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In theory, one votes for the candidate that represents his interests. A vote for someone means that you recognize that a candidate will represent you,...
October 19, 2020 at 22:13
Voting has a little more significance than simply being a preference. And that's a real great reason to vote for someone, because you want the opponen...
October 19, 2020 at 22:05
Are you aware of the function elected officials are meant to serve? It is not an immediate matter of pushing a button. It is actually quite significan...
October 19, 2020 at 22:05
To vote for someone like Trump or Biden is to vouch for them. And there are few acts more self degrading than giving your approval and your voice to a...
October 19, 2020 at 21:57
This deserves to be triple quoted! And read thrice!
October 19, 2020 at 19:10
Even if the consequences of an action (example: stealing) will be the the same despite the particular player involved, for the nonbeliever, anyone who...
October 19, 2020 at 18:55
I'm not saying all nonbelievers try to get away with shit, I'm saying if one does get away with shit, there will be no greater consequences for him. I...
October 19, 2020 at 18:36
Yes, a believer may be reactionary, and may do horribly immoral things because he believes it is the will of god, but to him it would be the right thi...
October 19, 2020 at 18:26
For the nonbeliever, this does not hold because he lacks the requisite level of dogmatism. The nonbeliever needs proof, and the proof can only be acqu...
October 19, 2020 at 17:52
If one's belief in these things is properly dogmatic, then it is a religious belief, and there is a rational justification for basing one's morality o...
October 19, 2020 at 17:27
You see, you've proven my point. You are incapable of even speaking of any correlation between things without first making a distinction: viz. child a...
October 19, 2020 at 17:22
Yes, principles are rationally justified for any believer whose belief is religious in nature. The key is that religious belief is a conviction, impos...
October 19, 2020 at 17:11
Religion is a vague idea. It seems to be predominantly defined through the nonbelievers examination of antiquated paradigms, many of which command mas...
October 19, 2020 at 17:02
Correlation is dependent on distinction. Before we can draw any correlation between one thing and another, we must distinguish one thing from another,...
October 19, 2020 at 16:12
Love it! :rofl:
October 19, 2020 at 03:45
But a direct quote really gives substance and respect to the source material, for example, like this: See?
October 19, 2020 at 03:42
You gotta direct quote gold like that, like this:
October 19, 2020 at 03:35
Well, as a statistics guy, I must remark that that is rather unscientific. For starters, by what criterion do we determine that the self reports of "p...
October 19, 2020 at 03:31
right on!
October 19, 2020 at 03:27
Fuckin A!!! So on point. I hate Trump sooooo much. But I hate the bullshit of the L's so goddamn much that I'm willing to pretend to be an R-tard just...
October 19, 2020 at 03:20
:vomit:
October 19, 2020 at 03:15
Are those the only choices?
October 19, 2020 at 03:13
Hey dude, he is unenlightened. Maybe you need to do a better job enlightening him and stop bitching about how unenlightened he is. Everyone knows that...
October 19, 2020 at 03:11
:rofl:
October 19, 2020 at 03:05
Bin laden has served nothing better than the agenda of the Bush regime. All the rest is hype. Congratulations on eating it up!
October 19, 2020 at 03:03
Yeah. I searched. No definition. But it is an excellent compilation of statistics, and as everyone knows, I am a statistics guy
October 19, 2020 at 02:53
What is the definition of religion, according to the article? I must have read way way way too fast
October 19, 2020 at 02:45
I want more...on Biden too!
October 19, 2020 at 02:42
That is a bit of a tautology. It makes more sense to say "Correlation is existentially dependent upon a creature capable of distinction of determinate...
October 19, 2020 at 02:40
He is a master salesman. He knows how to sell bullshit as good as anyone who has ever sold anything. He has his opponents buying more of his bullshit ...
October 19, 2020 at 02:32
Genius! Why can't everyone see this?
October 19, 2020 at 02:26
Genius! Why can't everyone see this?
October 19, 2020 at 02:26
If by access, you mean what is available to and can become accessible by the "brain", I might say through sensuality. But that wouldn't exactly be a s...
October 19, 2020 at 02:14
Maybe the data that is recorded in brain tissue is thought, afterall, the brain is a strange organ, being that it is incapable of physical sensuousnes...
October 19, 2020 at 01:40
By mediating the content into a negative form
October 19, 2020 at 01:37
Have you heard the theory that the memory is stored in the tissue of the body, analogous to tape recording, and the brain merely acts as the processor...
October 19, 2020 at 01:33
I must amend this to say: "believers obey the rules of a religious formal system .
October 19, 2020 at 01:21
You said it well :up:
October 19, 2020 at 01:18
The nonbeliever lacks belief, that is a quality of conviction which is unparalleled in relation to the believer
October 19, 2020 at 01:17
The nonbeliever may indeed base their moral development on principles. But those principles themselves are baseless and unprincipled. For the nonbelie...
October 19, 2020 at 01:15
It is a "delusion", not illusion. And you are incorrect! It actually cultivates moral development.
October 19, 2020 at 01:06
Yes. But do you know what I want done, or are you assuming??? You know what happens when you assume, don't you? It makes you look like a bitch. Of cou...
October 19, 2020 at 01:03
Take Muslim women for example. They cover their faces because it is the right thing to do. They wake up every day, and the desicion to cover their fac...
October 19, 2020 at 00:48
And before the fact too. I assume the fact you refer to is the ethical decision. I would say that the nonbeliever is more likely to justify a posterio...
October 19, 2020 at 00:40
On the right track, but not all believers create their God in their own image, for many, God is completely alien, and their knowledge of God is suspen...
October 19, 2020 at 00:37
When it come to morality, both the believer and nonbeliever are deluding themselves. Only the delusion of the believer is, internally speaking, more c...
October 19, 2020 at 00:23
With Biden, all of meaningless surface issues will likely reverse. But military policy will continue unimpeded, and American prosperity will continue ...
October 19, 2020 at 00:16
Good and evil. What is each, and by what criterion is each determined? For someone that believes in God (a believer), there is an eternal structure to...
October 19, 2020 at 00:02
Absolutely scum. He's a lacky to the status quo. I hope he gets elected so you can see all the fucked up shit he never talks about, but that he plans ...
October 18, 2020 at 22:35