When I ask friends if they want me to install Linux and they ask me what it is (they are usually coming from a virus riddled Windows install), I just tell them "Its like Mac but penguin themed." Ubuntu is plenty stable these days for your average user.
The average value of a new car purchased is around 25k in the US. No way will that be a better investment than a 25k degree from a state uni in some reasonable major.
Sure, but the OP was saying that a car was a better investment than a degree, not just any investment. I am certain that there are many investments with higher ROI than a degree, but a car seems unlikely to be one of them.
You have to be kidding me. The data shows quite the opposite:
"Average annual earnings of individuals with a bachelor's degree are more than 75 percent higher than the earnings of high school graduates. These additional earnings sum to more than $1 million over a lifetime."
Clearly this guy is simply a moron who does not have a clue about the subject matter. For example, his claim would forbid me from transferring a file over the internet to myself, but would allow people to indiscriminately transfer files over a network (your average college dorm or library contains millions of songs distributed across many computers). If he were to expand his definition to include local transfers, then you could not even copy a file from one directory to another.
Obviously. Typically, however, when you disagree with someone, you then proceed to present your evidence. Instead they usually just go on about the gay mainstream scientific community suppressing creation "scientists" by refusing to publish their work. Conspiracy theories != scientific theories
We take it as a matter of faith that the unicorn is pink. And since you can't see him, you cannot prove me wrong.
Go the typical Christian argument here. It may seem like a contradiction that a unicorn could be both pink and invisible, but the unicorn is a special case since it is defined as both pink and transparent. Also, since I can define the existence of this unicorn, then it must, necessarily exist. Expo fracto, the unicorn does exist!
I am not exploiting the system. I am simply going to a doctor who is licensed to prescribe me medication when I am sick. Getting a prescription from a doctor that you actually need is not exploitive. I was referring to people that might be going to the doctor for unnecessary pain killers or stimulants.
People can be rational and irrational in regards to various beliefs. The two states are not mutually exclusive. Pretty much by definition, however, every unsubstantiated belief is an irrational one. Yes, lots of people are irrational. What's your point?
I guess getting them to disavow the OT is a start at least though. The NT is not as blatantly offensive, but I do believe most Christians would be a bit uncomfortable following JC if they thought about the fact that he was a hippy dude in a dress and birkenstocks who went around telling everyone that he was God and the rich people were probably not gonna make the trip home... oh and that he had no beef with slavery.
I think less of someone who believes in Big Foot. Oh well, I guess I'm a bigot. Alternate definition of bigotry: "Thinking less of a person for an arbitrary reason".
"I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. She must be quiet." (1 Timothy 2:12)
"Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses." (1 Samuel 15:3)
"Happy those who seize your children and smash them against a rock." (Psalm 137:9)
"Then God said: 'Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him up as a holocaust on a height that I will point out to you'."(Genesis 22:2)
"Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord." (Ephesians 5:22)
Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and equitable but also to those who are perverse." (1 Peter 2:18)
If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity. (Deuteronomy 25:11-13)
Before you jump to the obvious "But you took those passages out of context!", I encourage you to actually go read the surrounding text. That way you can see that God actually did straight up order the Jews to wipe out entire races and rape the young girls. How could a command like that actually be any better with context anyway???
Yeah, I am pretty sure Confucius beat ol JC to the Golden Rule punch by about 500 years. Also, the logic is along the same lines as "Charles Manson is not so bad. He had a wonderful sense of community".
Christianity does not teach that women or homosexuals have less worth, value, or whatever other metric than anyone else.
No, they only advocate a book that says:
If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. (Leviticus 20:13 NIV)
Well, unfortunately you happen to be an easily dismissed outlyer. I live in the bible belt, and the vast majority of baptists are anti gay around me. The Episcopal Church that is supposed to be pretty liberal is still completely bigoted on the issue. My state's Episcopal diocese just got kicked out of the national church for their hateful views towards gays.
Build a time machine that transports you and your girlfriend to the spot that her grandfather discovered the footprints.
... then give the guy a nice hard kick to the jewels and do humanity a favor. Two birds with one stone: one less moron, one less moron who happens to be your girlfriend.
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...but probably true, more often than not.
When I ask friends if they want me to install Linux and they ask me what it is (they are usually coming from a virus riddled Windows install), I just tell them "Its like Mac but penguin themed." Ubuntu is plenty stable these days for your average user.
Seriously. If we ban any games, it should be Bejeweled, Angry Birds, or Temple Runner, which have become the crack cocaine of modern society...
