Comments by Diacanu

Comment #140063 by Diacanu on March 7, 2008 at 12:23 am

*Shrug* for my daily existence, I stick to enlightenment common sense guys like Tom Paine & Voltaire, and avoid supremacist monsters like Nietzsche, and navel gazers like Kant.
Gets me through my day just fine.

When/if Kantism leads to a laser toothbrush, or spray condoms, then I'll look into it.

1502. Fleabytes

Comment #140051 by Diacanu on March 7, 2008 at 12:11 am

Cartomancer-

Actual books don't really spring to mind here,

Then until they do, they won't exist.

*Smirk*

1503. Fleabytes

Comment #140045 by Diacanu on March 7, 2008 at 12:09 am

3900!!!

1504. Fleabytes

Comment #140043 by Diacanu on March 7, 2008 at 12:07 am

...you guys are just trying to push to post 4000, aintcha?

1505. Fleabytes

Comment #140035 by Diacanu on March 7, 2008 at 12:00 am

flying goose-

Re: post 3881.

Well, geez, I just summed all that up in posts 3868 and 3876.

Guess I'm not the dummy after all...

1506. Fleabytes

Comment #140026 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 11:53 pm

....ehh, I'm sure I'm being laughed at...

There's that queasy feeling, like when I went up to the chalkboard, and started doing multiplication as addition in 3rd grade...

1507. Fleabytes

Comment #140020 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 11:44 pm

flying goose-

what is a duck?

That which walks and quacks like a duck.
(And has feathers, duck guts, DNA, etc, etc, etc)

1508. Fleabytes

Comment #140012 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 11:40 pm

flying goose-

Are you all Platonists then? Searching for and believing in absolute and immutable truths waiting out there to be discovered?

Not absolute and immutable, just...eh, good enough.
The whole "if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck", deal.

1509. Fleabytes

Comment #140000 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 11:27 pm

Whoa, whoa, guys, guys, this sounds dangerously close to post-modernism territory here.

1510. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #139890 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 4:06 pm

righton-

No, a long wooter post can be disregarded with one word.

"wooter".

1511. Fleabytes

Comment #139888 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 3:58 pm

Scottishgeologist- RE: post #3824.

Thanks. :)

I just throw it out, and hope it's funny.

Much like the drug addled, puking, gambler God.
;)

1512. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #139884 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 3:53 pm

wooter, how many times, and in how many ways, do we have to tell you to fuck off before you actually do it?

You contribute nothing.

Your posts are diarrhea.

No one respects them.

What do you get out of spewing your retardation?
Do you think if you type fast and hard enough, your righteous indignation will murder the RD.net server?
Keep dreaming.
Ah, but that's the basis of your very worldview, isn't it?
Tsk.
Poor little loony.
Well, maybe it's safer to have you abusing your keyboard, instead of out on the streets harassing old ladies.

1513. Fleabytes

Comment #139868 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 3:28 pm

Bonzai-

Actually, compulsive gambler would be putting it lightly.

Given most of the universe is dark matter, and within the particles we know of, only a narrow band of quarks produce the matter we know, and then only a narrow sliver of planets could support life, and intelligent life has only existed on Earth for a speck of its history...we're talking a God on tequila, crystal meth, acid, smack, exstacy, and cat viagra, who pukes all over the racing form, and tries to rub the puke off to read the names of the horses, and can't, so makes shit up based on the weird mix of melted type, and puke nuggets.
Oh, and through all of this, you gotta remember that he's still totally tripping balls.

1514. Fleabytes

Comment #139861 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 3:19 pm

Bonzai-

Ah, but if the designer were THAT shitty, one wouldn't expect him to be able to slap together a universe even as consistent as it is.

A creator on such a bender that he leaves useless heavy particles spilled all over the place, would probably be too shitfaced to work the joysticks on the machine that churned out quarks to begin with.

