No, it's not that if you're are religious you have a brain disorder. I believe that every human brain works more poorly than people think. People believe that their perceptions are accurate representations of reality. So when they think they see a ghost, or blood flowing over their vision or other weirdness of perception they assume supernatural causes.
I had some experiences a few years ago which left me doubting my perceptions of reality and mistrusting my thinking about the simplest things. Talking with a friend later he said that it sounded like I had a schizophrenic episode.
Just the fact that you can have very realistic dreams which at the time seem real, but which upon later, rational, consideration were obviously dreams should lead people to realize that their perceptions and their brains can play tricks on them. These issues are why science doesn't rely on a single individual's unrepeatable perceptions.
If I were to claim the same claims about myself that people make about Jesus, everyone would assume I was lying or crazy. So why do they believe such things about Jesus?
Only to muslims and jews? What about christians and hindus and such?
Hell, they're all off their rocker. I understand that they can't think clearly because human brains don't work as well as we'd like to think they do, but that should make them realize that when they think they see ghosts and angels and such that it's just their brains failing...
The only religious people I respect are the Pastafarians, but I'm not so sure about the angel-hairetics.
Well, these days in the U.S. the Christians seem much more willing to tell other people how they should live their lives than Jewish or other people. Maybe that's just because they are more in control, and if the Jews were in control they'd be just as bad. Besides, I was responding to someone talking all about marketing.
By definition, you can't do bad things and be a Christian
I've never heard that before. I'm not sure that there are a lot of Christian theologians that would agree with that. Part of what I understand about Christian values is the importance of forgiveness.
Regardless, I figure anyone who believes in a theistic god to be delusional.
I love how "Christians" aren't Christians when they are doing something that makes Christians look bad, regardless of whether there's support for it in the "good book".
This article just made me realize that my neighbors can see the front of my house and even know when I leave and come back.
Oh, my privacy! We need to outlaw neighbors...
On the other hand, when I forget to close my garage door, one of the neighbors will probably keep an eye on the place to make sure no one walks off with stuff, and may even walk over and close it for me. Nice thing about having neighbors where you know their names...
Yes, but you have to realize that us Americans can't handle switching to the much simpler metric system, don't believe in evolution, believe Jesus is going to come and rapture us in the next 50 years, and we elected Bush and then reelected him after we knew what we were getting.
So thinking we could handle currency where different denominations were different sizes is a bit of a stretch.
However, whenever I get one of those warnings, I at least look to see why. And I'm certainly more likely to care about an error with one of the big providers than with some site I expect is too cheap to but a real cert.
While I wasn't born in 'this day and age' (1967), I'm the 6th of 6, so I'm glad that my Mom had that many at least. She was able to support us and send 4/6 of us to Stanford and the others to other 4 year universities. Now, 40-55 years ago, I don't think population pressures were as widely felt as they are today, but I still feel that people _can_ be a useful natural resource, as well as a source of problems and resource depletion.
But doesn't follow the spec and reject on fail:-( So I'm not sure what value that is, and I'm not sure if google forms a bias against spam from my domain, even though it's verifiable that the spam is a forgery and that my domain had nothing to do about it.
Other lameness are domains like hotmail.com and aol.com which publish records which indicate you shouldn't reject mail claiming to be from them from servers that they don't control. (soft-fail or neutral results).
I don't feel that everyone who disagrees with me is stupid. I feel that people who can't form a logically coherent argument, nor communicate clearly aren't worth wasting my limited time on.
That said, I'll waste a little time and point out that you friend probably wore 'black', not 'back', and that Jesus probably responded with something like 'thou' not 'though'.
Funny but in the bible when Jesus was being tested by Satan he was asked to throw himself from a high building. His reply was though shall not put the Lord thy God to the test.
It's also funny how religions always seem to have little caveats that make them immune from testing. I think that's why the old religions that explained the world in terms of sun and rain gods died out. The new ones are 'smarter' than that; they only make 'predictions' about things which are untestable.
No, the embryo doesn't have a soul. Neither do you nor I. And if you did, what would it matter? If the group of 8 or 32 or 128 cells that the 'eternal soul' is inhabiting is destroyed, doesn't the soul go straight to heaven (do not pass hell, do not suffer for eternity)? Talking about an eternal soul is as idiotic as someone who believes in "god having a plan for their life" looking both ways before crossing the street.
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Well, I do try to be civil (and hopefully clear) when I'm calling people wack-jobs
No, it's not that if you're are religious you have a brain disorder. I believe that every human brain works more poorly than people think. People believe that their perceptions are accurate representations of reality. So when they think they see a ghost, or blood flowing over their vision or other weirdness of perception they assume supernatural causes.
I had some experiences a few years ago which left me doubting my perceptions of reality and mistrusting my thinking about the simplest things. Talking with a friend later he said that it sounded like I had a schizophrenic episode.
Just the fact that you can have very realistic dreams which at the time seem real, but which upon later, rational, consideration were obviously dreams should lead people to realize that their perceptions and their brains can play tricks on them. These issues are why science doesn't rely on a single individual's unrepeatable perceptions.
