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@davis – “atheist-unsafe”

– Jesus shit in a fishtank.  Since when is Atheist Zone populated by snowflakes?

Please can you stop dancing on Dr Bob’s face, every time he shows it?  I don’t get why you do it.  It’s like you’re in love with him or something.  Admit it.

We don’t care what Dr Bob does.  He doesn’t do “anything”.  He’s like your twink…[Read more]

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This should help.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

@David – “Does it need to be shared then?”

– I don’t know what you mean.  I think that strictly speaking, morality refers to our relationship with others, or our relationship with the larger group.

“the ‘foundations’ do not measure freedom or equality”

– these foundations are catch-all terms for large groups of related values.  I think that…[Read more]

“ul” “ol” “li” are used to list items.

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There is a reply link above each message/reply.

@Unseen

Species move around, disappearing from where they originally “belonged” and taking up what can only be described as temporary residence somewhere else.

I wasn’t talking about species, I was talking about individual animals. E.g. Zimbabwe is home to X lions. Obviously species as a whole can move, change, and even span multiple cou…[Read more]

@Davis. Whatever you do, once you’ve libated the tarot cards, do nothing else that might jinx you, so as to keep the experiment clean.

If Simon is correct, what do you want on your tombstone?

@Davis – I wouldn’t do it. You must have to be mad to piss on a pack of personalised tarot cards. My very good advice is don’t do it, and give your tarot cards away to someone who wants them.

@PopeBeanie – “It’s an artificial value that human beings assign to it.”

– are you saying that values are artificial? Values are human. We take value from physical flourishing, we value a healthy baby, for example. We don’t like to see our house go up in a fire.

So there are such things in life as fact/value crossovers. Or s…[Read more]

Strega wrote:@Simonpaynton. You are seriously setting Davis up for what you believe will be a disaster? If I had information on how to persuade someone to do something I believed would damage them, I think I’d be keeping that to myself!

It’s not the fact that nothing is going to happen to @Davis that would not have happened if he hadn’t bruta…

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@Simonpaynton. You are seriously setting Davis up for what you believe will be a disaster? If I had information on how to persuade someone to do something I believed would damage them, I think I’d be keeping that to myself!

It’s not the fact that nothing is going to happen to @Davis that would not have happened if he hadn’t brutalized the cards.…[Read more]

@Simonpaynton. Exactly how do you propose to evidence the absence of bad luck? It’s rather tricky to prove the absence of something, as you know from trying to evidence atheism as the position of reason.

If @Davis runs out of toothpaste the day after he ate garlic, is that bad luck? If he doesn’t get a promotion he was hoping for, is that bad…[Read more]

@Strega – I don’t believe in horoscopes any more. It’s not so much that they’re vague, as that they’re true for everyone.

“Honestly Simon, if you took one set of tarot cards and did hideous disrespectful things to them, and took a duplicate pack that had had some kind of opposite attention, I don’t know, a spiritual blessing I imagine, do y…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:@Davis – it’s just a strong pattern that I notice, and that people remark upon. People who disrespect Tarot cards always seem to have something terrible happen to them soon after. Why, I don’t know. The cards seem to have some kind of dark forces associated with them.

My friend had a Tarot reading from the same lady I go…

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@Davis – before you start dissing the cards, I believe it’s important to “personalise” them for a few weeks by doing readings for yourself and others.

@Davis. Probably the same mentality that thought it was clever to steal the Twitter account in the first place. Sad and pitiful really. Can’t imagine what the world looks like through the Twitter-thief’a glasses. Not pretty, I’d imagine.

@Davis – it’s just a strong pattern that I notice, and that people remark upon. People who disrespect Tarot cards always seem to have something terrible happen to them soon after. Why, I don’t know. The cards seem to have some kind of dark forces associated with them.

My friend had a Tarot reading from the same lady I go to, and I heard the…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:I consider myself a spiritual atheist, because I’m spiritual and an atheist. I’m a lot of other things as well.

I think that the word “spiritual” isn’t an exclusively religious word, and even though it happens to have the word “spirit” in it, it’s OK to appropriate it for atheist purposes, if we put the word “atheist” in fr…

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I consider myself a spiritual atheist, because I’m spiritual and an atheist. I’m a lot of other things as well.

I think that the word “spiritual” isn’t an exclusively religious word, and even though it happens to have the word “spirit” in it, it’s OK to appropriate it for atheist purposes, if we put the word “atheist” in front of it to show…[Read more]