1515. Fleabytes

Comment #139849 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 2:53 pm

Steve-

Cool. Tops, bottoms, charmed, and strange, knew about those little guys, but never thought of looking at it from the angle of further disproving design.

Indeed, this place is awesome.
Get my consciousness raised just a little bit more at LEAST once a week.

1516. Fleabytes

Comment #139846 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 2:49 pm

mikejswalker-

What are we to do? We debate.

That's fine.

We can debate from the outside inward the properties of the sort of God that would make a world like this one, sure.

But the theist claims to know the mind of this God.
I'll always demand to know how they came by this knowlege.
If that stops the "debate", dead in its tracks, then it must not have been a very strong case they had.

Sorry, some parades ARE worth peeing on.

1517. Fleabytes

Comment #139837 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 2:41 pm

Cartomancer-

*Holds hands in front of face*
No, no, don't, I'll be good!!

1518. Fleabytes

Comment #139831 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 2:36 pm

Cartomancer-

Greek use of paederastia as a form of mentorship and military induction

And that tradition lives on as the Boy Scouts.

*Badump ching!!*

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week, enjoy the shrimp!

1519. Fleabytes

Comment #139828 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 2:33 pm

mikejswalker-

Just pointing out that the debate sometimes stops dead at the 'where's the evidence' juncture.

Well, what are we to do? Indulge the marshmallowy "God is full of sugary yummy love, and lives inside every mommy's hugs", talk?

Are we to actually debate how many mommy hugs an angel is made out of?

I mean, come on.

May as well get dragged off the side of the road to yammer about the scent of Santa's reindeer's droppings.

1520. Fleabytes

Comment #139824 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 2:29 pm

Steve Zara-

There.
:)

1521. Fleabytes

Comment #139815 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 2:23 pm

Steve Zara-

I am not insecure -

Then stand by your stuff, man.

And no, it's not "crass", to promote it a little.
How else will anyone see the thing?
Criminy.

1522. Fleabytes

Comment #139807 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 2:16 pm

mikejswalker-

Um...I can't remember when we ever asked anyone to prove they loved God...

1523. Fleabytes

Comment #139804 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 2:14 pm

Steve Zara-

I realised that there was not much point,...

If it was of interest,....

HEY!! HEY!! NO!! *Finger wave*
Don't pull that insecure stuff.
You put in all that work, and then pull back?
NO!!
Y'want me to get mad, and put the link in every thread?
I will.
That what ya want?
Eh? Eh?

1524. Fleabytes

Comment #139799 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Steve-

Tch, why'd you delete?

1525. Fleabytes

Comment #139787 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 1:47 pm

Bonzai-

Politics,

Um, that's very evidence based.
I need to know about an issue before shooting my mouth off about it.

sports,

Meh, not into 'em.

science,

....how in the hell could you discuss science without knowing the slightest thing about it?
Because that's what it would take to erase all evidence from it.

religion,

Well, yeah, if you were discussing knowing the nature and mind of the creator, or mindless minutiae like the color of angel wings.

philosophy,

All logic, so no dice there.

almost everything being discussed on informal internet forums like this one.

Sorry, I call BS.
*Shrug*

1526. Fleabytes

Comment #139776 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 1:35 pm

Bonzai-

Well most of us hold a lot of opinions which are not evidence based on a variety of subjects we pontificate on,

Such as?

1527. Fleas on the Horizon: In Defense of God

Comment #139730 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 12:45 pm

Steve Zara-

RAWK!!

*Air guitar gestures*

;)

1528. Fleabytes

Comment #139725 by Diacanu on March 6, 2008 at 12:41 pm

I took a break from the computer yesterday, did Clearthinker post anything useful in the proof-of-God department, or just more sneering passive-agressive drivel?

1529. Fleabytes

Comment #138677 by Diacanu on March 4, 2008 at 5:14 pm

mikejswalker-

Diacanu,
But would you say it? Would ya bollocks.

Depends on what needed saying, and how bad it had to be said.

