god must be atheist

No pressure? Obviously the book's setting is in outer space.

Take that mediocre or worse idea and write it down well. You don't even need to worry about style or embellishment or drama or nuttin'; just write pre...

Absolutely, Tobias, absolutely. Please allow me to quote a very short excerpt from an email correspondence with a brilliant friend of mine. She wrote:...

Every decision is a forced decision. I decided to abandon Hungary, and live in Canada. But how much of that was a decision? That's another million dol...

Thanks for writing this. I never stopped to think of this, but now I do, this instant. (Diversion from main topic.) The capitalist's strongest slogan ...

Thanks for the quick answer.

I hear you. I also ask why George W. Bush has not been tried by an interantional set of judges for crimes against humanity. In fact, all politicians s...

Jamalrob, I have been intrigued by the little face in the upper left corner of your thumbnail. It is borne also on the thumbnail of the quicklinks to ...

You can successfully determine before hand the CHANCES ahead of time, and you can't at all determine before hand the CERTAIN individual outcome. So......

I had struggled with that question in the early part of my adult life. Apparently, and it took me just as much by surprise as it will take you now, it...

Thank you for your lovely and thought-provoking dissertation, Tobias. In terms of detection, there are two things to consider: - is an act an act of n...

Of course they can! Sex knows no genders. I merely said that in the spirit that the cartoons have been drawn, my impression is that the author has a b...

But we know where it's headed.

I think Molnar meant to say that sex trumps love. Love is a special relationship with a being that has autonomous will (notice how I stayed away from ...

I never got beyond #3. The series made a statement, and the statement was true, but it: 1. Was not bashing religion and 2. It was not funny the least ...

I actually found nothing that was unrealistic. Women get pregnant, not men. Condoms are uncomfy. Shit happens. The problem that made it seem so bloody...

I'll vote for 180s since he can't vote for it. It is sad for a thumbnail not to get even the house vote.

1. It was generally believed that eliminating Jews from capitalist power helped the economy. It did, because redistributing ownership did. What they d...

Because spreading the falsehood provides the liar with personal advantage. Do you think Jesus believed when he said to his guards (something to the ef...

I think the "live in the present movement", Feng shui, power of positive thinking and similar movements may have grown out of a repeated lie. As well ...

Tobias said it right. There is no quote and no part of the quote that Goebbels beleived it was the hatred of Jews that was a lie. He did not even tie ...

The way I look at it, those things are mine while I'm alive. When I'm dead, they cease to be, true, but that does not prove at all that they were not ...

I would say go no farther searching for the primary source: it was Goebbels who was the primary source of things Goebbels said.

If he said that "Jews are despicable, stinking, evil bugs that are worth squashing", and it was a lie, then he lied for his own personal advantage, no...

Your ideas are yours, and nobody can take them away from you. It does not matter that they had been sourced form elsewhere (if they had.) Your money i...

This may have changed: different tentative, or firm deadline.

I agree with you, ND, but only due to national pride. I stopped drinking at 22. I was already a problem binge drinker then. When I took a glass of any...

Knowing Hungarian merchandising practices, however, those 11.4 litres are most likely heavily watered down.

In fact, all good ideas in the history of mankind eventually always turned out to be really bad ideas.

I guess you're right. I noticed that most solutions in this world create problems that hadn't existed before the solution were created and applied.

Have I ever heard of her? Have I EVER heard of her? She and I been married seven hundred and twenty-eight years. The happiest seven hundred and twenty...

Hm. The curve flattens there, so maybe it's far from Slovakia. I don't know. More importantly, there is no National Geographic Society regional map or...

I think multiple entries allowed by any author would alleviate this problem.

I don't see Hungary anywhere. What happened to us?

Edit: I did not like this post by myself.

Much better batting average than mine. Girls fallen for: 3.5 Billion minus 1. You don't want to meet Agnes. Believe me, you don't.

Alcohol is the cheapest mind-altering drug to manufacture, and it's legal, too. In the west they pay high price for alcohol, because they tax drinkers...

Normally, sheep's brain, bats' legs and kitten heads, freshly bitten off. Mm-mm. Yummy.

I like ultraviolet cabbage. You get it that colour when you accelerate it to the speed of light. Mm-mm. Yummy.

For me, inner consistency is not an issue. If I had espoused a wrong idea, and stayed consistent, then I'd be doggone. I appreciate that I can change ...

I hope it's only coincidence that my name gets mentioned so often in association with the devil. One rational explanation may be that I (no joke) like...

Not my ideal for carnal pleasures, but hey, with my looks I can't be choosy.

I have 10 slices of pizza in front of me, but I owe 11 slices to the devil. Therefore I have -1 slice. (Before cutting any existing slices up.)

I don't know what the Two Dogmas of Empiricism is by Quine's. You are shortcutting the long argument, and I am not able to handle that, as I am uneduc...

a Canadian joke for you fellers: What's the circumference of an Igloo? ?? An eskimo pi.

FISHPIE!!

I don't see that. You can not doubt your own existence, but that doubt is in the empirical realm. If you speak in the completely a priori realm, then ...

The intellectual battle whether it's potatoh or potahto.

I admit ignorance of the context in which D said his "cogito...". I am only familiar with the utterance. I don't pretend to know more of the context. ...

You're right about that. Who would doubt his own existence? The significance here I believe is the proof. That a proof exists that connects the empiri...