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Equality, women rights

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Treat Us All Equal

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• A comment on Conversation: Can we prove Aristotleâ��s â��Prime Moverâ��:Everything that happens is caused by something else?Then what caused the first cause?

  Mar 4 2012: Unfortunately the scientists/atheist are still stuck in the 18th century outdated belief system of finding "CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BRAIN" as per the thread question. Even great scientists like neil bore & max planx questioned these assumptions.
  For example in the human brain there is no connection between the electrical impulse & chemical reaction that creates consciousness when we are asked to visualize or think about an object" in Science its called a hard problem that one is unable to solve. Or even Plank epoch 10 to the power -40 what physicits are unable to solve
  whats beyond plank epoch ?
  One God is the infinite Consciousness that the mind cannot comprehend

• A reply on Conversation: Can we get "Unconditional Love" from people not related? (other than siblings, parents or wife)

  Mar 4 2012: I disagree. Children, parents, grandkids, wife will be there when you need them the most for example in an accident, or consolation which is ofcourse UNCONDITIONALLY etc while the closest best friend would help you only for a purpose / conditionally so that we may be of their help in future CONDITIONALLY

• A comment on Conversation: Can we get "Unconditional Love" from people not related? (other than siblings, parents or wife)

  Mar 4 2012: For separateness to disappear relation comes into play... i wonder the question still remains unanswered that is receiving this unconditional love from un-related people? in a era of egoism , that is not a possiblility, in the subcontinent or far east the cast system still prevails thus stopping uncondtional love, the only way forward is to remove the cast system i guess!!

• A reply on Conversation: Can we get "Unconditional Love" from people not related? (other than siblings, parents or wife)

  Mar 4 2012: Quoting you:"To be in unconditional love, the separateness between two individual has to disappear". Unquote
  For separateness to disappear relation comes into play... i wonder the question still remains unanswered that is receiving this unconditional love from un-related people? in a era of egoism , that is not a possiblility, in the subcontinent or far east the cast system still prevails thus stopping uncondtional love, the only way forward is to remove the cast system i guess!!

• A comment on Conversation: Can we get "Unconditional Love" from people not related? (other than siblings, parents or wife)

  Feb 28 2012: I suggest people read the life history of that nun the one that was in the movie (Dead Man walking) and other instances in life one can find unconditional spiritual love given by nuns and priests for DEATH ROW inmates. But the question is: why does this even come with a condtion that is the nun or priest or anybody their has "a job to do" as reflected in state laws for them to be present for the deathrow inmates, so where is the unconditional love here?
  
  Texas laws particularly, must be changed and parents or loved ones must be allowed to sit with the death row inmates

• A reply on Conversation: Can we get "Unconditional Love" from people not related? (other than siblings, parents or wife)

  Feb 28 2012: great question robin, i suggest you read the life history of that nun the one that was in the movie (Dead Man walking) and other instances in life one can find unconditional love given by nuns and priets for DEATH ROW inmates. But the question is even this comes with a condtion, the nun or priest has a job as reflected in state laws for them to be present for the deathrow inmates, so wher is the unconditonal love here?
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  A comment on Conversation: Can we get "Unconditional Love" from people not related? (other than siblings, parents or wife)

  Feb 28 2012: Unconditional love as suggested below by a fellow tedster below Miss Collen steen was so true regarding loving someone without any conditions. It is no doubt healthy but scarce. from parents and family and specially my wife if have received unconditional love but from friends it usually begins by sycophancy with it a request is attched. Thus as a result of this i believe uncondtional love can only be given by our parents...

• A reply on Conversation: Can we prove Aristotleâ��s â��Prime Moverâ��:Everything that happens is caused by something else?Then what caused the first cause?

  Feb 28 2012: @ linda “Who wrote the Bible” is a question that can be definitively answered by examining the biblical texts in light of the external evidences that supports its claims. 2 Timothy 3:16 states that “All scripture is inspired by God….” In 2 Peter 1:20-21, Peter reminds the reader to “know this first of all, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, … but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” The Bible itself tells us that it is God who is the author of His book.
  
  God does not leave us with just claims of His divine handiwork in the Bible, but also supports it with compelling evidence. The design of the Bible itself is a miracle. Written over more than 1,500 years by vastly different writers, yet every book in the Bible is consistent in its message. These 66 books talk about history, prophecy, poetry, and theology. Despite their complexity, differences in writing styles and vast time periods, the books of the Bible agree miraculously well in theme, facts and cross-referencing. No human beings could have planned such an intricate combination of books over a 1,500-year time span. Bible manuscripts (remember, there were no printing presses until 1455) have survived despite weather, persecution and time.

• A reply on Conversation: Can we prove Aristotleâ��s â��Prime Moverâ��:Everything that happens is caused by something else?Then what caused the first cause?

  Feb 28 2012: Dr. Richard Lewontin, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University, put it like this: "It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door" (Richard Lewontin, "Billions and Billions of Demons," New York Review of Books, January 9, 1997, p. 28).
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  A reply on Conversation: Can we prove Aristotle�s �Prime Mover�:Everything that happens is caused by something else?Then what caused the first cause?

  Feb 28 2012: The first cause theory question question would be impossible to answer from an evidentiary standpoint simply because anything which God might have done (that is, any supernatural act which might serve as evidence for His existence) would have to be explained away in terms of natural causes, not because we know what those natural causes could possibly be, but simply because a supernatural God is not allowed to exist!!!!