tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post5836840295108913204..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Accommodation and compatibilityLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-49565333561869920242009-05-08T17:57:00.000-06:002009-05-08T17:57:00.000-06:00This tells us something very deep and very scary a...<I>This tells us something very deep and very scary about human nature.</I> -<br /><br />Deep? Scary? That people are assholes and will accept any excuse, however moronic, if it justifies their assholery? It's <I>depressing</I>, but shallow and hardly scary.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-83258450524988334162009-05-08T16:29:00.000-06:002009-05-08T16:29:00.000-06:00The thing that I find fascinating is the tenacity ...The thing that I find fascinating is the tenacity with which people are willing to swallow religion shit that doesn't even pass the laxest smell test. Every single moment of actual real human experience proves that all this religion shit is a total load of crap, and yet people buy into it to a degree that they will kill over it. This tells us something very deep and very scary about human nature.Comrade PhysioProfhttp://physioprof.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-56351892423699435072009-05-06T05:14:00.000-06:002009-05-06T05:14:00.000-06:00The point is tired, true. But the religious keep t...The point is tired, true. But the religious keep trying to push their religion into our science classes, academia, and government. Worse yet, organizations that we ought to count on to maintain the integrity of science, such as the NSA and NCSE, actively support accommodation, and make bad arguments that must be countered.<br /><br />How do I go on without descending into well-deserved insults? Often I do so descend, entirely unapologetically. Other days the spirit moves me to address the issues with greater substance.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-13322201678494500822009-05-06T01:45:00.000-06:002009-05-06T01:45:00.000-06:00How fucking tired is this point?
Science and Reli...How fucking tired is this point?<br /><br />Science and Religion are oil and water. Shake it up as you will, and it will still separate it once you put it on the metaphorically awkward table of intelligent criticism. <br /><br />I really appreciate your enthusiasm Larry, I do, but how do you go on without saying something like:<br /><br />"Accommodation and Compatibility : Seriously, are you fucking retarded?"Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12892168178523220926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-69925200610231682872009-05-06T01:06:00.000-06:002009-05-06T01:06:00.000-06:00Larry, u are saying what i am telling-but using me...Larry, u are saying what i am telling-but using me own words and stuff. so we agree, even if u do get so called 'scientific heretics' like the guy who proposed 'string theory'- they might lose some funding- unlikely to get their head u know.........<br /> Cosmology and stuff for me personly is very central. Me leaving me religion and stuff is totaly linked to astronomy cos i got a telescope and then i learned stuff from tv. this taught me how to see thru all what they are telling in the school was just lies and rubbish. (millions more like me and stuff also- we just afraid and can not tell u what we really think in our heads and stuff).the robot girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-22390228943803033302009-05-05T17:02:00.000-06:002009-05-05T17:02:00.000-06:00One guys says it's 50 billion stars in the milky w...<I>One guys says it's 50 billion stars in the milky way- another it's 100 billion. Another tells the big bang started after 0.00000 google nano seconds after reaching critical mass. How does he know, or is he acting like out of faith and stuff- and expect me to believe- as a act of faith?</I> -<br /><br />They know, pretty confidently. We can actually <I>count</I> (at least approximately) the stars in the galaxy.<br /><br />No one <I>expects</I> you to believe or disbelieve: if you are in doubt, there is no mysterious or privileged information necessary to arrive at the same conclusions as any scientist.<br /><br />Also, the number of stars or the early history of the universe is of little immediate concern. If you personally find the study of science tedious, you can profess agnosticism or incredulity with little risk.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-55198310689345836312009-05-05T10:18:00.000-06:002009-05-05T10:18:00.000-06:00One guys says it's 50 billion stars in the milky w...One guys says it's 50 billion stars in the milky way- another it's 100 billion. Another tells the big bang started after 0.00000 google nano seconds after reaching critical mass. How does he know, or is he acting like out of faith and stuff- and expect me to believe- as a act of faith?<br /> but i think meself like- that's it not the same, cos science demands u question and contradict and give ure own ideas also. U think religion wants ideas, huh, they give u like bad stuff i u even question one part of it.<br /> that's at one level, really story is religion and science like can u believe in both. U can- if ure stupid, cos how come religion never told about bacteria, big bang, what's stars, or anything? It's clear, use of science in religion isnt science.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-52595696752290339102009-05-05T09:29:00.000-06:002009-05-05T09:29:00.000-06:00Miller: "Seems like a plan to me."
It's the langu...Miller: "Seems like a plan to me."<br /><br />It's the language used that's always telling. Yes, we'd all like there to be meaning and a plan, a purpose and a place to arrive at. But wanting and perceiving are not the same as actually being. Sometimes it seems like the universe is conspiring against me to thwart my desire to be an action hero. But it's not.James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.com