I know its a mistake to even reply to this crap, but, here it goes...
Hunger is caused not by a lack of food in the world, but in our limited ability to distribute food to the world's hungry. Also, when we do get food over to some of the more starving nations, it often does not end up in the bellies of the hungry, but the warehouses of the corrupt. Suppose a god did "eliminate hunger". So, now the six billion people are nice and full and don't have to worry about starving to death. With all this food but without any restraint, there would be an explosion of births as there is suddenly nutrition to support 12 billion, 18 billion, or more. Now that same god has to do even more work to support the 20 billion people who are now completely unable to support themselves at 6 billion. Thus our species has become little more than useless pets. Is that what you want? To be utterly dependent on the intercession of a god for your life? Perhaps god doesn't intervene because he wants the human race to grow the fuck up.
The same reasoning applies to disease. Disease does a generally good job at population control, this was set in place presumably by god to moderate the effects of a species population explosion. Since you are so adamant about there not being a god (or if there is, that he is evil), what makes you think humans are at all special? All humans are just a bunch of apes with huge mutant brains. You are so adamant about arguing against god, you forget to be consistent. According to you, if god made us and we are special, then he is evil. But you don't believe in god. So what's the big deal about disease. How should we be any more privileged than the pidgeon, the rat or the platypus. Disease helps keep their populations in check, why should it not do the same for us?
Instead of being pissed of at whatever god, why don't you accept responsibility that we do all this to ourselves? For all that you blame the christian god for every evil, did you never stop and think that perhaps you are not the most intelligent being in the universe. Perhaps god knew something about that city of people he had annihilated that you didn't know. Perhaps there was a mutant genetic disorder attached to the Y chromosome. If that were the case, only leaving alive virgin females is the only way to be absolutely sure the mutant "Y" didn't replicate and infect all the future generations of mankind.
Bet you didn't think of that one.
Finally, the reason all those Christians say you can't judge god by human standards is the same rational as to why I don't yell at my dog for not leaving a note on the refrigerator when he takes the car for a spin. You don't expect a dog to understand humans or act or think at our level; how can you honestly judge a being who created the universe?
Say, have NAMCOman eat the developing brains of college students while being chased by the ghosts of creativity. Then NAMCOman can eat a copy of the DMCA and kill off the creative spirits one by one.
Yeah something like this could have saved my father-in-law's life, the prosthetic constantly irritated the skin on his stump, and finally one of those blisters got infected and the infection killed him. Having a permanent metal/bone craft that the skin could heal around might have prolonged his life and increased the quality of life he had.
Well, perhaps the aliens were shoving probes up our asses. After all, alien technology gave us teh Internet, and that gave us more examples of anal probes then anything in history.
I don't know if you read through any of Gizmodo's stuff, but apparently the person who found it DID try and return it. They made several calls to Apple to try and return the iphone that didn't look or act like a regular iphone. The problem is that the customer service agents that answered believed the caller had found yet another Chinese knock off product, since the finder couldn't provide pictures to them. Also, the customer service agents of course heard nothing from their own company, and the common sense check says, "Yeah, right. A guy finds a super secret prototype at a bar and is calling me to return it."
So the person who found it tried to do the right thing and Apple's secrecy worked against itself. Then the finder of the phone decided to live by the American Ideal, and sold it to Gizmodo for 5 large.
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I wish I had mod points for you. That was hilarious.
he thought, "and I can't take it with me."
umm..yeah.
I know its a mistake to even reply to this crap, but, here it goes...
Hunger is caused not by a lack of food in the world, but in our limited ability to distribute food to the world's hungry. Also, when we do get food over to some of the more starving nations, it often does not end up in the bellies of the hungry, but the warehouses of the corrupt. Suppose a god did "eliminate hunger". So, now the six billion people are nice and full and don't have to worry about starving to death. With all this food but without any restraint, there would be an explosion of births as there is suddenly nutrition to support 12 billion, 18 billion, or more. Now that same god has to do even more work to support the 20 billion people who are now completely unable to support themselves at 6 billion. Thus our species has become little more than useless pets. Is that what you want? To be utterly dependent on the intercession of a god for your life? Perhaps god doesn't intervene because he wants the human race to grow the fuck up.
