101. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224626 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 8:51 am

OK, Quetzal, you've got me there. I'm too old to know who those guys are.

102. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224622 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 8:41 am

Being that it will take a while to decide exactly at which point to leap from, given the circumference of the edge, I'll consider staying on this side while I'm deciding. I would miss the tea and biscuits. However, there's something up here also ... Jerry Springer ... what could be worse than Jerry Springer on the other side?

103. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224614 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 8:19 am

Well, it appears from Quetzal's photo/map that I can go to Antarctica and jump off the edge. Goodbye, cruel world. I'm gonna go live with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's OK, I like pasta.

104. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224598 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 7:56 am

Thanks, Quetzal, I feel much better now. Had I known about this sooner, I wouldn't wasted so much time studying science in high school and college. I'm gonna go walk around Antartica.

105. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224570 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 6:45 am

I'd been wondering where the Flying Spaghetti Monster actually lived. Now I know.

If anyone in the Fort Worth/Dallas area would like to get a down-to-Earth lesson in flatearthism, go eat dinner at the Krishna vegetarian restaurant in Dallas, Kalachandji's. I mean, how DO you know the Earth is spherical? Have YOU been to outer space? OK, I give up.

My question is this ... If one jumps off the edge, how far does one fall and does one land on one's head or on one's feet on the other side or does one just keep falling? Is there another side? Is there an edge? Or, does one fall or just walk down the edge if there is one? I guess that if I was more of a physicist, I'd not have to ask such questions.

joshuaslocum ... YES ... The 'media' IS a flat earth society ... everything is treated the same, everything is equal, every piece of idiotic tripe is validated, everything is reported with the same idiotic smile ... it's all about nothing but selling soap. It all started in 1993 ... that's when I noticed it, at least.

Also, I started noticing in 1993 that the media started challenging scientific statements and validating superstitious statements. They stopped saying things like "This tribe or cult or whatever sacrifices a chicken because they believe that it does such and such." They would say "This tribe, etc. sacrifices a chicken because it does such and such." But, if a scientific statement was made, it was just the opposite, they started saying "Scientists believe, etc., etc." It all got reversed. I guess a stupid populace buys more soap.

106. Richard Dawkins branded 'secularist bigot' by veteran philosopher

Comment #224122 by Border Collie on August 4, 2008 at 6:37 am

'branded a bigot' ... One of the two primary sanctimonious 'weapons' utilized by the PC Whiner Police in the 21st century. The other is 'I'm offended'. Who pays these people anyway?!

107. Embracing goodness, without God

Comment #223857 by Border Collie on August 3, 2008 at 2:26 pm

I've been having arguments about the difference between belief and conclusions based on observation of evidence with my fundamentalist family and relatives since I was five or six years old. They still don't get it.

108. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #223713 by Border Collie on August 3, 2008 at 9:30 am

Aaahhh, Sunday morning in Fort Worth .... The TV is full of rapturously constipated, stern-faced, telepreachers. Even though they are mostly preaching economics (Send me money!), at least, I see no vest bombs on the congregations and they're not preaching about killing anyone. It's supposed to be about 107 F today. Maybe it's the heat that causes the brain damage here in Texas. I don't know. Have a nice Sunday everyone.

109. Review interview: Richard Dawkins

Comment #223530 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 4:23 pm

I say ... Chew them down to their ankles, Richard! As most of you know, there was a solar eclipse in northern climes this past week. Almost every article I read about the eclipse spent at least half of the article discussing, as you might guess, the superstitions, religious connotations, omens, fears, etc. associated with eclipses. Of course, I'm fairly certain that Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and other well-known denizens of TV world came out while it was dark, so that only fuzzy photos could be taken. Nevertheless, usually, somewhere toward the end of the article they might have a line or two actually explaining what an eclipse is. I'm glad that there's a person like Richard in the world to take issue with the incessant, prevalent BS.

110. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #223528 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 3:59 pm

Damn, I get you guys up, pack your lunch and send you to school and what do you do? You eat the books and fight with each other.

111. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #223480 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 2:11 pm

Well, thank Mr. Jesus! At least they don't have TWP confined to a burkah (sp?) yet. There is still hope and beauty in the world!

112. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #223472 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 2:02 pm

InYourFaceNY ... That's probably perfectly true and accurate. However, no matter how passionately the Dutch government ass-kisses the Muslims, the Muslims are going to blow it up anyway.

113. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #223456 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 1:37 pm

'a serious struggle of ideas going on for the future of Europe' ... If Islam takes over, there will be no European future ... well, not as we hope it might be ...

'How to handle Muslim sensitivities' ... You'll never get it 'right', so why try? It can't be done. Religious neuroses have no end and can never be satisfied.

'diversity officer' ... my ass.

'an attempt by authorities to soothe Muslims' ... again, religious neurosis cannot be 'soothed' ... it is a disease, an addiction ...

This is just the start. The 'political correctness industry' will simply become more and more obtuse in its enforcement of whatever it's enforcing and freedom will become more and more eroded.

114. Richard Dawkins branded 'secularist bigot' by veteran philosopher

Comment #223390 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 6:46 am

Appealing to what Einstein 'believed' or not makes no difference to me. Why get stuck on that fulcrum and teeter-totter up and down? We're getting into who has the biggest team and or who has the team with the most authoritative players. Winning or losing an argument with a wingnut or an atheist doesn't prove or disprove the existence or not of God. Let the wingnuts continue to give themselves emotional enemas. They're not listening to us anyway. Like teratonis said in another post (sort of paraphrased) ... we try to be reasonable, rational, etc. and they exist on emotion. Not that we don't have emotions and not that we can't empathise with them. But, generally, they don't/ can't crossover into the reasonable/rational world.

115. Richard Dawkins interviewed about 'The Genius of Charles Darwin'

Comment #223381 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 6:08 am

'Outspoken, controversial, (typically strident also)' ... can't they think of any new descriptions of RD? I reckon not.

116. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #223379 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 6:00 am

Richard of York ... What about the American colonies?

117. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #223209 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 7:27 pm

The History Channel in the US is showing Evolve. I missed the first episode but it's repeated I think on 8/5/08. They and National Geo do have some other good stuff like Raw Science, Universe, etc. However, most of the programming on Discovery, NG, History & A&E consists of: Bigfoot, Sharks, Snakes, Crocodiles, Bible 'History', UFO's, Animal Attacks, Ghosts, Alien Abduction, Loch Ness Monster, other monsters, giant squids ... what did I miss? Seems as if they 'balance' an hour or two of good science programming with twelve hours of tripe.

118. 'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution

Comment #223142 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 3:05 pm

Sign me up.

119. The Trolls Among Us

Comment #223141 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 3:01 pm

The Internet is a modern day freak show inhabitated by millions of sociopathic dipshits ... who doesn't know that?

120. The moment of truth

Comment #223138 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 2:44 pm

Imagine a country of orangutans ... no people. Now, some of our little red-haired friends are Christian, some are Muslim, some are Jewish, some are Buddhist, some are Hindus, some are atheists and some are confused and or just don't give a damn. Did I leave anybody out? Absurd, isn't it?

Like Pat Condell says ... 'freedom from ALL religion ALL of the time' ... seems to be a better answer than 'conversion' ...

However, I must confess ... I'm a Seven Day Adventurist. Something new happens to me every day.

121. Vicar supports Life of Brian ban

Comment #223034 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 10:01 am

I'm waiting for 'Life of Mohammed' ...

Oh, fatwa list?
Get in line.

122. Is Killing Liberals a Hate Crime?

Comment #223026 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 9:36 am

Unfortunately, I'm certain that I know people who really believe that this sort of shooting is OK and or that it's excusable because the shooter killed 'liberal' people from a church that is open minded and supports an open minded ideology. They'll rationalize it by believing that the UU's 'brought it on themselves' by supporting gay rights, womens' rights, allowing atheists to come to their church and on and on. God's retribution in the form of a sick fuck with a shotgun. Of course, it would have been a tragedy to them had he opened fire at a Baptist church because he hated conservatives.

123. Vicar supports Life of Brian ban

Comment #223017 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 8:59 am

This is specifically why God invented Netflix ... or whatever you guys have over there in the UK.

