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Atheist Revolution : Atheist Tactics: Dave Silverman and Hemant Mehta

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:26:51 +0000

Cant atheists have more than one market available to them. Dave Silverman can continue to be on Fox news, while Hemant can continue to be on NPR. Same message, different platforms, different markets. Atheists are well known to not be birds of a feather.

Atheist Revolution : Leave the Nativity Scenes Alone: Objections From Atheists

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:04:09 +0000

We celebrate Christmas.....but focus on solstice (which I consider to be a scientific holiday with an actual reason to celebrate)...but we also have some hanukah stuff (I keep reminding my 5 year old that the menorah is not a solstice menorah, she gets a little confused still). celebrating these holidays are inclusive events, teach my kids about what other people believe koo-koo or not, and are generally nice times. However, these are in my house. If I see a nativity scene on city hall, I will put up a tree of knowledge or somethng. good luck rev Oxley

Atheist Revolution : Viewers of Fox News are Misinformed

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:48:21 +0000

we should actually read the journal article. In it I think the most interesting part is not a fox news effect but a republican effect. Democrats who watch fox news have the same responses about global warming as dems who watch other cable news. This is not the case with republicans who seem to slide willy-nilly with whatever it is they happen to watch.

Atheist Revolution : Legalizing Marijuana

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:03:37 +0000

I think if you allow the personal growth of pot, you have ruined the primary economic benefit and increased the chances of non-personal distribution. I'm with you on the pridiculous imprisonment for pot, however the economic benefit of that would be wiped out by all the money made to fight drugs (mercenaries, equipment, etc). I havent used pot since high school over 30 years ago and back then I mostly smoked it because is was illegal, but I am with you, it should be legal. I think it would be a good opportunity for NY to follow NHs example and completely socialize it. We can follow them with alcohol because we already have a distribution system in place for alcohol and you would ruin jobs. After the coffers are full again, we can talk about freeing the market for it. Now if pot is ok, how about meth or coke. If those are not OK, why not? My worry is that there is clearly a line, but the line itself it fuzzy. Frankly i think opium should be legal. No one is dangerous who is using opium, even f their teeth are disgusting.

Atheist Revolution : Mandatory School Prayer in Alberta

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:22:01 +0000

Maybe you misunderstood me. I agree that it is a terrible excuse if you stick with it. but if it's really just "we didn't think about it because we have always done that and no one has complained before but now that someone has we can change it " that doesn't really bother me

Atheist Revolution : Mandatory School Prayer in Alberta

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:04:29 +0000

whiffle beat me to it. "We have always done that" really doesnt bother me. If no one complains what is wrong with it? The difference here is that if this were Kansas, the excuse of "we have always done that" would mean the practice is written in stone and takes an act of god to change it. Bravo Canada.

Atheist Revolution : Atheist or Agnostic? I\'m Both

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:21:30 +0000

This is a dumb chart and tries to make completely uneeded distinctions. Virtually all atheists would change their postion given evidence of a god or something we call synonymous with god (.e. aliens that made earth). They would also agree that jesus was really the son of god if these aliens or gods told them that this was true. We probably would still find them repugnant for all the same reasons we find God repgnant now. Atheists, agnostics and frankly many religious people live in a way as if god doesnt exist. So who cares what the minute difference is? Why the hell do we have all these other words that mean the same things also? (freethinker, humanists, brights, blah blah blah)

A Place For My Stuff : Storytime: Fair Food (And Woo)

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:00:07 +0000

Power balance bracelets were being sold at the local mall. I was alone so as not to embarrass my wife, but I started yelling out "I have magic pencils here! Magc pencils which improve your balance and make you sleep better just by writing with them". As people looked at me like I was a dick, I said quieter, "no I'm dead serious, if you write with this pencil, you will see the exact same improvements that that guy with the bracelet is offering. Just indulge me, I'll do it for free instead of his 25 bucks, what have you got to lose?" I did the stupid kinesiology trick to two or 3 people and pretty much cleared away the crowd as they realized that the power balance guy was full of it. It was my own personal, one and only skeptical triumph. I'm sure a new crowd grew 10 minutes later.

Atheist Revolution : Government Paying to Repair Churches

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:12:02 +0000

Templestream, I'm sorry but without even deciphering through your convoluted logic I can tell you immediately why it is most assuredly wrong. You tried to use only logic to prove god. There are lots of logical paradoxs, fantasies and simple "proofs" of the impossible when you miss out on the important part: Observation. Basically you wasted a lot of your time writing that.

Effort Sisyphus : Been a long time

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:52:44 +0000

Yes, there have been many times where I have looked at all my feeds and said "Holy Crap!". At the time I took pride in my information infusion. But I scaled back on a lot of them, even the podcasts I listen to. It's pretty much just skeptoid and Radiolab now (science focused), with some SGU once in a while. The other thing was that I was writing a lot, I looked back on some of my posts and am still proud of many of them. But, I dont feel like they have made much impact. The energy required to make impact is not an amount I am willing to expend. Plenty of people are doing it and doing it better than me, and spending their daily time on it. But thanks for commiserating. I appreciate it.

A Place For My Stuff : Manly Monday Extra: Me

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 16:40:49 +0000

you should have used the D batteries from you flashlight, routed wires from it to the tip of the nail. this would short the nail to heat it up. Book light would be fixed and this post would be about how your flashlight is dead.

