Yeah, and anyone voicing an opinion different to yours is JUST LIKE THE SOVIETS... Take your fake martyrdom and shove it up your lying arse. You might also apologize to your grandfather for pissing on his image.
Didn't you get the memo? It is only hate, if it implies the slightest criticism of evangelical fundamentalism or overprivileged white males. Anything else is reasonable criticism, dripping with Christian Love (TM).
I suspect a lot of it to have been sequestered by algae and ending up as carbonate in sedimentary rocks, though. Lots of shallow warm oceans back then, if I recall correctly.
Dude, you are so far out of your tree, the squirrels are sending out search parties.
Also, history. Whatever numbnut came up with that simplistic "corporate state in the fascist sense" = "run by corporations in the civil law sense" bullshit, anyway? That's missing whole layers of ideology and paints a completely wrong picture of what "corporate" meant back then.
He's pretty much in line with his Republican pals here. Making "letting Obama fail" your sole stated political goal is borderline treasonous. Well, I watch it from a distance, but it is sad to see such a promising, yet shortlived experiment like the US fail.
You probably are right - Hanlon's razor pretty much dictates that it is based on an inability to examine facts and evaluated sources rather than on some pathology. And the propaganda put out by Heartland, Watts and the like is so much more simple and palatable, so hey, why not gobble it up.
Well, what do you call people who make up their own reality which can not be penetrated by facts? And lay off the persecution complex, it does not become you.
As European, I find it highly amusing what is decried as "socialism" in the US these days. For Cthulhu's sake, the Democrats are not even a member of the Socialist International and would get laughed out of the room if they'd try to join. Well, ok, they let the German SPD stay, but that is more for historical (or rather hysterical, as in laughter) reasons than for anything else...
Actually, I think that in line with Poe's law, they have by now accidentally banned all serious users and the remaining trolls are running the show. Makes no difference of course.
Regarding the porn article - one should point the to the fact that they accidentally agree with some feminists in that regard. It'll be hysterical!
It is not even that. Atheism and Agnosticism exist on orthogonal axes. Theism and Atheism make ontological statements about the existence resp. nonexistence of deities. Agnosticism, on the other hand, makes an epistemological statement about the possibility to know about said existence. It is perfectly possible to be an agnostic theist as well as an agnostic atheist.
As for the scientific validity - in absence of evidence, the default assumption is non-existence. It is simple as that. Do we need that debate every single fucking time the weekly religion vs. atheism thread pops up?
It wasn't required reading and it wasn't exactly banned either - the copyright was state-owned and Bavaria simply decided not to print or license it. We did read some excerpts in history class - subjecting anyone to slouch through the whole mess would probably be considered abuse. Hitler couldn't write for shit...
Though it's hard to say how much oil a bushel of wheat is worth...
The general estimate is that we use about 10 kcal of energy from fossil fuels for each kcal food produced and delivered. THAT is what's gonna bite us in the ass hard. Within our lifetimes.
Yeah, except for, uhm, governments? Church spending puts the "noise" into SNR when it comes to that. Besides, the raped altar boy does give a rat's arse about token charity. It's not like this is a balance sheet. Evil stays evil, even if it accidentally does good every now and then.
"organizational waste" is endemic. Be it government or private. Talking percentages is meaningless, in the end - what is relevant is the total effected. And in that regard we could go without churches without noticing it.
Staying a member of the Catholic church implicitly makes you complicity in child rape and the devastation of Africa by AIDS. You may very well be a decent person, hell, most Catholics are decent persons, at least most of those that I know. However, I do not get how you can reconcile staying within that organization with your consciousness. The part of the Catholic church actually wielding political and clerical power is rotten to the core. You can not prop up those people and tell other people to be "better persons".
And to think that grant money is the sole motivator of scientists pretty much is projection on your part. And, as I may add, says a lot about your character. Nothing good though. Besides, I worked in academia for a decade myself. I don't need to rely on the testimony of "friends" or other anally-extracted entities.
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Yeah, and anyone voicing an opinion different to yours is JUST LIKE THE SOVIETS... Take your fake martyrdom and shove it up your lying arse. You might also apologize to your grandfather for pissing on his image.
Didn't you get the memo? It is only hate, if it implies the slightest criticism of evangelical fundamentalism or overprivileged white males. Anything else is reasonable criticism, dripping with Christian Love (TM).
