You basically just proved the parents point. Congrats. Maybe if people had the intelligence to not believe in imaginary beings created by the brain we wouldn't be in this mess. Lack of critical thinking skills is correlated with belief in god. Better education will result in more critical thinking which allows people to see through the illusion of god. This process is well under way in many countries including Canada, Australia, Japan and large chunks of Europe. More than half of the people in Europe consider religion to be irrelevant.
Or you just might not care? I sure don't. All that goes up there are college docs and songs and shit. I can't even think of anything I have that would required encryption. Its not like I'd be uploading text docs with credit card info in it or something.
See thats becoming so much work and being so deceptive it would be easier to just talk to them about it if it really mattered:p I just tried to even find the settings you were on about and I don't know where they are, I didnt exactly look hard though, cause I dont care.
Cool, wasnt aware those controls were so fine grained. Still if you make it so that she cant see and comment on your posts then you have basically just blocked them and you are in the same situation as if you just unfriended and still have to explain. Or lie, which is not my style at all.
Sure, thats what i do, i hide them. That wouldn't help at all with the problem the parent was referring to though. Which is that exes are liking statues and things like that. If you hide them, they can still see and comment on all your items, you would have to block them, and thats basically the same as unfriending.
So you have to have a plan for all phones? You can't just buy a phone where you prepay for your costs by buying a top up card in a shop or using an ATM etc? That what I mean by pay as you go. There is no plan, just buy the phone and add money to it when you need. This is how the vast majority of phones work in Europe, I assumed you could do the same in America.
You'd have to explain why you are defriending then, or they will be very pissed off when they realise. For someone like an ex anyways. I've asked one before, during the breakup if i could unfriend her so as not to see posts in my stream, it didn't go down well. It's like the ex saying can we still be friends and you replying no.
What about pay as you go phones? Very few people I know have a contract only the uber geeks who actually use lots of mobile Internet data. Loads of people get pay as you go phones for Xmas.
It is due to the many socialized programs paid for with high taxes. Income tax rates are in the region of 50% if you make good money. Groceries have higher taxes than america too I believe, any luxury item is 20-25% extra tax. If the tax rates were as low as america things would probably seem a lot more even. It means we have to pay very little money for any healthcare, childcare, pensions, schools, college, etc. College is only 2k euro per year for me for example as a mature (over 25) student, and I get paid (a meager amount, 200 euros, which is just enough to live on) for attending as I was unemployed.
It does have lots of socialism type stuff, the pay is actually above the average for what fresh college grad would get in England. Loads of money obsessed people in this thread, lots of them not realising there's a huge difference in pay between America and Europe for similar living standards.
Had to read that six times to actually see what the problem was. Its so common to encounter both American English and British if you don't switch between them automatically you are failing.
Actually depends where you live. No product I buy in Ireland has any hcfs in it. There is a quota limit for how much hfcs you can produce a year in europe and its a small fraction of the real sugar produce.
Actually, if you can't understand what dark side of the moon means you are the idiot. Look at the moon at night from earth, light always shines on one side from our perspective, hence the other side is dark. It doesn't mean light never shines there.
No, I accepted the definition. I really should have stated that having a majority in one place doesn't mean its not a cult, I assumed that was implied. The problem is you are reducing the sphere of influence to one country, where the cult has a strong hold. I showed you lots of examples where people see it as a cult. Theres 730 million europeans, and half of them think religion is not important, thats more people who think religion is a cult than there is people in the whole of america. And theres many more countries outside of europe with similar views as I have already shown.
I don't know what your statement about just "came about" is referring to. Are you talking about the origin of life. Thats totally outside this discussion as to whether religion is a cult or not. As are your statements about proving the existence of god. These are strawmen. I never asked you to prove the origins of life, or prove god exists. None of this shows me why religion is not a cult. The evidence of the secularization of europe is proof of its cult status and you have done nothing to disprove that.
Indeed, some European countries and places like Japan are actually seeing declining population as people wait even longer to have kids with longer life expectancy and healthcare.
The practises are considered bizarre by anyone who has the intelligence to reason past their brains need to deal with its own mortality. Having a majority doesn't mean its not a cult when the behaviours are deemed illogical by anyone with the capacity to reason and has not been brainwashed into the religion cult. You can graph intelligence and religion and get a trend.
