You see, it's not possible for them to choose science over faith because at that point they have to explicitly accept that their faith is wrong, and so they no longer hold that faith. That's an inescapable logical fact.
Just because some Muslims say it governs every aspect of their lives does not mean other major religions think it's the be-all, end-all. Science and religion can peacefully coexist in the vast majority of cases, it's just that you'll always have a few people taking religion uberliterally and saying you have to choose. And besides, there are plenty of people who cherry-pick which part of their scriptures to believe/practice, who evidently still consider themselves Catholic (or whatever).
I would thank you to keep your "inescapable logical facts" (I feel like only one set of scare quotes is insufficient here) to yourself when they deal with something as subjective as religion. Religion means a million different things to a million different people; you have no right to make blanket statements about them all.
Is it actually stated to be a one-party legislature? There are a lot of episodes I haven't seen (probably watched like 35-45% of all series combined) but I don't remember seeing any actual description of how the Federation makes its decisions, other than being representative.
Wow...bravo on that citation. The very first sentence of that wiki answers link is:
People have not been killed in dolphin attacks, but bitten and pulled under water.
And then continues with:
According to the National Geographic program Dolphin Attack, there is one confirmed case of a bottlenose dolphin killing an adult human male. However, it was a provoked attack.
I'm scratching my head about that wordpress article...the headline seems to be almost completely disconnected from the actual article, which talks about the dolphin "saving" beached whales...being abused by humans, in fact...and no details whatsoever about the actual woman in question. Wat. Presumably this is referring to this incident, which the coroner declared natural causes. But supposedly it's a conspiracy. And this was all after people were attacking the dolphin. Again, don't fuck with dolphins. I have my doubts about this website, too.
While a lot of these claims (if they're to be believed) are pretty extreme, they all fall under dolphins being abusive to non-humans...and allegedly Demi Moore may have been accosted.
The only one of those citations that give me any faith in your claim is the first:
Although dolphins generally interact well with humans, attacks have still occurred, most of them resulting in serious injuries and even death. The attacks can occur both in the wild and captivity. Tilikum at SeaWorld. In 2010 he attacked and killed his trainerDawn Brancheau, in his third fatal incident. There is a registered occurrence in the coast of Brazil in 1994, when a man died after being attacked by a bottlenose dolphin named Tião.
Three of the four deaths they mention was from the same dolphin, which apparently has a taste for human flesh or something. Which results in a grand total of 3 killer dolphins if we count the earlier sources. Hell, I could probably find more people killed by...hmm, what's some other harmless animal...domesticated cats, or pet rabbits, or something.
Your comment made me laugh at the sheer illogicality of it. And you're demonstrating how you find life intrinsically valuable by...telling someone to kill themself?
Blasphemy makes no claim about whether the statement is true or false (like some interpretations of libel). So yeah, GP can be considered blasphemy depending on how hard-ass one is about it.
"Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God, to religious or holy persons or things, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable."
Try traveling to Mecca and reciting Bible verses in public and see what happens to you there
Well in theory I thought they venerated many of the same prophets. I would be interested to see the reaction, though.
"Racism" is used a lot of the time to mean "disapproving of any certain group of people." I would assume it's something to with "everyone knows that racism is A Bad Thing," whereas if you call it by other names, it doesn't strike the same chord.
I did see the episodes with the Bell Riots and Q talking about the Post-Atomic Horror. I guess my complaint is that these just demonstrate that humanity continued to have severe problems, up until the point where they were all fixed. So is the implication that humans just decided one issue at a time to stop dicking around and do it properly? Nobody will ever accuse Roddenberry of not being optimistic...
Enterprise did do a decent job at showing some societal problems in the last season, I would agree. The Maquis was more about international relations with an alien power than human society in isolation, was my impression.
Which part is illegal in the E.U.? Capital punishment? The U.S. is not in the E.U., the reverse of which we are so fond of (accurately) pointing out here on Slashdot.
I would have much less objection to the whole affair if it didn't mean they were withholding the standard anesthetic from completely unrelated and non-complicit people. If North Korea was actually giving their food subsidies to the people,* would you stop the food subsidies if they also fed their soldiers with them? That's basically punishing the people who have no say in their government for the actions of said government. Skinning the face to hurt the nose, to abuse another analogy;)
* I hear that this is not really the case, so it's admittedly not a perfect analogy.
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The idea of "forced freedom" is a bit funny if you think about it, yeah, but we live in a (justly) cynical world.
They don't even install BASH by default yet.
Ouch. What is there instead, dash?
The way God *intended* version numbers to work! ;) None of this always-a-major-version Chrome/Firefox nonsense.
I liked the old base Linux versioning scheme too, but they killed that as well. Sigh.
You see, it's not possible for them to choose science over faith because at that point they have to explicitly accept that their faith is wrong, and so they no longer hold that faith. That's an inescapable logical fact.
