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Thread: Belief?
Post: RE: Belief?
| Exactly. It's just that the trait doesn't have to be useful. It just has to be not harmful enough to skew the balance.
If the net balance between use and harm of whatever constellation of traits caus... |
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Atheism
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October 1, 2008 at 8:11 am |
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Thread: Para-atheism
Post: RE: Para-atheism
| Pseudoscience is mostly supernaturalist. Whether you call it superstition or not doesn't matter -- it's just as invalid as any other pseudoscience or supernaturalist claim. |
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Alan |
Atheism
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October 1, 2008 at 8:06 am |
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Thread: Ignorant Atheists?
Post: RE: Ignorant Atheists?
| Oh, come on. Be fair.
There's many areas where a religious mind has no impact on the results. Religious people CAN be scientific.
It's just when religious assumptions are taken as valid axioms that ... |
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Alan |
Atheism
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October 1, 2008 at 8:05 am |
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Thread: Pet hates and annoyances.
Post: RE: Pet hates and annoyances.
| I said regional accents IN German. Not German accents in English.
South German accents piss me off especially. Bavarian is probably the worst. |
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October 1, 2008 at 8:02 am |
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Thread: Pet hates and annoyances.
Post: RE: Pet hates and annoyances.
| Well, you do realise that most films about "Saving the World!" are about threats to the continental U.S., right? Same issue.
The well-being of North America is not relevant to the well-being of the w... |
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Alan |
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September 30, 2008 at 7:07 am |
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Thread: Belief?
Post: RE: Belief?
| It's really easy to explain:
Faith is credulity. Credulity is an important trait in children because they need to believe their elders when they tell them of dangers in life (i.e. pass their experien... |
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Alan |
Atheism
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September 30, 2008 at 6:05 am |
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Thread: How do you want your funeral?
Post: RE: How do you want your funeral?
| I'd be dead. I'd have no right to tell them how to grieve.
I would like them to respect some general wishes, though: no religious ceremonies, for example, and I'd rather be incinerated (though they C... |
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Alan |
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September 30, 2008 at 5:41 am |
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Thread: Pet hates and annoyances.
Post: RE: Pet hates and annoyances.
| Regional accents in German.
I don't find them cute, I find them disgusting. |
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Alan |
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September 30, 2008 at 5:36 am |
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Thread: The 'Secret'
Post: RE: The 'Secret'
| That's that bullshit about wishful thinking determining your well-being innit?
Like, if you have cancer and are going to die as a bum, it's because of your lack of faith.
Some prick actually got a l... |
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Alan |
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September 30, 2008 at 5:34 am |
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Thread: What is your occupation?
Post: RE: What is your occupation?
| Student.
I'm working as a network administrator in the institute of linguistics on the side. |
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Alan |
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September 30, 2008 at 5:27 am |
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Thread: Hitler believed he was doing God's work!!
Post: RE: Hitler believed he was doing God's work!!
| I'd bet my ass he was a supernaturalist, though -- theist or not. |
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Alan |
Religion
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September 30, 2008 at 5:25 am |
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Thread: Para-atheism
Post: RE: Para-atheism
| Well, the carrot for Buddhism is obviously re-incarnation. If you don't have a gazillion lifecycles waiting for you to behave, the entire motivation just vaporises.
Of course there's still the option... |
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Alan |
Atheism
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September 30, 2008 at 5:21 am |
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Thread: Ignorant Atheists?
Post: RE: Ignorant Atheists?
| Well duh. Of course anyone doing science is a scientist, but most creationists who actually DO science are pretty horrible scientists, if only because they make ridiculously far-fetched assumptions an... |
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Alan |
Atheism
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September 30, 2008 at 5:13 am |
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Thread: A question addressed to professor Dawkins
Post: RE: A question addressed to professor Dawkins
| I'm pretty sure there IS a pink elephant hiding behind me at all times.
But then again they say I'm paranoid. |
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Alan |
Atheism
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September 30, 2008 at 5:08 am |
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Thread: A question addressed to professor Dawkins
Post: RE: A question addressed to professor Dawkins
| Of course I don't believe in any god at all. But my point is that being a theist it doesn't make sense to believe in a non-interventionist god, because he won't be of any more use than no god at all -... |
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Alan |
Atheism
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September 27, 2008 at 2:18 pm |
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Thread: atheism and the rising of consciousness
Post: RE: atheism and the rising of consciousness
| Well, if you compare a naturalist view to a supernaturalist view, it's clear why the supernaturalist one seems a bit misty.
In a naturalist view everything HAS to have a natural cause. So you have an... |
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Alan |
Atheism
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September 27, 2008 at 2:08 pm |
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Thread: I'm on my way to hell, Care to join me?
Post: RE: I'm on my way to hell, Care to join me?
| Going by the popular depictions, you're right.
The more theological ideas would be that hell is eternal suffering while heaven is eternal bliss. Of course the second sounds nicer, as you're guarantee... |
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Alan |
Religion
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September 27, 2008 at 2:01 pm |
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Thread: The Jesus Tomb
Post: RE: The Jesus Tomb
| If you dilude the definition of what constitutes Jesus Christ that much, then, yes, he most likely DID exist.
But what's the point of calling him Jesus Christ if he didn't even do anything noteworthy... |
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Alan |
Religion
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September 27, 2008 at 1:57 pm |
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Thread: A question addressed to professor Dawkins
Post: RE: A question addressed to professor Dawkins
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Alan |
Atheism
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September 27, 2008 at 7:43 am |
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Thread: Indeterminism in mathematics
Post: RE: Indeterminism in mathematics
| It's obvious why we think there's a man pulling the sun across the sky. Our mind has only evolved to deal with cause-effect relations on OUR scale. When a bush rattles, there is probably something ins... |
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Alan |
Mathematics
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September 26, 2008 at 12:04 pm |
