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1151. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #164864 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 7:02 pm

Teratornis-


Humans like to compete,


I don't.
I loathe it.
A lot of it depends on luck, or health, which is also luck.
Thus, I find it to be a lousy way in most every day cases to gauge ability.
I feel as empty and hollow in victory as I do in defeat.
The whole process is punishingly loathesome to me.


As Michael Shermer mentioned in his interview, there's a lot of Darwin in Adam Smith's invisible hand.


I think it's all a bunch of shit.
And by that, I mean libertarian philosophy period.

1152. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #164803 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 5:51 pm

BillG-

Have you ever used birth control?
Then, you're weren't using sex for its designed purpose.

Have you ever been on a plane?
Then, you've defied gravity.

Have you, or a parent, or a grandparent been saved by modern medicine?
Then, you owe your existance to someone defying the will of nature.

Now, did you need God for all these decisions?
I bet not.
I bet you were just getting through your daily existence like everybody without a thought to it.

So,how did you "pick and choose", how to "delineate between the proper and improper applications of Darwin's theory".

Or, Newtons/Einsteins for flight?

1153. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #164797 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Hmmmm-


That's helpful...would have been even more helpful without the jab...


What jab?


Ok...but there are plenty of nature specials that explain animals eating thier own young as being benefical to the species.


I don't recall seeing it in higher primates.

Lions will kill a litter of cubs so the mother will go into heat, and he can impregnate her with his genes instead.

But, we aren't lions, we're people.

When people do that type of thing, we send them to prison.


It obviously compassion isn't always selected.


Hey, not all humans have empathy.
We call them sociopaths, and keep and eye on them, lock them up when they become troublesome, and try really hard to avoid electing them to public office.

Sometimes, a sociopath or two leaks through our usuals filters, and makes it to the White House, or makes a nasty documentary with Ben Stein as the narrator.

*badump-ching!*

1154. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #164786 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 5:22 pm

Hmmmm-


How did empathy evolve...does it really help organisms survive?


Ever watched nature specials on monkeys?

Clearly, they care for their children, and clearly this helps the child survive.
As does extended family aiding in child rearing, and so on.
Many higher mammals display traits that could be considered "humanitarian".

Cooperation helps the group, and thus the individuals within it survive.
This is beneficial.

I'm surprised this is a question that actually had to be asked.

1155. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164780 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 5:14 pm

Steve Zara-

Oh, that's easy.

See, all you have to do, is somehow manage to be there at the Big Bang, and use some of that immense cosmic power to fuel your wormhole generator, and then manage to keep that wormhole open forever and ever until we figure out our criteria for the ideal Timenaut to be God.

The tricky part is the whole other mode of time travel needed to be there at the Big Bang in the first place.

God'll figure it out, he'll be smart.

We should start holding auditions, I'm so excited.

1156. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164770 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 5:06 pm

Steve-

Actually, you CAN travel back before your time machine was made.

By going back as far as you can go, and then hopping aboard a time machine that was created prior to that time machine, and so on, and so on.

Of course, sooner or later you smack into a regress barrier like with God.

1157. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #164761 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 4:56 pm

Hmmmm-


but it does seem to me to a logical end point to a purely naturalistic philosophy based on survival of the fittest.


*Facepalm*

*Long, long, long sigh*

Darwinian natural selection isn't a "philosophy", it's the process by which lifeforms evolved.

That's it.

It has nothing to say about how society's should be run, any more than the theory of gravity does.

1158. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #164739 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 4:32 pm


We Jews will fight to keep people like you out of the United States!


Oh, lovely, the torches and pitchforks have already started to come out.

What a fun next few months these are going to be.
*Eyeroll*

1159. Religion is 'the new social evil'

Comment #164640 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 1:35 pm

ghuckin-


And incidentally, how come the Pope is getting such a great reception in the US?


Cuz Americans like me can't get within a mile of the fucker to ask uncomfortable questions about AIDS in Africa, or child molesters, or his Nazi past.

We'd have to get through a massive hoarde of awestruck blue haired old ladies, and soft-hearted soft-atheists who don't want the blue haired old ladies to cry.

1160. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164595 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 12:42 pm

Frankus1122-


Someone like Kardashovel may have a really good science fiction story that he believes is real.
So what?


Yeah, you're right, let's all just live in our own little delusion bubbles.

