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Serious / Re: Should the District of Columbia become a State?
« on: September 30, 2014, 11:40:23 AM »Guess what, it's the law. Laws don't have to make sense either.What.
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Serious / Re: Should the District of Columbia become a State?« on: September 30, 2014, 11:40:23 AM »Guess what, it's the law. Laws don't have to make sense either.What. The. Fuck. 12512
Serious / Re: You CAN prove a negative« on: September 30, 2014, 02:39:17 AM »Technically you can't really prove anything.Literally everybody who has even a mild understanding of empiricism knows this. 12513
Serious / Re: "Don't judge a religion by its fundamentalists"« on: September 29, 2014, 02:37:32 PM »I refuse to believe that's a thing. Link me.White-Gold ConcordatLOL WAT 12514
Serious / Re: "Don't judge a religion by its fundamentalists"« on: September 29, 2014, 02:27:16 PM »White-Gold ConcordatLOL WAT 12515
Serious / Re: Dear Christians« on: September 29, 2014, 02:20:57 PM »Is that why Moses ordered the slaughter of Midianites and, subsequently, the prisoners the Jews had captured?God and Satan are at war with each other. Satan can turn good into bad and God can turn bad into good. Various methods of this are seen, such as a person falling to alcoholism and turning into a violent person or a person in jail that has killed people but finds the word of God and becomes a changed personEver hear of this dude named Satan? He like, makes people do bad shitAnd he's too strong for god to stop him? Is that why God sent two bears to maul 42 children? 12516
Serious / "Don't judge a religion by its fundamentalists"« on: September 29, 2014, 02:07:13 PM »
Well, all right. We often hear it said that ISIS aren't "true" Muslims, or that the Westboro Baptist Church aren't "true" Christians, and that we shouldn't judge a religion by its fundamentalists. I take issue with this, for a number of reasons, but even if I accept such a proposition it doesn't harm my position.
I needn't take the fundamentalists to prove a point, I can judge a religion by its scripture and its mainstream authorities. For instance, taking Islam, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued the fatwa against Salman Rushdie which lasted for ten years, the hadith calls for the murder of apostates and there was widespread dissatisfaction - to put it mildly - with the expressions of a Danish cartoonist. The book of Deuteronomy calls for your wife's hand to be cut off if, should she try to deliver you from the wrath of a countryman, she accidentally touches another man's genitals. In Numbers, Moses ordered his generals - after the slaughter of the Midianites - to kill all the young boys and older women who have lain with men and keep the "women children" for their own pleasure. Kings recounts the story of when God sent two bears to maul 42 children for mocking a bald prophet and in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah an innkeeper gives up his virgin daughter to an irate crowd demanding to be able to meet the angels. The Catholic Church has long proselytised in Africa and condemned the use of contraception and set its face against the only and pretty much definitive cure for poverty - the empowerment of women. It has professed and recanted ideas such as limbo, causing untold misery for Catholic parents who lost their children, and beatified disgustingly immoral people such as the likes of Mother Theresa. Not to mention, it signed the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany and didn't officially forgive the Jews of "Deicide" until 1965. The Church of England, often seen as the meekest and mildest of the bunch, isn't free from fault, either. Graham Dow, the former Bishop of Carlisle, said in 2007 that the storms and floods in the north of the country were judgement for the country's lax attitude towards gays and the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1958 said a nuclear holocaust wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing as it would simply wipe people out and usher them from this world to the next. Taking all of this into account, I don't think it'd be appropriate to try and judge the merits of a religion without considering the "moderating" influences. 12517
Serious / Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Following Regions of the World.« on: September 29, 2014, 01:27:46 PM »One could and I'd still sleep at night. I'm not educated enough to have a proper opinion, although what I saw during the World Cup was certainly unsettling, to be put mildly.South America, namely Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. 12518
Serious / Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Following Regions of the World.« on: September 29, 2014, 01:24:13 PM »South America, namely Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Trying to create UNASUR is a horrible idea. I have few ideas on Brazil, except the fact that the government is corrupt as shit. Argentina's economy is currently in the shitter due to unscrupulous governmental activities, and Chile is actually pretty respectable. Quote MexicoOur War on Drugs is killing them. Quote IndiaJust fucking backwards. Quote AustraliaI think it's a great country. Their government was reliable enough to help them not get caught up in the Great Recession and they pulled through in okay shape. Quote Eastern EuropeI don't know why we allow them into the E.U. knowing it'll antagonise Russia and create international tensions within the Union. Quote South AfricaNot even going to go there. Quote IranThe government is disgusting. This is the same country which allowed the fatwa on Salman Rushdie to continue for a decade. The people of Iran are rightly fed up with their government - demonstrated as far back a '09 with protest at the Al Quds day. Quote CubaSo utterly inconsequential as for me to not care. 12519
Serious / Re: Dear Christians« on: September 29, 2014, 12:57:23 PM »Just because he phrased it abrasively doesn't mean it isn't a good question.Because assuming delusion is a fantastic way of opening a dialogue, right? 12520
Serious / Re: Dear Christians« on: September 29, 2014, 12:52:17 PM »
The free will argument resonates with me on this instance. However, the nature of God's plan, vicarious redemption, original sin, the afterlife and eschatology all interfere with this sacred notion of free will.
