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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Interstellar Travel as Delusional Fantasy in the forum Science</title>
				<link>https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/interstellar-travel-as-delusional-fantasy/page/2/#post-40124</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:24:39 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Something else, maybe the Corona virus, will be the top of the food chain before Homo sapiens designs vehicles for the journey.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck posted an update: Sell your fossil fuel shares. For info [&#133;]</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:12:13 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sell your fossil fuel shares. For info visit</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aureon.ca" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.aureon.ca</a></p>
<p>To see video info, click on “movies”. Scroll down for intro and history; scoll up for current info.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic WARNING scam! in the forum Announcements</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:43:45 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What fun, when I was tutoring, to say people have to tell computers what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and when to stop doing it, so they are dumb but fast.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Where is Robert? in the forum Small Talk</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2020 05:27:52 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PB, too much scifi here; too little science. Cheers.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Where is Robert? in the forum Small Talk</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2020 05:04:06 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was a good suggestion but you had a real bad dream.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Where is Robert? in the forum Small Talk</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 06:54:08 +0000</pubDate>

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				<title>tom sarbeck joined the group Astronomy</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 03:08:21 +0000</pubDate>

				
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Where is Robert? in the forum Small Talk</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:06:59 +0000</pubDate>

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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Trump Can Become Dictator Due to a Loophole in the Constitution in the forum Politics</title>
				<link>https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/trump-can-become-dictator-due-to-a-loophole-in-the-constitution/page/7/#post-27233</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:06:02 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='https://atheistzone.com/members/unseen/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Unseen</a> for Davis: “Technically. Grammar Nazi.”</p>
<p>Yes to both.</p>
<p>Attack if you must, but with clean hands. Or be attacked or ignored.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Trump Can Become Dictator Due to a Loophole in the Constitution in the forum Politics</title>
				<link>https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/trump-can-become-dictator-due-to-a-loophole-in-the-constitution/page/6/#post-27223</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:47:30 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='https://atheistzone.com/members/davis/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Davis</a>: “Your post above sounds like a snake oil pitch if I ever heard one.”</p>
<p>Or should that be, “Your post above reads like a snake oil pitch if I ever read one.”</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Trump Can Become Dictator Due to a Loophole in the Constitution in the forum Politics</title>
				<link>https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/trump-can-become-dictator-due-to-a-loophole-in-the-constitution/page/6/#post-27221</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:24:12 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='https://atheistzone.com/members/unseen/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Unseen</a>, <a href='https://atheistzone.com/members/davis/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Davis</a>: “Scientists &#8230; haven’t found the slightest sign of pain receptors.”</p>
<p>Or is that, scientists haven’t found what scientists currently recognize as pain receptors?</p>
<p>After all, some astrophysicists consider themselves scientists. not sci-fi authors.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Trump Can Become Dictator Due to a Loophole in the Constitution in the forum Politics</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 20:24:33 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To vegans:</p>
<p>1. When you pick, i.e. an apple, does the tree or the apple feel pain?</p>
<p>2. When you bite into a freshly-picked, i.e. apple, does it feel pain?</p>
<p>Your evidence, please.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Trump Can Become Dictator Due to a Loophole in the Constitution in the forum Politics</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 20:11:10 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='https://atheistzone.com/members/ivy/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Ivy</a>, re “I think we had [a democracy]. But not since 2016.</p>
<p>A few people making laws (w/ or w/o many breaking laws) has always been oligarchy.</p>
<p>Further, with SCOTUS saying money is speech, the USA is a plutocratic oligarchy.</p>
<p>Cheers.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Duck, evade, change the subject, scoff, rinse and repeat... in the forum Science</title>
				<link>https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/duck-evade-change-the-subject-scoff-rinse-and-repeat/#post-26631</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:42:34 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, folks, we Yanks are exploring EVERY STINKING NOOK AND CRANNY OF WHAT the Supreme Court’s long-ago Justice Holmes called the marketplace of ideas.</p>
<p>No previous president has ever had the imagination to require us to do that, so Trump is furthering our educations.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Two vs Multi Party Politics in the forum Politics</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 06:43:53 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I live in one of the eighteen states in which American voters can use the direct initiative to circumvent the plutocratic and oligarchic major parties and occasionally do so. In the other states, the voting prey elect their predators.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Is education worth a damn? in the forum Advice</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 06:22:53 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ivy, at 88 years, five months and 17 days, I’m a lifelong learner.</p>
<p>IMO, education is worth multiple damns but books are one of many sources.</p>
<p>If you’re bored, try politics. It’s personal relationships of a rather intense kind.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science</title>
