighten the Gentiles : and the glory of thy people Israel" refers to one child not two.

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Does liberalism really lead to dependable economic growth? Not particularly. Liberalism is about personal freedoms, not economics. While extreme illiberalism has been shown to harm economic growth, once you get out of the domain of dictatorships maintained by force, there is no particular evidence that liberalism is better - or worse - for economic growth.

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Should there be a nuclear annihilation of humanity in order to test the believe that cockroaches will survive? The idea that cockroaches are particularly radiation resistant is itself not really true. Yes, they can resist more radiation than humans - but so can nearly all insects. For an insect, the cockroach is not very resistant. If there were a massive radioactive fallout, insects would do better than humans, but many insects would do better than humans.

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What is humanities greatest trait? Co-operation. The ability to work together on a project that no single individual could carry out. The ability to support those in need (e.g. mothers and children) for the long term benefit of the group.

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Something like 70-80% of hair products are bought by black women. Why so high a percentage? Is this to straighten their hair or what? You need to say what area this datum covers and how it was collected. Does it cover the whole US, or just a state and/or city with a large black population? Is it by value or by number of items? Black women tend to buy expensive specialist products that others don't.

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Why would the Obama administration support a Taliban office in Qutar ? Please explain your remark about "Qutar". Do you mean Qatar? What office is the nadministration supporting?

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How much damage can illiteracy do to a country? How long does it take to reverse the trend toward ignorance and bring it back to knowing? South Korea made it from an illiterate peasant country in 1950 to a major manufacturer by 1980 and a world leader in several fields by 2010.

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The tail that keeps getting bigger and stronger and wags the dog faster and faster might soon be all tail and bye bye dog? Evolution? First you have to prove the existence of such a tail, and then you have to show that it was not, like all other dogs, produced by human intervention.

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Why do some believe that the design, as seen in the vast variety of lifeforms on earth point to blind chance and not Intelligent input? The chance is not blind - it is selective by choosing the ones which survive and reproduce, The fossil and DNA evidence for this is overwhelming. And huge numbers of details in the "design" of these species show things which a designer would never have put in, but which are relics of previous generations. Far from being the perfect design that people seem to believe, animal (and human) bodies...

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Why is it that some refuse to acknowledge the inerrancy of Scripture, instead citing those who misinterpret its contents? Why is it that some believe the inerrancy of Scripture when the only authority for that is the Scripture itself - a classic circular argument? Can you prove the inerrancy of Scripture without quoting Scripture?

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In Electric Bikes - How to understand the meanings of the Voltage and Watts, with relation to speed? And how to know the power? The voltage should match the battery that you have. The power of the motor is then measured in watts, which is the voltage (the "force" with which the electricity comes) time the amperage (the amount of electricity that is coming). But that power can be delivered in different ways by different motors: fast with little power or slow with much power. Yes, you can alter this somewhat with cogs,...

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Does the US going "Green" just mean that we are shipping all of the jobs that cause pollution to other countries? Not necessarily. It can be done that way, but actually many jobs which are sensibly "greened" end up saving money as well as improving the environment, and thereby keep jobs at home. Shipping stuff unnecessarily is inherently un-green. Packaging is inherently un-green. The problem comes when people do it unthinkingly, and just export the polluting industries. Do it thinkingly, by removing the...

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What if Superman donated sperm? Super-sperm would probably destroy any woman they were placed inside. http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html

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Why haven't dogs undergone evolution over the years even though they are so smart? Why on earth do you thing dogs have not undergone evolution? Dogs now look and behave very differently from the wolves from which they are descended - though their evolution has been human driven, not natural selection driven. And what has smartness got to do with evolving - even slime moulds can do it? I think you have some fundamental misunderstandings of evolution, but I cannot tell from...

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Rick Perry is taking shots just like a cowboy. As a potential presidential candidate shouldn't he tone down his inflammatory rhetoric? Unfortunately, the primary system means that would be candidates have to appeal to the extremists of their party in order to get selected for the main election, and therefore vent the rhetoric of those extremes. As soon as they are selected, they then have to veer back as fast as they can to appeal to the voters of the middle ground, the swing voters who will actually decide the election....

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Unforeseen circumstances causes you to be all alone for one week, with only a few hours' notice. Will you enjoy the quiet or dread it? As long as I have books, no problem.

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Why do Biblical Christians think any rational person should conclude that the Bible is the Word of God? Of course, first you have to believe that God exists. If God does not exist, tautologously the Bible is not God's word. Many of the more Bible-bashing believers cannot get this, and keep returning to the Bible as a proof of the existence of God.

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What's your opinion about the idea that pre-1492 American Indians lived in harmony with their surroundings? Simply false. However, they did not have the technological tools to do severe damage to their environment, and therefore did not do so.

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Why are so many not-black people STEALING black culture? I don't think you /can/ steal culture. Did I steal reading from my parents when they taught me their culture of reading? Is it stealing to play Beethoven and Bach? Is it stealing for Black people to use European inventions like cars and electricity? Is it staling for black people to perform Shakespeare and read Dickens? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: the things that you regard as...

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What percentage of the time you spend on a laptop do you actually have it on your lap? None, and for good reason. One unfortunate gentleman literally cooked his penis by working too long with his laptop on his lap. For a while, manufacturers stopped calling them laptops to avoid people doing that.

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Do you ever have those days when nothing makes you happy? What do you do to make yourself happy again? Take my antidepressants. What you describe is depression. For some people, luckily including me, there is a pill for that.

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Do you believe in man's law or God's law?? Since I do not believe in God, I can only believe in man's law. But I think there is a common morality, a common belief about what is right and wrong, which is shared by at least 90% of the population, and which constitutes the core of what the religious call God's law. This is the law that is common to all religions, and to all variations of man's law. Unfortunately, onto this core of common...

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What is the prime purpose of religion? Shouldn't origin of the universe and development of life.. best be left to science? The prime purpose of religion is to satisfy the emotional needs of those who need to feel that someone is in charge, that the universe has an organiser or controller. |If there is such a being in charge, that being is presumably responsible for life. If you say that live just happened, you are removing their emotional crutch.

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I know dead is dead and what does it matter but would you rather be taken out by a terrorist not born in your country than one who was? I really cannot see how it makes the slightest difference where the terrorist was born.

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Obama Motors Volt: Is it worth $41k to go only 27 miles on battery and get only 38 MPG on the open road? Well, they were playing silly buggers, so the battery range is probably a bit more than that. But it inly make sense if the majority of your journeys are below that limit. Which many people's are. So you have a car which does your average shopping journey, commute, take children to school/game/party on electricity, but still carries you with OK economy on your monthly visit to your parents. One...

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What is something about your belief system, (thiests and athiests both), that can be established in FACT not just opinion? Support answer. Prayer has no discernible effect outside the mind of the person praying. Double blind trials have been run of sick people being prayed for and not being prayed for, and they show no difference. There is no evidence whatsoever for life after death. Every attempt to find it has been unsuccessful or debunked.

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I give up will someone please tell me the proper names of races and nationalities? There is no absolute definitions of either of these things, so there can be no "proper" definitions. Race is an informal grouping of people of similar background and appearance. But there is no scientific definition of race, no genetic test that can put people into one basket or another. Likewise, as soon as you stray away from the crudest definition of nationality as the passport you hold, you...

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Have you ever heard the term "Jesus Age Christ"? Whats up with the age? Does kind of make it flow though............... The term is, as other have said, "Jesus H Christ" - basically, I think, to make the expletive longer. When asked, the "H" stands for "Holy".

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Why is it that in "Spiderman" the main heroin is named Mary Jane (which is slang for weed) when the comic is so family oriented? And who in the family knows that a perfectly innocuous name, used for centuries, has been used as slang by the drugs crowd?

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Do you believe God is The Creator or do you consider yourself as a creator or someone else? I do not see any creator. There are a lot of happenings, which we can trace back a long way, but no person or entity which created things.

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is 3000mg acetaminophen with nyquil and 1mg xanax able to kill ? Paracetomol is one of the most unpleasant ways of committing suicide. It knocks you out in the short term, but doesn't kill you. Then you come round, and everybody runs around and pays attention to you, and you are happy not to be dead. But the paracetomol killed your liver, and unless you get a transplant immediately, the shit builds up in your bloodstream and you die three or four days later...

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Are all the religions right at the end? Does atheism make any sense? No, some religions are incompatible with others. But they all come from the same source and fulfil the same need. I think that many people, including you, have an internal feeling that some God, some Being, must be in control. This belief is very deeply built in, so that it overrides logic. Hence your statement that it is "nonsense" to think that emotions can come only from chemical processes:...

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What is the difference between solar flares and sunspots? The difference between men and women, Solar flares stick OUT, sunspots stick IN. And, like men and women, they are often close together.

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Humans are corruptible. Why not create a group of Robots programmed to be incorruptible? Robot legislators? Who monitors the programmers? Robots of the sort you describe exist only in fiction. We do not yet know how to program a robot to be intelligent, to understand the concept of law, let alone to enforce it. In fact, it is probably that such a root would not be programmed, except at a very low level, but taught. It would therefore be open to errors and misunderstandings. Probably not the same errors as humans, but different...

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How is this called in English? wooden device for making tables. Link to pic in description. I see two trestles with a sheet of wood, making an ad-hoc table.

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Do you believe the American Social Security system is a "ponzi scheme"? As currently organized, yes it is.

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Wasn't there a movie in the 90s with Clint Eastwood and either a monkey or a dog? Not Every Which Way But Loose, I think he was a detective Yes. An Oran Utan.

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What religion is the most peaceful? The Quakers seem pretty peaceful

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Agree or disagree- God made women as the weaker sex, but gave them more beauty, grace and made them more emotional? All evidence shows that, apart from simply muscularity, women are the stronger sex.

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Is Hugh Laurie the funniest British person ever? Solo, I find Billy Connolly funnier. Given an accomplice such as Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie indeed approaches the heights.

