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What's So Great About Christianity is: 
Consciousness is difficult to define. The Oxford Dictionary defines it as:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/defini...=consciousness
Thank you to [MENTION=15100]distant quasar[/MENTION] for giving me the insight to write this. Just to clarify: I am an atheist.
Firstly,
Where do I come from? Irrelevant, I guess, as long as I show a decent mastery of English. 
I do not feel the need to flash my credentials,
Latest ArgumentsDo you imagine yourself the first to have asked? Each one of you guys imagine that. Do you not realize how many here have done just as you ask and still
minorwork 22nd May 2013, 05:15 AM
An open revolution? Without the support of the military prospects are not good. But where is the law that mandates the revolution be so obvious that
minorwork 22nd May 2013, 04:58 AM
Recreate our neurological state well enough to simulate experience? I don't know. The numbers of possible connections in the brain are staggering.
minorwork 22nd May 2013, 04:36 AM
Volconvo InformationI'll start the the game, you keep it going,here goes! " went after dinner "
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Recently on another thread: Jehovah's Witnesses or Scientology? a question of whether Jesus is divine or not came up. A question according to biblical scripture that is. My position is that he is...
Last Post By: Charlatan 22nd May 2013, 05:17 AM
I have delivered this challenge to numerous audiences and readerships, and never received an answer that was coherent or satisfying. I don’t mean satisfying in the sense that it converts my Atheistic...
Last Post By: minorwork 22nd May 2013, 05:15 AM
Republicans never cease to amaze me. So, a recent poll conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University found that, To those who think an "armed revolution may be necessary", I would ask how do...
Last Post By: minorwork 22nd May 2013, 04:58 AM
When I ask, "Why are human beings not immortal?", I use the word "immortal" to mean not dying from old age or disease. Even if old age and disease were to no longer be causes of death, people would...
Last Post By: minorwork 22nd May 2013, 04:36 AM
Members' Latest BlogsThis is where the brain has too much activity and you go into a fit. To make sure the brain does not have too much activity - well actually, these can go off randomly - is to eat a lot of glucose, as...
Charlatan 14th May 2013 02:56 AMIn this candid interview Feynman touches on a wide array of topics from the beauty of nature to particle physics. He explains things that are hard to grasp in layman's terms much like Carl Sagan did...
Jack 12th May 2013 08:44 PM
Matthew 15:21-28 describes an encounter between Jesus and a Canaanite woman.
Why did this woman have such faith even though she wasn’t an Israelite? The Bible doesn’t tell us. However I have...
Nonsheepness is a word.
Nonsheepness: (Adjective) not like sheepness or like a sheep. e.g. His nonsheepness in advocating that nonsheepness is a word is awe inspiring. [I]Harold's...

Semantics
Thread Starter: The PhilosopherEndless debates have been fought over the pettiness that is semantics. Definition wars have raged; technical terms have warred.
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