The Y2K fiasco? What was that? Was it a fiasco because programmers had not programmed for 4 digit years, because a lot of money was spent correcting this, or because nothing happened and you interpret this as meaning nothing was going to happen?
These things occur in waves. The Christians had theirs, need I remind you? Nothing stays at the same intensity forever, they rise and fall. The Muslim intensity is raising, the Christian not so much at this period in history.
"With the 'default' society with no religion, a system of natural selection would have existed within the tribe. While there may have been stronger individuals within that tribe, the 'religious' societies produced stronger tribes as a whole."
I disagree. Natural selection doesn't mean "strong people beat up weak people", it means things become more efficient at survival. In the case of humans, who only survived in groups, this would mean groups would evolve toward cooperation. A group of cooperative people has a better chance of success than groups where the weaker half are in fear of being trashed by the stronger half. The latter would only discourge the weak from contributing to a system that did not protect them. Thus evolution would tend toward cooperative groups with or without religion. I believe the Golden Rule, 'do unto others as you would have others do unto you' probably preceeds religion by a long shot. In fact, since humans tend to react, then use their brain to justify what they did, I suspect religion was invented to justify the Golden Rule.
Writing perfect software is not possible, even if the software is tested over and over again. Software is written by humans and tested by humans, and until they (we) become perfect, or are replaced by perfect software generators, it isn't going to happen.
"why does time seem to flow into a single direction?"
Doesn't quantum mechanics say that there are random events in the universe, like when will a radioactive nucleus emit a particle? In that case (IMHO), the flow of time is required for the realization, or resolution, of random events. You can't have random events without a 'before' the event and an 'after' the event, the flow of time is from the before to the after.
I understand that the canonical form of Relativity has no variable t. Some say this means that all of time coexists. However, the flow of time is required to resolve all random events, after which all of time can coexist as one big block. Thank God we only experience consciousness in the flow of time, so even if all of time exists at the end of time, at least we will not be left forever experiencing our existence.
For sure, belief that there is a discoverable external reality is definitely a cult.
As a member of that cult I believe things like, if I let go of this unsupported thing I hold in my hand, it will fall to the ground. I worship the gravity god! Just because it keeps happening doesn't mean it will happen next time I do it, my belief is little more than superstition!
My understanding is that many of the people were not 'captured on the battlefield' but in fact were turned in for a reward. How does that impact your conclusion?
Also, your 'end of conflict' has no meaning here since there will never be an end to terror, it is as old as mankind and will exist until the end of days, so your 'end of conflict' release does not exist in a 'war on terror'.
It would seem from your post that you believe it is OK to detain people indefinitely without trial. Is that correct? Do you really believe that people died so that frightened people in this country have that right, to detain people without trial?
As I said in my post, in fact the key point of my post, something your pee brain was apparently unable to process, "Remove the beam from your own eye before worrying about the splinter in your neighbors eye".
Another quote from the Christian mythology: "Judge not lest you be judged"
Why is it that in this so-called 'Christian nation' that me and my athiest friends believe in Jesus' teaching more than the Christians?
"Why do you go so far out of your way..." Wow, clicking on a link and posting a few sentences is "going so far out of [my] way? Figure it out, you are a deluded idiot.
What 'keeps me going' is idiots like you that have trashed this country Mr. Coward.
"Iran should stop executing children" Bad, but we try an increasing number of childern as adults, and states keep lowering the age at which children can be tried as adults.
"Iran hangs three in south-west" We are in good company here, not only do we execute plenty of people, but don't we have the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world?
"Western countries on Thursday voiced concern at the rising number of executions in Iran" Didn't Bush and Texas execute a horrific number in his term as governer?
Most of the rest of the statements on this site are about public hangings. At least they have the honesty to execute people in public, in this country we hide from our executions, so people never really 'know' in a gut sense what they are paying for.
To quote Jesus:(approx.) "Remove the beam from your own eye before you worry about the splinter in your neighbors eye"
what was so awful about mcarthur and patton after WWII and their occupations of germany and japan?
What was that part about hating history? You seem unaware that Patton did not participate in the occupation because he was killed in a vehicle accident soon after the war ended.
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The Y2K fiasco? What was that? Was it a fiasco because programmers had not programmed for 4 digit years, because a lot of money was spent correcting this, or because nothing happened and you interpret this as meaning nothing was going to happen?
These things occur in waves. The Christians had theirs, need I remind you? Nothing stays at the same intensity forever, they rise and fall. The Muslim intensity is raising, the Christian not so much at this period in history.
What idiot moderated this funny?
Global climate change must cause stupidity.
"With the 'default' society with no religion, a system of natural selection would have existed within the tribe. While there may have been stronger individuals within that tribe, the 'religious' societies produced stronger tribes as a whole."
