JackC
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Because you're not. You can't cherry pick. If you are Catholic, then you're not pro infanticide. You can claim to be Catholic, I can claim to be cute and thin-both are equally valid. No true Scotsman!
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Well, the Bible seems to suggest that hell is a place of punishment for those who have rejected Jesus, talking of fiery torment, lakes of fire and the weeping and gnashing of teeth from which you cannot escape. And God, being god and all, is responsible for the judgement that sends people there. In that case, hell is indistinguishable from right here right now since god is no where to be found. But that definition seems incompatible with Biblical descriptions of the place. Neither do I. But then nor do I worry about going to Hades or the Klingon prison on Rura Penthe.
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You do know what extortion means right? If the mafia turn up on your doorstep demanding money for protection, you have free will to say no. God is running the same racket.
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It's extortion. When is extortion ever acceptable?
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When the Mafia operate that way, it's called extortion and it's illegal. I find it pretty amazing that anyone could realise they were being screwed and still think it was a good thing. The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That's pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps. ~ Marcellus Wallace (Pulp Fiction)
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Yes...you will still fail....just not as often. If I knew I couldn't win an all or nothing game and would have to beg for clemency from The Man, why would I agree to play in the first place? That's just stupid.
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I can't speak for anyone else but I find what the Bible says to be absurd. It is contradictory, doesn't fit with what I know to be fact, has dubious moral worth and is about as relavant to me as a recipe for Dodo meat kebabs. My lack of understanding as you refer to it, is most likely due to the fact that I read the Bible without the preconception that it is word of God. To me it is just a badly written book of little consequence.
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As an atheist, I could take a shot at "not guilty". 1. No gods before god - check, no gods at all. That was easy 2. No idols - seriously, does anybody worship idols these day? 3. No wrongful use of the name of your God - N/A I don't got no god to blaspheme about 4. Remember the Sabbath - I never work weekends. 5. Honor your father and mother - you don't need to remind me 6. You shall not kill - check, and I don't agree with the death penalty either 7. You shall not commit adultery - I'm not married and neither is she 8. You shall not steal - Easy, I'm not a fucking pikey. 9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor - I don't need to, they do that for themselves. 10. You shall not covet your neighbor's stuff - I can afford my own stuff thanks I don't see what all the fuss is about.
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For me that is the saddest, most pitiful thing there is. Nothing commands less respect than an unwillingness to learn. Yes this is true. But also ignoring the context of a comment to insult is a disgusting tactic! Tell me sir, which is sadder, you attempting to insult me, or the real fact that you insulted yourself? I'm sorry if you feel insulted, that was not my intent. But as a general comment, I think that an unwillingness to learn is pitiful in any context.
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For me that is the saddest, most pitiful thing there is. Nothing commands less respect than an unwillingness to learn.
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Politicians are almost all lying, self-serving, thieving, dishonest bastards and the only way I would work in that arena would be as the person tasked with seeing their proverbial balls on a fork.
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"Health and safety". The amount of bullshit that comes along when someone utters those three words it's untrue. Health, yeah. Safety, yeah. But there is a difference between scratching your arse and tearing lumps out of it.
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I keep one for work stuff, what I did to justify being paid that day, what I have to do, what I learned, stuff like that. It's required in my line of work and quite useful if anyone questions you about what happened and when. As far as personal stuff goes, hell no. It's better that the evidence be destroyed.
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When coasting down a hill in neutral at 90mph, it is not a good idea to remove the keys from the ignition and throw them in the glove box.
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Joe Bonamassa - Takin the hit Gary Moore - Don't Believe a Word (This is exactly what a Les Paul and a Marshall should sound like) Greg Howe - Morning View (Only vaguely blues but one hell of a good track none the less) Seasick Steve - Cut My Wings (this guy cracks me up) And there ain't no one, nowhere, that's got the blues more than John Lee Hooker
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it's probably a duck. If freewill doesn't exist, then the timeline does a pretty good job of fooling you into thinking that it does. But here's an idea. In the same way that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics says that the act of measurement causes a particle's wavefunction to "collapse" to the value defined by the measurement, maybe the past is the equivalent of a collapsed wavefunction which used to described the present. Simply by being here you make the "measurement" which collapses the infinite possibilities of the present into the fixed and immutable past. So if no one is there to measure the present, you'd have to wonder if the past isn't immutable at all but actually still has all of it's infinite possibilities? Or something.
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Only in as much as other peoples decisions can afect me and I can't change the laws of physics. It depends on how good my information was, but predictions of the future are often unreliable so there would probably be no change in the way I live my life.
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Post of the week!
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I reckon that's about right. I dabble as a hobby with a long term view. Day trading is the short route to bankruptcy unless you're gifted. The best thing to do is buy a good book on investing in stock market and read it several times before you shell out another dollar. Then, play fantasy shares for a while and see just how good (or bad) you are at picking a decent share. Remember to factor in all the commision, tax and spread as you work out you fantasy profit/loss. Then you'll have a much more informed view of the gamble you are about to take. This is a game that can bite you in the ass hard if you don't know the rules.
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They have not been that in a very long time. QFT Bollocks. Schools have to have an agenda, they cannot operate without one. Just like every other organisation with a goal. Stuffing creationism into a science class doesn't make you more agenda neutral, it just shifts your agenda away from teaching a purely empirical subject (by the very definition of the subject), into teaching the bastard lovechild of empiricism and bullshit. The agenda of a school should be to give kids the best education they can get. If you try to mix subjects that have no business being in the same classroom together, you will fail. It's fucking criminal that some people want sabbotage their kids future by trying.
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Why start now? The majority of adults don't understand the first 3 but that doesn't stop them running off a cliff with the last one. That's how crap like creationism ends up in a science class, thereby ensuring that their offspring grow up to be at least as dumb as they are.
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I think we should teach FJC students the 45 degree rule. They can work out for themselves that it's bullshit.
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Children who grow up learning that hocus pocus is science will be unable to understand real science or function properly in any future scientific setting. Anyone who insists on teaching any subject in a class where it doesn't belong will condemn the unlucky children to be as dumb as the are. It's nothing short of child abuse.
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Fair enough. At my level of skill though, my eyeballs are only calibrated to recognise three altitudes: up high, getting low and oh fuck. Yup.