People who believe the sky is pink, people who drink imaginary tea into their 50's, what's the harm?

Wheee!!

Hell, let's vote these people into office!

What's the harm?

Wheee!!

Make-believe forever!
Think happy thoughts, and let's fly!
Wheee!!

Ugh, come on, it has its place, but in discussing the nature of the cosmos, we need a common reference point, and that's called fucking reality.

Make-beleive is for momentary escape for entertainment, not a permanent vacation.

1161. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164578 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 12:27 pm

Kardashovel-


My speculation arose after my conversion...


Via hallucination.

Funny, people who drop acid have life changing experiences without having to think it's real, much less having to come up with spiritualistic mumbo-jumbo to shoehorn it into reality.

Oh, some acid droppers DO think it's real, and pile supernatural mumbo-jumo onto it.

Whole movement of those people.

But, sensible people know the ring is bupkiss, the Shwartz is in YOU, Lonestar, it's in YOU!

1162. Religion is 'the new social evil'

Comment #164565 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 12:17 pm

First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they attack you, then you win.
And then they whine.
Like milk-titted little bitches.

1163. Interviews with Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer

Comment #164524 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 11:11 am

Steve-


Incidentally, this is why I am slightly uncomfortable when people here regularly refer creationists to the Talk Origins site.


Oh, shit, Talk Origins is pro-evolution?
Shit, I called it a corn filled turd to some creationist hack, I must've confused it with Answers In Genesis.

Why didn't anyone fucking say anything?
You all just sat right back and let me put my foot in it.
Ugh!

1164. Interviews with Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer

Comment #164518 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 11:04 am

ASMarques-

You've said your piece, we've heard your speil, are you quite finished?

Do you have anything else, or are you just going to reiterate your same drivel?

1165. Flea of the week

Comment #164487 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 10:20 am

Philip1978-


Can you do an English accent?


(As Christopher Hitchens at one of his book tour stops)

Fascist crackpoht!! Fascist crackpoht!!

Goe awaye!! Goe awaye!! Noe! Noe!! Go awaye!!

We're noht here to talk to youe!!

Noe!! Go awaye!!

1166. Interviews with Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer

Comment #164483 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 10:14 am

ThoughtsonCommonToad-


the knee jerk visceral reaction against taboo.


Like Hell, Taboo was responsible for many a self inflicted orgasm.
Kay Parker was one steamy MILF.
Rowf!!

1167. Interviews with Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer

Comment #164481 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 10:10 am

ASMarques-


I don't wish to contradict you, but I have good reasons to believe German National Socialism was more along the despicable lines of totalitarian, censorship-driven, single-party dictatorships,


Oh, well, you've won me over then.

Not.


And that proves the "Holocaust"


No, the evidence does.

Now take your tinfoil hat, and stuff it up your poop-flume until your tummy crinkles.

1168. Interviews with Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer

Comment #164465 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 9:42 am

*Skims*

Ugh, you gotta be fucking kidding me? A holocaust denier?

Fucking-A.

Yeah, because Nazism was such a beautiful political philosophy except for that pesky holocaust, so let's bullshit that away, and get back to business...

*Eyeroll, facepalm, grumble*

1169. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164456 by Diacanu on April 20, 2008 at 9:27 am

epeeist-


Polite ruthlessness is the best they should expect.


Tch, limeys...

Nah, you just do this...

*Creationist is swirling his sword all about*

*Pulls out gun*
*BLAM!!*

There.
:)

1170. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164243 by Diacanu on April 19, 2008 at 8:09 pm

Lol, well, I'm gonna go decompress from a stressful day by firing up the DVD of "Bubba Ho-Tep". I might even watch it again for the commentary even though I've seen it before.
Everything on that disk is gold.

Now, Radesq you're my Jimmy Olson, if another creationist douchebag from the Expelled site shows up, try 3 rational replies to show you gave him a chance, then chant "blow it out your ass!!", at him wherever in his post it fits in.

That should do the trick until I get back.

1171. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164241 by Diacanu on April 19, 2008 at 7:39 pm

Frankus1122-


Diacaaanu!

Diacaaaanu!


Where are you in our hour of need?

Why hast thou forsaken us?


I had a birthday party to attend.
Haven't seen the relatives in awhile.

Jeez, I can't leave you people alone for a minute.

Where's the Reverand Dark? He's supposed to superhero-substitute for me when my secret identity has personal stuff to do.

