Updates :: The Free-Thinkers Group @ Hexagon.cc

) Oh no, I think I have understood from the beginning what was your meaning and you have done a very good job of explaining it. I am well aware of the historical debate and have found some amusement in the unlikely bedfellows of scientif...

8 months ago

) I think you may be misunderstanding what I’m trying to get across. It is difficult to explain, so I place that burden on myself. Maybe take another analogy… What we experience day-to-day, our interactions, consciousness, em...

8 months ago

) I think we may be splitting hairs here a little bit. Between your “Illusion of Free Will” and my “Limited Free Will” I don’t know that there really is any difference. But a case in point and I will start b...

9 months ago

) I think one point I’d like to bring up concerns what I’ll call the illusion of Free Will. Consider our consciousness, for example. While we certainly are conscious, how does it come together? It’s the result of a comp...

9 months ago

) Well, I gave it a few days to see if someone else would comment/support/tackle this from our ever-growing membership. But hey I will give it a shot. Now, as I understand your definition of determinism and the deterministic universe, on...

9 months ago

GodKillzYou shared the video

) So what is determinism? Put simply, determinism is the idea that every action is ultimately caused by previous actions cause & effect. From what you decide to eat for dinner, to the position of every speck of dust in your house, to...

9 months ago

Church-Sponsored Child Molestation (2

) I would imagine it runs extremely deep. The same has been going on in the US for decades and the number of out of court settlements within some of the larger archidioces is astronomical. California, Minnesota, Chicago metro, New York, ...

9 months ago

GodKillzYou started the discussion

Church-Sponsored Child Molestation (2

) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/6663517/Irelands-Roman-Catholic-archbishops-covered-up-abuse-to-protect-churchs-reputation.html Child abuse covered up in order to preserve the church’s reputation. Not sur...

9 months ago

) Yeah, Chomsky has been a professor of philosophy and linguistics at MIT since the ’50’s. He is generally regarded as the father of modern liguistics, has had huge contributions to cognitive psychology, and is known as an ic...

9 months ago

) Infowars is published by Alex Jones. He also runs PrisonPlanet… I think you see a theme here. lol You may have heard of him. He’s the one behind all the 9/11 “Truther” documentaries. Every story on his page has ...

9 months ago

) OK, OK, I confess, I do read disinfo.com sometimes. Never even been to infowars and I must step OUT of the “because they want the extreme stories” generality because I have read some not so extreme things there. This caught...

9 months ago

) Yes, I do see what you mean by that and it makes good sense. I also know about religious crazies and their lack of logic or lack of will to engage in any meaningful discourse. I happen to like the mental exercise of shaking the tree...

9 months ago

) As far as preaching to the choir, I also agree with that. But, I think my original intention in posting these here isn’t to try to convince anyone of anything. I think I use this site as more of an idea-filtering mechanism. These...

9 months ago

) I certainly agree that a DNA database is questionable, although I’m a little skeptical of the claims that police arrest people just to get their DNA. The quote that this all stemmed from says The report quoted an unidentified re...

9 months ago

skitter59 started the discussion

) I would imagine the same plan is in place in the US… http://www.disinfo.com/2009/11/british-police-arrest-people-just-for-the-dna/

9 months ago

) That is a great quote by Jefferson, although I believe he was speaking of Christianity as opposed to religion in general as the full quote is: “Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Id...

9 months ago

) I agree that I do tend to be condescending at times. I guess it’s a personality flaw of mine. I do consciously try to avoid it, but in some cases it seems inevitable. I also feel that a healthy dose of criticism is necessary in s...

9 months ago

) No pun intended, but I think you are preaching to the choir, here. I will give an alternative argument to the heaven-hell database, though. Seeing how time (as we know it) is a product of our 3 dimensional universe (as we know it) and ...

9 months ago

GodKillzYou shared the video

) Hell Is Immoral Punishments Purpose Introduction What is the purpose of punishment? Thats the question we need to ask ourselves when considering the idea of Hell. Eternal punishment, and the possibility that there is anything one could...

9 months ago

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Police Absurdity (3

) [Comment# 19874] by skitter59:conservative types acting as if they have lost numerous personal rights under Obama (oathkeepers as an example) when we lost more rights under Bush2 than any administration I can think of.it is very true. ...

9 months ago

Police Absurdity (3

) Thanks for this, I bookmarked a few of the sites mentioned. What I find absurd as well, conservative types acting as if they have lost numerous personal rights under Obama (oathkeepers as an example) when we lost more rights under Bush...

9 months ago

Cik started the discussion

Police Absurdity (3

) this is just absurd in 13 different directions. watch, and understand friends~ http://current.com/items/91463702_16-yr-old-boy-tasered-by-cops-19-times.htm to serve and protect yes? if that was ever true, it is not so now.

9 months ago

How Did You Hear About The Free-Thinkers Group On Hexagon? (2

) just browsing groups myself and the name caught me. One of my great-grandfathers left Germany in the mid 1800’s because of Catholicism being shoved down their throats. There were many Germans and Czechs too, I believe, that left ...

9 months ago

) I am assuming that the “egosystem” mentioned was a typo for “ecosystem”, but i gotta tell you, I like the newly coined word even better. Such great advances can be made by mistakes :). I think a subsystem of ana...

9 months ago

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How Did You Hear About The Free-Thinkers Group On Hexagon? (2

) we’ll get there in the end i think. we have been slowly clawing our way out of the dust for milennia now. if it doesn’t collapse around us in the next 100 years i think we have a real shot at ;enlightenment; of course there...

9 months ago

GodKillzYou started the discussion

) I was just curious how everyone stumbled upon this group. We’re now up to 122 members!

9 months ago

) It’s just sad that we can’t find something that all of humanity has in common that we can all rally around as a species. Something to benefit everyone, everywhere… instead of only seeking the highest good of a small g...

9 months ago

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