Tag: politics
group name: philiasophia
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July 15, 2008 01:00 PM EDT --
I voiced my outrage over the cover of next week's issue of the New Yorker. Please join us and tell the editor that, as feminists, we will not stand for such blatant attacks on racist, ethnic, and . . . more
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April 27, 2008 05:44 PM EDT --
I admit it, I'm a proud liberal. We liberals pride ourselves on being tolerant, open-minded and accepting of other people's views. Well time is running out and I'm finding more and more . . . more
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December 15, 2006 06:06 PM EST --
In just a bit you're going to read something that I think most of you will dismiss out of hand. It is a 'real-world' response to a philosophical revelation. See, a few years ago . . . more
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January 15, 2008 12:02 PM EST --
One of the common confusions I've seen among people on various forums is the idea that the notion of separation of church and state means the separation of faith and politics. Some people . . . more
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May 07, 2007 01:16 PM EDT --
A few more FACTS about why gun control is good for everyone. And the United Nations wants this for us all!! NEVER!!!
Turkey established gun control in 1911. From 1915 through 1917, 1.5 MILLION Armenians, . . . more
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September 06, 2007 10:48 PM EDT --
"Mitt Romeny or Rudy Giuiliani would surrender vital organs tp be compared with the patron saint of the Republican Party [Ronald Reagan]"
This is a quote from an article about Fred Thompson . . . more
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February 09, 2007 11:10 PM EST --
We at the Federation of American Scientists recommend the creation of the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DO IT), a nonprofit, nongovernmental agency designed to meet the urgent need to transform . . . more
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April 22, 2007 02:57 PM EDT --
The great designer R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller startled the world in the 1960s with a book called Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. It is still highly relevant. One hopeful image is this . . . more
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June 16, 2007 08:03 PM EDT --
Recently I had a discussion with a friend of mine. I had his name on my email address book as a nickname he preferred me not to use for him.
Near the end of the conversation, I realized something . . . more
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April 23, 2007 03:20 PM EDT --
[Note: This excerpt references Tim LaHaye, the author of Left Behind, a widely-read fictional series about the apocalypse.]
CONTINUED FROM PART I of excerpt >>
Real Estate
Finally, at issue . . . more
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April 22, 2007 03:00 PM EDT --
Think of the amount of suffering that binds us within small deviations of relative constraints. Any biopolitical means is already a constraint of individualism in itself, therefore any attempt . . . more
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September 16, 2007 02:01 AM EDT --
In order to save life, you must end life.
Most of the stories I write are philosophical in nature, since I do spend an alarmingly large portion of my time thinking.
An interesting I pondered of . . . more
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January 18, 2007 11:46 PM EST --
Why do so many people in the rest of the world seem to hate the United States? Have you ever really thought about that, or do you take up the position I have settled on, and believe their opinions are . . . more
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October 03, 2007 11:21 PM EDT --
In past discussions in here at gather.com and elsewhere, I have cited examples of human conduct in times of peace and war. The ongoing debate almost always gravitates to the topic of human ethics, . . . more
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October 20, 2007 09:11 AM EDT --
World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
Obituary: Grace Paley and political culture
By Sandy English
19 October 2007
Grace Paley, the American short-story writer and political . . . more
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February 18, 2007 11:54 PM EST --
HERE YOU GO:
"In his introduction he says, "the original institution of Masonry consisted in the foundation of the liberal arts and sciences, but more especially in Geometry, for at the building . . . more
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June 02, 2008 11:49 PM EDT --
Investigation often requires extremely honest and sincere questions. Sometimes (I quickly admit guilt on this one) I begin with harsh declaratives, generalizations (as in my last diary) and . . . more
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April 29, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
Russia's greatest poet, Aleksandr Pushkin, was also, like Mozart, a "hidden" dissenter from the autocracy of his time. In 1826 he wrote a poem elaborating the vision of Isaiah where God called . . . more
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September 30, 2006 09:37 AM EDT --
"Changes are more likely to harm rather than help."
The argument: In nature, there is a certain randomness regarding mutations. The replication enzymes are very good at eliminating errors. . . . more
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August 14, 2008 11:15 AM EDT --
I was reading an article written for USA Today by Oliver "Buzz" Thomas. He's a Baptist minister who wrote a book titled Ten Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You But Can't Because He . . . more
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