"1) Hey all you atheists: where did the Big Bang come from?" Just let me rewrite that for you.
"1) Hey all you christians: where did your god come from?"
"2) What is the downside of believing in a God?" Its irrational and makes you do stupid things for stupid reasons
" What's the harm? From what I can observe, religious people do far more good in the world than atheists." check out history of the world
"Why do you even care if someone believes in the tooth fairy, let alone a God?" - no one flies planes into buildings because of the tooth fairy as it doesn;t promise you a heaven etc
"God loves the truth. Anything that is not based on truth does not serve God. " - sorry . that does not compute. I'll fix that for you "Rational people love the truth. Anything that is not based on truth does not serve people. "
" using critical thinking and personal experience to figure out for oneself what God or His prophets are saying." - you can't use critical thinking without deciding that the bible is a crock of shit. critical thinking and belief in a god don't go together
"The human race cannot truly exceed until we accept the differences between each individual and build off common ground as opposed to clashing on ideology that affects nobody other than the individual that thinks it. This is one subject that debates will never solve and draw energy away from what is truly valuable to mankind."
yes, its mainly down to religious divide and whose God is best. Get rid of religion and save the world then all we have to worry about is megalomaniac leaders and their egos thinking they knows best
"By Christians going out and talking to the people that didn't agree with them" - you are fucking joking right??? in the early days Christians killed people, burnt them at the stake for being pagans, tortured them to make them convert. Remember the Inquisition but then i guess you don't know your christian history. Have a little read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition and also read the bible for it listed punishments for non-believers.
Talking to people is a newish thing for Christians, look how they talked to countries like Uganda who now have the death penalty for gays, and how the Catholic church still tells people not to use contraception to combat STDs and Aids - just how charitable is the richest church in the world??
I have no idea what he's talking about. If he only uses his home PC for watching TV, why does he need to remote into it for work when the files are at work and he can't take them away?
"need to keep open minds and try to grow our little bubble of knowledge and always challenge the prevailing belief of the day" - thats what scientists do everyday
"Evolution is practically mankind's attempt at cupping his hands around his ears and screaming "There is no God!" as loud as he can." - seems a great and justifiable reason
"The evidence definitely stands against humans evolving from apes" - thats always been the case, we had a common ancestor, only the stupid say we evolved form apes.
"just conjecture surrounding a concept and then bullshitting anything that might sound reasonable" - just like we have Anonymous Cowards talking a load of bollocks
"Why does society press so hard for this pathetic excuse for a hypothesis " - its not a hypothesis, its a theory
"would be laughed out of any other scientific discipline? Pure, unadulterated, distilled Denial" - that would be you then
"Someone might follow a faith for the moral story " -thats a deluded premise as the books used are not moral due to all the genocide, homophobia, misogyny etc, non-theists would probably understand that and not follow the "religious moral code", they may go for the community bit though
"Evolution is a religion or belief system." - evolution of understanding and comprehension obviously hasn't reached you, crawl back into your cage where all trolls should be
KDBUS only works within the local machine whereas the other systems talk to other machines. So maybe it makes sense not to mix the messaging, Andriod may also take it on board and drop their specific system
" A new GUI? A new GUI, a new pretty to go with all the pretty we already have collected over the last twenty years that does the same fucking thing! It's just reinventing the wheel as superficially as possible for a completely superficial culture. "
Get over it, there is only ever going to be small changes to a GUI, there isn't really anywhere else for it to go unless they can plug the computer into your brain and the GUI becomes controlled by your thoughts. I think you have unrealistic ideals on this point
You could say the same for watches, cars, planes etc. things move on and usually forward. These sort of criticisms through lots of these postings say more about the posters being stuck in his/her comfort zone and getting older.
I don;t think i've read a reasonable post saying why its a good or bad idea, just a load of opinions that aren't backed up.
Can you post a rationale as to why not? I'm interested to find out why you think it should not be included. Until then it sort of sounds like "we didn;t need it in Linux 1.0, why do we need it now".
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"1) Hey all you atheists: where did the Big Bang come from?" Just let me rewrite that for you. "1) Hey all you christians: where did your god come from?"
