Comments by the great teapot

Comment #309774 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Mphil
If moral values are not just human where the fuck do they come from and how can they be justified in any way.
The dictionary definition of morality no matter how old was written by humans.
AS someone who believes animals as mere "agents" I am suprised Mphil you see anything in intrinsic morality. unless the soul exists.

52. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309770 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 2:53 pm

Prove morality is no illusion.
I don't believe it.Language is usefull, but there is no absolute language.

53. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309754 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 2:20 pm

I understand both.
The scientific meanining of them both together confuses me.

54. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309752 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Moral intuitions.
What the fuck does that mean.

55. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309750 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 2:14 pm

my suggestion that man is entitled to his free will is no more than a belief that i have no control over him nor do i wish to exact such control. Morality is an illusion, to me at least.

56. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309748 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 2:09 pm

So worset, you believe morals are more than the desires of man. Then you are a fool.

57. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309740 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 1:58 pm

I too have the feeling white wine is leading me in the defence of the indefensible.
Shmappy schnew yer everyone.

58. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309738 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 1:54 pm

Morality is a very sticky wicket, like god it is man made.

59. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309716 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Why does it say a lot that I would excuse it,Worset.
I am a great believer in free will.
I do not believe everyone should be asked to support everyone elses favourite cause as a matter of course, why do you?
(Although I have also had a lot of lesbian friends ,including my sister, whose sexuality seems to change with the wind(that is all of them, not just my sister). But if I am not towing the atheist line I will leave immediately.)
Your veganism makes your moralizing easy but what of the others.
As a lapsed vegan I salute you.
My new years resolution is to join you.

60. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309696 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 12:25 pm

I believe what bernstein is saying is he doesn't care either way. I bet everyone here has many issues which though deeply important to others and also considered a matter of morality,they have no opinion on whatsoever.
Enjoy your battery farmed turkey, for instance.

61. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309667 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 11:50 am

"for evil to triumph it only takes good men to do nothing"
Until evil truly comes who can say who is a good man.
They are rare birds.

62. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309648 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 11:35 am

Bonzai,
Leave some colouring in for me.

63. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309635 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 11:18 am

So if it had equal status in the court of law to a marriage, but was called a gayiage you would have voted.

64. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309622 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 11:08 am

But why faced with a vote would you deny them the right Bernstein?

65. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309617 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 11:05 am

true.
In this instance, I am overstating the case and I retract.

66. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309613 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 10:59 am

It is not so easy to be brave in the real world.
Ask any German.or serb etc.

67. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309590 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 10:26 am

Surely the abstainer is only amoral(at worse), not immoral.

68. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309578 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 10:07 am

I don't listen to music.
But If we ever have a vote to protect musicians rights in the UK I shall either abstain or vote against it.

69. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309566 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 9:55 am

Did we just break the record for number of similtaneous(spelling?)posts back there.

70. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309558 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 9:46 am

I have jesus for that.

71. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309552 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 9:44 am

True, Bernstein.
It is easy to forget that gays have rights too.
If only they had a history of repression it would be easier to forgive them.

72. No More Atheophobia

Comment #309529 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 9:24 am

I prefer the Millwall supporters stance,
"We are Millwall, super Millwall.
No one likes us, we don't care"

73. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304609 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 12:42 pm

to be honest, I have done it once and alan carr was funnier.

74. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304603 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 12:34 pm

A very wise woman your grandma, she must have despaired of you corylus.

(Thanks for no help cartomancer)

75. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304602 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 12:31 pm

that's the fella epeeist.

So near and yet so far. Thanks

76. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304598 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 12:22 pm

actually why does that not fit, I stand uncorrercted.

77. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304596 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 12:15 pm

where's my dictionary.
you are correct, what word am I groping for Cartomacer?

78. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304590 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 11:54 am

In my first year I had to share a room in a hall of residence, so alas bollocks, as attractive as it sounds it was not an option.
The next few years I shared houses with engineering, economics, physics and philosophy students.
Wanking in my room was not necessary but also not prohibited, so i occasionally indulged but not to such a degree that it affected my social life.
Thanks for the support Corylus, but I am sure it was just a gentle leg pull from bollocks.
Who I have no doubt is no stranger to onanism.

79. Most 'do not believe in nativity'

Comment #304572 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 10:32 am

Jesus
Knew everything, Just couldn't be arsed to learn how to write.

80. Many Americans Say Other Faiths Can Lead to Eternal Life

Comment #304560 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 9:58 am

Irate,
Your wife lives next door?