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If a trespasser is eaten alive by the lions in your garden, can you be held legally responsible for that person's death? If you didn't make it pretty hard for them to get in with the lions, yes. You need to have very large and obvious warnings and very obvious and hard to bypass barriers. If they can just climb over at any point in the fence, you are probably liable: the fence should be "unclimbable". If they needed cutting tools to get through the fence, you are probably not liable.

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Are males more attracted to females than females are attracted to males? I feel that way since i stare at ladies more than they stare at me. Visually, yes. While women are attracted to men's bodies, they are not to the same extent as men are attracted to women's bodies. Women are more interested in feelings and relationships. It is said that you seduce a man through his eyes but a woman through her ears.

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Can't connect ereader to internet bc ONLY HAVE A verizon usb modem forlaptop. Ereader doesn't have the right size usb port. Help? USB is a master/slave system. A computer is a master, a modem is a slave. The cables are carefully designed so that you can only connect masters to slaves. The ereader is probably another slave, so you cannot connect it directly to the modem: that would be connecting two slaves together. It is designed for the computer to download stuff from the internet then write them to the ereader. It would...

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Why when arguing with a Christian friend do they always say this? (read description) You can also ask "How is God here?". If they answer that he has always been, ask why you cannot say the same for the Universe.

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Although we share 98.4% of our genes with chimps, we still look so different from the outside. Do same genes somehow work differently? Most of the genes are not concerned with the outside. We share 50% of our genes with cabbages: these are the genes that make cells work. A lot more of the genes build hearts, skeletons, muscles etc., all of which are very similar to chimps. And in fact, the differences between us and chimps are tiny - mostly hair. Thin the hair down to human body hair, push the muzzle back into the face,...

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do you know any atheist under 18? My son refused to join the Cubs at age 7 because he could not swear to "do his duty to God". That makes him at least agnostic at that age. I think I became atheist at about 16.

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PLEASE HELP: Do I need to uninstall things on my computer or can I just delete them to save space? It is much safer to uninstall if the program has an uninstaller. When you install programs, they may also put files in places you don't know about, such as the system directories, and they will add registry entries. Deleting files will free most of the space but leave these behind, potentially causing problems later.

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Is "Directed Evolution", Out of the Question? Not at all. All you have to do is show the existence of a directory. As Nemo_S says, humans make pretty efficient directors. Other animals have directed evolution as well, albeit less consciously. But you were probably referring to a supernatural director. As with all other manifestations of god-like beings, it is perfectly thinkable, but appears not to be true,

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God or mammon-your choice? Why? But Mammon is a god - just the same as Jehovah. If you admit the existence of Mammon, then he and Jehovah are just two of many deities. Personally, I believe in neither,

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Pretty rare when everyone wins. Usually there are winners which means there are also losers. Would you like a world with more winners? I think you are wrong, and I think your premise, which is widely believed, is one of the most corrosive beliefs in the world. It is the zero-sum hypothesis - the idea that for every winner there is a loser. And therefore if someone has gained, someone else must have lost - and it may be you. Every business transaction should be a win-win transaction: the seller sells something for more than he...

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How on earth did life form? Can some give me the correct 100 % answer We don't know - yet. There are some very good hypotheses, and I expect that we will know within about twenty years. But at this time we do not know.

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which noble gas has the highest percentage in air? Argon. 0.93%, the third most common gas in the atmosphere.

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Rush Limbaugh and Barack Obama both abhor "saggy pants." Do you support their campaign to "pull your pants up?" Is it important? The saggy pants don't matter in themselves. But the saggy pants comes from prisons, where belts are taken away. And saggy pants on the street says either "I am a bad guy who has done time" or "I am emulating a bad guy who has done time". The problem is people having bad guys as role models, ones who they want to emulate. We want young men to emulate good guys, who may dress casual but don't...

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Do you believe that rather than atheists 'lacking' faith that theists are 'lacking' evidence or 'lacking' critical thinking? You could say that, but there is an implication in the phrase that faith is a good thing to have. To lack something is not bad - I am very happy to be 'lacking' cancer. I hope I 'lack' gullibility - which is, to me, a close relative of faith. Evidence and critical thinking are to me good things - they represent a 'lack' of ignorance and a 'lack' of credulity, which are the bad things. But faith...

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Why do some scientists quickly dismiss all religions as nonsense but embrace the idea that aliens visited and helped ancient humans? Could you proved examples? I know of no reputable scientist who believes we were visited by aliens. Some people who have science degrees but are no longer working in mainstream science may do so, and call themselves scientists. But I would inquire how many publications they have in peer-reviewed journals.

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Why do so many people want to see marijuana be legalized? Drug-related crime is one of the greatest evils in our society. It is estimated to be responsible for over 30,000 murders in Mexico alone in the last decade. The high level of imprisonment of US blacks on drugs charges is the biggest impediment to equality, and the thing that holds back the largest number of people from a full life. And yet marijuana itself is not very harmful: for most people...

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Why do so many people want to see marijuana be legalized? Drug-related crime is one of the greatest evils in our society. It is estimated to be responsible for over 30,000 murders in Mexico alone in the last decade. The high level of imprisonment of US blacks on drugs charges is the biggest impediment to equality, and the thing that holds back the largest number of people from a full life. And yet marijuana itself is not very harmful: for most people...

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I'm an American citizen. Can I get Russian citizenship without giving up my American citizenship? (Dual citizenship?) Officially, America expects people to renounce American citizenship on taking any other citizenship. Practically, there is no formal checking, so if you don't let the American authorities know, they won't do anything and you can still claim American citizenship if you need it. But I wouldn't advise it; make up your mind which country you belong to, and stick with it.

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Why is the tree called good and evil? How can good and evil come from the same tree? It is the tree of the /Knowledge/ of good and evil. I.e. of how the world works. God didn't want people to understand stuff, and punished them when they learned.

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Does anyone still serve cooked carrots as a side-dish? Carrots seem to have become "the forgotten vegetable." Not by us. We have them frequently. Sometimes just chopped, sometimes pureed.

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Are politicians dense? Do they know we can see them? Do they know they're on tape and we hear them? Do they think we don't pay attention? They think you will forget. And for a sufficiently large value of you (i.e. the population as a whole, not you personally), you do.

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My mother doesn't understand or want me to learn french, What can I do? (Read description) Learning any foreign language is a valuable stretch of the mind. It is the mental equivalent of going jogging or pumping iron. While neither of these achieves anything useful in itself, it leaves you fitter. Learning French is better: it may be useful in itself, it informs you of one of the origins of English, and it leaves you mentally fitter. Does she want you to be a mental couch potato?

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Do the Chinese manufacture any automobiles? Yes. A lot. Some are by foreign countries: VW and GM are probably the biggest manufacturers. But there are a large number of native manufacturers as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China

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If all candidates are unacceptable do you vote for the least awful or just not vote? Shouldn't a vote be for someone in whom you believe? In Russia they used to have (but do not any more) a box on the ballot for "None of the Above". If that won, the election had to be re-run with none of the previous candidates allowed to stand. I don't think it ever happened, but I would love to have the option.

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What is the difference between "Gender" and "Sex"? Sex is nowadays used when talking about things related to the sexual act: romantic love, sexual assault, reproductive matters. But there are social differences between men and women that have little to do with the physical act of sex or with reproduction. We behave differently when we hear a man's or a woman's voice answering the phone. Employees of the two sexes are often treated differently...

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When and where did white blouse and black skirt became like standard-uniform working clothes for waitress girls? Probably the feminine equivalent of white shirt and black trousers for men, which was the basic dress for non-labourers across Europe.

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Why do people claim the Theory of Evolution is proven,but offer flimsy "proof"? A theory is a widely accepted explanation of some facts. Evolution is a fact, Darwin's explanation of Evolution, is a Theory and can never become a fact. Thought the term is widely abused, a Theory is a highest level a scientific explanation can achieve. many people who have an idea, which should properly be called a Hypothesis, jump the gun and call their Hypothesis a Theory. Evolution by...

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You're vulnerable when you're open/honest. It's safer to keep quiet. Is preferring "safer" due to lack of trusting others or yourself? Distrust also has a cost. Working together is what people do - it is how humans came to dominate the planet. I prefer to be moderately trusting, and risk the occasional disappointment, rather than lose out on all the opportunities when you distrust everybody.

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If we all started as females what parts of the vagina transform into a penis and balls? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_homologues_of_the_human_reproductive_system

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How is Air Force One started? I know big planes don't have keys, but this is Air Force One. Shouldn't there be a key/code, something? It should be pretty well guarded all the time. Even without starting it, there must be a *lot* of secret material on there. There will surely be an armed guard on it 24/7. Not to mention it lives in a highly guarded Air Force base. The chance of a bad guy who is trained to fly a 747 being able to sneak on to the flight deck, start the engines and taxi out unnoticed, and fly away, is pretty...

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How life began? What is your opinion? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Complexity/Consciousness The article is about one man's opinion, with which I do not agree.

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What significancy, if any, do you attach with seeing a person wearing their hat backwards. The technical name for it is an "IQ reducer".

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Is the picture on an HDTV supposed to look better from farther away? Because close-up it looks like crap. TV pictures are designed to be looked at from a distance of about six screen heights.

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Could anyone help me quantify how much organized matter there is? I disagree fundamentally with part of your premise: "nce life began on this planet it has had a direct route to us as humans". It has been a very indirect route, and humans are as much an accident as anything else in this universe. For about 2.8 billion years evolution essentially stood still. Even after this, it took a sequence of accidents to produce us (e.g. the wiping out of the dinosaurs)....

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Why would any government (the US and Canada) allow outsourcing as a viable option to company profits. It seems to me Define outsourcing. Are you prepared to ban imports of oil, from overseas. Will you ban imports of clothes from overseas and pay, perhaps, four times as much for clothes made in the US? Or do you want Americans to do boring repetitive low paid work making cheap garments? Will you allow people to buy stuff from those damn furriners in Canada and Germany? Is it outsourcing that virtually all the...

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Why is America so obsessed with the Arab World? Oil

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The guy who can get a loan doesn't need it. The person who is unemployed is rejected in favor of the one who already has a job. Nuts/logic? Normal positive feedback - the system upon which the financial markets are based. And look how well they work.

