Comments by moderndaythomas

Comment #302131 by moderndaythomas on December 16, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Where's the Tylenol?

Comment #298091 by moderndaythomas on December 6, 2008 at 7:02 pm

As I sit here and think about what to say while listening to some old disco number on the radio because I'm too lazy to get up and change the station (and because I think that "Knock on Wood" is an awesome song...), I'm pondering the trails that I've had in teaching my kids about Chucks thoughts.

To me, natural selection need not be any more complex than your average game of checkers.
There's scant need to understand gene transcription, mutation, cell specialization, or population genetics.

It's wonderfully simple in fact. Just like junior has dads eyes and moms pout, junior will have a chance some day, maybe?, to give these things to his babies.
The trick is that these things will be either helpful in junior attracting a girl or not, and if not then someone else's eyes and smile will get to be the next bunch of adults.

Well I have to get up and change that station now because even though Any Stewart had a smoking hit back in the 70's, the Village People, however, did not...

3. Atheists want God out of Ky. homeland security

Comment #295745 by moderndaythomas on December 2, 2008 at 11:13 pm

I think it's safe to say that anyone who cares about separation of church and state, irregardless of atheistic beliefs, is an atheist in the eyes of "yer spit n' polish evangelical".

4. Atheists want God out of Ky. homeland security

Comment #295740 by moderndaythomas on December 2, 2008 at 10:58 pm

Well, they do got good fried chicken.

5. Atheist Foundation of Australia Bus Slogan Rejected!

Comment #292294 by moderndaythomas on November 27, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Can't imagine a more offensive slogan than “Atheism – Celebrate reason!” to a bunch of Candy asses!

6. Is Obama the Antichrist?

Comment #287534 by moderndaythomas on November 20, 2008 at 10:13 am

Oh shit, what now!
I should say something insulting. Or I should question their skills in bed, or even say something that will make me sound real smart.
But mostly I just want to cuss.

7. God Trumps

Comment #286485 by moderndaythomas on November 18, 2008 at 3:48 pm

Pffffff.

8. Educated Catholics have sown dissent and confusion in the Church, claims bishop

Comment #286475 by moderndaythomas on November 18, 2008 at 3:35 pm

"These well-educated Catholics have gone on to occupy influential positions in education, the media, politics, and even the Church, where they have been able to spread their so-called loyal dissent, causing confusion and discord in the whole church."

You don't say.

9. Religion: A Tool to Keep the Parasites Away?

Comment #279059 by moderndaythomas on November 5, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Kiwi

Locking your females away would likely keep them from contracting many diseases.

This guy's going away to fight a war and he gives his best friend the key to his wife's chastity belt.
He tells his friend to hold onto the key for five years and if he doesn't return, let her free.
As he's galloping away on his horse a cloud of dust catches up to him and he discovers his friend out of breath.
Panting his friend says, you gave me the wrong key!

Anyway, I'm turned off of anything suggestively scientific that begins "they propose a theory".

10. Somalia: Rape Victim Executed

Comment #274298 by moderndaythomas on October 29, 2008 at 10:58 pm

A group of men performed the execution in one of the city's main squares in front of thousands of people

This poor woman was stoned to death by no more than a pack of boymen bent on their own impotency with their left hands.

These men need to spend more of their time working out how to keep a woman happy in bed and less of their time fostering a paranoia over whether or not she's got eyes for the neighbor.
It all comes down to useless peckers, kids.

It's clear to me that you don't have to be any good at cunnilingus on a pretty girl, all you have to do is stone em to death for bitching about it.

11. Why Children Like to Share

Comment #274292 by moderndaythomas on October 29, 2008 at 10:25 pm

SilentMike

I'm interested in a system that works and allows people to be free

I'm getting you. At first I couldn't make out if you were another McCarthy, but now I see that you're more of a John Lennon but with some economics.

And the insurance would be for your usual health concerns like cancer or when someone runs over you foot with a forklift.

12. Why Children Like to Share

Comment #274063 by moderndaythomas on October 29, 2008 at 2:53 pm

SilentMike, what are you saying?

