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Postby KLA2 » Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:09 am

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Postby KLA2 » Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:11 am

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G-g-g-g-g-night, folks. :wink:
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Postby Arneb » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:57 pm

Poof.

Now what?
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Postby KLA2 » Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:43 am

:shock: WHO are YOU calling a ... poof, you great Teutonic brute? I should hit you with my purse, after I go and have a good cry.

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Postby Мастер » Sun Mar 18, 2012 12:34 am

what pride
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Postby tubeswell » Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:08 pm

what determination!
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.

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Postby Arneb » Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:00 pm

what ironclad determination to throw purses.
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Postby KLA2 » Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:08 am

Learned it from Margaret Thatcher.
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Postby tubeswell » Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:07 am

A determinist if ever there was one!
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Postby Arneb » Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:41 am

The Lady who made an S/M studio look comfy.
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Postby KLA2 » Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:33 am

Heh. Don't know about that, but the Lady was not for turning.
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Postby Arneb » Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:16 am

You know, deep in the dark crevices of my egoistic, chauvinist, Germanocentric mind, I wish we had a Chancellorette banging her handbag on the tables of Brussels barking "I want my money back".
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Postby Мастер » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:26 pm

So you want the Mark to replace the Euro?
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Postby KLA2 » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:24 am

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." -Edward Gibbon

Do not remember reading that before, Lance. But, so true. :(
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Postby Lance » Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:00 am

KLA2 wrote:"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." -Edward Gibbon

Do not remember reading that before, Lance. But, so true. :(

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Postby tubeswell » Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:18 pm

Lance wrote:
KLA2 wrote:"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." -Edward Gibbon

Do not remember reading that before, Lance. But, so true. :(

It's new. ;)


More scientific as well
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Postby MM_Dandy » Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:30 pm

But would a stupid ruler find religion useful?
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Postby Arneb » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:24 pm

They are usually smart enough for THAT. Even if they believe it themselves.
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Postby tubeswell » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:00 am

I daresay they should find religion a public convenience!
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Postby Мастер » Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:28 pm

MM_Dandy wrote:But would a stupid ruler find religion useful?


It could be useful, independently of its veracity.

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Postby MM_Dandy » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:35 pm

I suppose I could go hardcore and post outrage at every narrow definition, implication, and slight about a subject as broad as humanity itself - but that way lies insanity. Besides, no one is suggesting that religion be outlawed or anything like that.
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Postby KLA2 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:11 am

MM_Dandy wrote:I suppose I could go hardcore and post outrage at every narrow definition, implication, and slight about a subject as broad as humanity itself - but that way lies insanity. Besides, no one is suggesting that religion be outlawed or anything like that.


Oh, MM_Dandy, that is waving a red cape at a bull! :lol:

MM_Dandy did sting me with a comment a while ago that I seem to target Christianity in particular. He was right. I guess that is because I was raised in a Christian society and culture, and tend to hold it to a higher standard. Not fair, I agree.

For the record, let me say (again) I find all religions equally absurd, harmful and illogical. This is not a condemnation of the many good folks who believe in them, but I think they would be good folks anyway, without Gods, Devils, Angels, Heavens, Hells and so on.

An atheist, I give what I can to those in need, seek to do good rather than harm, simply because I know that is right, that is what being a member of a society is about. I expect no eternal reward for doing so, and fear no punishment if I do not.

I think most folks are the same. The bad ones, religious or not, are … bad.
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Postby Мастер » Tue May 15, 2012 7:08 pm

How do we know who is good and who is bad? What standards do we use? Are those standards based on something objective, or are they arbitrary?
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Re: Deterministic Comments

Postby Arneb » Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:41 pm

Being the biologically-minded guy, I'd say that they are aritrary in the sense that you will be hard pressed to prove one standard is superior to the the other by any absolute measure. They are objective in the sense that they are wih us today because our ancestors were successful applying them.
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Re: Deterministic Comments

Postby tubeswell » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:08 am

Arneb wrote:... biologically-minded guy


The irony of this oxymoron is that we really are all biologically-minded.
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