Well of course! How could you fully understand a being capable of creating a universe? To such a being, human intelligence would be on par with that of a housefly -- or less.
I think that's pretty much the way almost all Protestant religions do. It's like that at my church. When have you heard of any non-Catholic kids being molested by clergy?
The Catholic church has a LOT of problems besides the child molestation. Of course, that's happened before or there wouldn't be Protestants.
It looks like teens got mod points, or someone moderated without looking at the link. It's a simple google search with every single hit backing up my point. So some dumb kid downmods it because the truth hurts.
rtfa-troll points out below that anonymous calls are vital for tipsters and whistleblowers. Are you willing to sacrifice that very important check for the sake of not getting a robocall?
All you have to do to make an anonymous call is go to any dollar store and pay cash for one of those minute phones (less than $20), make your call, and give it to some homeless guy, throw it in a dumpster, or leave it in a bar or somewhere.
But after the 3.5 years this president has had, no sane person should ever even consider voting for this guy.
Well, look, I'm voting Green because pot should be legal and the Libbies want to disband the EPA and Obama is going to win in Illinois in a landslide (and Romney will win Texas in a landslide). However:
When Obama's predecessor took office he was handed a balanced budget, a record high stock market, a lower unemployment rate than in decades, and peace.
When Obama took over, he was handed two wars, a completely collapsed economy, a crashed stock market, a crashed housing market, an almost collapsed banking system, the highest budget deficit in history, and the highest unemployment in two decades.
You expect Obama to fix in 3.5 years what Bush took eight to completely destroy? It takes sixty seconds to slash your car's tires and break all the glass. Can you fix that damage in one minute?
Unemployment is lower than it was when he took office, the stock market is again at its record highs, housing starts are better than when he took office, one of the wars he inhereted is over and the other is winding down, Bin Laden is dead, and you think he's been a bad president?
And Romney wants to fix things by doing exactly what Bush did. That's not only insane, it's fucking moronic.
If you're in a swing state, vote for Obama. He's by far not the best President we've ever had, but he's better than half of the Presidents I've seen in my six decades. If you're not in a swing state, and most of us aren't, vote Green or Libertarian.
They (neanderthals) had bigger brains than Homo Sapiens Sapiens
It's been proven that the size of the brain does not correlate to intelligence. One data point: Einstein, whose brain was slightly smaller overall than normal (although certain areas of his brain were larger).
The real question is: Why is sleep needed in mammals in the first place?
I've always wondered that myself, and not just in mammals. Sleep seems to be counter-evolutionary; when you're asleep, you're helpless.
We've already found drugs that can keep a person going without sleep for weeks or months at a time, apparently without any significant reduction in cognitive ability or any significant change in neurological functioning.
That is incorrect, as I saw firsthand in 1974 when I was stationed in Thailand in the USAF. There were no drugs you can't get over the counter there except cocaine, LSD, marijuana, and heroin (the latter two abundant on the street, the former nonexistant). We were on 12 hour shifts and I wanted to see the country, so I was eating amphetamines like crazy.
Then one morning I woke up in a strange bed with a strange woman wondering where the hell I was; the entire previous week was completely gone from my memory; I hadn't slept for two weeks. It turned out that the woman was my new girlfriend and I'd rented the bungalow I woke up in. Everyone said I'd shown up for work and seemed normal. So sleep very obviously has a role in cognition, although I don't know what it is or how it works.
That was the last time I took speed, I'll tell you! Scary shit. You need sleep, but I don't know why.
Put it this way - say you wrote an amazing article. I summarize it and slap advertisements on it and provide a link to your original article. Lets say that my summary of your work brings me a ten thousand bucks. Shouldn't you be entitled to a cut of that ten thousand bucks?
No. In the first place, a summary is not infringing. You cannot copyright information, just its presentation. In the second place, you've linked to my original article and brought eyeballs, and if I have ads on the site, you're earning money for me. So fucking what if you're making money?
If you were talking about taking the entire article, posting it with ads, and not giving me a link then yes, I would be pissed. But that's not what your example is nor is what Google is doing.
Indeed, amd what's more, it allows automobiles to use renewable energy without a carbon footprint, since the carbon it emits originally came from modern air.
If you can show me unambiguous proof that even one bona fide god exists, I will consider the possibility that other gods, even yours, may exist.
I can point to a lot of gods. Thor? He was the nerd who invented the hammer. A man with a hammer in a world without hammers is a god. Prometheus? The nerd who tamed fire.
