What Type of Government is the Best?
Care to discuss it here?
I would appreciate it if everyone sticks to the issues posted.
So do I...but unfortunately...gone are the good old days...these are the times we live in. A couple of days...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 5 hours ago
Every time? Really? Hmmmm! You have an invisible leash? Color me skeptic. And you do everything you are told Daniel? Waoh...the US is well and truly fucked. Capitulation of the rational. Nah, you...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 5 hours ago
Is China a "communist" country? Hardly. I would call it "state-controlled capitalism" or simply state capitalism. North Korea is a crazy dictatorship, no economic system at all....
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 8 hours ago
The Conner-quotation from p. 531 of The Case Against Miracles is absolute gold.
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 8 hours ago
In the USSR, we (my friends and I) got the distinct feeling that there was no system at all in the USSR. Even the people in charge of it did not truly believe in it. And that is why I...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 8 hours ago
It has taken me 30 minutes to respond, then I lost my longer comment. You were "asked" not to respond. I would appreciate it if everyone sticks to the issues posted.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 8 hours ago
"Wet markets" are basically DYI biological weapons labs.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 8 hours ago
When I've gone to great lengths to support my argument on this topic, Daniel selects not to respond or to rebut, let alone concede.
Actually I've been told not to...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 9 hours ago
And people still treat him as this wise sage despite what he wrote comes off the rantings/ravings of a mad man. That and ascribing his crap to the supposed Jesus Christ/God.
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 10 hours ago
Yeah...I knew what ya meant.
I was just sharing the lies we were being told in the UK back in the 80's. Before the truth was known, never mind out.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 11 hours ago
The possibility of humans maintaining control over machines that can out-think them by millions of times might become similar to a colony of ants controlling people.
The way...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 11 hours ago
I have seen reports and documentaries showing marketplaces in some parts of Africa where monkey meat was being sold.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 12 hours ago
I meant from eating their flesh, not doing something else to the poor creatures. Poor creatures either way.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 12 hours ago
Of course, the IDiots have an answer for everything, even if the answer is IDiotic too.
The IDiots may have an "answer," but what they don't have are testable...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 12 hours ago
Machines - still in the theoretical realm here - will be "smarter" than people, but without a self-consciousness, without any needs that they "feel" and for which...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 13 hours ago
It's obvious to us, yes!
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 13 hours ago
The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve defies Intelligent Design. Of course, the IDiots have an answer for everything, even if the answer is IDiotic too.
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 13 hours ago
I had a neighbor who had a bumper sticker on his pickup that read, "I didn't go to work today because the voices told me to stay home and clean the guns."
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 13 hours ago
Sorry, mea culpa, I shoulda clarified. At the time, here in the UK, the yarn was that it jumped from monkeys to humans in Africa, through bestiality. The idea being that it was a homosexual...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
The real story appears that it spread along truck routes as truckers infected sex workers and vice versa, then took it home to their wives.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
Basically yes, butchered chimps, aka "bush meat," transmitted SIV -- simian immunodeficiency virus -- to humans where it mutated into HiV. On the evidence HiV had spread widely in Central...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
How does intelligent design explain schizophrenia, cancer, autism, and a hundred other things humans are afflicted by? Why do we get sick at all if we are intelligently designed? The whole business...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 14 hours ago
Speaking of AI, this OP just landed into my inbox, which I thought you might find interesting on an ethical basis:- AI for the defense? Can technology recreate the dead to speak...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 15 hours ago
As I say, I don't mind the harping, and if it is constructive and helps others, have at it. As you well know, am not without a bit of harping myself, to the annoyance of others. What peeves me...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 15 hours ago
The story at the time, afaicr, was that reprobate folk were fucking AIDS infected monkeys.
But that was urban myth.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 16 hours ago