Keep in mind America is a terrible example, as the country is high religious and hence the cult is ingrained in its culture. How about we look at some European countries for some examples, there's many of them with a majority that don't follow a true religion and only think there's some possible higher power. In 24 of the 38 european countries more than half the people consider religion to not be important. Several of them have 25%+ levels of atheists. With young people these rates are even higher. If I went around asking everyone in the local pub if they believed in the Catholic god id get very few answers. I don't deny the possible existence of a higher level alien intelligence with god like powers, but I do think its ridiculous that every different culture on earth thinks there's some god watching over them and is the one true god. They can't all be right, so the obvious conclusion is that people generate the need for god themselves internally in the brain. If there was such an intelligence they would have as much interest in us as we do with ants. That is, fun to study.
You are missing the point of the tablet form factor. Its much nicer to read on cause i can treat it like a book, easily lounge around with it, it just feels a lot more natural than a laptop form factor. The screen is also very good, its better than both my laptop and my main screen in terms of clarity and colours. It seems highly unlikely im ever gonna have so many books on there that I will fill it, most of them are only a couple of megs. The only big ones are textbooks and I only need a couple of them. I bring a small laptop too, the tablet is not replacing it, its a complementary device. Ill agree apple are pure scum and do love to rip people off if they can:)
30-45 seconds and 5 seconds are not instant. The ipad really is instant, its connected to wifi and ready to go when you open it, its amazingly fast to check something in college with it. You can argue whether such a time difference really matters, but it feels very impressive. The little things can make all the difference in interaction. The tablet is one of the best devices ive purchased, they were made for college, have all my notes, books on there one tiny device, and its vastly nicer to read on than a laptop.
It's not trolling, it's a fact. All religions are inherently cults, just disguised. The sooner the world realises this the sooner we can make some real progress.
Easy to prove love, just check oxytocin levels in the body. Humans are nothing but machines, every emotion and feeling can be reduced to simple chemistry and physics. Including sensations of god which are easily induced through transcranial magnetic stimulation.
I can't fathom why anyone works overtime if they are young, free time is worth way more than money to me at 28. You'd have to offer me triple pay for me to even think about over time, money is just not that important once it gets beyond the basics.
If the house always won, then wouldn't there be more of my friends with wasted lives, I said only 2 ended up that way. Considering the vast amount of people who use drugs now, literally every teenager does, I cant imagine you are right that the house always wins. You are spouting propaganda from the 50's
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You basically just proved the parents point. Congrats. Maybe if people had the intelligence to not believe in imaginary beings created by the brain we wouldn't be in this mess. Lack of critical thinking skills is correlated with belief in god. Better education will result in more critical thinking which allows people to see through the illusion of god. This process is well under way in many countries including Canada, Australia, Japan and large chunks of Europe. More than half of the people in Europe consider religion to be irrelevant.
Or you just might not care? I sure don't. All that goes up there are college docs and songs and shit. I can't even think of anything I have that would required encryption. Its not like I'd be uploading text docs with credit card info in it or something.
See thats becoming so much work and being so deceptive it would be easier to just talk to them about it if it really mattered :p I just tried to even find the settings you were on about and I don't know where they are, I didnt exactly look hard though, cause I dont care.
Cool, wasnt aware those controls were so fine grained. Still if you make it so that she cant see and comment on your posts then you have basically just blocked them and you are in the same situation as if you just unfriended and still have to explain. Or lie, which is not my style at all.
Sure, thats what i do, i hide them. That wouldn't help at all with the problem the parent was referring to though. Which is that exes are liking statues and things like that. If you hide them, they can still see and comment on all your items, you would have to block them, and thats basically the same as unfriending.
So you have to have a plan for all phones? You can't just buy a phone where you prepay for your costs by buying a top up card in a shop or using an ATM etc? That what I mean by pay as you go. There is no plan, just buy the phone and add money to it when you need. This is how the vast majority of phones work in Europe, I assumed you could do the same in America.
You'd have to explain why you are defriending then, or they will be very pissed off when they realise. For someone like an ex anyways. I've asked one before, during the breakup if i could unfriend her so as not to see posts in my stream, it didn't go down well. It's like the ex saying can we still be friends and you replying no.
What about pay as you go phones? Very few people I know have a contract only the uber geeks who actually use lots of mobile Internet data. Loads of people get pay as you go phones for Xmas.
It is due to the many socialized programs paid for with high taxes. Income tax rates are in the region of 50% if you make good money. Groceries have higher taxes than america too I believe, any luxury item is 20-25% extra tax. If the tax rates were as low as america things would probably seem a lot more even. It means we have to pay very little money for any healthcare, childcare, pensions, schools, college, etc. College is only 2k euro per year for me for example as a mature (over 25) student, and I get paid (a meager amount, 200 euros, which is just enough to live on) for attending as I was unemployed.
