Its not small like a typo or misspelling an uncommon word. It makes it look like the poster never reads, but only learns English from the spoken word. Definitely uncouth and affects his credibility.
that should mean that the farthest objects we can see should be 6,000 or less light years away.
Don't be silly. God created the universe with the light already in place between the stars, so we could behold the wonder of His creation. This is easy for a being who can create a world with fossilised bones in place to test our faith.
How can you hope to disprove a magical being with tricks of science and logic?
Mod parent informative. Breast-fed baby poo smells very nice. Hold off on solids as long as you can:) Some of the surprises in parenthood are actually pleasant.
Just goes to show how badly proper education is needed there.
If only it were that simple. this is Africa - even the school-teachers believe that sort of thing. Thabo Mbeki, educated in London, still goes around saying AIDS is not caused by a virus. Normal for sub-Saharan Africa, sadly.
Yes, the UK church still claims to be Catholic, just without recognising any authority outside the island that might stop the king from getting a divorce.
The Kurds were very appreciative of the 1990 gulf war, and quite happy with the sanctions and no-fly zones that were working perfectly well, thankyou very much. Nothing was gained by the 2003 invasion.
you are trying to indicate that Christianity is as bad as Islam.
No, I commented on the pointlessness of quoting scripture. You can't say that Muslims are evil because the Koran is evil, and then ignore the evil in the bible. Yes, Christians have mellowed and are no longer as evil as Muslims. But that is in spite of the Bible, not because of it. You do not have to look back far in history for some competition in the brutal violence stakes.
Yes, Arabs have a tendency to violence, and most of them are Muslim, but correlation is not evidence of causality. Middle-Eastern terrorism was for a long time secular, e.g. notably George Habash, PFLP founder and the first Arab hijacker, was Christian. The rise of Islamism is more recent. Its bad, but things were not rosy in the secular Middle East either (Saddam Husein, Hosni Mubarak,... )
If there be found among you,... hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them,... Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman,... and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
No amount of careful reasoning about the myriad of ways that a human being can easily die seemed to penetrate the cloak of their minds
I'd guess they had no argument with the point, but disagree on the relevance.
and one of my finer points that if you ban guns, people may resort to homemade bombs
Comparing the death toll here to Sandy Hook hardly supports your argument. Maybe they are not the ones with the cloaked mind? Making bombs is not as quick or easy as buying a gun.
During the same hour, thousands died violently across the country in unrelated run of the mill events...
Good grief you have an apocalyptic view of the US. The average per hour is something like 1 or 2 murders, 4 motor vehicle deaths, a few suicides, falls, poisoning,... Not even tens of violent deaths, let alone thousands. Do you watch a lot of television by any chance?
I don't think this is the work of North Korea, but it wouldn't be too surprising if it was. Although, if it was I expect they would be taking some credit for it.
A country that has launched a satellite and tested nuclear weapons? I think they'd be way too embarrassed to take credit for a home-made shrapnel bomb. You might as well blame N Korea for your missing socks.
Because the damage and death toll is vanishingly small compared to the deaths caused by unpublicized crime during the same five minute period in the rest of the country?
Actually, it is more like a few hours' worth of typical nationwide crime. Of course most criminals don't want the publicity, but the Boston Marathon is a world-famous event. The media are giving the perpetrators the publicity they desire, because all they care about is page clicks, ratings and copies sold. Standy by for copy-cat bombings now.
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if they take the phone they need to take your index finger too?
Maybe you have been watching too much TV. The article is about the US, not Jamaica or the Congo.
Its not small like a typo or misspelling an uncommon word. It makes it look like the poster never reads, but only learns English from the spoken word.
Definitely uncouth and affects his credibility.
Don't we always say here, "obscuring is not securing"?
that should mean that the farthest objects we can see should be 6,000 or less light years away.
Don't be silly. God created the universe with the light already in place between the stars, so we could behold the wonder of His creation.
This is easy for a being who can create a world with fossilised bones in place to test our faith.
How can you hope to disprove a magical being with tricks of science and logic?
Mod parent informative. Breast-fed baby poo smells very nice. Hold off on solids as long as you can :)
Some of the surprises in parenthood are actually pleasant.
That sounds like a US perspective? Atheism is often the norm in more educated people in other developed countries.
Just goes to show how badly proper education is needed there.
If only it were that simple. this is Africa - even the school-teachers believe that sort of thing.
Thabo Mbeki, educated in London, still goes around saying AIDS is not caused by a virus. Normal for sub-Saharan Africa, sadly.
Believers are more likely to be less intelligent, which may reduce the risk of depression.
UK and catholic ? Really ?
Yes, the UK church still claims to be Catholic, just without recognising any authority outside the island that might stop the king from getting a divorce.
if it weren't for the French, you would be writing English.
The Canadians might disagree with the implication that they are English, or somehow enslaved because they did not violently secede.
Do you know a country where they don't play by their own rules?
Iraq and Tibet come to mind.
I got the feeling the Kurds actually liked us.
The Kurds were very appreciative of the 1990 gulf war, and quite happy with the sanctions and no-fly zones that were working perfectly well, thankyou very much.
Nothing was gained by the 2003 invasion.
This is the United States, where even innocent clients are advised by their lawyers to take a plea bargain.
Awesome. I usually prefer to settle an argument with superior logic, but with conspiracy nutters that is pointless, so Buzz did the next best thing.
another Islamist suicide bomber kills 20 at a Peshawar political rally.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-97057-Peshawar:-Blast-near-ANP-rally-kills-17,-injures-60
while Pakistan condemns the latest US drone killings.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/16/298603/pakistan-condemns-us-drone-attack/
Unless Wikileaks gets the footage, it will never make the TV news though.
you are trying to indicate that Christianity is as bad as Islam.
No, I commented on the pointlessness of quoting scripture. You can't say that Muslims are evil because the Koran is evil, and then ignore the evil in the bible.
Yes, Christians have mellowed and are no longer as evil as Muslims. But that is in spite of the Bible, not because of it.
You do not have to look back far in history for some competition in the brutal violence stakes.
Yes, Arabs have a tendency to violence, and most of them are Muslim, but correlation is not evidence of causality. ... )
Middle-Eastern terrorism was for a long time secular, e.g. notably George Habash, PFLP founder and the first Arab hijacker, was Christian.
The rise of Islamism is more recent. Its bad, but things were not rosy in the secular Middle East either (Saddam Husein, Hosni Mubarak,
Deuteronomy 17
If there be found among you, ... hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them,... Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, ... and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Anybody can quote scripture.
No amount of careful reasoning about the myriad of ways that a human being can easily die seemed to penetrate the cloak of their minds
I'd guess they had no argument with the point, but disagree on the relevance.
and one of my finer points that if you ban guns, people may resort to homemade bombs
Comparing the death toll here to Sandy Hook hardly supports your argument. Maybe they are not the ones with the cloaked mind? Making bombs is not as quick or easy as buying a gun.
During the same hour, thousands died violently across the country in unrelated run of the mill events ...
Good grief you have an apocalyptic view of the US. The average per hour is something like 1 or 2 murders, 4 motor vehicle deaths, a few suicides, falls, poisoning, ...
Not even tens of violent deaths, let alone thousands. Do you watch a lot of television by any chance?
Woosh. IRA terrorists received a lot of funding from the US and the Boston area in particular. The Loyalists have not forgotten.
I don't think this is the work of North Korea, but it wouldn't be too surprising if it was. Although, if it was I expect they would be taking some credit for it.
A country that has launched a satellite and tested nuclear weapons? I think they'd be way too embarrassed to take credit for a home-made shrapnel bomb.
You might as well blame N Korea for your missing socks.
Aren't there 17 explosions in Iraq every Monday?
No, its usually on a Friday, when the Mosques are most crowded. Monday might be news.
Because the damage and death toll is vanishingly small compared to the deaths caused by unpublicized crime during the same five minute period in the rest of the country?
Actually, it is more like a few hours' worth of typical nationwide crime.
Of course most criminals don't want the publicity, but the Boston Marathon is a world-famous event.
The media are giving the perpetrators the publicity they desire, because all they care about is page clicks, ratings and copies sold.
Standy by for copy-cat bombings now.
I'm confused - why do they call it Patriots Day, when it honors the rebels of 1775? Isn't that the opposite of patriotism?
an islamic rocket scientist tries to calculate an ballistic missile trajectory?
No such thing. All rocket scientists are Jews. Fortunately for them, Iran still has a few.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews