I knew it was coming... but still... I don't think I have any more faith in rationality
Posted on: July 8, 2009 - 5:47pm
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I knew it was coming... but still... I don't think I have any more faith in rationality
I'm beginning to think the theists are right. There is no reason to believe that humans have the capacity for rational thought. I've been going on faith the whole time, and didn't know it.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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Hamby... if you ever wanna Kill All Humans, im here for ya, bro!
You, Me, and Bender... on a mission from God.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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...That is the worst one of these I've ever seen. I mean, at least the burnt images of 'Jesus' on toast kinda-sorta do resemble a face. But this is just a brown blob of discoloration. It doesn't look like anything.
Frankly, I think the family is being perfectly rational. Michael Jackson is dead, and hey, it's time to cash in on that shit. $$$
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
So it isn't the spirit of Ghengis Khan telling us to thin the herd?
What's the best way to remove welded on scimitars from the wheels of a Honda, anyone?
How can not believing in something that is backed up with no empirical evidence be less scientific than believing in something that not only has no empirical evidence but actually goes against the laws of the universe and in many cases actually contradicts itself? - Ricky Gervais
Other than the color brown, this sounds like a good description of the late MJ
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
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Nothing stings quite as hard as the truth.
Still, I feel a little bit bad now every time I laugh at an MJ joke. Did you hear his (obviously adopted) daughter on TV? Whatever his insecurities & faults, I think one can now safely concede that he was probably an awfully caring parent (and, hey, even responsible enough not to breed himself. How about that).
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
Aren't you guys forgetting something?
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. --Mark Skousen
...Like the fact that Destroy All Humans was a horrendously bad game?
Or were you thinking of something else?
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
I had to smile when one of the ladies was asked "why michael and not Jesus" she replied that to some michael meant more to some then jesus and she felt they were about even, both 'icons'.
I would love to jump ahead 500-1000 years and see if accounts of Michael Jackson become biblical...
"and on the 9th day of the 7th month he appeared again in the mighty birch"
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... no?
Self, check
Bloodthirst, check
Evil God to use as an excuse for my ill deeds, check
no, i think im all set
What Would Kharn Do?
don't worry, you'll come around soon and fully realize that there is completly no hope.
When I am ready for "No hope" I will sign sign up for the Jim Jones method of dealing with (real) life.
"Very funny Scotty; now beam down our clothes."
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If man was formed from dirt, why is there still dirt?
Doomed.
we are doomed.
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Why wasn't MJ's ghost dancing or doing the moonwalk?
What's the plan for after you wipe all the 6 billion humans? Just you and Hamby, then one of you realizes 'hey he's human too.' Wiping out all of humanity is best done all alone. That's why God doesn't need a partner.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. --Mark Skousen
:54.
Expect mass burnings of all Michael records and memorabilia.
"No one is more famous than Jesus I tell ya! NO ONE!"
"Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven. Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. And recks not his own rede."
... compare me with the average human (let alone the average american) and it would appear that i am far enough removed from the human genome, to be considered a different species
Dunno bout Hamby, but im safe from my own plan
What Would Kharn Do?
What's with the hackneyed nihilism? Of course there's hope. Hope improves mental performance in unfortunate circumstances. Not having hope just means you're depressed, not that you've figured something out.
Yeah, I know you were making a funny. The "no hope" line is just getting old, that's all.
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
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Heh. The funny thing, Will, is that I officially have no hope for humanity. I think I've crossed over the threshold and am as close to 100% certain as possible that humanity is going to destroy its own environment and drive itself extinct.
Of course, that's not what the thread is about, so that's really not relevant, but I do think it's funny that you're right -- the "no hope" thing is old, and it didn't apply to this topic... but... I really don't have any hope.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
Books about atheism
So we are now discussing time travel.
It is my assertion that all of the paradoxes that have come up in stories, while they may make for a good tale, are really only literary devices. Further, I assert that it is not possible to do things that create a problem with time travel.
For example, the classic is if you were to kill your grandfather before he married your grandmother, would you have never been born and therefore you cant have gone back in time to kill him?
The first problem with this is the assumption that prior to the modern era, nobody ever fucked before they got married. The reality of the matter is that teenagers fuck.
Now, a hundred years ago, if a chick missed her period, that meant that they had to get married. Preferably in less than nine months but if that was not possible, then polite society would retreat behind a maxim that “first children are often premature”.
The second problem being that there is more adultery going on than most people care to admit. If adultery was something that was quite rare, then the number of babies who were not the children of the nominative father would also be rare.