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Since so many employers check the internet for information on prospective employees, are you extremely careful about what you post there? It is not just employers - it is everybody. If it is on the Internet, is public. I would not post anything in any forum on the net i would not stand by in public. Google searches /everything/. Don't believe privacy settings will last more than a day.

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What age in the England, U.K can a child make their own choose on which parent they live with? The courts are expected to judge on the child's best interest above all other considerations. They must take the child's opinion into consideration, but need not follow it slavishly. Older children will obviously be given more weight.

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If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Depends upon your definition of God. If you see God as the Destroyer, the Eater of Souls, the ultimate negation of everything, then I would imagine most people are against it.

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In the restaurant business there is a cost called "shrinkage". Inventory disappears. It's theft. How much do employees steal? About 2% is a commonly accepted value for such so-called "wastage". It obviously varies with industry.

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I suppose all corporations are Ayn Randians...most politicians too. Greed is good. Selfish rules. Me first. Any others come to mind? No. I think most (but not all) politicians genuinely enter politics to make things better. Unfortunately, the corrupting nature of politics means that those who genuinely set out to do good are corrupted by the political process into a series of short-term goals, driven by the need for votes and/or money, which lose sight completely of the public good. This is particularly true in the US with...

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Do you agree that sport today has become far too competitive and is no longer enjoyable? No. You can play for fun yourself; you don't have to turn professional just because others do.

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Do you take sides immediately before getting all the info? How do you know you're on the "right" side if you don't know the whole story? How can anybody know everything about anything? You learn as much as you can. If taking sides (i.e. supporting what is, in your opinion, right) can help.you do so. You never stop listening to both sides, and if you find the initial position you took is wrong, you change it. But never taking sides is a recipe for being burned alive because you cannot decide whethr to run out of the back or the...

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Black teen unemployment at an all-time high. Why don't the frustrated unemployed teens form a flash mob demanding Obama's ouster? It really is ridiculous to blame this on Obama. This is a problem which has been building for forty plus years, through Republican and Democrat administrations alike. Unless you can /prove/ beyond reasonable doubt that there is something that could be done and has not, you are being unreasonable.What did Bus (Sr or Jr) do for teen black unemployment? American society is biassed such that...

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How are the Int'l Space Station astronauts going to get supplies if the Russian rockets failed to launch? The SpaceX system is scheduled to do a resupply flight within the next six months. I am sure a supply mission could be rigged up using the European Ariane system inside 6-8 months if there were a real emergency. There are other commercial systems in development, plus the Chinese.

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Why do we park in a DRIVEway.....and drive in a PARKway? Because English is a mad language with no-one in charge.

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Can technology disturb evolution? Easily. Antibiotics are changing the evolution of bacteria. But it is true in many more species, but has not had enough time for effects top be seen. It takes of the order of 100 generations for evolutionary changes to be seen, so it is only relatively fast-breeding species in which the effect has become visible - yet. The classic (though now suspect) example is industrial melanism - moths...

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If you would surrender to God, what would you have to give up? Sanity

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Do you have a heart of Gold or steel? Meat.

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Is there a way to get lucky? "I am a great believer in luck, and find that the harder I work the more I have". Stephen Leacock.

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Ladies: Why do we have a PAIR of panties.....and just ONE bra? A pair of panties comes from a pair of pants comes from a pair of trousers. And that is because trousers were originally just leggings worn under a smock,k and therefore there were two of them. It was not until about the 15th century that people worked out how to cut cloth for the complex shape around the human groin. So before that you had a skirt-like upper garment, be it a smock or a kilt,...

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Is it really worth chronic high unemployment and escalating deficits to have the bureaucratic boondoggle of Obamacare? Whatever Obamacare may or may not do, it has not happened yet, so you cannot blame Obamacare for it. Current facts show that the USpays about twice as much for the same healthcare as European countries with "socialized" medicine. So the fact is that US healthcare is already a bureaucratic boondoggle. The US pays about 15% of GDP for healthcare, Europe about 8%, for outcomes that are roughly...

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Should rapists be tied down and left to the whims of their victims? Mob law has usually been a mark of a society on the slippery downhill slope.

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Should Middle Eastern people who want to be American citizens have to recite the following pledge while eating a bag of pork rinds? As unpleasant a bigoted rant as it has been my displeasure to hear in a long time.

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Should companies be allowed to discriminate provided they place a legible sticker on every entrance announcing that they do so? No. Discrimination is an evil in its own right. I I suggested people should be able to be muggers provided they wore a muggers uniform, you would not (I hope) condone it. But discrimination has done more harm than mugging over the centuries.

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Why is it that some who mimic systems in nature to solve engineering problems often attribute the original idea to unintelligent evolution? The copy does not /require/ an intelligent designer. An intelligent designer can achieve things much faster than random chance, but random chance /with selection/ will get there in a long time. Like anything else, it is easier to copy than to invent. It took thousands of years to get from the wheel to the first car, but the second car came along very rapidly after. Does that mean that the...

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Why is it that some who mimic systems in nature to solve engineering problems often attribute the original idea to unintelligent evolution? The copy does not /require/ an intelligent designer. An intelligent designer can achieve things much faster than random chance, but random chance /with selection/ will get there in a long time. Like anything else, it is easier to copy than to invent. It took thousands of years to get from the wheel to the first car, but the second car came along very rapidly after. Does that mean that the...

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Should helicopters ferry troops to the line NOT behind it? Generally it is reckoned not a good idea to put your troops exactly where the enemy are pointing their guns. Taking them to the line would be a recipe for them getting mown down as they deplaned.

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Separation of Church and State is now at ridiculous levels so at what point did the Atheist go from oppressed to oppressor? Could you give an example of what you mean? Because I do not see it so. There have been attempts within the recent past to bring church into state by, for example, putting up the Ten Commandments in courtrooms. Where is the atheist the oppressor?

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Did you know that we lose 21 grams of weight after death, not attribured to anything but the soul, so far? This flatly contradicts all the experimental evidence I have seen so far. Can you present any trustworthy source for it?

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according to evolution Am i come from a monkey or monkey is come from me? You are both descended from a monkey-like ancestor. The last common ancestor with monkeys was perhaps 20 millions of years ago, and the last with apes about 6 million years ago. So plenty of time to have diverged from both.

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NASA says 'world will NOT end 21/12/2012'. Can you trust science or is the Mayan calendar prediction cause for real concern? Even the Mayans didn't thing 2012 was anything more than the end of a cycle - like our end of the millennium. The idea that the end of the Mayan Great Cycle meant something significant for the world was invented in the 1960s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon#Apocalypse

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Can a Scientific Law be refuted? Very easily. Water flowing up hill would refute the Law of Gravity. Large mammal fossils in the same strata as dinosaur fossils would seriously damage the Theory of Natural Selection. Heat flowing from a cold thing to a hot thing would refute the Laws of Thermodynamics.

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Why, attack christians or the Bible? We do not know if it is true. My definition of God is the power or cause of all that exist. That is all And I have no problem with your definition, even if I disagree with it. The problem I have is with the small but vociferous group of Christians who want to force their beliefs and their interpretation of the Bible on others. I only attack the Bible when they say "The Bible says you must..." Then I point out how they selectively interpret the Bible to reinforce their prejudices.

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How do Christians explain Fossils without using Evolution? In other words, why do Christians ignore proof of Evolution? Creationists, who deny evolution, are actually a minority of Christians. Many Christians are happy to accept the Book of Genesis as a metaphor.

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Isn't the most professional of liers actors and actresses? No. No more than any writer of fiction or teller of tales. The storyteller is an ancient and honoured craft. Actors and actresses are quite open that what they are doing is telling a story, not expecting you to take it as fact.

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Australians now pay around 2-3% of their income to have the privelidge of water and sewer. Is that fair amount? Yes. Try doing without either. You will soon realise their value. Plumbing is the foundation of civilisation. Until sewers were put into cities in the second half of the 19th century, cities were net importers of people: more died there than were born. And if you ever trued carrying fresh water from a remote tap, you would see the point of having it piped to your house. You cannot do without...

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Is it contradictory for an Athiest to quote Bible verses to a Christian? No, in a conversation about what the Bible says. One of the most annoying things for atheists is selective quoting from the Bible. Saying that the Bible is the inerrant truth of God, then being happy to eat pork; picking out the verses that condemn homosexuality, and ignoring the ones that allow slavery; and so on. If you choose the Bible as your main weapon of argument, you cannot complain if...

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Why don't we have any "unreality" shows? Funny - I thought there were a lot of fictional shows on TV. From realistic fiction, like cop shows, to pure fantasy. Or do you think Stargate is fact?

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If fairytales=God to an athiest,when they stub a toe say"elves dammit"or their kid rescued maybe"thank unicorns" or turn to him? It is not true that fairytales=God any more than Socrates=man. God is a fairy tale, one amongst many. So when we stub out toes we say "ouch" and possibly some meaningless expletive. When we have something to be grateful for we will say something like "Thank Goodness" - which i admit is derived from God; but we don't have words in the language to express atheistic thankfullness. So we use...

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We should be understanding of 'alternate lifestyles'. So it should be OK to let my kids watch 2 men or 2 women kiss? Insofar as it is OK to let them watching anybody kissing. I, personally, do not want to watch a hefty snog whatever the sexes involves. Tonsil hockey is not a spectator sport. On the other hand, a quick kiss of salutation between partners does not offend me, again whatever the sexes involved, and I would be quite happy for partners to do so in front of my children.

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Why is it so many people say we don't need Religion but haven't stopped doing wicked things? Religion has never stopped people doing wicked things. People simply use religion to justify doing whatever they intended to do, both good and bad. Hospitals and massacres have both been done in the name of religion.

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Will USB 3.0 override E-Sata and Firewire interface connectors in the near future? I don't think so. eSATA is excellent at a specialized job. It might attack Firewire, but that has a very dedicated community. I think USB will remain, as it is now, for removable storage and "all the rest" - strange peripherals.

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Would atheists get more of a welcome, if they went witnessing door to door? Since the whole point of atheists is that they have not witnessed anything, it is hard to see how they could do that even if they wanted to - which I doubt.