I personally think it is clear that all but the mildest forms of socialism don't work and actually cause a lot of needless suffering

Needles suffering for the wealthy perhaps. It sounds as if you've been the receptacle of so much proscribed bullshit that you're not thinking too clearly.
There's no suffering where you're from?
If not, I'll move there. I won't need insurance, I guess?

13. Why Children Like to Share

Comment #273698 by moderndaythomas on October 29, 2008 at 7:01 am

GordonYKWong

Oh.

A pain maybe, sadly no Edison, and um.....no...no...never worked on a tank.
Is matador not a descriptive enough explanation of what I do? Huh? lol.

moderndaythomas....Doubting Thomas? That wacky guy that so foolishly insisted on a bit of proof so many Easters ago?

14. Why Children Like to Share

Comment #273546 by moderndaythomas on October 28, 2008 at 9:27 pm

GordonYKWong
their "reputation" is inhanced by their behaviour

Their reputation? These are kids we're talking about. A four year old is not concerned with image.
I personally don't know what to make of this study though.
I'm all too familiar with kids, as my domesticated automobile will tell you, and they do indeed have an over baring self interest in getting what another has that they don't.
But why?
A throw back from an earlier age of survival while at a tender and fragile stage perhaps.
It would be absolutely essential to obtain enough nutrition to make it beyond a vulnerably infant/toddler age...and this may explain the seemingly strict human characteristic resultant from an early child birth due to cranial size.
Enter natural selection.

15. Faith Attack

Comment #265950 by moderndaythomas on October 17, 2008 at 4:21 pm

It's all been said before. The fear of losing their faith because someone else asks for a little evidence and will not settle for none.
A hundred and seventy years ago somebody proposed a better explanation for all things living than had ever been before, and this bothers them.
The only way they know of to survive is through the re-enforcement of further ignorance.
It's the same reason that Mormans travel in pairs...to safeguard against a better arguement.

16. Maybe We Should Blame God for the Subprime Mess

Comment #261290 by moderndaythomas on October 6, 2008 at 4:14 pm

Well, it's all Gods will. He evidently helps those who help themselves and never gives you more than you can handle, so if your credit's approved, run with it baby! Put me down for a big five bedroom rancher.

17. Atheist group sues Bush over national prayer day

Comment #260534 by moderndaythomas on October 5, 2008 at 4:36 pm

Swordmaiden

this Day of Prayer thing is a way of indicating that it is assumed to be "normal" for everyone to want to pray.

Absolutely! It maddens me that in certain circles your very worth is measured by whether or not you hold faith in something. It needn't not even be something specific, just a thing.
This prayer day comes off as a way for the religious right to posture themselves as the possessors of such worth. Pray if you have it and skip it if you don't.
It's bullshit in every sense; smell, texture, and taste.

18. Brunswick school board to consider creationism teaching

Comment #256852 by moderndaythomas on September 29, 2008 at 3:19 pm

If a process is slow, I can see how that might be a reason to expect not to see anything now.

Ha Ha Ha, I was just thinking that same thing.
I don't know if opening the particular can of worms of teaching creation in class is wise dispite its utter lack of evidence, but, this equal time notion pisses me off.
science is not a democracy. Should creation wind up in the class, it should have time proportional to its evidence.
This should be made clear.

19. Christian review of the Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Comment #254079 by moderndaythomas on September 25, 2008 at 10:05 am

Religion scholars are the caretakers of our most precious knowledge?
More like they are the enslavores of our most precious knowledge. Could this be the reason for the lack of eye contact?

20. God, Evolution and Charles Darwin

Comment #249716 by moderndaythomas on September 18, 2008 at 12:51 pm

"It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist & an evolutionist."

Would my man Darwin say this today?

21. The heretic

Comment #237220 by moderndaythomas on August 26, 2008 at 8:16 am

jshuey

I'll second that. I can imagine a day when reason and enlightenment will have to do more that just converge at a site like this one. I only hope that I'm overreacting some.