The same reasoning applies to disease. Disease does a generally good job at population control, this was set in place presumably by god to moderate the effects of a species population explosion. Since you are so adamant about there not being a god (or if there is, that he is evil), what makes you think humans are at all special? All humans are just a bunch of apes with huge mutant brains. You are so adamant about arguing against god, you forget to be consistent. According to you, if god made us and we are special, then he is evil. But you don't believe in god. So what's the big deal about disease. How should we be any more privileged than the pidgeon, the rat or the platypus. Disease helps keep their populations in check, why should it not do the same for us?
Instead of being pissed of at whatever god, why don't you accept responsibility that we do all this to ourselves? For all that you blame the christian god for every evil, did you never stop and think that perhaps you are not the most intelligent being in the universe. Perhaps god knew something about that city of people he had annihilated that you didn't know. Perhaps there was a mutant genetic disorder attached to the Y chromosome. If that were the case, only leaving alive virgin females is the only way to be absolutely sure the mutant "Y" didn't replicate and infect all the future generations of mankind.
Bet you didn't think of that one.
Finally, the reason all those Christians say you can't judge god by human standards is the same rational as to why I don't yell at my dog for not leaving a note on the refrigerator when he takes the car for a spin. You don't expect a dog to understand humans or act or think at our level; how can you honestly judge a being who created the universe?
why, you think they would get poked?
cockmongle ....
that is a pretty awesome word
well, it evens out, the anonymous collective can't be dicks all the time
But installing norton should be one
The title of the first 3d IMAX movie won't be
Cumming At You
I can see a computer room full of students, and one computer's speakers shouts out
KILL !
DOUBLE KILL !!
MULTI KILL !!!
DOMINATION !!!!!
Say, have NAMCOman eat the developing brains of college students while being chased by the ghosts of creativity. Then NAMCOman can eat a copy of the DMCA and kill off the creative spirits one by one.
It's just like they teach us in the movies.
You make a black man president and space tries to kill us.
How can you honestly believe such drivel!!!
Everyone knows babies come from cabbage patches!!!
The first crack is the hardest one to make, after that its just tearing the patch back open.
that's okay, my Spinal Tap smart phone goes to 11 bars !!
Its about not being a selfish asshole. you live here, you have a shared duty to keep it running the way it should.
That is true, but perhaps not everything in Venezuela should be sneered at.
Yeah something like this could have saved my father-in-law's life, the prosthetic constantly irritated the skin on his stump, and finally one of those blisters got infected and the infection killed him. Having a permanent metal/bone craft that the skin could heal around might have prolonged his life and increased the quality of life he had.
Thanks, now i can't get the image of a pirate cat with a parrot on its shoulder out of my head.
Yes, I think we all remember the two mile island incident, a cup of java could be catastrophic under the right circumstances.
Funny, I read " Fully Homomorphic Encryption" as Fully Homophobic Erections
No, Canada keeps secret its contempt of the United States. Well, secret is a strong word really.
Well, perhaps the aliens were shoving probes up our asses. After all, alien technology gave us teh Internet, and that gave us more examples of anal probes then anything in history.
If I was the guy in the gunship, I would consider "to cover up wrongdoing" a SUPER good reason.
I don't know if you read through any of Gizmodo's stuff, but apparently the person who found it DID try and return it. They made several calls to Apple to try and return the iphone that didn't look or act like a regular iphone. The problem is that the customer service agents that answered believed the caller had found yet another Chinese knock off product, since the finder couldn't provide pictures to them. Also, the customer service agents of course heard nothing from their own company, and the common sense check says, "Yeah, right. A guy finds a super secret prototype at a bar and is calling me to return it."
So the person who found it tried to do the right thing and Apple's secrecy worked against itself. Then the finder of the phone decided to live by the American Ideal, and sold it to Gizmodo for 5 large.