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True or false: God is the creator of everything, thus is not limited by anything. Right? How can we know? If God is much more powerful than us, we cannot understand what God's limitations might be. A being that powerful would be truly inexplicable.

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How come a lot of younger celebrities are totally unfamiliar to older people on AB? Well, I don't have a television, the sort of newspaper I read doesn't cover celebrities, most of the music I listen to was written before 1900. Where would I hear about these celebrities? And, if occasionally I hear their names mentioned, why should I remember them?

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Which is more plausible, intelligence creates intelligence, life creates life, or, mindless chance created life and intelligence? It is not a question of plausibility, it is a question of evidence. Ab initio, knowing nothing at all, we could not decide between a concious creator and a filtered randomness creation. Inspecting the Universe as we find it, we see no sign of a creator and a huge train of evidence for gradually developing complexity. If there is a creator, he/she/it has been deliberately deceptive by leaving...

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Would you hang out with someone who identifies as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transsexual? I do.

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Why would an ancient dictionary describe the dragon as "now rare"? Did dinosaurs co-exist with man, what says the evidence? The writer means "while I am not willing to contradict the ancient authorities who said that dragons existed, I have no direct evidence myself". The "ancient sages" were regarded then as infallible; we have a lesser opinion now.

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What do you think of Deuteronomy 22:28-29? I personally think this would severely reduce rape if made Law as God wanted it. So you would enslave a woman to any man who can get her out of earshot of help? God help any beautiful woman - she can be taken by any man, however repulsive and abusive, who can get her in a quiet place. What a recipe for /more/ rape! Then he can beat her up for his recreation, and she cannot divorce him.

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If a star is a gass ball ?.... see description. We cannot be exact. But there is in fact a sharp transition between the photosphere, the glowing gas we see as part of the body of the star, and the corona, the relatively much thinner plasma above it. That transition may be thousands of miles deep, but that is trivial compared to the size of the star. It has an effective radius, which is what we measure. This allows us to compare one star with...

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Why do people believe in god when god cant be 100% prooven? Because many people have a "God shaped gap" in their psychology. They need to feel that there is someone in charge, that there is a logic behind things. They cannot stand the thought that they are the only people in charge of their destiny, and that stuff just happens. They then search for something to fill that gap, and join the religion that best fills that gap.

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Does Religion stand a chance against Humanism in forms like Communism? Well, history shows that Religion beat Communism despite Communism trying very hard indeed to wipe it out. Still going strong in place like China.

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did not hear from BF in 5 days text him mean things thinking he is cheating went to talk to him he kicked me out his house and dumped me.why Accusing someone of cheating is almost certain to cause a breakup. If he is guilty, he is already seeing someone else, so he dumps you. If he is innocent, you come over as a jealous bitch, so he dumps you. So it could be anything.

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Queen bee, and worker bee. Is there a nymphomanic bee for the queen then, or several, or do they all get 1 turn at it? The Queen bee is a bit of a nymphomaniac: she has sex with several male drones on a mating flight, then stores their sperm for a very long time. So she has one gang bang, then nothing.

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Is scientific evidence always better than logical one? How do you distinguish between scientific evidence and logical evidence. Indeed, what /is/ logical evidence? Science is the process of taking measurements, then using logic to attempt to refute theories. Logic is a crucial part of the scientific process; with out it, all you have is unconnected facts. But logic cannot stand on its own: logic needs facts to work on. And facts are either...

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A crack in the Washington Monument: a sign from God? A partial quote from Pat Robertson.. One perennial of several millennia is that crackpots claiming that things are signs from God and that something mark the End of the World, or at least its beginning. Aside from being loony, these thing strike me as immensely arrogant; why should God start sending signs just when you happen to be watching, when all the claimed signs of the past centuries have turned out to be false alarms. To...

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If we went to War with China who would win and why? What about? What would be the goals of the war? Who started it and how? Unless we have some ideas about these, we cannot answer. If either side tried to invade and conquer the other, the invader would certainly lose. The most likely source of conflict would be Taiwan. At a guess, both would lose because Taiwan, which they both want to own, would be destroyed.

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What makes a gentleman? Always acts with consideration towards others.

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Would free-market have put an end to segregation as libertarians suggest? I am pretty sure that it would not. It depends what exactly you means by "free market". Libertarians, not wanting government, tend to mean a totally unregulated one. Such a market would certainly not end segregation - the haves would use their market power to keep the have-nots in their place. The free market that liberals (not libertarians) want is a regulated free market in which standards...

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Muammar Gadaffi apart:who else has the surname Gadaffi? I think it is the family name of the tribe he comes from, the Qadhadhfa (Gadaffi, Ghaddafi, Quaddafi etc. are all different transliterations of the Arabic name).

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What are the three principles of polymorphism in Java? The traditional three are encapsulation, inheritance and abstraction.

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Will Christian extremists who believe in Dominionism and Recnstructionism, dominate the American political atmosphere in 2012? If they do, they will hand the election to the Democrats on a plate. They are vociferous, but they are a small minority: even many other Christians fear them. They will terrify the voters in the middle ground, the ones who actually decide elections.

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Is the famine in Africa caused by God holding back rainfall in response to widespread unfaithfulness? Famines almost always correlate with war. There have been droughts in the past, and there will be in the future. In times of peace, people can usually handle them adequately; it is war, not God, that makes droughts into disasters.

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President Obama's Uncle is Charged With Drunken Driving. He is being held without bail on an Immigration violation. Should he be deported? He should be treated in exactly the same way as anybody else. His treatment should depend upon the nature of his immigration and the due process of law.

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Fear of facts? When some religious people deny scientific knowledge (eg. evolution, age of Earth, etc) does that help make God real? Fot those people, faith comes first. Their faith is so important that they will deny facts for them. If you will die for your faith, what is a little denial?

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Do you believe sin is genetic or a choice? Was The Blessed Mother without sin? Why or why not? To answer this, I would need a precise, certainly measurable, definition of "sin". Can you provide one? Some say, for example, that thoughts can be a sin, others only deeds. If you have bad thoughts but your conscience stop you taking action, have you sinned? If you have, we have no way of reading the mind of the Blessed Mother (should she exist) so we cannot possibly answer. Even if action...

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True or false - “One hour’s meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.” Not the slightest evidence. Wishful thinking.

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How did Americans first get their accent? When they came here and settled they had different accents so how? A lot of American accents, particularly on the East Coast, are actually closely related to old English accents - more so than modern English accents/ Any separated community will tend to develop a unique accent. They start from the accent of the people who arrived there, but then it drifts. The fact that they have theie own accent just means that they had relatively little (not no) contact...

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Agree or disagree - “It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.” Meaningless. The mind is an inseparable part of the body. It might mean more in context.

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Why did the Irish Catholics put bombs? Northern Ireland is part of a democracy. They had the same rights as the protestants. Because the Protestants has 60% of the vote to the Catholic 40%, they had a guaranteed majority. They used this to ensure that Protestant areas got the best of everything - new roads, new schools and so on. The big employers, such as the shipyards, would quietly refuse to employ Catholics. And the police wouldn't recruit Catholics,and were unsympathetic when they complained. It is called "the...

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Atheists: Are you ever afraid that you might be wrong about God? Would you admit it if you were? /Which/ God? I can be wrong about at most one of them - and there are hundreds of them. If I am wrong about God, I am wrong about at most one of the dozens of theologies about. And I have to say that the more I learn, the more I think that the Christian/Abrahamic God is one of the weirdest and least believable around. If there is a God, my bet would be on some variety of Paganism. Nature Gods...

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What's going on with the radiation in Japan? You don't really hear much about it. The government has finally admitted that some towns near the plant are so polluted that the residents will not be able to return for decades. It is still a strictly local disaster - the rest of the world has nothing to worry about - but the disaster is looking worse and worse for the locals as time passes.

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If there was no God, no eternal life, no spiritual realm, then what's the point of being a good person? Precisely what you said/ For the sake of others, Humans are sociable animals - the most sociable of all. We have value, even to ourselves, only as part of our community. Solitary pleasures are pretty sterile: it is only as part of a community that we flourish. And we not only must, but we want to, put into that community as well as take out. "God" is the name we give to these intangible...

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HOW DID THE BUTTERFLY GET ITS NAME It is a corruption of "flutterby". which is what they do.

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What's the current status of string theory? Is there a newer one going around? String theory is still the leading "Theory of Everything" with lost of people working on it. However, it is somewhat undermined by the fact that, after thirty years of work, it still has not made a single testable predictions. There are other theories, but they are less popular and have equally failed to make predictions. A few minor theories made predictions - which proved to be false.

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there is no devil but your own guilt? true? There is no devil.

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We can make weapons that kill 1,000s of people, destroy mountains, irradiate acres, why not something that tame hurricanes and earthquakes? Firstly, nuclear weapons are destructive, not constructive. I can use a sledgehammer to destroy things I cannot make. It is much easier to push over a wall than to build it up Secondly, a hurricane is actually much bigger than a nuclear weapon. The total energy expended by a hurricane is thousands of times that of a nuke - but spread over a huge area and a lot more time.

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Do you think it would increase productivity and decrease stress if school and jobs started later in the day? It wouldn't make any difference. People would just move their working patterns by the same amount. If work started an hour later, people would go to bed an hour later. Effectively, that is what we do when we change to/from summer time. It doesn't get less/more stressful when the clocks change, does it?

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True false - “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”? A mind that is totally still is dead. So it surrenders to the universe rather than the other way round.

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Why don't people use the word "couth" meaning polite and well-mannered? It must exist for "uncouth" to be its opposite. I do use it occasionally. I don't have much call fore it, but I might say something like "it would me more couth to wear long trousers than shorts for dinner".

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:Pastoral scene: Sheep in meadow? Sailboat on horizon; Couple in bathtubs sunset; woman with laptop computer sitting on the beach? Which? "Pastor" is the Latin for shepherd. Therefore only the shepherd scene is pastoral. The others may be peaceful, pleasant, restful - but not pastoral. Even if you remove the direct connection with sheep, it must show countryside ("pasture"),

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Al Gore calls it "racist" to hold realistic views on the fiction of global warming. Is he obviously desperate? What are your qualifications for calling your views (which I presume to be contrary to Al Gore's) "realistic"? What scientific degrees have you got, how long have you worked in climatology, meteorology or similar? You may indeed have views, but they are not realistic unless you have such qualifications. And I have to say that that the overwhelming majority of people who do have such...

