Some people believe in Fairing, Gnomes, Santa Clause, Boogieman.
Most Harley hogs have fairings. Gnomes are those little concrete casted statues. Boogiemen? The boogie man is a racist slur from the '50s, and in fact a boogie woogie musician is the boogieman. From the more modern useage of the term, there are indeed boogiemen.
As to Santa Claus, when my youngest was about four, she asked me if Santa was real. I said "Of course -- I'm Santa Claus." She skeptically said "No you're not." I said "yes I am -- I'm your Santa Clause." Every parent is Santa.
A plume of toxic fallout floated to the U.S. after Japanâ(TM)s tragic Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found radiation levels in air, water and milk that were hundreds of times higher than normal across the United States. One month later, the EPA announced that radiation levels had declined, and they would cease testing. But after making a Freedom of Information Act request, journalist Lucas Hixson published emails revealing that on March 24, 2011, the task of collecting nuclear data had been handed off from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the Nuclear Energy Institute, a nuclear industry lobbying group. And in one study that got little attention, scientists Joseph Mangano and Jeanette Sherman found that in the period following the Fukushima meltdowns, 14,000 more deaths than average were reported in the U.S., mostly among infants. Later, Mangono and Sherman updated the number to 22,000.
Indeed they did; I've had a W7 notebook for a year and it hasn't pissed me off enough to install Linux yet. W7 really is head and shoulders above previous MS OSes, but it still hasn't caught up with Linux.
And sadly, half of all gays have attempted suicide. Personally, I pity my gay friends. How can one "back up with facts" the absense of proof of something? Absense of proof is not proof of absence. Unless you have experienced God ("be delusional" according to you) the only rational belief is agnosticism.
No, you are born as intelligent as you will ever be. It's all downhill from there. Everything from chemicals to injury will decrease intelligence, which you are confusing with education.
On the other hand, you are born more ignorant than you will ever be -- you are born knowing absolutely nothing except how to suck a tit.
You confuse ignorance with stupidity. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge, stupidity is the lack of ability to learn.
That said, I'm getting less intelligent and less ignorant, both at once, all the time. all the time
A secular charity is not an athiest charity. None of those seven are athiest charities. Note, I don't posit that athiest can be generous, many athiests I know are indeed generous.
Homosexuals don't generally have a driving urge to make everyone else into homosexuals
Then why do gays hit on me even when they know I'm straight?
or to run governments under homosexual principles
I don't quite understand, what are "homosexual principles"? If the religious wanted to run our government under Christian, Jewish, or Muslim principles they would be stumping for outlawing adultery.
Why are you so sure? Last Wednesday a friend threw her lesbian roommate out, who wound up staying at my house for the last week. Despite the fact that she was an avowed lesbian, she seduced me. That doesn't seem so verifiable to me.
As to "not", if you ever have a religious experience (not likely of course) you will change.
I would never accept a theocracy. Religious law should only apply to the religious. And theology should stay out of the classroom, except perhaps in a philosophy class where all religions and philosophies would be given equal time.
And I don't give a fuck what any damned bigot thinks of me.
Interesting. I went from W3.1 to W95 to W98 to XP, each "upgrade" slowed it down. When I went from W98 to XP the install screen stated that it would run faster, but it ran slower -- but I had just reinstalled W98. The thing is, Windows (at least the ones I used) gets slower with time, probably because of the registry. I've talked to people who routinely reinstall the version of Windows they have for a speedup. I've had a W7 notebook for about a year, it's starting to slightly slow, so it's pretty obvious that MS is getting better at writing OSes.
I skipped Vista, but I did work on a Vista laptop for a friend who had ignorantly installed three different AV products. Of course, that brought the poor machine to its knees, but after uninstalling two of the three AVs it was pretty snappy.
If you've had your Windows OS installed for a couple of years, yes, an upgrade might speed it up -- but so will reinstalling the same OS.
Did you forget about the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition?
No, the crusaders and Spanish unquisitors forgot what Christ actually taught. They were like a pork-eating Muslim beheading someone for not being Muslim. The crusaders and inquisitors were exactly like the hipocritic Jews who insisted on Jesus being crucified.
The popes and Spaniards of the time were abusing their power. They may well have been secret athiests -- there are a lot of them in churches everywhere. I know one woman who calls herself a Catholic but states that God can't possibly exist. I can't figure that one out, how can one be both athiest and Catholic?
Does there exist two time frames of reference such that 13.7 billions years can pass for one while only 7 days can pass for the other.
