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About me - Edward Owens

Avid reader of science fiction since I can remember. May have read as many as 1500 books give or take a hundred. I have studied biology, chemistry, philsophy, computer science, and a few other disciplines.

I currently work as a craftsman and antique restorer.

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Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change Climate change is unavoidable
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I don't want to be too abrasive to anyone in particular but anyone who believes that a single person doing anything different will affect the changes that are occurring is nonsense. It sounds like those people who believe god will continue to make oil for us to use and therefore we don't need to worry about the collapse of th... More..

Politics, News & Issues > War in Iraq Setting a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq is a terrible mistakeSmallicon
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Anyone who has read my posts know how much I like shredding a premise before I get to the meat of the matter. The question itself "setting a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq is a terrible mistake" is such a front loaded question that I would swear a Republican Pollster was calling me. I won't go into the deeper philos... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Religious Speculations & Criticisms James Cameron and the Da Vinci Code
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I wasn't going to respond to this until I read the second article. Wow! I would like to point out something about Christians and their so called faith. Peter and Thomas personally watched Jesus do his shtick and still they blew him off when it came to crunch time. Why is that? I mean if I hung out with a guy I saw raise the d... More..

Religion & Spirituality > New Age Concepts Scientology: Religion or cult?Smallicon
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You know? I admit that I am not a great writer. I have about 20 years of science fiction story plots with a couple of pages written but my mind races ahead so fast that its like I see the movie in my mind and then don't care to finish them. I've got some good ones too. I never was very good at conforming to rules made up by o... More..

Religion & Spirituality > New Age Concepts New age belief and Christianity
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Lot of so called New Age beliefs are older than Christianity. Christianity at one time was New Age. Paul and other authors cobbled together belief systems with sacrificed gods and resurrection myths sprinkled in some Greek mythology here and there and let the pot simmer for a few hundred years until the Catholic Church picked... More..

Arts & Humanities > Awareness & Reality Philosophy: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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Frankly I find the question tedious at best. Like most questions the question is subject to being shredded and deconstructed so that either of the two possible answers can be given with equal credibility. We must assume that the egg in question is a chicken egg otherwise the fact that reptiles laid eggs prior to avians gives ... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Religion & Spirituality (Other) Should the Bible continue to be used for swearing-in ceremonies and in courtrooms?Smallicon
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It makes perfect sense to use the Holy Bible as an instrument to swear an oath to tell the truth. And here is why. The Holy Bible is an invention of the wealthy and powerful to control those sheep stupid enough to believe such a badly contrived farce. A god giving up his life for our sins indeed. Just as the wealthy would wan... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Does J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series pervert American values
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American values? We are talking about the same America that began with a Constitution that stated, in a nutshell, that only wealthy white guys were human and had the right to vote? We are talking about the same America that was built on backs of slaves? We are talking about the America that grew with the genocide of the nativ... More..

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