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    Re: Is Monotheism Inherently Intolerant?

    'Monotheism' signifies the belief in one god. It is an abstraction, and as such has no agency to be either tolerant or intolerant. Some adherents of monotheistic religions may be intolerant, or...
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    Re: New Campaign pack for R2! :)

    I partially agree: an Alexander Campaign charting his conquest of Persia would require special mechanics to avoid the problems you highlight. But what about having the campaign begin in Philip's...
  3. Poll: Re: Empire Divided - Who are you going to play first?

    Aurelian first for me, to restore the glory of Rome! Though for me this poll is somewhat moot as I'll end up playing as most/all of the factions eventually xD
  4. I cannot play any Roma Surrectum II campaigns (disc version)

    I wonder if someone could help me.

    I have the RomeTW Anthology disc version of the game, with Roma Surrectum 2.6 installed. When I double click my RomeTW.exe shortcut, it loads up Roma Surrectum...
  5. Re: Windows 10 Issues with Rome Total War and Roma Surrectum - Possible Solutions

    If I double click my standard RomeTW.exe, it loads up Roma Surrectum II battlefield mode, which I can play fine. However, if I try loading my Roma Surrectum II launcher, after I click play and the...
  6. Thread: Plato's Cave

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    Re: Plato's Cave

    This reminds me of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s words, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”...
  7. Thread: Prostitution

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    Re: Prostitution

    There are feminists who say prostitution is degrading and misogynistic, and there are feminists who say prostitution empowers women by giving them control over their own bodies. It seems a (I’m...
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    Re: Is Religion Dying?

    The comments in this thread tend to define what ‘religion’ can be very dogmatically. We need to recognise that our society has profoundly changed over the last fifty years. We have had two world wars...
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    Re: Do you love anything?

    Loads of things I wouldn't normally pay much attention to can be profound/ beautiful/ exciting in the right company. I think human contact/ interaction and romance would have to be the things I love...
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    Re: Mentally Handicapped Students In College

    Show me where I said “epilepsy is a mental handicap”, and I will show you how you are completely misreading the situation.



    Actually, because he has learning difficulties, which I made clear...
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    Re: Mentally Handicapped Students In College

    If you were to actually read my post, rather than the first sentence, you would know that I did not claim epilepsy is a mental handicap, and moreover that my argument concerned this individual’s...
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    Re: Mentally Handicapped Students In College

    There is a person on my course with epilepsy who also seems to have learning difficulties. He has a 'scribe' with him in teaching sessions along with someone trained to care for him should he have a...
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    Re: Women and Christian Worship

    We need to make the important distinction between what are essentially historic social conventions, and revealed truths. The Old Testament contains both, and unsurprisingly for a text of its...
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    Re: Asatru on the rise?

    A lot of people are very religious about 'secular' philosophies, politics and ideas too, and most of these prove demonstrably illogical after interrogation. Indeed, some forms of atheist can be...
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    Re: Are Feminists Hypersensitive?

    I think another issue is how much real causation can really be attributed to quite abstract conceptual frameworks. For instance, a friend of mine told me she is unable to get a job because of our...
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    Poll: Re: Which faith do you embrace?

    The issue you have raised is one of belief. At core, we must accept some basic axiom on faith in order for our worldview to remain coherent. This goes for absolutely everyone. I accept the reality of...
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    Re: Are Feminists Hypersensitive?

    At core, on a theoretical level, I don't understand how feminism can exist alongside gender egalitarianism unless feminism is about gender entitlement, rather than equality, for women. Otherwise they...
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    Re: Are Feminists Hypersensitive?

    I was actually told I was being sexist by referring to gender egalitarianism rather than feminism. That one was news to me.
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    Re: Are Feminists Hypersensitive?

    The think that struck me in hindsight was that they accused me of being a "white man" (guilty), yet they were all white women. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure white privilege applies to...
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    Re: Are Feminists Hypersensitive?