Yes. Ever heard of Einstein's theory of relativity? The faster you go, the faster time goes (and this was tested and shown not false). Get near enough to the speed of light and 13 billion years may well be seven days.
That's all well and good, now how do we get my fellow citizens to stop voting for idiots that believe that... the US is a Christian nation
As a Christian, all I can say is I wish I knew. I don't believe those politicians really believe that, and I don't even believe that they believe, but that they're simply pandering.
As to the US being a Christian nation, I don't see how anyone can believe that. It's obvious to me that the vast majority of Americans worship money (the sin God hates more than any other sin).
Stamping out a biological diferences is very different from stamping out ignorance!
A 15th century man comes home to England from Africa and tells tales of elephants. Nobody believes him. Who is ignorant? You are telling me that something I have experienced does not exist. That is just foolishness. You have to have a great deal of faith to be so sure that there is no god, since there is no evidence one way or another (unless you have been touched by God).
Do you still believe the world is 6,000 years old?
I never did believe the world is 6000 years old, and in fact the "6000 year old universe" is not a tenet of Christianity and is obviously false. I have never met a single person who believed that, but I've met a whole lot of ignorant athiests who are certain that Christians do, despite being told otherwise repeatedly.
Stupidity is the bi-product of ignorance.
You're showing your ignorance of the meaning of both those words. Ignorance is not knowing. Stupidity is not being able to learn. If you still believe that Christians think the world is 6000 years old, despite being repeatedly told otherwise by Christians themselves, that is an indication of an inability to learn.
It tells me if someone makes a simple mistake one can condemn them and their descendants to misery.
You misunderstand -- the warning to Adam was just that: a warning. Adam was warned that the fruit was poison, that if he ate it he would die. It wasn't the "tree of knowledge," it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you never know evil you can never know good.
It was the tree of pain and death, and the knowledge that comes from knowing pain and death.
after all why would a powerful and loving god not provide for all of his creation whether or not they believed in that god.
It wasn't that they didn't believe in him, it was that they worshiped other gods, and God is a jealous god. Having someone worship a different god was to God like your wife fucking another man.
This had to be done by a infinitely cruel god since there were a lot of other ways that god could have handled the problem that did not involve killing a lot of people.
Everybody dies, thanks to that idiot Adam who fucked up his DNA with the poison fruit. And consider this: you are to a self-portrait what God is to you. Do you not have the right to destroy that painting? Especially if it didn't turn out quite as good as you expected?
DNA sequencing are proving that Adam and Eve never existed
Adam and Eve were merely the first great apes to become sentient. The bible doesn't say what steps God took to create them.
Technically speaking religion is a belief and homosexuality is a sexual orientation. There's a difference between being born with a sexual attraction to the same sex and thinking that magic underwear makes you pure.
Like almost all things biological, sexual orientation is most likely part genetics, part environment. But for most Christians, it isn't just a belief, it's as plain as the fact that the sky is dark at night.
Hatred is bigorty, and Dawkins quite apparently hates religion with a fiery passion. That's bigotry.
I find the argument carries as much weight as it would if you tried to tell me someone who says that whole wheat bread is more nutritious than white bread is bigoted.
I would call someone who denigrates someone who eats white bread as a bigot, especially if that person hated me for eating white bread. Dawkins hates religion, and that hatred is what makes him a bigot.
Now that we have more advanced justice systems than "And eye for an eye; tooth for a tooth." is it time to put those old teachings to behind us
We Christians did that 2000 years ago. Our religion says love your enemies as you do your friends, forgive everyone who harms you, if you're punched in the face, turn the other cheek. It says he who lives by the weapon, dies by the weapon. It is a religion of love.
Forgiveness is the very heart of Christianity. The "eye for an eye" was the old covenant, Christ brought a new covenant.
That was indeed a very good read. Although it's been over 20 years since I read it, though, I don't remember anything about math. It was mostle internal politics at DEC and differing design philosophies.
See if you were on Windows 8! Your computer would of ran faster and you would of gotten that first post!
You have to W8 'til tomorrow for Windows 8. Fat chance of a 1st post then!
Joking aside, if W8 makes your PC faster than W7 that would certainly be a first for Microsoft, although we Linux users are use to upgrades making our PCs faster rather than slower.
So is your understanding of what your own dictionary says. "Bigotry 'a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices'".
Sounds like Dawkins to me. And you, to, if I may say so.
