Tom Sarbeck
@tomsarbeck
Active 7 years, 3 months ago-
tom sarbeck replied to the topic You can believe in evolution. You can believe in human rights. Not both. in the forum Politics 8 years, 8 months ago
@Simon, @notsimple: The Civil War freed approx 2.3 million slaves. it killed approx 750 thousand combatants.
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic This is war in the forum Politics 8 years, 9 months ago
Of course we are getting closer, Belle; we are homo sapiens.
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic This is war in the forum Politics 8 years, 9 months ago
@Belle:
I said it before on TA and everyone told me I was crazy…..we are headed for WW3.
They were wrong; you weren’t crazy. We are always headed for WW3 AND we are always headed for peace. We will reach one of them.
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic EU? in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 9 months agoWhen someone tells me that their idea, … is not open for debate I am immediately suspicious. It is not debate that they want to stifle, it is dissent.
…calls to not allow debate (in a Forum that demands evidence and reason in its title!) smacks of quackery rather than dissent.
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic EU? in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 9 months agoReg, I will ignore the name calling in that post and briefly answer two points in it.
It is only through peer review and open debate that we arrive at a theory that has any scientific merit.
1) Currently there are no EUers among the peers.
2) peer review + open debate. Without evidence?Einstein’s ideas on Gravity and Electromagnetism are a…
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic EU? in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 9 months agoReg, in 436 words you debunked nothing. Bangers have produced evidence for nothing.
…[modern physicists] put Inflation before the Big Bang.
By putting Inflation before the Big Bang, they moved what contradicts the laws of physics, is untested and untestable, to where it can never be tested.
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tom sarbeck posted an update in the group
What We Don't Talk About Is How We Are Controlled 8 years, 9 months agoHas anyone recently told you, “We don’t talk about that.”
On what subject(s), 1) do they stay silent, or 2) do they want silence from you?
Do you feel, 1) silenced, or 2) sad for them?
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My parents never engaged in conversation. I seldom spoke and at 35 married a woman who for differenct reasons seldom spoke. We chose…[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
@Simon – I hope you will explain how I verily transgressed a rule of rationality.
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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
Dream on, Simon.
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tom sarbeck started the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the… in the forum Politics 8 years, 9 months ago
…Only the Weak, by Cooperating, Can Stop Them.
We (and our numerous cousins) are descended from blue-green algae, aka cyanobacteris, aka pond scum, who engulfed (ate) their weaker neighbors. From time to time, some of the weaker disposed of a stronger neighbor and reproduced.
We know where today’s stronger are. Will we cooperate to stop them?
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tom sarbeck posted an update in the group
Bookish atheists 8 years, 9 months agoSex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the 21st Century [subtitle]
If you’re unsure of your ability to demolish the “Christian Nation”, lie, this book is for you.
Geoffrey Stone opens “Sex and the Constitution” with the words of SCOTUS Justice William Brennan from one of the Court’s major decisions on pornography, Roth v. United…[Read more]
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic Is belief toxic for your brain? in the forum Small Talk 8 years, 9 months ago
Thank you, Strega.
I studied math, economics and physics, with more math and physics in grad school, and doubted the ex nihilo story the moment I saw it. The entire universe occupying a space smaller than a particle was fantasy. The Bangers eventually saw the foolishness of that hypothesis and it “evolved”.
Go to www dot newtoeu dot com and…[Read more] -
tom sarbeck replied to the topic Is belief toxic for your brain? in the forum Small Talk 8 years, 9 months ago
Reg, some late evening thoughts….
First, in reply:
“I think that Xians were already persuaded that Genesis was true.”
To whatever had persuaded them, they added LeMaitre’s math.
“…a day without a yesterday.”
Is there evidence for a moment of time without a preceding moment of time?
“Our current understanding of the Universe….”
Many previous…[Read more] -
tom sarbeck replied to the topic Sunday School June 18th 2017 in the forum
Sunday School 8 years, 10 months agoJohn Major wrote: “We are not carnivores. We lack incisors….”
OED: carnivore – an animal that feeds on other animals.
You’re right, John; it’s silly to enter into this debate.
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic Sunday School June 18th 2017 in the forum
Sunday School 8 years, 10 months agoJohn Major wrote: “But because it’s another species it doesn’t get proper consideration.”
Our species are pragmatic, and those and similar species do get proper consideration. Their bodies do what our bodies cannot do; thrive on grasses and change them to protein, which our bodies need.
Yes, we carnivores eat dead animals. The foods veg…[Read more] -
tom sarbeck posted an update 8 years, 10 months ago
Isn’t the point of a society to protect and provide for its members?
Matt, societies are formed by a very few self-interested leaders. They need common folk to fight their wars and have to reward those who survive.
The leaders then have to make large numbers of common folk governable. This requires a combination of rewards, fraud and o…[Read more]
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Hi Tom, I can’t seem to find the original thread at all. In any case, I disagree that societies are necessarily formed by self-interested leaders. I do think that self-interested leaders will naturally try to attain leadership positions so that they can serve their own interests (and that most politicians fit this description).
Think about it…[Read more]
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic Natural Selection: Dems Want It to Go Slower, Repubs Want It to Go Faster in the forum Politics 8 years, 10 months ago
Isn’t the point of a society to protect and provide for its members?
Matt, societies are formed by a very few self-interested leaders. They need common folk to fight their wars and have to reward those who survive.
The leaders then have to make large numbers of common folk governable. This requires a combination of rewards, fraud and oppression.
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic Sunday School June 18th 2017 in the forum
Sunday School 8 years, 10 months agoI appreciate that two Catholic school nuns told their classes that faith is a gift and not everyone is given that gift. I was in their classes and quitting Catholicism didn’t require the analyses I see here.
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tom sarbeck posted an update 8 years, 10 months ago
Simon, google “is philosophy dead?”
I did and the controversy’s size surprised me. You will see Stephen Hawking’s part in it.“But actual things or situations exist too,”
A Platonist I know says they are illusions, and adds that he and I are illusions. He denied my request to stick him with a pin. - Load More
