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Respect for religion

2010-09-09T16:52:17Z

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense
and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is
beautiful and his children smart."

- H. L. Mencken

Yeah, but the minute he tries to convince me to marry his wife and
adopt his children I'm going to object. .

Hierarchy and God

2010-09-09T15:30:50Z

The King of the Jungle is the very symbol of hierarchy, which is also
the Law of God, but not necessarily the Law of Nature. Many animals do
beat the lion: hyenas and even buffaloes when they work together.
Those who oppose hierarchy are said to operate under the Spirit of
Rebellion, but I prefer to call them the "Free Spirits"...

Priest urges European Christians to prevent Islamic takeover by having babies

2010-09-09T11:40:59Z

[link]
"The fact is that, as a people, we are becoming ever more pagan and
the religious vacuum is inevitably filled by other proposals and
religious forces," he said. "If we consider ourselves a Christian

Turkish archeologists find 4,000 year-old trade deal in Anatolia

2010-09-09T10:37:58Z

Interesting, is it not?

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cheers
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Turkish archeologists find 4,000 year-old trade deal in Anatolia
Archeologists have unearthed the tablets of first written trade
agreement in Anatolia.

Another crusader, this time:

2010-09-09T04:54:51Z

He will burn the Koran.........Let's have world war 3, pathetic
religious ass holes.

[link]

Scruples 7

2010-09-09T03:45:37Z

From “A Question of SCRUPLES”, ©1984 High Game Enterprises, Inc.
Answer Yes, No, or Depends (in which case say what it depends on):

(1) Late one evening, your 19-year-old son asks permission for his
girlfriend to stay over. Do you give it?
(2) Late one evening, your 19-year-old daughter asks permission for

About the falsifiability criterion

2010-09-09T02:27:52Z

A Woodin cardinal is a special kind of extremely large infinite
number. The existence of Woodin cardinals cannot be proved from the
standard axioms of set theory ZFC (unless ZFC is inconsistent).

Hugh Woodin has announced that if anyone proves in ZFC that Woodin
cardinals do not exist he will quit his job and insist that whoever

A question can be an objection

2010-09-08T19:45:02Z

O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?
Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
Shrunk to this little measure?

(Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar," III.i.148)

[link]

Paraprosdokian sentences

2010-09-08T19:01:07Z

Paraprosdokian sentences : A figure of speech that uses an unexpected
ending to a series or phrase.
I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a
bike and asked for forgiveness.
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat
you with experience.

Human life

2010-09-08T17:44:20Z

Hey all. Long time no see. I haven’t forgotten you. Often, when I am
faced with a question, I wonder what you guys would say. Most of the
time I answer the question on your behalf. Just kidding. What I’m
saying is that I try to think like you do.
I now have a question on which I would like an authentic answer,

All Muslims are at war with America (more from the onion)

2010-09-08T15:54:15Z

"For reasons I am content being totally unable to articulate, I am
choosing to associate Muslims with rape camps."

[link]

Downloaded Stephen Hawking "The Grand Design"

2010-09-08T02:24:53Z

From Amazon.com while looking at it in Barnes and Noble, to my Kindle,
using their free WiFi.

Discuss moral and ethical implications.

Abuse survivors request archbishop to release molesters' names

2010-09-08T00:11:42Z

[link]

Is forgiveness/ pardon praiseworthy?

2010-09-07T23:37:56Z

Zakir Hussain Shah slit the throat of his daughter Sabiha, 18, at Bara
Kau in June 2002 because she had "dishonoured" her family. But under
Pakistan's notorious qisas law, heirs have powers to pardon a
murderer. In this case, Sabiha's mother and brother "pardoned" the
father and he was freed. When a man killed his four sisters in Mardan

Proposal: Christians should adopt a Muslim child

2010-09-07T18:33:04Z

To compensate for all those feelings against the Christians who hate
the Muslims, Christians should adopt a Muslim while staying away from
indoctrinating him...

Wouldn't that be a true proof of compassion? Or is it operating
charities in Afghanistan the way to go? I don't know, you have to try

A consideration regarding caustic forum behavior

2010-09-07T16:04:32Z

Hi,

I was reading this article:

[link]

... which I enjoyed, because it provided a "where are they now?"
update on an actress (Erin Gray[1]) from one of my favorite TV shows,
Buck Rogers[2]. Reading the update, I was reminded of the personal

Christians planning to burn Korans

2010-09-07T13:50:49Z

"Gen. David Petraeus added his voice to mounting protests from both
the US and abroad over the Dove World Outreach Center's plans to burn
Korans on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the September 11 terror
attacks. His comments ratcheted up the pressure on once-obscure pastor
Terry Jones to call off the event."

Divine Control System

2010-09-07T02:57:32Z

This is with reference to the figure at [link]
The figure is self explanatory. It explains how a prime mover based
arrangement can fight against evil. Figure also tells us why there can
be a delay between crime & punishment...

