Why do so many atheists feel the need to be smug assholes? What the fuck does it matter to you if he believes in 'an invisible sky wizard'? Why can't you just let people believe what they will, why must you impose your beliefs on other people?
Why do so many theists feel the need to be smug assholes? What the fuck does it matter to you if someone doesn't believe in an invisible sky wizard? Why can't you just let people believe what they will, why must you impose your beliefs on other people?
Does this look like a blaster from Star Wars? Or this? They have heatsink-looking elements and rings, but they would never be confused for a blaster from the Star Wars movies.
There's a difference between adding heatsink-looking elements and rings to a laser's case, and making the style of the case match that of a lightsaber.
Exactly. It's not that it's a laser than can be used as a weapon. It's that the case looks exactly like a lightsaber. All they have to do is change the case design a bit and the C&D request will go away.
If your mental function is that of a 10-year old, which is the case for many adults, such that you cannot figure out a slightly complicated ballot, then you get no vote.
Ok, show me a test that will prove indisputably that a person's mental function is or is not above that of a 10-year old.
And keep in mind, do you mean the 10-year old that has gone to the best school money can buy, or do you mean the 10-year old who has gone to the worst of schools? Do you mean the 10-year old who has been home-schooled by his parents that have no business teaching, or the 10-year old who stays after school for the math club and chess team? You better come up with a test that gives the same answer for all these people.
Once you've got that one solved, can come up with a test to show if someone is un-american? I heard someone wanted to test the members of congress.
Exactly. The point of prosecuting the telecoms isn't to punish the telecoms. It's to force them to tell who in the government ordered them to illegally wiretap US citizens.
Whenever someone proposes giving the government a new power, there's an easy way to test if the government should have that power. Think of the person or people you'd least like to see in power. Then ask yourself if you would like that person or people to have that power.
If you wouldn't want your opposition to have that power, you shouldn't give it to the government, because, sooner or later, your opposition will be in control.
Even if it did, it would be too late to have much of an effect. It would have the effect of setting the precedent that a president and vice president that lie and commit treason will be impeached. That might make future presidents take a second thought when they want to disregard the constitution.
I've had ulcerative colitis, which is similar to Crohn's disease, for almost 10 years now. I spend at least $1000 a year in co-pays for all the medication I take, and that's with pretty good insurance. So, I've spent at least $10,000, just to manage my disease.
What if, the day I went to the ER and was diagnosed, they told me I could be cured for $10,000? Remember, that's the co-pay, the money coming out of my pocket, not the portion the insurance company is covering. Most people wouldn't be able to afford that. It's much easier to get someone to pay a small amount of money over and over again than it is to get them to pay one large sum. But a cure is a one-time thing, and that seriously hurts its profit potential. Heck, I'm 31, the drug companies have decades yet to get money from me.
The problem is that power corrupts. The people implementing these laws
may have the best of intentions, but some day, someone will use these
laws to silence an opponent, for political gain, etc. Any law has the
potential to be abused, but many of the anti-terror laws written
post-9/11 make it far too easy to infringe on an American citizens
constitutional rights while make it far to difficult for that citizen to
fight back.
Mugging, robbery, burglary, prostitution all go hand-in-hand with drug use.
People resort to these things because drugs are so exorbitantly expensive. If drugs were legalized, then you could have a reliable, mainstream source, and the prices would drop drastically. You don't hear about alcoholics and smokers mugging people to get the money to get a fix, do you?
How convenient. A group that is focused on "converting" homosexuals back to heterosexuality claims that homosexuality isn't a permanent condition. Shocking.
If the proportion of the strong to weak force can be other than they are, then that would tend to disprove Intelligent Design.
Your logic is all great, except for this line. Whether or not the proportion can vary tells you nothing about the creation of the universe. Why couldn't God have made the universe such that the proportion could vary, but he set them to the values we see because they're the only ones that would allow life to exist? Sure, it would have been more elegant to create the universe such that the proportions couldn't change, but just because it wasn't done that way doesn't prove that god didn't create it.
Also, nothing can "tend" to disprove a theory. A theory is either proved false or it isn't. It can't be proved 60% false, or most likely false, or probably false because I don't think my god would do it that way.
I mean, how much of our current problems with sexual intercourse in both America and Africa can be attributed directly to a culture of sexual promiscuity? And how much of those problems can really be solved by moving to "sexual promiscuity with a condom on top"?
A great majority of them would be solved. If everyone simply used a condom whenever they had sex, unwanted pregnancy and the transmission of AIDS and many other STDs would almost complete cease.