    I’m not too sure about this. Isn’t there research that suggests intelligence at least partly depends on environment? I’m not privy to it ATM though so if you can correct/ inform me that’d be great....
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    Are Feminists Hypersensitive?

    Please excuse the very general title, but I wanted to put an issue I have had before the community. I recently made the mistake of entering a conversation I happened to be overhearing among some...
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    Re: Superficial Campaign Map.

    When they first announced the province system I was excited, because it seemed to be a streamlined way to manage a lot of cities. When the game was released, however, it transpired to be a...
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    Superficial Campaign Map.

    Does anyone else feel that there are far too few cities on the R2:TW campaign map? Sure, the map is 'larger', but that is only because it has been zoomed in so much. Greece, for instance, looks...
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    Re: An interesting Francis Bacon quote

    “It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy brings about man's mind to religion”



    None of these are required fields of knowledge to be a...
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    Re: A Critique of Objections to Theism

    I don’t understand how the fact we can give blind people walking sticks and guide dogs has anything to do with the fact that properly basic beliefs are formed on an individual, rather than general,...
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    Re: A Critique of Objections to Theism

    As you will hopefully all understand, I couldn’t possible reply to all of your posts at length simply due to the volume of objections. I don’t want to make a full time job of this, and I’ve learnt...
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    A Critique of Objections to Theism

    I have offered a fair few ‘positive’ cases for theism in the past, and so, in light of a recent conversation, I have decided to offer a ‘negative’ one insofar as it is a rebuttal and refutation of...
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    Re: God and life after death

    As once said by the entirety of our prison population! It didn’t prevent their disingenuousness from being entirely transparent. As I will re-explain below, you did indeed commit a logical fallacy,...
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    Re: Creationist Zoo in UK wins award.

    You need to blame the very secular free market fundamentalists running the country who have an ideological commitment to privatising education: consequently, they have "freed up" many schools by...
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    Re: God and life after death

    This point is confused: a medical placebo is a treatment that has no discernible physical effect on the patient, but that assists them psychologically. They believe the medicine is working so they...
  31. Re: Brain Dead Texas Mother On Life Support To Keep Fetus Alive

    I point you to the debate forum rules: “it is acceptable to wait until a point is challenged before supporting it”. I have offered some premises in a brief statement. Clearly, I have not offered an...
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    Re: Why the UK should be ashamed.

    Firstly I apologise for my absence from this thread since starting it. As some have noted, it was more of a ‘rant’ than an objective, evidenced argument. I was given to believe it had been closed by...
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    Re: God and life after death

    You are both labouring under a highly superficial characterisation of what a religious worldview entails. In effect, you have erroneously deconstructed ‘religion’ into nothing more than an...
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    Re: Discussion on the book of the Apocalypse

    I find Revelation fits quite incongruously with the other NT books: it is abstract, symbolic and at times oneiric. It's elevation to 'canonical' status by the early church instead of the multitude of...
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    Re: The social retardation of the Bible Belt

    This thread is another example of "religion" being credited with far more influence than it actually has: social, economic and political realities always have and always will be the primary factors...
  36. Re: Hypothetically, if a famous or powerful person joined TWC, we couldn't criticize or ridicule them

    I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to say things like that anyway.
  37. Re: Brain Dead Texas Mother On Life Support To Keep Fetus Alive

    I disagree. The truly heinous “sense of entitlement” lies with those who believe their right to act on their petty prejudices, short term financial goals, career aspirations and self-image fantasies...
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    Re: God and life after death

    This arbitrarily excludes the rest of humanity: not just “people of religion”, but, in fact, everyone brings their own set of assumptions to the table. Your statement implicitly holds theists to a...
  39. Re: Brain Dead Texas Mother On Life Support To Keep Fetus Alive

    This is a highly problematic statement: you imply that the child’s right to life is dependent on its mother’s intention to allow it to live even after its mother is effectively dead. This seems to be...
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    Why the UK should be ashamed.

    The UK is currently a banana republic ruled by a clique who mostly attended the same school and university, and who socialise and associate with a small but overwhelmingly powerful group of vested...
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