It does have lots of socialism type stuff, the pay is actually above the average for what fresh college grad would get in England. Loads of money obsessed people in this thread, lots of them not realising there's a huge difference in pay between America and Europe for similar living standards.
Had to read that six times to actually see what the problem was. Its so common to encounter both American English and British if you don't switch between them automatically you are failing.
Actually depends where you live. No product I buy in Ireland has any hcfs in it. There is a quota limit for how much hfcs you can produce a year in europe and its a small fraction of the real sugar produce.
Actually, if you can't understand what dark side of the moon means you are the idiot. Look at the moon at night from earth, light always shines on one side from our perspective, hence the other side is dark. It doesn't mean light never shines there.
No, I accepted the definition. I really should have stated that having a majority in one place doesn't mean its not a cult, I assumed that was implied. The problem is you are reducing the sphere of influence to one country, where the cult has a strong hold. I showed you lots of examples where people see it as a cult. Theres 730 million europeans, and half of them think religion is not important, thats more people who think religion is a cult than there is people in the whole of america. And theres many more countries outside of europe with similar views as I have already shown.
I don't know what your statement about just "came about" is referring to. Are you talking about the origin of life. Thats totally outside this discussion as to whether religion is a cult or not. As are your statements about proving the existence of god. These are strawmen. I never asked you to prove the origins of life, or prove god exists. None of this shows me why religion is not a cult. The evidence of the secularization of europe is proof of its cult status and you have done nothing to disprove that.
Indeed, some European countries and places like Japan are actually seeing declining population as people wait even longer to have kids with longer life expectancy and healthcare.
The practises are considered bizarre by anyone who has the intelligence to reason past their brains need to deal with its own mortality. Having a majority doesn't mean its not a cult when the behaviours are deemed illogical by anyone with the capacity to reason and has not been brainwashed into the religion cult. You can graph intelligence and religion and get a trend.
Keep in mind America is a terrible example, as the country is high religious and hence the cult is ingrained in its culture. How about we look at some European countries for some examples, there's many of them with a majority that don't follow a true religion and only think there's some possible higher power. In 24 of the 38 european countries more than half the people consider religion to not be important. Several of them have 25%+ levels of atheists. With young people these rates are even higher. If I went around asking everyone in the local pub if they believed in the Catholic god id get very few answers. I don't deny the possible existence of a higher level alien intelligence with god like powers, but I do think its ridiculous that every different culture on earth thinks there's some god watching over them and is the one true god. They can't all be right, so the obvious conclusion is that people generate the need for god themselves internally in the brain. If there was such an intelligence they would have as much interest in us as we do with ants. That is, fun to study.
yea, thats true, i have ipad2, boot is slow, but i dont even remember the last time i rebooted it.
You are missing the point of the tablet form factor. Its much nicer to read on cause i can treat it like a book, easily lounge around with it, it just feels a lot more natural than a laptop form factor. The screen is also very good, its better than both my laptop and my main screen in terms of clarity and colours. It seems highly unlikely im ever gonna have so many books on there that I will fill it, most of them are only a couple of megs. The only big ones are textbooks and I only need a couple of them. I bring a small laptop too, the tablet is not replacing it, its a complementary device. Ill agree apple are pure scum and do love to rip people off if they can :)
30-45 seconds and 5 seconds are not instant. The ipad really is instant, its connected to wifi and ready to go when you open it, its amazingly fast to check something in college with it. You can argue whether such a time difference really matters, but it feels very impressive. The little things can make all the difference in interaction. The tablet is one of the best devices ive purchased, they were made for college, have all my notes, books on there one tiny device, and its vastly nicer to read on than a laptop.
Netscape navigator was free from 1995, Mozilla was free from 1998, Phoenix the browser fork of Mozilla which became Firefox was free since 2002.
It's not trolling, it's a fact. All religions are inherently cults, just disguised. The sooner the world realises this the sooner we can make some real progress.
Easy to prove love, just check oxytocin levels in the body. Humans are nothing but machines, every emotion and feeling can be reduced to simple chemistry and physics. Including sensations of god which are easily induced through transcranial magnetic stimulation.
I can't fathom why anyone works overtime if they are young, free time is worth way more than money to me at 28. You'd have to offer me triple pay for me to even think about over time, money is just not that important once it gets beyond the basics.
Cocaine and crack are basically the same, so thats a lot of young people. Cocaine is totally the new clubber drug like.
If the house always won, then wouldn't there be more of my friends with wasted lives, I said only 2 ended up that way. Considering the vast amount of people who use drugs now, literally every teenager does, I cant imagine you are right that the house always wins. You are spouting propaganda from the 50's