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    Thread: "Undefeated" Apologetic Argument
Post: RE: "Undefeated" Apologetic Argument
You can't argue it, it takes time for the process of distancing one's identity from the positive affect achieved in childhood from familiar sights, sounds, images, feels.
 Odysseus Atheism 31 9064 January 27, 2014 at 4:25 pm
    Thread: The Category Error of Scientism
Post: RE: The Category Error of Scientism
(January 26, 2014 at 3:15 am)rasetsu Wrote: Punctuation is your friend. But apparently grammar is only a distant cousin. oT ynhoset bE, zhit LaTemN KsTrcOun ke(ə)rs little rfO het Yevr AbtIRaY...
 Odysseus Philosophy 55 10639 January 27, 2014 at 4:16 pm
    Thread: God doesn't follow the Golden Rule
Post: RE: God doesn't follow the Golden Rule
Ah but you see God is merely a metaphor for mathematics and hell for entropy. http://bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22261742 See you in hell :)
 Odysseus Christianity 38 8396 January 27, 2014 at 7:31 am
    Thread: Fucking Cops
Post: RE: Fucking Cops
Rich bastards use them as human shields or high pass filter to keep the status quo going.
 Odysseus Politics 2016 506687 January 27, 2014 at 7:26 am
    Thread: What is Zero (0)?
Post: RE: What is Zero (0)?
A convenience
 Odysseus Mathematics 22 7520 January 27, 2014 at 7:09 am
    Thread: Global temperatures since 1950
Post: RE: Global temperatures since 1950
Ugh... climate change deniers still exist?
 Odysseus Physical Sciences 20 3723 January 27, 2014 at 7:06 am
    Thread: I'm obsessed with energy
Post: RE: I'm obsessed with energy
If you think that would be cool just imagine towing a primordial black hole into orbit so we could use its emitted radiation
 Odysseus Physical Sciences 12 2445 January 27, 2014 at 7:03 am
    Thread: Krause's loaded "nothing", a new interview with the cosmology brat.
Post: RE: Krause's loaded "nothing", a new interview wit...
Yeah I heard about it already. To be honest not sure what to think not because I doubt vacuum fluctuations per se, but because I feel that though philosophy is mostly shit nowadays for the best minds...
 Odysseus Physical Sciences 9 2016 January 27, 2014 at 7:00 am
    Thread: Do you think we will ever know what causes Homosexuality
Post: RE: Do you think we will ever know what causes Hom...
It can't be pinned to a single variable. Seriously, why has no one applied Feynman diagrams to predicting social behavior?
 Odysseus Life Sciences 45 12608 January 27, 2014 at 6:51 am
    Thread: Are we all just drug addicts?
Post: RE: Are we all just drug addicts?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/269630.php http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/07/27/...57652.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and...eward.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubm...
 Odysseus Life Sciences 13 3723 January 27, 2014 at 6:45 am
    Thread: It doesn’t matter what neuroscience has to say
Post: RE: It doesn’t matter what neuroscience has to say
There was a kid who posted a video series titled why I am no longer a Christian in it he likened losing one's faith to having different beliefs that need to be knocked over like bowling pins. She jus...
 Odysseus General Science 11 3596 January 27, 2014 at 6:32 am
    Thread: Order vs. Randomness
Post: RE: Order vs. Randomness
(January 26, 2014 at 11:34 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: Since the universe had a finite beginning it has to be finite in size Let me rephrase. There is no experiment that can be done to show that and becaus...
 Odysseus General Science 100 20408 January 27, 2014 at 6:23 am
    Thread: Pegs and holes: In defense of quantum mysticism
Post: RE: Pegs and holes: In defense of quantum mysticis...
Mysticism is okay imo because Atheism 2.0 has to allow that some are highly likely to remain religious. This gives the wiggle room for those for whom it would be advantageous to believe for both them...
 Odysseus General Science 6 1244 January 27, 2014 at 6:12 am
    Thread: ADHD
Post: RE: ADHD
My opinion is that many of these things are neurological abnormalities that are more or less within the normal range (a standard deviation or so) of the neurospectrum. Traits of neurological disorder...
 Odysseus Skepticism & Pseudoscience 17 2367 January 27, 2014 at 6:07 am
    Thread: CEOs work harder every hour than their wage slaves do every season.
Post: RE: CEOs work harder every hour than their wage sl...
@Tiberius: not possible with staples like food, etc especially for those skating on the poverty line
 Odysseus Politics 64 14492 January 27, 2014 at 5:59 am
    Thread: Do atheist belive in capital punishment
Post: RE: Do atheist belive in capital punishment
No too many convictions have been overturned by DNA evidence and it costs more to convict in the judicial system than to let them stew in their misery.
 Odysseus Atheism 90 14871 January 27, 2014 at 3:18 am
    Thread: Order vs. Randomness
Post: RE: Order vs. Randomness
(January 26, 2014 at 1:36 am)Zen Badger Wrote: But according to chaos theory, it is the natural tendency for order to arise from disorder. If the system you're looking at is isolated and finite. Th...
 Odysseus General Science 100 20408 January 26, 2014 at 4:35 pm
    Thread: Order vs. Randomness
Post: RE: Order vs. Randomness
I feel like apparent order is appealing because to a certain degree correlating patterns is necessary for survival it may be a sort of anthropomorphic tendency within us. You may be interested in de ...
 Odysseus General Science 100 20408 January 25, 2014 at 11:21 pm
    Thread: White Privlige and Ignoring the Problem
Post: RE: White Privlige and Ignoring the Problem
You're naive. My opinion is that racism cannot be abolished because scarcity at the bottom keeps members of different groups in conflict. Egalitarians at the top do not experience it in their own li...
 Odysseus Politics 85 13625 January 25, 2014 at 8:05 pm
    Thread: The Category Error of Scientism
Post: RE: The Category Error of Scientism
Ah, fair enough, my point was not that orchor was correct or that it was a mechanism for consciousness though or even that portions of it might be applicable to a future theory of consciousness simply...
 Odysseus Philosophy 55 10639 January 25, 2014 at 7:38 pm