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Pfft. A week? I haven't used or bought gasoline ever*. Do that, and you'll see the prices fall (and better yet, you won't give a **** 'cause it won't affect you!). Damn right. One of the many joys of not owning a car is that I get to sit back and chuckle whenever gas prices go up or people are...

True, but the same amount of harm is done in both accounts - none. This seems like it would be *******, yet totally believable. After all, it wasn't that long ago that there was church still burning books down there... Why can't she wear a tux? Most of the proms I went to featured girls in...

This is what I would like to see happen sooner; I don't think being able to drive should be a right. It's a privilege. If you're caught ******* that privilege, it should be revoked - temporarily the first time, and for good the second. Indeed! Philbert's right in saying that even the poorer of...

Yes. Yes it is; how? It shows yet another end of an era of backward bigotry. Not that the last one (old school racism) is completely done with, but we've certainly come a long way since the 50's. By that logic, let's respect the feelings of racist students and disallow any interracial couples...

After reading the article I read through the first five or so pages of the comments there, and I'm just astounded by the depth of human indecency and prejudice (I know I shouldn't be by now, but it's still slightly shocking to see it first-hand...granted, less so on the internet). The bigoted...

Ooof. These are the bottom of the barrel in quality foods; you can tell because they're served in schools all over the place. Have you looked at the ingredients? Nothing in those sandwiches ever touched or grew out of dirt. *shiver* Except for peanuts (they claim to have actual fruit in there...

No kidding. Still... I'll humor this thread with just one question that I'm honestly curious about: offcgibby, does the Bible ever make mention of the soul directly (or even indirectly, for that matter)?

Ha ha ha...I was wondering if this argument would show up. "I think about God and God's pretty awesome. But in order to be the ultimate awesome, God would have to exist...so God must!"

There may very well be things that we haven't quantified and/or qualified yet. There's all sorts of stories of amazing human feats, and doubtless some are true. However. This doesn't at all point to a God. That's fitting the facts to the conclusion, rather than the conclusion to the facts. Why...

Let's see... C° = (F° -32)*(5/9). So -40°F - 32 = -72. -72 * 5 = -360. -360 / 9 = ...WHAT?! THEY'RE THE SAME?! You tricky sod. :1orglaugh

Hey, thank you for your reasonable contributions to an oft unreasonable thread.

An opinion would be that I think blue is the best, or that cars are awful. Or that X politician is better than Y. It's a fact, though, that blue is a primary color, cars pollute, and that when we're dead, our body rots in the ground. We haven't conquered the human brain entirely yet, but so far...

While it's a defense that we see all the time in almost every arena, ("Obama sucks!" "Well, Bush did this and this..." "And Clinton did even this and this!") naming something worse does not make the original topic in question any better. That is to say, Islam may or may not be "worse" (I'm not...

Thank you for the clarifications, Petra. So, Boothbabe's question stands, along with those presented albeit humorously in Philbert's post (which I have read before and it's never failed to get a laugh!), to those who believe fundamentally in the Bible. Can you answer it adequately? Can it be...

So is God. My case is closed. You obviously have nothing to refute anything, so I feel disinclined to continue. Boothbabe summed you up accurately: See, it's one thing to spout out constant horseshit and have it debunked, shredded, spat on and still left wanting and still claiming to have...

Yes, I do. Because the evidence supports that conclusion. And you can say "no, no, no, you, you, you" all you like Will, but just as 2 + 2 = 4, the burden of proof is on you. By your logic, my dragon exists until proven otherwise. So, prove it doesn't exist. Do it.

I don't need any evidence; the burden of proof is on you. Do you know why science isn't a religion? That's a rhetorical question. I know you don't. Science, through the scientific method, is a method of critical thinking. Critical thinking allows revision and new information. Like BlueBalls...

Yes, you did. See what I did there? I employed as much evidence to back up my retort as you did. Can we be done being six years old now? It certainly is. But it may not be for others. Your "science" is a joke. Maybe you'll get it someday. There is a list put up by a religious organization...

While this is true...think of it this way: if somebody on a porn forum, of all places, puts something to you that you can't refute, it might warrant a rethinking of those good ol' beliefs of yours. Of course, a change of beliefs requires a critical mind, which many do not possess. I think it...

...and you've proven my point. The world is a lesser place without him.

You sir, are a very, very bad researcher. I find it hard to believe that you are actually serious in this statement, or in fact any of your statements (the word "troll" comes to mind). However, you may certainly be, and there most certainly are people who hold such views. As factually wrong as...

Re: You Fail. This video is almost hilarious in its err, except that people dangerously believe it. It's fairly easy to do, if you haven't studied up on the subject. The fact of the matter is, evolution does stand up to the scientific method. Experiments have been run with observable evolution...

Fail. I'll take this as a no, and a concession, though I know you'll never admit it. Still, my points are open to anyone else for argument.

Yes, pseudo-science isn't science. Fortunately, I was talking about proper science. Nor does a pseudo-argument stand up in a debate. Can you give a proper one, to the critique of the argument above, perhaps?

You are referring to the cosmological argument, which while is very persuasive, is fallacious. Have you done any serious study of the theories going into the beginning of the universe? More than "the big bang theory happened, and the universe exploded"? Admittedly, mankind doesn't know what...