1530. Fleabytes

Comment #138675 by Diacanu on March 4, 2008 at 5:10 pm

Richard Morgan-

Exactly.
You need God a lot less when you're healthy and wealthy than when you're watching your kids die of starvation.

Same could be said of the bottle, or the needle, or whatever one's poison were.

1531. Fleabytes

Comment #138666 by Diacanu on March 4, 2008 at 5:06 pm

mikejswalker-

It just feels like it's loaded with cynicism.

Feels? It's dripping off the fucking screen!!

He keeps right off the bat priggishly dismissing everything as "irrelevant", at the begining of every one of his asinine mega-posts.

1532. Fleabytes

Comment #138660 by Diacanu on March 4, 2008 at 5:02 pm

mikejswalker-

But would we say 'that hat is shitty looking grandma'?

Hey, my great-grandfather had the balls to say to my grandmother "what's up with your hair!? Go get it fixed, you look like an Irish washerwoman!!!".

We need more great-grandparents sticking around.

1533. Fleabytes

Comment #138657 by Diacanu on March 4, 2008 at 4:57 pm

Clearthinker-

I am genuinely puzzled.

Truer words were never spoken.

1534. Fleas on the Horizon: In Defense of God

Comment #138112 by Diacanu on March 4, 2008 at 12:36 am

Thank goodness for the internet.

Back in the old days, the newspapers would publish some drivel from an apologist, the atheist response couldn't even get a look in, and that'd be that.

People would swallow the apologetic hoo-hah, everything back to crappy normal, the end.

But look how much info we have at our fingertips.

Look how many of us are just normal shlubs, and in a short span, we've mastered atheist debate ju-jitsu as well as some pros.

The genie's out of the bottle.
One has to studiously go out of their way to be one of the duped masses at this point.

1535. Fleas on the Horizon: In Defense of God

Comment #138025 by Diacanu on March 3, 2008 at 6:52 pm

Brian English-

That's it in a nutshell. It doesn't matter how it makes you feel. Is it true is what matters.

There's more evidence to believe in flying saucers than there is for God.

And yet, people who believe in flying saucers are snarkily called "buffs".

What moved christians from a small pitiful band of Jesus buffs, to having their crap indulged by society?

Sure as hell wasn't proof of their God.

Oh, that's right, it was Constantine, the council of Nicea, and the bullying of the catholic church for the next few centuries.

Nah, fuck it, christians, you're Jesus buffs.

Your conversion stories impress me as much as Bubbah's alleged anal probing.

1536. Fleas on the Horizon: In Defense of God

Comment #138020 by Diacanu on March 3, 2008 at 6:41 pm

LorienRyan-

(Gym teacher from Simpsons)

Bombardment!! Bombardment!! Bombardment!!

1537. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #138015 by Diacanu on March 3, 2008 at 6:38 pm

Ugh, they all keep pimping Lewis.
They really should stop, it does them no credit, the guy was a jackass as an apologist.

1538. Fleas on the Horizon: In Defense of God

Comment #137977 by Diacanu on March 3, 2008 at 5:14 pm

Letter to a Secular Culture, described as "a well-reasoned case for the many benefits of faith."

I don't suppose believing in something that isn't a delusion will turn out to be one of those benefits.

Unless there's proof of God in there, I don't give a shit.

I don't care if belief in Santa cures hemorrhoids, I fucking refuse to fucking believe in fucking Santa.

1539. Fleas on the Horizon: In Defense of God

Comment #137975 by Diacanu on March 3, 2008 at 5:08 pm

Geez, these angry little bees really, really, really, really, REALLY don't want their little con racket messed with do they?

1540. Fleabytes

Comment #137948 by Diacanu on March 3, 2008 at 4:05 pm

Y'know it's a good forum if it drew ME here.
*smirk*

1541. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #137937 by Diacanu on March 3, 2008 at 3:45 pm

So, is this still a right/left gun-lover/gun-hater slap fight, or have things simmered down?

