Don't you just hate those cretinous creationist types? They really do irk me. YouTube has been a source of some amusement in recent years, reading (and participating in) the demolition of their arguments.
LOL Every time I give the house a deep clean (move the furniture, the whole 9 yards) I'm always like "I could build another dog with what I have here."
Speaking of all these universal laws and whatnot.... It was once believed that the force most quickly able to illuminate errors in one's posts was the Post Reply button. I have discovered something that works even faster (...hang up the phone, sweetie, the Nobel people will be calling me here in a minute...) I call the force - Checking Which Post Just Got Liked By Someone. Yes, I know. Not as elegant as "Post Reply", and we all know it's all about how "elegant" your formula looks. Whatever.
Don't take joy in the attempted demolition of someone's belief system, even if you believe their position is ridiculous. Maybe you can sway them with your own argument, but it is still devastating to them. And ripping the foundations from under them for entertainment is cruel and deplorable.
Sorry, but somebody's post in a different thread put this picture in my head and, like the mature person I am, I couldn't go without sharing:
I agree. I may not believe in certain things, but I'm not about to be cruel and treat those who do believe them like they're inferior to me (ie, like Dawkins does.)
Deplorable? A sense of context please. Countless lives have been lost needlessly in the name of religion. The Aids epidemic has killed millions more and yet the Vatican will not condone condom use as a combative measure. There are countless arguments against organised religion that I could go through, and I will if you want to go down that road. Ignorance is not an excuse. Any supposedly intelligent person that believes the world started a few thousand years ago based on the scribblings in the biggest collectively written work of fiction the world has ever seen doesn't merit my serious concern. Give me a cohesive argument or position then you'll have it.
Wow, I hope I'll get these after pushing out my first baby. Like a complimentary gift -- get a pair of awesome jeans with your new baby friend -- after hours of excruciating pain, sweating, and involuntary pooping. I'll wear them on Halloween. I'll be the '90s.
So...it's okay for me to go to some random Christian and be an ass to them? How does that make me any better of a human being? Cogito's not saying, "Feel free to hurt others in the name of your religion". He's saying that there are people who are decent folk who just so happen to believe in a god, so why would I try to shred to peices the very thing that keeps them going during the day? So long as they're not hurting anyone, or forcing their belief down my throat then I'm cool with it. And for what it's worth, I'm Agnostic. I don't think there is proof for or against a god, yet I'm not going to treat those who do believe in a god like trash because of it.
And of course I'll be there! It sounds like a new, fun argument that does not have a predictable (never)ending.
I know, right? Yet another argument that has no end, will do nothing but stir up emotions, and it can only end in tears, locking, and infractions. Yeah, um, I'm not gonna make that thread. My year at the history forum has taught me one big lesson: "Never make a thread unless you're certain a conclusion can be reached."
Yay! I resisted the call of google to check it... When I saw the pic, it was like my brain itched, hang on, I know this, and then bam! an MTV flashback from when I still used to watch those strange cartoons they showed. Like Aeon Flux...
Ok, so I have a strange Aeon Flux story for you. There's one episode that has to do with some folks who live next to either side of the wall in their crazy universe (it's the one where the girl ends up getting her legs cut off in the end by the wall monitoring devices), anyway, she has a mishap at some point where it causes her to need a procedure done on her back and she has this strange little, liquid filled piston thingy that she inserts and locks into place where one of her vertebra would normally go. She replaces it with a new one on occasion through the episode. I suffer from back pain a lot due to degenerated disks. Not enough to bitch about it openly, but it's been there for a while. That episode fascinates me because there's a weird part of my writer's brain that wishes I could take out the worn out parts of my back and replace them with that piston thingy. There's also a part of the episode where the dude is "performing a procedure" on the open area where the piston goes and she is clearly enjoying it in a sexual way and... part of me understands why she's enjoying it more than I think I should.
T would like a piston like that too, for sure (degenerated discs)! I used to watch AF as a kid, and when I re-watched it as an adult, I was like "right, my parents clearly had no clue what parental control meant..." I think they bought into the whole she'll-just-read-her-pony-books-while-we're-out -act way too well.
What religion would that be? Good for you in your agnosticism, the world's fences need more noncommittal faux religious apologists to sit astride them. There's not nearly enough of them around. I'll say again, give me one sound argument against evolutionary theory and I'll debate with you further.
A fun room. Exactly. No place to be tracking in smelly gobs of hate and intolerance. Please check your shit-stompin boots at the door, son. Wrey, thanks for providing evidence that Betty Boop is not a cheap floozy.
Hunters and pickers. Do you or you SO indulge in plucking grey or freak hairs, or hunting and finding bumps and blemishes to demolish between the fingernails? If not, do you find it gross? If so, do you find it relaxing?
Where's the hate? It was a turn of phrase like 'don't you just hate it when . . .' In just a couple of pages this thread has touched on pornography, threesomes, interplanetary space travel and the creationism v evolutionary theory debate was mentioned. No ones's advocating hatred for people of faith. Take a wild guess where on YouTube I've encountered people wishing to engage on the subject. . . Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins videos. I'm not seeking out anyone to shatter their belief systems. You decided to come clattering in to the conversation because you decided the topic was out of bounds, far be it from me to upset former mod and forum heavyweight Cogito. I was merely highlighting the weakness of the creationist position in light of modern scientific thinking. We're all adults, let people make up their own minds.
