Posts by unshackled

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New Statesman: famous atheists explain why they don't believe in God...what is Hawking saying?

by unshackled in

http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2011/07/god-evidence-believe-world.

found this new statesman article linked in a sam harris tweet.

it is a collection of comments on reasons for non-belief from such ones as richard dawkins, daniel dennett, sam harris, jerry coyne and stephen hawking...to name a few.. what caught my eye about the tweet was this comment by harris, his actual tweet:.

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Also of interest, New Statesman had earlier in the year posted an article on famous believers and their reasons they believe…here is that link:
http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2011/04/god-believe-faith-world-belief

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New Statesman: famous atheists explain why they don't believe in God...what is Hawking saying?

by unshackled in

http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2011/07/god-evidence-believe-world.

found this new statesman article linked in a sam harris tweet.

it is a collection of comments on reasons for non-belief from such ones as richard dawkins, daniel dennett, sam harris, jerry coyne and stephen hawking...to name a few.. what caught my eye about the tweet was this comment by harris, his actual tweet:.

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http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2011/07/god-evidence-believe-world

Found this New Statesman article linked in a Sam Harris tweet. It is a collection of comments on reasons for non-belief from such ones as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Jerry Coyne and Stephen Hawking…to name a few.

What caught my eye about the tweet was this comment by Harris, his actual tweet:

"Great cast of nonbelievers in the New Statesman - but I have no idea what Hawking is talking about…"

Here is the Stephen Hawking comment, that has Harris seemingly confused:

"I am not claiming there is no God. The scientific account is complete, but it does not predict human behaviour, because there are too many equations to solve. One therefore uses a different model, which can include free will and God."

There are plenty of interesting comments in that article and will perhaps post some later...but for starters…anyone want to take a stab at what exactly Hawking was saying there? Not so sure myself....so please, your thoughts?

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Polygamist child-rapist headed to prison in TX....

by SweetBabyCheezits in

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http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/polygamist-leader-arrives-at-1089456.html.

... where, in a twist of fate, he will become the "wife" of another polygamist, known only by the name j.b. juggernaut.. enjoy your stay, mr. jeffs!.

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I fully endorse this Warden Norton quote from Shawshank for Jeffs...

"I'll pull you out of that one-bunk Hilton and cast you down with the Sodomites.
You'll think you've been f*cked by a train."

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first contradiction in the bible?

by cptkirk in

contradiction without the use of an outside medium (such as archaeology, fossil study).

i just stumbled on this after reading the thread about adam and the sexual subliminal message.

i was thinking about adam and eve and chronology, and a contradiction popped up in my head...so i picked up the bible and there it is.. gen 1:27 - god creates adam and eve, tells them to be fruitful.. gen 2:18 - now adam is alone?

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The Bible is like LEGO, you can make whatever you want out of it.

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R.I.P. animal... We'll miss you, buddy... :'(

by VampireDCLXV in

jw
friends

i have an announcement to make:.

rick henry aka "animal" has just passed away.

on july 26, 2011, rick suddenly fell ill (for no apparent reason at the time) and had to go to hospital.

unshackled

Same as White Dove...I unfortunately did not know him. So very sorry to hear of his passing.

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For fans of typography/design...a Comic Sans monologue...

by unshackled in

(note there is some brazen language in here...so if you're a nerdhole you may want to avoid).

im comic sans, asshole.. .

by mike lacher.

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Innapropriate use of Comic Sans...

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For fans of typography/design...a Comic Sans monologue...

by unshackled in

(note there is some brazen language in here...so if you're a nerdhole you may want to avoid).

im comic sans, asshole.. .

by mike lacher.

unshackled

Mummatron...we can blame the schools for starting Comic Sans on the road to font usage domination. It does appeal to the kids. But somewhere along the way offices, hospitals, churches, restaurants, pubs, police stations, universities and chemists started using it.

hemp lover...ah yes, Copperplate. There was a time when I would use the 'ol Copperplate. That was back in the Quark Xpress 3.0 days.

zoiks...Simplex is a good way to be. That could be a good pyscho analysis question, like Babara Walter's "what kind of tree..." question. What font are you? I'm probably Wingdings.

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For fans of typography/design...a Comic Sans monologue...

by unshackled in

(note there is some brazen language in here...so if you're a nerdhole you may want to avoid).

im comic sans, asshole.. .

by mike lacher.

unshackled

(note there is some brazen language in here...so if you're a nerdhole you may want to avoid)

I’M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE.

BY MIKE LACHER
- - - -
Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.

You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don’t like that I’m all over your sister-in-law’s blog? You don’t like that I’m on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I’m standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once.

People love me. Why? Because I’m fun. I’m the life of the party. I bring levity to any situation. Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am. Need to spice up the directions to your graduation party? WHAM. There again. Need to convey your fun-loving, approachable nature on your business’ website? SMACK. Like daffodils in motherfucking spring.

When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, unlike your pathetic fonts. While Gotham is at the science fair, I’m banging the prom queen behind the woodshop. While Avenir is practicing the clarinet, I’m shredding “Reign In Blood” on my double-necked Stratocaster. While Univers is refilling his allergy prescriptions, I’m racing my tricked-out, nitrous-laden Honda Civic against Tokyo gangsters who’ll kill me if I don’t cross the finish line first. I am a sans serif Superman and my only kryptonite is pretentious buzzkills like you.

It doesn’t even matter what you think. You know why, jagoff? Cause I’m famous. I am on every major operating system since Microsoft fucking Bob. I’m in your signs. I’m in your browsers. I’m in your instant messengers. I’m not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif badassery.

Enough of this bullshit. I’m gonna go get hammered with Papyrus.

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On becoming atheist - the tug of war

by Nickolas in

perhaps, if you are a theist, you might not want to read this.

if you are nevertheless curious about how an atheist thinks, then please read on.. i don't think there are any active members of this board who have been atheists all their lives (are there?).

i think virtually all of us transitioned into non-belief from a religious beginning.

unshackled

That was a harrowing experience Nickolas. Your actions were heroic.

Quick question: do mind saying where in northern Canada you were...Alberta perhaps? I spent the first two and a half decades of my life north of 60, in the NWT.

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On becoming atheist - the tug of war

by Nickolas in

perhaps, if you are a theist, you might not want to read this.

if you are nevertheless curious about how an atheist thinks, then please read on.. i don't think there are any active members of this board who have been atheists all their lives (are there?).

i think virtually all of us transitioned into non-belief from a religious beginning.

unshackled

Great thread...I could discuss this subject all day with you intelligent folk. Then, maybe, I wouldn't drive my wife so crazy. Me to Mrs. Unshackled: "Hey, want to ponder our existence in the universe?"....wife: "No. Eat your soup."

Actually, she's a yoga instructor, has been really into for 3 or 4 years now. She's a yogi purist, not so much into the Americanization of it, but its eastern roots and philosophies. So her focus on the how's and why's of life is to see beyond ourselves and develop the relationship with our higher, more contented "self". To calm the egoic self.

Or something like that....not sure, I was eating soup.