Indeed; what better a tool for controlling people than provide a being who cannot be disproved, and thus only exists from entirely blind faith? Run it through Occam's Razor: what's more likely, a mellenia-old means of power-grabbing (let's look at the history of the human race, here), or an...

I know nothing else about this fellow, but this makes sense to me. It also makes sense to me that there's plenty of money there that could be redistributed. After all, how much of it is simply bloat going to no-bid contracts and the like?

I think my favorite concept from that book was that the same idea occurred with places; i.e., a collective belief in, say, a haunted house gave it a sort of power and transformed it truly into a haunted house (literally or not makes little difference - the human mind is amazingly capable of...

Uh, you mean the NES? The old school system? Or just over all, Nintendo brand game? Or any game found on a Nintendo console? I'll answer all three: Duck Hunt for the first (why didn't guncons ever come back? Decades and consoles later, and we sort of have something similar with the Wii...). The...

I recommend Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time for the subject of black holes; it's surprisingly readable (there's very little actual technical jargon in there, or at least what is there is well explained). As for Will-E's comment, Science (as a body of knowledge and a method of...

I must correct you, sir, as my blue passport and twenty-one years there versus my five months here has left me still very much American. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4DnNKKIfrM

I'm playing Devil's Advocate here, strictly for the most obvious response I can see to this (note: I'm pretty undecided about guns in general. I think they're fairly unnecessary and we'd be better off without, but here they are and here they'll stay): tell that to someone getting shot! The...

For what it's worth, when I moved to the UK, I did so with a backpack stuffed with as much as it could hold (I sold off the rest of my things), a cheap pre-paid phone, and some loose contacts around the country and stayed that way for about four months before I finally landed a job and a place...

I suppose ultimately that depends on what sort of government you favor; on one end, a government providing little to no social programs shouldn't be responsible for providing birth control, no. At the other end, a government providing a social service probably ought to be doing its best to...

Ahh, good ol' abortion. (Note: yes, I see the sarcarsm. But it feeds nicely into this) Ready for this? Ready? Abortion is good for society. Yes, not just in terms of population control. It's good for you, me, and your neighbors. Or so it's argued (I recommend giving it a read) in...

It's called the telephone, good sir! I've only just recently left the age of the digital social life (Facebook) to find out that e-mail and phones had a use again. It's been a most rewarding transition.

Heh. Oh noes! As has been stated several times, it's really no big deal. I had it the other month. Half my friends got it. And we all kicked it in about a week's time, with or without any medical intervention (I never went to see a doctor, so it could very well have been the regular flu...but a...

Define flaming... Well, I **** to name names, but any exchange between Philbert and HELLRAISER. There's only so much "OMG NEO-CON" vs "OMG what liberal fairy fantasy cave did you come from?" I can take. To avoid falling into the same trap, I'll tell you why: I'd define flaming as any message...

I've yet to have operated any motor vehicle bigger than a go-kart. And I plan on keeping it that way. Cycling all the way!

Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel will be most pleased.

Just make sure you follow that up with World War Z so you can be prepared for just what it'll take to put the Survival Guide in action. :thumbsup:

Same way the streets of London were cleared for 28 Days Later, I reckon. I thought it was a well done, feel good zombie film. Light, funny (the use of the on-screen rules seemed to be just about the right amount - frequent enough to be funny, but not enough to get annoying), and wonderful use...

Re: Fmr. Marine Capt. & Foreign Service Worker in Afghanistan Resigns in Protest of W This is an argument I've done before, so rather than simply repeat myself, here's the other two threads I've said similar things: http://board.freeones.com/showpost.php?p=2620380&postcount=34...

Re: Fmr. Marine Capt. & Foreign Service Worker in Afghanistan Resigns in Protest of W But why are they planning another ******? Why 9/11 in the first place? This is probably the fourth or fifth time I've recommended this book and while I'm sure there are many others along the same lines, this...

That's Poker. Pokemon isn't a game you want to be playing if its chicks you like to poke. :1orglaugh

...but that wouldn't be as much fun! Has anyone else noticed? Politics, like sports, has become a competitive arena for the fans, picking their side and arguing which is the better team. Most of these political threads on here basically bog down to this, with substantial information often...

You're probably right. Pretty typical for the thread to just take off from the the idea imparted by the title alone and spin off on a different, though often related subject. In any case, I watched the video and found the commentary pretty interesting, though not terribly...useful? I'm not sure...

I think that quote there is the model for a better world. This article doesn't get very deep, but just on the surface I think this is an amazing gesture. It either speaks to the selflessness of these folks, or the seemingly little-found knowledge that when everyone does well...well, you're...

It's called Negligible Senescence. Or, at least that's what they call it in various ******* found in nature that don't appear to have the genes for aging - that is to say, as far as observed, they don't die from old age. Their ability to reproduce doesn't diminish, and they tend to continually...

The Casual Encounters section on Craigslist has been mess for a long time. I heard the same thing about the prostitution, but I believe they ended up simply shifting that part into a pay-by-ad service area, or something like that - the casual section is still very much there. But it is mostly...