... From: Barry Williams <skeptics@...> To: <skeptic@...> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 12:37 AM Subject: Re: Does it bother you...
nelke
nelke@...
May 1, 2000 7:19 am
44905
... pages that get forwarded to me show up as pages, but this one showed up as HTML text. Maybe the thing to do is to send ... and the list fuhrer issue a...
Maniem
maniem@...
May 1, 2000 7:23 am
44906
I haven't read yet through this thread that seems the periodical skeptic vs religion flair-up. I think us atheists are annoyed, when a scientist claims to have...
Durant
durant@...
May 1, 2000 8:53 am
44907
I admire very much the people who managed to be independent, couragous and confident enough to make it unto atheism from a religious background, it was easy...
Durant
durant@...
May 1, 2000 8:53 am
44908
<snipped> ... sixties, ... the ... It ... though ... me ... situation is ... offer. ... others here ... are ... philosophical ... motivation ... MULDER: I, for...
Maniem
maniem@...
May 1, 2000 9:07 am
44909
... But if everyone has the right to hold any opinion, then they also have the right to hold the opinion that Mr. Willis is either extremely stupid or a liar. ...
Ludwig Krippahl
ludik@...
May 1, 2000 9:30 am
44910
... I'd be happy to ignore people such as this, but when, by their own actions, they put themselves in the public eye they should be answered. However, in the...
Barry Williams
skeptics@...
May 1, 2000 12:12 pm
44911
... Ridicule _is_ intelligent, provided it's not the only thing you say. As I pointed out in the message you objected to, the reason I was poking fun at the...
Daniel Rutter
rutterd@...
May 1, 2000 12:35 pm
44912
... Cretins. Why does it always have to be cretins? That's all the TBs we have had join the list save one Uri Geller believer. Why no UFO TBs? Why no ghost...
Joe Needham
jneedham@...
May 1, 2000 1:13 pm
44913
... Yes. Many rocks do not appear in strata at all, and yet still can be dated by a variety of techniques. And rocks which do appear in strata can also be...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
May 1, 2000 1:37 pm
44914
... My personal favourite is, "How did Judas die?" In Matthew (I think it was), he threw away the silver and hanged himself. In Acts, he used the silver to...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
May 1, 2000 1:42 pm
44915
... Or, perhaps, just the opposite, as in the case of judaism, where the involvement of the laity in the texts is a ritual expectation. Of course, the role of...
Wade T.Smith
wade_smith@...
May 1, 2000 1:57 pm
44916
... Judaism is a little more enlightened WRT texts, but the orthodox have other ways of keeping people from asking the wrong kind of questions. Thinking is...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
May 1, 2000 2:04 pm
44917
... I didn't know that I was ranting. Gosh, I didn't know that I was a "Christian deformed idiot" since I don't have a thyroid deficiency. Look up the meaning...
nelke
nelke@...
May 1, 2000 2:18 pm
44918
... "Cretinism" is Joe's quaint insult version of "Creationism". Joe's big on labelling people he dislikes with insults. -- James H.G. Redekop...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
May 1, 2000 2:23 pm
44919
... people ... Well to get that kind of insult I should be number one on Joe's hate list. Ray...
nelke
nelke@...
May 1, 2000 2:50 pm
44920
It does seem to me that all of us are fools in some area and thus we should temper our negative reactions to others by understanding. That is why I bracketed...
John H. Mazetier, Jr.
maze@...
May 1, 2000 2:51 pm
44921
And, thank you for the kind compliment! ... [snip]...
John H. Mazetier, Jr.
maze@...
May 1, 2000 3:05 pm
44922
... Oh, hardly. Throw in all the Loonietarians and Repugnacans as well, for starts... -- James H.G. Redekop http://www.residents.com/ The Residents ...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
May 1, 2000 3:14 pm
44923
I fully agree, ofcourse, but I do hope that when children are confiscating private property without any beliefs forced upon them, but by making informed...
Durant
durant@...
May 1, 2000 3:14 pm
44924
... I have nothing against religion or religious people except when they join a Skeptics list with a Cretin agenda. We get lots of posts concerning Cretins...
Joe Needham
jneedham@...
May 1, 2000 3:15 pm
44925
... You are joking, right? God is already referred to as the uncaused first cause. They won't miss a beat on that. Vic Stenger saw that one coming which is...
Joe Needham
jneedham@...
May 1, 2000 3:23 pm
44926
Maniem wrote: [snip] ... Yes, the waste is quite astonishing. Though apologists will counter that much great art and much moral strength grows from the...
John H. Mazetier, Jr.
maze@...
May 1, 2000 3:28 pm
44927
... But I'm not talking about an uncause first cause. I'm talking about a lack of first cause, period. Would they call that lack, "God"? -- James H.G....
James Redekop
tzoq@...
May 1, 2000 3:48 pm
44928
... From: Joe Needham <jneedham@...> To: <skeptic@...> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 9:57 AM Subject: Feeding Frenzy ... Then stop saying...
nelke
nelke@...
May 1, 2000 4:11 pm
44929
... Let me think about that....YES! Do you really expect them to say, "Gee whiz, you are correct there is no God. Let's turn the church into a brothel"?...
Joe Needham
jneedham@...
May 1, 2000 4:43 pm
44930
... In a flat universe (which ours probably is), two objects traveling at the speed of light but separated by some distance will never meet. ... I think you...
Ron Ebert
ebert@...
May 1, 2000 5:07 pm
44931
... Actually, I was directing my question specifically at Ray. I was asking for what *he* would do, not what a stereotyped amalgam of Christians would do....
James Redekop
tzoq@...
May 1, 2000 5:08 pm
44932
... This is a good challenge to be able to respond do, and I would like to hear other examples. My favorite is the creation story in Genesis and the sequence...
Stenger
edink@...
May 1, 2000 5:11 pm
44933
... stricken ... A person who is insulted by my suing the word "cretin" because of a dearly beloved stricken with a mental disorder does not hesitate to call...
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