As the birthday boy I'll give you a free pass this time, but next time... the beatings start.fretmeister wrote:fretmeister wrote:About this far...
(Not sure if it is too rude for the regular bit of the forum as it contains nudity and urination - so spoiler vision)
Trigger Warning!!!1! :
Been back for 5 mins and already I'm in trouble!
Sorry!
Someone wrote:I respect you as a Human Being far too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.
Sir Figg Newton wrote:If I have seen further than others, it is only because I am surrounded by midgets.
IDMD2Cormac wrote:Doom predictors have been with humans right through our history. They are like the proverbial stopped clock - right twice a day, but not due to the efficacy of their prescience.
Bella Fortuna wrote:As the birthday boy I'll give you a free pass this time, but next time... the beatings start.fretmeister wrote:fretmeister wrote:About this far...
(Not sure if it is too rude for the regular bit of the forum as it contains nudity and urination - so spoiler vision)
Trigger Warning!!!1! :
Been back for 5 mins and already I'm in trouble!
Sorry!
Did Ms Blyton really write such a book? that title sounds more like it should belong on the same shelf as 'the Deeds and Corrections of Miss Penny Birch, Educatrix', than with Little Noddy and the Famous Five.Clinton Huxley wrote:If someone said "I'll pray for you" to me I'd just shrug. They might as well say, "I'll read pages 1-5 of Naughty Amelia Jane by Enid Blyton for you". I couldn't care less, not even enough to make a fuss about it. Pray for me? Knock yourself out, set to with a will!
The old saying about having nothing nice to say goes double for having nothing good to pray for... Jesus would cure breast cancer, not endorse causing it... then again, he and his dad are a nice case of split personality.Gawdzilla wrote:About this much.
Women’s Prayer Group Praying That the Women at MRFF All Get Incurable Breast Cancer | This Week in C
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Feel the Christian love. A women's prayer group is praying that all the women at MRFF get incurable breast cancer. We just got this email, with the subject line
Just another thread!fretmeister wrote:Bella Fortuna wrote:As the birthday boy I'll give you a free pass this time, but next time... the beatings start.fretmeister wrote:fretmeister wrote:About this far...
(Not sure if it is too rude for the regular bit of the forum as it contains nudity and urination - so spoiler vision)
Trigger Warning!!!1! :
Been back for 5 mins and already I'm in trouble!
Sorry!
I was once engaged to a girl who genuinely had a dungeon set up.
But that's a story for another day!
Or a PM... 
When you take the King's coin, you follow the King's rules. Does it not smack more than a little of hypocrisy for you to be taking money from the Catholic church as an employee while being an Atheist? Or does greed and situational ethics allow you to sleep well at night?JimC wrote:I perform a balancing act every day, teaching in a catholic school. Most of the staff I admire in a variety of ways, but their emotional dependence of their religion saddens me. I have increasingly been a little more pushy in my criticisms of the church; in terms of the hierarchy, and its pathetic reaction to the abuse of victims by priests, many of the committed catholics agree with me...
continues...Analytical thinking erodes belief in God
Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein famously did not believe in a supernatural God, and neither do some scientists today. It now appears there may be a good reason for this: thinking analytically dims supernatural beliefs, apparently by opposing the intuitive thought processes that underpin them.
The vast majority of people believe in a supernatural god or gods, says social psychologist Ara Norenzayan of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Yet there are hundreds of thousands of atheists and agnostics who do not. While scientists have begun to study the psychology of belief, we know little about what causes disbelief.
Humans use two separate cognitive systems for processing information: one that is fast, emotional and intuitive, and another that is slower and more analytical.
I see, situational ethics it is.macdoc wrote:It's a job Seth not a skydaddy calling like some swallow hook line and sinker and try to peddle to others cut the shaming crap ....it's so puerile...
Interestly, I believe that the very reason that religion remains such a strong human meme is for precisely the opposite reason: that it promotes unity and assists people and populations in living together in harmony. Of course, it may be somewhat unpleasant for outsiders, but that's evolutionarily beside the point.•••
I have zero tolerance for memes that have been proven time and again to do damage and promote divisions amongst people and even households.
[/quote]Strangely enough this article just came out today
continues...Analytical thinking erodes belief in God
Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein famously did not believe in a supernatural God, and neither do some scientists today. It now appears there may be a good reason for this: thinking analytically dims supernatural beliefs, apparently by opposing the intuitive thought processes that underpin them.
The vast majority of people believe in a supernatural god or gods, says social psychologist Ara Norenzayan of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Yet there are hundreds of thousands of atheists and agnostics who do not. While scientists have begun to study the psychology of belief, we know little about what causes disbelief.
Humans use two separate cognitive systems for processing information: one that is fast, emotional and intuitive, and another that is slower and more analytical.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... n-god.html
And they say conservatives are anti-intellectual. How silly.Seth wrote: The question is, of course, whether analytical thinking that erodes belief in God is evolutionarily beneficial or harmful. Only time will tell I suppose, but given the 6000 or so years religion has endured as a meme, I'd speculate that atheism is going to come up holding the shit end of the stick when it comes to survival of the fittest. This of course fits with my hypothesis that increasing intelligence is only evolutionarily beneficial up to a certain point, and that beyond that point it becomes highly detrimental to the species and will probably result in the destruction of at least the overly-analytical and overly-intelligent of the species in favor of the "just dumb enough" majority.
Does The Lord take Caesar's coin down there? That is, do the Catholic schools get taxpayer money in Australia?Seth wrote:When you take the King's coin, you follow the King's rules. Does it not smack more than a little of hypocrisy for you to be taking money from the Catholic church as an employee while being an Atheist? Or does greed and situational ethics allow you to sleep well at night?JimC wrote:I perform a balancing act every day, teaching in a catholic school. Most of the staff I admire in a variety of ways, but their emotional dependence of their religion saddens me. I have increasingly been a little more pushy in my criticisms of the church; in terms of the hierarchy, and its pathetic reaction to the abuse of victims by priests, many of the committed catholics agree with me...
The King's coins in this case pay for teaching mathematics at school, and nothing more. I went to a catholic school where all the brothers knew who among the secular teachers that were contracted by the school was an atheist, and saw no ethical problem with that.Seth wrote:When you take the King's coin, you follow the King's rules. Does it not smack more than a little of hypocrisy for you to be taking money from the Catholic church as an employee while being an Atheist? Or does greed and situational ethics allow you to sleep well at night?JimC wrote:I perform a balancing act every day, teaching in a catholic school. Most of the staff I admire in a variety of ways, but their emotional dependence of their religion saddens me. I have increasingly been a little more pushy in my criticisms of the church; in terms of the hierarchy, and its pathetic reaction to the abuse of victims by priests, many of the committed catholics agree with me...
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