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| 18 Dec 09 | Death, An Investment Opportunity? (3) by MarcusStrapp | (22 Dec 09, 2:29 PM by MarcusStrapp) |
| Some time ago I was offered an investment opportunity by a financial adviser. Life policies are purchased from people who wish to sell them. The life policy is then maintained (monthly premiums paid) in the expectation that when the original life policy holder dies, the amount paid out on the policy will represent a tidy profit. [more...]
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| 17 Dec 09 | Legalise Cannabis (54) by proccie | (20 Dec 09, 10:23 PM by misfit) |
| Since the ex-government scientist David Nutt reckoned it caused very little harm, is it not now time to legalise cannabis? And Ecstasy? |
| 17 Dec 09 | scientology and strange sexual fetish stuff (10) by shit_sub | (30 Dec 09, 5:58 PM by AstronautMikeDexter) |
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| 17 Dec 09 | Christmas is dead, long live the winter solctice. (8) by proccie | (18 Dec 09, 8:40 AM by relaxed1) |
| Isn't it time that we stopped calling it Christmas and adopted a neutral pagan name to celebrate what has become for most people a Bacchanalian orgy of excess consumption. After all we have already done this for Easter. |
| 17 Dec 09 | 'we are far too sentimental about our boys' (4) by shit_sub | (17 Dec 09, 9:59 PM by chartreuse) |
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| 17 Dec 09 | and you thought we had troubles! by shit_sub | (17 Dec 09, 7:01 PM by shit_sub) |
tazallie wrote:
There is less and less debate on here and more and more attempts at converting and at anger.
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| 17 Dec 09 | we've lost (36) by shit_sub | (19 Dec 09, 7:12 PM by AnEnglishMaster) |
| two subscribers in the last 24 hrs - anyone know why? |
| 17 Dec 09 | Religious "education"... (56) by Max_Bedroom | (30 Apr 10, 8:45 PM by proccie) |
| Following on from the thread about whether or not creationism should be taught in schools, I would like to make the conversation somewhat broader. [more...]
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| 16 Dec 09 | As an atheist (49) by tazallie | (20 Dec 09, 12:06 AM by emark) |
| Does that mean you have no faith in anything and believe in nothing except proven facts? [more...]
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| 16 Dec 09 | Pastafarianism (5) by proccie | (18 Dec 09, 2:01 AM by Conan_The_Librarian) |
| Pastafarianism, or the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. [more...]
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| 16 Dec 09 | Does God need to be worshiped and obeyed? (96) by enquiring_eyes | (19 Oct 11, 10:45 PM by AnEnglishMaster) |
| If you are religious...must you worship God and obey him? Or is it enough simply to believe he exists? |
| 16 Dec 09 | Religion (3) by Stanisk | (16 Dec 09, 10:21 PM by proccie) |
| I have enjoyed reading the debate here. [more...]
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| 15 Dec 09 | intelligent design (96) by shit_sub | (21 Dec 09, 5:16 PM by AstronautMikeDexter) |
| should british schools be allowed (or even required?) to teach it? |
| 15 Dec 09 | What do you mean by Spirituality? (3) by Jahc99 | (15 Dec 09, 10:42 PM by shit_sub) |
| ETA: Better idea to just bump the other thread: http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/257043/ |
| 15 Dec 09 | Mankind Perpetuated II (12) by Conan_The_Librarian | (18 Dec 09, 5:20 PM by AnEnglishMaster) |
AnEnglishMaster wrote:
Fletch_F_Kroenen wrote:
So what about the children of the cities of the plain? Why did they have to die excruciating, agonising deaths through the Divine application of fire and brimstone? |
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| 15 Dec 09 | The Devil.... (8) by chartreuse | (15 Dec 09, 1:41 PM by Preceptor) |
| .... does/did it exist? [more...]
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| 15 Dec 09 | If ALL things are created..... (33) by chartreuse | (19 Dec 09, 10:47 PM by chartreuse) |
| .... by God, who/what created God? [more...]
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| 15 Dec 09 | Why? (96) by mq1965 | (18 Jan 10, 10:03 PM by Conan_The_Librarian) |
| These last few days debating on this group have been interesting, but have begin to feel increasingly pointless in many ways to me because of the completely different perspectives that the two sides are arguing from. [more...]
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| 14 Dec 09 | 'travelling abroad to kill your baby' (4) by shit_sub | (15 Dec 09, 10:01 PM by shit_sub) |
| is what women A, B and C were accused of doing by bloggers commenting on the case they've brought to the european court of human rights. [more...]
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| 14 Dec 09 | If kink is compatible with.... (17) by chartreuse | (18 Dec 09, 7:12 AM by chartreuse) |
| ... your religion, why isn't it acceptable within the UK law? [more...]
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