jakee

It's the same as being sure that lots of Trump supporters approve of high military spending and lots of Hillary supporters approve of government health care. You understand that there are trends in how people's political views align, right? Support or opposition on different topics isn't aways completely random. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

What evidence do you have that the ingrates that support trump support three strikes? A) Because it's a Republican policy, and Trump supporters are mostly Republican leaning. B) Trump offers simple, soundbite policies, Trump supporters like simple soundbite policies and '3 strikes' is a simple, sounbite policy. It's a pretty basic convergence. Are you saying there aren't many '3 strikes' supporters among Trump voters? If so, why do you think that? BTW, ingrates? Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Basic observational skills. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

And who takes the brunt of the bankruptcies? Hard working people. Small family businesses. The guys who are last in the line of creditors, people who've spent thousands delivering the product they were contracted for and wont see a penny in return. The funny thing is I'm sure a lot of people who support Trump support 3 strike laws that lock up petty shoplifters for life because of the immense harm that stealing a pizza slice does to a shop owner - yet Trump welching on debts large enough to put his victims out of business just shows what a smart, great, fantastic, just the best, amazing guy he is. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

But you can buy GHWB socks, so they've got the important bases covered. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

That's because the scientific method is used for finding out about things that objectively exist. There is no objective reason why the universe exists, there is no objective purpose for humanity. If you need to know why and for what purpose we are here then you've just got to make something up. And yeah, that's what spiritual discernment' is for. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

No, but you might want to be more careful at the dinner table Do you want to have an ideagasm?

God messed with that guy's free will because he really, really cares about the state of your bank account? Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Doesn't matter what you have invested. You made up your mind along time ago about how you view any religious debate wrt who the antagonists are and it really doesn't matter what's being said, you'll see it through the same prism regardless. Hell, you even trotted out your 'stupid atheists believe in karma' strawman last week, which is beyond absurd. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

What has that got do do with it? How disingenuous of you is it to talk about different religions plotting against atheists, when you should know that has fuck all to do with what was being claimed?The claim was that there was a stigma against faith. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

As always, you see what you want to see. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Lo dude that's fucking hilarious. There isn't a nation on earth where people of faith don't grossly outnumber people of no faith, and there isn't a democratic nation on earth where most of the politicians don't espouse their faith on the campaign trail. So where does the anti faith stigma come from? Seriously, spare us the 'poor oppressed majority' bullshit. It doesn't play any better from you guys than it does from white supremacists crying about the war on anglosaxons. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Haaaaaahahahahahahahah! That didn't turn out the way you expected, did it? Do you want to have an ideagasm?

I think you misunderstand. I'd say there are two evolutionary characteristics at play, curiosity and wanting to fit in. Curiosity and the desire to understand things is what made us smart in the first place. Wanting to figure out how to do things, how to make things and to understand how things work. A consequence of that is that when there is no way to find out how or why a certain thing happens the desire can be satisfied by just making something up. Neolithic people had no way to find out how lightning happens, or what makes rain, or why there were different seasons but they really, really wanted to think they knew how and why those things happened - so they just invented an explanation. Still happens today any time there's a problem too difficult to be solved (or understood by anyone but a dedicated expert). It's where 'god of the gaps' comes from. Then there's the desire to fit in. Humans survive better in groups, there's a benefit to belonging in a group, and one good way to get kicked out of a group is disagreeing with the beliefs of the rest. So, belief in god is a side effect of certain evolutionary traits, not a hardwired one on its own. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

And yet the people who aren't smart enough to realise that stay alive... Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Do you praise god for that because you think he personally orchestrates the things that happen to you, or just for creating the starting conditions that make living in the world and randomly encountering these challenges possible? For this exercise, do I get any other options - or am I limited to just those two? Sure, explain it to me. Well since you were the one "leading the witness," I was hoping you'd put forth the effort into giving me more options. . . Those were honestly the only two reasons I could think of. What is your reason? Do you want to have an ideagasm?

FIFY. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Do you praise god for that because you think he personally orchestrates the things that happen to you, or just for creating the starting conditions that make living in the world and randomly encountering these challenges possible? For this exercise, do I get any other options - or am I limited to just those two? Sure, explain it to me. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Speaking of bullshit rhetoric... Trump sued a guy who said his net worth was a lot lower than he claimed it was. Even though it is. He sued a guy who said a tower he was planning to build might not get built. And it didn't. Obama ever done anything like that? Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Are you meaning Deemed frivolous? Perhaps Opined as frivolous? Who gets to define frivolous? Try all of them or none of them, I doubt it matters. How many lawsuits has Trump personally filed vs how many did Obama work on during his entire law career (not just a community organiser, then)? Who really, really likes lawsuits? It really, really is the guy in the toupe. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Yeah - Lawyers - Like Clinton and Obama. Yes, that's true. The work Obama did as a civil rights attorney, such as leading successful class action suits over discriinatory banking practices, show him to be a far more frivolous abuser of civil litigation than Donald "Am so building a skyscraper!" Trump. Right. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Sweat. You don't sweat? So we can still see when we're sweaty. Pretty much most of them. You just can't tell because it's part of all the other face hair they have. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Trump has redefined "true" and "false" for his supporters. Very reminiscent of Newspeak. Yep. I think the single most insane reason for supporting Trump is believing that he "Tells it like it is". Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Then, again, if you were being honest you would object to loud religious people far more than loud atheists. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Haha. I doubt Aquinas ever convinced anyone who didn't already agree with him. It's poor stuff. Do you want to have an ideagasm?