Thy Plague Doctor

@Belle

It does matter. You cannot make a sweeping generalization on this issue. The problem (and the solutions) are not uniform cookie cutter that can be the same in all places. A more regional approach makes sense in tackling this issue AND in understanding it.

An incredibly obvious and sensible argument that has fallen on deaf ears too often.…[Read more]

@Unseen

I know the [poisoning the well] fallacy well enough to understand…

No…you’ve gotten this fallacy wrong as well..but in this case completely wrong.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:Crop Circles are manmade.

Literally. The ‘perpetrators’ have even been interviewed on TV in the UK, complete with a video of the technique. Gotta love batty Brits 🙂

Hey Ant from Blighty! I’m a Brit but I live in Vermont USA now, I had a similar schooling to you – up til RE where we had a few weeks of each of the major religions to study – seriously interesting, and of course eye opening. Welcome to AZ and look forward to hearing from you as you get settled 🙂

@_Robert_ So men get killed but all women live forever? Cover me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians!

I’ll miss you, Robert.

@SimonPaynton I don’t think you have thought this “life after death” thing through completely. Let’s say I get hit by a car and it damages my brain, so I’m semi-vegetative. Do I get my old brain back? Let’s say I have epilepsy, or perhaps another mental disorder. Is that cured? Would I even be the same person if it was? How about a small…[Read more]

@Unseen I see there are stats for gun deaths. Is there a breakdown between intentional (murder) and accidental, like a gun backfiring and killing the shooter, or toddler accidents?

@Unseen. Yes, I’ll get back to you on that, @Umar may have better tools than me 🙂

@Unseen, I’m going to try to move this question over to the AZ Group (first time, thank you for allowing me to experiment on you muahaha)

Unseen wrote:

Strega wrote:
“The number of guns per capita per country was a strong and independent predictor of firearm-related death in a given country, whereas the predictive power of the mental illness burden was of borderline significance in a multivariable model. Regardless of exact cause and effect, however, the current study debunks the w…

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@Unseen. Are there comparable statistics available for accidental deaths per capita from gun related incidents?

@Stutz, it’s not bad once you get used to it. There’s a Group here called Atheist Zone (same as the site name) where members can and are posting comments and suggestions and complaints, etc.

when @Umar first set up the site, he did it at basic level so that we all could have a say in which plug-ins he looks for and installs and in what order.…[Read more]

@Stutz great to see you :).

I had a fingerprint scan on my last laptop, which then meant I totally forgot the administrator password for it, and after a messy session involving a tube of gorilla glue and some recalcitrant dragon statue parts, I discovered it would have been a smart idea to have registered my pinkie finger as a fallback. The…[Read more]

When I first came over, I was staying with my fiancée (now wife). She had two teens, now older of course. I wonder if you can imagine how I felt in the morning when half-asleep, I slid my arm up under my pillow, only to find my hand curling around the cold metal of a handgun handle with the thing roughly aimed at my head. I sat up waving it…[Read more]

@SteveInCo. It is eminently possible that since there is a lot of genuine hunting available up here in VT, that guns are thought of as food collecting tools rather than self defense ones. No idea, but that’s a guess. We don’t really have cities in VT that compare to those in other states. Not a lot of us about, basically.