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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqwoo-O_GwM I think this is a very good thing. I think that problems surrounding overpopulation have solutions that don't involve fascism or mindlessly depleting resources. Sometimes, though, I fear things like this could lead to great oppression if used by the...

Have a look at this little gem and give thanks to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that you don't take it seriously... http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=e10543891fd2e7277d15 :jaw-dropp :jaw-dropp :mad:

A friend of mine claimed this the other day (while we were sitting outside being constantly bothered by wasps of course!) I've done a google search and found various references to it, but all anecdotal and nothing I would class as authoritative. My freind claimed she'd heard it discussed on...

Hello. I have a bit of masonry to do on my house. I will have to go up a ladder maybe some 20 feet (7 meter) high. I have fear of heights (acrophobia) and wonder if there are techniques to overcome this. I don't think it has something to do with the inner ear or my vision because in building...

I was hopeful when I came across this almost balanced BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5304880.stm Unfortunately, after reading the press release I was my usual angry self again: More money to be wasted on homeopathy headline shocker! I like the way they use the plural of ‘trial’...

"I like President Bush because he's God fearing". So said a lady from Utah in a recent New York Times article on Bush's red state popularity. That struck me as an odd statement. I can think of a lot of presidential traits that might cause one to like a president: integrity, empathy...

I was watching my Jackass Collector's Edition DVD this week, and they were doing leaps off a high-diving board. Steve-O said what I constantly hear, "it looks high from the ground but it looks insane when you're up there"...and I always wondered why no one ever pointed out why this phenomenon is...

Just wanted to take a quick non-scientific survey to serve as a reference point. Any of you ever find horror movies or TV shows scary?? I generally don’t, but I remembered being scared by all kinds of stuff when I was a kid. This was before I knew anything about science though. . . I...

Just wanted to take a quick non-scientific survey to serve as a reference point. Any of you ever find horror movies or TV shows scary?? I generally don’t, but I remembered being scared by all kinds of stuff when I was a kid. This was before I knew anything about science though. . . I...

The fear of terrorism puzzles me. Yes, I like you, fear death; but let's think about this rationally. How many people do terrorists kill in an average year, a few hundred at most? Lightning kills about a thousand people per year on Earth. Don't fear terrorists, fear electrons. "A suicide bomber...

From the chapter entitled A Free Society and a Fear Society, section "Doublethink": I think it's safe to say that by the end of the Soviet Union the dissidents and doublethinkers greatly outnumbered the true believers. And I think it is necessary for this to be true for a revolution to...

If they took complete control of the country? Islam Christianity

Tsunami victims fear ghosts http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&e=12&u=/ap/20050117/ap_on_re_as/tsunami_haunted_coasts Guess we should have seen this one coming...

Now sort of rate yourself. Do you have a fear of it? Is it what you would think is a normal fear or an irrational fear? Is it holding you back from accomplishing some things you might like to try? Would you consider climbing some skyscraper by only your fingernails? Would you bungee jump over...

Below are some quotes from a review in E-Skeptic of the book "Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics". The book suggests that Epicurus could provide a philosophy for atheists to overcome fear of death.... Death is nothing to us because the instant we cease to exist we experience nothing...

ABC affiliates pulling 'Private Ryan' Cripes. Even Australia isn't afraid of showing this one uncensored. I mean, war is heck, right?

Because fear of the punishment in HELL is what keep them from doing wrong... If it weren´t for the fear, they would commit the sins they would like to do! Now, since god knows everything, he/she/it knows that if it weren´t for the fear of the punishment in HELL, they would be sinners...

In the light of the fiction we are being fed, this documentary by Pilger is worth another look. Its a rarely shown documentary but is on ITV2 tonight. Burma should make an interesting case for media watchers and yet the country is media-invisible, not helped by a ban on foreign journalists which...

I dunno where exactly to put this thread, so mod you're okay to replace this thread in its appropriate room. Okay here we go. I'm skeptical about any apparitions, hantings, ghosts, ghouls, spirits, and any ectoplasm-ghostbuster-thing, but how come I still feel afraid when alone, especially in...

If we hear of a father who knows his young child will be taken, raped, tortured and killed yet does nothing but stand by and watch and in addition allows in the killer handing him the keys and telling him have it, we rightly cheer when he is rightly convicted in court. But many will say when...

Behold! Your new master!

Is it MY generation...or what? Is this just my imagination, or is there something to this. Back in the earlier part of the last century...didn't people sort of accept growing old and dying? Today, people don't want to get old. They don't want their breasts to sag...they don't want...

I am trying to coax out all the single posters. Don't be bashful. And of those who are already married or plan to be soon, let's hear you comments. I have enjoyed my freedom now for 32 years. Never been married. I am set in my ways. But here is what i actually fear: I fear, that if I were...

I saw this posted in the L&A forum, and I thought this would be a better forum to discuss why the islamic fundamentalists (wahabbi, shia etc.) fear women's sexuality so much. http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19718 Most of the religions Of The Book, have a lot of...