Your belief that there can be no god despite any evidence whatever takes a lot of faith. Without indication one way or another, the only logical conclusion is agnosticism. However, many of us have had such an indication.
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Some people believe in Fairing, Gnomes, Santa Clause, Boogieman.
Most Harley hogs have fairings. Gnomes are those little concrete casted statues. Boogiemen? The boogie man is a racist slur from the '50s, and in fact a boogie woogie musician is the boogieman. From the more modern useage of the term, there are indeed boogiemen.
As to Santa Claus, when my youngest was about four, she asked me if Santa was real. I said "Of course -- I'm Santa Claus." She skeptically said "No you're not." I said "yes I am -- I'm your Santa Clause." Every parent is Santa.
There are few rules without exceptions, of course.
Not just fish. Ever hear of Project Censored?
That sounds like Dawkins to me.
Really they did improve on 7 and make it better
Indeed they did; I've had a W7 notebook for a year and it hasn't pissed me off enough to install Linux yet. W7 really is head and shoulders above previous MS OSes, but it still hasn't caught up with Linux.
Homosexuality is a fact of life
And sadly, half of all gays have attempted suicide. Personally, I pity my gay friends. How can one "back up with facts" the absense of proof of something? Absense of proof is not proof of absence. Unless you have experienced God ("be delusional" according to you) the only rational belief is agnosticism.
No, you are born as intelligent as you will ever be. It's all downhill from there. Everything from chemicals to injury will decrease intelligence, which you are confusing with education.
On the other hand, you are born more ignorant than you will ever be -- you are born knowing absolutely nothing except how to suck a tit.
You confuse ignorance with stupidity. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge, stupidity is the lack of ability to learn.
That said, I'm getting less intelligent and less ignorant, both at once, all the time. all the time
A secular charity is not an athiest charity. None of those seven are athiest charities. Note, I don't posit that athiest can be generous, many athiests I know are indeed generous.
Religion isn't ignorance, even though many religious folks are indeed ignorant.
he wants to persuade believers to abandon their beliefs
Good luck persuading me that something I have experienced personally doesn't exist.
Homosexuals don't generally have a driving urge to make everyone else into homosexuals
Then why do gays hit on me even when they know I'm straight?
or to run governments under homosexual principles
I don't quite understand, what are "homosexual principles"? If the religious wanted to run our government under Christian, Jewish, or Muslim principles they would be stumping for outlawing adultery.
Why are you so sure? Last Wednesday a friend threw her lesbian roommate out, who wound up staying at my house for the last week. Despite the fact that she was an avowed lesbian, she seduced me. That doesn't seem so verifiable to me.
As to "not", if you ever have a religious experience (not likely of course) you will change.
If this were a Christian nation, marijuana would be legal, adultery would be a felony, and Newt Gingrich would be in prison.
I would never accept a theocracy. Religious law should only apply to the religious. And theology should stay out of the classroom, except perhaps in a philosophy class where all religions and philosophies would be given equal time.
And I don't give a fuck what any damned bigot thinks of me.
Interesting. I went from W3.1 to W95 to W98 to XP, each "upgrade" slowed it down. When I went from W98 to XP the install screen stated that it would run faster, but it ran slower -- but I had just reinstalled W98. The thing is, Windows (at least the ones I used) gets slower with time, probably because of the registry. I've talked to people who routinely reinstall the version of Windows they have for a speedup. I've had a W7 notebook for about a year, it's starting to slightly slow, so it's pretty obvious that MS is getting better at writing OSes.
I skipped Vista, but I did work on a Vista laptop for a friend who had ignorantly installed three different AV products. Of course, that brought the poor machine to its knees, but after uninstalling two of the three AVs it was pretty snappy.
If you've had your Windows OS installed for a couple of years, yes, an upgrade might speed it up -- but so will reinstalling the same OS.
Did you forget about the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition?
No, the crusaders and Spanish unquisitors forgot what Christ actually taught. They were like a pork-eating Muslim beheading someone for not being Muslim. The crusaders and inquisitors were exactly like the hipocritic Jews who insisted on Jesus being crucified.
The popes and Spaniards of the time were abusing their power. They may well have been secret athiests -- there are a lot of them in churches everywhere. I know one woman who calls herself a Catholic but states that God can't possibly exist. I can't figure that one out, how can one be both athiest and Catholic?
Does there exist two time frames of reference such that 13.7 billions years can pass for one while only 7 days can pass for the other.
Yes. Ever heard of Einstein's theory of relativity? The faster you go, the faster time goes (and this was tested and shown not false). Get near enough to the speed of light and 13 billion years may well be seven days.
