Aurelius

@Aurelius (10)

United States • Age 36

Joined myLot 18 years ago

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Money! It's a hit.

FireHorse @FireHorse (293) • United States 28 Apr 07

After many years of pondering exactly what is the value of money? It finally occured to me, money is the power to control other's actions against their will. Although it may seem like a silly question, consider that the world has...

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Aurelius Capitalism may be the worst system on the planet, but it's better than all the others. Furthermore, you didn't really demonstrate the reality of this "catastrophe" but merely asserted it. Some evidence is need if your claim is to be taken seriously.

29 Apr 07

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The chosen people of God

edujccz @edujccz (929) • Philippines 31 Jan 07

Will you relate your understanding of the chosen people of God. It seems unfair that he choses you than me. What do you think ?

i am chosen and you are not

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Aurelius Who says you are not chosen?

10 Apr 07

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esse est percipi?

nietske @nietske (199) • Belgium 3 Apr 07

I would like to see what the general feeling is on Berkeley. Do we really exist beecause we are percieved and if we stop being percieved, do we cease to exist. This would also end the discussion of the tree falling in the woods,...

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Aurelius It seems obvious that Berkeley's wrong, but when it comes to his arguments, who can beat them? All that we know about the external world comes from our senses, and to say they exist without us to perceive is to speak nonsense. It like saying these objects...

10 Apr 07

Nietzsche and America

anachronisto @anachronisto (24) • United States 8 Apr 07

Is America a nihilist society?

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Aurelius The American philosophy, seems to be something like secular humanistic deism (and maybe it's incompatible, but that won't stop us!). Sure we'll believe in God, when it's beneficial, when it unites us or when it's convenient, but this is barely more than...

10 Apr 07

god philosophy think thinking female woman godess relgion

missak @missak (3311) • Spain 3 Apr 07

What do you think about the posibility that God could be a woman?

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Aurelius To be God is to be beyond humanity, God is no more a woman than a man (despite this, he has traditionally received the masculine pronoun...)

10 Apr 07

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