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Nooo!!! THIS IS MY HOME AND FAVORITE DZ!!!! Give 'em hell Mike! So many many many good memories there!

This morning, French President Chirac pledged one additional Euro to the disaster fund for every woman 's razor sold in Paris the next 30 days. LMAO. good one

Just saw it on the slashy! dz.coms seems to be holding up pretty well so far

it snowed in dallas too :)

hehe thanks! as I type this I'm on a plane (about to taxi) to jacksonville, fl (was supposed to go to gainesville) so at least I will get there tonight! counting my blessings. anyways, lol, peace out!

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I'm drinking some 12 yr glenlivet in a memphis airport bar RIGHT NOW! hehe its good enough without being insano expensive for an airport. I hope I can use my 10 dolla voucher on this! :)

I feel your pain. as I type this from my phone I'm in a "bar" in the memphis airport praying that a flight to the wrong city (just so I can get close enough to drive) isn't cancelled. been here hours. they cancelled my flight due to "no flight crew available", wtf?! the good news is I am drinking beer and scotch! haha cheers and happy holidays all! :)

If you think most philosophy is pointless mental masturbation or quixotic pursuits then you think you know more than you really do.

I'm sorry, but you really got me chuckling when you put "not rational" and "philosophical" in the same sentence. So philosophers as a lot are irrational? lol. Philosophy is founded on reason and logic. It's the bedrock. Empirical evidence you can touch is another story, but we can't touch 'imaginary' numbers yet we perform great feats of engineering with them. Do they exist? (who nother can of worms :) )

In response to whether to ignore his views on no afterlife etc., where have I said to do so? Embrace or reject them I don't care. The fact that he went from athiesm to belief in an intelligent creator is interesting enough. I didn't post this to espose any particular religion. Also, the post about the drunk bishop is hilarious (and sad), lol. The news article isn't a scientific journal so we can't go into detail on exactly why he came to his decision. The only thing we know is that "he follows the evidence wherever it leads" so either he is lying (yeah, right) or he actually believes he has evidence enough. He has a history of being published in prestigious journals and will be published on his new material too. I don't expect anyone to believe based on this guy, but to establish that there are people who believe on a rational basis, from evidence, and for at least some respect for that. And no, I'm not going to respect some drunken bishop playing golf in a thunderstorm, what a moron. The fact that this guy does not have a religious agenda also makes this article stand out. But it's not very fashionable to believe in a god these days, that's for the redneck states, not the sophisticate.

Really? Please show me what evidence he has found through his detailed biological research. Or did he just change his mind. First of alll, he's not going to just "change his mind". His own words: "My whole life has been guided by the principle of Plato's Socrates: Follow the evidence, wherever it leads." Secondly, the article does not go into explicit detail about the evidence because it is just a news article, but apparently it is good enough for Mr. Skeptic to turn a 180. There's not enough information for us to go into detail on this. Am I making an argument based on the reputation of this guy? Sure I am. But it's worth at least SOMETHING!! But no, his claim has to be dismissed off hand because it conflicts with what I'm secure believing. In other words: As an atheist Flew = Hero and brilliant man. As a believer in a 'God' Flew = Moron and assbackward zealot. Hmm....

Yeah, what does he know, he only spent almost his entire life of 81 years showing how there's no evidence for a creator. No wait, he found evidence, oh but everyone's an expert. Never mind.

Flew is not going by belief. He is convinced based on actual evidence of the complexity of DNA that there is or was an 'intelligent designer'. Now, he sure as heck doesn't know more about this 'intelligent designer', but he has no evidence for that. He only has evidence of DNA which leads him to rationally conclude that SOMETHING must have DESIGNED it. (aka. 'God', not random chance) Edit: What surprizes me is how quickly people dismiss Flew when his entire life has been about exposing the lack of evidence for a God and now he has rationally come to the conclusion that a God must (or did) exist based on his own research. He still doesn't even believe in the afterlife!!!! A deathbed conversion? hahahahaha! For what aim if he doesn't believe in life after death!?!?! LOL

Yeah, sounds like he has Flew definite handle on the issue . . . I suppose. You say that as if he is flippant or half-assed about it when he is actually known to be a very serious philosopher. In fact the article has him saying that he follows the evidence "wherever it goes" and has him stating why he believes in a God now, based on hard evidence. He's wise to say he doesn't know more about what God is, but he at the very least he believes in an intelligent designer based on what he has studied.

NEW YORK Dec 9, 2004 — A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now believes in God more or less based on scientific evidence, and says so on a video released Thursday. At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Flew said in a telephone interview from England. Flew said he's best labeled a deist like Thomas Jefferson, whose God was not actively involved in people's lives. "I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins," he said. "It could be a person in the sense of a being that has intelligence and a purpose, I suppose." Story Here

Why ask if it will be as reliable if you don't even know the reliability of the patriot missle during desert storm? I know why.

I have a friend from Iran (he always says Persia) who wants to see the government ovethrown. So there's at least one who would be thrilled to see the USA topple the current regime.

why should there be so called "checks" when the other party is wrong :)

From Reuters: "The Democrats are going to have to get used to permanent minority status for a generation or two," said Tom Schaller, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County." That's at least 25 years. The Article

boy would i have loved to be a fly on the wall when michael moore discovered just how pointless his efforts were!

hah, the devil himself is probably waiting at the foot of arafat's bed to drag him into hades! good riddance

Indeed. How sweet it is!

lol, good one. that article got a nice laugh out of me too

Bush wins!!!!! Edit: haha, Dan Rather sure looks pissed!