Rob Larrikin (10-22-2018)
Rob Larrikin (10-22-2018)
True and it reminds me of a "story".
There was a flood and people were evacuating.
One man decided to stay and pretty soon the water surrounded his home.
A man in a canoe came by and told him - "Get in, I've got room for you and I'll take you to safety".
The man said - "No thanks, I'm putting my trust in the Lord".
Pretty soon the water go higher and he went to the second floor.
A man in a rowboat came by, with several other people in it, and told him - "Get in, I've got room for you and I'll take you to safety.".
The man said - "No thanks, I'm putting my trust in the Lord.".
The water kept climbing and eventually the man had to get on his roof.
A man in a speedboat came by, with several other people in it, and told him - "You're the last one left; get in, I've got room for you and I'll take you to safety.".
The man said - "No thanks, I'm putting my trust in the Lord.".
The water kept climbing and the man eventually drowned.
As he was standing by the Pearly Gates, he complained to God - "I put my trust in you, why didn't you save me?".
And God replied - "I sent three boats.".
SEDITION: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.
Noted."I find your observations nothing short of disgusting." M #665
However I also note, "disgusting", the exact word you've chosen & used, is not a synonym for incorrect.
So you're not disputing my account, merely confessing "I find your observations nothing short of disgusting."
I'd invite you to refute any fact you believe I've stated in error. But if you could do that you'd already have done so. So what you're hinting at is that you find a reliable accounting of history "disgusting".
Perhaps you're right. Torquemada paved the way for ISIL, in chronology if not ideology / methodology.
Oh?"The acceleration rate of science with the DEATH of religion has been exponential." M
We'd need a precise definition of terms. But I suspect there are more religionists alive today than there were when JC strode the Earth (IF JC strode the Earth at all).
I suppose that thought has crossed many a freethinker's mind. Seth MacFarlane did so in charming animation."Imagine if you will where we could be already if not for the church's antipathy for science." M
BUT !!
I've never seen a one-sided coin.
Where would science be without great scientific contributors like Sir Isaac Newton?
In some rare cases perhaps."Scientists had to censor their own work not to be killed by christians. Yuck." M #666 (savor the irony)
But your free-floating, un-articulated resentment seems akin to that of jilted lover more than acknowledgement of history.
In any case, even if Sir Isaac did feel some pressure to avoid appearing to be religiously incorrect, I seriously doubt that explains why Newton listed his fundamental of physics with three laws, rather than the one (singular) insisted upon earlier in this thread.
Please note, for the remainder of this post IN #671 takes both sides of the argument.
That's a dismissal, not a logical refutation."Circular argument fallacy (fundamentalism). it is not possible to prove any god or gods exist." IN #671
And not only is my proof here to fore un-assailed. It, unlike some lesser religious approaches, has utility for skeptics, agnostics, and perhaps even atheists.
Excellent."The Theory of Creation is but one theory about the origin of life on Earth. The other is the Theory of Abiogenesis. Neither theory is a theory of science. Both theories remain circular arguments...and religions." IN #671
You're ruled out the primary two, which means you have in mind the third and factually correct explanation. Please share.
Thanks.
If you understood the proof I've already posted you wouldn't be telling me that. For if you understood the proof I've already posted, you'd then understand I've already told you that."BTW, the Theory of Creation does not even require a god as the 'intelligence'. " IN #671
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
I'd be careful to consider it a binary."believed all of the witchdoctor's words."
It's easy to "misunderestimate" the uneducated mind.
But even a few astute cave dwellers realized, skepticism is a 3rd option.
They lacked many of the mental / thinking tools we have in the 3rd millennium.
BUT !!
What resulted was they honed those fewer thinking tools they had to an even finer edge. Neville Chamberlain didn't invent appeasement. He just shmeared a more vivid shade of lipstick on it.
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
Guno צְבִי (10-22-2018), iolo (10-22-2018), Micawber (10-22-2018)
Some crazed religions believe that ' god ' views them as ' chosen ' and born to rule. These crazies do not simply comtain their beliefs harmlessly but create mayhem by attempting to manifest their delusions in the physical world.
Did you know that Stephen Hawking was very popular with the Palestinians- almost revered ? He must have been very unpopular with neoZionists and their Evangelical backers.
How Stephen Hawking supported the Palestinian cause
The renowned scientist, who has passed away, will be remembered not only for his work, but his support for Palestine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/...085553648.html
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
PP #684
Newton didn't secure a patent on gravity. The apocryphal story is about the apple that fell on Newton's head.
The factual scientific contributions Newton made are far more impressive.
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
Guno צְבִי (10-22-2018)
Trumptards like to conflate the appropriation by a despot of resources to consolidate power with marxism, which is ostensibly doing something similar
but for a far different purpose, to transfer the means of production out of the hands of the ruling class to the people. They don't actually believe it, they just enjoy trolling
fake history to try and take away from the obvious similarities between other infamous despotic rulers use of propaganda, oppression of outgroups, nationalism, fear and their god, Trump.
The similarities between Hitlers political philosophy and Trump is obvious. Trump treats "good white christian people" as a master race.
Frank Apisa (10-22-2018)
M #688
You buyin'?
M,
I could try to 'splain it again.
But perhaps even more constructive for you in your case, an insight from a wise man:
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to ones self-esteem." "Pride and vanity can thus be greater obstacle to learning than stupidity." psychiatrist Thomas Szasz MD
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
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