I suspect a lot of it to have been sequestered by algae and ending up as carbonate in sedimentary rocks, though. Lots of shallow warm oceans back then, if I recall correctly.
I don't remember the Democrats running a platform of pure, 100% obstruction, pereat mundi, during the Bush years. Spot the difference?
You guys could really team up with the Evangelicals when it comes to a rampant, unfounded persecution complex. Reality, it is out there....
Also, history. Whatever numbnut came up with that simplistic "corporate state in the fascist sense" = "run by corporations in the civil law sense" bullshit, anyway? That's missing whole layers of ideology and paints a completely wrong picture of what "corporate" meant back then.
He's pretty much in line with his Republican pals here. Making "letting Obama fail" your sole stated political goal is borderline treasonous. Well, I watch it from a distance, but it is sad to see such a promising, yet shortlived experiment like the US fail.
You probably are right - Hanlon's razor pretty much dictates that it is based on an inability to examine facts and evaluated sources rather than on some pathology. And the propaganda put out by Heartland, Watts and the like is so much more simple and palatable, so hey, why not gobble it up.
Well, what do you call people who make up their own reality which can not be penetrated by facts? And lay off the persecution complex, it does not become you.
As European, I find it highly amusing what is decried as "socialism" in the US these days. For Cthulhu's sake, the Democrats are not even a member of the Socialist International and would get laughed out of the room if they'd try to join. Well, ok, they let the German SPD stay, but that is more for historical (or rather hysterical, as in laughter) reasons than for anything else...
Actually, I think that in line with Poe's law, they have by now accidentally banned all serious users and the remaining trolls are running the show. Makes no difference of course.
Regarding the porn article - one should point the to the fact that they accidentally agree with some feminists in that regard. It'll be hysterical!
It is not even that. Atheism and Agnosticism exist on orthogonal axes. Theism and Atheism make ontological statements about the existence resp. nonexistence of deities. Agnosticism, on the other hand, makes an epistemological statement about the possibility to know about said existence. It is perfectly possible to be an agnostic theist as well as an agnostic atheist.
As for the scientific validity - in absence of evidence, the default assumption is non-existence. It is simple as that. Do we need that debate every single fucking time the weekly religion vs. atheism thread pops up?
Guys? Guys? Hey, listen up. Can we please, please get a secondary mod option for "+/- h_bar Stupidest Post Evar"? Pretty please, with sugar on top....
That may very well be, but if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it still might be just another tool of the conspiracy. ;)
Putting forth "free will" as a theodicy must be the worst case of victim blaming in all recorded history.
Not being able to understand German is actually a mercy when trying to read Mein Kampf. The writing style is atrocious.
It wasn't required reading and it wasn't exactly banned either - the copyright was state-owned and Bavaria simply decided not to print or license it. We did read some excerpts in history class - subjecting anyone to slouch through the whole mess would probably be considered abuse. Hitler couldn't write for shit...
The gray goo scenario already happened anyway. Except that it is green. We now call it the biosphere.
Though it's hard to say how much oil a bushel of wheat is worth...
The general estimate is that we use about 10 kcal of energy from fossil fuels for each kcal food produced and delivered. THAT is what's gonna bite us in the ass hard. Within our lifetimes.
Yeah, except for, uhm, governments? Church spending puts the "noise" into SNR when it comes to that. Besides, the raped altar boy does give a rat's arse about token charity. It's not like this is a balance sheet. Evil stays evil, even if it accidentally does good every now and then.
"organizational waste" is endemic. Be it government or private. Talking percentages is meaningless, in the end - what is relevant is the total effected. And in that regard we could go without churches without noticing it.
Staying a member of the Catholic church implicitly makes you complicity in child rape and the devastation of Africa by AIDS. You may very well be a decent person, hell, most Catholics are decent persons, at least most of those that I know. However, I do not get how you can reconcile staying within that organization with your consciousness. The part of the Catholic church actually wielding political and clerical power is rotten to the core. You can not prop up those people and tell other people to be "better persons".
Compared to the money the ebil socialist governments have spent on aid and charity, the contribution of the churches vanishes in the noise.
How can you argue science with someone who is unable to comprehend a handful of straightforward sentences? I rest my case.
And to think that grant money is the sole motivator of scientists pretty much is projection on your part. And, as I may add, says a lot about your character. Nothing good though. Besides, I worked in academia for a decade myself. I don't need to rely on the testimony of "friends" or other anally-extracted entities.