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But then I might harm someone.

Or worse yet, cause myself to be harmed by someone else. No, we'd better leave that chip out for now.

Please don't shoot me!

If offered a choice, I think I'd rather have a Holocaust Cloak than a Cloak of Invisibility.

I'd also choose a Ring of Power over a Green Lantern Corps ring.



"There will be no survivors. Soon you will not be here!"


- doG of scrutinizing primary and secondary effects

I knew (prior to posting) that Landover is a parody of Xtian extremism. Since I hadn't heard of Landover before, I wiki'd it. So in referring to Landover, I was being deliberately facetious. Or not, depending on whether one considers discussion of parody "serious" discussion.

But the Onion is ...

Oh my gosh, I just totally misread it. I'll have to revisit it with a different mindset, I'm sure I'll find it hilariously funny.

Now regarding the Landover Baptist Church, that's just wrong, and it's an affront to civilized society that places like that are allowed to exist.

If you're going to entitle your article 'The truth about Atheism exposed', you shouldn't contradict yourself right off the bat in the first paragraph -- it's hard to actively hate something if you don't believe it exists.

Though in the second paragraph, the author seems quite proud to announce ...

Dogs need love too.

'Dollman vs. Demonic Toys' didn't make the top ten?

I was worried for a moment that maybe the doughnuts had tiny little books in them the likes of : 'The Giver', 'The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn', 'The Communist Manifesto' and 'Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret'.

Trapped reading 'Finnegans Wake' or 'Ulysses' for eternity. I realize that those are written by Joyce and
not Dante, but that fate would probably be closer to my conception of Hell. And Sisyphus thought he had it bad.

I think Ira Flatow is going to address electronic voting on one of today's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday segments on NPR, if anyone is interested.

If it didn't cut costs in some way, Wal-Mart wouldn't be doing it to begin with. Kudos
to Wal-Mart on following their business model.

Maybe Wal-Mart will soon be able to start dictating terms to pharmaceutical manufacturers, if they
aren't already doing so.

Then Wal-Mart can start offering ...

Stalinism was governmental secularism under communism. Has secularism been tried under capitalism?

Perhaps it is true that a capitalist nation that did so would turn out to have the same levels of despair as those
communist countries did, but is there evidence to that effect? I'm just curious ...

Bummer. Well, I'll post my reply to your last reply anyway, so you can rip it to shreds devoid of its prior context:

To frame it only in terms of 'ends justify means' is to oversimplify the matter.

Utilitarianism has its shortcomings, no question there. But it has evolved as an idea -- from ...

I'm wondering if, on balance, religious belief has been the cause of more suffering
than it has been the cause of relief of suffering. I'm inclined to think that it's
the former, but that may well be because I tend to remember the historically
grotesque events brought about by religion, rather ...

Raymond Smullyan is my favorite logician/mathematician/magician.

Is God a Taoist?

I don't believe oil was the sole reason, no.

But I do believe that oil (and the greater socio-political-economic ramifications
of its procurement and disbursement in that region) played a role in deliberately
choosing to engage in war at that particular point in time, yes.

Was the reason ...

Maybe the liberals are becoming more and more vehement.

Given a choice between more governmental oversight/control and more corporate control,
I vote corporate -- let the market regulate itself -- as far as I can tell, there's
still plenty of healthy competition among broadband service providers, and my best vote
is still cast with the almighty ...

I've played since beta.

But then, I've also played Champions and V&V, and have read a comic
book or three in my time.

During a computer-related/post-workday conversation with my SO, she mentioned
"eye-dee-ten-tee" to me, and I had no idea what she was talking about. After
several moments, realization set in, and I thought, "that's like some silly
l33tsp34k version of PEBCAK. I like PEBCAK better." Of course ...

Evermore wrote:Hound would your Avatar be Vladimir Tepis?

No, it's Sandor Clegane.

Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp would likely have had a chuckle over it.

There is also the distinction of 'strong' vs. 'weak' atheism:

'strong' atheism is having a belief (that no deity/dieties exist).

'weak' atheism is a lack of a belief in a diety or dieties.

Agnosticism has more to do with epistemology (knowledge claims), what
we can know about what does or ...

arlos wrote:become a monk.

I've considered that too, but I think it has less to do with wanting to become
spiritually enlightened and more to do with having misanthropic tendencies (although I guess living in a monastery would just be another societal 'caste' that would present its own set of difficulties).

I think the "thin Buddha" is the result of Greek influence on far Eastern sculpture.

Is it difficult to be a practitioner of Buddhism? I've thought about having a
voluntary "religious experience" and following the Noble Eightfold path, but
only if I don't have to give up computer games and ...