tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post6553899907253829675..comments2024-03-28T17:44:07.653+00:00Comments on TPQ: Some Thoughts On The Recent Conversation Between Gervais And ColbertAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-37968226546010558522017-03-20T21:20:32.346+00:002017-03-20T21:20:32.346+00:00sszorin,
Because I was referring to the time that...sszorin,<br /><br />Because I was referring to the time that allegedly Moses brought down his top ten best efforts to his bunch of illiterate sheep herding nomads, when they did treat females like property.<br /><br />I am not a feminist either. Feminism has f*cked up woman's happiness in all the wrong ways and for a very poor trade off. Men and women should compliment each other not compete Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-47733262816632227142017-03-20T19:51:41.692+00:002017-03-20T19:51:41.692+00:00@Steve R - Going away from the subject of God and ... @Steve R - Going away from the subject of God and atheism - why didn't you also ask this question - when will women treat men as equals ?sszorinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16639667228789383852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-27837897306223408362017-03-19T22:28:31.235+00:002017-03-19T22:28:31.235+00:00A ridiculous article and a waste of time, when I s...A ridiculous article and a waste of time, when I see all those comments in which people try to reason out various points of article. People have been arguing about the subject for millennia and a consensus is 'at infinity'. Why do you pretend that little all of you are going to solve the question ? What is remarkable is intellectual thickness and naivete of the atheists by not seeing thatsszorinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16639667228789383852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-14003446629215486192017-03-19T21:49:38.354+00:002017-03-19T21:49:38.354+00:00Niall,
Never wondered why Moses took frigging AGE...Niall,<br /><br />Never wondered why Moses took frigging AGES up the mountain? Here's a hint- he wasn't playing marbles with himself. Those stone tablets are not going to chisel themselves!<br /><br />As Ten rules go they are mixture of narcissism and stating the obvious. Don't thieve, murder or backstab anyone, I somehow doubt they hadn't worked those out for themselves. And the Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-20636011719118847912017-03-19T15:46:44.122+00:002017-03-19T15:46:44.122+00:00Larry....lol,
Henry Joy,
Name one who didn't?Larry....lol,<br />Henry Joy,<br />Name one who didn't?Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-3367022244691383802017-03-18T20:31:00.280+00:002017-03-18T20:31:00.280+00:00Niall, I will have a guess at what didnt happen wh...Niall, I will have a guess at what didnt happen when the 10 commandments were brought down : no feminists argued they were too male centric and want their prohibitions included in them too.DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-277802389236760062017-03-18T19:12:13.916+00:002017-03-18T19:12:13.916+00:00Niall,
joking aside, did all men ignore them fore...Niall,<br /><br />joking aside, did all men ignore them forever after?<br />Isn't there some upside to religion?Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-12804007786201294402017-03-18T10:00:41.805+00:002017-03-18T10:00:41.805+00:00Nial
Could you 'clarify' that lol let us ...Nial<br /><br />Could you 'clarify' that lol let us know how you really feel...larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-24685259815566132592017-03-17T19:46:11.976+00:002017-03-17T19:46:11.976+00:00You know what just reading down through these comm...You know what just reading down through these comments and in the bible the only writings that God purportedly wrote himself were the 10 commandments....nothing else....and what happened, the first set of tablets the clumsy fucker dropped them and had to go back up the mountain again and fucking explain what happened...the second lot...well man read them and then decided to ignore every fucking Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-86186907272023738952017-03-17T18:45:14.932+00:002017-03-17T18:45:14.932+00:00AM, I considered myself secular too even with fait...AM, I considered myself secular too even with faith. But if my faith prevents you condemning genocide or torture in every instance then I am no different to the people I love to ridicule , like the SWP who claim to promote female empowerment, but when faced with an accusation of rape by a senior member (Comrade Delta), hold their own extra-legal process where the victim is slandered before her DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-15753391430318882242017-03-17T18:31:43.805+00:002017-03-17T18:31:43.805+00:00My disdain for faith is less people having it but ...My disdain for faith is less people having it but the seeming need of many of them to inflict it on everybody else. If they want to abide by their own religious tenets, fine, so long as they don't insist on me having to abide by them as well. They seem incapable of understanding that people who don't subscribe to these views have every right not to have them inflicted on them. <br /><br />AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-38077597331859748012017-03-17T17:58:59.670+00:002017-03-17T17:58:59.670+00:00Have you given up on faith?
