Tom

Unseen don’t be fucking ridiculous. Nobody is left alone to their natural inclinations. Every day we face countless pressures to conform to cultural norms, gender roles from our parents (who faces pressures from their parents and so on and so on and so on), not to mention at work, among friends, in public, at functions and so on. Many of these…[Read more]

Those differences, unseen, become trivial once we’ve overcome the need to spend all our day surviving from predators and feeding ourselves and most especially once we are self-aware and able to use reason. The physical differences are obvious but irrelevant. Our psychological differences are easily overcome if there is a willingness to do it. It’s…[Read more]

Those differences are heavily culturally enforced unseen. As women’s rights increase, women insist on making their own choices, challenging gender norms, living as they see fit and fighting the biases that keep gender differences so ingrained in our culture…miraculously we find all of those “fundamental” differences slowly disappearing. It would…[Read more]

Indeed +1 for Ivy

The only current swing states with a Republican trifecta is Florida. Ohio, Iowa and Arizona. I’ve taken a look at all four states and:Florida has the slimmest majority in the Senate. It’s unlikely a super contentious bill like that would pass there…especially in a state with a serious history of voting supression and electoral disaster. In Iowa…[Read more]

It’s preposterous to claim to know the result of an election six weeks before it happens (and with three presidential debates in between). Americans are obsessed with “already calling things” well before anything is clear. And they have total amnesia about it every single time they are wrong. Clinton was a totally obvious sure thing, except for…[Read more]

That should read pro-choice

What the hell are you talking about? Simon stated that it is a fact that a fertilised egg is alive. I countered that it depends on the definition of alive. Instead of defining “alive” he gave a bad analogy. I countered with an equally silly analogy to show how silly his analogy was. He replied by throwing in a new term “dormant” that also totally…[Read more]

If an acorn is separated from a tree, it is in a dormant state.  If you drop it into a fire, it goes from dormant to dead.

Davis rolls his eyes.

Yes Simon and if you drop an acorn into a fire it “dies”. So what. Was the acorn “alive”?

No it isn’t a fact that a foetus is “alive”. It is a functioning organism but whether it is alive depends on your definition of what is “alive”. Is the foetus in an unhatched egg “alive”? Is a one hour zygote made up of 32 cells “alive”? Are a sperm and an egg just about to be fertilised “alive”? The only fact at all in this case is that it is a…[Read more]

Johan I agree with Jake. I think a psychologist would be the best course of action. Unfortunately.

Simon, you don’t need religion to answer those question. You don’t need religion to fulfill emotional and “world view” needs. Nobody here is saying that living like empty robots is the way forward. It’s obvious that we need to fill our lives with meaning. Religion simply offers a toxic route to that meaning and comes with terrible unnecessary…[Read more]

Johann, do you need any help uploading that video or image evidnece?

You don’t need an alternative to religion. Religion is the problem. Get rid of the religion and you’ve removed a serious problem. If you need a false crutch to get through life then you have serious issues you need to deal with. Millions of people around the world live totally fine without it. If you live in a western developed country and have an…[Read more]

How can belief in an entirely fictional entity be a way of “getting” to an authentic life. That’s like saying sincere belief in Elvis still being alive is part of a process of getting to an authentic life. If you can arrive there without believing in fictional nonsense then belief in that fictional nonsense just delays the process and makes…[Read more]

Jake you can choose life without God. In fact you only start living when it is most authentic and there is nothing authentic about a made-up Divine being in the sky.

They said the same about Jesus

You are Jesus?

Johan the fact that you exist is not evidence that you were born to a God (or created by one). The universe can easily exist without a God having anything to do with it, I would say that if anything, things are a whole lot less needlessly complicated without the God. I am not going anywhere to see you prove the existence of God. You can upload…[Read more]

Sure. I have my Life to show you. I am a Living God. And more specifically a Living Mother.

No. That is not proof. Saying you are God doesn’t make you God. You have to prove you are a God. The only proof you have given is simply saying something like: A God created me therefore I am a God.

There are two MAJOR problems with this claim first of…[Read more]