Just because some Muslims say it governs every aspect of their lives does not mean other major religions think it's the be-all, end-all. Science and religion can peacefully coexist in the vast majority of cases, it's just that you'll always have a few people taking religion uberliterally and saying you have to choose. And besides, there are plenty of people who cherry-pick which part of their scriptures to believe/practice, who evidently still consider themselves Catholic (or whatever).
I would thank you to keep your "inescapable logical facts" (I feel like only one set of scare quotes is insufficient here) to yourself when they deal with something as subjective as religion. Religion means a million different things to a million different people; you have no right to make blanket statements about them all.
That can be interpreted as either A) no one survives a dolphin when it attacks, and/or B) no attacks by dolphins actually occur.
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Is it actually stated to be a one-party legislature? There are a lot of episodes I haven't seen (probably watched like 35-45% of all series combined) but I don't remember seeing any actual description of how the Federation makes its decisions, other than being representative.
Wow...bravo on that citation. The very first sentence of that wiki answers link is:
People have not been killed in dolphin attacks, but bitten and pulled under water.
And then continues with:
According to the National Geographic program Dolphin Attack, there is one confirmed case of a bottlenose dolphin killing an adult human male. However, it was a provoked attack.
I'm scratching my head about that wordpress article...the headline seems to be almost completely disconnected from the actual article, which talks about the dolphin "saving" beached whales...being abused by humans, in fact...and no details whatsoever about the actual woman in question. Wat. Presumably this is referring to this incident, which the coroner declared natural causes. But supposedly it's a conspiracy. And this was all after people were attacking the dolphin. Again, don't fuck with dolphins. I have my doubts about this website, too.
While a lot of these claims (if they're to be believed) are pretty extreme, they all fall under dolphins being abusive to non-humans...and allegedly Demi Moore may have been accosted.
The only one of those citations that give me any faith in your claim is the first:
Although dolphins generally interact well with humans, attacks have still occurred, most of them resulting in serious injuries and even death. The attacks can occur both in the wild and captivity. Tilikum at SeaWorld. In 2010 he attacked and killed his trainerDawn Brancheau, in his third fatal incident. There is a registered occurrence in the coast of Brazil in 1994, when a man died after being attacked by a bottlenose dolphin named Tião.
Three of the four deaths they mention was from the same dolphin, which apparently has a taste for human flesh or something. Which results in a grand total of 3 killer dolphins if we count the earlier sources. Hell, I could probably find more people killed by...hmm, what's some other harmless animal...domesticated cats, or pet rabbits, or something.
Your comment made me laugh at the sheer illogicality of it. And you're demonstrating how you find life intrinsically valuable by...telling someone to kill themself?
Wow.
Dolphins kill humans
Is this actually a thing? I would love to see some citations.
Not even if it was flaming sulphurous urine?
Blasphemy makes no claim about whether the statement is true or false (like some interpretations of libel). So yeah, GP can be considered blasphemy depending on how hard-ass one is about it.
"Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God, to religious or holy persons or things, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable."
I'd agree that his answer was humorous; the question was still bullshit to begin with.
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Why is Islam The Religion of Peace? Because all the other ones are all about war? Seems like a case of the pot calling the bluejay black.
Try traveling to Mecca and reciting Bible verses in public and see what happens to you there
Well in theory I thought they venerated many of the same prophets. I would be interested to see the reaction, though.
"Racism" is used a lot of the time to mean "disapproving of any certain group of people." I would assume it's something to with "everyone knows that racism is A Bad Thing," whereas if you call it by other names, it doesn't strike the same chord.
You're saying that all the major world religions are anti-science. This would seem to be demonstrably false from looking at history.
Although to be fair, I suppose DS9 as a whole was rather a rebuttal to the whole "Star Trek is too idealistic and perfect" argument.
Do they speak English in What?
I did see the episodes with the Bell Riots and Q talking about the Post-Atomic Horror. I guess my complaint is that these just demonstrate that humanity continued to have severe problems, up until the point where they were all fixed. So is the implication that humans just decided one issue at a time to stop dicking around and do it properly? Nobody will ever accuse Roddenberry of not being optimistic...
Enterprise did do a decent job at showing some societal problems in the last season, I would agree. The Maquis was more about international relations with an alien power than human society in isolation, was my impression.
What is the difference between a duck?
"I'm sorry, I thought this wasn't a Ruby position. I don't like Ruby."
"Well just have to burn that bridge when we come to it."
Which part is illegal in the E.U.? Capital punishment? The U.S. is not in the E.U., the reverse of which we are so fond of (accurately) pointing out here on Slashdot.
I would have much less objection to the whole affair if it didn't mean they were withholding the standard anesthetic from completely unrelated and non-complicit people. If North Korea was actually giving their food subsidies to the people,* would you stop the food subsidies if they also fed their soldiers with them? That's basically punishing the people who have no say in their government for the actions of said government. Skinning the face to hurt the nose, to abuse another analogy ;)
* I hear that this is not really the case, so it's admittedly not a perfect analogy.
Assuming that all the people you hear from are acting as reasonable adults and not holding a grudge or personal vendetta or something.
Why would he have to think about it? I have a hard time believing there is a single adult on this entire planet who has never told a single lie.