1172. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164238 by Diacanu on April 19, 2008 at 7:34 pm

Remnant-


I am not really going to waste time on someone that has no concept of God.


Then shut the fuck up already, you tedious assclown.

Put your money where your mouth is, and take your herpes sore of a personality, and your sociopathically solipsitic worldview back to whatever christ-cult echo chamber it came from.

Fuckin' snapper head.

Kee-RIST.

1173. I'm gonna be a MOVIE STAR

Comment #164117 by Diacanu on April 19, 2008 at 2:58 pm

wiley16350-


I am not trying to come up with an alternate theory. I just want it to be shown that evolution is not fact


You're not trying to say the sky is pink, you're just trying to show it's not blue.

1174. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163963 by Diacanu on April 19, 2008 at 11:25 am

Logicel-


However, on a Devil's Advocate level, one can say that the IDiots are upset because we are not using our God-given talents and abilities to perceive God.


See, I never got why that's a religiot's fucking business.
If I'm on the outs with God, and he were real, then that'd be between me and God.

It's as if they take on the traits of their God, and given that he's a jealous asshole God, they become jealous assholes on his behalf, and can't stand to see you with a harlot God, or with scientific truth, which they see as another harlot God in their warped minds.

Hey, religiots, if a guy is into harlot Gods, he's not into you, move on.

1175. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163961 by Diacanu on April 19, 2008 at 11:20 am

MPhil-

Ah, you're right, forgot that.
Score another point for religion fucking up the human species.

1176. I'm gonna be a MOVIE STAR

Comment #163956 by Diacanu on April 19, 2008 at 11:05 am

wiley16350-


I believe it is up to the parents to teach their children what they believe and why and let the child decide for themself.


The truth isn't democratic.
You can't have a vote on what color the sky is.
We'd never get anything done that way.
Well, you COULD have that election, but all the people who vote "pink", would just be fucking wrong, and that'd be tough fucking shit for them.
I'm sorry if you don't like that, but again, tough.
If that offends your pseudo-politically-correct sensibilities, well, life gets a lot fucking harder than that, suck it up, little buckaroo.

1177. I'm gonna be a MOVIE STAR

Comment #163952 by Diacanu on April 19, 2008 at 10:56 am

wiley16350-

Creationism is a big corn filled baby-alligator-sized turd that has nothing going for it as science at all.

And sorry to say, if you suckle onto that turd like a leech, you are ignorant.
Sorry, that's just the way it is.

People who think the earth is flat are ignorant, people who believe in astrology are ignorant, and people who practice alchemy are ignorant.

Creationism is the same brand of bullshit.

It's all bullshit, and treating it like it's real is harmful.

If you can't get that, well, then as Teddy Roosevelt would say, your brain is running on 3 guinea pig power.

1178. I'm gonna be a MOVIE STAR

Comment #163949 by Diacanu on April 19, 2008 at 10:46 am

*Skims*

Ah, that explains it.

Whenever I see a dead thread suddenly rise from the ashes, and fill the top 20 new posts list, I can usually tell it's some creationist moron stirring the shit up.

1179. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163946 by Diacanu on April 19, 2008 at 10:34 am

Love how these religious idiots get to use the technology of the 21st century to spew their bullshit.

If religion had had its way, there'd be no fucking internet.
Alan Turing, one of the founding fathers of computing was a big ol' whoopsie.
In another era, he would've been frigging executed.

Doncha just fucking love that?
How secular progress had to struggle against fucking religion every step of the way, yet when that progress is made, the religiots have no problem using our roads, and computers, and medicine, etc, etc.
Baffling shit.
Truly.

1180. Flea of the week

Comment #163931 by Diacanu on April 19, 2008 at 9:59 am

Styrer-


...I visited Dublin's top bookshops...


*Is seized by the impulse to try out my bad fake Dublin accent*

Dooblin!!

Ow, me boom!!

Loimie scoom!! Loimie scoom!!
I kill a hunnert and still they coom!!

1181. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163686 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 7:14 pm

SharonMcT-


Ben Stein and his ilk have them right where they want them - dumb and shopping their meager paycheques away at walmart.

He doesn't want them educated properly. It's all about the money. As long as it keeps flowing from the poor to the rich, the leaders of the ID movement will be happy. And these poor undereducated people seem to prefer it that way as well.