I disagree. Natural selection doesn't mean "strong people beat up weak people", it means things become more efficient at survival. In the case of humans, who only survived in groups, this would mean groups would evolve toward cooperation. A group of cooperative people has a better chance of success than groups where the weaker half are in fear of being trashed by the stronger half. The latter would only discourge the weak from contributing to a system that did not protect them. Thus evolution would tend toward cooperative groups with or without religion. I believe the Golden Rule, 'do unto others as you would have others do unto you' probably preceeds religion by a long shot. In fact, since humans tend to react, then use their brain to justify what they did, I suspect religion was invented to justify the Golden Rule.
Where do we go from here? Surely not keep voting for the 'lesser of two evils' since the 'lesser' is not by much.
Writing perfect software is not possible, even if the software is tested over and over again. Software is written by humans and tested by humans, and until they (we) become perfect, or are replaced by perfect software generators, it isn't going to happen.
"why does time seem to flow into a single direction?"
Doesn't quantum mechanics say that there are random events in the universe, like when will a radioactive nucleus emit a particle? In that case (IMHO), the flow of time is required for the realization, or resolution, of random events. You can't have random events without a 'before' the event and an 'after' the event, the flow of time is from the before to the after.
I understand that the canonical form of Relativity has no variable t. Some say this means that all of time coexists. However, the flow of time is required to resolve all random events, after which all of time can coexist as one big block. Thank God we only experience consciousness in the flow of time, so even if all of time exists at the end of time, at least we will not be left forever experiencing our existence.
For sure, belief that there is a discoverable external reality is definitely a cult.
As a member of that cult I believe things like, if I let go of this unsupported thing I hold in my hand, it will fall to the ground. I worship the gravity god! Just because it keeps happening doesn't mean it will happen next time I do it, my belief is little more than superstition!
Squealing like a stuck pig is hardly an argument, though certainly not unusual.
By the way, the sooner jackasses like you "disappear into a deep, dark hole" the better off the rest of us will be.
My understanding is that many of the people were not 'captured on the battlefield' but in fact were turned in for a reward. How does that impact your conclusion?
Also, your 'end of conflict' has no meaning here since there will never be an end to terror, it is as old as mankind and will exist until the end of days, so your 'end of conflict' release does not exist in a 'war on terror'.
It would seem from your post that you believe it is OK to detain people indefinitely without trial. Is that correct? Do you really believe that people died so that frightened people in this country have that right, to detain people without trial?
Wow, I never had a book that wanted anything, other than to be read!
It stands to reason that if a book wants to be read then it would certainly want to come back into print so it can be read by more people.
As I said in my post, in fact the key point of my post, something your pee brain was apparently unable to process, "Remove the beam from your own eye before worrying about the splinter in your neighbors eye".
Another quote from the Christian mythology: "Judge not lest you be judged"
Why is it that in this so-called 'Christian nation' that me and my athiest friends believe in Jesus' teaching more than the Christians?
"Why do you go so far out of your way..."
Wow, clicking on a link and posting a few sentences is "going so far out of [my] way? Figure it out, you are a deluded idiot.
What 'keeps me going' is idiots like you that have trashed this country Mr. Coward.
From iranfocus.com
"Iran should stop executing children"
Bad, but we try an increasing number of childern as adults, and states keep lowering the age at which children can be tried as adults.
"Iran hangs three in south-west"
We are in good company here, not only do we execute plenty of people, but don't we have the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world?
"Western countries on Thursday voiced concern at the rising number of executions in Iran"
Didn't Bush and Texas execute a horrific number in his term as governer?
Most of the rest of the statements on this site are about public hangings. At least they have the honesty to execute people in public, in this country we hide from our executions, so people never really 'know' in a gut sense what they are paying for.
To quote Jesus:(approx.)
"Remove the beam from your own eye before you worry about the splinter in your neighbors eye"
and the creation of the PC that allowed Microsoft to become successful, so what?
Would you rather have silent eavesdroppers or armed soldiers watching your every move?
And how exactly did you establish that these are the only two alternatives?
that isn't just a lying whore?
and they turn out to be a bad guy, does that make it OK to shoot and kill people at random?
You are clearly a conservative since you need to substitute a platitude for thinking.
On the other hand, I always heard that a conservative was a liberal with a disabling stroke.
Do you have a good definition of "frivolous lawsuit", or is it just one that you don't happen to agree with?
And while you are at it, could you provide some statistics please about just how much they are clogging the courts?
I thought xhtml was the next iteration after html 4, has that been changed?
what was so awful about mcarthur and patton after WWII and their occupations of germany and japan?
What was that part about hating history? You seem unaware that Patton did not participate in the occupation because he was killed in a vehicle accident soon after the war ended.
No, I was just making a joke; considering the state of the world today, we could use a lot of smarter people.
Feeling a need to drag someone down, over a joke?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Think of it this way, if everyone was as smart as you and me, we would just be of average intelligence.