Which is why I gave the poor thing a mercy-killing.

Are you suggesting I should have let him starve to death?

I've made the transition. DDO is actually pretty dope.

http://www.debate.org/RyuuKyuzo/

If the laws of physics are not accurate in all situations, then they are not constant.

6/2=3

1+2=3

3*3=9

The answer is nine.

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We can know, and in fact we are currently finding evidence that the laws of physics might be different in different parts of the universe right now. [ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2056018/Laws-physics-change-depending-universe.html ]

It depends on how you define "good", and good for whom exactly? There are things I think of as being "good" that I'm sure most of society does not. And I know there are things society thinks of as being good that I do not.

I don't know about the number of vacations, but he's spent the equivalent of 10 work weeks playing golf in his first term.

CD is a very low-intensity debating site. I would say it's the ideal starting point. I can understand the concern, some 13 year old simply aren't mature enough to offer any quality contribution. In this case, age is irrelevant. Mature people make for quality debates, regardless of age.

A Buddhist can practice atheism, but an atheist cannot practice Buddhism.

If you can understand what is meant by this, you are already well on your way to Bhuddahood.

Whether or not one has a soul depends on the perspective you wish to take on the issue. In this case, I will take con.

It is nothing more than the pitiful desire of our egos that makes us want to believe we have a unique soul -- that we are beings distinct and separate from the rest of the universe. We do this because we fear death, but we also know death is inevitable. An immortal soul solves this problem, but it's just a fairy tail we tell ourselves to comfort our egos.

We have consciousness, but that consciousness doesn't belong to our bodies. To the contrary, our bodies are mere expressions of consciousness, much in the way a wave is an expression of the ocean. To say we are distinct and separate from the rest of reality is to say that the wave is distinct and separate from the ocean. It came from the ocean, it's attached to the ocean, and it will return to the ocean.

It's easier to accept that there is no soul when you come to the position that you don't have to live forever to be happy now.