Well, last town I lived in, the average house was about 150-200 years old. All underground utility lines. Well, that was in Europe, and the lines where built back then when the power company was still a state-owned business...
Fortunately, you are not an "enviro-nazi", whatever that even is supposed to mean, but a mere idiot with a persecution complex ranting out of his basement in Bumfuck, Tardistan.
Heh, well, thanks then. Around here in Germany "synod" only refers to an organizational unit, as in "Evangelische Landessynode Bayern" - been raised in that one, and they are as liberal as it gets. Literalists would get the boot faster than you can say "heresy". How anyone can manage to twist Luther's "sola scriptura" into literalism is beyond me. That was never his point. I mean, there are enough points to dislike Luther - just look at his comments about the Peasant's War and his antisemitism - but to hear "lutheran" in one sentence with "literalism" baffles me. You really took one for the team, guys. When it gets to hard, I am taking in refugees - fridge is stocked with bavarian beer and I got two large sofas in the living room. I do a wicked pork roast, too, so, hop on over if you cannae take it any more;)
That would put God in the same club that Loki and Coyote are members of - not exactly the all-good, all-benevolent creator. That's why young-earth creationism is not just scientifically, but also theologically unsound - at least on the basis of what has been the premise of Christian theology for 2 millenia.
The point that theologically doesn't work with that is the question why God, being all-benign and all-powerful, would create a world that is basically a deception. To tempt? Doesn't work with the all-good premise. So, someone else would have to fuck it up - and there you are deep into gnostic and neo-platonic heresies about all matter being tainted by a Demiurge. Which kinda doesn't sit well with the all-powerful nature of God. The Literalist's theology is intellectually laughable. At least the Catholics work sound logic from their questionable premises - the evangelical fundamentalists lack premises and logic.
Well, the fundamentalists came up in the late 19th century, to be precise - probably as a counter-reaction to an increasingly scientific and rationalist world view. Without this counterpoint, it practically would have been impossible - or rather unnecessary. Why retreat to such a rigorous position if unopposed?
It did gain main traction in the early 20th century, especially with the Schofield Bible and its dispensationalist, *cough* bullshit.
Another point in the rise of fundamentalism, especially the US kind, is probably the fundamentally, pardon the pun, disorganized nature of evangelical churches. The Catholic church has a theological history spanning 2000 years, in which it formalized dogma and the dogmatic education of priests. The protestant history is rather shorter and never had any formalized dogma at large. In Europe perhaps more, but in the US, well, every crackpot can call himself a priest and there we go...
I consider the statement sexist - if that makes you sexist depends on whether you consistently make such statements... Moreover, I consider the statement false. As a counter-example, take my home country, Germany. The women's rights movement was as successful here as in the US, if not more so - and yet we do not have shit like that on schools, and the whole helicopter parent thing is, well, not nonexistent, but much, much less pervasive. So there is no straightforward causal connection. I agree that the litigiousness of US culture enables it, we do still not have a cause for the massive strength of the Think Of The Children-Argument (TM) in the US, though.
And they call that the rule of law? As soon as you get representation you get fucked harder? Cthonians protect me, you are living in a banana republic. I am sorry.
Even more interesting than the nearly unbelievably moronic nature of the parent in this context is the fact that he gets modded insightful. You guys really want those SA raids at 4 am, kicking in your doors, yea?
I would suggest that the sulfur that killed them, for if the sulfur was fuel then why did they die?
Things die. It's how it goes. Sulfur is a pretty common fuel amongst anaerobes. Pretty good substitute for oxygen, if you need some chemical energy gradient to suck your energy from. I'd have to look it up, as palaeobiology is not my forte, but at the time this fossils originate from, we should have been under pretty heavy anaerobic conditions, so sulfur looks like food in that context.
Perry is less scary than Bachmann? Uh-Huh... Kunstler aptly described him with his usual snark as "akin to George W. Bush without the burden of intellect". Maybe I missed something about Bachmann, who appears to be nothing more than a Palin clone with more focus to me, but, hell, that is scary enough for me.
Completely agreed. The fascinating fact - in a morbid, sick way - is that the teabaggers, reps and libertards still happily fellate those guys on every occasion, when instead they should be strung up at the next streetlight, just for the message.
Why would a CEO care about providing new revenue? That's beyond the horizon of the couple of years he will "lead" the company.In that time, he can gut the business, funneling the cash to the "investors", and leave on his golden parachute, leaving a rotting corpse behind. We should put some of the local lamp posts to good use, pour encourager les autres.
You know, if you take off your tin foil hat for a moment, you might realize that no one at all gives a flying fuck about your little life - except as a ppm-contribution to some statistics. They are not really after you....
I am not pissing on a domestic spaceport, I am pissing on the GP who wants to shut up everyone talking about income inequality. I do fully agree with your list of problems.
The way the US voting system is set up pretty much guarantees that any third party won't get a portion of the votes that matters in any way. Why fake outages when you can rig the system?
Indeed. And the same old causes that are blamed again and again are taxes and regulations. Why is it, oh, high priest of St. Reagan, peace be upon him, that at a point with historically low taxes on the wealthy, unemployment is soaring? Why is it that the Gini coefficient has risen to third world level in the last 3 decades?
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Well, last town I lived in, the average house was about 150-200 years old. All underground utility lines. Well, that was in Europe, and the lines where built back then when the power company was still a state-owned business...
Fortunately, you are not an "enviro-nazi", whatever that even is supposed to mean, but a mere idiot with a persecution complex ranting out of his basement in Bumfuck, Tardistan.
What, not dystopian enough for you? You want victorian white zeppelins with brass knobs and levers floating about, is that it?
Actually, it is too dystopian without white zeppelins with brass knobs and levers for me.
