September 11, 2001
This is the date seven years ago that Sam Harris started writing his book, The End of Faith. At least something good came from that horrible and despicable cowardly act of terrorism.
Isn't that how the AIDS epidemic spread from monkeys to humans? I don't mean the "posterior" part in particular.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 44 minutes ago
As someone who is currently cutting down on alcohol consumption, reasonable people engage in risky behaviors all of the time because they're enjoyable, exciting, and/or rewarding for other reasons....
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 45 minutes ago
A slice of monkey arse is considered a delicacy in many parts. And apparently that includes the US, where folk have risked big fines or imprisonment for importing it. A 2007 report by The New...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 hour ago
It may also help to learn that Christianity isn't the only toxic collection of ideas. To the annoyance of many on this group, I constantly harp on other common behaviors that rack...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 hour ago
Well, it sounds like "I wish for the certitude that can only come from God, therefore God exists".
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 11 hours ago
You seem to assume that machines will become smarter than 10 billion people and simultaneously be as dumb as machines that capitalists could traditionally own and...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
Right, but if ten billion people aren't needed for anything, why would the machines agree to be owned by that one man? What does he have to offer the machines that ten billion people do not...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
But here is the thing with my question: In all those other contexts (serfdom, police, etc.,) people have the possibility of doing something to earn their food. The serfs are needed by the lord. He...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
Looking at the long term, and I mean looooonng term, over centuries, I have no real idea of what the future of man might be like or whether there will be a future at all....
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
You're making a projection: currently the rich are getting richer, while the middle class stagnates or goes backward. What happens if this trend continues all the way to its logical...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
Under the terms and ideology of Capitalism, theoretically one man can own every machine, and that one man or woman, or small group, will not need anyone to work for them. Then what?...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
Looking at the long term, and I mean looooonng term, over centuries, I have no real idea of what the future of man might be like or whether there will be a future at all. But for the near to medium...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 16 hours ago
To say that the mind supervenes on the brain is to say that the one is not identical with the other, no?
Another word that could apply here is: metonymy. When we say...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 16 hours ago
"In the future, everybody will agree with me." - said every person who ever speculated about what people in the future will believe. I think the same way. And of course so do all flavors...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 17 hours ago
There goes my appetite for he next couple of days !
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 17 hours ago
I know that without eating meat our ancestors could not have developed the large brain we are endowed with- useless as it may be for many.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 17 hours ago
"Humans are seriously fucked up." It's a primate thing apparently. Rather gauche in my opinion....
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 19 hours ago
Just a pity that it didn't come across as satire.
I guess that makes it good Poe in that case.
But hey, no problem. Joke is on me.
All is cool.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 19 hours ago
I was using satire, my friend. I was not attacking you.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 21 hours ago
Too many cooks spoil the resurrection.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 23 hours ago
There are many pro-arguments for plant-based proteins versus animal proteins but you need to keep in mind there are several negatives: lack of certain minerals/vitamins, so you need to take...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 23 hours ago
Mark Twain: Excess of everything is bad, but excess of good Whisky is hardly enough. One of the things that bugs me in the back of my mind is, every time I eat meat I cannot help feeling a little...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago
But I think they are hardly likely to convince a non-believer because, if there really is no God, the argument from reason is not credible either and only undermines...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago
I agree 1000% with that. I might even add that the idea of God changes within the same individual at different stages and/or circumstances of their life. Though there may be particular...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago
A long time ago, there was a discussion on this point. I can't remember what forum, but the upshot was, that Allah and YawhwehJesus, and Yahweh, and El, etc., are names for god, but not the...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago