1. New atheists or new anti-dogmatists?

Comment #117073 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 28, 2008 at 7:59 am

"Dennett, as one would expect from a professional philosopher, has been by far the least sloppy in his use of the terms; but he is also the most subtle and least read of four."

Ok, subtle = less read.

"Dawkins and Hitchens are the two who most often conflate religion and faith in their use of language - and they are also the two most well known."

Ok, less subtle = more often read.

But, oh no, he didn't!

"By being sloppy in their language, I fear the new anti-dogmatists are driving away potential allies."

Hate to say it mate, but you can't get allies if you don't deliver them the message!



Also, I do not want to make common usage of the term anti-dogmatists. The reason is that the term Atheist is better known and will stick anyway, and secondly I think it will make for cheap tacky theist comebacks.
I just know that they'll draw the parallel between the 'religion of peace' (hint Islam) and the anti-dogmatists (hint Atheists).

Of course, this is a complete load of crap to say such about Atheists, but it would be just too easy to use such a term against Atheists, especially as theists seem to get confused between passion and dogmatism, solid evidence and no evidence.

Just another note - If religious people said that they too were anti-dogmatists, and we said that that is what we are also, Atheists would have effectively been dissolved?

Stick with Atheist for someone who does not believe in a supernatural being.
New Atheism, yep, fine as well.

Regards
WHS

2. Are You Right Eyed Or Left Eyed?

Comment #28079 by -TheCodeCrack- on March 27, 2007 at 9:16 pm

I attempted your test Martin. I tried it with my right hand, then with my left, and my dominant eye changed each time.

I then hung a circle, the size of a 50 cent piece, down on some string on the front of my monitor.

I would be right eyed, only slightly, very very slightly, contrast to my hands, in which I am fully right handed, with a superior strong right arm, and a superior co-ordinated right arm compared to it's left buddy.

I am a right eye'r, only very little, to the point it's not worth mentioning.

3. Artificial Intelligence, With Help From the Humans

Comment #27647 by -TheCodeCrack- on March 26, 2007 at 1:17 am

I disliked this topic. There was nothing new, nothing interesting.

Just because a program says "cant do it - help" dosn't mean to much to me.


Computers in the future I'm sure will manage the tasks, maybe altered humans in the future will get in first and do it for a while.

A couple of cents for saw eyes and frustration, no thanks.

4. An apology to Peter Kay

Comment #25066 by -TheCodeCrack- on March 10, 2007 at 1:44 am

God theres some wanksticks in this world. My vulgarity is appropriate as a way of showing that I can feel your frustration in such situations.

Setting you up, yeah, we'll the've be found out for doing such.

But the hired 'publicity machine' in question, is just doing there job, that job seemingly being one that sets people up, takes people out of context, to make you appear 'mounting a personal attack on your fellow competition who is your rival for the literary prize', so a real decent bunch of people they must be, who can do stuff like that to others.

5. British Book Awards shortlists 2007

Comment #24682 by -TheCodeCrack- on March 8, 2007 at 3:40 am

Go Richard! You can do it. It's a great book. Your easily the smartest person in the list, but that catergory probaly dosn't win as many awards as it should. Never-the-less, goodluck to you, and I hope you win, but, if you don't, I'll be very dissapointed in you Rich, very dissapointed!

6. God and gorillas

Comment #20319 by -TheCodeCrack- on February 1, 2007 at 6:58 pm

It was a pretty good article, But why did she keep beating around the bush?
I mean, do you or do you not believe in god?
I think she believes that she is the peek of intellectual prowess by not answering a simple yes or no question, which to me comes across as the opposite.

7. Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical'

Comment #20053 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 31, 2007 at 7:15 am

mouthalmighty

I must say you live up to your name.
How do you manage to type so many replys of such great length?

I think your spending to much time on your pc thinking up overdone comebacks and not enough time in the real world, where things like this are taking place.

8. Did humans wipe out Australia's big beasts?

Comment #19751 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 29, 2007 at 6:49 pm

the pc police got to her.

40,000 years ago man arrived, 40,000 years ago tens of species went extinct.

I think it was ddd...daaaaah d daaaah climate!

I think humans collapsed the system. knocked one or two out.. then 3 4 5 6....and so on.

fire practise were horrific for native animals! So they need to stop somehow warping the fact that continually burning down the bush-land is, wait for it, 'cultivating, replenishing,' bull bull bull bull bull bull. and maybe, Bull!
This article is very, and most likely true.

9. Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical'

Comment #19742 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 29, 2007 at 5:38 pm

MouthAllMighty
"Stop Muslim Immigration to Australia immediately. If there is a violent demonstration on the streets by Muslims, you KNOW you have done the right thing, for the very fact that they are willing to kill to get people of there religion in the country means the problem required urgent attention, no putting it off.


Typical! You build yourself a "clear thinking oasis" and some tosser comes along and takes a dump in the drinking water!

Maybe we should have him banned from the site - if he complains then, "you KNOW you have done the right thing."