*Clutches heart, blushes, levitates like Snoopy after eating delicious food, is surrounded by cloud of little pink hearts and fluttering Cupids*

1182. Flea of the week

Comment #163552 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 1:54 pm

Aquaria-

Me too, really, but using my mutant childhood as a baseline would've ruined the comic riff I had going.

1183. Flea of the week

Comment #163548 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 1:50 pm

Paula Kirby-

*Head pat, hug*

Your valiant and heroic sacrifice inspires us all.

I think we need to chip in, and send her to Hawaii for a week or so to properly heal from that ordeal.

What say?

1184. Flea of the week

Comment #163533 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 1:30 pm

epeeist/Geoff-

Ah, but Jesus supposedly ascended bodily to Heaven, and now currently sits at God's right hand.

That would put the cosmic multilingual vampire Jesus in the perfect position to bite God!!

The Babelfish blood would weaken God enough for the vampire blood to take effect, the vampire blood would weaken/taint God enough for Satan to possess him, and since, as creationists argue, God is "outside of time", he could then go back in time, and this would perfectly explain the insanity of the Old Testament God!

Of course, this time around the time loop, Jesus would be throwing off the shackles of the wickedness of Babalfish/Vampire/Satan-possessed-God with his vicarious blood sacrifice.

A paradox you say??

God is outside of time!! Paradoxes bounce off him like bullets offa Superman!!

But not Babelfish bullets, those kill him.

As would a Babelfish condom.
So don't look to that as how he didn't kill Mary when fucking her.

Maybe he used Jor-El's red sun chamber.

So, how are y'all digging my "sophisticated theology"?

Persuaded yet?

1185. Flea of the week

Comment #163511 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 12:46 pm

And that makes me think of a little theological puzzle for some christian apologist to tackle.

If a cross can kill Dracula, and a Babel Fish can kill God, can a Babelfish kill Dracula?

If not, why not?

And if not, can Dracula bite a Babelfish, and turn it into a vampire Babelfish?

And what happens if it bites a human?

And what would've happened if the resultant creature had bitten Jesus?

1186. Flea of the week

Comment #163506 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 12:39 pm

SRWB-

God is fraidy scared to come to Earth to write a book, and do a book tour.

Some crazy fundamentalist atheist might kill him with a Babelfish.

1187. Flea of the week

Comment #163504 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 12:30 pm

Oh, and my last post reminds me.

Has anyone read the rebuttals to "The Age Of Reason"?

I can't seem to find them at my local bookstore.

Oh, that's right, they were Thomas Paine fleas, and died forgotten, as history's losers.

1188. Flea of the week

Comment #163497 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 12:23 pm

Oh, I forgot the fourth option.

That these flea books will convert atheists into christians in droves.

*Roars with laughter*

Puh-lease!

Their only hope there, is fence sitters who were won over by the God Delusion, but are still weak minded enough to be won back.
But, anyone with any sort of brain who's read TGD wouldn't be won back by their shitty arguments, because clearly either none of these authors have read the book, or they read it with blinders on, and ignored vast swaths of it.

So, who is/are the market for these books?
Clearly, people who haven't read TGD in the first place.
Much like the authors.

Probably white haired old grannies buying them for a grandchild to try to nip rebellion in the bud.
"Saving their souls", y'know.

Course, as any kid will tell you, books are a sucky present.
Kids want fucking TOYS, man!
An X-Box game, or a new kind of super-soaker!

Shit, they'll probably hose their flea book with the super-soaker!

And good for them!

A shame that all those nickels will trickle into the pockets of flea authors though.

1189. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163474 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 11:49 am

And this goes out to everyone who came/comes here from the "Expelled", site.

You have all been duped by the worst and lowliest sort of carnival barkers out there.

By trolling this place, you are doing the work of, and thus being exploited by, sheisters and shmendricks.

If/when you ever snap to reality, and realize this, you will first be agonizingly ashamed, and then righteously pissed off.

When you get to that state, we'll be roughly on the same page, and then we can properly converse.

Until then, you're a zombie minion, so expect me to play rough.

1190. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163459 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 11:27 am

cordura95-


I didn't say that the unaswered questions made me say God did it. I just said that it made me start investigating on my own


And your "investigations", ended with "Goddidit".
Despite there being no positive evidence for God's existence.

Sorry, mealy mouthed parsing won't help you out here.
You're not a former president.