1542. Fleabytes

Comment #137762 by Diacanu on March 3, 2008 at 12:51 pm

The easter bunny was decapitated for our sins!
That's why we bite the heads off the chocolate ones, to symbolically commemorate the event.

1543. Fleabytes

Comment #137752 by Diacanu on March 3, 2008 at 12:41 pm

ROTFL!!

1544. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #137739 by Diacanu on March 3, 2008 at 12:22 pm

Cartomancer-

Ugh! What is it with Americans and their guns?

I couldn't tell ya, I seem to be missing that chip.

But us folk who live on coastal states seem to be missing whatever bug the inland folk contract at birth.

Now, I don't think guns are icky, I'm not afraid of 'em, but I don't get a hardon for 'em or worship 'em either.
They're just an instrument.
May as well get obsessed with my set of kitchen knives, or the Philips had screwdriver I fix my computer with.

Had a B.B gun as a kid, shot paper targets and soda cans with it for a few weeks, and then it got really boring, and I gradually lost interest.

Not seeing how a gun with a bigger bang would make the excercise more interesting.

Not enough redneck DNA in me I guess.

I suppose the only place left to go after target shooting is hunting, or killing a guy.

Not into hunting.
Not because of any sort of "waa!! It's Bambi's mom!", bullshit, it just meh...it's cold, it's early, and if I did shoot something, bleh, I don't like gutting things, and I don't like venison that much, and you cut up a whole deer, you're stuck with lots of it.
Plus...I don't have a beef against the deer, and there's no real challenge there.

Fighting a tiger, that might mean something, y'know?

But even then, it's a critter with claws versus a guy with a gun.

So, eliminate hunting, that leaves war, or waiting for someone to break in for me to kill.

And...people who stroke off to the hopes of the latter are sociopaths.

And war, meh, no thanks.

So, by process of elimination, I don't get the hardon for guns thing.

I kinda almost do, but like theology, it's an alien mindset to me.

I could see it back in the frontier days, when a gun really was your lifeline, back then, you HAD to hunt, and to kill a motherfucker intruding on your property.

But, I can't see fantasizing being back in those days.

Smacks of the religious impulse for civilization to end y'know?

Yeah, couldn't tell ya, Cart.

*Shrug*

1545. Fleabytes

Comment #137476 by Diacanu on March 3, 2008 at 1:08 am

Richard Dawkins-

Awsome! I can't wait to see it!

1546. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #137285 by Diacanu on March 2, 2008 at 3:45 pm

mikejswalker-

Diacanu calling you a cunt was also wrong..

No, past history, he's earned it fair and square.

1547. A God blog

Comment #137281 by Diacanu on March 2, 2008 at 3:43 pm

Richad Morgan-

Well, there's already those violent "Left Behind", games.

1548. Fleabytes

Comment #137271 by Diacanu on March 2, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Scottishgeologist-

makes it look like your church is obsessed with Dawkins

The way it looks tonight does nothing to change that perception

TGD must have really killed Davey's buzz.
Hell, he admits in his video it filled him with anger and fear.
Poor thing.
B-)

1549. Fleabytes

Comment #137255 by Diacanu on March 2, 2008 at 3:04 pm

And continuing the lying for Jesus thing, a lot has been said comparing religion to a drug addiction, and I think after seeing David's behavior, that hits the nail on the head.

Lying, stealing (writing rubber checks), manipulation, all to keep the buzz going.
All to chase the high.

And if you mess with the high, you get a negative response that's way more than what was called for.

Hell, he even called Jesus his "magnificent obsession", or somesuch.

I was flipping channels, and caught some of "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew", and it was the same shit.
Anger, anger, lies, lies, anger, lies, crocodile tears, martyrdom, anger, lies.

I said to myself "damn, these junkies are as exhausting to put up with as theists", and then the connection clicked.

1550. Fleabytes

Comment #137243 by Diacanu on March 2, 2008 at 2:54 pm

Kaiserkriss-