Alan

But I know there is not nothing.

You know this…as opposed to believing that? How do you know this?

By-product is not the same as evolving to embrace religion. No more than several of our bodily features which are useless or even toxic are the results of natural selection that brought out useful features. There are many parts of the body that are badly designed and can even be deadly while offering NO benefit to humans. It’s one thing to claim…[Read more]

Simon, Dawkins book is not a guide to anything. It is a refutation of stupid childish bullshit that charlatans try to say is true (in the orworldly AND the world and morality we inhabit). If people weren’t brainwashed about a stupid thingstno tried to impose their lunatic laws based on it…Dawkins wouldn’t have to write it and no one would need…[Read more]

Thre is a huge difference between using parables to teach lessons with CLAIMING THOSE PARABLES ARE TRUE AND BASING OUR WORLD VIEW AND LEGAL STRUCTURE ON THEM. Come on. This is basic obvious stuff here. A revealed holy text passage is not the same as the Tortoise and the hare. Using a known fantasy to make theoretical lessons DOES NOT EQUAL MAKING…[Read more]

The thing about the “concept” of the “reality” of God

Why don’t we repeat this again: The thing about the “concept” of the “reality” of God. One more time so we can wrap out mind around this: The thing about the “concept” of the “reality” of God. Can any sentence that begins with “The thing about the “concept” of the “reality” of… ” result in a…[Read more]

Yeah. 95% of guys who say they are bi are totally utterly gay and in denial. There are however a handful of true bis or pansexuals or you name it out there. I’m pretty jealous to be honest.

+1 Reg

It’s funny how absolutely outraged (and probably violated) he felt when three gay guys checked him out. It seemed to make him furious and he wants people to sympathise with him. Most straight men who get checked out or hit on by gay men have a fairly similar experience. And yet they often show an absolute indifference or amusement by people on the…[Read more]

there is bipartisan support for what I consider Australia’s shameful policy on refugees

There is simply something about Anglo-Saxon countries that show a serious thirst for blood at criminals, that not only should prisoners atone while rotting in prison, but that they also suffer. At the very least indifference to their suffering. How many ca…[Read more]

It’s articles like this that show me the utterly savage brutal side of Trump’s America. I literally cannot comprehend what goes through people’s minds when school principles attack their student’s poor family through threats. It paints states like Wyoming as a place of hostility and unforgiving cruelty. And yet that cannot really be the case. I…[Read more]

to see the Republican Party as The Party of Stupid

I’ve always seen it as the party of playing really dirty. Their antics and tactics are so scummy. Just repeating the opposite of reality a thousand times until for most of their followers it just becomes truth (despite them fully well knowing its a lie). “Climate change is a myth”. “The sky is…[Read more]

I always had a total blast traveling around America. And yet even in Liberal Seattle and New York City I came across tourists who would chat me up and within minutes start hearing lectures about how Jesus loves me. This is my favourite template of a conversation to have with an Evangelical:

evangelical: Abortion is murder

me: That’s a question…[Read more]

The trend of countries copying American policy is completely reversing. Trump is trying to axe the very limited form of mixed-system government the US has and returning the death penalty. Meanwhile countries are either enacting or strengthening their mixed-systems while axing the death penalty. America still has enormous cultural influence (I…[Read more]

How much of what Trump does now will matter in a few years time?

This is definitely the question on Trump that can lead to the most insightful answers. Very little of what Trump does will last beyond a couple decades. That’s the consolation we can take. Of course, immigrants who have been separated and caged…well this will affect them for the…[Read more]

Someday everyone will see I was right, and they were wrong. Reminders are the flowering parts that enthuse the procreation.

Just as we shudder when we read our historical heros saying racist things and positively describing slavery and female subjugation…so will our offspring in the future judge us for murdering and consuming…[Read more]

Are you aware there are humans who can’t feel pain?

Wow. I wonder if they taste good! Let’s make some human kebaps!

Or is that, scientists haven’t found what scientists currently recognize as pain receptors?

Yes indeed. It dawned on me that intelligence and pain can take so many exotic forms that we cannot detect and I’ve spent hours wondering, if every time I sweep away leaves on the ground…am I causing them grief? When people take rocks and grind them up t…[Read more]

Your post above sounds like a snake oil pitch if I ever heard one

Could I honestly write a less ironic/sarcastic post? At least no one took the apple one seriously. I’ll have to triple my efforts at making my parody as obvious as possible.

Actually I’ve read that apples are a lot more intelligent than we once thought. Not only are they aware of their environment but the even communicate with one another through the releasing of gasses and the transmission of Iron and Vitamin B12 through the tree sap. They also aren’t as stupid as a lot of people think. They are capable of doing many…[Read more]