22. Pastor Michael Guglielmucci spun gospel of lies

Comment #234977 by moderndaythomas on August 22, 2008 at 10:19 am

I had commented on one of Carroll's books someplace and a Christian had followed up with one of his own. He had said something to the effect that all free thinking Christians should go ahead and read it and that the evidence, to which he was not denying, didn't effect his faith.
Here, I think, he wasn't thinking through the implications of acknowledging evolution and the insoluble relationship that it has with religion.

23. Supernatural science: Why we want to believe

Comment #234946 by moderndaythomas on August 22, 2008 at 9:41 am

The Christians that I know always end their prayer with "God willing". They play it safe here, acknowledging that there are no real chances of miraculous intervention. As a result, if real science fails to cure an organic disease, it then was Gods will.

24. Supernatural science: Why we want to believe

Comment #234583 by moderndaythomas on August 21, 2008 at 4:23 pm

Ghosts don't like me much; I'm much to sceptical for them to be seen with. I have to ask myself, is it the absence of scepticism, or the presence of gullibility that ghosts prefer.

25. Judge says UC can deny class credit to Christian school students

Comment #229282 by moderndaythomas on August 13, 2008 at 10:21 am

Can't say that I didn't see this coming.

26. Optimism in Evolution

Comment #229265 by moderndaythomas on August 13, 2008 at 9:39 am

we are causing animals to evolve just by hunting them.

The travisty here is that these species have not been selected by nature but rather by us. They are then introduced into an environment that is not evolving as they are and still requires their previous traits that had been selected for naturaly.

27. The HMS Beagle Project

Comment #228639 by moderndaythomas on August 12, 2008 at 10:17 am

just looked at the replica.....oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy....I'm giddy.

28. The HMS Beagle Project

Comment #228628 by moderndaythomas on August 12, 2008 at 9:46 am

I got goosebumps.....

29. CBI wants more pupils in science

Comment #228625 by moderndaythomas on August 12, 2008 at 9:41 am

mordacious1

Since most TV shows are stupid, this could be a windfall.

I agree. Hollywood portrays most scientists as evil, or corrupt geneticists these days messing in gods buisness.

30. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #220215 by moderndaythomas on July 28, 2008 at 8:14 am

Appleby

I'm afraid so. Sex is often just not worth it anymore. Too much work (and risk, given the topic) for too little pay-off. Many times, masturbating even feels better. And once you're spent, your blood stops boiling all the same and you can get back to work (or sleep).

I'm afraid that I have to disagree with you there, Appleby. To be sure there are some risks to consider, I've always found that the benefits have always outweighed the costs.
You're talking about the cheap imitation, the quick nickel to the slow quarter. I'm a slow quarter kind of guy.....
It occures to me that there are a lot of Isaac Newtons at this site with a classical education that outclasses mine, but that fall short in the annal's of love.
Please don't take offence, the first chapter of my life was spent in dimly lit bars entertaining drunks until two, all the while nurturing a fruitful short term relationship with the girl that has been watching me all night.
Old habits die hard.

One addendum to the last comment directed at thewhitepearl yesterday. Don't ever change....who you are, I mean.

31. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #219759 by moderndaythomas on July 27, 2008 at 1:58 pm

thewhitepearl
uh huh, Don't confuse, you'll be every bit as intelligent and lovely as ever, but I'll believe this when you post that avatar of yourself in a crumby old pair of sweat pants and a t-shirt (a loose one).

In his best Humphrey Bogart he says "I got your number cookie"

In any case, I'm blowing this Popsicle stand (not a shot kkelly).
Chow.

32. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #219738 by moderndaythomas on July 27, 2008 at 1:26 pm

Apathy personified

Wow - slow day at RD.net

It's thewhitepearl, we're all reduced to a bunch of clumsy school boys around her.

But then that's probably part of your plan isn't it whitepearl?

33. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #219729 by moderndaythomas on July 27, 2008 at 12:54 pm

kkelly

146, Hey, ever fisted a retarded midget while getting rimmed by a CPR training doll? Then shut it.

Reading this a second time, I'm really amazed. What street corner do you stand on at night?

34. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #219727 by moderndaythomas on July 27, 2008 at 12:49 pm

kkelly you must be self destructive or something, I'm familiar with a CPR training doll and I've never been propositioned by one. But then perhaps I wasn't her type.

35. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #219722 by moderndaythomas on July 27, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Ah. So let it be known then, that a raspberry can either be performed against some other persons skin or solo, as when I frequently run out of smart things to say but still want the last word.
Further more the spelling of said raspberry is as whitepearl said. "pphhhhhhhsuuuuuuuuushbbbb"

Now lets all go spread love and joy, and have lots of crazy sex and make the world a better place....with the exception of kkelly, perhaps.

36. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #219714 by moderndaythomas on July 27, 2008 at 12:18 pm

thewhitepearl.
Ooooooooops, if that's a raspberry, then what is it when you press your lips around your tongue and blow????????

37. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #219707 by moderndaythomas on July 27, 2008 at 12:05 pm

thewhitepearl

Unless it is generated from someone I consider to be superior in intellect.

LOL. I'd a just given him a raspberry, but then I'd be at a loss as to how to spell it.

38. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #219697 by moderndaythomas on July 27, 2008 at 11:41 am

irate_atheist

However, now I'm back, may I respectfully say that - to be honest - I really don't give a shit. However, at this particular juncture, I'm not prepared to clarify my position as to precisely what it is that I don't give a shit about.

irate, you're always good for a laugh!

I agree. Masturbation is underrated. And I think sex is overrated too.

I've been through puberty, so don't get me wrong, I've certainly had my share of self love but.........What????????

39. A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Comment #219264 by moderndaythomas on July 26, 2008 at 2:33 pm

conned the church's priest into hosting the lecture by claiming he was the leader of an anodyne "book club." "Someone made a reservation to have a discussion of a book. The name was not David Irving.

Con-men, con-men, con-men. What to do about these conn-men? Hmmmmm.

ThoughtsonCommonToad

When I get this reaction I like to point out can you actually state any of his claims and also can you defend what you purport to defend. The results are interesting usually ignorance all round.

There's nothing said in this article worth defending, sure, and an intelligent retort is all it takes. Some light reading shows the facts. Hitler hoped England would sue for peace while he fingered maps of Russia after he already had possession of six countries. This by the summer of 1940, if my history is correct.
Bad guy that Hitler. My mothers father fought this guy in the trenches when he was foot soldier.
How is it that people can follow someone like this.
Could it happen now?
If so, who is it?
Who has invaded someone's country lately?

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.......con-men.

40. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #218955 by moderndaythomas on July 25, 2008 at 9:45 pm

Personal repression and religion.
That would make me seek out prostitution...........but then so would my genes.........and the fact that I'm a musician...........and I probably had a drink........and a dollar for the condemn machine.

41. Red hot enlightenment led me to believe in one fewer god

Comment #218952 by moderndaythomas on July 25, 2008 at 9:32 pm

Wasn't raised religious. Didn't go to church for any other reason than to say good buy to some one or to welcome them to the family.
To this day, and after all this time, faith still baffles me. What's more, the need, no, the childish insecurity that the religious harbour that drives them to enlist others into their faith makes me shutter with rage.

42. Texas Fiction Science

Comment #218949 by moderndaythomas on July 25, 2008 at 9:19 pm

Information contained in the genetic code is just too mind-blowing to have come from anywhere but an intelligent creator. "Where did this information come from?" McLeroy mused. McLeroy would like to see these assertions and more taught in Texas biology classrooms.

"Where did this information come from"? Indeed. Show me the steps to divine creation. Generate DNA formation within six paltry days! Give me something! Anything!
Ignorant shit.

43. Children Are Naturally Prone To Be Empathic And Moral

Comment #210366 by moderndaythomas on July 14, 2008 at 11:02 am

The programming for empathy is something that is "hard-wired" into the brains of normal children, and not entirely the product of parental guidance or other nurturing,

Why this is a surprise, I don't know. We know that this trait is not inessential to our survival, and had to have been present early on in the evolution of our species. Though I suppose that the Christian set fancies themselves the rightful owners of morality.