				<link>https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/are-scientists-or-pseudoscientists-claiming-they-found-a-black-hole/page/3/#post-26024</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2019 05:15:10 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PB, religiousness or religiosity?</p>
<p>Didn’t the misinformation always exist? The press and later the web told people it existed.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science</title>
				<link>https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/are-scientists-or-pseudoscientists-claiming-they-found-a-black-hole/page/3/#post-26014</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2019 02:29:18 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reg, I scrolled down the Home Page list and found a post by you that starts with “I have previously debunked&#8230;.”</p>
<p>I counted 25 posts but before you see this post, posts or deletions by others may alter the count.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science</title>
				<link>https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/are-scientists-or-pseudoscientists-claiming-they-found-a-black-hole/page/2/#post-26011</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:55:42 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reg, TA’s computer may have those posts but I won’t request a search. They might disclose that rather than replying to the arguments you supplied, I pointed to evidence for the EU.</p>
<p>P</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science</title>
				<link>https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/are-scientists-or-pseudoscientists-claiming-they-found-a-black-hole/page/2/#post-26009</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:36:05 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PB, not crazy, but wordy and not describing the hardball politics I have played.</p>
<p>In Wikipedia, search on Don Bolles (the reporter, not the musician) and you will see some of that hardball.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science</title>
				<link>https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/are-scientists-or-pseudoscientists-claiming-they-found-a-black-hole/page/2/#post-26007</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:18:49 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reg, months ago I replied to a post by you in which you defined the word &#8220;debunk&#8221; to require only your opinion. The Oxford English Dictionary (and its Yankee &#8220;cousin&#8221; the Oxford New American Dictionary) defines the word very differently.</p>
<p>IMO, you have not debunked the EU.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:17:27 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reg &amp; Davis, it’s now April 19 and yesterday is much less important.</p>
<p>And PB, how warm was that Pillsbury cookie batter?</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science</title>
				<link>https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/are-scientists-or-pseudoscientists-claiming-they-found-a-black-hole/page/2/#post-25993</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2019 21:33:28 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I find April <strong>18th </strong>important, for that date I don’t drink JWBL, don’t look for fronkey fossils, don’t debunk Reg’s or Davis’ posts, and do accept my late drinking buddy Albert’s SR and GR.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:47:53 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Postscript, PB. The video will tell you why I don&#8217;t do alternate explanations. They tend to require a few reams of paper or an onscreen equivalent.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:38:26 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PB asked: Can you help us understand science better, at least in between the pot shots?</p>
<p>Excellent timing, PB. Get thee to <a href="http://www.thunderbolts.info" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.thunderbolts.info</a> without delay and on its home page you can click on a short video titled Wal Thornhill: Black Hole or Plasmoid?</p>
<p>If you delay you can use the strange little search box on the upper right and search on&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-16531"><a href="https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/are-scientists-or-pseudoscientists-claiming-they-found-a-black-hole/#post-25986" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:21:27 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert wrote: &#8230; a large-by-networking telescope to “see” an event horizon.</p>
<p>Or, a large-by-networking telescope to gather data interpreted as an event horizon, displayed on computer screens and published in popular media. Renewed funding follows.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:11:55 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>U wrote: &#8230; It’s a bit soon to be calling it “pseudoscience.”</p>
<p>Eggs preceded chickens, U, and untested hypotheses precede empirical evidence.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:04:21 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Davis wrote: Perhaps they brought the photo to the media to get interest in the project and perhaps find sources of funding.</p>
<p>Davis, without taxpayers’ wide-eyed attention, Congress won’t appropriate <strong>billions of dollars </strong>and Big Bangers will be writing perhaps good scifi or doing Lyft, Uber, and such.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck started the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2019 03:28:02 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A. The scientific method requires confirmation by others. Who will confirm this claim?</p>
<p>B. Scientists tell their peers of achievements in journals and at conferences. Give some thought to reasons why these people are using popular media.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Christianity is a Tool for Enslavement in the forum Atheism</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:32:55 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check the OED for the Greek origin of “apostate”. It means “runaway slave”.</p>
<p>And so, when someone tells you “Once a Catholic, always a Catholic”, you can reply “Once a Catholic, always helpless”.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic A Universe Unbounded in Space and Time in the forum Science</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 23:29:04 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m getting ready, Reg.</p>
<p>I have long felt no need for a beginning. I’m also hoarding ice cream but will need a way to keep it cold.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Why Are We Conscious? in the forum Science</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 23:23:33 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Infinite Simulation, as U describes it seems much like Perpetual Motion.</p>
<p>And BTFW, plants show no sign of being conscious?</p>
<p>Rather, U shows no sign that he is conscious of whether plant are conscious. I’ve read of research saying plants communicate externalia by emitting aromas/odors.</p>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 23:02:26 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s coming to a consciousness near you. Will you be ready  for it?</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Cats vs. Dogs in the forum Small Talk</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:34:49 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Said my mom decades ago, &#8220;Cats are sovereign monarchies with tails and self-emptying mousetraps.&#8221;</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Sunday School November 25th 2018 in the forum Sunday School</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2018 19:21:22 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Re: Is believing without evidence always morally wrong?</p>