Fuckwit!"


MouthAlmighty

"fuckwit", were you trying to be clever or funny? either way you failed at both spectacularly, and the attempted malice of your insult missed. I'm not a "fuckwit" as you so wittedly remarked, giggle at you, but my opinion is a solution to a problem.

you failed in your intellectually impoverished reply to then go on and voice your own theory!

What is mouthalmighty's solution to tackle Islam?
Lets here it! Don't slag others before you give us your solution, that's the number one rule in pollitics. lets here what you would do first?

I'll refrain from a personal insult at you to ask your opinion in how best to tackle the problem, I won't slip to immaturity like you almost willfullly leap into.

You give my theory anger, but no worthy challenge that is for sure, we'll how do you want to confront Islam right now in the West?
what we're doing right now is NOT working obviously, I believe we need to get tougher, step it up a notch, ban mosques from being built.

so what's your theory mouthallmighty, or is it just, once again, you poorly attempting to 'talk the talk' on a topic and once again forgetting to 'walk the walk', yes you do do that a fair bit.

What's your theory that will stop Islam in the West, stop the above article etc etc?

10. Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical'

Comment #19658 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 29, 2007 at 6:02 am

Nope, I was 100% serious.

Stop Muslim Immigration to Australia immediately. If there is a violent demonstration on the streets by Muslims, you KNOW you have done the right thing, for the very fact that they are willing to kill to get people of there religion in the country means the problem required urgent attention, no putting it off.

If you ban Muslim immgration, and they get violent, I say there numbers are low and better now then in 50 years.

My strategy is crude, But this is survival! Being a push over gets you killed. not standing up to a problem, not standing up strongly, will cause more problems in the future.

I believe the people on here who oppose my stratedgy are meerly not tackling the issue and allowing it to grow.

why you'se argue on here against me, guess what, the problem is growing as this article suggests.

How do you'se than plan on stopping it now? My stratedgy would work in a couple of years (in faith no outside presence interfeers)

11. Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical'

Comment #19639 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 29, 2007 at 3:58 am

David james


"This is not the way forward you fool. GROW UP."

Insulting me personally in your attempt to discredit my opinion is a mark of low intellect.
So stop embarrasing us here!

I stand with my opinion, mosques should no longer be built, Muslims band from immigrating to oz.

Someone said the same should apply for all religions, well I agree, but I prioritise and they are at the top of my list.

Your attitude will continue the present problems with Islam, but the future of any western country with your attitude (how do we get rid of islam do you believe?), Islam will get worse and worse in countires with your attitude.
My attitude will be better for our future in this western country.

ps - It's not racist to band muslims or mosques, mulsims are not a race! so drop the usual come backs.

12. Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical'

Comment #19621 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 29, 2007 at 12:25 am

every western country hates the day in which we willfuly aloud those nutters it to our countries.

Mosques have to stop being built right now. no buts. If that happens and it causes immeidate violence, well, better now then in 20 years. I don't want my kids to confront this logic bomb when it's bigger.

And muslim immigration should be banned in western countries iummediately, no buts.
and the rest booted out.

problem solved in 3 years.

13. Grief Without God

Comment #19516 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 27, 2007 at 7:34 pm

Ms anonymous very moving story, I'm sorry to hear your loss of your husband.

They do talk some 'crap' in hospitals about praying for someone. I had the last rights given to me when I was 17 and going in for surgery of a broken cheek bone. Thats right! I was fine untill old mr last rights man thought he'd make me 'shit' myself before the operation in front of my bewilldered and non-religous parents.

They actually did a test on this 'shit' apparently not the slightest difference in recovery between someone who's prayed for and someone who's not. It's aboslute 'bull' that if a homeless man goes to hospital, no family, he'll have a higher chance of dying becuase no one will prey for him. < That's not right! It's sickning!

Donating all that money was Fantastic! The world would be a much better place if more people were like you.

anyway, good luck with your book your wrighting, I hope you achieve what you want to achieve from it.

14. Are politics in your DNA?

Comment #19515 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 27, 2007 at 7:06 pm

No wonder multi-culturalism fails so often. no one can agree with anything even when there born and brought up here. The genes must be doing a fair bit.

15. Radical cleric sparks fury in Australia

Comment #18240 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 19, 2007 at 5:23 am

It's keyser Trad who is the main problem "This is not helpful", thats something I'd say to a person when they call someone an idiot, not when an individual is directly telling his followers 'blow up innocent children on buses' because that's what his message leads too.

"This is not helpful", neither is your pathetic ability to adress such serious issues.

Mosques should be banned, No more mosques should be allowed to be built! What is the government worried about, just come out and say "No mosques will be allowed to be built from this day on".

I suppose we'd all find out why it's called the religion of peace if that was announced.

Yet with each day the problem grows bigger.

16. Radical cleric sparks fury in Australia

Comment #18182 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 18, 2007 at 10:15 pm

The only thing that annoys me, saturates me in frustration, is that the answer is bloody simple.
Remove him from his position, take the camera and microphone away from his insane lips and throw him in a cell.
Than stop funding such religous schools that enable such crazed people to teach the children.