1191. Flea of the week

Comment #163454 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 11:20 am


Will Richard Dawkins' atheism grip millions â€" fade â€" or stir lingering doubts?


Will it fade??

Well, only if all of us suddenly turned into christians somehow.
That's not gonna fucking happen.

OR, if we all "got bored with the fad", and shut the fuck up.
Well, that's not going to fucking happen either.
Atheism ain't like a trendy diet, or a style of dress.
You either think there's a God, or you don't.
And once you know there isn't, and you find yourself surrounded by those who not only do, but want to fuck up your society over the proposition, well, it becomes rather impossible to shut the fuck up about it.
So, keep dreaming about that one, religites.

Option three, is if we all fucking DIED.
Well, go ahead and try, assholes.
I'm sure another genocide will look good on religion's resume.
Religion would be committing mass suicide as everyone got fed up once and for all.
Go ahead and try that one, fuckers.

1192. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163448 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 11:09 am

cordura5-


I was like you,


Oh, and this may seem a minor point to niggle on, but I've heard it often enough it's started to grate at me.

Would you so-called ex-atheists please stop spouting this catchphrase?

You were NEVER like me.

Trust me.

If you were like me, you'd be an atheist and stay one.

I could give my life story to hammer home point by point why someone like you has nothing in common with me, but it boils down to I want to know the truth even if that truth burns, even if it roasted my fucking hand right the fuck off.
I despise lies that badly.
I'll take a red hot poker in my palm over a security blanket.
That seperates people like me from people like you by motherfucking light years.

Like me?
You fucking wish.
You fucking wish.
You fucking, fucking, WISH.
If one of my thoughts floated into your weak little head for but a minute, it'd KILL you!
My smallest thought would splatter your tiny mind onto the nearest wall.
Like me?
Keep dreaming.
Keep fucking dreaming.

Spare me the meaningless cliches.
Oh, that's right, that's all religion has anymore.

1193. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163429 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 10:46 am

cordura5-


It raised too many unanswered questions about Darwin's theory


So to you, the very presence of unanswered questions requires one to plug the gaps with "Goddidit!!"?

Explain the logic of that one, would you?

If you were alone in your house, and you left the room, and then came back, and a picture had fallen off the wall, or a vase were tipped over, would you jump right to "Goddidit!!"?

If not, why not?

Try applying that answer to the creation of the universe problem.

1194. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162966 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Goldy-


...sheer utter total mentally gobshiteful fuckwittery...


Well, that's politics for you.
:P

1195. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162894 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Goldy-


It is so breathtakingly simple a concept I can't see where the problem lies...


Politics.

The maco-micro evolution divide exists only as a debate wedge dreamed up by creationists.

It's another gap to stuff God/Jesus into with a plunger.

1196. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162534 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 3:47 am

Egomaniac-


How do you know they threw their lives away, even if it was a lie? What if pursuing that lie that they believed in made their lives more fulfilled?


Well then, if reality is up for grabs, than surely any lie will do?

1197. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162523 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 3:34 am

Egomaniac-


where is the meaning in your existence?


Why do religionists think they're owed one?

Make your own damned meaning.
Write a book, paint a painting, have some kids, do some volunteer work, invent a gadget, bake some pies.

How horrible it would be if our meaning were all the same, and came down from on high.
What slavery.
What indignity.
Yet people beg for this very thing.
How morbid.

1198. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162498 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 3:11 am

Egomaniac-


Whether it is so or isn't so (which nobody can know for certain), it gives meaning to people's existences nonetheless.


If it is not so, then those people threw their lives away on a lie.

Quite the opposite of meaning, IMHO.

I'd rather seek the truth, than wrap myself in the security blanket of easy answers.

1199. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162485 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 2:54 am

Egomaniac-


The notion of a continued existence after death, along with the idea that the manner in which one's life has been lived will influence the level of quality of said existence adds meaning to many people's lives.

The idea that people will be reunited with loved ones who have passed on adds great meaning to people's lives.


Lovely bits of wish thinking, but wishing doesn't make them so.

1200. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162348 by Diacanu on April 16, 2008 at 5:29 pm

Screw conspiracy theories, I'm taking his FCOS posts at face value.

He's just an emotionally unstable dude.
I hope he feels better someday, and puts away the religious smack needle.

But for now, I advise everyone to deprive him of the chaos he wants.

Let's speak of this no more.
I regret bringing it up.

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