81. Secularists' vital war on religion

Comment #304556 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 9:47 am

Now you are just "rubbing it in" (as we say):)
sounds great

82. Secularists' vital war on religion

Comment #304549 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 9:18 am

Laurie
I am envious, we never get any snow worthy of the name in "old" England. Enjoy.

83. Secularists' vital war on religion

Comment #304546 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 9:09 am

One day Allan, just keep wishing and you will get there.

84. Secularists' vital war on religion

Comment #304525 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 7:31 am

Let this be a warning to you in america, you are not safe from the militant secularism which is rendering west europe an uninhabital wasteland.
Its a living hell here, brother killing brother, father killing son. The devout gunned down as they pray.
And thats just the pikelet wars.

85. Most 'do not believe in nativity'

Comment #304461 by the great teapot on December 21, 2008 at 3:44 am

Is there actually any written evidence from the time of Mithras (or whichever god) worship that they have a virtually identical life story as Jesus.
I have yet to see any. A couple of statues of some bloke wearing a bobble hat and killing an ox with a scorpion and a dog hanging around doesn't immedeatily bring the life of Jesus to mind to me.
So many people take this as true without evidence simply because, like me, they would love to believe it.
I would love to see convincing sources of these fables.

86. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304236 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 2:51 pm

The Bastard.

87. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304226 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 2:37 pm

Bernard Manning would regularly say to a bloke in the audience " Is that your wife? I hope she fucks better than she looks" Now you mention it Rachel I could just see Jimmy Carr saying that.

88. Hitchens Debates Rabbi Wolpe on God

Comment #304221 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 2:26 pm

Back to that survey,
More people in the UK think it is worse to watch people having sex than to abort a child.What the fuck.
Absolute morals my arse.

89. Hitchens Debates Rabbi Wolpe on God

Comment #304216 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Dianelos"I believe in the baby jesus and all the horshit that is written in the bible and will go to any extraodinary length to justify that belief even if it means suspending belief in a naturalistic world view which is the only means of understanding the world which has led to my belief in said baby jesus" Georgeoudis I think you really should apoploise to Oystein" under some hypothetical circumstance an electron may be considered to travel in a straight line" Elgaroy.

90. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304184 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 1:46 pm

Mark
Fine, I just kinda don't believe he is being honest. He is too old to have had his views changed in the way he is suggesting. I feel he is jumping on a bandwagon.
But otherwise, who cares?

91. Hitchens Debates Rabbi Wolpe on God

Comment #304171 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Mphil,
It is always some petty excuse with you isn't it.:)
Stop reading this site and and get on with your work now. you lazy procrastinating bastard.
And that goes for you too Steve Zara.

92. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304159 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 1:06 pm

No Mark I read the lot.
I do not recognise the enviroment he claims to have grown up in.
In th UK I grew up in Richard only reinforces an already established view. He is not breaking bondaries as Jimmy suggests.

93. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304157 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 12:56 pm

Also
Richards rise to prominance as an atheist mouthpiece comes long after jimmy's rise to fame let alone his university days.

94. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304153 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 12:52 pm

Estho,
Hopefully not. Jimmy Carr isn't the only bullshitter on this thread.
Mark there is also a strong ballroom dancing society but jimmy probably didn't join that.
He would have been aware most people don't ballroom dance.

95. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304144 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 12:32 pm

What makes me say arrogant is most of his act relies on him being arrogant.
What makes me question his degree is the lack of atheists he claims to have known,atheists are commonplace in the uk outside of monastries, although he is probably lying for affect.
PS He does make me laugh.
I also never said it was a low value degree.
Do you have something against Lady di studies.

96. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins

Comment #304134 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 12:10 pm

I wonder which university this arrogant idiot went to.
I was at Leeds University 25 years ago, no of religious people I met- none.
what degree did he do, lady di studies?

97. 'Seeing' The Quantum World: How A Quantum Computer Would Work

Comment #303985 by the great teapot on December 20, 2008 at 2:07 am

Can anyone who speaks craptechno music please translate the explanatory voice over for me.

98. Mekong a 'treasure trove' of 1,000 newly discovered species

Comment #302671 by the great teapot on December 17, 2008 at 2:27 pm

Let us hope we all get a chance to eat a bit of them before the nutters step in and suggest each is worthy of its own rights.

99. The Latest Face of Creationism in the Classroom

Comment #302668 by the great teapot on December 17, 2008 at 2:19 pm

this site is getting way too familiar.

100. Richard Dawkins interviews Derren Brown

Comment #300393 by the great teapot on December 11, 2008 at 2:47 pm

God dammit, Sargeist, I always ruin a gag.