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If you are called to testify in court, are you allow to view the testimonies prior to you own?? Definitely not. They want to know what you saw and heard, not for you to repeat or have your testimony affected by other people's accounts. The whole point of having several witnesses is to get independent accounts of events.

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Why do so many people don't believe in God. Not in the slightest bit obvious to me.

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What does it mean: "Throwing down the gantlet?" A gauntlet is a glove - usually a fairly stout leather one. The traditional method for a knight to challenge another to combat was to throw down his gauntlet: if the other picked it up, he had accepted the challenge.

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When will the world end? In about 4 billion years, when the sun expands to become a Red Giant.

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Do natural disasters highlight our depenedence on technology and those lazy uncaring overpaid individuals that are in charge? On the contrary, natural disasters highlight the value of technology. In the past, if you had a disaster, you were on your own. Now people can airfreight emergency supplies, you can keep in touch over the internet, we have medicines to treat the plagues that follow disaster, radio and mobile phones co-ordinate rescue. Technologically advanced societies survive disaster better than less advanced...

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Girls when, at what age do you start having the 'urges' and start masturbating? Do girls start at an earlier age? According to Kinsey, the earliest observed case of female masturbation was three years old.

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as a inexperienced teen, this is weird for me to ask but who else can I ask? When receiving oral sex should I pull my foreskin back or what? Don't do it yourself; leave it to her. I wouldn't want it myself - the uncircumcised glans is much more sensitive than the circumcised one (or so I hear) and is expecting to have feelings transmitted by the foreskin (which also has a lot of nerves, so wants to join in the fun).

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Why do so many people assume when you say "mirror on the ceiling" that it must be over a bed? There seems to be little point in putting a mirror on the ceiling except over the place where people lie down. We don't have eyes in the top of out head, so you won't see the mirror unless you are on your back.

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What race do you refuse to date even though you are not racist and why? I don't see how you can make a decision based solely on race and not be racist, Your question is self contradictory.

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Rape: was the dismissal of rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn by Nafissatou Diallo, a fair decision? It was inevitable. It was always going to be his word against hers, and when she was shown to have a considerable record of lying to get personal advantage, no jury could say beyond reasonable doubt that she was not doing so again.

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Why do programmers always claim that the "needs of the user are #1", but then just make upgrades to pad their resume? Management claim that the needs of the user are #1. If programmers say it, it is because they think management are listening. Programmers do what they are told, if they cannot help it, and have fun, if they can.

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Have you ever met a gay dude who wasn't good at interior design? I know they all don't do it for a living(some of them are hair stylists There are gay people across all professions. But generally you don't see them because they don't look gay - they dress like other people in their profession. For example, there are several gay MPs in the British parliament, and the Prime Minister of Iceland is gay. I knew a gay Patent Agent. Then, of course, the CEO of British Midland Airways. I doubt all of these were good at interior design.

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why do Islamist go to great lengths to prove they love Jesus,and deny the the validity of the bible? Should have been a comment

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Jeb Bush say its' okay to disagree with Obama's policies but it is not okay to blame him for everything including the common cold! Agree? Good Heavens! A Republican talking sense! Maybe it /is/ the end of the world.

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why do Islamist go to great lengths to prove they love Jesus,and deny the the validity of the bible? Because the see the Bible as just a book, written by humans. The Bible was not written by Jesus, it was written by a load of people reporting what they had seen and heard about Jesus. it is therefore a man-made document. Whereas the the Koran was written by the Prophet himself, and is therefore a God-inspired if not a God-made document. They agree that Jesus was a prophet, though not The...

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What kind of freaking career am I supposed to get that will last until I'm 80+? The idea of a single career for 40+ years is out of date. Very few people do that nowadays - or have done since about the 1960s. Take a job for ten years, retrain, get a job for another five, move sideways, learn something else, do something for another fifteen years, and so on. My wife picked up a new career (counsellor) in her mid 50s.

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Just a wild and crazy question but I am seriously looking for thoughtful answers. It would depend upon what the prophecy was: how unlikely, and how accurate. I can prophecy that the sun will rise tomorrow - and I think my prophecy will be fulfilled. Two "prophecies" that have been thrown at me today are: "there will be earthquakes" (yes - more than a hundred a year of the size that has just hit Washington) and "prices will rise" (and fall, and rise, and fall, as they always...

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Some people are convinced that we are running out of water? what happened to the some 70% of it covering the planet? It is fresh water that is running out, and only in certain rather arid places. You will die if you drink sea water, and your crops will die if you pump sea water on to them. And many populous places are far from the sea. Phoenix AZ, for example, is drying out the aquifer from which it takes it water; in twenty years it will be short of water. It will take billions to set up a pipeline there....

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Have teens gotten lazier over the years? The first known complaint about teenagers being lazy was written on the wall in the quarters of the workers who built the pyramids. So there is absolutely nothing new about this complaint. 'Twas ever thus.

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How come Democrats who complain about the rich not paying enough in taxes don't pay their own taxes and/or avoid paying them? Politicians of all stripes have always been "do as I say, not as I do". Additionally, the amount of money swilling around in US politics makes it inherently corrupt - politicians almost have to be multi-millionaires, and you don't get to be that rich paying money if you can avoid it. Democrat politicians say what their voters want to hear, but live as manipulative mega-rich. But then so do...

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Have you heard that the Mayans were dyslexic and the actual end date is 2102? Sure it wasn't 2210?

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Why don't they and should they release keyboard and mouses for consoles to allow for PC gaming? I don't understand this. PC games cannot run on consoles - the processors are incompatible.

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How many of the people at your wedding did you actually know well? All - of course. We only had about 40, 25 relatives and 15 friends.

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Big eastcoast earthquake Tuesday. Nine of the ten nuclear facilities most in need of upgrade/repair are located there. Upgrade? Ignore? I think Fukushima showed that the 1960s/70s reactors do not have the requisite levels of safety precautions. We have leaned a lot in the past forty years. While not saying we should abandon nuclear completely, I think the oldest reactors should be phased out (and replaced) as soon as possible, not have their lives extended.

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Are you scared of 2012? And what, pray, are you scared of? Those predicting doom are obvious crackpots, like the guy who predicted the Rapture earlier this year, and is not predicting it in October. Have you checked the credentials of any of the doom-mongers? Are they any good at all?

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Can I get a refund on my road tax if I'm not satisfied with the quality of the roads in the UK? No. Nor can you get a refund on your income tax if you are not satisfied with the quality of politicians.

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Are gas prices high because gas station owners are greedy and want to make more money? No. Gas station owners make a very small fraction - typically 2-4%. If they doubled their take, it still wouldn't amount to much. Gas prices are rising because all the easy oil has been drilled. There is more oil, but it is hard and expensive - and dangerous - to recover. Remember last years spill in the Gulf? Where is the 30 billion BP is paying our coming from? Gas buyers. And in order to...

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If you are hypnotized by someone and then they take advantage of you, is that rape? Never happened, just wondering. Yes. Two rules for consensual sex: 1: Give your partner plenty of chances to say No. 2: No means No. Hypnotism violates rule 1.

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Is there any other ancient texts that rightly says that mankind cannot govern themselves successfully i.e., where all benefit? Why should we believe "ancient texts" at all? As with most things, man governs himself moderately successfully, but far from perfectly. While the world is very far from perfect, it is actually getting better all the time.

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If the universe is getting smaller how do I find the middle of it so I am the last to be swallowed up into oblivion? The universe is expanding, and the latest readings suggest that the expansion is accelerating, so that it will never contract again. However, if it were to contract, there would be no single point about which it contracted. The whole universe would contract in to a single point, just as it expanded out from a single point at the Big Bang. There is no centre to the Universe.

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The new buzz word among government money guys is "deleverage." Does anyone know what at means besides paying off debt? It means either paying off debt or raising more capital. Your leverage is your ratio of debt to capital. For individuals, generally the only way of deleveraging is paying off debt; for banks, it is possible to rais capital in other ways.

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I wonder sometimes whether the torah or the original bible was written with 'Thine, Thou, and all the antique pronouns?' hmm! Since the Torah was written in Hebrew, and the New Testament in Greek and Aramaic, none of those words were used. They were a choice by the 17th century translators, who made the deliberate decision to use a form which, while perhaps a little old fashioned, was still in use between intimates.

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A world without God - is it possible? Not only possible, but on the evidence available, actual.

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It's about this "theist" business It means someone who believes that there is some kind of supernatural being or essence out there somewhere, but does not believe the teachings of any particular religion. A theist believes that there is more to the universe than just the atoms that make it up, which is what the atheist will say. There is something spiritual, something more than mere mechanics. But they don't believe any of the...

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Will Libya become the next Taliban state? Unlikely. A large number of the anti-Ghaddafi forces are determinedly secular. While there are Islamic groups on the same side, they have thus far stated their willingness to participate in a democratic state. The Taliban are the product of very isolated mountain communities in Afghanistan; there are many fewer such groups in Libya and, unlike Afghanistan, they are not part of the majority...

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How can we have free will if the world's becoming, are fully deterministic? I think free will is a relative, not an absolute concept. Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, free will is in the eye of the willer. I cannot tell the difference between what I have and free will. Therefore, for all my purposes, I have free will. Hypothetically, there could be some being at a much higher level to whom all my actions are totally deterministic. But this being would have...

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How does the Mind 'Act On' the Brain? There is no reason to believe that the Mind is in anyway separate from the Brain. On the contrary, the Mind is a pattern of connections and signals within the Brain. There is no sharp dividing line - you cannot say this neuron belongs to the Mind and that does not. Signals spread out from the areas of the Brain most concerned with Mind to those more concerned with mechanical operations without...