As it happens, we know from the public records of divorce cases that when the man alleges adultery and gets a court ordered paternity test that about 1:5 children are not fathered by the husband of the wife.
So what can we conclude from the above?
Well, let's say that you did go back and kill gramps. Whoppee!!!1!1! You killed some dude. However, if you did do that, then you could not have caused a paradox because you did the deed.
Since it is certainly possible that you did not kill the right person or f you did get the right guy, you were late for the job, then there is sufficient room for the reason why this so called paradox is not really a problem.
So we are now discussing time travel.
It is my assertion that all of the paradoxes that have come up in stories, while they may make for a good tale, are really only literary devices. Further, I assert that it is not possible to do things that create a problem with time travel.
For example, the classic is if you were to kill your grandfather before he married your grandmother, would you have never been born and therefore you cant have gone back in time to kill him?
The first problem with this is the assumption that prior to the modern era, nobody ever fucked before they got married. The reality of the matter is that teenagers fuck.
Now, a hundred years ago, if a chick missed her period, that meant that they had to get married. Preferably in less than nine months but if that was not possible, then polite society would retreat behind a maxim that “first children are often premature”.
The second problem being that there is more adultery going on than most people care to admit. If adultery was something that was quite rare, then the number of babies who were not the children of the nominative father would also be rare.
As it happens, we know from the public records of divorce cases that when the man alleges adultery and gets a court ordered paternity test that about 1:5 children are not fathered by the husband of the wife.
So what can we conclude from the above?
Well, let's say that you did go back and kill gramps. Whoppee!!!1!1! You killed some dude. However, if you did do that, then you could not have caused a paradox because you did the deed.
Since it is certainly possible that you did not kill the right person or f you did get the right guy, you were late for the job, then there is sufficient room for the reason why this so called paradox is not really a problem.
So we are now discussing time travel.
It is my assertion that all of the paradoxes that have come up in stories, while they may make for a good tale, are really only literary devices. Further, I assert that it is not possible to do things that create a problem with time travel.
For example, the classic is if you were to kill your grandfather before he married your grandmother, would you have never been born and therefore you cant have gone back in time to kill him?
The first problem with this is the assumption that prior to the modern era, nobody ever fucked before they got married. The reality of the matter is that teenagers fuck.
Now, a hundred years ago, if a chick missed her period, that meant that they had to get married. Preferably in less than nine months but if that was not possible, then polite society would retreat behind a maxim that “first children are often premature”.
The second problem being that there is more adultery going on than most people care to admit. If adultery was something that was quite rare, then the number of babies who were not the children of the nominative father would also be rare.
As it happens, we know from the public records of divorce cases that when the man alleges adultery and gets a court ordered paternity test that about 1:5 children are not fathered by the husband of the wife.
So what can we conclude from the above?
Well, let's say that you did go back and kill gramps. Whoppee!!!1!1! You killed some dude. However, if you did do that, then you could not have caused a paradox because you did the deed.
Since it is certainly possible that you did not kill the right person or f you did get the right guy, you were late for the job, then there is sufficient room for the reason why this so called paradox is not really a problem.
So we are now discussing time travel.
It is my assertion that all of the paradoxes that have come up in stories, while they may make for a good tale, are really only literary devices. Further, I assert that it is not possible to do things that create a problem with time travel.
For example, the classic is if you were to kill your grandfather before he married your grandmother, would you have never been born and therefore you cant have gone back in time to kill him?
The first problem with this is the assumption that prior to the modern era, nobody ever fucked before they got married. The reality of the matter is that teenagers fuck.
Now, a hundred years ago, if a chick missed her period, that meant that they had to get married. Preferably in less than nine months but if that was not possible, then polite society would retreat behind a maxim that “first children are often premature”.
The second problem being that there is more adultery going on than most people care to admit. If adultery was something that was quite rare, then the number of babies who were not the children of the nominative father would also be rare.
As it happens, we know from the public records of divorce cases that when the man alleges adultery and gets a court ordered paternity test that about 1:5 children are not fathered by the husband of the wife.
So what can we conclude from the above?
Well, let's say that you did go back and kill gramps. Whoppee!!!1!1! You killed some dude. However, if you did do that, then you could not have caused a paradox because you did the deed.
Since it is certainly possible that you did not kill the right person or f you did get the right guy, you were late for the job, then there is sufficient room for the reason why this so called paradox is not really a problem.
