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http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/12/02/malveaux-baby-boomer-seminary.cnn Baby Boomers heading back to Seminary: At 51, Vincent Guest could well be the professor at a table filled with 20- and 30-year-olds. He is leading a lunchtime social justice meeting for seminarians at Theological College at...
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Hi I have not been active on the forums and have been listening to stef for awhile and lately I've decided i want to get serious about anarcho capitalism and about standing up to religion which once clouded my toughs. so anyway i randomly found myself on http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/recovery...
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Hey there, everybody! A couple of days ago I posted a picture on my Facebook account, depicting a poster of a local church for their Harvest Festival that had "Thank God!" as a text on it. In the comments I had a little rant about how religious folks tend to put themselves and their beliefs...
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This may have been posted somewhere on the board or in a podcast but I haven't come across it yet. It seems to me, the worst part of religion is that people will completely waste their lives doing stuff they hate doing under the illusion that they will get into some eternal fantasy land. By the time...
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I just watched this video. I thought it was a fairly good introduction to the subject. What are your thoughts?
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Welcome, I am also new to the boards. As to the hostility, was it open or the more hidden and sarcastic aggression? For me it is rare to experience outright hostility, as I try to thoroughly velvet any of my contentious statements for self preservation. I have gotten into some heated discussion and found...
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Thanks for the kind words. It is very interesting to me how many of those I have met in liberty oriented circles went through a military tour of some sort. Good luck with your CO process, if there is excessive difficulty try calling the GI Rights Hotline. A network of nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations...
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Hello everyone, I'm interested in any scientific studies or psychological research that either confirms or refutes the notion that religious indoctrination can be properly characterized as abusive or damaging to a person's physical brain, or to a person's psychological states. If you are...
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[quote user="Theodoric"] Although I didn't participate in any recent threads that might match your description (despite a strong urge at one point!) I think that's a great point. Stef once said something to the effect that the thing we most vehemently want other people to do is what...
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This is my confession. Recently after I withdrew from a thread [that will remain unmentioned] that was primarily between a handfull of longtime FDR members and a Christian [that was new to the boards and will remain unmentioned] I realized a possible reason that I had remained in the debate so long,...