Who says Christanity won't go extinct?

2010-09-07T00:46:56Z

I've been interested in the British Civil War lately and how it led to
several years of puritanical rule in England under the brutal
fundamentalist Oliver Cromwell, which led to the "persecution" of the
deposed puritans after Cromwell's rule ended and the monarchy was
restored, which led to some of the puritans fleeing the "persecution",

OT - Damn, I love irony

2010-09-07T00:28:39Z

[link]

Dumbass protester of the week!

How did breast become obscene in U.S.?

2010-09-06T22:49:51Z

When the old timers reminisced about the old days, women would breast
feed in public with out any embarrassment or attempt to hide their
breasts.

What happened.

I saw "Eat, Pray, Love" and "Eat, Phuck, be Marry" makes so much sense

2010-09-06T15:34:40Z

[link]

I went to see this light yet deep comedy to make my girlfriend happy
as well as to learn from such wisdom, and this what I wrote in the
comments on the bulletin board: "You need a lot of concentration to
sit through it. Signed, the Wise Tibetan Monkey." My thoughts were

Science is no better than Christianity

2010-09-06T12:39:10Z

One man's convictions are another man's delusions. Instead of using
the word God, physicists use the word "time". Time is just a word that
only exists in our use of language. All points of time and duration
are arbitrary constructions that are created in language and only
exist in language.

It is pure fantasy and delusion to think that the language of

Intro: Yoshikawa

2010-09-06T08:04:03Z

It said in one of the stickied topics that I should introduce myself
since I'm a newbie. Well here goes nothing I suppose. I'm a non-
believer though I'm floating around as far as what I believe
specifically. I've been a non-believer for about three years now.
Converted when I joined the Army really. I was always on the fence,

Roaches:

2010-09-06T06:26:25Z

What esle you to prove? Jesus is not cumining back?

Mosque: Muslims 1, Christians 1, in exciting match!

2010-09-06T01:42:21Z

In what promises to be the match of the millennium, the Christians
score a goal in this exciting match between Good and Evil, where we
don't know who's playing who. In Argentina they would shout:
GOOOOOOOOLLLL!!!!!

Across Ground Zero From Mosque Site, Anti-Muslim Venom

The Internet evangelist Bill Keller moved toward the dais in tiny,

RE YOU PREPARED FOR THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST?

2010-09-06T01:01:39Z

HAVE YOU BEEN BORN AGAIN?

God created Adam as a perfect man without sin. After God created Adam
as a perfect man without sin, Adam sinned. In doing so, Adam committed
spiritual suicide. Adam thereby imposed a sinful nature on himself,
and consequently on all of Adam's descendants. All of mankind came

Google Photoshop the Pope

2010-09-05T22:12:11Z

I like the one where he is an LSU fan.

Scruples 6

2010-09-05T19:38:27Z

From “A Question of SCRUPLES”, ©1984 High Game Enterprises, Inc.
Answer Yes, No, or Depends (in which case say what it depends on):

Your neighbour’s teenager has another wild all night party. His
parents return from out-of-town and ask how things were. Do you say
what goes on?

Anyone else have several dozen problems with this article re Stephen Hawking?

2010-09-05T16:35:42Z

Article by Graham Farmello in the Daily Telegraph

"God did not create the universe, Stephen Hawking revealed yesterday.
In the flurry of publicity preceding his new book, The Grand Design,
to be published next week, he does some serious dissing of the
Almighty, declaring him/her/it irrelevant. The point is, he says, that

Jesus was HIV+, says pastor to fight stigma

2010-09-05T12:45:33Z

Latest on The News !!

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LONDON: A South African pastor has angered Christians by preaching a

Christopher Hitchens' "Hitch-22" delights me....anyone reading it?

2010-09-05T10:46:23Z

He is about to become an Anglo-American as I read a bit each day.
Hope his book does not end nor his life...

Jeanne

God in a gynocracy

2010-09-05T09:06:22Z

The abrahamic god was born in a phallocracy. Would it be a goddess int
the case of a gynocracy? Would there be prophetesses instead of
prophets?
Because I'm not a woman, I try to avoid the generalization between
men's and women's thoughts.

Claim: other animals have culture too

2010-09-05T01:39:14Z

Orangutans in the wild have developed and passed along a way to make
improvised whistles from bundles of leaves, which they use to help
ward off predators. This apparently marks the first time an animal has
been known to use a tool to help it communicate, and is mounting
evidence that CULTURE -- defined as knowledge passed from one

Accident causing driver arrested to keep victim's coreligionists from rioting

2010-09-04T23:42:26Z

Can police give such a reason for an arrest in a secular state?
[link]
The Marine Drive police told the Metropolitan Magistrate's court while
seeking Kothari's custody that if he was released on bail, there could

Humor is the final clue to tell who's human

2010-09-04T14:28:06Z

I wanted to make a topic out of this because I know this is the final
clue to tell an animal from another...