If I were to claim the same claims about myself that people make about Jesus, everyone would assume I was lying or crazy. So why do they believe such things about Jesus?
That's funny, my NeXTWorld Expo 1990(?) T-shirt just went thru the wash and I was wondering if I'd get anything for it on eBay :-)
The First Event for the NeXT Generation!
Only to muslims and jews? What about christians and hindus and such?
Hell, they're all off their rocker. I understand that they can't think clearly because human brains don't work as well as we'd like to think they do, but that should make them realize that when they think they see ghosts and angels and such that it's just their brains failing...
The only religious people I respect are the Pastafarians, but I'm not so sure about the angel-hairetics.
Besides, I was responding to someone talking all about marketing.
Aw crap, ^marketing^christians^. (Never have a conversation with your wife about her MBA class while trying to write a post on slashdot)
Why aren't you decrying the Jews?
Well, these days in the U.S. the Christians seem much more willing to tell other people how they should live their lives than Jewish or other people. Maybe that's just because they are more in control, and if the Jews were in control they'd be just as bad. Besides, I was responding to someone talking all about marketing.
By definition, you can't do bad things and be a Christian
I've never heard that before. I'm not sure that there are a lot of Christian theologians that would agree with that. Part of what I understand about Christian values is the importance of forgiveness.
Regardless, I figure anyone who believes in a theistic god to be delusional.
Didn't Jesus say something about fulfilling every jot and title of the old testament?
http://www.keyway.ca/htm2005/20050805.htm
I love how "Christians" aren't Christians when they are doing something that makes Christians look bad, regardless of whether there's support for it in the "good book".
This article just made me realize that my neighbors can see the front of my house and even know when I leave and come back.
Oh, my privacy! We need to outlaw neighbors...
On the other hand, when I forget to close my garage door, one of the neighbors will probably keep an eye on the place to make sure no one walks off with stuff, and may even walk over and close it for me. Nice thing about having neighbors where you know their names...
I got my networked laser printer, supporting Postscript for ~$500USD about 3.5 years ago. I imagine you can get even cheaper ones these days.
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Most DVI connectors include both VGA as well as the DVI digital signals.
Yes, but you have to realize that us Americans can't handle switching to the much simpler metric system, don't believe in evolution, believe Jesus is going to come and rapture us in the next 50 years, and we elected Bush and then reelected him after we knew what we were getting. So thinking we could handle currency where different denominations were different sizes is a bit of a stretch.
Google really should fix that. They are redirecting from http://google.com/adsense to https://google.com/adsense, but they should be redirecting to https://www.google.com/adsense.
However, whenever I get one of those warnings, I at least look to see why. And I'm certainly more likely to care about an error with one of the big providers than with some site I expect is too cheap to but a real cert.
Oh Crap, forgot to check "Post Anonymously" Doh!
Searching for 'worst president ever' doesn't link to the whitehouse's biography of Bush anymore...
Yeah, if the molecule was developed at UCI, it would make the Zot! sound
Exercise and eating right to extend your life.
Sigh.
While I wasn't born in 'this day and age' (1967), I'm the 6th of 6, so I'm glad that my Mom had that many at least. She was able to support us and send 4/6 of us to Stanford and the others to other 4 year universities. Now, 40-55 years ago, I don't think population pressures were as widely felt as they are today, but I still feel that people _can_ be a useful natural resource, as well as a source of problems and resource depletion.
It remains to be seen what his 7 kids will be.
But doesn't follow the spec and reject on fail
So I'm not sure what value that is, and I'm not sure if google forms a bias against spam from my domain, even though it's verifiable that the spam is a forgery and that my domain had nothing to do about it.
Other lameness are domains like hotmail.com and aol.com which publish records which indicate you shouldn't reject mail claiming to be from them from servers that they don't control. (soft-fail or neutral results).
I don't feel that everyone who disagrees with me is stupid. I feel that people who can't form a logically coherent argument, nor communicate clearly aren't worth wasting my limited time on.
That said, I'll waste a little time and point out that you friend probably wore 'black', not 'back', and that Jesus probably responded with something like 'thou' not 'though'.
Funny but in the bible when Jesus was being tested by Satan he was asked to throw himself from a high building. His reply was though shall not put the Lord thy God to the test.
It's also funny how religions always seem to have little caveats that make them immune from testing. I think that's why the old religions that explained the world in terms of sun and rain gods died out. The new ones are 'smarter' than that; they only make 'predictions' about things which are untestable.
One of the best slashdot posts I've read.
No, the embryo doesn't have a soul. Neither do you nor I.
And if you did, what would it matter? If the group of 8 or 32 or 128 cells that the 'eternal soul' is inhabiting is destroyed, doesn't the soul go straight to heaven (do not pass hell, do not suffer for eternity)? Talking about an eternal soul is as idiotic as someone who believes in "god having a plan for their life" looking both ways before crossing the street.
So, is that a yes or a no? :-)
Yeah, this is HARM. :-)