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LostOne4Ever

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February 18, 2014

For the love of all that is holy please make it stop!!!

Im being bombarded with ad after ad after ad for crazy, after nuts, after batshit fucking insane conservatives running for government one after another. Someone put me out of my misery.

OH GOD!!!

They just ran ads for all three troglidytes running for attorney general followed by one for Greg Abbot. Please make it stop. Please...

February 13, 2014

Is belief and/or disbelief a choice?

Kind of got into this in another forum but I thought it would make a good thread here.

ULTIMATELY, do you think belief/disbelief is a choice? I am not talking about something like "which denomination do you like best," but rather something like "do you A) hold claim X to be true, B) hold claim X to be false, C) neither hold claim X to be true or false, or D)whatever else may lay between."

Can you make yourself believe in something simply because you want to? Or is belief involuntary. Can you make yourself believe that there are really such things as Unicorns simply by wanting to believe and in a way that is more than just putting on an act?

Or, do we have no control over what we believe? You either believe or you don't.

FOR ARGUMENT SAKE, can we please accept the following definition of belief for this poll and discussion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a conjecture or premise to be true.

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I knew I shoulda made dat left toin in Al-ba-quoi-kee! Anyone know the way to Cucamonga?
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