Stop religous schools, stop funding them! No one wants them funded may I add, and with the odd very dangerous person put them behind bars where there no longer a danger.

There is a law here that pretty much says "Don't encourage terroism". Well he said "Blow yourself up in martydom", well government dah dah daaahaaaaaa, daaaaah, put two and two together please, daaaah.

Answers so simple,

17. For Human Eyes Only

Comment #17452 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 13, 2007 at 9:31 pm

Yes, this was a good article. Before speech facial expressions were important. Is interesting how our species evolved large 'whites' in their eyes, which I put down to a few million years of sitting around a fire, in a circle, looking at one another. Maybe and probaly many other hominids (neanderthal included) did too have such a characteristic.

18. Copy of The God Delusion Purchased for $20,000

Comment #17451 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 13, 2007 at 9:18 pm

Very nice, good story all round.

19. Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

Comment #15989 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 4, 2007 at 5:26 am

In hindsight I was a little harsh on him, infact he has a soft non-threatening face, but beware of the dangerous meme he possesses within.
I mean truly does he actually hear the words, does he interpret the thud of his leg bumping into a table with a slight rustling noise of tree leaves outside into some type of word, hear what he wants to here? why can God the great creator not clearly articulate to him his message after all God apparently has achieved (by miraculously creating the individual then, oops somehow cant do the easier part of communicating with him), his communication skills still remain relatively poor and/or his un-comprehendible selection process in which he picks his victims.

So god's telling him 'what not' this and that, and apparently at the same time god's telling these 'terrorists' to commit these acts. Oh god why you play such pointless mischievous destructive games. Why you play both sides? Leave us alone for a bit please and let us have peace!

20. Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

Comment #15928 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 3, 2007 at 9:53 pm

He dosn't even know what the hell's going to happen tomorrow.
What did God tell him pre september the 11th, where was he on that one?
maybe god's giving him incorrect information, so many millions of people can laugh and point at him. ps has anyone given him a mirror? for he needs to feel the pain that his mug inflicts on the rest of us.
Hand him a mirrow, and wheel him off to the luny bin.

21. Do galaxies follow Darwinian evolution?

Comment #15798 by -TheCodeCrack- on January 3, 2007 at 4:23 am

I completely foresee a Darwinian explanation for our entire universe!
Keith you may not notice that the...

1/" replication of galaxies" that you think disproves the Darwinian aspect, anymore then one can notice the bones within the hands are replicating, if in fact you had a different observational viewpoint you might never know that the bones of the hands are replicating. if we lived within one of these bones(like we live within our galaxy) we would not see any kind of replication, all we would see are similar bones(similar but different galaxies) but not notice that they are in fact replicated or within a replicator, that needs them such as humans need the bones in their hand (unless of course were in a freak mutant universe)
As so far we cannot escape the possibly inescapable entity, though we might be able to go to another entity(another universe) but without being able to observe both or numerous at the same time and will forever be in a cyclic(
Also 2/ heritable information, I believe is completely at play here but we are not able to observe it, yet until that extraordinarily advanced program(simulating actuall events) comes along, the computer simulation created by our millions of years more advanced technology or simply and probably better option and vasely more close option genetically altered individuals, (how smart can we genetically make ourselves?) if we genetically doubled the brain size of a say a Stevne Hawkins that 'new' individual would have to be smarter then he is. Lets get to it and the genetically altered ones can help us answer these questions instead waiting for more intellectual freaks to pop up(ps hawkins could have died in the war you know, lets hope no1 smarter did!)

3/ selection, yes natural selection is definitely at play for I haven't noticed any square galaxies pop up, the environment favors a round or oval galaxy much as the earthly environment of the land favors that the large creatures have bones.

The summary is that if our observation was within a bone in the hand (Milky Way) we would notice the other bones (galaxies) develop and change over time (develop as you put it) from infant to adult human much like we witness in our galaxies. But because of our observational view point (trapped inside) we are not in a position to know the bones (galaxies) are being replicated or in fact HAVE BEEN REPLICATED.

Once again if you are in a bone you see the other bones change (form, develop from various stages processes) but you will not know that they are being replicated because of our viewpoint and with each replication there are mutations within human hands as within different universes producing different galaxies.

The nurture part is obvious in that if I took to a 3 year old infants hand with a hammer he might not die(especially in modern-day times) but his hand would grow up deformed and bizarre, much probably a galaxy would to 'deform' from 'nurture' if sufficient force form its internal environment acted upon it or the non observational one of outside the universe affected it, we presently cant notice.

I think we are living within a replicator with its own "possibly not that unique"environment, but it many ways I can see this is as bad as the god argument in that "well who made god" compares to "well who made the replicator" or better put it "what was the replicator's replicator" im guessing a distant singularity and that this singularity does not lie in our universe or if it does is not the same singlearity that allowed for our universe to replicate but a much different one.