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Defining Atheists and Agnostics
All i can find are vague, confusing views that combine and overlap to create more confusion than when i simply termed myself as agnostic.
:: STARTED BY Opps!!
:: 49 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:53 05.03.08
"Progress!"
The idea of progress, the endless improvement of humankind, the eschaton, moving forward stands against being medieval, backwards, behind the times. Where does this idea of progress come from? Is it good?
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 53 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:03 22.02.08
Bodies of knowledge/tools of thought
I don't know what/how to think!
:: STARTED BY ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:04 03.02.08
Sadness is happiness as sadnesss
Simple answers please
:: STARTED BY Charlus
:: 57 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:51 24.01.08
The 'Ashley Treatment'
A Seattle couple with a severely brain-damaged child have her put through a series of treatments to retard her growth and ensure she never goes through puberty. They argue it will allow them to treat her better, others are concerned about the ethics of this treatment. Is this going to be Terri Schiavo II?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 126 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:27 18.01.08
Class / War
What of Marx? How can we use him? Does he apply anymore (did he ever)? What criticisms can be made, what concepts can be salvaged?
:: STARTED BY petunia
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:11 13.01.08
Calendar reform - it's about time
the gregorian calendar is inelegant, clunky, clumsy, awkward and no longer serves us as it may have.
alternatives???
:: STARTED BY squib
:: 52 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:27 04.01.08
The ideology behind today's ideas about Health, and how the media works it.
Supernanny, diet shows, obesity, Jamie Oliver, capitalism, obfuscation.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:58 03.01.08
Reading in Tehran
Azar Nafisi, 'Reading Lolita in Tehran', Hamid Dabashi, Orientalism, Literature, Iran.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:45 26.12.07
Will we eventually live in a world where no-one talks to anyone?
Thoughts about technolgy and escapism.
:: STARTED BY Tumi
:: 27 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:03 14.12.07
Queterosexual Rises From the Ashes
Queer Heterosexuality, a discussion
:: STARTED BY Disco is My Class War
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:56 06.12.07
Nietzsche, Europe and Islam
For discussing Nietzsche's various concepts of 'Europe' and 'Islam' and how he set them against eachother (all of which highly problematic).
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:29 25.11.07
The Frege-Geach problem in ethics
In metaethics, to be precise. The Frege-Geach problem is a knockout objection against simple expressivism (like Ayer's emotivism) and a pretty big worry to more sophisticated forms. There is a version of this objection levelled at Blackburn's quasi-realism and Gibbard's norm-expressivism that I simply don't understand, and perhaps someone here can make it clear to me.
:: STARTED BY Good Intentions
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:45 24.11.07
Hierarchies
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the caste
:: STARTED BY Tsuga
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:24 22.11.07
Worrying vs Caring vs Engagement
Terminology and ways of thinking about things.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:04 15.11.07
Can you prove any point with linguistics no matter how asinine it is?
Can an intelligent person prove that it's ok to molest children? etc.
:: STARTED BY Rage is back! Attack!
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:20 14.11.07
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A problematic figure. Islam, apocalyptic fantasies about evil "Islamists", Liberals, Conservatives, Feminism, Immigration.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:59 13.11.07
Whiteness.
It's been suggested by various non-white commentators recently that one of the most useful things that can be done for the future of race relations (in the UK) is for white people to interrogate whiteness. Want to have a go?
'Gwaaaaan
:: STARTED BY Goodness Gracious Meme
:: 145 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:07 24.10.07
Professional behaviour
What does professional behaviour mean to you? How do you work out what it means?
:: STARTED BY aim for joviality (gone)
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:17 10.10.07
Body size and weight
Body size, weight and shape - what's happening?
:: STARTED BY Ex
:: 27 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:25 02.10.07
Help, I'm being attacked by Atheists
The worrying trend of Atheist Fundamentalism
:: STARTED BY Twig the Wonder Kid
:: 79 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:12 01.10.07
What is Equality And Is It Ever Attainable?
This topic will discuss what equality is and if it can ever can be acheived.
:: STARTED BY Jot Evil Rules During Weddings
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:31 01.10.07
Alan Watts on games and the Struggle.
Zen philosopher, Zen popularizer. He's OK.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:37 21.09.07
Creativity, Productivity, and Feminism (with non-debate rules)
A thread which combines Lyra's concept of "a fluid, evolving discussion... like a non-fictional narrative corpse" and ideas about creativity and productivity that were brought up in the RPG thread, but that I think are generally applicable to the way the world goes around. And feminism.
:: STARTED BY Persephone
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:51 19.09.07
Reason, confusion, discussion.
Meta - discourse at its best/worst/whatever.
What are philosophies answers to the question which actually questions the possibility of achieving answers?
:: STARTED BY el d.
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:10 12.09.07
Grammar vs communication
importance of the grammatically correct communication of ideas over understanding, trouble with semantics
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 31 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:28 07.09.07
The Lacanian Thing
Reading and discussing the French Freudian
:: STARTED BY Wanderer
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:26 06.09.07
Feminism. Is she dead?
What does feminism have to do? And how should it be done?
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 51 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:44 28.08.07
Should we terraform new planets or should they terraform us?
Ponderings sparked by the books of Kim Stanley Robinson
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:24 24.08.07
Dumbing up
Is the age of democracy and information making us all a little dumber?
:: STARTED BY Mako is a hungry fish
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:33 23.08.07
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