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We are told by believers that we must deny ourselves the pleasures of the flesh in this life in order to earn our reward in the next. So, the way I see it Hell would be the boring place with all the monochrome scenery and harps and boring stuff while heaven would be all booze 'n' drugs 'n'...

In the thread about hydrogen powered cars use of nuclear power to generate electricity (and then hydrogen) has been mentioned briefly. Here are my thoughts. Nuclear power will be an important source of energy over the next 100 years or so. However, early attempts to tap nuclear power were...

85 per cent say 'US mission was "to retaliate for Saddam's role in the 9/11"' http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/us-troops-favour-getting-out-of-iraq/2006/03/01/1141191729975.html 85 Percent of US Troops in Iraq believe that? It is time the misinformation from the Bush Administration was...

Swell. We traded Saddam for another benighted theocracy.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=CGZEGYNF3YXQZQFIQMGCM5OAVCBQUJVC?xml=/news/2005/08/22/wirq22.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/22/ixnewstop.html Now then, did anyone doubt that this was going to occur? And what, exactly, is...

I am wondering about the responsibilities of a judge in a case where the defendant has asked for a judge trial instead of a jury trial. If a judge has doubt is he allowed to do his own investigation. Specifically, is he allowed to reconvene the court room at the crime scene after the defense...

Discordianism has a new ally, the "new right", wherein a bunch of people who would usually say conservative things demand radical change in a reactonary direction, thereby serving the discordian's desire to sow chaos. 'nuff said?

I thought this deserved a thread seperate from the current Jack Chick and D&D thread. In 1984, at the peak of D&D's initial popularity, a Christian RPG called Dragonraid was released. Some details here at Jonathan Tweet's website (he's one of the newest editions of D&D's creators). Here is...

To what extent can the government control its population and still be benevolent in its governing? Can a government legislate morality? Can it really direct the minds of its citizens without coersion? Would the results of coersion be genuine or feigned?

Check out the following link to see an interesting role reversal in what we usually see regarding Third World demonstrations about the USA and France. And it illustrates a big problem too...peace settlements are good to the people that find the settlement acceptable and bad to the people that...