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My daughter has a boyfriend that is a atheist. She is not a atheist, she believes in God and the Bible as I do. She says she loves him and he is a nice guy and I like him but do not approve of this. I am scared of what this will mean to them later in life My parents were in the same state. It didn't cause them many problems.

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If a self-proclaimed atheist commits a murder and testifies that God told him to kill the victim, is that a valid reason for an insanity plea? You can plead anything. It is up to the jury whether they believe you - which seems unlikely.

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As an atheist, do you not sometimes feel that it makes no sense to describe your self in terms of what you don't believe in? I am an atheist and I also dont believe in fairies but I don't describe myself as an A-Fairest. I don't describe myself as atheist, I answer that I am an atheist when asked about my beliefs. I am tall; if asked about my height, I will reply tall, but I don't think of myself as "a tallperson". I am right-handed, but I don't consider myself as "a rightie". Atheist is a description of what I am, not a membership of a group. It only comes up when other people start talking about religion.

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The government is spending $30 million to study so-called black energy in the universe by using giant camera. Is this money well spent? If I understand you, it is not "black energy" it is "dark energy" And on the scale of things $30 million is tiny. It all depends whether you value abstract knowledge, whether you believe in finding things out for their own sale. Understanding Dark Energy is crucial to understanding the universe we live in. If we do not understand it, we cannot explain why the universe is as it is, nor what is...

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When religion is finally a thing of the past.. Sunday should be renamed__________day. Sunday, in honour of the source of nearly all the energy which powers our civilization and all the plants which we directly or indirectly eat.

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Why do we use identifiers for gays/lesbians and not straights? Why do we specify African/American and not white? Any logical reason? We have what we consider to be "normal" and use identifiers for those who are different from the normal. (I first used the word deviate, but that word has gathered overtones I do not want), In the case of gays and lesbians, this is reasonable. While the percentage of gay people is arguable, it is certain that the large majority of the human race are straight and it is therefore reasonable, with...

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Why does it anger people to hear the Truth? Does it? Could you prove your premise? Based on your previous posting history, I conjecture that you actually mean "Why does it ange people to hear what I insist is the truth, but they don't believe".

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Other than the fact that they are said to be of low quality, why are certain products advertised on TV "not sold in stores"? They cut out the store margin. Stores typically add 100% to the price they pay the supplier. If they sell direct, they get to keep that. And they price the extra cost they do have, shipping, separately.

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Has genocide ever been successful? Yes. But most occurred before there was enough written history to know a people existed before they were wiped out. The Australian settlers wiped out the Tasmanian Aborigines. The Mississippian civilisation was probably destroyed by disease introduced by Europeans before the Europeans themselves reached there.

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Do you get to work by a car, bus or something else? Bicycle

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Can we one day use black holes in space, as giant dumpsters? Why bother hauling everything to a black hole? The sun will swallow up anything we want to get rid of without showing a sign. But it is actually quite hard to throw anything into the sun - and even harder to throw it into something small like a black hole. You have to get ride of the orbital speed. The Earth is orbiting the Sun at over 100,000 km/h. So to make something fall into, rather than...

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These guys said that they don't push in the clutch to change gears on a semi? Is that harmful to the truck? I think semis have a different kind of gearbox from stick-shift cars - a semi-automatic. They have a manual gear select - but it is a chance-up/change-down button, not a clutch and stick. The box changes gear itself, but only when instructed, not automatically.

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Is the word "loose" a verb as well as an adjective? I keep seeing the word "loosing", but I don't think it's a valid word. Is it? Yes. To loose is to let free, to untie. You loose an arrow from a bow, or you can loose a dog from its lead.

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How can Americans get cheap gas from drilling oil in America if theres no cheap american labor? Gas prices in the short term are supply and demand. Production costs set a bottom line, but if supply is short, prices can be well above production costs. Saudi pumps oil at about $15 a barrel but gets paid over $100 a barrel nowadays. However, in many ways you are correct. The Athabasca Tar sands, which contain huge amounts of hard-to-extract oil, are commercially viable only if the price of...

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If ALL things are possible with GOD being one is it not so much a possibility as it is a certainty? No. If all things are possible (which I strongly doubt), both God and not-God are possible. Certainly one of these must be true, but which is contingent, not certain.

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Is the U.S criminally investigating the agency that lowered its credit rating a retaliatory response than so happens to be whats deserved? And what crime do you accuse them of? On the contrary, if they did not lower the rating when they believed it to be appropriate, they would be guilty of fraud. Your question is very much of the "shoot the messenger" variety. You don't want to hear what the financial markets are saying, so you want to attack the bearer of bad tidings. The ratings are measuring the chance of the US defaulting...

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Does Atheism begin in the heart before the mind seeks justification for it? I would say rather that it is theism that starts in the heart. I think that theists have an internal conviction that God, some God, exists. Their minds then search the available religions (starting from the one they were brought up in, and often finishing there) for a description, a justification in your words, for what they feel in their hearts to be true. Thus conversion between religions is...

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How does nature inspire science?? Science is the study of nature. Without nature, science would have nothing to do.

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What does an atheist consider 'sacred'? It is not a word with real meaning to atheists. It means "something very important to believers in a way atheists cannot understand". Atheists will therefore respect those things that believers call sacred, out of normal human respect for the beliefs of others. But to an atheist, it is not that "nothing is sacred", but the word has no meaning - except perhaps as a metaphor meaning "very, very...

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Why are there rules and laws, if you have to break them to be happy? Are they an inside joke on the people dumb enough to obey them? I question your premise. Why to you have to break them to be happy?

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With the Libyan rebels having attacked Tripoli how many additional American and allied troops will be dispatched there to intervene? There are no non-Libyan fighting troops on the ground (there may be a few liaison officers) and no mandate to send them. It is unlikely that any will be despatched in the reasonably near future.

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Why bother buying a UAW Obama Motors vehicle now that we see Obama lied about covering warranty liabilities? "Because, starting today..." on 3/30/2009. Did he apply it to sales before that date? I don't see it. He wanted to reassure new buyers, and the warranty applied to new sales, "starting today". It would, presumably, apply to new vehicles today. But not to those bought before the formal bankruptcy. I don't see your point.

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Other than humans, do other animals have memories and imaginations? Other animals certainly have memories. Many different animals - crows, elephants, fish, have been sown to be able to remember significant facts for months and in many cases years. Whether they have imaginations is doubtful - except perhaps for a few of the highest animals, such as the great apes. Current thinking is that imagination is part of what makes humans different from other animals: the...

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In addition to "gay, liberal, compromise, cooperation" what other words that used to be honorable have been forced to be epithets/insults? And what about words the other way round? Prestigious: suspect, untrusthworty, derived from prestidigitation. Exclusive: racist (exclusive clubs kept out Jews and Blacks even if they could pay the fees). Ultimate: the very last, so the ultimate experience is death.

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Is the human life expectancy going backwards? Not in the developed world. It is in a few places like Zimbawe and Somalia.

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How many of you would be willing to take on a 24/7 job for a minimum of four years? Always on call..never off duty...always responsible? I don't agree with your description. Always on call - certainly. But sleeping on duty would be crime, or at least a dismissable offence, so your description would imply not sleeping for four years - something that is certainly fatal. And how onerous always on call is depends upon how often calls come. One person "on call" may be called only once or twice a month, while another might be called...

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Should English become the only official language, and should services stop using Spanish in the USA? No. Everybody should revert to the Native American languages before those violent immigrants from Europe moved in.

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Why do libs feel "entitled" to so many things instead of accepting a responsibility to earn them? I think you misrepresent the liberal position. Firstly, many liberals want things for others, not for themselves. The don't say give me handouts, they say give the starving handouts. Secondly, there is a view that a decent society does not let its members sink too low. As in the Parable of the Good Samaritan, the Samaritan did not inquire into the good faith and social worthiness of the injured...

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Perry wants to "tinker" with the Constitution. If he is president why doesn't he toss it out completely and start from scratch? The Presidency is created by the Constitution. So if he throws out the Constitution - whoops, he isn't President any more.

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Otto Warburg discovered the cause for cancer a long time ago. Have you ever heard of him? Calling Warburg's work "the cause of cancer" is like calling the wheels "the cause of a car's movement". The car would not move if it had no wheels, but it takes much more than just wheels to make it move. Warburg discovered an essential stage in the development of cancer, one that might be used medically to prevent it, but it is overstating the case to call it the cause.

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How many years ago was the "Big Bang" About 13.7 billion years.

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Do you think Gossip is The Devils Radio? No. Gossip is an essential part of human sociality. Gossip is what we evolved language to do; everything else that language does is a side effect of gossip. "Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language". Robin Dunbar.

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if you dont believe in afterlife then are you saying you're like an object? are human being that useless to you? I don't follow your question at all. Do I think there is nothing more to me than the atoms that make me up? Yes: we are "no more" than physical matter. But humanity, an emergent phenomenon from that physical matter, is far from "useless". I can be nothing more than physical matter, and yet still be a thinking, feeling being.

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LIES! Other than Santa, what was something you were taught when you were young that turned out to be false? That there is a God

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Which animal tastes the best? Apparently, the Galapagos Giant Tortoise. This animal was known about for about eighty years before it was given a formal scientific description. Apparently, it was so delicious that whenever they loaded one onto a ship to take it back to where scientist who could formally describe it hung out, the sailors would always eat it before it reached its destination.

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Is the USA an empire, a la Roman Empire? No. All the citizens of the areas which the US claims as its own have full participation in the Federal Government. In an Empire, the central government is selected by only part of the total populations (Roman citizens for the Roman Empire, British citizens for the British Empire). The inhabitants of the ruled bits may have their own local governments, but do not get a say in the imperial...

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Atheists: Do you wear any religious symbols at all? For what reason? No. Why should I?

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I caught my 4 year old son humping this bed with his pants and underwear down. Is this normal or should I be worried? I am so worried. Totally normal. Boys start masturbating very early: masturbation has been seen on ante-natal scans. Just tell him he should do it in private.

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Astrology might as well be a religion. Do you agree or disagree? Please explain. Yes. It is a purely faith-based system which people used to guide their lives.

