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Dans logic.... Hitler was a man therefore all men are pure evil. That's how his mind reasons.
The constant childish attempts by trolls
Am I the only one that justs scans through Dan's long tedious posts?
Edit: Dan does have some good ideas but gets caught up in his own egotism.
@patrick reinstate the comment limit to enforce succinctness. Thanks
Dans logic.... Hitler was a man therefore all men are pure evil. That's how his mind reasons.
Are you really so stupid that you don't realize I was demonstrating that such reasoning is wrong? Or are you just lying because you think the ends justify the means?
Richard Dawkins censored in Berkeley because he does not like Islam
Dan censors 28 Patnetters from posting on his threads because he does not like people who disagree with him. Patrick supports this.
A Corte Madera bookstore has stepped up to host an event with evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins just days after Berkeley public radio station KPFA abruptly canceled a similar event, citing Dawkins’ criticism of Islam.
“As an independent bookseller, we are in strong support of independent thinking,†Karen West, events director for Corte Madera’s Books Passage, said in a statement. “We would never censor one of the greatest thinkers of our time!â€
Book Passage will hold a book signing and discussion of Dawkins’ latest work, “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist.†The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. Aug. 9 — the same date the original Berkeley event had been planned.
This is a bookstore that deserves everyone's support! Good on them.
Female reproduction definitely goes down as IQ goes up, but it's the opposite for men IIRC.
Female reproduction definitely goes down as IQ goes up, but it's the opposite for men IIRC.
No, women prefer bad boys, not smart boys. Women used to prefer smart men because there was a high correlation to the intelligence of the man of the house and the survivability of the children as well as with income. Today that is not true. Ultimately, this is a bad thing for the species.
Maybe there should be a part where posts are structured as propositions, with one person taking the pro stance, and one taking con, and points awarded by everyone else for:
1. providing good evidence and reasoning
2. answering the question
3. being civil
This would not work. Assholes will simply award points to their butt buddies and assign penalties to those they hate regardless of the content.
You have two choices to make this work.
1. Hire professional judges (expensive).
2. Use an A.I. to judge debates.
The later is much more fun, but would take a lot of time to develop, multiple person-years. It would be a very interesting project though.
Maybe there should be a part where posts are structured as propositions, with one person taking the pro stance, and one taking con, and points awarded by everyone else for:
1. providing good evidence and reasoning
2. answering the question
3. being civilThis would not work. Assholes will simply award points to their butt buddies and assign penalties to those they hate regardless of the content.
Ha ha ha. Look who's talking.
Richard Dawkins has spent a significant part of his career as an antagonist against Christianity, working hard to make Christians look like fools, uneducated rubes, believers in an ancient dead mythology.
As he has observed Islam beginning to take cultural hegemony over Britain, he has found himself increasingly worried at the results.
Oopsie.
I wonder if he has considered what Islamic Law says about atheists?
That's right — 'misbelievers' — non-Muslim religious people and atheists are lumped together and are at risk of life imprisonment (for women) and death (for men) in some Muslim countries.
Poor Richard.
Dawkins is kinda late to realize that Christianity is our best defense against Islam.
it's fundamentally hostile to women, hostile to gays and, I find that I like to live in a culturally Christian country, although I do not believe a single word of the Christian faith
Our best defense is to get out of the Middle East and to stop escalating.
Little too late for that
The big Internalized Leftism myth is that all trouble in the Middle East is caused by American Intervention.
The Assyrians were replaced by the Guti of the lower slopes and valleys of the Zagros mountains, for example, before the Bronze Age collapse, FFS.
And so in the 1980s, the Iran-Iraq War was War #477 stretching back into the 2000s BC over this area.
Very little is known about the Guti, who appear to have been barbarian raiders from the Zagros [Mountains] who brought to an end the Dynasty of Akkad and destroyed its capital circa 2200 BC. Gutium, a mountainous area in south-west Iran, was a troublesome part of the Akkadian Empire and the year names of the kings of Akkad record campaigns against the region. ...
The Guti were finally expelled by Uthegal, King of Uruk circa 2100 BC.
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