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Thank you.

People find & give meaning to things & people without really thinking about it, it’s in our nature. Some of the people here, it sounds like they find their OWN meaning, rather than just accepting without question the meaning that others give them. And that’s not taking meaning away, it’s just finding your own meaning. I think that when you say you have no meaning or your life has no meaning, you are going against your nature.

No. You don’t have to live a meaningful life, but isn’t a life without meaning essentially a life not worth living?

Happy birthday!! :D I hope it’s been great!

Plato thought that what we really are is our soul, and that this soul will survive after death, indeed death is seen as the release of the soul. Plato is thus asserting that soul and body are distinct substances, bodies die, but souls are immortal.

Aristotle thought that the soul and the body are essentially related. The soul is not a separate substance, but an arrangement of stuff, or material substance, of which the body is made. For Aristotle individual immortality seems impossible.

Rene Descartes believed that the mind and body are two different substances. The body in this case the physical part and the mind part with innate ideas like sound, taste, smell, and touch. The mind is stimulated leading to sense perception. in this way the mind grabs the ideas that are not physical. He used his famous “method of doubt” to show that he could not doubt the existence of his mind. As doubting involved thought, and thought needs a consciousness to think it, Descartes was sure that he could not doubt his mind existed: cogito ergo sum “I think therefore I am”. He is called a dualist because he thinks that mind and body are separate and distinct substances: Mind is conscious and non-spatial and body is spatial but not conscious.

The Cosmological Argument attempts to prove that God exists by showing that there cannot be an infinite number of regressions of causes to things that exist. It states that there must be a final uncaused-cause of all things. This uncaused-cause is asserted to be God.

The Cosmological Argument takes several forms, but is basically represented below.
1. Things exist.
2. It is possible for those things to not exist.
3. Whatever has the possibility of non existence, yet exists, has been caused to exist.
- Something cannot bring itself into existence, since it must exist to bring itself into existence, which is illogical.
4. There cannot be an infinite number of causes to bring something into existence.
- An infinite regression of causes ultimately has no initial cause, which means there is no cause of existence.
- Since the universe exists, it must have a cause.
5. Therefore, there must be an uncaused cause of all things.
6. The uncaused cause must be God.

Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) had a version of the Cosmological Argument called the Argument from Motion. He stated that things in motion could not have brought themselves into motion, but must be caused to move. There cannot be an infinite regression of movers. Therefore, there must be an Unmoved Mover. This Unmoved Mover is God.

hah…I’d love to watch him be interviewed by Hannity, that’d be fun :D

[quote Verum Causa]
And if we look at the 2nd presidential debate from Nashville McCain isn’t even aware that Obama is in the room. Failing to remember his name when speaking about him.[/quote]

I’m not quite sure what you’re referring to. Do you remember what question was asked when this happend?

Do you remember the 1st presidential debate when Obama called JOHN McCain, AT LEAST 3 other 1st names? All within like a 10 minute time frame.

INCOME TAX

MCCAIN (no changes)

Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $31,250

OBAMA
(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax $38,750

I miss you! Hope you’re back soon!!!

[quote cooper]Linking Obama to Ayers? Obama was 8 years old 40 years ago![/quote]

That’s why the fact that Ayers is UNREPENTANT is important. Even today, Ayers doesn’t regret what he did, and he wishes he could have done more. Obama isn’t 8 years old now, and he wasn’t 8 years old when he met & got involved with Ayers. Obama has known Ayers for 13 YEARS. Can you honestly believe that he didn’t know what Ayers did and believes after all that time?

[quote Verum Causa]If I were stupid I might believe that video. Even if I did though, I still like Obama’s current economic plan more because McCains is… *expletive*.[/quote]

Obama’s economic plan:
- use YOUR tax dollars to give a check each year to people who haven’t paid a dime in federal taxes - CASH checks
- claims he will cut taxes for 95% of Americans — of which 45% of those don’t pay any taxes…hmmm…how exactly will that work? (see point 1)
- increase pretty much everyone’s taxes - look at a previous post written by Fizz.
- spend a trillion dollars MORE than we already are, while not telling us where exactly that money is coming from, or what he’ll stop doing in order to make those things work
- encourage people to use their retirement money NOW

McCain’s economic plan
- refinance mortgages to a lower rate and more affordable payments so that people aren’t so afraid of losing their homes
- keep the majority of taxes the same, while decreasing others
- one of the taxes he wants to decrease are business taxes…with the economy the way it is now, what better way to keep people here than to make it a little easier for companies to start and STAY up? why would you want to create a company here where you would pay 50% taxes (under Obama’s plan) when you could go to another country and pay less taxes, etc.?
- wants to increase the amount of capital gains losses that can be reported for 08-09

These are only some of the major points of each plan, there are more, of course. Please, explain to me why Obama’s plan is so great? Maybe I’m just reading the facts wrong here, but from what I see, Obama’s plan doesn’t help anyone but those who don’t need help anyway.

[quote Maximina]
Why are people who introduce McCain starting to use Obama’s middle name? Why doesn’t Obama ever say McCain’s?[/quote]

Obama can barely even remember McCain’s FIRST name (as evidenced in the 1st presidential debate).

google “acorn voter fraud”

*won

I never muted him in the 2nd debate. And I had McCain muted in the 1st one too.

The only reason people think Obama one is because those polls are rigged. Also, certain news companies won’t even report the results of their own poll, they use ones that give the results they “like”.