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Reading the right books, talking to people of various different spiritual systems, lots of meditation and pondering. I disagree. I feel that everything should be subjected to the scrutiny of constant standards, but those standards are not the same for everyone, and must be developed on a...

Oly, While I appreciate your support, I have to agree with Heisenberg on this. This thread is about discussion, and in regard to the correspondence between myself, Padawanbater, and Mindphuk, has been refreshingly free of conflict and personal attacks. In short, the only person trolling in this...

You shouldn't. You should evaluate the evidence, and accept what exactly entails evidence to you.You have a mind of your own and spirituality will be to you vastly different than it will be to someone else. See: This is based on my own spiritual practice, and observed results. It's also based...

I feel the need to quote myself.... Just like you won't understand the counterintuitive aspects of biology or physics, if you don't actively study and put forth quite a bit of effort, it can be excessively difficult, especially as a person who is not easily tricked or led and is naturally...

There are those who spend nearly every waking minute of their entire lives in meditation and study in order to understand the answer to this question. The supposition that you could learn the answer to this question from a stoner posting on the internet is indeed one of the major failings of...

When talking about pactitioners of modern spiritual systems, these words are often used interchangably. Quite a large number of modern spiritual practitioners are ex-catholics and Christians, and much like many atheists, are inheretly bothered and offended by the term "god". As such, in classes...

We did not evolve from monkeys. Primates as a larger family split off from mammals, and from there split several more times leading to what we have today, a diverse set of primates ranging from monkeys, to great apes, to humans, to bigfoot. Great apes did not come from monkeys, and monkeys did...

To Each their own. I know some folks who are into some crazy BDSM shit(one girl often reminisces about one of her guy friends and his no-shit balls to the wall TORTURE DUNGEON that he had in his basement, and how much she loved being chained up and whipped there). Either play along or let them...

See thread title. I would choose Underwear. I have no problem going Commando, and my feet sweat enough that all my shoes would be ruined quickly, not to mention the health issue of getting Athlete's foot and other types of fungus, which can be quite serious. I already have a moderately bad case...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKL_EpnSp8 Start at 1:13

It's absurd that I even need to post this in this thread. To the OP, go back to whatever Chan you came from. grown ups are talking.

Polytheists do regard the Sun and the Earth as gods. Both provide the necessary components for life.

If the creative force that I have referenced above is indeed a known law of nature, I would love to read about it. Just what is it that is responsible for the innumerable interactions and coincidences that are necessary precursors to even to the possibility of matter existing? The difference...

That's my point... The same is true of Luger's "Clock" observation. Both the lights on and off thing, and the no reflection are fairly well documented in different studies regarding dreams, but once again, it really doesn't happen for everyone. The common iteration is that a light bulb may...

yeah.... and we don't dream in color, it's impossible to turn lights on or off in a dream, and you have no reflection in dreams. This kind of stuff may ne true for some people, but it's totally not universal.

Opiates will cause this, but I feel like you would have mentioned that earlier. Sounds like a psychological issue - I would see a sex therapist.

Z, can you give me an example? When you say that you feel it was stupid that you wre about to make up a lie, what do you mean? Are you talking about telling stories to make yourself look good/cool, or telling lies to protect yourself or someone else? If it's the former, then the previous advice...

Which was based on many styles.... one of which was wing chun. Yhe philosophy of Jeet Kune Do was to take the most effective parts of the several styles that he studied, and drop anything he saw as ineffective.

Setting aside the fallacious assertion that a creator or deity would necessarily be something "unnatural".... The common modern understanding is along lines that you are bordering on here. By this model, the true essence of deity is indeed a natural force, and really can't be described as a...

I've read some interestng things on the phenomena of brad loyalty as well, and one thing I found particularly interesting is that the same areas of the brain have been observed to be activated when someone is talking about a brand they are loyal to, as when someone is talking about their...