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Comments by Diacanu


1251. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #126980 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Steve Zara-

Okay, dokey then...

1252. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #126975 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 3:25 pm

Hey, without Milton, you can't understand Wrath Of Khan.

And where would us nerds be without Wrath, eh?

See, it all connects.

*Wink*

1253. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #126972 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 3:22 pm

Steve Zara-

the Professor has asked us to address him in this manner)


He has??

...IIII dunno, that seems like something ya earn...

*To RD*

Can I just call ya Doc or prof or something?

1254. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126682 by Diacanu on February 13, 2008 at 11:54 pm

Wooter-

Go play in traffic.

There's a good boy.

1255. Are Darwin's Theories Fact or Faith Issues?

Comment #126588 by Diacanu on February 13, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Nevermind that all creationist have for evidence is...

"Bible says".

"How is that evidence?".

"Cuz I say so".

1256. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #126528 by Diacanu on February 13, 2008 at 12:52 pm

(Sung to the tune of the "Bill Nye the science guy", theme)

Bill Maher the science tard!!

Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill!!

Bill Maher the science tard!!

There, now it's stuck in your head too, enjoy.

1257. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126319 by Diacanu on February 13, 2008 at 1:19 am

Imprambulantly!

1258. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126317 by Diacanu on February 13, 2008 at 1:16 am

"Evolsify", is what happens when your mitochondria are expholiating.

It's a fairly cromulent word.

1259. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126290 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 9:59 pm

Well, I'm sure the invisible sky daddy is proud of his behavior.

Patting him on his little pointy head with his big invisible hand, and tossing him a Scooby snack with the other.

1260. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126285 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 9:39 pm

Hitting the troll button on you, wooter.

Advising everyone else to do the same.

1261. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126283 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 9:33 pm

Piss off, wooter.

You're a self caricature now.

1262. Murder plot against Danish cartoonist

Comment #126279 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 9:26 pm

I'd just like to state for the record, that I despise radical islam as both a religion, and a culture, and I believe it deserves no respect or tolerance, and has earned absolutely nothing but ridicule.

And if that offends anyone, good.
I want to offend you.
You earned that shit.
Taste it.

If your deity can't handle some words, and some cartoons, he's a fucking pussy.
A pussy God of a mongrel religion.

There, how's that?

Clear enough?

1263. Murder plot against Danish cartoonist

Comment #126271 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 8:58 pm

*Skims*

Okay, so what have we got here so far?

We got Bissu arguing that there can be "too much", freedom of speech if it "antagonizes", and "hurts the belief of muslims".

And then we got jaster who seems to be pro torture,...sort of.

Have I got it right?

1264. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126167 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 2:22 pm

krisking-

Please, answer my question in post 224.

1265. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126151 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 2:01 pm

krisking-

That doesn't mean that I am going to be easily convinced of atheism.


Why?
You were easily convinced of theism.
And all theism has going for it is wish-thinking.

1266. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126144 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Steve Zara-

..or can you provide evidence for the existence of God?


Steve's right.

Theists make the claim of the God hypothesis.
It's up to you guys to prove it.

Not "we say there's God, you atheists disprove it".

1267. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126139 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 1:45 pm

krisking-

You seem convinced that that Jesus may not have existed. There are scholars who would offer strong arguments against this proposition.


But not the slightest scrap of evidence that he had magical superpowers.

1268. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126119 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Anna's right, sorry for lashing out, Krisking, guess I still got wooter's crap on my mind...

1269. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126097 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 12:56 pm

krisking-

Take me to the moon.


Sorry, I don't swing that way.

1270. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126079 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 12:48 pm

krisking-

I'm sure God is perfectly capable of looking after himself.


Then why does his fanclub need to keep blathering at us?

1271. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126071 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 12:42 pm

krisking-

You mean we are so highly evolved that we have actually lost some useful attributes!


Hey, our appendix has withered away.
As has our tail.

Can't we help evolution along a bit?


Thanks to our technological society, there really aren't any more evolutionary pressures pushing us to grow wings or something.

There aren't anymore thumbs coming down the pike.

And our brains can't get any bigger, and still be able to be born naturally.

So, we've got to make our ideas better.

1272. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126057 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 12:28 pm

krisking-


Yes, you would have there would be at least one tribe of people that could grow new limbs......like some creatures can!!

Now that would be quite an advantage.


I assume you're implying that lack of human limb regeneration is a point against evolution.

Actually, it's because humans are so complex, that such regeneration is impossible.
(Well, in nature, anyway. Tissue farming, and scaffolding may produce new limbs someday)

Reptiles and starfish can regenerate, because their bodies are less complex, and easier to regrow.

Crack open a fucking science book fer chrissakes.

