Citizenschallenge-v.3

Agreed.     🙂

It’s nice having you on board here at CFI.

thanks

Yeah but, Tim, that was really a beautiful rebuttal Widdershins wrote out, I’m humbled*, think I’ll have to read it another couple times, appropriate  some of those sentence – it’s not intellectual theft – it’s learning.   😉

* I do appreciate I’ve been paying attention for longer than most, and it’s had its toll on me mentally/emotionally -…[Read more]

Lets not forget about the sense of  communities and belonging that religions anchor.  I have a low opinion of religions, but I got to sit in on a few Unitarian Church services a few years back – fortunately they aren’t holy roller, simple country people believing in old time religion.  God was to shine through them, and they weren’t busy at…[Read more]

Here’s a brand new fun informative video from Jackson Wheat

The comments are a hoot –

How I’d love to do a Spock mind meld for only a moment – taste the emptiness and get a clue about how they fill it up with a comic book story.  Because lordie knows going at it rational does not work.

Until the day I responded, “And do you know how you found out they were wrong?  THEY TOLD YOU!

Fabulous point!

Thanks for highlighting it.

Oh and you’ll also hear scientists freely explain that they don’t have enough information to reach a consensus on this or that – until the evidence is collected and remaining questions can be resolved to…[Read more]

Another aspect is the “rights” the fourth estate supposedly protects are also guaranteed in the constitution, so the fourth estate becomes pretty redundant in that regard,

dead guy, you toss this stuff out there, then run off.  I wonder if you can explain any of this shit?

How do the rights spelled out in our Constitution make the press redu…[Read more]

Maybe those middle class white folks need to get over their sense of superiority and memories of being the great white slave Masters of the world and start getting along with the rest of humanity?

Just tossing the thought out there.

However, it’s safe to say Donald Trump will not destroy the world.

Maybe not the world but he’s sure doing his part to help destroy America.

But than how could I expect a pissy intellectually lazy whinny white guy, who’s entire world seems to be constructed around

crying, I’m the victim, I’m the victim, and fuck everyone else.

to get it.

 In the very early Bible God is clearly described as being a volcano god.

Just out of curiosity what’s the quote?

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To do science, you have to accept that we exist as independent minds in a universe.

I think it’s more realistic to except that your mind is of a different realm than this physical…[Read more]

I was just asking if those were the only two examples Christian have.

Guess that’s a tentative yes.

So how is it that fact based rationalists always seem to lose the public discussions, popularity contests?

Perhaps lose is the wrong word, give in ……  gotta run, Maddy

thank you   😉

 in Tee’s post it says that a study showed differences amongst believers’ and practitioners’ experiences vs. those of skeptics and atheists.

Seems a no brainer (:-), if the one is about a Mindscape built upon religious dogma,  that is living without introspection  and behaving by rout.  Keeping it in the comfort zone and closing themselve…[Read more]

Yeah, makes me think of water and fire also.   😉

And poof!  4 happy atheist young adults (maybe not so young anymore) who made up their own minds what to believe because we taught them how to think for themselves instead of what to think.

Something to be proud of Dad!

Congrats, job well done.

Right, and those two have been demonstrated to be wrong dozens of time – and of course ‘they’ never absorb a god damned lesson.

My question:  Are those two examples really the best they have for “Irreducible Complexity”???  

Wait a minute are they the only examples Creations can conjure?      Where’s Holmes when you need him?…[Read more]

Basically, Weinstein is saying there is a genetic basis for genocide. We find it naturally abhorrent, but when the right environmental conditions arise and a leader pushes us in that direction, the desire to kill off a competing tribe kicks in and becomes viable as a survival strategy, and to enough people it becomes the “right” thing to do. Wei…

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Is it God or a Sense of the Eternal that’s hard wired? . . .   and that “God” is the only language we’ve developed to discuss it.

Just tossing it out there.

So, the prerequisite that you say is missing is the mathematical nature.

Oh, and I don’t know where I said anything like that.

Adding this idea of an infinite mind just fills a gap …

To be clear it’s them adding this notion of an infinite mind – before Tim mentioned blankie – that is what the infinite mind is.

Of course, I appreciate how important that blankie is to the wellbeing of its owner and would never deprive a child of their blankie.  But that doesn’t change…[Read more]