124. Is Killing Liberals a Hate Crime?

Comment #223013 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 8:54 am

Wingnuts and guns have always been a dangerous combination. This guy was just another sick fuck asshole. If he wanted to commit suicide by cop, why didn't he just go down to the police station and start shooting? Well, like all cowardly sick fucks, he had to rationalize his cowardly sick fuck actions to himself. Don't get me started.

125. Workers' Religious Freedom vs. Patients' Rights

Comment #223009 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 8:41 am

The Bush Admin is completely about the scarcity model of existence ('it's scarce and we control the supply of it to you and it's going to cost you alot to get it'). This includes oil/energy primarily and, of course, everything else. Now they're getting into medicine. It's all about creating scarcity whether it exists or should exist or not. And, give me a break, it's all about them and what they want. The American people aren't even considered in the equation except as we can be sodomized.

126. What's wrong with science as religion

Comment #223001 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 8:25 am

'What's Wrong with Science as Religion' ... uh, everything? Hey, which one of you guys invented the word 'fucktard'? I want to thank you for such a perfectly descriptive word for writers of such articles as this and for giving me a word to add to my vocabulary. It is one of my favorite words currently. I thought Texans had the handle on such, but apparently you Brits have a pretty deep well also. Fucktard, fucktard, fucktard! I love it!

127. What's wrong with science as religion

Comment #222984 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 7:29 am

Another mental-masturbatory attempt by a pseudo- scientist to culturally relativize science into the predominant mythological paradigm. A 'replacement religion'? What is this guy smoking?! I see the rubber band binding science to religion about to snap. It is not the obligation of science to relax the tension so that the religious types can feel all safe, warm and cozy. It is the obligation of the religious types to redefine their mythology, if they choose to continue to wallow in it, to understand science and its discoveries as they are.

128. Religions thrived to protect against disease

Comment #222033 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Sorta like fish evolved to protect against water?

129. Breeding for God

Comment #222019 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 12:56 pm

A really big asteroid strike could change the demographic calculations a little ...

130. Faith is not the answer

Comment #222016 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 12:53 pm

'all of our ills are caused by a lack of religion' ... So I guess we'll all be sittin' on the tailgate, eatin' Moon Pies and drinkin' RC Cola when the world becomes totally religious? I can't fuckin' wait!

131. Church exorcism protected by First Amendment

Comment #222010 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Sorry, guys, if I see ANY use for religion AT ALL, it is to serve people, not the other way around. This, to me, seems to be people AND government serving religion. Yea, I know ... so, what's new? This is happening in my home town ... where I live ... I give up ...

132. Church exorcism protected by First Amendment

Comment #221998 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 12:23 pm

Well, hey, since governments have let the church get away with child abuse for centuries (at least), why should they change now? Children have always been the canon fodder of the church, evil little, born-in-sin critters that they are.

133. To beat extremism we must dissolve religious groups

Comment #221989 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 12:11 pm

I like Pat Condell's take on religion ... 'Freedom from ALL religion, ALL of the time' ... more religion, better religion, good old time religion, new religion, back to the basics religion, A religion, B religion, C religion, whatever religion ... it's just more of the same old stuff that has created misery for eons ... separation of church and state - keep it that way - don't ever let them get together and we won't have to separate them ...

134. To beat extremism we must dissolve religious groups

Comment #221984 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 12:05 pm

44 ... thanks for the link ... 'Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice' ... sounds like something from a Muslim version of a Monty Python skit ... Won't it be wonderful when the entire world is under sharia law and a bunch of old mentally masturbating fucks in the middle east enforce everything? Damn, I can't wait!

135. Atheism FLEAmix

Comment #221896 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 9:21 am

'Christian intellectual' ... ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ...

136. Religions thrived to protect against disease

Comment #221892 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 9:18 am

Seems to me to be an overly simplistic comparison and a bit of a stretch ... but, what do I know?

137. To beat extremism we must dissolve religious groups

Comment #221889 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 9:13 am

Yea, more polls ... that's the answer. You'll probably understand what they're thinking when the UK is blown to bits and burned to ashes.