Whenever you meet the truly Wise Ones from any denomination, they do indeed sound suspiciously Buddhist ;)
Heh, well, thanks then. Around here in Germany "synod" only refers to an organizational unit, as in "Evangelische Landessynode Bayern" - been raised in that one, and they are as liberal as it gets. Literalists would get the boot faster than you can say "heresy". How anyone can manage to twist Luther's "sola scriptura" into literalism is beyond me. That was never his point. I mean, there are enough points to dislike Luther - just look at his comments about the Peasant's War and his antisemitism - but to hear "lutheran" in one sentence with "literalism" baffles me. You really took one for the team, guys. When it gets to hard, I am taking in refugees - fridge is stocked with bavarian beer and I got two large sofas in the living room. I do a wicked pork roast, too, so, hop on over if you cannae take it any more ;)
So he is Loki, right? *Pours some Ale on the ground as libation, as you never can be sure*
That would put God in the same club that Loki and Coyote are members of - not exactly the all-good, all-benevolent creator. That's why young-earth creationism is not just scientifically, but also theologically unsound - at least on the basis of what has been the premise of Christian theology for 2 millenia.
The point that theologically doesn't work with that is the question why God, being all-benign and all-powerful, would create a world that is basically a deception. To tempt? Doesn't work with the all-good premise. So, someone else would have to fuck it up - and there you are deep into gnostic and neo-platonic heresies about all matter being tainted by a Demiurge. Which kinda doesn't sit well with the all-powerful nature of God. The Literalist's theology is intellectually laughable. At least the Catholics work sound logic from their questionable premises - the evangelical fundamentalists lack premises and logic.
Well, the fundamentalists came up in the late 19th century, to be precise - probably as a counter-reaction to an increasingly scientific and rationalist world view. Without this counterpoint, it practically would have been impossible - or rather unnecessary. Why retreat to such a rigorous position if unopposed?
It did gain main traction in the early 20th century, especially with the Schofield Bible and its dispensationalist, *cough* bullshit.
Another point in the rise of fundamentalism, especially the US kind, is probably the fundamentally, pardon the pun, disorganized nature of evangelical churches. The Catholic church has a theological history spanning 2000 years, in which it formalized dogma and the dogmatic education of priests. The protestant history is rather shorter and never had any formalized dogma at large. In Europe perhaps more, but in the US, well, every crackpot can call himself a priest and there we go...
I consider the statement sexist - if that makes you sexist depends on whether you consistently make such statements... Moreover, I consider the statement false. As a counter-example, take my home country, Germany. The women's rights movement was as successful here as in the US, if not more so - and yet we do not have shit like that on schools, and the whole helicopter parent thing is, well, not nonexistent, but much, much less pervasive. So there is no straightforward causal connection. I agree that the litigiousness of US culture enables it, we do still not have a cause for the massive strength of the Think Of The Children-Argument (TM) in the US, though.
And they call that the rule of law? As soon as you get representation you get fucked harder? Cthonians protect me, you are living in a banana republic. I am sorry.
Sure, woman's rights are the prime source for jackbooted thugs enacting a zero tolerance policy. Obviously. How is it down there in your cave? Cozy?
Even more interesting than the nearly unbelievably moronic nature of the parent in this context is the fact that he gets modded insightful. You guys really want those SA raids at 4 am, kicking in your doors, yea?
I would suggest that the sulfur that killed them, for if the sulfur was fuel then why did they die?
Things die. It's how it goes. Sulfur is a pretty common fuel amongst anaerobes. Pretty good substitute for oxygen, if you need some chemical energy gradient to suck your energy from. I'd have to look it up, as palaeobiology is not my forte, but at the time this fossils originate from, we should have been under pretty heavy anaerobic conditions, so sulfur looks like food in that context.
Perry is less scary than Bachmann? Uh-Huh... Kunstler aptly described him with his usual snark as "akin to George W. Bush without the burden of intellect". Maybe I missed something about Bachmann, who appears to be nothing more than a Palin clone with more focus to me, but, hell, that is scary enough for me.
Completely agreed. The fascinating fact - in a morbid, sick way - is that the teabaggers, reps and libertards still happily fellate those guys on every occasion, when instead they should be strung up at the next streetlight, just for the message.
This, however, is a notion that came up in the 80s. Not surprisingly, synchronous to St. Reagan's, peace be upon him, Voodoo economics...
Why would a CEO care about providing new revenue? That's beyond the horizon of the couple of years he will "lead" the company.In that time, he can gut the business, funneling the cash to the "investors", and leave on his golden parachute, leaving a rotting corpse behind. We should put some of the local lamp posts to good use, pour encourager les autres.
You know, if you take off your tin foil hat for a moment, you might realize that no one at all gives a flying fuck about your little life - except as a ppm-contribution to some statistics. They are not really after you....
And people searching forums can see what a pimple you were six years ago and confuse this with your present personality.
Around here, in Real Life (TM), we call realizing that fact "Growing up".
I am not pissing on a domestic spaceport, I am pissing on the GP who wants to shut up everyone talking about income inequality. I do fully agree with your list of problems.
Just to nitpick for the sake of it - the very first cars were personal transport - Bozek, Boleé, Hancock, Benz - all built for passenger transport. Trucks came up later.
The way the US voting system is set up pretty much guarantees that any third party won't get a portion of the votes that matters in any way. Why fake outages when you can rig the system?
John's back? Great, couldn't score any decent shrooms since he vanished.
Indeed. And the same old causes that are blamed again and again are taxes and regulations. Why is it, oh, high priest of St. Reagan, peace be upon him, that at a point with historically low taxes on the wealthy, unemployment is soaring? Why is it that the Gini coefficient has risen to third world level in the last 3 decades?