Matt

I’m inclined to agree with her. I can’t help my sexual tastes, and I don’t think anyone else can either. So why should someone else’s tastes (that they can’t control) be of any concern to me?

To be clear, the issue I have with pedophilia is that the child is unable to consent to it. Likewise with bestiality and necrophilia… the real issue (for…[Read more]

Personally, there’s alot about AZ that’s worse (imo) than TA was. The biggest of which is the lack of threaded conversations. It makes replying to people a much less precise activity and it has really put a big damper on my activity on the site. Mostly, I just come for Reg’s Sunday School these days.

It’s a scientific theory (not “just a theory”), with mountains of evidence supporting it. Some people might call that “a fact”, but that really does it injustice.

Why do you ask, Unseen? Just stirring the pot?

Sorry to derail back to page 1, but pointing at pi, the Fibonacci series, and fractals and saying “what about those!??!” is, aside from begging the question, on par with creationists pointing at the vast number of species on earth and saying “how could evolution do this!??!”, or pointing at the apparent fine-tunedness of the universe and saying…[Read more]

I disagree with the premise of the question…

If there’s something someone might say about reality that is almost trivially true3, it’s that it’s all so mathematical.

This is fundamentally backwards. A better thing to say would be that if there’s something someone might say about mathematics that is almost trivially true, it’s that it’s all so de…[Read more]

My advice is this: just go along with it and pretend until you are independent enough to no longer need your parent’s support. It’s not worth the potential trouble to “come out” to unsupportive parents. I’d also recommend you not use your real name (particularly your first and last name together) or photo on the internet (your mum might find it),…[Read more]

But it is still okay to do this to women because ultimately they are worth less to some men.

No, it’s not “okay”… It’s illegal.

And the sole fact that they might get pregnant in the future justifies an insanely vicious salary reduction.

I took the liberty of removing the irrelevant, and emotive, portion of this… and it sounds a bit more…[Read more]

Absolutely disgusting… How about the church just pays its taxes and leaves the health care to the doctors. It’s outrageous that THIS is sort of thing they do with their tax free dollars.

I was then accused of being a follower of “liberal secularism”

Sounds like a pretty reasonable position to take… Liberal as in promoting and supporting freedom, secularism as in equal treatment of all religions and separation of church (and mosque) and state. It’s truly quite bizarre that these people thought this was some sort of counter arg…[Read more]

Absent fathers is the root of the problem.

That’s a pretty bold claim… I think you would have a hard time proving that absent fathers is the root of the mass shooting epidemic in the US. More likely the problem is some combination of the following:

• Extremism bred in echo chambers
• Disenfranchisement with “the system”
• Easy access to…

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Seems like I’m at 3/10 so far, but like Strega, I don’t think merely doing/using these things is what makes someone a sheeple… just that there’s lots of sheeple doing/using these things.

For what it’s worth: I say “google it”, have a facebook account, and watch Game of Thrones

also…

Signs your you’re a Sheeple

Fixed your title for…

1. Build an audience (without an audience, you’re just another person writing words that no one will read)
2. Advertise (Blogger is made by google and has good integration with google’s ad services)
3. Participate in paid events (motivational speaking, conference panels, etc)

Basically, you can’t just start blogging and expect to make any money…[Read more]

@Unseen WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING IN ALL OF YOUR RECENT POST’S TITLES?

When does a life begin?

Interesting question, consider this: There is an unbroken chain of living beings from our earliest common ancestor to us. To reproduce, a living sperm and a living egg come from living parents and produce a living child. So, when does a life begin? When lif…