Remember the line from LOTR that I'm sure I'm not getting exactly right but I don't have the book in front of me?
Memory passed into history. History passed into legend. Legend passed into myth...
It wasn't "the tree of knowledge," it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil -- in other words, the tree of the knowledge of pain and death. Personally, I think it would be nice to be completely ignorant of pain and death.
To be fair, "loose" can easily be a typoo and that's what I think you did, but there are too many who think "loose" is how you speel "lose" and don't relize that "loose" means "to set free".
there's plenty of groups within each of those three that would be very happy to cast the first stone no matter what their holy book says.
Unfortunately, that is too true. A good example is the Westboro Baptist Church and their jihad against gays. Gays are forgiven their sins just as straights are, provided they repent what they do afterwards. I have news for the church's preacher -- I'm involved with a lesbian right now who feels terrible about being lesbian "because I'll go to hell." She's a former Catholic, I had to educate her about what the Bible says rather than what men say.
The church I attend is a very large, rich church and growning by leaps and bounds, so much so that the lead pastor Eddie begged those of us who were going to the 10:15 service to go to a different service because it was always packed (I have a tea shirt that says in large bold capital letters "I SURRENDER" followed by a smal script saying "my 10:15 seat". Yet the lead pastor doesn't drive a fancy car or live in a fancy house or wear fancy clothes, the money (and there's a shitload of money) goes to the poor and renovations to the church building itself.
I think Jesus called them the merchants in the temple.
The book is a history and law. You are correct, it is not the religion, but it does define the religion. The Jewish religion is defined by the old testament, the Muslim religion is defined by the koran, the Christian religion is defined by the New Testament.
The religion itself is inside the adherant's heart.
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Well of course! How could you fully understand a being capable of creating a universe? To such a being, human intelligence would be on par with that of a housefly -- or less.
I think that's pretty much the way almost all Protestant religions do. It's like that at my church. When have you heard of any non-Catholic kids being molested by clergy?
The Catholic church has a LOT of problems besides the child molestation. Of course, that's happened before or there wouldn't be Protestants.
You've nevre seen a typoo?
I was a driver, flightline in Dover and Utapao, motor pool in Beale.
It looks like teens got mod points, or someone moderated without looking at the link. It's a simple google search with every single hit backing up my point. So some dumb kid downmods it because the truth hurts.
rtfa-troll points out below that anonymous calls are vital for tipsters and whistleblowers. Are you willing to sacrifice that very important check for the sake of not getting a robocall?
All you have to do to make an anonymous call is go to any dollar store and pay cash for one of those minute phones (less than $20), make your call, and give it to some homeless guy, throw it in a dumpster, or leave it in a bar or somewhere.
But after the 3.5 years this president has had, no sane person should ever even consider voting for this guy.
Well, look, I'm voting Green because pot should be legal and the Libbies want to disband the EPA and Obama is going to win in Illinois in a landslide (and Romney will win Texas in a landslide). However:
When Obama's predecessor took office he was handed a balanced budget, a record high stock market, a lower unemployment rate than in decades, and peace.
When Obama took over, he was handed two wars, a completely collapsed economy, a crashed stock market, a crashed housing market, an almost collapsed banking system, the highest budget deficit in history, and the highest unemployment in two decades.
You expect Obama to fix in 3.5 years what Bush took eight to completely destroy? It takes sixty seconds to slash your car's tires and break all the glass. Can you fix that damage in one minute?
Unemployment is lower than it was when he took office, the stock market is again at its record highs, housing starts are better than when he took office, one of the wars he inhereted is over and the other is winding down, Bin Laden is dead, and you think he's been a bad president?
And Romney wants to fix things by doing exactly what Bush did. That's not only insane, it's fucking moronic.
If you're in a swing state, vote for Obama. He's by far not the best President we've ever had, but he's better than half of the Presidents I've seen in my six decades. If you're not in a swing state, and most of us aren't, vote Green or Libertarian.
They (neanderthals) had bigger brains than Homo Sapiens Sapiens
It's been proven that the size of the brain does not correlate to intelligence. One data point: Einstein, whose brain was slightly smaller overall than normal (although certain areas of his brain were larger).
The real question is: Why is sleep needed in mammals in the first place?
I've always wondered that myself, and not just in mammals. Sleep seems to be counter-evolutionary; when you're asleep, you're helpless.
We've already found drugs that can keep a person going without sleep for weeks or months at a time, apparently without any significant reduction in cognitive ability or any significant change in neurological functioning.
