If you actually knew anything about history instead of regurgitating the current right wing propaganda, you knew that the Nazis had a partly socialist platform in the 20s but purged it completely in the early 30s. But go ahead, redefine some more language so it suits your delusions. You know, war is peace and so on...
You gotta love how he advocates outright destruction of half of the political spectrum in his sig and accuses the other side of advocating murder. It's bigots, hatemongers and idiots all the way down with these guys.
Any more strawmen to burn, little troll? I know, anything that challenges your bigotry, your hatred, your sense of entitlement because you are white and male is "radical" and "progressive". You guys need to be labeled clearly as what you are: enemies of democracy.
Wait, what, now the oil companies are part of the conspiracy too? You guys are getting desperate. Soon there will be no one outside of the evil AGW plot except Watts, Monckton and the gullible idiots listening to them.
Origen was a Catholic, and therefore borderline Satanist in the eyes of the "literalists". I, personally, am an atheist and have lots of other problems with the Catholics, but you got to give them one thing - at least they had some proper intellectuals.
Oh, and regarding the mythology and religion distinction: I'd put it this way - mythology is the narrative body, religion is a way to interpret it and act upon it. Greek mythology is the story about the Gods, the Cosmogony and so on. Greek religion is going to the temple and sacrificing to those Gods.
Not to mention that the "literal" approach is nothing but literal, but rather tailored to provide a reading that supports certain preconceived political notions. Pure propaganda without any respect for the text.
Somewhat different approach, though - instead of getting the Dark Age 2.0 forced upon us by Christian fundamentalists, Canticle has the remains of the Catholic Church after the nuclear holocaust preserve books and knowledge... While the book is great, I do not think that it is applicable to this topic.
The louder someone bloviates about morals and religion when it comes to homosexuality, the greater the likelihood that, sooner or later, he will be caught snorting coke out of a male hooker's asscrack. Rationality doesn't come into play here...
Before you rant on about "understanding basic economics", I'd suggest you have a look at the physical and geological background behind the oil business. Won't fit with your RAH RAH TEH EUROPEAN SOCIALISTS ARE FAILING-theme, though. Quite simple, indeed. For the simple-minded.
And that's the sign of the peak... the easily refinable light sweet crudes going up and up, the total extraction volume being kept up by heavy sour crap with tons of arsenic that tends to poison the Va catalysts in standard refineries. Well, drill, baby, drill for those EROI 3 tar sands, we'll keep up business as usual for centuries, good citizen...;)
So, to review the thread on a quite amazing algorithm, so far we have: privacy-violating nudity scans, application of any video feed as lie detector, government surveillance, yadda, yadda, yadda.
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The green movement and the anti-nuke movement basically co-evolved. You would see the same people on both demonstrations in the 80s. Nothing to upgrade there - just a slight shift in priorities from the sane part of the population.
You won't go anywhere with that. Whining, keeping a martyr complex, feeling persecuted albeit being in a decidedly privileged position,and, also, whining is part of their modus operandi. It basically defines them. It's a quite educational experience to see a basically decent conservative movement getting overrun by the nutcase fringe during one's lifetime, isn't it?
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If you actually knew anything about history instead of regurgitating the current right wing propaganda, you knew that the Nazis had a partly socialist platform in the 20s but purged it completely in the early 30s. But go ahead, redefine some more language so it suits your delusions. You know, war is peace and so on...
Yo dawg, I heard you liek Elbereth...
Nah,... I'll stop. Sorry.
You gotta love how he advocates outright destruction of half of the political spectrum in his sig and accuses the other side of advocating murder. It's bigots, hatemongers and idiots all the way down with these guys.
And those absolutes are of course set by you and your ilk.
Any more strawmen to burn, little troll? I know, anything that challenges your bigotry, your hatred, your sense of entitlement because you are white and male is "radical" and "progressive". You guys need to be labeled clearly as what you are: enemies of democracy.
Wait, what, now the oil companies are part of the conspiracy too? You guys are getting desperate. Soon there will be no one outside of the evil AGW plot except Watts, Monckton and the gullible idiots listening to them.
Heh, yeah, they are pretty much placing their bets on the ice-free summer arctic within the next couple of years with this.
Seriously, you are still butthurt about Carter?
Try getting a sig without an error in every word, then someone might take your seriously. Also, a brain.
To be more precise, Shell has drilled several other dry exploratory wells...
The problem is that evangelical literalists won't accept any textual analysis. Particularly not when it identifies part of the text as metaphor.
Libraries are your friend. They provide education. You should go there one of these days. Don't be scared, books don't bite.
Origen was a Catholic, and therefore borderline Satanist in the eyes of the "literalists". I, personally, am an atheist and have lots of other problems with the Catholics, but you got to give them one thing - at least they had some proper intellectuals.
It's the "If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes"-weapons-grade-bullcrap all over again.
Oh, and regarding the mythology and religion distinction: I'd put it this way - mythology is the narrative body, religion is a way to interpret it and act upon it. Greek mythology is the story about the Gods, the Cosmogony and so on. Greek religion is going to the temple and sacrificing to those Gods.
Not to mention that the "literal" approach is nothing but literal, but rather tailored to provide a reading that supports certain preconceived political notions. Pure propaganda without any respect for the text.
Somewhat different approach, though - instead of getting the Dark Age 2.0 forced upon us by Christian fundamentalists, Canticle has the remains of the Catholic Church after the nuclear holocaust preserve books and knowledge... While the book is great, I do not think that it is applicable to this topic.
What is it, in your opinion, with education that would not scale to the US?
The louder someone bloviates about morals and religion when it comes to homosexuality, the greater the likelihood that, sooner or later, he will be caught snorting coke out of a male hooker's asscrack. Rationality doesn't come into play here...
The answer is because the worlds wealth is almost all based in the US.
LOL.
Before you rant on about "understanding basic economics", I'd suggest you have a look at the physical and geological background behind the oil business. Won't fit with your RAH RAH TEH EUROPEAN SOCIALISTS ARE FAILING-theme, though. Quite simple, indeed. For the simple-minded.
And that's the sign of the peak... the easily refinable light sweet crudes going up and up, the total extraction volume being kept up by heavy sour crap with tons of arsenic that tends to poison the Va catalysts in standard refineries. Well, drill, baby, drill for those EROI 3 tar sands, we'll keep up business as usual for centuries, good citizen... ;)
So, to review the thread on a quite amazing algorithm, so far we have: privacy-violating nudity scans, application of any video feed as lie detector, government surveillance, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Slashdot. News For Paranoids. Comments that don't matter.
The green movement and the anti-nuke movement basically co-evolved. You would see the same people on both demonstrations in the 80s. Nothing to upgrade there - just a slight shift in priorities from the sane part of the population.
You won't go anywhere with that. Whining, keeping a martyr complex, feeling persecuted albeit being in a decidedly privileged position,and, also, whining is part of their modus operandi. It basically defines them. It's a quite educational experience to see a basically decent conservative movement getting overrun by the nutcase fringe during one's lifetime, isn't it?