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Supernova 1987A Decoded
bluevector writes "Electric Universe News is reporting that scientists claim to have proof that 'supernovae are catastrophic electrical discharges focused on a star' and not the result of giant stars undergoing gravitational collapse and subsequent explosion after having spent all of their nuclear fuel as previously thought."
I have a new theory: jim_v2000 is an ignorant fuckwit who is incapable of assessing the validity of pseudoscientic claims. There you have it, folks: science in action.
There's the scientific method in action there...if you can't make a logical response to something, attack the poster!
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
Peter Pan did not walk the earth. Jesus did. God has given miracles.
He did, too. I read it in a book. A lot of other people have read it. That makes it true. And Peter Pan taught people to fly, man. If that's not a miracle, I don't know what is.
It's alright. The article is just one of a number of crackpot pseudoscientific wild-ass-guesses on that site.
What site? There's no link. Oh wait, I get it. You mean slashdot.
I don't know where you studied history, but the literacy rate in colonial America was the envy of Europe. Franklin didn't print his almanac, and Samuel Adams didn't distribute his vitriolic firebrand political pamphlets for people who couldn't READ.
You are right that our forefathers did believe in God. America is a christian nation founded upon christian principles. This is a hard fact that leaves the neo-bolshevik nimrods that comprise the modern left in fits (which are regrettably not fatal). The left hates christianity precisely because it is the cornerstone of what they call bourgeois society, the destruction of which is an absolute prerequisite for the introduction of the socialist dystopia they have planned for our future. Care to take a guess at why I would shed not a single solitary tear were all of them to meet a most gruesome end, despite the fact that I myself am not a Christian? I'm not a fan of organized religion, but I'll take it any day of the week over a political and economic pseudo-philosophy that is as clear a proof of the existence of evil in this world as anything I've ever seen.
Don't let the contingent of moonbats here get you down. History will remember them as fools. It is easy to hate them, but pity is a more appropriate attitude. But for the saving grace of common sense and the capacity for logical and critical thought go all of us.
Lee
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
(BTW: welcome to /. , where expressing your own POV automagically becomes trolling in the eyes of moderators!)
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Actually... that's part of it's appeal. No matter how strong their resolve, they will always fail since reality does not support them. At that point it's immensely entertaining to watch people struggle so vigorously to assert their positions while you throw out the occassional comment that takes little effort by comparison. Oh wait... that's called TROLLING! (Happy Troll Tuseday! ;P )
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
"outright rebelled at dire risk to their own lives - to defend that system."
First of all, the Civil War was about states rights, not slavery. Only those people interested in ignoring historical fact for the benefit of rhetorical convenience fail to admit that. Attempting to rewrite history, especially when you can easily be proven wrong, is just dumb.
I'm sure you're just such a person, but I'll continue anyway.
The POINT was that EUROPEANS were responsible. If the south fought to keep slavery, it was the Euros fault as well, because they CAUSED slavery. Get the picture? More importantly, what choice did the south have? Give up their way of life and ruin the southern economy? Sure. Try selling that one.
No, the Euros did it. It all runs back to them, and if there is any blame to be laid for slavery, WHY don't the Euros get any?