#Belief

A thread's going around suggesting only violent acts can be homophobic/transphobic. I'm not surprised this is from an older man who just wants everyone younger than him to shut up.Violence
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'Trans rights are human rights' thread. This slogan is repeated often. What does it mean? Here follows a short lesson in International Human Rights Law. There are currently nine (or
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Biblically speaking, "false teaching" is more than an incorrect propositional belief about some aspect of Christian doctrine. It is not a simple interpretive mistake; it is an act of volition
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Don’t men leave women for being barren, or not being able to have a male child? Or is it only in Nigerian movies? Also isn’t it a known fact that
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Look, I'm just not interested in all the fear mongering around Jupiter in Capricorn. Sure, it's not Jupiter in Sagittarius, of course. But it's also not like The Greater Benefic
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If you could buy stock in any individual over the next 20 years, who would you choose? Some top choices, off the cuff (indexing toward people who are already successful,
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Fact is, alot of what we continue to do and say today in LoL start 6/7 years ago when most of us were immature, uneducated hotheaded little shits who had
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What the fuck is happening with the tests? The PPE? The deaths? Why are we still talking about Boris’ spirit? Why are MPs getting a pay rise? Who is responsible
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Stated disbelief in magic is “rational,” yet saying we're rational doesn’t make it so. Research shows that so-called irrational, magical thinking lurks right below the skeptical surface of the minds
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People used to signal status with luxury goods. Today they do it with luxury beliefs /1 In the past, only high status people could afford luxury goods. But today goods
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Prof Zhang Weiying with an important warning in the Oct 2020 edition of Dushu magazine: “How to avoid falling into the ‘four traps’” (如何避免陷入“四个陷阱”)https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5pzEc0LXEB3RPydC0eFUJA The essay d
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sometimes i like get THIS close to understanding the beauty of religious belief, the desire to believe in a god that put careful thought and love into *you* rather than
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Entering week 4-ish of telecommuting (at least for those of us in metro NYC), and I've seen a lot of stress from colleagues (humourous interludes from @HumanOfHigherEd notwithstanding), particularly in
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The concept of "You don't have to be musically trained to be a musician" was an on-point radical movement to stand against the dogma of the academia and the sinkhole
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If I had the power to destroy words the first two to go would be "believe" and "deserve" the word "belief" can prevent your model of reality from evolving when
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1/ I don't want to be talking about being a Jew during this election campaign. I'm more interested in discussing the @UKLabour manifesto, with its transformative vision for the the
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