Activity – Tom Sarbeck

Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Love Never Fails in the forum Small Talk 8 years, 7 months ago

@jakelafort: It seems every woman i have ever known who described to me how she had been abused as a child is mentally ill.

Not mentally ill, jake. Experiencing post-traumatic stress. Which, btw, is no more a disorder than the immune response is.

Do you want to get me started on that?
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic The Power of Prayer in the forum Atheism 8 years, 7 months ago

Belle, if you evolved to believe in a god, you did not evolve to argue with atheists! Knock it off!
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Suppose It’s All True? in the forum Atheism 8 years, 7 months ago

Nerdy, after 12 years in Catholic schools I freed myself from its fictions. Imagination knows no bounds so I ignore hypotheticals.

Maybe, after you expound on “Suppose it’s all false.”
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Things god forgot in the forum Atheism 8 years, 7 months ago

Strega, thank you for ending this thread’s unhappy life.
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Working to Forgive Christians in the forum Atheism 8 years, 7 months ago

A placeholder. I like that name for it. Isn’t the numeral for ‘zero’ also a placeholder?
Tom Sarbeck posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago

Reg, thanks for the link to Theory of Mind. I’ve read of it three times in about two years now. Did the person who named it that give any thought to whether the name was misleading? (I suppose my asking that brings into question whether I have a theory of mind on the point.)
Tom Sarbeck posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago

Belle, anger is a sign of good health.
You know the flight or fight thing. Fear gives people the energy they need to take flight; anger gives people the energy they need to fight.
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic So Long and Thanks for all the Fish in the forum Theism 8 years, 7 months ago

Having done twelve years in RC schools, two of them in Jesuit 9th and 10th grades, I learned to see teaching priests as intellectual bullies. They won those rounds.

Thirty-plus years later I got my revenge. While on a jury with a Catholic priest who looked young enough to have recently completed training, we went to lunch and happened to sit…[Read more]
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Why do scientists believe in science? in the forum Small Talk 8 years, 8 months ago

A noun (atheism) is unavoidably a verb (the act of rejecting….)?
Fascinating.
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Failed Conversion in the forum Atheism 8 years, 9 months ago

Belle, the last remaining kid in the class who believes in Santa Claus might have hope. Would it be cruel to take it from him?
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic EU? in the forum Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 9 months ago

Wha…? You woke me to ask that?
Tom Sarbeck posted an update 8 years, 9 months ago

If you say evolution is guided, tell us the rules it follows.
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic EU? in the forum Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 9 months ago

Rreg, I did not say you should not debate.

I did say, but not clearly, that I will let the evidence prevail.
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic EU? in the forum Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 9 months ago

Reg, this group is about science; it’s NOT about debate.
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic EU? in the forum Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 9 months ago

Nice video, Beanie. But, prepare yourself for the real shocker–and “shocker” isn’t a pun.

The EU model says electricity (lightning bolts far larger than any we know) made the craters–be they round or any other shape.

There is reason for the name “Electric Universe”.
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic EU? in the forum Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 9 months ago

Reg, Tom Findlay’s book and the Electric Universe will survive the reviews Bangers give them. The Bang will not survive the end of taxpayer subsidies.
Tom Sarbeck posted an update in the group Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 9 months ago

Reg wrote: “The next thing to mention….”
What preceded your addition here?
- Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied 8 years, 9 months ago
  
  Hi Tom – It was quoting from the pdf that you linked. I posted under its own title rather than adding just another comment.
Tom Sarbeck posted an update in the group Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 9 months ago

LET’S GET STARTED. REMEMBER, SCIENCE WITH EVIDENCE AND THAT USES REASON.

If you squeeze the entire universe tightly enough, will it occupy less space than the smallest of particles?

I doubted it. (The other boys in my sixth grade class in a Catholic school had reason to call me a doubting Thomas.)

For a free read that doesn’t require a Ph.D. to…[Read more]
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the… in the forum Politics 8 years, 9 months ago

@Arcus asks, ‘Why such militarized language?’
I’ve been there. Try it some day.
Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the… in the forum Politics 8 years, 9 months ago

@Arcus-political combat, usually over economic issues, is not a philosophy or political science or history classroom.
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