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Phaedra_Scythe @Phaedra_Scythe (3325) 11 Nov 09

This isn't a religion-specific question because I myself do not conform to organised religion (I like to keep the ideas open), but more of a spiritual one. How do you "top up" your faith and keep it strong? I try really hard to...

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mrjburt164 Read The Bible. Investigate It's validity on independent sources. You will find more evidence than you can possibly go through in a lifetime. No, I don't mean sources from the church, Because I know that you will discount them out of hand. Those who try to...

14 Nov 09

mrjburt164 @mrjburt164 (34) • United States 12 Nov 09

I am a member of two of the top ones of these, smokers, and old white men. It was my decision to start smoking. After that, free will is diminished, as smoking is a physical addiction, and it is legal, except in designated...

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mrjburt164 Yes,you would be the self-rightous type to whom I was referring. I would guess you also get "creeped out" by older people, especially when they try to mix in with younger people. Not to worry, Obama care will eventually eliminate us soon! Which is a...

13 Nov 09

mrjburt164 @mrjburt164 (34) • United States 12 Nov 09

I am a member of two of the top ones of these, smokers, and old white men. It was my decision to start smoking. After that, free will is diminished, as smoking is a physical addiction, and it is legal, except in designated...

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mrjburt164 I AM NOT a humanist! If humanity had the answers, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in! At their base, Humanists, Atheists, Agnostics, et al, mostly are trying to avoid the issue that there is an all powerful, all knowing creator to whom they will be called to...

13 Nov 09

mrjburt164 @mrjburt164 (34) • United States 12 Nov 09

I am a member of two of the top ones of these, smokers, and old white men. It was my decision to start smoking. After that, free will is diminished, as smoking is a physical addiction, and it is legal, except in designated...

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mrjburt164 Here here!

13 Nov 09

mrjburt164 @mrjburt164 (34) • United States 12 Nov 09

I am a member of two of the top ones of these, smokers, and old white men. It was my decision to start smoking. After that, free will is diminished, as smoking is a physical addiction, and it is legal, except in designated...

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mrjburt164 Addiction is an individual thing. I know many people who only smoke occasionally.

13 Nov 09

mrjburt164 @mrjburt164 (34) • United States 12 Nov 09

I am a member of two of the top ones of these, smokers, and old white men. It was my decision to start smoking. After that, free will is diminished, as smoking is a physical addiction, and it is legal, except in designated...

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mrjburt164 Ya know, you're the first I've hear of secondhand smoke for quite sometime. I agree that others have a right to be free of tobacco smoke but much like global warming, (now referred to as climate change, since we're actually cooling now)I think the risk is much...

13 Nov 09

mrjburt164 @mrjburt164 (34) • United States 12 Nov 09

I am a member of two of the top ones of these, smokers, and old white men. It was my decision to start smoking. After that, free will is diminished, as smoking is a physical addiction, and it is legal, except in designated...

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mrjburt164 Well, the old white men thing is inherent, and unspoken much more insidious!

13 Nov 09

mrjburt164 @mrjburt164 (34) • United States 12 Nov 09

I am a member of two of the top ones of these, smokers, and old white men. It was my decision to start smoking. After that, free will is diminished, as smoking is a physical addiction, and it is legal, except in designated...

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mrjburt164 What do you know, some one actually reasonable.

12 Nov 09

sweetswatz @sweetswatz (82) • India 12 Nov 09

Hello! Whenever there is a calamity the worst affected are the poor people? If yes then why and if no then why? I think yes. If a natural hazard strikes like an earthquake or a tsunami, which afterward turns into a disaster, the...

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mrjburt164 Bounce back to what? A grass hut they can build in an afternoon? You'r right about the middle, the loss vis a vis the ability to regain, like most aspects of life it's the poor foolish middle class who takes the biggest hit. We should just give up and...

12 Nov 09

Phaedra_Scythe @Phaedra_Scythe (3325) 11 Nov 09

This isn't a religion-specific question because I myself do not conform to organised religion (I like to keep the ideas open), but more of a spiritual one. How do you "top up" your faith and keep it strong? I try really hard to...

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mrjburt164 I first of all feel compelled to respond to the "their god" phrase. Let's try a little logic problem, shall we? Now if you're defining god as any object of faith, or worship, well, that's at least consistent. But if you mean to say the supreme being,...

12 Nov 09

Phaedra_Scythe @Phaedra_Scythe (3325) 11 Nov 09

This isn't a religion-specific question because I myself do not conform to organised religion (I like to keep the ideas open), but more of a spiritual one. How do you "top up" your faith and keep it strong? I try really hard to...

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mrjburt164 Talk about childish! What I find about atheists is usually that they simply don't want to think that they'll have to account for their misspent lives to a god who has a perfect right to do so being their creator. Don't even start with evolution, as it violates...

12 Nov 09

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