Effort Sisyphus : Pro-lifers: I simply don’t believe you.

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:04:57 +0000

Alex, so you think a blastocyte is a baby? So, you read the post and are now setting out to solve the worlds #1 cause of death: Miscarriage. Right? You are saying that you are for checking each womans menstrual blood for fertilized eggs so that the egg can be named and a proper burial can be performed if one is found? These are activities and concepts you are advocating? You've never made a choice that you could change before you regret it? So, once you decide to go to the store to get cheerios, and your wife calls you to tell you you already have them, you still go to the store? You've never changed your mind about doing anything? You've never returned an item you bought or someone gave you? So you are saying that if a young woman makes a repealable mistake, she deserves to go through the pain of childbirth and spend the rest of her life young adult life caring for a child? You think that a woman deserves this even if her efforts to prevent a pregnancy failed, or was raped or coerced? you dont get to choose to have a stillborn child, frankly thats a dumb argument.. May I presume that you have actually adopted your children, and that you are adamantly convincing your friends and family to adopt? no? How strange. Read Nomads post. Are you also advocating that there should be an age limit at which people should get pregnant, and that this limit should be somewhere in the 20's? Yeah, I still think your pro-life stance is not only bullshit, not only misogynistic, not only promotes suffering, but is bad for the human population. Abortion is not "just" wrong because you say it is. Its wrong if it promotes suffering generally, like forcing women to have unwanted babies does. Its wrong if it limits free will, like banning abortions does or having unwanted babies does. Its wrong if it adds cost to the society, like having hundreds of thousands of unwanted babies does. If your post indicates the extent of your "research", i'll just say this... you are not very good at it. Answer my questions to see if you are honest with yourself.

A Place For My Stuff : WTF, David Lynch?

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:19:16 +0000

Gosh I hope you are right about a big budget remake. I also watched dune again last summer. I almost spooned out my own eyes. I'm 42, it still doesnt get better.

Atheist Revolution : Idiot of the Week: Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE)

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:57:35 +0000

Can we please have the same program for deciding what gets paid for in the military, petroleum "research" and farm subsidies?

Atheist Revolution : Some Changes at Atheist Revolution

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:04:12 +0000

I haven't written a post since july. I fully know where you are coming from.

Atheist Revolution : Idiot of the Week: Christine O\'Donnell (Again)

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:42:55 +0000

Well if your psychic abilities continue to provide such an accurate description, you could get Randi's million! Lets see, so far you thought I was anti-gun, I'm not. You thought I was an english major, I'm an engineer. You thought I was a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, i'm not. You think I'm fat, I'm not, just clocking in at 190, you think i'm 35, i'm about a decade older, and you think I'm gay, which would be news to my wife and 2 kids, even though I am hardpressed to understand why being gay is an insult. Keep at it, i'm sure you'll go far. Basically all your comebacks to every point I've made is the equivalent of "well you are a poopyhead". I'm sure you are a beaming example of sophistication and masculinty to your kids.... well at least I bet you think you are, that'll make one of you.

Atheist Revolution : Idiot of the Week: Christine O\'Donnell (Again)

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:36:57 +0000

As I said its a dumb argument for guns. He'll shoot you just as fast while you try to remember where you put your gun in your drunken stupor and whether or not you put bullets in it. Oh wait, you keep your gun loaded? That's smart.

Atheist Revolution : Idiot of the Week: Christine O\'Donnell (Again)

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:44:09 +0000

I am not an anti gun liberal. Nothing in any of my posts indicated otherwise. I can probably be best described as a left leaning libertarian. If you want guns, have them, I only care that you know how to and when to use them. My cell phone works better than your gun at dropping crime rates and simultaneously produces less harmful unintended consequences. Further if you are still living in a dream world where you think your pea shooter will let you stand against a tank in a revolution, I am mildly amused, but that's your delusion. I think that people cling to their guns in a faux display of their patriotism and "americanism". I also think that if we were really responsible about our meat supply people should be required to hunt their own meat. Why wouldnt the guy breaking into your house have a gun? What a dumb argument for guns. There are far better ones, which is why I am not anti-gun. I'm glad you were able to identify yourself as a NASCAR lovin, gun totin' redneck. That put a great image in my head. Do you or do you not still have all your teeth (or would you say "teef"). Is this you? http://shii.org/mediawiki/images/1/1e/Boeing54kue...

Atheist Revolution : Idiot of the Week: Christine O\'Donnell (Again)

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:37:00 +0000

Aren't we snotty when your dismal comprehension skills are put on display? Yes I knew what was meant, which I why I wrote my comment in the first place. Too bad you couldn't take the extra 30 seconds to actually understand what I was writing.

Atheist Revolution : Idiot of the Week: Christine O\'Donnell (Again)

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:30:14 +0000

I always love when someone says "go read the constitution" as they invariably get it wrong, just like when correcting grammar or spelling they make a grammatical or spelling mistake Please keep up. The word "bear" and "own" are not synonyms, and never were. Perhaps Jesus owned the cross he was carrying in the story? The point (if we need it spelled out) is that if we are going to use only words that are actually written in the constitution (which separation of church and state are not) then we have to do it for all the words. In which case it's only legal to carry guns, not own them