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What is the oldest thing you own? The oldest dated thing is a Breeches Bible dated 1596. We have a glass perfume bottle that might be Roman. A friend has a small section of rush matting from a mud pyramid in Ur of the Chaldees, the oldest known city. Oh - and sundry fossils.

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Should cell phones and the internet be restricted when there is a high alert concerning public safety? No. They can do as much good as harm, if not more. Restricting phones would just increase panic. Of course, in the aftermath you remember the harm and ignore the good.

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If you're driving a stick shift car and you have to stop real fast, can you slam on the brakes or do you have to down shift first? Press brake and clutch at the same time. Just stamp down with both feet.

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What´s the worst bicycle in the world? Stonehenge

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"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Which makes Osama bin Laden a true genius, given the apparent IQ of Bush Jr and company.

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Would you Expect a Person Claims to Be "A Huge Fan of Elvis", to Know Cold the Day of his Birth and Death (See Below)? No. Elvis was a musician. I would expect a "huge fan" to know all his songs, be familiar with all his LPs, know about his musical influences, who he worked with, his backing musicians etc. But non-musical statistics are for nerds, not fans. His dates, weight, shoe size, the reference numbers of his LPs, and so on: that is nerdish not fannish. Which is not to condemn nerds, but a fan of Elvis...

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It rhymes with make and means the opposite of transparent (6 letters). opaque

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Have you ever heard of moose knees as being the male equivelant to camel toe? I have heard it phrased "moose knuckle".

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Does guilt and quiet go hand in hand? Or are the guilty noisy? If so, why so? "Methinks the lady doth protest too much". Sometimes the guilty can be quite vociferous.

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If atheists prove to be correct, and there is NOTHING after death, how will they celebrate? This presupposes that one wants to celebrate. Atheism is not a religion, and is certainly not evangelistic. We don't feel that we form a sort of church with out fellow atheists. So what and why would we want to celebrate.

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Is it true China bought it's first aircraft carrier? Where the heck does somebody BUY an aircraft carrier? Weapons'R'Us? War Depot? Ukraine. It was started by the Soviet Union, and abandoned with the hull complete but not fitted out when the Soviet Union collapsed. China bought it after about ten years sitting idle. They originally said they were going to convert it into a flouting casino, but then fitted it out as an actual carrier.

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Why not explore the Bible rather than deep space for life, since science has not been able to disprove anything recorded therein? Because I see no reason to believe that the Bible is any more than a folk document. The writers of Genesis, Isaiah, Revelations knew much, much less than we know now. This, by the way, is independent of the divinity of Jesus. I see no reason to see why Jesus retroactively make the Torah into truth, and I do not see how he authorised the ravings of John of Patmos, whoever he might be.

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Instead of arresting people in a meth lab, should the police just chuck a flare in the window and blow the place? No. This is essentially lynch law, which is always a disaster. What if the meth cookers have their small children or innocent elderly relatives in the house? What if the police made a mistake?

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What do you think of Dominionism, a movement that says Christians should rule the world? Provided they agree that a Muslim Caliphate can also rule the world.

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Are the claims made by Cosmologists of discovering many solar systems with orbiting planets, yet dissimilar to the Milky Way, valid? I don't understand what you mean by "dissimilar to the Milky Way". All planets discovered are within a few hundred light years or so, and are definitely inside the Milky Way, as we are. The planets are definitely there. Some of the more excited statements made about them, mostly by commentators rather than the original discoverers, may be a little overstated.

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Do you support the Monarchy? Sorry - should be a comment

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Which color was invented first? Some language have very few words for colours. If they have only two words, these are always black and white (or dark and light). If they have a third colour, it is always red. The fourth and fifth are either blue or green. So you could say that red was the first colour named. Or course, all colours occur in nature, so none was actually invented.

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How far away is your nearest hospital that admits emegencies, i.e. A&E, Casualty? Between two and three miles (weeks). About six miles (weekends).

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What is the difference between a stun gun and a taser? A stun gun is not an exactly defined weapon. The name originated in fiction for a purely imaginary device which could knock people out without killing them. It has since been used colloquially to describe either the tazer or various experimental directed-energy weapons which have not yet made it into widespread use. A tazer is an incapacitating electro-shock weapon which fires a pronged...

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Do you believe in balance? do you believe everything has it's opposites? do you believe in Antigod? No.

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Do you support the Monarchy? In a grumpy sort of way... Before you abolish the Monarch, I want to see what you propose to put in its place. I want to be sure that the replacement, whatever it may be, will do the job as well as the Monarchy currently does. The problem is that the Monarchy is a purely symbolic institution, and symbols are essentially illogical. A symbol symbolises what it does because people believe it,...

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Why would anyone want to worship The Beast as well as his image and receive his mark on their existence? What is "The Beast", and what evidence have you that anybody worships him and receives his mark?

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Since space is expanding does it include the subatomic space between atoms and molecules making micro go macro? All space is expanding, so that even the tiniest inter-atomic spaces should, according to current theory, be expanding. But the expansion would be so minute that I cannot see how they could ever be detected. And of course the atomic and molecular forces will pull all the components back to their "proper" separations, just as gravity does for planets and stars within galaxies. Only on a scale...

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Do you believe in God or Jesus Christ? No, except that there was probably a man whose name has been translated as Jesus who lived in the first century and preached some nice things.

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You die when it is meant for you to die and not a day earlier or later? Or do you think you have a say? Who or what "means" for me to die? Meaning is a property of mind. I do not believe in God, and the Universe does not have a mind.

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Several scientists believe in god,and see it as,"the study of what god did, not what he/it is",as that is left to philosophers.Your input? That depends upon an internal conviction that God exists, in some shape or form. There is no proof that God exists, and I would say no evidence. But one cannot prove that something does not exist. An omnipotent God could cover his/her tracks to whatever extent he/she wanted. So I cannot prove to them God does not exist, as they cannot prove he/she does exist. However, provided it does not...

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If both Democrats and Republicans are against deficits, why do we have deficits? They have different solutions to the deficits: Reps want to cut spending, Dems want to increase taxes. Since they cannot agree, nothing is done and the ship continues to sink.

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Is science or spirituality the most dominant force in the universe? Neither is a "force" in any literal sense of the word. They can only be called forces metaphorically. I do not see science as a force - it is a tool. And I don't really know what spirituality actually is - it exists only inside other peoples's heads, where I cannot see - so I don't see that as a force either.

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Why does Atheism not provide any answer to the bigger questions? Why we here? What happens after we die? What is the meaning of life? Because many of the questions have no answers. For example, "the meaning of life". Meaning is is associated with messages - things sent from one mind to another. If there is a God, you can ask what meaning God gave to life - what was the message from God to the life He created. But if there is no God, then there is no-ons to send such a message. There is no meaning to life. It is not so much...

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What is the ambient temperature of matter when isolated from all sources of radiation (in completely dark vacuum)? What you ask is not possible. If the matter is not shielded from the whole universe, it will be subjected to the Cosmic Background Radiation, which will heat is to a temperature of about 2.7K. If it is shielded from the CBR, it will eventually heat to the temperature of the shielding box. /All/ matter which you might use for shielding emits radiation characteristic of its temperature, and hence...

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Is the gay people shortage due to over acceptance curtailing the awkward phase when they reproduced? Not according to any evidence currently available.

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I Just Heard Something Called a "Hologram", When Really it Only a Set of Discrete Images. When is Something a True Hologram? A hologram is when an image, 3-D or otherwise, is built up by interference of the incident light upon a pattern which is not a direct image. A hologram is a spatial Fourier Transform of the visible image. Therefore what you describe can indeed be a (cheap and nasty) hologram. It is the use of interference which makes a hologram.

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I wonder - how would you respond when it is proven that God does exist? That there is undisputed, factual evidence of his existence? Obviously, to work with the God that is then manifested. Atheists work with the evidence: it is the total lack of evidence that makes us not believe in God. When there is evidence for God, we will act according to the evidence. To believers: what will you do if there is evidence for God - and God is significantly different from the one you believe in? Suppose, for example, that Jesus was...

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I am a straight guy but i really like the way thong panties feel, is it ok that i buy victoria secret thongs and wear them Get some designed for men - they'll be more comfortable. http://manties.net

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In what way do atheists define sin? Share your answer...

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In what way do atheists define sin? Causing avoidable suffering. It is not the seed itself which is sinful, it is the effects. Extra marital sex is not sinful, but seducing the innocent, abandoning mothers or babies, rape in all its many forms: these are sinful.

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Once Obama Care becomes law of the land does it take a miracle session of Congress to undo it or no? We in Europe are absolutely boggled by this. it is like asking for a book called "Shooting Yourself in the Foot for Dummies". We get 100% care for 2/3 of the price you get 70% care. How many Americans are worried by their health insurance premiums, their deductibles, their exclusions? How many people are terrified of losing their job because their health insurance goes? We have none of those....

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The majority of books (if not all) are dedicated to someone, why and when did this tradition start? Back in the 17th and 18th centuries, many worth books were produced by subscription. Rather than writing the book, publishing it, and hoping it would sell, the writer would get a number of wealth people to subscribe in advance, so that he knew he would get something. Such subscribers would be listed and thanked in the book. Sometimes a wealthy man would pay enough to be sole subscriber, in...

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If you think Wi Fi should be free everywhere, would you be willing to pay extra taxes for that & how much No. Pay for the services you want. Maybe the community can organise for a bulk subscription with good discounts. But I see no need for a "whether you want it or not" service.

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What does 'organic' mean? In strict Chemistry, organic refers to the compounds of the element carbon. Many of these are associated with life, and there was a belief in the early days of chemistry that there was a separation between carbon compounds, responsible for life, and non-carbon compounds. This is not true, but chemists still divide themselves into the chemists of carbon, organic chemists, and all others. In...

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any experiment to show that force is created on a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field????? Look at any device with an electric motor in your house. Every single one of them only works because of that force.

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What is the scientific attitude and what attitudes and characteristics define a good scientist? The central scientific attitude is doubt. How do I know what I think I know? If I believe a fact, can I prove it? If I heard it from someone else, how does he know it, and can he prove it? How does this fact fit in with all the other facts I know. Of course, the doubt cannot be all-pervading. Some facts, after testing, you know. And some authorities, after checking their claims, you trust. But...