The Spirits of the Jungle (aka the Muses) tell me through my parrots
(they are the vehicle for the message) that animals in the wild don't
have a sense of humor. Don't get me wrong, some animals are really

Almost overwhelming evidence God exists

2010-09-04T13:35:17Z

We know our elected representatives are not Joe TheSheep, but are part
of an elite that have attended the best universities and thus must
have been exposed to critical thinking, and still they believe in
God... Isn't that almost overwhelming evidence God exists? What's a
sheep to do if they believe?

TODAYS NEWS.

2010-09-04T07:08:28Z

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Taxpayers should not fund Pope's visit, says survey Pope Benedict's
four-day tour will include an open-air service in Glasgow Some 77%
of Britons think taxpayers should not help pay for Pope Benedict XVI's

Marriage and the Christian Crazies

2010-09-03T16:16:58Z

First marriages probably occurred 5,000 years ago

[link]

New DNA studies suggest that all humans descended from a single
African ancestor

who lived some 60,000 years ago. To uncover the paths that lead from

Democracy is very imperfect (Holland)... that's why God will bring a perfect tyranny

2010-09-03T16:13:34Z

The shortcomings of democracy are evident in Holland among the most
liberal countries: Abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, humanism,
universal healthcare, environmentalism, marijuana, lack of will to
fight in Afghanistan, etc. That's why God have something else in
mind... THE PERFECT TYRANNY. Not only you'll be happy, but you won't

Psych Today blogger: "If Obama is Christian, Michael Jackson Was White"

2010-09-03T15:37:32Z

I read a different absurd take on this meme of smearing Obama as a
muslim. An evolutionary psychologist who blogs on psychologytoday.com
wrote a piece titled "If Barack Obama Is Christian, Michael Jackson
Was White."

[link]

Christians hate socialism but Jesus was a communist

2010-09-02T19:16:14Z

Well, they don't know exactly what it means. It could mean something
like Canada or Cambodia or Venezuela...

Little do they know that thanks to socialism it costs 2 bucks to fill
a tank of gas in Venezuela. Even America is far behind. ;)

By the way, Jesus was a communist.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Were Adam & Eve Iraqi?

2010-09-02T15:42:26Z

I don't know why people in the West don't realize we don't come from a
sacred land, but from an unholy place in the middle of the desert. The
Bible places the "Garden of Eden" right in the middle of Iraq, making
that nation even more important than Israel in the peregrination
route.

It takes a little getting used to it, like calling Jesus an "Israeli,"

In the beginning God created the Chicken that laid the Egg

2010-09-02T14:40:41Z

This would solve the old dilemma of who was first. The Bible says he
created the animals, and later they found a way to reproduce.

We are assuming though that God didn't make the egg for human
consumption. Then God served scrambled eggs & grits to Adam & Eve in
true Southern Style and said, "You can eat anything except from the

Ex-priest claims 60% of priests confess to affairs with women including nuns

2010-09-02T13:44:08Z

In the US, would it be legal to spill the beans on what was learned
through conversations protected by priest penitent privilege?
[link]

Would it be legal for a defense lawyer to retire from the legal
profession and write a tell-all revealing that 60% of defendants

Stephen Hawking concludes: God did not create the universe

2010-09-02T09:59:18Z

Appeals to authority are one of the theist’s favourite debating
tactics. I have sat cringing through many a debate when the
statements of Einstein and Hawkins are twisted and abused in order to
support the existence of a particular deity.

Thankfully Einstein was quite explicit regarding the non-existence of

Did God make humanity to be vegetarian?

2010-09-02T04:42:12Z

If one were to believe the fairy tales of Adam & Eve, they must have
been vegetarian until they committed sin, since death was unknown
before.

So most of the Christians, Muslims and Jews do live in this sin, even
if they stay away from other sins, which they claim to fight.

I say, EAT, PHUCK AND BE MERRY because life's short.

Church of satan rents Oklahoma City civic center...

2010-09-01T18:42:32Z

On October 21 the church of the 4 majesties will hold a shindig at the
Oklahoma City civic center. They're the first satanist church to get
tax exempt status in the US. Here's the link where I heard about this.

[link]

Barak to Haaretz: Israel ready to cede parts of Jerusalem in peace deal

2010-09-01T18:12:25Z

[link]

* Published 00:53 01.09.10
* Latest update 00:53 01.09.10

Barak to Haaretz: Israel ready to cede parts of Jerusalem in peace
deal
Ahead of start of direct peace talks in Washington, Defense Minister

Where are the Christians found in the Political Jungle?

2010-09-01T17:39:19Z

They call it the Political Compass, but what would be of you in the
jungle without a compass?

"There's abundant evidence for the need of it. The old one-dimensional
categories of 'right' and 'left', established for the seating
arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly
simplistic for today's complex political landscape."