Vinny on "Why I Am Agnostic About the Historical Jesus"
Although I hesitate to do this again, here we go. See what you think. What am I missing?
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! · 17 minutes ago
It's obvious to us, yes!
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 31 minutes 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 · 34 minutes 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 · 42 minutes 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! · 50 minutes 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! · 1 hour 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! · 1 hour 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 · 1 hour 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! · 2 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! · 2 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! · 2 hours ago
Paul may have been insane, he may have suffered from TLE, but there is also the argument that he was off his head on hallucinogen's. Here is a paper looking at the subject:-...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 hours ago
The claims Jesus spoke to Paul have the same truth as Allah sent Gabriel to speak to Mohammed or Angel Moroni spoke to Joseph Smith.
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 3 hours ago
How could a Bible with so many crude/grotesque ideas have been divinely inspired?
Just today I was wondering, OK, if Intelligent Design is true, why are there so many stupid...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 3 hours ago
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! · 4 hours 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! · 4 hours 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! · 4 hours 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! · 4 hours 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! · 15 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! · 17 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! · 17 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! · 18 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! · 18 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! · 18 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! · 18 hours ago