Only for semantically absurd definitions of "disbelieve". You mistake "There is absolutely no reasonable cause to believe" as "actively believe the opposite", and it reflects an incredibly small minded perception of human thought. Put mathematically, the set of things that are not true is much larger than the set of things that are true, and it's more reasonable, barring evidence, to place ideas in the former rather than the latter.
So "I'm argument" is that I've read many interpretations of many of the "original texts" and they tend towards nonsensical, and definitely unrelated. It'd be like saying Sun Tzu's Art of War was fundementally the same as Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. If it weren't a religious argument, it would literally be deemed crazy.
So, picking an arbitrary book from an arbitrary time in it's history is now the secret to understanding everything. Certainly not the conjunction of observation, scientific method, inductive reasoning, and inference. Nope, sufficiently old books are magic. And you can pretend they're aaaaaaaaaaaallll the same, and that makes them even better.
Trolling people who are easy to troll is the whole point of trolling. Also, I love that the definition of enlightened is apparently "caring excessively much about proper pluralization".
If someone is going to argue that something is untrue, and there is an understood interpretation of words that makes it true, they are being obstinate. Such semantics should only be argued when someone is holding 2 mutually exclusive definitions at once.
For example, the value being higher than a Yen shouldn't be a surprise, because there's no common foundation in value. There are simply more Yen than bitcoin. There's no reason to compare the value of an individual piece of currency against another, only the changes over time.
A bitcoin is also worth more than a penny. Why do we treat the dollar as the base unit for comparison there?
Make sure that users of your open source project are not even able to find out what attack vector exists on their systems. They should languish in the hopes that your team will fix it before malicious hackers figure out what it was. From the code they already checked out.
Like how the Vedas make reference to the redemption of sin. Or the Torah makes reference to the illusion of reality. Or the Qur'an suggesting the existence of karma.
Wait, no, those are all very different religious books, and your false certainty doesn't make you any more right.
If you visited the link you'd see that the wording was "literal and inerrant." I don't think there's a colloquial misunderstanding of the word inerrant.
They wouldn't say anything, because the existence of something we'd call a god doesn't necessitate an afterlife, and he'd still be dead? What you're really trying to say is "What if a particular sect of a particular branch of a particular religion has exactly the correct interpretation of the nature of the universe, and you were faced with the consequences thereof?" To which the inevitable question is "Which one?" That would dramatically influence my perspective.
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Only for semantically absurd definitions of "disbelieve". You mistake "There is absolutely no reasonable cause to believe" as "actively believe the opposite", and it reflects an incredibly small minded perception of human thought. Put mathematically, the set of things that are not true is much larger than the set of things that are true, and it's more reasonable, barring evidence, to place ideas in the former rather than the latter.
And, that, is completely indistinguishable from an atheistic opinion. Atheism just means not actively supporting bad hypotheses on religious grounds.
The Kids In The Hall at least managed jokes and funny situations occasionally. At Slashdot, tedium is the new humor.
At least it protects you from reading the rest of the april fools jokes.
So "I'm argument" is that I've read many interpretations of many of the "original texts" and they tend towards nonsensical, and definitely unrelated. It'd be like saying Sun Tzu's Art of War was fundementally the same as Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. If it weren't a religious argument, it would literally be deemed crazy.
So, picking an arbitrary book from an arbitrary time in it's history is now the secret to understanding everything. Certainly not the conjunction of observation, scientific method, inductive reasoning, and inference. Nope, sufficiently old books are magic. And you can pretend they're aaaaaaaaaaaallll the same, and that makes them even better.
Trolling people who are easy to troll is the whole point of trolling. Also, I love that the definition of enlightened is apparently "caring excessively much about proper pluralization".
If it weren't for the fact that everything you just said was factually untrue, you might have a point!
fascist.
Think a lot of people would have been more OK with Hitler if he were gassing spammers and not Jews.
Actually, the mass of an electron is: 9.10938291(40)×10^31 kg :-)
I think you might have missed a minus sign there. Unless the Sun is an electron.
Not sure you read the summary. Read it again. The $1 billion worth of Bitcoins is more the entire currency stock of several small countries.
I did re-read it, look at my post from 24 minutes prior to yours.
Hey, I acknowledged my mistake quite before this post. I don't see the need for pointless hostility.
If someone is going to argue that something is untrue, and there is an understood interpretation of words that makes it true, they are being obstinate. Such semantics should only be argued when someone is holding 2 mutually exclusive definitions at once.
Oh, you're right. That is quite serious then.
A transistor is a computer. It just computes exactly one function on exactly one set of inputs. It's a simple finite state machine.
I've made up my mind. I'm going to create a computer virus strain called "virii" just to troll people like you.
For example, the value being higher than a Yen shouldn't be a surprise, because there's no common foundation in value. There are simply more Yen than bitcoin. There's no reason to compare the value of an individual piece of currency against another, only the changes over time.
A bitcoin is also worth more than a penny. Why do we treat the dollar as the base unit for comparison there?
Make sure that users of your open source project are not even able to find out what attack vector exists on their systems. They should languish in the hopes that your team will fix it before malicious hackers figure out what it was. From the code they already checked out.
Obscurity will protect everyone.
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Like how the Vedas make reference to the redemption of sin. Or the Torah makes reference to the illusion of reality. Or the Qur'an suggesting the existence of karma.
Wait, no, those are all very different religious books, and your false certainty doesn't make you any more right.
If you visited the link you'd see that the wording was "literal and inerrant." I don't think there's a colloquial misunderstanding of the word inerrant.
That is literally something Microsoft did years ago. What?
God is cholesterol? Good to know. "Diets high in soluble fiber shown to reduce God".
You should know that false certainty doesn't actually make your beliefs accurate.
The dry wit, perhaps? Hard to match the exact tone of a Randi joke. Not impossible, but certainly evidence against an imposter.
They wouldn't say anything, because the existence of something we'd call a god doesn't necessitate an afterlife, and he'd still be dead? What you're really trying to say is "What if a particular sect of a particular branch of a particular religion has exactly the correct interpretation of the nature of the universe, and you were faced with the consequences thereof?" To which the inevitable question is "Which one?" That would dramatically influence my perspective.