Rumors, urban legends and myths are not events. That is why they have different names.
I don't go preaching and putting up billboards.
Distinction without difference.
Until and unless you can come up with material evidence or testable predictions it's no better than any nonsense any raving lunatic might come up with.
Please produce material evidence or testable predictions that justice exists.
If you can produce no evidence to satisfy "hard science" as you put it, then in order to remain consistent with your previous statements you must admit justice does not exist.
Or more simply put, I can prove the statement "all men are created equal" is both true and false at the same time. "How can this be?" a hyper-intellectual scientism follower might ask. It is impossible for a statement to be both true and false!
But it is. Scientfically speaking, no men are created equal unless they are identical twins. But under the law, all men are. It is one of the founding principles of our nation. More people believe that than believe in God.
True, and false. It only depends on your point of view.
You see, fundamentalist atheists believe that all conclusions that can be drawn must be within the boundaries of what they call "hard science." The implication being that hard science has no boundaries: that everything that exists can be subjected to experimentation, study and proof.
This is a fundamentalist belief no different than the fundamentalist Christian belief that every mundane detail of their life, like giving their dog a bath, is subject to "Biblical principles."
These are both nonsensical weak-minded positions advanced by people who are frightened of what they might encounter outside their comfort zones. Jesus did not preach shining the glorious light of Heaven on a bathtub and real scientists do not deploy electron microscopes to study property-line disputes.
No rational person would view atheism as a fundamentalist belief.
A rational person views something with all the characteristics of a thing as the thing itself. I believe the colloquialism is "if it waddles and quacks, it's a duck."
They say whatever gets them better ratings, and since the only people who watch their show are fundamentalist atheists, they just put on an act no different than the nearest evangelical television station's latest report on how evolution is a worldwide conspiracy by museums.
Because/. is overrun with young (mentally or physically) libertarian atheists that attack anything that goes against their belief that science is the ultimate answer to everything and anything even remotely religious is utter nonsense and should be attacked viciously without any regard to how small minded it can make one seem.
That should be engraved on a golden plaque and bolted to this website forever.
As a fundamentalist atheist, were you provided with evidence, you would dismiss it.
For example, if you were told the story of a man pronounced dead who accurately described a conversation taking place in the next room 41 minutes after his death certificate was signed by a neurologist, you would claim it was all fabricated.
The multiple eyewitness accounts and the presence of several physicians would not sway you. You would either claim they were all hallucinating or you would claim they had conspired to fabricate the story. Anything to avoid accepting the evidence at face value.
Fundamentalist atheists treat evidence of near-death experiences in precisely the same way that fundamentalist Christians treat evidence of evolution. They either dismiss it outright or they come up with some wild unscientific explanation for it.
Which is why few reasonable people listen to either fundamentalist atheists or fundamentalist Christians any more. It is tiring and pointless.
It is not a verifiable event and, therefore, does not require a verifiable explanation.
There is no such thing as a non-verifiable event. That is magical thinking no different than what you accuse religious people of doing. It is not scientfic. It makes use of fuzzy, indistinct language and draws sweeping, irrational conclusions with no evidence.
This is why most rational, reasonable people view atheism as a fundamentalist belief no different from that of fundamentalist Christianity. It has the same rigid beliefs, the same intolerance for other viewpoints and the same hand-waving dismissal of anything that doesn't fit within its worldview.
I loves me some Slashdot fucks who get a zipper-bending erection about anything "scientific," (defined as anything that doesn't involve girls) then scream at every attempt to advance technology with tears streaming down their face about how it won't work.
No wonder nobody listens to you assholes any more.
Cue the pack of bleating neckbearded Mythbusters-humping assholes screaming "IT WILL NEVER WORK BECAUSE I AM SCIENTIST!" before they go back to their bongs and gripe because there are no jobs and there's no reason to go to college any more.
Now mod it down because you're a butthurt crying bitch.
There's no postulating involved, atheist neckbeard. Without religion and its preservation of written language, knowledge and books, science would still be trying to explain the universe with boiled eggs.
The web on a phone is awful. The only reason Netflix and services like it work is because of Flash, (which we're throwing overboard in favor of vaporware and bullshit.)
The code is horseshit, but the hardware is so fast it doesn't matter
That's exactly the kind of thinking that makes everything suck. It does matter.
about the internet's capabilities
The INTERNET is capable. The reason is it was built by engineers who wrote it in a real programming language that wasn't thrown overboard because of a marketing slogan.
The Internet isn't some kludged-together hack like everything that runs on top of it.
Why is it that you people bitch every time someone gets paid?
You fuckers destroyed the software industry. And now every time someone tries to get something going again you fucks show up and start crying like little bitches because someone is earning money for their hard fucking work.
If you don't want to invest in the project, then DON'T. You can download the source for free after the rest of us pay for it.
But you know what? We've been promised the web will become a multimedia paradise for 20 years.
It still hasn't happened. Why? Because browsers suck, HTML sucks, Javascript sucks, CSS sucks and the web sucks unless you are using it to display text and a few images.
Oh, we invented Flash, built it up for 15 years and then threw it overboard in favor of vaporware and bullshit. If you want to know why the web will always suck, just look at the history of Flash.
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Rumors, urban legends and myths are not events. That is why they have different names.
I don't go preaching and putting up billboards.
Distinction without difference.
Until and unless you can come up with material evidence or testable predictions it's no better than any nonsense any raving lunatic might come up with.
Please produce material evidence or testable predictions that justice exists.
If you can produce no evidence to satisfy "hard science" as you put it, then in order to remain consistent with your previous statements you must admit justice does not exist.
Or more simply put, I can prove the statement "all men are created equal" is both true and false at the same time. "How can this be?" a hyper-intellectual scientism follower might ask. It is impossible for a statement to be both true and false!
But it is. Scientfically speaking, no men are created equal unless they are identical twins. But under the law, all men are. It is one of the founding principles of our nation. More people believe that than believe in God.
True, and false. It only depends on your point of view.
You see, fundamentalist atheists believe that all conclusions that can be drawn must be within the boundaries of what they call "hard science." The implication being that hard science has no boundaries: that everything that exists can be subjected to experimentation, study and proof.
This is a fundamentalist belief no different than the fundamentalist Christian belief that every mundane detail of their life, like giving their dog a bath, is subject to "Biblical principles."
These are both nonsensical weak-minded positions advanced by people who are frightened of what they might encounter outside their comfort zones. Jesus did not preach shining the glorious light of Heaven on a bathtub and real scientists do not deploy electron microscopes to study property-line disputes.
No rational person would view atheism as a fundamentalist belief.
A rational person views something with all the characteristics of a thing as the thing itself. I believe the colloquialism is "if it waddles and quacks, it's a duck."
If I were "told the story" I would absolutely ignore it.
QED, Doctor.
when did God enter into this discussion?
Five words from the end of your reply.
Penn and Teller are assholes.
They say whatever gets them better ratings, and since the only people who watch their show are fundamentalist atheists, they just put on an act no different than the nearest evangelical television station's latest report on how evolution is a worldwide conspiracy by museums.
Because /. is overrun with young (mentally or physically) libertarian atheists that attack anything that goes against their belief that science is the ultimate answer to everything and anything even remotely religious is utter nonsense and should be attacked viciously without any regard to how small minded it can make one seem.
That should be engraved on a golden plaque and bolted to this website forever.
As a fundamentalist atheist, were you provided with evidence, you would dismiss it.
For example, if you were told the story of a man pronounced dead who accurately described a conversation taking place in the next room 41 minutes after his death certificate was signed by a neurologist, you would claim it was all fabricated.
The multiple eyewitness accounts and the presence of several physicians would not sway you. You would either claim they were all hallucinating or you would claim they had conspired to fabricate the story. Anything to avoid accepting the evidence at face value.
