Meliorism - The rise of neo-atheism and the fall of reason

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I think this is just the realization that a person's belief system doesn't change them as much as we like to think it does. We are who we are, and as much as we like to define others in simple terms (while reveling in our own depth of personality), people are a mixture of conscious and sub-conscious beliefs and behaviors that we don't understand anywhere near as much as we'd like to think we do. A person who becomes an atheist is still, on many levels, the person he was when he was a theist, and vice-versa.

You know... I'm just trying to get a bead on what it is specifically about the way lesbians look. Is it stylistic choice, stance, attitude, hormone levels, skeletal structure... or is it just that the people I'd suspect to be lesbian are from a higher-percentage pool for lesbians? Fucking artists, man! AND MECHANICS. Seriously, have you ever met a straight woman-mechanic who wasn't from a goddamn Archie comic or motherfucking FMA? I THOUGHT NOT! Bet all them astronauts are men too. Maybe all lesbians are men. Yes, this is likely. Irrelevant video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkU7uYAeOvU

It's been infuriating the hell out of me. You go up and ask the girl if she's lesbian when you suspect it, and you get a yes significantly more often than not. Possibly, it's just because it's a college town. BUT DAMN IF THERE ISN'T SOMETHING ABOUT THEM. It's like fucking gay men... *there's just something about most of them*. But with gay men it's obvious shit. As I said: infuriating.

My best bet so far is hormones introduced as one is being born... but it's hypothesis. Damn but I want to test the hell out of this. Maybe someone already did, but fuck that: where's the sense of adventure and discovery if you just accept everyone's research without testing it yourself? SOunds like a faith-based system to me

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Speaking as a writer, I submit to you that it's more fun to be clear and eloquent.

Speaking as a voracious reader, I submit that it's possible to be both and NOT purple your language.

Oh please... as if purpling a language could ever be a bad thing!

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That sounds suspiciously like the argument that everything that god does is good/moral/right by definition, even if it's something we'd otherwise categorize as wicked.

Hey now: anything I do is golden. There is no higher authority than me, sp I feel quite comfortable speaking on this.

Ask me when I'm not grossly overdosing, and I won't be able to cheese out a line like that.

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This is why I said "subjective" vs "objective". Subjective progress is when you think we've moved forward in an ethical manner towards a more beneficial goal. Objective merely quantifies that we did indeed progress past a point.

Summer... summah! plz sumemer! Staph! STAHP PLZ!

Intersubjective : science :: unknowable ball of timey wimey sfuff : objective

Anyway, subjective progress can be had in regressing. Doesn't matter though, does it? Because it's the bastardized egotistically narcissistic inbred hooker of the three types of perspectives one has if they are not a faithless solipsist.

Yeah, I wouldn't trust it either... have you any idea where it's been? I do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuR0jvVkpHs

Yeah, you don't want none of that shit, now do you? That's what I thought, people: NEVER LET A SUBJECTIVE THOUGHT INTO YOUR HOUSE WITHOUT ASKING A NEIGHBOR'S OPINION OF IT.

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Not all sciences make material changes. Psychology and sociology deal with human behavior, condition and the environment that the human creates.

How is the study of a biological machine (and how they interact in groups) *not* material? 0.o

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To expect all atheists to be intellectual heavyweights is akin to expecting cats to come falling out of the sky, pissing liquid gold.

Exactly: well within reason... looks like it might be raining cats any moment. That liquid gold bombing is just cruel of them.

I don't know much at all. I'm not proud of it. Those who take pride in ignorance are the pits. But, I understand enough to result at a highly logical agnostic atheist position. However, I'm sure I've done fallacious arguments in my time, who hasn't?

Hey now... not knowing everything is a damn healthy attitude. I take pride in recognizing that everything I know can easily be wrong, and in my not fanatically holding onto it in the face of good evidence (to me).

Basically, it works like this: Rhythm speaks, Lilly obeys. She might be a bit reluctant, but damn if she's not trying @_@