Comments by kaeru

1. What's wrong with science as religion

Comment #222498 by kaeru on July 31, 2008 at 1:24 pm

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MuNky82: Smile.

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2. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord

Comment #162912 by kaeru on April 17, 2008 at 4:49 pm

Ha! Who would have thought that RELIGION is part of the GAY AGENDA? It all makes sense now.

3. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153583 by kaeru on April 1, 2008 at 3:48 pm

How does one deport natives?

Easy. You declare them untermenschen and get some trains going.

(But nobody advocated this, please don't bring out the flame throwers.)

4. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153514 by kaeru on April 1, 2008 at 2:21 pm

I think we all need more tea. We are mostly arguing against positions nobody ever held.

This includes you, al-rawandi:

I never said "Send them home", for third generation Muslims.

It shouldn't surprise you at this point that I never said you did -- but the matter seems mostly resolved by now. I'll let it rest.

5. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153467 by kaeru on April 1, 2008 at 1:44 pm

Number of people a you have to kill to make a whole country go nuts:

USA: ~3000
UK: 52
The Netherlands: 2
Quite some others: 0

Al-rawandi, since you are actually on the more reasonable end of this scale, I'll stop arguing this point. But your "send'em home" plan doesn't fly, at least not for Europe, because there is no "home". Third-generation "immigrants" are citizens, at least in those countries with a sane concept of citizenship (Germany being a notable exception), an they seem to be the most easily radicalised.

6. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153427 by kaeru on April 1, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Quetz:

Maybe. But what is the sane response to someone trying to instill panic? Preemptive panic?

7. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153422 by kaeru on April 1, 2008 at 1:09 pm

al-rawandi:

People killed by Global Warming: 0.

How do you know?

8. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153417 by kaeru on April 1, 2008 at 1:04 pm

al-rawandi:

The jihadis only need a bomb and a willing human body which seem to be in no short supply.

They would need a whole lot of willing bodies to make our streets and trains unsafe by any objective measure. I just don't see that happening.

9. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152323 by kaeru on March 30, 2008 at 5:25 pm

I still don't get it. Nobody of those who couldn't have predicted the threats, the preëmptive apologies, the media outrage and Broder's usual ramblings will suddenly start glowing with enlightenment now.

10. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152310 by kaeru on March 30, 2008 at 4:53 pm

But... what was his point? After the Danish cartoons, Submission and "Muhammad" there is nothing left to prove, or so I thought.

11. Beware the Believers

Comment #152307 by kaeru on March 30, 2008 at 4:39 pm

Re Comment #152301 by Dr Benway:

I'm always reflexively defending postⁿ-modernism as a concept, but after reading a whole book full of this kind of wisdom I would probably feel a lot dumber than before -- and hopelessly modern.

12. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152295 by kaeru on March 30, 2008 at 4:06 pm

Wilders, the "concerned" Dutch government and the press all worked very hard to provoke threats. Seems like they finally found some idiots willing to be offended. I see tools on all sides of this.

13. Beware the Believers

Comment #152285 by kaeru on March 30, 2008 at 3:46 pm

Comment #152274 by Bonzai

love is "just" electro-chemistry

Waitwaitwait. This one doesn't fit in. Reduction is not dismissal, and I have yet to see anyone dismiss love. I'm with you in re art.

14. Beware the Believers

Comment #152273 by kaeru on March 30, 2008 at 3:30 pm

I understand that the militant anti-rappists among you have a hard time detecting both the considerable amount of respect this video pays to its protagonists, and its humour. It must really sound nasty to innocent ears. But you are still wrong.

15. Beware the Believers

Comment #152264 by kaeru on March 30, 2008 at 2:55 pm

Comment #152260 by Steve Zara

I may be an old fogey, but I understand marketing on the internet.

Well, then you may have heard of this 'long tail' thing. The whole point of sites like YouTube is that content which fails to resonate with 99% or more of the population can still find an audience.

16. Beware the Believers

Comment #152243 by kaeru on March 30, 2008 at 2:23 pm

Comment #152236 by Steve Zara

The attention span of "yoof" is too short.

You missed the fact that the video is more immediately accessible to "yoof". OK, I assume it's a fact. It worked for me, and I don't even think I have ever been a full member of "yoof".

It is a waste of time.

Who said, "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time"? Russell? Boy, did I enjoy it.

It has failed.

Admittedly, if this thing was aimed at a general audience, it has failed to some extent. You can't take Gangsta tropes and South Park humor for granted.

17. Beware the Believers

Comment #152235 by kaeru on March 30, 2008 at 2:02 pm

Comment #152231 by Donald

I think you are looking into subtleties

I think we have a winner.

18. Beware the Believers

Comment #152228 by kaeru on March 30, 2008 at 1:39 pm

Yeah, this is totally a viral ad for Expelled. Nevermind the wrong X in the logo. Nevermind the almost loving attention to the 'New Atheists' and their respective in-jokes. Nevermind the fact that the 'overall tone', which is invoked as proof here, is dictated by the medium.
Nevermind the absence of Ben Stein.

And by the way, hi (and sorry) to all. It's probably bad etiquette to be so angry in my first half-serious post, but holy shit, go get a clue. I mean, Jesus.

19. Fleabytes

Comment #145526 by kaeru on March 17, 2008 at 5:13 pm

Pathfinder's posts are clearly the product of intelligent design. His orthography is so finely tuned for comical effect that it couldn't possibly have emerged from random mistakes.

Plus, he has bullied clearthinker into posting a coherent paragraph. Teleological argument anyone?

20. Fleabytes

Comment #145343 by kaeru on March 17, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Pathfinder: Trolling means being deliberately offensive without contributing seriously to the discussion. I think your comment about Einstein unleashing lesbianism to destroy the Christian world qualifies, unless you know something we don't know. Feel free to elaborate.