Fundamentalist atheists treat evidence of near-death experiences in precisely the same way that fundamentalist Christians treat evidence of evolution. They either dismiss it outright or they come up with some wild unscientific explanation for it.
Which is why few reasonable people listen to either fundamentalist atheists or fundamentalist Christians any more. It is tiring and pointless.
It is not a verifiable event and, therefore, does not require a verifiable explanation.
There is no such thing as a non-verifiable event. That is magical thinking no different than what you accuse religious people of doing. It is not scientfic. It makes use of fuzzy, indistinct language and draws sweeping, irrational conclusions with no evidence.
This is why most rational, reasonable people view atheism as a fundamentalist belief no different from that of fundamentalist Christianity. It has the same rigid beliefs, the same intolerance for other viewpoints and the same hand-waving dismissal of anything that doesn't fit within its worldview.
Do you imagine that the human brain behaves much differently during death than rat brains?
I thought science was about evidence and fact, not imagination?
It seems to me he has absolutely NO idea about the very real engineering challenges to something like this.
As opposed to some smartass cunt on the Internet.
By your logic we should be hand-carrying water buckets around to wash our ass with. FUCK I wish this site would go back to what it once was.
Well, at least you didn't start with "actually." You're still a towering cock, but at least you didn't start with "actually."
The difference is I'm not a fundamentalist. Atheists are.
Sounds to me like a proper application of survival of the fittest.
Touche, sir. Touche. :)
In other words, it will never work.
I loves me some Slashdot fucks who get a zipper-bending erection about anything "scientific," (defined as anything that doesn't involve girls) then scream at every attempt to advance technology with tears streaming down their face about how it won't work.
No wonder nobody listens to you assholes any more.
Wins the FUCKING thread. Take a bow, sir.
Cue the pack of bleating neckbearded Mythbusters-humping assholes screaming "IT WILL NEVER WORK BECAUSE I AM SCIENTIST!" before they go back to their bongs and gripe because there are no jobs and there's no reason to go to college any more.
Now mod it down because you're a butthurt crying bitch.
Atheists are fundamentalists who worship something other than God.
And atheists
Well, at least you didn't start the sentence with "actually." You're still a towering dick, but at least you didn't start with "actually."
There's no postulating involved, atheist neckbeard. Without religion and its preservation of written language, knowledge and books, science would still be trying to explain the universe with boiled eggs.
Right now America couldn't build dogshit if it backed a dump truck full of scrambled eggs into a kennel.
Yep. Still runs on Flash. Was built on Flash. Will always run on Flash.
The web on a phone is awful. The only reason Netflix and services like it work is because of Flash, (which we're throwing overboard in favor of vaporware and bullshit.)
The code is horseshit, but the hardware is so fast it doesn't matter
That's exactly the kind of thinking that makes everything suck. It does matter.
about the internet's capabilities
The INTERNET is capable. The reason is it was built by engineers who wrote it in a real programming language that wasn't thrown overboard because of a marketing slogan.
The Internet isn't some kludged-together hack like everything that runs on top of it.
"Waah! Everything sucks. Back to the bong."
That about cover it?
Why is it that you people bitch every time someone gets paid?
You fuckers destroyed the software industry. And now every time someone tries to get something going again you fucks show up and start crying like little bitches because someone is earning money for their hard fucking work.
If you don't want to invest in the project, then DON'T. You can download the source for free after the rest of us pay for it.
Tell you what son. Find me FREE rent and FREE food, and I'll write all the FREE software you want.
But you know what? We've been promised the web will become a multimedia paradise for 20 years.
It still hasn't happened. Why? Because browsers suck, HTML sucks, Javascript sucks, CSS sucks and the web sucks unless you are using it to display text and a few images.
Oh, we invented Flash, built it up for 15 years and then threw it overboard in favor of vaporware and bullshit. If you want to know why the web will always suck, just look at the history of Flash.