It's not just atheists who accept that evolution is real. Indeed. As mentioned, the official position of the Roman Catholic Church is that the theory of evolution is the best explanation we currently have. Last time I checked, more than half of all Christians are Roman Catholics. Or to rephrase: th...

First off, it seems that some people seem to think that speciation (sp? not in my spellchecker) is the same thing as macroevolution, or equates with macroevolution. In all actuality speciation is a process that occurs through microevolution. Due to the rather loose definition of "species"...

1-Transitional Species. From what I have seen there are many missing links in the evolutionary chain that haven't been accounted for. This following is just an example so it probably isn't accurate but the evolutionary chain shows something that looks like an alligator suddenly becoming an ape like...

Do You Care About What God Has In Hands For You? Absolutely. I worship Bacchus, the One True God, and He wants me to go to more drunken orgies. If you haven't gotten plastered and then gotten laid recently, you are a sinner . Fortunately, Bacchus is a forgiving God, and pennance is in kind: do two ...

It was brought up in the other thread that, in many cases, religions (of various creeds) have blocked scientific advancement. I don't deny that. It's a historical fact. The question I want to know is: why? Power (or the fear of being kicked out of it) and laziness. Also possibly stupidity. In short...

My first reaction is "Kill them all, let the revolutionary kangaroo courts sort them out!". But maybe that's not the most practical thing...

Before I found Catholicism, I was reading on Zen Buddhism for the purpose of conversion. Huh! So, having studied Zen, why did you choose Catholicism? No sarcasm intended; I'm sincerely curious. Did Catholicism seem "better" or "purer" in some way? Or just "fit"? I ask ...

Vojvodina-Nihon wrote:what do you do when a Jehovah's Witness shows up at your door?

I wish I could do what my aikido sensei does: tries to lead them down the eight-fold path to Zen Buddhist enlightenment. Apparently, this really confuses them.

Well, in some sense, those of us who believe in tolerance impose that view on people who don't.

[x] Karl Marx.

Marx provided the insidiously brutal ideology that justified both Mao and Stalin (and also Pol Pot). Hitler briefly flirted with the commies as well. No Marx, no great butchers of the 20th century.

True, that's better. I just had the impression all our (US's) drones were busy these days.

North Wiedna wrote:North Korea deserves a nuke in the face.

Nah... Kim, his two sons, and the rest of the junta deserve bullets in the head, ideally after having been convicted of crimes against humanity. If that's not feasible, just the bullets... and if that's not feasible, a few cruise missiles ought to do.

Why don't you pick up an addiction that's easier to break, like heroin?

Hm... the forum is cropping my map, so here's a link to it:

http://www.omskivar.org/evil/things/nws-nb-layered3-med.jpg

Nord Baden, an ex-nationstate, is also on the map. I don't know if the Badische player is ever gonna revive her country.

What's the general laws on this - especially for those, like myself, who maintain off-site websites?? I don't want anyone on here to get prosecuted for copyright infringement, but advice is welcomed. The laws vary by country. In the US, copyright holders have little ability to stop people from paro...

Reploid Productions wrote:but seriously, what were they thinking?

"A fool and his money are soon parted." or possibly "There's a sucker born every minute."

OI responded that, in the eyes of the law , he is presumed innocent since he was never proven guilty in court. However, history tells a different story. (emphasis added) You hit the nail on the head the first time: free people want to be presumed innocent as a matter of law, to prevent the gov't fr...

For me it depends on how far the pregnancy is. If the fetus has a functioning brain and neural net, it is somewhat hard for me to not see it as a little person. As such I would like some restrictions on abortion in that stage. Some restrictions? It's a person, but not really? I draw the line at adu...

What about people who are exploited by "pimps"? Should they be elevated to businessmen? Yes. One reason the German and Swedish experiments w/ quasi-legal prostitution have failed to reduce human trafficing and sex slavery is that they haven't done this. In those countries, individual wome...

What about people who are exploited by "pimps"? Should they be elevated to businessmen? Yes. One reason the German and Swedish experiments w/ quasi-legal prostitution have failed to reduce human trafficing and sex slavery is that they haven't done this. In those countries, individual wome...

World Government - goals and why it would be great. :D All laws are more powerful the local laws Please think very hard about this. Assume some form of representative democracy -- I can't imagine running the world by direct democracy. If votes are allocated by population, just the top five largest ...

So you think it's right for a group of people to use a depiction of a group of people in a manner that is hostile, abusive and undignified? See, this is one of the things that confuses me about these discussions: the reason (or among the popular reasons) people name sports teams after groups is to ...

I'm not sure. Changing their nickname to the "Oversensitive Minority Groups" might be amusing, tho.

See also: Appeals court sides with Redskins on trademark. (For those outside the US: the Redskins are the Washington, DC American Rules Football team.)

I'm playing another computer game about "nation states": Europa Universalis 3.

As to video games, I've got a bootleg copy of Tempest running under MAME. Gotta love the original arcade games: so much gameplay on so little computing power.

Except that people might read for entertainment and while knowing about the inaccuracies do not mind them since the story is great. Indeed. Further, I read Hubbard's laughably bad Battlefield Earth just to see if there was anything in it that might hint at his later development of Dianetics. (No.) ...