No. See, the issue here is that people will bring cell phones weather they're allowed or not, but if they are specifically allowed then that's basically giving students the green light to text in class, ect. The best thing to do is probably to not allow cell phones but to sort of turn a blind eye to kids doing harmless things like checking the time. There's a balance.

Certainly one of the best arguments I've seen all day long :)

Gotta lean towards holiday season on this one. Christmases with my family are always extremely fun and there is always a good sense of nostalgia in the air.

I think that it's unlikely that there is any sort of afterlife; even if there is a higher power I highly doubt it gives even half a damn about us, so I highly doubt it'd go to all the trouble in preserving our consciousnesses.

Yes, but it isn't always. Some people believe strongly in their faith and see lots of things as acts of gods. I do however think that most rationally thinking people can tell the difference. Hell, any rationally thinking person wouldn't believe in a god that comes in and screws with everything we do anyways.

Naaah. Sex can be simple, and uncomplicated. Love implies strong feelings of devotion and trust.

If you argue that everything needs a creator, then your "higher power" also needs a creator. Which just leads to the conclusion that nothing can exist, since there would have to at some point be something that came from nothing, and the universe is just as likely to have created itself as any higher power would be really. And Occam's razor states that the simpler theory is generally the more likely one so logically one would say it makes more sense for the universe to have simply come from nothing than for it to have a creator.

I believe that it is very likely that SOME higher power created us, but honestly i don't think any religion we have here on earth has the right answer and I don't think any religion ever will. If a higher power did create us it was probably an accident anyways.

I wouldn't say opposites. Plus there are plenty of people who aspire to live by the bible but don't necessarily succeed. In fact that's usually the case for religious people; no one's perfect.

Probably but really everyone on this website at all really probably need to reevaluate their life, myself included :P

But does that matter? And if there is no meaning in the world is it a waste of time to seek meaning?

I'm going to sleep more than I should and do nothing all day. While, of course, thoroughly enjoying it.

My family used to have a vertically divided one but we got mad at and sold it. We now have a happy horizontal one :)

Plenty of things. Mainly left-brained stuff like composing music and creative writing :P

I gotta go with winter on this one; I've always disliked excessive heat more than excessive cold. However, thewayitis's argument came pretty close to breaking me :)

The meaning of life is whatever we want it to be; the only meaning anything has is what it means to us.

Apparently the quality of one particular Chernobyl factory made by communists wasn't exactly amazing... Communism has its pluses but there hasn't been a single one that's been really successful so far.

I think you have very good points apart from the capitalism thing. All capitalism does is give people the choice to be self serving or to help others; in any other system the only reason there would be less selfishness is because people are being forced to be less selfish, not because they want to be.

again, the quran provides AN explanation of the big bang but there are plenty of other explanations out there that seem way more likely to me. it just makes more sense to have been caused by a fluke of nature then to it have been created. for it to have been created, then it needs a creator, and then that begs the question of who created the creator? it's simpler and makes more sense for the universe to have just have come for some other reason.

The truth is not before our eyes. An answer is before our eyes, but there are plenty of other answers too, and I believe that quite a few of them are more likely theories than this one.

However, it may convince a couple of people who are not sure of what they believe. But then, so could a video stating the opposite.

You not only can, but should. The flying spaghetti monster is much more fun than the speaker's boring higher power. :)

If they were at the point when a civil war was on the way then a war would occur eventually no matter how far you spread them apart.

One could argue that since we have to survive in order to pass the torch, our first priority would be ourselves and only then the next generation.