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Many people have said that they have left or will leave instructions to relatives to euthanize them in case they would suffer from some serious irreversible condition (long coma, terminal cancer etc). Would you grant such an authorization for the possibility of a devastating amnesia like that of...

I'm sorry if this is too obvious or has been addressed in another thread. I am thinking, aren't terrorists going to use codes and encryptions in any of their messages anyway? It seems to me, the only info the government is going to be able to understand is from people who have nothing to do...

I just can't seem to get bored with it. :hit:

Heard this from a caller on the Bill O'Reilly radio show moments ago. They are talking about the new Star Wars movie coming out. Bill thinks this will set the new box office record? This caller says that he has watched past Star Wars and it bothers him that the effects are wrong because he said...

Errol Morris: "There Is Such a Thing as Truth" This short essay was presented on NPR yesterday. It's nicely summarized in this quote: A refreshingly rational perspective.

One thing that I observe about the Vatican clergy is the over the top trouble they feel they have to go though in this transvestite tendency to were such expensive frocks. They are more preoccupied with making appointments with the exclusive and elite Vatican tailors than spreading the message...

...where does it go, 'General Skepticism and the Paranormal', or here? I finally decided to put it here. Ladeeeeeeeeeeeeez and gentlemen, presenting the newest gizmo for your computing and paranormal pleasures! The USB-powered GhostRadar!!! Find out whether your computer is possessed by a...

(1) Experience cannot arise from absolutely nothing. (2) Therefore, Something exists - as opposed to 'nothing'. (3) If existence is indivisible, then it is absolutely singular. No explanation needed. (4) If existence is indivisible, then it is boundless. Why? Because a singular existence...

I used the phrase "there is no such thing as luck" in response to someone and then got to thinking....always dangerous. To illustrate: Assuming I have a 1 in 40,000,000 chance of winning a weekly lottery jackpot, that chance will stay the same for any week, but this week I was the winner (I'm...

The myth of animal homosexuality

Nice read in The Observer today...

Eternity, according to Merriam-Webster, means "infinite time". I propose that this is a nonsense word. Why? Because there will never be an infinite amount of time. No matter where you are in time, there will have been a finite amount of time that happened before the place where you are in...

I read recently an interview by Loompanics founder and president Mike Hoy in which this was the first published question. I was interested in what the board had to say. Thanks for your time.

Hamas has claimed the US shares the blame and as such shall be dealt with. While laughable, in my opinion, would a threat of this nature allow the US to deal with the group as a terror threat to the US? I mean we could see the end of them in a few months which really wouldn't hurt anyone if...

Well is there? I say yes. If you say otherwise, please explain.

The similarity between science and religion as philosophies is that both groups state outright that there is a truth out there. There is a real world and we know how it works. Both groups quibble about what this truth is, and how to obtain it, but the basic ideology is the same. It has been...

I've heard it on more than one occasion that there are just certain technologies that should not be discovered, the most obvious example being nuclear bombs, of course. I'm not so sure I think it's possible to predict a techonology that shouldn't be discovered, much less proove that there is...

"Theres no such thing as a true skeptic." "Theres no such thing as a true atheist." I've heard both of these claims before. I dont know what they mean or the logic behind them. Can someone help me out?

Went to bed at around 5:00-6:00... when i woke up the first time it was around 11:00 (I later found it was 10:30)... The second time I woke up, I'm positive I saw 4 - something on the clock... It was around 4:00-4:30 Now, when I woke up it was 1:30!!! WTF??? And I looked at two clocks! They...