So we are now discussing time travel.
It is my assertion that all of the paradoxes that have come up in stories, while they may make for a good tale, are really only literary devices. Further, I assert that it is not possible to do things that create a problem with time travel.
For example, the classic is if you were to kill your grandfather before he married your grandmother, would you have never been born and therefore you cant have gone back in time to kill him?
The first problem with this is the assumption that prior to the modern era, nobody ever fucked before they got married. The reality of the matter is that teenagers fuck.
Now, a hundred years ago, if a chick missed her period, that meant that they had to get married. Preferably in less than nine months but if that was not possible, then polite society would retreat behind a maxim that “first children are often premature”.
The second problem being that there is more adultery going on than most people care to admit. If adultery was something that was quite rare, then the number of babies who were not the children of the nominative father would also be rare.
As it happens, we know from the public records of divorce cases that when the man alleges adultery and gets a court ordered paternity test that about 1:5 children are not fathered by the husband of the wife.
So what can we conclude from the above?
Well, let's say that you did go back and kill gramps. Whoppee!!!1!1! You killed some dude. However, if you did do that, then you could not have caused a paradox because you did the deed.
Since it is certainly possible that you did not kill the right person or f you did get the right guy, you were late for the job, then there is sufficient room for the reason why this so called paradox is not really a problem.
So we are now discussing time travel.
It is my assertion that all of the paradoxes that have come up in stories, while they may make for a good tale, are really only literary devices. Further, I assert that it is not possible to do things that create a problem with time travel.
For example, the classic is if you were to kill your grandfather before he married your grandmother, would you have never been born and therefore you cant have gone back in time to kill him?
The first problem with this is the assumption that prior to the modern era, nobody ever fucked before they got married. The reality of the matter is that teenagers fuck.
Now, a hundred years ago, if a chick missed her period, that meant that they had to get married. Preferably in less than nine months but if that was not possible, then polite society would retreat behind a maxim that “first children are often premature”.
The second problem being that there is more adultery going on than most people care to admit. If adultery was something that was quite rare, then the number of babies who were not the children of the nominative father would also be rare.
As it happens, we know from the public records of divorce cases that when the man alleges adultery and gets a court ordered paternity test that about 1:5 children are not fathered by the husband of the wife.
So what can we conclude from the above?
Well, let's say that you did go back and kill gramps. Whoppee!!!1!1! You killed some dude. However, if you did do that, then you could not have caused a paradox because you did the deed.
Since it is certainly possible that you did not kill the right person or f you did get the right guy, you were late for the job, then there is sufficient room for the reason why this so called paradox is not really a problem.
I could be wrong, but I think they call that a shadow...
Hope is overrated anyway. I've set my standards for humanity pretty low. Softens the blow when it disappoints you.
Just for the record, I think the possibility of humanity killing itself is very real and likely. It is my opinion that our knowledge vastly exceeds our wisdom.
/rant
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But "hope for humanity" is just dumb. That's like having hope for any population of biological creatures. Every biological creature eats everything in its path until it's forced to decline. What would hope have to do with that? How would that help at all? I'm talking about hope for individuals, not for a population. More specifically, let's say you.
You have plenty of hope. Your restaurant makes tasty food, and it's getting recognized, you have a place to vent your frustrations non-violently, and you're a hit with the ladies. So don't give me that no hope business.
The whole of humanity? C'mon, let's not be silly. Any group that involves people called "middle management" is going to take an IQ hit of about 75 points, and that's a big chunk of the world. But fuck them. They're like cannon fodder. Moderately sociopathic cannon fodder. Do you really want to give a shit about those people? Personally, unlike many of my contemporaries, I don't have a lot of love to give. In fact, I'm tapped out on the people who are really excellent, and if I have to defend myself against the sub-excellent, so be it. But don't think I'm going expend any of my hope on them. I save my hope for the people I love.
Sure, I give to charity, but let's face it: it's a Hail Mary pass. You can't save everybody, and especially not from themselves.
Oh, bullshit. If I have to fly down there and feed you the cornbread I made following your instructions, I will. It's fucking delicious. I'll feed it to you, and then you'll hope I brought more. That's hope. Not this insane idea that a biological population will behave in some other way than biological populations always behave.
Yeah, it's lonely knowing what's going on when most people don't, but this way you don't have to be a vacuous slob. Why pin your hopes on them?
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
Am i the only one that doesn't see it?
I haven't yet decided whether or not to issue that command. Your patience has been noted.
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