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also, if you have an idea and it is of sound reasoning, this means nothing for the capacity to persuade others of its validity. thats why we're here right now. some people disagree on what is sound, and what is bullshit. see the problem here? For example, on some level, according to some...

It seems like you have a bigger problem with theocracy than religion; i do too. I don't think religion should play any kind of role in a government, and neither did the USA's founders. I agree that a hierarchical religion which exercises coercive power in secular matters is harmful and fascist...

oh ok so no potency issue but less bud and resin production, is this also the case with an intersex/hermie? that is, are hermies as potent? i recognize this is probably dumb

I've learned that there's no such binary opposition as "rational vs. irrational people." Everybody has a capacity for behaving rationally, and everybody has a capacity for behaving irrationally. To privilege the rational to the point of calling the irrational valueless is as dangerous as it's...

Ok guys, we all know that sinsemilla is the most desirable form of cannabis from the perspective of quality... I.e we all pretty much agree that sinsemilla is the best bud. thats why we talk about males and females: males make pollen to fertilize the girls who then produce seeds so that the...

nice work!...is that plywood cdx? what size you using as well? be easy

well, guess i was late again...whats new haha...melungeonman, lets go, these guys are bogarting...j/k be easy

pappa, you're awesome, thats all i wanted to add to that.... OP, you're good to go and don't forget that just because its highly unlikely all 8 would be girls from reg seeds, there is, technically speaking, still a chance...maybe you just got lucky! be easy

ive heard those good things about silkscreens too, and they'll usually let you know the size in microns

I kind of resent the claim that I am trying to distract from the actual discussion by bringing up art. I took a view from the perspective of effect, a tactic i thought a bunch of science nazis might appreciate or at least be open to. the effect of art on humanity is wide ranging and shares some...

you might be interested in some of the anthropological work done on the "blank slate" theory of our natural infancy, as Jonathan Haidt mentions in his ted talk on the root of our moral psychology...the ted talk touches the discussion going on in these forums so i've added a link for everyone...

point being, you can't argue that the natural state is irreligious or areligious; the response i was making was to someone who had said that it makes sense to be an atheist because this is your "natural" state; thats contentious at best. if religion isn't "natural" then how did it ever start? I...

just to take up this point a little further: Take a look at Jacques Lacan's theorization of the mirror stage of development: the point in your existence when you recognize yourself as a distinct physiological entity: for his purposes, distinct from your mother with whom you, until reaching this...

I'm not so sure i agree with this one,...western philosophy has tended to encourage questioning...from the socratic method's basis in questioning to descartes duality via extreme skepticism, western philosophy has approached understanding through question-and-answer rhetoric, but that is not...

tyler, I would only say that by using rhetoric which privileges "objective reality" you have already limited yourself to a specific epistemology and perspective on existence that is questioned by some very intelligent people indeed.

My point is exactly this: if religion, spirituality, metaphysics, and theology all require belief in order for them to be true--a point which i would contend, as well I would contend the conflating of these as not really fair but anyway-- and you thereby relegate these as less valuable than...

Zaehet, Sorry, i don't have a link per-se but looking into merleau-ponty would be a good start...maurice merleau-ponty and edmund husserl would be my two recs. for people to read on phenomenology right now, sartre gets into it in later work, and that's good too. no, the point is most definitely...

To those who so adamantly cleave to truth, proof, fact, while I agree these things are important, what of the aesthetic? This is only a tangential departure, a detour really, a different way of approaching the existence of god. there is no proof or truth value to an aesthetic production, we can...

you might consider reading up on the phenomenological perspective on the intersubjective constitution of reality via perspectival perception.

Primal man heard thunder and developed belief to explain it until science showed what it really was; if science never disproves something does it mean that thing exists? certainly not, but all it means is science has not proved it. You must have missed those "is light a particle or wave?" and...