<p>No!</p>
<p>Belief without evidence has to be morally acceptable, &#8230;if Cosmology’s Standard Model, the Big Bang, is to survive.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic A religious moderate is a failed fundamentalist. in the forum Atheism</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:20:15 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert wrote: It’s just the practice that has moderated. The fundamental beliefs are still there.</p>
<p>Is a moderate at the midpoint or an end of the “XX ———— fundie” spectrum?</p>
<p>My ethnic German parents demanded obedience. My Catholic dad sent me to Catholic  schools and I became a fundamentalist. At puberty, a hormone-fueled orgasm exploded my pra&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-15182"><a href="https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/a-religious-moderate-is-a-failed-fundamentalist/page/3/#post-24647" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:03:44 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simon, please define “institutional reasons”.</p>
<p>Do institutions HAVE reasons? Do institutions think?</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic A religious moderate is a failed fundamentalist. in the forum Atheism</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 23:07:23 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simon asked “&#8230;the reasons why religion turns to the dark side,&#8230;.”</p>
<p>Because a very few people “on the dark side” create religions. They want control, money, or access to the kind of people who need or get religion. For instance, children.</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:30:41 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Re Carlin and idiots or maniacs: Humor often comes from within; he was projecting.</p>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 23:18:24 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230;a desperate marriage of hope and ignorance.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s comforting that no one here is ignorant.</p>
<p>I think it dangerous to take hope from ignorant people.</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:20:07 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, Reg, for the link to Feynman’s Technique. I’ve been looking for an illustration of Bayes’ Theorem I can play with and found it there. I will try the technique to design a talk I will give in a week or two on, you guessed it, the Electric Universe. BTW, three thousand cheers for Ireland’s weaning itself further from Catholicism.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Sunday School October 14th 2018 in the forum Sunday School</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 20:04:52 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reg wonders where kids learn such behavior from[sic].</p>
<p>We evolved from pond scum. How much empathy did the big and strong have as they engulfed (ate) the small and weak?</p>
<p>How much empathy do today’s pond scum have as they do the same?</p>
<p>Which generation in the Trump family failed to teach empathy to their young?</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Sunday School October 14th 2018 in the forum Sunday School</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 07:02:27 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another candidate for the ten worst things about human nature:</p>
<p>Our ancestral cyanobacteria (aka blue-green algae &amp; pond scum) had no empathy for their smaller and weaker prey.</p>
<p>Some current research says psycho/sociopathy result from damaged grey/white matter respectively, so the DSM’s antisocial personality disorder has a genetic li&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-14982"><a href="https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-october-14th-2018/#post-24428" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic How Is Christianity NOT Polytheism? in the forum Theism</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 06:22:56 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reg, the other gods (of which there were to be none) were the pagan gods that other people in the region were still worshipping. Baal was one of them.</p>
<p>Beth, about the trinity. It’s to test your gullibility. If you don’t question the trinity story, you’re gullible enoughn to join the religion.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck started the topic Is the Xian God A Predator? Are All Gods Predators? in the forum Theism</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 15:53:31 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The OED defines predator as a person who ruthlessly exploits others. The word’s Latin root is praedator, which means ‘plunderer’.</p>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 22:15:17 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Big Bang (not the tv show). Because theoretical physicists need a god.</p>
				<strong>In reply to</strong> -
				<a href="https://atheistzone.com/members/tomsarbeck/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tom Sarbeck</a> posted an update in the group <a href="https://atheistzone.com/groups/atheist-humor/" rel="nofollow ugc">Atheist Humor</a> Donald Trump. Because there is no god.
Nerves in teeth. BTING.
Aging. BTING.
Hollywood makes movies for 13 yo boys. Because there is no god.
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				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 22:11:37 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brett Kavanaugh. Because there is no god.</p>
				<strong>In reply to</strong> -
				<a href="https://atheistzone.com/members/tomsarbeck/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tom Sarbeck</a> posted an update in the group <a href="https://atheistzone.com/groups/atheist-humor/" rel="nofollow ugc">Atheist Humor</a> Donald Trump. Because there is no god.
Nerves in teeth. BTING.
Aging. BTING.
Hollywood makes movies for 13 yo boys. Because there is no god.
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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Sunday School September 30th 2018 in the forum Sunday School</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:42:07 +0000</pubDate>

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				<title>tom sarbeck replied to the topic Sunday School September 30th 2018 in the forum Sunday School</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:37:53 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Ireland and elsewhere, instead of goddamn blasphemies, let’s  have damngod blasphemies.</p>
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				<title>tom sarbeck posted an update in the group Science -- the kind that requires evidence and reason.: PB, scifi fans have wondrously productive [&#133;]</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PB, scifi fans have wondrously productive imaginations.<br />
AI’s taking over the universe is a stretch. Its making a repeating big bang rips the “fabric” to shreds little larger than molecules.</p>
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