I, like you, tried all sorts of methods of giving up. Hatred for government ultimately worked.
Cigarettes are, in this country at least, taxed all to hell and back. So I said fuck you, government, you aren't attacking middle eastern shitholes with my tax money. That, and Zyban, were enough to get me through.
Been years without cigarettes now. And at no point did I feel wonderful beyond belief, but I accept that my health is much better now and I KNOW that shit would have killed me.
They attacked the middle east anyway, but I no longer smoke. Your motivation may vary.
This whole issue is totally sorted. If there is no new evidence, or worse, no evidence at all, there should be no need of a debate.
Nothing was created. Bring evidence, or get over it.
At some point someone has to clean up the most violent murderers of society. Someone has to be willing to do what others won't in order to protect everyone - including those who would not make the effort to protect society from people like McGuire.
Nobody likes these things. We are not a pack blood thirsty mongrels waiting for another chance to harm someone under the guise of law and order. But at some point someone needs to make sure people like McGuire don't get a chance to practice their craft ever again.
This sounds like the leadin to the origin story of any comicbook superhero.
The people who pay the wages are already complaining that the minimum wage is too high. Try telling them that their entry-level staff need to be paid $200/hr for a 10 hr week. No matter how necessary this is for the maintenance of markets and the health of society.
Our current economic models call for infinite growth from a closed system. Significant labour replacement totally breaks all current economic models.
"does not preclude the existence of a supreme being orchestrating it all from the start."
No it does not.
However, the orchestration of a supreme being is only as likely as all other conjectures for which no evidence exists.
This doesn't explain it to me. I find it difficult to believe one can complete elementary school and deny evolution, much less sustain the falsehood to voting age. How is it that these people think medicine works, e.g. antibiotic resistance, or more simply how we have different types of dogs? Assuming that children have been taught religion, how is later dissonance not resolved in favour of the outcome for which evidence exists?
“I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html
The really sad thing is that you can rapidly end the suffering of your loved one by the simple expedient of taking their savings away. Once their resources are gone, so is all interest in keeping them alive.
I wonder how many that have been through seeing a loved one suffer for an extended period until their resources ran out are still "euthanesia opponents".
A dead man's switch is not his only attribute.
He released a large, perhaps huge, cache of documents to the Guardian UK. They are being released after being analysed for military, legal and political outcomes. Killing Snowden will do nothing to stop those releases.
I also find it interesting to note that nobody seems to doubt that, all things being equal, he would be killed immediately if not for mechanisms to dissuade this.
Your wife has been screwing around, and Edward Snowden told you that she was. Your reaction seems to be "How dare you tell me that, Snowden? You are a traitor".
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You are right. There is none so angry at AGW as Anonymous Coward.
Cigarettes are, in this country at least, taxed all to hell and back. So I said fuck you, government, you aren't attacking middle eastern shitholes with my tax money. That, and Zyban, were enough to get me through.
Been years without cigarettes now. And at no point did I feel wonderful beyond belief, but I accept that my health is much better now and I KNOW that shit would have killed me.
They attacked the middle east anyway, but I no longer smoke. Your motivation may vary.
Anon Cowards get mod points now?
Question: Why do you care so much what other people teach their kids?
Those kids will one day have a vote. If they outnumber you, and believe nonsense, you are fucked. Knowing the truth might help the kids too.
This whole issue is totally sorted. If there is no new evidence, or worse, no evidence at all, there should be no need of a debate. Nothing was created. Bring evidence, or get over it.
Creationism is a horrible embarrassment to most Christians.
It should be a horrible embarrassment to most persons.
For whatever reason, Anonymous Coward seems to hate Tesla with a passion.
Jesus didn't kill anybody, so stop commenting on religious matters when your religion is atheism. Douche Bag!
Jesus indeed did not kill anyone, by simple virtue of not having existed in order to do so. Atheism is also not a religion.
At some point someone has to clean up the most violent murderers of society. Someone has to be willing to do what others won't in order to protect everyone - including those who would not make the effort to protect society from people like McGuire.
Nobody likes these things. We are not a pack blood thirsty mongrels waiting for another chance to harm someone under the guise of law and order. But at some point someone needs to make sure people like McGuire don't get a chance to practice their craft ever again.
This sounds like the leadin to the origin story of any comicbook superhero.
The people who pay the wages are already complaining that the minimum wage is too high. Try telling them that their entry-level staff need to be paid $200/hr for a 10 hr week. No matter how necessary this is for the maintenance of markets and the health of society. Our current economic models call for infinite growth from a closed system. Significant labour replacement totally breaks all current economic models.
How is a god necessary in your scenario?
it's simply that the origins of man is not possible given the time-span it occurred and the changes that needed to happen.
Says whom?
"does not preclude the existence of a supreme being orchestrating it all from the start." No it does not. However, the orchestration of a supreme being is only as likely as all other conjectures for which no evidence exists.
This doesn't explain it to me. I find it difficult to believe one can complete elementary school and deny evolution, much less sustain the falsehood to voting age. How is it that these people think medicine works, e.g. antibiotic resistance, or more simply how we have different types of dogs? Assuming that children have been taught religion, how is later dissonance not resolved in favour of the outcome for which evidence exists?
Pascal's wager. That is about as old as hats get.
“I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.” Neil deGrasse Tyson http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html
An African or European swallow?
Fear not, climate change has the potential to reduce human population to zero.
he never mentions any theology, he only mentions that he believes in a creator.
I honestly don't understand this. Does he believe that the universe was created, but by an Average Joe (Jo)?
Something about Tesla makes Anonymous Coward very, very angry. That alone is a great recommendation.
The really sad thing is that you can rapidly end the suffering of your loved one by the simple expedient of taking their savings away. Once their resources are gone, so is all interest in keeping them alive.
I wonder how many that have been through seeing a loved one suffer for an extended period until their resources ran out are still "euthanesia opponents".
A dead man's switch is not his only attribute. He released a large, perhaps huge, cache of documents to the Guardian UK. They are being released after being analysed for military, legal and political outcomes. Killing Snowden will do nothing to stop those releases. I also find it interesting to note that nobody seems to doubt that, all things being equal, he would be killed immediately if not for mechanisms to dissuade this.
Your wife has been screwing around, and Edward Snowden told you that she was. Your reaction seems to be "How dare you tell me that, Snowden? You are a traitor".
So by your reckoning, there are no living things?