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BLIGBI
{Open BLOG site.}
SECULAR GROUPS
Secular Coalition for America
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What Is Reality?
Tangible Reality Library
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About Wiccan
Do No Harm
Poly-Solipsism
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Open Secrets - Congressional Wealth
Judicial Watch
Phony shortage of high technology workers
Schools don't educate, they indoctrinate
Somebody is enjoying life! That must stop!
Witch hunt attitudes today
Theocracy in USA seeks dominion
Theocracy in USA will destroy America
Theocracy in USA Supreme Court
Theocracy in USA and Canada
- How it was done
Theocracy in USA Department of Justice
Theocracy in UTAH
Theocracy at USAF Academy
Theocracy in Canada
Theocracy in Mexico
Theocracy in Indonesia and Malaysia
Theocracy in Iran
Theocracy in Israel
Theocracy in Pakistan
Theocracy in Saudi Arabia
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"The Theocons"
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Destabilization as deliberate policy
Your medical future
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Dynamic non-Euclidean geometry
in space
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Space Science
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Time May Not Exist
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What is the 'Higgs Field'?
The Milky Way Galaxy is too big to explore
Consciousness and Quantum Reality
Nick Herbert, PhD
Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics
What is (Physical) Reality?
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--> Forum goals
Defeat theocratic trends - promote science for democratic
secular government.
--> Suggested topics
* truth is not found in opinion polls or myth books;
* dysfunctional belief systems deny science;
*
religious
basis for insensitive governmment;
*
autocratic government
abuses power;
* "top down" political parties prevent democracy;
* corporations as legal "persons" defy social
responsibility;
* corporations as actual reaction machines;
*
globalization
corrupts democracy;
* empires teach people how to love by killing them;
* new scientific discoveries;
* the cosmos validates physical reality;
* is a "soul" only a myth;
* is a "soul" the same as a "mind";
* physical location of a "mind";
* does a "mind" require a physical body;
* difference between
mind and brain
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* how many stars are visible with big telescopes;
* how far away are those stars;
* where in the physical universe is God located;
* where in the physical universe is heaven or hell;
* a dead human must travel faster than light to get to
a physical heaven or hell;
* original insights into human adaptation to the
environment;
*
herd instinct
prevents critical thinking;
* political policies must change to improve life for
living now;
* ideas for a new "grass roots" secular political party.
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