I notice it was the bible thumper creationist who killed the evolutionist though. Makes you think doesnt it?
Incidentally I would love to live in wagga wagga, what a name eh? comedy gold right there.
That actually happens to be where I live.Originally Posted by bobdezon
I notice it was the bible thumper creationist who killed the evolutionist though. Makes you think doesnt it?
Incidentally I would love to live in wagga wagga, what a name eh? comedy gold right there.It is pronounced "Wogga" like logger.
You are so lucky mate, it sounds totally made up, like milton keynes
This is a tragic story - there is no doubt that belief can cause you to kill and be killed....But why do we get so worked up about what other people believe? That's something humankind has got to get over. Do you think arguing in itself is a problem?
Depends if you get emotionaly involved in an argument.
By argue I mean debate and not fighting.
Debate is good, fighting is pointless.
Re: Belief kills
Well take these two blokes - let us assume the now deceased Evolutionist stayed calm and rational in the discussion but the now encaserated Creationist still went burko on him. Being un-emotionally involved would not have helped... .no I think arguments are a big waste of time.Depends if you get emotionaly involved in an argument.
By argue I mean debate and not fighting.
Debate is good, fighting is pointless.
Re: Your newer avatar - is there some sort of metaphor in it?
Do you think debates are a waste of time?
No.Re: Your newer avatar - is there some sort of metaphor in it?
last one was supposed to be funny.
I think the biochemists should have known better - it seems to me that trying to use rational, reasoned and/or scientific arguments on those who have demonstrated their lack of rational thought and/or scientific knowledge (i.e. they're deep rooted reliognists) is rather pointless.
Like trying to explain calculus to a duck.
Having said that, I thought it was disturbing that the judge said the killer had an otherwise unblemished character.... How many murders does it take to become a muderer then? This guy didn't steal salt and pepper from restaurants, or drive over the speed limit so he must basically be OK apart from that murder thing but that's only one.
What about the belief in a child murdering, incest promoting, wife beating..... well you get the picture - Deity? Doesn't that count as a stain on ones character these days?
I wonder if the same comment would have been made had the atheist killed the religious person - or would it have been a case of lack of moral guidance for the Atheist I wonder?
Toad.
Debates are just rhetorical exercises.
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funny - who for - the lady?
This reminds me of the Neck Verse (Benefit of Clergy) whereby the prisoner if they could read a special bible verse (plead his clergy) they saved their necks from hanging. This was during Henry IVs time. Another Act allowed that blind men could avoid the rope if they could speak Latin "congruously".
It worries me though - I saw it shown on UK telly not as a joke, but as an unnecessary accident brought on by carelessness - I think the lady in question was very badly injured. So it makes me uncomfortable every time I see it.
Strange. I assumed it was yet another youtube edit (just like the guy getting his hands cut off by the helicopter rotors or those people being run down by cars) - as a result I didn't care about it at all.
Now you tell me it's video of someone really getting injured! Blimey, I'll be more careful down the shops next time and I heartily thank the person who has used this avatar so that I may learn from the mistakes of others.
Toad.
They understand every word.Like trying to explain calculus to a duck.
Such specisism.
It was a shop assistant behind the counter who did not know her colleague (also behind the counter) had left the trap door open for a moment and it was videoed on the security camera. Well that's what I understood. It was a work accident. I am the first to laugh at peoples misfortunes (and my own!) - it's my kind of humour. But the minute injury is involved my humour evaporates - poof!
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