Drew said:

Your average psychopath is more likely to be a CEO than a serial killer.

I've always associated wealth with a flaw in character.

44. Church Cancels Teen Gun Giveaway

Comment #210296 by moderndaythomas on July 14, 2008 at 8:19 am

PastorOfDisaster

If I recall correctly, the same thing happened in Australia. Trying to say guns are the cause of violence shows you are clearly not thinking reasonably. If criminals want guns, no laws are going to stop them because guess what THEY ARE CRIMINALS!

So just what has the United States done about criminals if then they don't want to reevaluate their possition on gun ownership?

The main deal with handling and operating firearms is to do it responsibly and safely, and despite many of the far leftists believe, it can be done.

Hello, Wall Mart parking lot?
I can't imagine a place any where on the planet where everyone is reasonable and responsible let alone in the US....REASONABLE?

45. Church Cancels Teen Gun Giveaway

Comment #209977 by moderndaythomas on July 13, 2008 at 4:59 pm

prettygoodformonkeys said:

I'm talking Young Earth Creationist born-agains, 6000-year-old universe kind of shit. I work in a nest of them, and they all know exactly what I think of their fantasies.

I'm out here on the west coast as well, and I haven't noticed many Young Earthers at my work place. Perhaps they are aware of how poorly I suffer such crap and keep their ideas out of ear shot?

As for the right to bare arms issue, I've always maintained that the day I can drive through a Wall Mart parking lot an a Saturday without encountering one idiot, is the day I shout "let 'em have 'em"!

46. Thousands Flock to Revival in Search of Miracles

Comment #209458 by moderndaythomas on July 12, 2008 at 10:22 am

I knew and worked with a pathological liar that was avidly involved with the church. Seldom did a word come out of this guys mouth that did not warrant investigation.
An organisation (the church) that not only discourages scrutiny but blatantly squashes it; this guy thrived in it. It was his ideal medium. He later stole a surmountable sum of money from this company and then proceeded to check himself into the psych ward of the nearest hospital where he would receive further sympathy. This guy knew all the angles.

He was a christian by the way, not an atheist.

47. Flatfish Fossils Fill In Evolutionary Missing Link

Comment #209449 by moderndaythomas on July 12, 2008 at 9:17 am

ALL YOU EVOLINS IS STUPID THIS ONLY MEAN THERE IS NOW TO MISSING TRNASITIONAL FORMS NOT JUST ONE LIKE BEFORE!

Sciros, what? You're joking, am I right?

edit: I'm laughing, so you must be.

48. Flatfish Fossils Fill In Evolutionary Missing Link

Comment #208729 by moderndaythomas on July 11, 2008 at 7:27 am

"Most remarkably," he said, "orbital migration, the movement of one eye from one side of the skull to the other during the larval stage, was present but incomplete in both of these primitive flatfishes." For both sets of fossils, the eye had begun the journey but had not crossed the midline from one side of the fish to the other.

Another fine example of science yet again filling a hole that was once empty. Where will the fundamentals go next I wonder?
And as for the necessity, what about the need to avoid the pull and tug of tides and currents? A fish that has less of a profile would certainly be less under the influence of the tides.

49. Harper says new mosque shows 'the true and benevolent face of Islam'

Comment #205606 by moderndaythomas on July 7, 2008 at 1:58 pm

burn0gas said:

p.s. Harper says, "However we define God, it is wrong to kill in his name". Obviously he hasn't read the Quran or the Bible, and doesn't understand those text's definition of God.

No, he has his staff edit everything for content before hand.

50. Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Comment #204843 by moderndaythomas on July 5, 2008 at 11:11 pm

Laurie Fraser:

Yep - all genres are good when they're good, even country

My grandfather taught me how to hold the brushes when I was but a wee sod. I'd do my best Max Roach.
Give me a smoky bar (not to smoky these days)my sweet little four piece and a fresh glass of Johnny with ice down by my hats to my left and you'd swear you were watching Clyde Stubblefield...But white.

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