The average value of a new car purchased is around 25k in the US. No way will that be a better investment than a 25k degree from a state uni in some reasonable major.
Sure, but the OP was saying that a car was a better investment than a degree, not just any investment. I am certain that there are many investments with higher ROI than a degree, but a car seems unlikely to be one of them.
Elon Musk == Space Jesus
"Average annual earnings of individuals with a bachelor's degree are more than 75 percent higher than the earnings of high school graduates. These additional earnings sum to more than $1 million over a lifetime."
http://www.aei.org/article/education/higher-education/how-much-is-that-bachelors-degree-really-worth/
Clearly this guy is simply a moron who does not have a clue about the subject matter. For example, his claim would forbid me from transferring a file over the internet to myself, but would allow people to indiscriminately transfer files over a network (your average college dorm or library contains millions of songs distributed across many computers). If he were to expand his definition to include local transfers, then you could not even copy a file from one directory to another.
Idk, maybe you could photocopy a book, then sell it. Sounds like we need to ban the sale of books as well.
Obviously. Typically, however, when you disagree with someone, you then proceed to present your evidence. Instead they usually just go on about the gay mainstream scientific community suppressing creation "scientists" by refusing to publish their work. Conspiracy theories != scientific theories
Chi is even one of the earliest symbols of Christianity, in fact. The Chi Roh is everywhere in many churches.
We take it as a matter of faith that the unicorn is pink. And since you can't see him, you cannot prove me wrong.
Go the typical Christian argument here. It may seem like a contradiction that a unicorn could be both pink and invisible, but the unicorn is a special case since it is defined as both pink and transparent. Also, since I can define the existence of this unicorn, then it must, necessarily exist. Expo fracto, the unicorn does exist!
Wow. You learn something new everyday. Thanks, internet!
I am not exploiting the system. I am simply going to a doctor who is licensed to prescribe me medication when I am sick. Getting a prescription from a doctor that you actually need is not exploitive. I was referring to people that might be going to the doctor for unnecessary pain killers or stimulants.
People can be rational and irrational in regards to various beliefs. The two states are not mutually exclusive. Pretty much by definition, however, every unsubstantiated belief is an irrational one. Yes, lots of people are irrational. What's your point?
I guess getting them to disavow the OT is a start at least though. The NT is not as blatantly offensive, but I do believe most Christians would be a bit uncomfortable following JC if they thought about the fact that he was a hippy dude in a dress and birkenstocks who went around telling everyone that he was God and the rich people were probably not gonna make the trip home... oh and that he had no beef with slavery.
I think less of someone who believes in Big Foot. Oh well, I guess I'm a bigot. Alternate definition of bigotry: "Thinking less of a person for an arbitrary reason".
"I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. She must be quiet." (1 Timothy 2:12)
"Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses." (1 Samuel 15:3)
"Happy those who seize your children and smash them against a rock." (Psalm 137:9)
"Then God said: 'Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him up as a holocaust on a height that I will point out to you'."(Genesis 22:2)
"Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord." (Ephesians 5:22)
Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and equitable but also to those who are perverse." (1 Peter 2:18)
If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity. (Deuteronomy 25:11-13)
Before you jump to the obvious "But you took those passages out of context!", I encourage you to actually go read the surrounding text. That way you can see that God actually did straight up order the Jews to wipe out entire races and rape the young girls. How could a command like that actually be any better with context anyway???
Yeah, I am pretty sure Confucius beat ol JC to the Golden Rule punch by about 500 years. Also, the logic is along the same lines as "Charles Manson is not so bad. He had a wonderful sense of community".
Christianity does not teach that women or homosexuals have less worth, value, or whatever other metric than anyone else.
No, they only advocate a book that says:
If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. (Leviticus 20:13 NIV)
Well, unfortunately you happen to be an easily dismissed outlyer. I live in the bible belt, and the vast majority of baptists are anti gay around me. The Episcopal Church that is supposed to be pretty liberal is still completely bigoted on the issue. My state's Episcopal diocese just got kicked out of the national church for their hateful views towards gays.
So true, Joe Camel was always aimed at the kids...
As the saying goes "Pics or GTFO!"
Do you actually RTFS?!?!
Build a time machine that transports you and your girlfriend to the spot that her grandfather discovered the footprints.
... then give the guy a nice hard kick to the jewels and do humanity a favor. Two birds with one stone: one less moron, one less moron who happens to be your girlfriend.