That is incorrect, as I saw firsthand in 1974 when I was stationed in Thailand in the USAF. There were no drugs you can't get over the counter there except cocaine, LSD, marijuana, and heroin (the latter two abundant on the street, the former nonexistant). We were on 12 hour shifts and I wanted to see the country, so I was eating amphetamines like crazy.
Then one morning I woke up in a strange bed with a strange woman wondering where the hell I was; the entire previous week was completely gone from my memory; I hadn't slept for two weeks. It turned out that the woman was my new girlfriend and I'd rented the bungalow I woke up in. Everyone said I'd shown up for work and seemed normal. So sleep very obviously has a role in cognition, although I don't know what it is or how it works.
That was the last time I took speed, I'll tell you! Scary shit. You need sleep, but I don't know why.
Are you lost, little one?
Put it this way - say you wrote an amazing article. I summarize it and slap advertisements on it and provide a link to your original article. Lets say that my summary of your work brings me a ten thousand bucks. Shouldn't you be entitled to a cut of that ten thousand bucks?
No. In the first place, a summary is not infringing. You cannot copyright information, just its presentation. In the second place, you've linked to my original article and brought eyeballs, and if I have ads on the site, you're earning money for me. So fucking what if you're making money?
If you were talking about taking the entire article, posting it with ads, and not giving me a link then yes, I would be pissed. But that's not what your example is nor is what Google is doing.
What a bunch of BS. Can you show any proof of your assumptions? namely:
- that kids at the age of 14 are not fully developed yet.
Google is your friend. Had you googled you wouldn't have looked so foolish, kid. Now get back to your damned homework and leave us adults alone.
I would be more impressed if they made something useful like gasoline, instead of this petrol stuff!
Indeed, I can barely afford gasoline, let alone that expensive petrol they have in Britain.
What's worse than being killed?
Killing someone else. Everybody has to die, not everybody has to kill.
But you've introduced another problem. Want to cripple the NRA or the EFF? set up robocalls "on their behalf".
Indeed, amd what's more, it allows automobiles to use renewable energy without a carbon footprint, since the carbon it emits originally came from modern air.
Yes, thank you, I'd love to read it.
I can't name it anything, but can hope that whoever discovers it was a Star Wars (not Star Trek) fan.
If you can show me unambiguous proof that even one bona fide god exists, I will consider the possibility that other gods, even yours, may exist.
I can point to a lot of gods. Thor? He was the nerd who invented the hammer. A man with a hammer in a world without hammers is a god. Prometheus? The nerd who tamed fire.
Remember the line from LOTR that I'm sure I'm not getting exactly right but I don't have the book in front of me?
Memory passed into history. History passed into legend. Legend passed into myth...
There are plenty of witnesses to extraterrestrial life as well. They're probably as reliable as the witnesses to God.
I think you may find this amusing.
It wasn't "the tree of knowledge," it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil -- in other words, the tree of the knowledge of pain and death. Personally, I think it would be nice to be completely ignorant of pain and death.
I have to agree with every word you said. Two more people need to mod you "insightful," your comment deserves a +5.
To be fair, "loose" can easily be a typoo and that's what I think you did, but there are too many who think "loose" is how you speel "lose" and don't relize that "loose" means "to set free".
I was mostly going for teh funny.
there's plenty of groups within each of those three that would be very happy to cast the first stone no matter what their holy book says.
Unfortunately, that is too true. A good example is the Westboro Baptist Church and their jihad against gays. Gays are forgiven their sins just as straights are, provided they repent what they do afterwards. I have news for the church's preacher -- I'm involved with a lesbian right now who feels terrible about being lesbian "because I'll go to hell." She's a former Catholic, I had to educate her about what the Bible says rather than what men say.
The church I attend is a very large, rich church and growning by leaps and bounds, so much so that the lead pastor Eddie begged those of us who were going to the 10:15 service to go to a different service because it was always packed (I have a tea shirt that says in large bold capital letters "I SURRENDER" followed by a smal script saying "my 10:15 seat". Yet the lead pastor doesn't drive a fancy car or live in a fancy house or wear fancy clothes, the money (and there's a shitload of money) goes to the poor and renovations to the church building itself.
I think Jesus called them the merchants in the temple.
Sadly, there are way too many churches like that.
The book is a history and law. You are correct, it is not the religion, but it does define the religion. The Jewish religion is defined by the old testament, the Muslim religion is defined by the koran, the Christian religion is defined by the New Testament.
The religion itself is inside the adherant's heart.