138. Kung poo panda 'The Sex Lives of Animals' exhibit digs deep.

Comment #221875 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 8:46 am

Seems to me that projecting the gay, lesbian, same-sex parent things onto animals is a very silly, 21st century, PC waste of time.

139. Faith is not the answer

Comment #221865 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 8:29 am

TWP, righton & kkelly ... thanks for the laughing-my-ass-off session ...

140. Faith is not the answer

Comment #221853 by Border Collie on July 30, 2008 at 8:06 am

OK, Brits, please translate 'with knobs on' ... thanks.

141. Council ban on atheist websites

Comment #221092 by Border Collie on July 29, 2008 at 10:32 am

... just gets sillier every day ...

142. Catholics To Pope: Lift Birth Control Ban

Comment #220547 by Border Collie on July 28, 2008 at 2:52 pm

Catholics ... Grow up. The Pope does not have any more of a direct connection with God or wisdom or anything else than you do. You already know what right action is ... do it. The drag queens, cross dressers and transvestites at the Vatican have held control over this huge part of the Earth's population long enough. Screw 'em.

143. Brain That Changes Itself: into the abyss

Comment #220442 by Border Collie on July 28, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Fantastic story ...

144. Obama Should Re-Think His Faith-Based Agenda

Comment #220429 by Border Collie on July 28, 2008 at 12:29 pm

The worst thing that churches can do is to accept government funds for anything. They'll have to set up a bureaucracy that will cost as much to fund as the funding received. Then they'll have a bunch of piss-ant government bureaucrats looking over their shoulders and nano-managing them constantly and the IRS will have a foot in the door. To say the least, they'll regret it sooner or later.

145. A third of Muslim students back killings

Comment #220148 by Border Collie on July 28, 2008 at 6:29 am

Wake up, Neo ...

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

Comment #219568 by Border Collie on July 27, 2008 at 7:28 am

This reminds me of the 'The Devil (or God) put those fossils there to test our faith' argument. I reckon that some of my elderly Jewish friends and acquaintances must've tatooed those numbers on their wrists simply to test my good sense. Or maybe tatooing numbers on one's wrist was just the 'in' thing to do for Jews in Nazi Germany. You know, sort of like tatoos are popular today. Whadaya think?

This is my recommendation to every reader/poster of this site ... Sometime this week, because they'll all soon be dead, go somewhere and find and talk with an elderly Jewish person. If they have a number tatooed on their wrist, take their hand and hold it gently for a minute.

147. Texas Fiction Science

Comment #219564 by Border Collie on July 27, 2008 at 6:40 am

OK, I promise, this will be my last post on this story. I've let this bother me too much. I remembered the old joke ...

Q. What's the bad news?
A. Ninety percent of what we hear is a lie.
Q. What's the good news?
A. Ninety percent of people aren't listening anyway.

Given the state of public schools, out of a class of thirty, two kids will be paying attention. One will be a smart kid, the other will be a fundamentalist. The remaining twenty eight will be texting, daydreaming, stoned, talking on their cell phone, thinking about sex or sleeping or all of the above. The fundamentalist kid will go home and complain that they're teaching evo. The parent will complain, the teacher will get fired, evo probably won't be mentioned again. It won't make any difference to the smart kid. He or she will get it anyway. The fundamentalist kid won't get it ... ever. The other twenty eight won't even know what happened.

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

Comment #219168 by Border Collie on July 26, 2008 at 11:57 am

Is David Irving related to Ann Coulter?

149. Texas Fiction Science

Comment #219136 by Border Collie on July 26, 2008 at 10:55 am

Sodomize the minds of little children ...
All the little children of the world ...
Red or yellow, black or white ...
They are fresh meat in their sight ...
Sodomize the little children of the world ...

... sung to the tune of Jesus Loves the Little Children ...

150. Write to UCF

Comment #219134 by Border Collie on July 26, 2008 at 10:45 am

Is UCF a specifically Catholic university? If so, let 'em have it. Get the 'uck out and go to a state school. If it is a state school, what in the 'uck are they doing enforcing Catholic doctrine?