That, and I don't believe in free will in the first place. 12521
Serious / Re: Did the EU just do something good...?« on: September 29, 2014, 12:37:17 PM »Holy shit. I'm all for empowering the judiciary, but. . . Yeah, fuck that.It would then be down to a judge to decide if the parody is funny. 12522
Serious / Why does a truth hold more value than a non-truth?« on: September 29, 2014, 12:35:13 PM »
Why is the actual more important, why does it command more immediacy, over the non-actual? Why is the real more valuable than the wishful? Why is the matter-of-fact considered to be of a higher nature than what we should like to be true.
Assuming no atrocious or magnificent outcomes from choosing one over the other, what gives a truth more value than a falsehood? 12523
Serious / I highly doubt Hitler wanted a "scientific" society« on: September 29, 2014, 12:14:53 PM »12525
Serious / Re: Did the EU just do something good...?« on: September 29, 2014, 10:31:59 AM »It doesn't, I'm afraid. It has more to do with solving crimes than the actual prosecution.Does it involve robots? >.> 12526
Serious / Re: Holy shit look at this fucking cancer« on: September 29, 2014, 10:29:20 AM »Prepare to be killed, tortured, then sued for millions if not billions. In that order.>kinder when arguing YouTube 12527
Serious / Re: So I'm proposing to my girlfriend tonight« on: September 29, 2014, 10:27:44 AM »I mean, that was pretty quickdis passive aggressive nigga doe Spoiler In all seriousness, though, best of luck. Let us know how it goes. 12528
Serious / Re: Did the EU just do something good...?« on: September 29, 2014, 10:26:56 AM »That's the EU I like to see. Still greatly supporting the Union here.Unless it involves rehabilitation, I don't want to hear of it. 12529
Serious / Re: So I'm proposing to my girlfriend tonight« on: September 29, 2014, 10:25:55 AM »
How do you feel. . .
Knowing I fapped to your future wife? 12530
Serious / Re: Holy shit look at this fucking cancer« on: September 29, 2014, 10:23:25 AM »Behold, a user of supposedly high intelligence!If you ever want to lose faith in humanity, go read some patriotic right wing conservative pro-gun facebook pages. The sheer amount of hatred, ignorance and utter stupidity among those people is staggering.>implying all conservative gun owners are like that 12531
The Flood / Re: What a night. I think I might snap.« on: September 29, 2014, 10:20:46 AM »
Better man than me.
If I were in your position, I'd have lost control of myself. 12532
Serious / Re: George Osbourne wants to lose the next election for the tories.« on: September 29, 2014, 10:18:36 AM »
The government just needs to implement a basic income and fucking get it over with.
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Serious / Re: Occupy Hong Kong« on: September 29, 2014, 10:16:54 AM »
For a second I thought you meant the actual Occupy movement was in Hong Kong.
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Serious / Re: Did the EU just do something good...?« on: September 29, 2014, 10:16:13 AM »
Yay for the legislation.
Nay for the idea that it's an argument in favour of the EU. Good for the Commission, though, for proposing it. 12535
Serious / Re: George Osbourne wants to lose the next election for the tories.« on: September 29, 2014, 10:15:14 AM »
I really don't see what's wrong with this.
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Serious / Re: Name one thing atheists can do that religious people can't« on: September 29, 2014, 02:21:07 AM »use technologyI burst out laughing, there. 12537
Serious / You CAN prove a negative« on: September 29, 2014, 02:12:39 AM »
Seen this lovely bit of sophistry - "You can't prove a negative" - floating around for quite some time. Years, in fact, I've seen it said and I've even seen it said by Verbatim himself at one point, although I have no idea if he's renounced it. Indeed, I used to believe it too.
Here's just one article on the matter, from Psychology Today. Quote One reason that some people suppose science and reason are incapable of establishing beyond reasonable doubt that certain supernatural claims—for example, that fairies or angels or spirit beings exist—are false, is that they assume you can't prove a negative. Indeed this is widely supposed to be some sort of "law of logic." 12538
Serious / Re: Conspiracy Theories that you think might be, or are true.« on: September 29, 2014, 01:55:13 AM »You cannot prove a negative, duh. However there is plenty of warranted skepticism against government studies, which is why I'm not going to take their word for it. Until they can show me their evidence clearly laid out, I'm not just going to swallow it—like a sheep.Asking you to show that fossil fuels don't release greenhouse gases, or asking you to show that greenhouse gases don't produce warming isn't asking you to prove a negative. It's a claim you are making which you should have data for. The fundamental difference here is that there shouldn't be an absence of evidence for the non-effects of global warming. Spoiler By the way, the idea that you can't prove a negative is nothing more than a logical fallacy. 12539
Serious / Re: Name one thing atheists can do that religious people can't« on: September 29, 2014, 01:47:10 AM »
What's the point of this discussion, exactly?
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Serious / Re: Conspiracy Theories that you think might be, or are true.« on: September 28, 2014, 07:03:27 PM »You doubt his sincerity?Meh. I don't really care about "new" users who are just trolling.Ok newshit.Don't be a dick. |