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splitter
Trad climber
Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Nov 24, 2012 - 04:43pm PT
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I agree with Dave G, et al!
I think it is bad form to go to ones home/private residence to preach, evangelize & whatever else (not sure what JW's & Mormons call it). It's an evasion of privacy, imo! Out in public you can approach people or hand them something if you want, but their home is their castle and should be respected as so!
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Nov 24, 2012 - 04:45pm PT
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This is yer problem. You think you have all knowledge. I realize I do not. And I've seen lots of sh#t in many different countries. This is the best deal going.
And you appear to me to be full of sh#t. I mean that kindly. But you are full of sh#t.
 Actually blah, I don't know sh#t. What's more is I know I don't know sh#t. Give me any christian who is willing to admit that to themselves and I'll show you one that might be trusted with a penny. Until then, christians fail in that they tend to say they know the mind of god (the imaginary friend many of them seem to have)
As if you would know the difference
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dave goodwin
climber
carson city, nv
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Nov 24, 2012 - 04:50pm PT
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Right on splitter.
Being agnostic I am very open minded and like to converse on the subject. My experience is that religious folks want to tell me what is right and wrong, and are not willing to operate on a two way street. It's always their way or the highway!
Blue- you are a classic example of this!!!!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Nov 24, 2012 - 04:51pm PT
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You KNOW what's weird? Me/you hi-5's in heaven , bra!!!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Nov 24, 2012 - 04:53pm PT
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Hey, Dave. I don't give a f*#k.
You have to choose. not me.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Nov 24, 2012 - 04:55pm PT
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I always thought a person's personal beliefs were a strictly personal affair, and once they became about the other guy, we were hurled out of the personal and into a tug of war. The metaphor for this is two bald guys arguing over a comb.
JL
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dave goodwin
climber
carson city, nv
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Nov 24, 2012 - 05:05pm PT
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Yeah, you probably don't care! But you do get worked up easily. You should get outside and stay of ST as it would be good for your blood pressure.
And no I don't need to choose! When I am dead the choice has already been made. It will either be the after life, or worm dirt!
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Nov 24, 2012 - 05:17pm PT
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I love it when Mormons come to my door. I see the young men coming up my driveway in their unmistakable "uniforms"...
When my front opens in response to their knock, they come face to face with a rough old man, a fiercely psycho look on his face and an even more psycho attitude - AND A REALLY BIG HANDGUN IN HIS HAND, HANGING DOWN AT HIS SIDE, BUT CLEARLY VISIBLE.
I peer at them over the top of my glasses with a crazy Jack Nicholson look on my face... and they scurry away.
I have such a good laugh after they leave!
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Nov 24, 2012 - 05:49pm PT
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For example, I've always wondered why folk get so bent about gay people being gay and doing what they do - and lest we straight peeps stop them, they will cheapen marriage, corrupt the unwitting and draw the weak directly into buggery and bushwhacking.
They call that 'fighting the gay,' and some Clergy and Congressman seem to swing for the fences on that one.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Nov 24, 2012 - 06:05pm PT
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I like John's libertarian view of things.....
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Jan 25, 2013 - 04:09pm PT
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^^^
And Hemmingway, Zappa, Kubrick, Thomas Edison, Warren Buffet, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Woody Allen, Marie Curie, Hellen Keller, Freud, and George Orwell.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Jan 25, 2013 - 04:55pm PT
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some of the greatest mass murderers and modern enslavers of all time
Hey, let's leave the Popes out of it.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Jan 25, 2013 - 04:57pm PT
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"What should we be worried about?"
This year Edge asked 155 people with very good minds to ask themselves this question.
http://www.edge.org/annual-question/q2013
The earlier post by Donald Thompson reminded me of this entry:
Psychology professor Douglas T. Kenrick fears that idiots are about to take over the world and make it into an idiocracy run by numbskulls.
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Food for thought:
If China aggressively pursues eugenics... should the U.S? Should this force the U.S. to also? Is this going to be the next worrisome evolutionary arms race?
Btw, do only evolutionists know what an "evolutionary arms race" is? :)
Welcome to modernity, fasten your seat belts.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jan 25, 2013 - 06:11pm PT
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Jesus Christ
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Jan 25, 2013 - 06:48pm PT
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Atheists are neither demonstrably smarter..
Actually, they are. Signifcantly so.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Jan 25, 2013 - 10:39pm PT
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Moose wrote,
You mean like allowing only selected individuals to procreate or like ethnic cleansing?
"Allowing" suggests prescription, regulations, and law by Big Brother, by the Leviathan.
How about 21st century styled eugenics via (a) sperm and egg donors or (b) more directly through genetic design. Those would be eugenic practices as well. Right?
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Moose, check out some of those essays at edge.org. You'd enjoy a few I think. Read the piece by Sam Harris, The Power of Bad Incentives.
http://edge.org/response-detail/23781
It's a thinking man's piece. :)
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slayton
Trad climber
Here and There
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Jan 26, 2013 - 03:47am PT
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Like their cousins,socialists, rarely do atheist own up to the horrible past of official atheism and its awful results in the real world.
How exactly does being an atheist make one cousin (kissing or no) to socialists? The fact that there have been socialists, communists, narcissists, plagiarists, humanists, volcanists, seismologists, economists, or any other members of "ists" out there that might also be atheists does not make make them mutually inclusive. They are not them. Them are not they.
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