Big Ol' Smitty

Bullshit, he won't pay for anything. This guy had the biggest following of college-age idiots before he even expressed a thought. He's got every election locked up from here to next November; bank on it. So you're predicting that Obama will ride the support of college students all the way to the White House? On another note, what was wrong about his Pakistan comments (not necessarily a question for Czech)?

I'm rich, biatch. All teachers in the state got a significant raise this year. I'll be a Republican in no time.

Mine was sarcasm, too. It's hard to emote sarcasm on the interweb.

Don't be crazy. It never has in the past, right?

In honors of his raid, here's Ted's greatest hits: http://youtube.com/watch?v=URYNnF5mz84 http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Sg1DinsJ5M Wikipedia:

Nooo! [/Daily Show]

The troops hate the troops!

He probably would have retired from public life after the Jeffersonian Revolution of 1800 and, especially, after the Federalists were disgraced during the War of 1812 with the Hartford Convention.

It's been pretty great. Just got back from a trip to Washington & New York. We also have a house now, which is pretty cool.

I'm married.

Man, this thread has veered off topic.

Okay...I get you now. You just worded it as a demand for negative proof in the original post. I didn't take you out of context. You said, "you can't prove it's not true." You meant, "just because I can't prove it doesn't mean it's not true."

So...you're asking for negative proof.

Eric asked if you could prove the Bible's truth, and your response was that you can't disprove its truth.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster must exist, because there is no proof that he does not exist.

Cena's Writer shall henceforth be known as the Purveryor of All Things Logically Fallacious. Negative proof.

Religions affect those who are non-believers or followers of other religions, obviously.

Well, sin is bad, right? And an affront to God? So, from your perspective, what would be the optimum outcome for a homosexual? Conversion? This is very disputed among Biblical scholars, King. So your claim to to have the final say on it can't stand. More importantly, it's disputed among Christians in general, as some obviously believe that a great deal of Old Testament law is still applicable.

Uh no. And most great philosophers ascribe to the idea of God. You're making an appeal to authority. You're not good at this, you should let Seyss or Conspiracy Victim carry the load here.

The above argument between Invader & Ripper is illuminating. How about instead of arguing whether a holy man from the first century addressed homosexuality directly or indirectly, condoned it, or ignored it, we could just, as a society, agree that it's not cool to be intolerant toward gay people.

Seyss-Inquart has set up a whole field of strawmen with which to do battle! (bold added by me) A root cause, not the. Although a case could be made that Islam is the most dangerous root cause of violence, intolerance, & atrocities on the planet in 2007. (bold added by me) Nobody said that! It seems likely that religion or notions of the supernatural probably played some evolutionary role among early man & our precursors. However, it seems clear that whatever purpose that was is, in the 21st century, about as useful as the proto-gills seen in fetuses. What else would cause an intelligent, middle class, otherwise reasonable human being to fly a plane into a tower full of innocent people? Mental derangement. Perhaps politics. Societies that have "moderated" (read: watered down) their religion (the US) or have moved toward abandonment of religion (part of Western Europe) are the most successful countries in the world today. It is also enlightening to compare a "moderate religious" society like the US with a secular society like Europe. Why does the US, whose teens have sex in equal numbers to those in Europe, have much higher rates of teen pregnacy and teen VD? Because of the the repression of birth control & contraception which is directly attributable to our "moderate religion." Europe has its share of problems, but most of them are related to an influx of, you guessed it, Islam. Nazism was neither scientific or reasonable. In fact, it was fundamentally pseudoscientific and unreasonable: secular dogma. Look at Himmler's insistence that SS officers subsist on a diet of leeks & mineral water & his fixation on Meso-Paganism. Many top officials in the 3rd Reich were totally fixated on a bizzare mysticism. There is no way you can describe what they did as grounded in reason or science. Your characterization of Nazi eugenics as science is also misleading: it was pseudoscience. The species which has, far & away, the highest rate of intraspecies violence: Homo sapiens. I would suggest a cultural link, with religion playing a significant role.

I go out there and give it my 110 percent with every post. And you'll probably be too tired to fuck at day's end, even with all your cardio. Probably. Usually after a hard day murdering infants and spitting on soldiers I usually don't have much energy to do much of anything besides kick back and read Das Kapital.

Man, you are like one big walking cliche, but you can be a damn funny cliche at times.

The New Testament is contradictory on the validity/value of the Old. But the fact of the matter is that many Christians still believe in the validity of the Old Testament, so it would still seem to be applicable. See, for instance, the intolerance toward gays among even some moderate Christians when Jesus says absolutely nothing about homosexuality.