You want to try to convince people sex is dirty and they shouldn't do it? At least give them the tools so they can live long enough for you to pound those ideas into their heads.
Where did the aliens come from? Did life start on their planet, or did another alien species create them, too? Eventually you have to get back to the first occurrence of life. And the question still remains, did that first occurrence of life evolve into the alien species, or were they created by some higher being? If those first aliens were create by a higher being, then your version of ID requires some supreme being. Therefore ID==creationism.
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Why do so many atheists feel the need to be smug assholes? What the fuck does it matter to you if he believes in 'an invisible sky wizard'? Why can't you just let people believe what they will, why must you impose your beliefs on other people?
Why do so many theists feel the need to be smug assholes? What the fuck does it matter to you if someone doesn't believe in an invisible sky wizard? Why can't you just let people believe what they will, why must you impose your beliefs on other people?
And that justifies bringing bullshit charges against him, simply to intimidate him and the public in general, how?
Does this look like a blaster from Star Wars? Or this? They have heatsink-looking elements and rings, but they would never be confused for a blaster from the Star Wars movies.
There's a difference between adding heatsink-looking elements and rings to a laser's case, and making the style of the case match that of a lightsaber.
Exactly. It's not that it's a laser than can be used as a weapon. It's that the case looks exactly like a lightsaber. All they have to do is change the case design a bit and the C&D request will go away.
When did being educated and being able to think and reason for yourself become elitist?
If your mental function is that of a 10-year old, which is the case for many adults, such that you cannot figure out a slightly complicated ballot, then you get no vote.
Ok, show me a test that will prove indisputably that a person's mental function is or is not above that of a 10-year old.
And keep in mind, do you mean the 10-year old that has gone to the best school money can buy, or do you mean the 10-year old who has gone to the worst of schools? Do you mean the 10-year old who has been home-schooled by his parents that have no business teaching, or the 10-year old who stays after school for the math club and chess team? You better come up with a test that gives the same answer for all these people.
Once you've got that one solved, can come up with a test to show if someone is un-american? I heard someone wanted to test the members of congress.
They had to be destroyed.
Because well know no government official would ever ignore a court order.
Exactly. The point of prosecuting the telecoms isn't to punish the telecoms. It's to force them to tell who in the government ordered them to illegally wiretap US citizens.
My goldfish is smarter than my president.
There's your problem.
Exactly. How do people not understand this?
Whenever someone proposes giving the government a new power, there's an easy way to test if the government should have that power. Think of the person or people you'd least like to see in power. Then ask yourself if you would like that person or people to have that power.
If you wouldn't want your opposition to have that power, you shouldn't give it to the government, because, sooner or later, your opposition will be in control.
I've had ulcerative colitis, which is similar to Crohn's disease, for almost 10 years now. I spend at least $1000 a year in co-pays for all the medication I take, and that's with pretty good insurance. So, I've spent at least $10,000, just to manage my disease.
What if, the day I went to the ER and was diagnosed, they told me I could be cured for $10,000? Remember, that's the co-pay, the money coming out of my pocket, not the portion the insurance company is covering. Most people wouldn't be able to afford that. It's much easier to get someone to pay a small amount of money over and over again than it is to get them to pay one large sum. But a cure is a one-time thing, and that seriously hurts its profit potential. Heck, I'm 31, the drug companies have decades yet to get money from me.
The problem is that power corrupts. The people implementing these laws may have the best of intentions, but some day, someone will use these laws to silence an opponent, for political gain, etc. Any law has the potential to be abused, but many of the anti-terror laws written post-9/11 make it far too easy to infringe on an American citizens constitutional rights while make it far to difficult for that citizen to fight back.
And for all that, Al Gore still would have been a million times better than gw.
How convenient. A group that is focused on "converting" homosexuals back to heterosexuality claims that homosexuality isn't a permanent condition. Shocking.
Women can't be gay?
Also, nothing can "tend" to disprove a theory. A theory is either proved false or it isn't. It can't be proved 60% false, or most likely false, or probably false because I don't think my god would do it that way.
You want to try to convince people sex is dirty and they shouldn't do it? At least give them the tools so they can live long enough for you to pound those ideas into their heads.
Where did the aliens come from? Did life start on their planet, or did another alien species create them, too? Eventually you have to get back to the first occurrence of life. And the question still remains, did that first occurrence of life evolve into the alien species, or were they created by some higher being? If those first aliens were create by a higher being, then your version of ID requires some supreme being. Therefore ID==creationism.