"2) What is the downside of believing in a God?" Its irrational and makes you do stupid things for stupid reasons
" What's the harm? From what I can observe, religious people do far more good in the world than atheists." check out history of the world
"Why do you even care if someone believes in the tooth fairy, let alone a God?" - no one flies planes into buildings because of the tooth fairy as it doesn;t promise you a heaven etc
"God loves the truth. Anything that is not based on truth does not serve God. " - sorry . that does not compute. I'll fix that for you "Rational people love the truth. Anything that is not based on truth does not serve people. "
" using critical thinking and personal experience to figure out for oneself what God or His prophets are saying." - you can't use critical thinking without deciding that the bible is a crock of shit. critical thinking and belief in a god don't go together
he'd have to explain why he didn't create immortality for his pet project
that is such as sad post, i do feel sorry for people believing creationism. they are missing such beauty in the natural world
"The human race cannot truly exceed until we accept the differences between each individual and build off common ground as opposed to clashing on ideology that affects nobody other than the individual that thinks it. This is one subject that debates will never solve and draw energy away from what is truly valuable to mankind."
yes, its mainly down to religious divide and whose God is best. Get rid of religion and save the world then all we have to worry about is megalomaniac leaders and their egos thinking they knows best
The depth of fucking ignorance displayed by so called Christians is astounding.
"By Christians going out and talking to the people that didn't agree with them" - you are fucking joking right??? in the early days Christians killed people, burnt them at the stake for being pagans, tortured them to make them convert. Remember the Inquisition but then i guess you don't know your christian history. Have a little read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition and also read the bible for it listed punishments for non-believers.
Talking to people is a newish thing for Christians, look how they talked to countries like Uganda who now have the death penalty for gays, and how the Catholic church still tells people not to use contraception to combat STDs and Aids - just how charitable is the richest church in the world??
"Not all of them." - not really Creationists then
"Who created the physical laws that drive the natural selection process?" - who create the "who created the physical laws"
"Or to realize that it is just one tool in the toolbox of an omniscient being." - its just that creationists like Ham are tools
or Texas...
I have no idea what he's talking about. If he only uses his home PC for watching TV, why does he need to remote into it for work when the files are at work and he can't take them away?
Am i having a post new year brain fault?
"need to keep open minds and try to grow our little bubble of knowledge and always challenge the prevailing belief of the day" - thats what scientists do everyday
careful, these twats don't believe in facts, its ruins their delusions
there is so much idiotic bollox in your post its not worth refuting as facts are of no use to you
"Evolution is practically mankind's attempt at cupping his hands around his ears and screaming "There is no God!" as loud as he can." - seems a great and justifiable reason
"The evidence definitely stands against humans evolving from apes" - thats always been the case, we had a common ancestor, only the stupid say we evolved form apes.
"just conjecture surrounding a concept and then bullshitting anything that might sound reasonable" - just like we have Anonymous Cowards talking a load of bollocks
"Why does society press so hard for this pathetic excuse for a hypothesis " - its not a hypothesis, its a theory
"would be laughed out of any other scientific discipline? Pure, unadulterated, distilled Denial" - that would be you then
God is a shit metaphor as he is a nasty piece of work. Santa is ok albeit a commercially driven one.
"Someone might follow a faith for the moral story " -thats a deluded premise as the books used are not moral due to all the genocide, homophobia, misogyny etc, non-theists would probably understand that and not follow the "religious moral code", they may go for the community bit though
"Evolution is a religion or belief system." - evolution of understanding and comprehension obviously hasn't reached you, crawl back into your cage where all trolls should be
i was sort of agreeing with you not criticizing your comment
KDBUS only works within the local machine whereas the other systems talk to other machines. So maybe it makes sense not to mix the messaging, Andriod may also take it on board and drop their specific system
"Now if you think that Linux is not a good engineering work, a lot of peoples will be more than happy to learn from you how to make it even better."
I'm afraid thats the problem with armchair critics, they snipe from the safety of the sidelines
" A new GUI? A new GUI, a new pretty to go with all the pretty we already have collected over the last twenty years that does the same fucking thing! It's just reinventing the wheel as superficially as possible for a completely superficial culture. "
Get over it, there is only ever going to be small changes to a GUI, there isn't really anywhere else for it to go unless they can plug the computer into your brain and the GUI becomes controlled by your thoughts. I think you have unrealistic ideals on this point
" If there's a god," - no such luck
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ will make you happy
You could say the same for watches, cars, planes etc. things move on and usually forward. These sort of criticisms through lots of these postings say more about the posters being stuck in his/her comfort zone and getting older.
I don;t think i've read a reasonable post saying why its a good or bad idea, just a load of opinions that aren't backed up.
Can you post a rationale as to why not? I'm interested to find out why you think it should not be included. Until then it sort of sounds like "we didn;t need it in Linux 1.0, why do we need it now".