1273. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126042 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 12:07 pm

Ain't it nifty how creationists demand every gap be filled down to the quantum level for Darwinism to be true, but for creationism to be true, all they need is a crummy book of fairy tales that half of them haven't read all the way through?

Great stuff.

1274. Why multiculturalism must be abandoned

Comment #126035 by Diacanu on February 12, 2008 at 11:58 am

Anna-

Rowwrr!!

*Eyebrow wiggle*

1275. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #125721 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 11:13 pm

aznxscorpion517-

I'm all for living a healthy lifestyle. However, I see no reason why you can't be the healthiest person in the whole world and still not get a disease or some kind of illness that needs medical treatment.


Two words, Jim Fixx.

1276. Why Darwin matters

Comment #125717 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 10:51 pm

wooter-

Darwin and his theory is not even a prerequisite to understand the creation since it is not based on logic and reason


You're a crackpot.

A flat out crackpot.

Please, go away.

1277. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #125702 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 9:33 pm

GSP-

I wonder then if you would be interested in cutting back certain aspects of your lifestyle


Such as?

1278. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #125697 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 9:24 pm

GSP-


You're missing the point.


I get the point, but it's a pointless point.

You LITERALLY think doctors think they can eliminate ALL disease??

No, they're going to try to wipe out as many as they can.

We wouldn't have as many treatments and cures if they didn't.

Given the goal is to whup as many diseases as possible, more is better than less, so one would naturally want to get as close as theoretically possible to the "all", end of the spectrum, then the "none", end of the spectrum.

So, at worst, they're guilty of rounding upward a bit high.

Big fuckin' whoop.

Let them.
It works.

1279. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #125691 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 9:11 pm

GSP-


I have just finished applying my reasoning to law enforcement and trash collection. And the reasoning would be the same, IF law enforcement's goal was the elimination of all crime and trash collection's goal was the elimination of all trash. But I don't think either of these claims the elimination of their respective concerns as their goal.


So, that little matter of semantics matters to you enough to stick in your craw, eh?

Okay, so what's the answer to make that bit of "illogic", go away?

What diseases should doctors slack off on, or give up on entirely, because "oh well, they won't cure them anyway"?

Frankly, I want a garbage man who picks up everyone's trash every week, not one who goes "ah, well, there'll always be more trash anyway, fuck it".

1280. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #125685 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 8:58 pm

GSP-

My point is merely a criticism of what I believe to be modern medicine's goal: the elimination of disease. I believe a goal such as this is unattainable and hence the driving force behind the discipline is irrational.


Oh, wow, that's fuckin' retarded.

Apply that reasoning to law enforcement, or trash collection, and see what you get.

1281. Battle of the Chambersburg billboards

Comment #125683 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 8:52 pm

...well, I guess Steve's silence on the matter means he isn't gonna cry, and call me a stupid head, and throw a pickled fetus at me over the matter.

So, there's yet another point not on christianity's side of the scoreboard.

1282. Battle of the Chambersburg billboards

Comment #125678 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 8:36 pm

Oh, and also, transhumanism is fat, smelly, and its mother is a whore.

And did I mention the smell?

Oh yes.

Oh yes.

*Nods*

1283. Battle of the Chambersburg billboards

Comment #125677 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 8:34 pm

Actually, it was the new orange Listerene.

1284. Battle of the Chambersburg billboards

Comment #125662 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 7:56 pm

LorienRyan-

ROFL!!

What a coinkydink!

I watched an episode of this show where this woman was such a bad alcoholic, she was drinking mouthwash, and her husband tried to get her mouthwash bottle away from her and yeow!

Yeah, I seen that reaction.
Very similar.

1285. Battle of the Chambersburg billboards

Comment #125658 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 7:47 pm

It's GOT to be surrigating one's self esteem to an outside source that's the factor, because you never see the deep personal offense when it's about politics.

You can call George Bush a drooling retard monkey whose kryptonite is pretzels, and who roasted his brain with too much blow, and you'll never get a republican as indignant as when you slag off God to a christian.

Hell, slag Darwin and/or evolution to me, it'll roll off my back.
I'll have to correct their misrepresentations, but still...I don't weep over it.

Okay, one thing, one thing I've found I can piss other atheists off about if I go after.

Transhumanism.

Hoo-oo-oo-LY shit!
I had no idea how many geeks were in love with this panacea.
WOW!

Watch.

Steve, transhumanism sucks.
It's the death of humanity.
Discuss.

*Evil wink*

1286. Battle of the Chambersburg billboards

Comment #125651 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 7:25 pm

LorienRyan-

Yes, exactly. Also the person has a base emotional attachment to the concept of God itself. The idea of God fills them with feelings of wonder, like a drug.


As we say in Maine, ayuh.