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Clothes are necessary, aren't they? What would you do about mosquitoes, black flies, and the cold if you didn't have them? Humans evolved in Africa, where cold is not a problem. We probably evolved in dry, open savannah, where mosquitoes are no problem and flies a lesser one. Our ancestors who lived in the jungle were probably hairy, so had some protection from flies. Clothes were probably one of the earliest inventions which allowed us to spread out from our original habitat without, as all other animals have to...

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Do we see at the speed of light? We cannot get to the speed of light, so that the question as posed is meaningless. As we travel faster and faster /relative to the rest of the universe/ things in front get blue shifted and things behind get red shifted. (You always have to specify your speed relative to something. There is no absolute speed: you are always still relative to yourself.)

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My spouse is verbally abusive he makes astatements such as "i will burn up everything in this house before i leave it here. " this man did not pay for anything in our home. he is refusing to leave when i asked him to. can i get him out with out a fight? If he has made physical threats, you can get the police to move him out, and if he returns you can get a court order barring him from the house, on threat of imprisonment. However, I would strongly recommend that you get professional legal advice on the right way to do this: the right terminology to use, the right time and way in which to approach the police, which threats you should record and...

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What was Charles Darwin's first piece of evidence? Charles Darwin what a huge collector of data. He collected masses of data on his voyage in the Beagle. He performed many experiments at his home. He corresponded with scientists and observers all over the world. He met with domestic animal breeders across the country. He made detailed studies of barnacles so as to give him an in depth, world leading, knowledge of one family, and wrote a...

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What is something Science can't explain? What caused the Big Bang. What an electron actually is. Why the universe is explicable at all, and why it seems to obey the rules of mathematics. What consciousness actually is. The actual values of the unit electrical charge, the gravitational constant, the speed of light. Whether quantum effects are truly random. Why Entanglement occurs. But then, is it reasonable to expect that we...

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Does belief in God = Christian? No, belief in Thor, Zeus, Allah, Ahuramazda, Toutatis, or Shiva do not make a Christian.

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"All life is precious"! Including the lives of those who murder/torture/abuse others? Are their lives as precious as their victims? Why? I would not say that all lives are equally precious, but I would say that lives come in a different class from other things. Lives are one thing, and material goods are another. If you have a one-to-one choice to make, then undoubtedly I would save the non-murderer before the murderer. But in the real world, as opposed to hypothetical test cases, that does not come up.

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Where are the extra letters from the differences between UK English and American English stored? The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is actually a hug heap of letters thrown overside or dropped from aircraft as ships and planes went from England to the US.

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What happens at the microscopic level with human consciousness regarding physics? We don't know. We do not yet understand the mechanics of consciousness at all.

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In what way do atheists want God to reveal or prove of His existence? That depends upon why God, should he (or she, or it) exist, wants me to believe in him. If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why does he need my belief? Surly the creator has enough self-confidence not to need the belief of something he created and could uncreate in a moment? If he truly wants it, it would be trivial to demonstrate his existence by performing some sort of a miracle. The fact...

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Do straight married and cohabitating couples usually use separate blue and pink "his and her bath towels? Never heard of this. Most of my bath towels are patterned, and most of the remainder are white.

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Why is there lightning when a volcano is erupting? Volcanoes emit large numbers of dust particles with a huge amount of friction. The dust particles can therefore carry large amounts of charge, and the rising plume from the volcano carries this charge upwards. This creates enormous voltages which are discharged as lightning. The mechanism is essentially the same as in thunderstorms, but it works faster because of the larger particles and faster...

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if you could beam to another place, and the machine has every last opne of your atoms saved oin some sort of HDD, wouldnt you beable to copy If... Every one of your atoms, and its exact energy state at a single instant would have to be copied. Quantum mechanics says this is impossible: there must always be some uncertainty in recording the positions and energies of the atoms. Which means that the copy, or copies, will be subtly different. Maybe similar enough that body and brain keep working, maybe (I think) not. For what purpose...

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If the media just reported the news and didn't editorialize would politicos still blame them for media slant or choose a different target? Politicos would still blame them. Even if they don't editorialise, the choice of which stories to cover and at what length is still a political decision. It is humanly impossible to be unbiased - which means that any accusation of bias will have some truth in it. Much better to have your bias in the open, and for the public to get news from multiple sources with different biases.

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Would it be good if all new-borns had a chip inserted into their brain so a central computer could detect any 'bad thoughts'... Who gets to define "bad"? This is a recipe for the most comprehensive dictatorship imaginable. Government /always/ tightens up the list of things they don't want you to do, and people thinking "bad" thoughts have to push back to preserve liberties. Big Brother has nothing on this.

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When people are guilty of probation violation why aren't they just tossed in jail? Why no consequences in some cases except a lecture? Tossing in jail is expensive, and usually has not rehabilitative effect. In fact the opposite - the more time people spend in an environment of criminals, the more they think of themselves as criminals, and the less likely they are to go straight. The vast majority of criminals, and particularly those likely to be on probations, are not inherently bad - they are weak, uneducated, and stupid,...

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I don't know if I believe that prayer works miracles but I do believe that wishing others well can't hurt. What do you believe? It can't hurt - provided you don't say "I have prayed, so I don't need to do anything else". Sometimes people use prayer as a substitute for action.

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I would like to know what AB's public think, what is God. Describe God without scripture or Biblical reference. God is a blanket description used by people for hypothetical powerful supernatural entities. There seem to be two reasons to want a God to exist. Firstly, to explain things that we cannot otherwise explain, such as where do we come from and why do we exist. Secondly, to give a feeling that there is someone in charge of the Universe and we are not lost in an essentially out of control cosmos.

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Are you pro or con the use of nuclear energy? Has your position changed at all or are now where you always were on this issue? I have moved from anti to grumpily pro. We need to replace all the 1960's and 197-0s reactors with more modern ones built to higher standards. But otherwise, I regard nuclear energy as the lesser evil.

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Why are eggs egg shaped? They are generally oval so that they can come out of the bird easily. A sphere would be fatter, but too long and thin would use more materiel and be hard on the chick growing up inside. One end is generally bigger than the other so that if they roll, they go round in a circle rather than running away. Tree-nesting birds, which have less of a runaway problem than ground-laying birds, tend to...

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What is the distance of Marathon, Why this number? The value chosen was the distance of the race actually run in the 1908 Olympics, where the finish line was defined as being in front of the Queen's chair. This arbitrary distance then became the standard for all future Marathons.

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Does anybody support legalizing marijuana but NOT smoke it? If so, who are they and why? Of course. The "war on drugs" is one of the most harmful things going on. It is an unwinnable civil war. It does not stop people taking drugs, and it means that drug-related crime is immensely profitable. We have a choice: 1: drugs 2: drugs and drug-related crime. I chose 1.

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where is Gladiator filmed? The opening battle was filmed near Hindhead in Surrey, England. I don't know about the rest.

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Where is the edge of universe? So far as we know, there is no edge to the Universe. Either the universe is infinite, or it wraps around. There is an edge to the visible universe: we can only see things for which the light has had enough time to reach us since the Big Bang. The visible universe is about 47 billion light years across. But, as far as we know, beyond what we can see is just more of the same.

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Do you think IQ has something to do with criminality? Only in a secondary sort of way. People with low IQs tend to have difficulty understanding the world and making an honest living. they therefore tend to fall into crime either accidentally, because they do not understand when thy break the law, or through desperation, because they cannot earn a living honestly. 40% of people in prison have problems with reading for example. So low IQ does not...

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Do you believe in the power of god? No. There is no evidence for God, nor any evidence for any power being used other than the laws of physics.

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What results, if any, do you expect from the super committee of 12 U.S. deficit reduction crew. Deadlock. A lot of 6 vs 6 votes.

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I have an idea for a fiction book! The White House is taken over by a Chicago mobster gang. Is it too far-fetched? You have to explain how - and why. Just putting out the idea isn't enough - you have to explain ways and means.

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What happens if a woman takes Viagra? It has been tried. Effectively, none. Unfortunately for the manufacturers, who would like to double their market.

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Why earth rotates from west to east & why not from east to west? Absolutely no reason. It had to rotate one way or the other, an by pure chance it was the way that we have arbitrarily caused west to east. But those are just names; if the earth had rotated the other way, we might wel have named east and west the other way as well.

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Do you have faith in an Atheist candidate's ability to separate his/her anti-God agenda/sentiment from political decisions? An atheist is not necessarily anti-God. I classify atheists into two groups: weak atheists who say that they see no sign of God and therefore live their lives on the basis that there is no God, and strong atheist who say that not only is there no God, it is impossible that there is a God. Strong atheists could be described as anti-God, but weak atheists, who are far larger in number, are no...

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Do extraterrestrial beings possess knowledge regarding the origins of mankind? Since we know of no extraterrestrial beings, we have no idea what such beings would know if they existed.

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Why haven't Homo sapiens been divided into different species? We haven't had time to. About 120,000 years ago, there was a "bottleneck event", where the total number of homo sapiens shrunk to 1000 or so individuals, probably all one tribe. Until 40,000 years ago, all Homo Sapiens were in Africa, probably interbreeding. There has not been time since then for a relatively slow breeding species to diverge.

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why are we sending 100 million to aid east africa,when we have starving and poverty stricken people here In the U.S.A The East Africans are /much/ worse off than anybody in the US. If you want to cut overseas spending (which is reasonable) start on the 11 billion given to Israel, 7 billion to Egypt, 800 million to Pakistan and so on. Then start on military expenditure: 3 Trillion lifetime cost of F-35 fleet, designed to fight the cold war; you really don't need so many of them.

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Should that item of clothing, the Hoodie get banned as young criminals all seem to wear them? What would that do? It is not the Hoodie that makes them criminals, they wear Hoodies because of the people they are - which is not all criminals. Forcing them to change their favourite clothes would not make them not be criminal. If anything, it would make them feel resentful and got at, and push just a few who are not yet rebelling into rebellion.

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