That's all well and good, now how do we get my fellow citizens to stop voting for idiots that believe that... the US is a Christian nation
As a Christian, all I can say is I wish I knew. I don't believe those politicians really believe that, and I don't even believe that they believe, but that they're simply pandering.
As to the US being a Christian nation, I don't see how anyone can believe that. It's obvious to me that the vast majority of Americans worship money (the sin God hates more than any other sin).
Stamping out a biological diferences is very different from stamping out ignorance!
A 15th century man comes home to England from Africa and tells tales of elephants. Nobody believes him. Who is ignorant? You are telling me that something I have experienced does not exist. That is just foolishness. You have to have a great deal of faith to be so sure that there is no god, since there is no evidence one way or another (unless you have been touched by God).
Do you still believe the world is 6,000 years old?
I never did believe the world is 6000 years old, and in fact the "6000 year old universe" is not a tenet of Christianity and is obviously false. I have never met a single person who believed that, but I've met a whole lot of ignorant athiests who are certain that Christians do, despite being told otherwise repeatedly.
Stupidity is the bi-product of ignorance.
You're showing your ignorance of the meaning of both those words. Ignorance is not knowing. Stupidity is not being able to learn. If you still believe that Christians think the world is 6000 years old, despite being repeatedly told otherwise by Christians themselves, that is an indication of an inability to learn.
It tells me if someone makes a simple mistake one can condemn them and their descendants to misery.
You misunderstand -- the warning to Adam was just that: a warning. Adam was warned that the fruit was poison, that if he ate it he would die. It wasn't the "tree of knowledge," it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you never know evil you can never know good.
It was the tree of pain and death, and the knowledge that comes from knowing pain and death.
after all why would a powerful and loving god not provide for all of his creation whether or not they believed in that god.
It wasn't that they didn't believe in him, it was that they worshiped other gods, and God is a jealous god. Having someone worship a different god was to God like your wife fucking another man.
This had to be done by a infinitely cruel god since there were a lot of other ways that god could have handled the problem that did not involve killing a lot of people.
Everybody dies, thanks to that idiot Adam who fucked up his DNA with the poison fruit. And consider this: you are to a self-portrait what God is to you. Do you not have the right to destroy that painting? Especially if it didn't turn out quite as good as you expected?
DNA sequencing are proving that Adam and Eve never existed
Adam and Eve were merely the first great apes to become sentient. The bible doesn't say what steps God took to create them.
Technically speaking religion is a belief and homosexuality is a sexual orientation. There's a difference between being born with a sexual attraction to the same sex and thinking that magic underwear makes you pure.
Like almost all things biological, sexual orientation is most likely part genetics, part environment. But for most Christians, it isn't just a belief, it's as plain as the fact that the sky is dark at night.
Hatred is bigorty, and Dawkins quite apparently hates religion with a fiery passion. That's bigotry.
I find the argument carries as much weight as it would if you tried to tell me someone who says that whole wheat bread is more nutritious than white bread is bigoted.
I would call someone who denigrates someone who eats white bread as a bigot, especially if that person hated me for eating white bread. Dawkins hates religion, and that hatred is what makes him a bigot.
Now that we have more advanced justice systems than "And eye for an eye; tooth for a tooth." is it time to put those old teachings to behind us
We Christians did that 2000 years ago. Our religion says love your enemies as you do your friends, forgive everyone who harms you, if you're punched in the face, turn the other cheek. It says he who lives by the weapon, dies by the weapon. It is a religion of love.
Forgiveness is the very heart of Christianity. The "eye for an eye" was the old covenant, Christ brought a new covenant.
That was indeed a very good read. Although it's been over 20 years since I read it, though, I don't remember anything about math. It was mostle internal politics at DEC and differing design philosophies.
See if you were on Windows 8! Your computer would of ran faster and you would of gotten that first post!
You have to W8 'til tomorrow for Windows 8. Fat chance of a 1st post then!
Joking aside, if W8 makes your PC faster than W7 that would certainly be a first for Microsoft, although we Linux users are use to upgrades making our PCs faster rather than slower.
Your dictionary is broken:
So is your understanding of what your own dictionary says. "Bigotry 'a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices'".
Sounds like Dawkins to me. And you, to, if I may say so.
Your belief that there can be no god despite any evidence whatever takes a lot of faith. Without indication one way or another, the only logical conclusion is agnosticism. However, many of us have had such an indication.