In a word yes, im not...<i>Have you given up on faith?</i><br /><br />In a word yes, im not at your level of disdain for faith though.I was never the best example of a Catholic anyway.I will still love sitting in pretty churches on a Sunday, I will still love Shubert's Ave Maria. Other criticisms like AIDS/Condoms or priest abuse seemed problems with the structures around faith, not the faith itself. But when DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-82928657690876357202017-03-17T17:48:33.146+00:002017-03-17T17:48:33.146+00:00DaithiD,
if we keep too close an eye on the futur...DaithiD,<br /><br />if we keep too close an eye on the future we will never venture an opinion. I always think it admirable when somebody has a change of opinion and admits it. As John Maynard Keynes said: "When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?" <br /><br />Have you given up on faith?AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-88878551484390176682017-03-17T17:33:57.590+00:002017-03-17T17:33:57.590+00:00Sorry to double post that first line should read: ...Sorry to double post that first line should read: I imagine the public forums of today will be the site of futuristic 'archeological digs .DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-12421169418615400322017-03-17T17:29:22.970+00:002017-03-17T17:29:22.970+00:00AM, I am the public forums of today will the site ...AM, I am the public forums of today will the site of futuristic 'archeological digs', my 180 may amuse people of the future. Infact this ties into HJ too, often chastised for his transition from O Bradaigh to Hume. But I never thought it a boast to be exposed to so much information and take nothing from it than that which you already brought to it.As long as we dont coerce others into DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-68900655398604140592017-03-17T11:24:48.804+00:002017-03-17T11:24:48.804+00:00Daithi
meaning is one of the unavoidable fundamen...Daithi<br /><br />meaning is one of the unavoidable fundamental concerns that humans face. We're hard-wired, it seems, to search for and attribute meaning in a meaningless universe. <br /><br />T'is hardly surprising that we occasionally become enmeshed in dogma or ideology. We're all vulnerable in this regard. <br /><br />The best I believe we can do is to attribute restricted, Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-47184405100551932632017-03-17T09:00:57.563+00:002017-03-17T09:00:57.563+00:00DaithiD,
your god didn't have to speak in phy...DaithiD,<br /><br />your god didn't have to speak in physics but it is a bit odd that he spoke to a group of Hillbilly types in a dimly populated part of the world when he had so many other options. You did not want to reject the OT genocide because basically your opposition was more against Islamic textual justification for genocide than you were Christian justification. <br /><br />It is AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-55971436547732513252017-03-16T21:23:20.933+00:002017-03-16T21:23:20.933+00:00AM, I had modfied much of my then faith too, I did...AM, I had modfied much of my then faith too, I didnt think that God created the world/universe in a literal sense. I reduced the OT to a set of depictions, and focused on the specifics of the NT.It seemed to make sense to me as for were God to have spoken in physics terms before humans had calculus for example, it would of been lost on his audience. I liked the depictions on how to love, and DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-19992510371173614012017-03-16T21:08:01.319+00:002017-03-16T21:08:01.319+00:00DaithiD,
I think Stephen Jay Gould coined the NOL...DaithiD,<br /><br />I think Stephen Jay Gould coined the NOLM to push religion out of the way of science rather than have to endlessly argue over it. Why debate in scientific terms? For the same reason that we tell people medicine will cure them rather than prayer; that planes fly and witches don't. Even where we accept the non overlapping, we do so in the sense that we might accept fact and AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-30801303849670263762017-03-16T20:18:20.477+00:002017-03-16T20:18:20.477+00:00AM, Id be interested if you put the condemning gen...AM, Id be interested if you put the condemning genocide in the OT to others, and what their answers were. When we get to non overlapping magesteria, and we debate the ethics that the Bible claims to embue,this is where you can effect believers. Why debate in scientifiv terms, those who have essentially rejected it. The ethics of condemning genocide, or the torture of Job by god seems a really keyDaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-27985054482870753472017-03-16T14:20:58.581+00:002017-03-16T14:20:58.581+00:00DaithiD,
which makes a god of the gaps a tenuous ...DaithiD,<br /><br />which makes a god of the gaps a tenuous proposition. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-2793899210773549922017-03-16T11:47:13.356+00:002017-03-16T11:47:13.356+00:00AM,I respect science, where it is limited, In most...AM,I respect science, where it is limited, In most cases (save the Big Bang for example) it also contains the building blocks from and pointers towards extending these limits to knowledge. While we need to be clear where the limitations are, that doesnt mean it opens a gap for God to inhabit.<br />DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-58279238441541015692017-03-16T08:22:54.842+00:002017-03-16T08:22:54.842+00:00DaithiD,
unthinking deference to authority is nev...DaithiD,<br /><br />unthinking deference to authority is never something to be recommended. That applies to scientific authority. And it should apply even more so given that science is the knowledge system that allows us to progress exponentially but which can destroy at an alarming rate. How can anyone be anti-science? As Hans Kung said it is like trying to answer the question "are you for AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-18812597626499622032017-03-16T08:07:24.787+00:002017-03-16T08:07:24.787+00:00I see AI has taken a step forward. Google has dev...I see AI has taken a step forward. Google has developed AI that can now in a previous unheard off manner, recall what it has previously learned....to some degree! Computers currently cannot achieve this - they perform one function at a time but don't have the ability to recall it as having been done before - now Google has developed AI to a certain point where it can have memory recall....Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-86844997315150178122017-03-15T20:55:21.949+00:002017-03-15T20:55:21.949+00:00DaithiD,
"before about x 10^-42 s/Planck Tim...DaithiD,<br /><br />"before about x 10^-42 s/Planck Time the approaching singularity of the big bangs origin behaves outside of all physical laws,again, all the laws of physics dont hold past this point.Does this make the big bang impossible by your estimation,careful now."<br /><br />No, because that is still in the hypothetical. The 'Big Bang' is a misnomer, think of it more Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.com