1287. Battle of the Chambersburg billboards

Comment #125649 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 7:23 pm

Steve Zara-

I think in this case, because he doesn't want to. I suspect he is attempting to get sympathy by appearing to be a victim.


And then there's that whole martyrdom addiction christians have going on.

It's really a nasty soup of negative human traits they've got bubbling there.

1288. Battle of the Chambersburg billboards

Comment #125645 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 7:09 pm

satanhimself1955-

Why is it so hard for him to differentiate between ideas and the people who espouse them?


Because the religionist credits God with everything good about themself, so to attack God is to attack their own personal human dignity.

That's the forcefield religion has constructed around itself.

Criticize the religion in any way, the religionsts jump in front of the bullet for their imaginary friend.

It's really quite frustrating.

1289. Exorcism undergoes a revival across Europe

Comment #125561 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 3:37 pm

Ugh...

Beware any organization with "concerned", "family", "focus", or "youth", in its name.

1290. Christopher Hitchens on Books & Ideas

Comment #125450 by Diacanu on February 11, 2008 at 11:48 am

al-rawandi-

Ooo!! Can you PM me that theory too?
*Rubs hands*

1291. Why Darwin matters

Comment #125063 by Diacanu on February 10, 2008 at 9:07 pm

Oh, no, no, Darwin is the chosen prophet of the atheist religion.
The christians say so.

1292. Why Darwin matters

Comment #125058 by Diacanu on February 10, 2008 at 8:55 pm

Of course, the only evidence I have left is the crusty hanky I blew my nose on as I cried myself to sleep after the firing.

You believe me doncha?

I mean, that's enough to base a faith on, right?

1293. Why Darwin matters

Comment #125053 by Diacanu on February 10, 2008 at 8:47 pm

I designed the pink bungadoo!
A tree that's 8 miles tall, bright red, and smells terrible!
God fired me after that.
:(

1294. Sharia fiasco

Comment #124989 by Diacanu on February 10, 2008 at 3:21 pm

I get a kick out of Bill Maher sometimes, but his views on relationships are stunted in adolescence, and he honestly and stubbornly believes Vietnam helped win the cold war.

1295. Christopher Hitchens on Books & Ideas

Comment #124968 by Diacanu on February 10, 2008 at 2:14 pm

Peacebeaponme-

btw - your avatar. explain. witch, samurai, what?


Vampire Hunter D.

He's from the anime of the same name.

He's sort of a cross between Batman, Lestat, and Clint Eastwood's the man with no name.

Check out "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust", sometime, it's a good flick.

1296. Christopher Hitchens on Books & Ideas

Comment #124957 by Diacanu on February 10, 2008 at 1:37 pm

He's shining you all on.
All he cares about is hearing his own blather.
He's a blackhole of narcissism.
You're not going to get through to some core fleck of human conscience, or whatever you think is going to happen arguing with him.
There's just a bag of self-absorption, ego, bullshit,and greed where a human being used to be.
He's gone.
All Randroids are gone.
They're Borg assimilated.
Lost cause, move along, folks.

1297. Sharia fiasco

Comment #124940 by Diacanu on February 10, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Steve Zara-

Indeed, and this is one of the great issues for Europe in the near future, I believe. How does a liberal democracy cope if it contains a significant minority who disagree with the liberal attitude?


Well,...don't know what to tell ya.

Try to reason respectively...but seems you've tried that, and got bad compromises for your troubles...

Tell 'em to take a flying fuck off a rolling donut like Pat Condell suggests seems the next step.

If they dig in their feet,...well, sad to say, lead might have to fly.

Yeah, you sweet tea sipping types can't handle that, it's okay, you don't have to, you limeys have rednecks, chavs I think you call 'em, arm your chavs, pump 'em full of propaganda, aim 'em in the right direction.

I really, really, really, really, hope it doesn't come to that though, but...if it crosses a certain threshold...what else ya gonna do?

The run away to Switzerland option I hear a lot, but come on...

1298. Sharia fiasco

Comment #124913 by Diacanu on February 10, 2008 at 12:16 pm

Steve-

Well, fundamentalist islam is flat out incompatible with liberal democracy.

Thomas Jefferson knew this way back with the Barbary pirates.

1299. Christopher Hitchens on Books & Ideas

Comment #124910 by Diacanu on February 10, 2008 at 12:11 pm

scooternyc-

As the greatly admired Hitchens would say,...


Yeah, well, Hitchens fuckin hates Ayn Rand, so there's another reason why I dig him.

*Smirk, finger*

1300. Sharia fiasco

Comment #124864 by Diacanu on February 10, 2008 at 11:28 am

Richard-

That's what it is, empire guilt?

Well, you guys can't let yourselves get too emo about the guilt, or it becomes suicidal.

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