Posts by Tom Beard
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Emma Hart,
But I’ve never been able to work out what it was Mike Tindall did (besides marry a royal) that’s caused so much fuss.
Greeted an ex-lover with a little kiss and a bit of motorboating. Which in some circles counts as cheating, but in Wellington would just be the traditional way to say hello.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to BenWilson,
It’s not a matter of having “powerful arguments against the existence of one formulation of the Christian deity”, but of no-one else having testable arguments for their particular deity.
That’s my position, and it’s why I define myself as a “sceptical agnostic” rather than an atheist. There’s no proof of supernatural beings or phenomena, and neither are useful for explaining the universe, so even if you can’t dis prove them, by Occam’s Razor one can talk and act as if they don’t exist. To all intents and purposes I’m an atheist, but I don’t actually believe in the non-existence of god(s), because I don’t believe in anything.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Emma Hart,
Thing is, once you've done something that will, apparently, induce the Hell-burning, and it's not something you feel you could ever repent (like, same-sex attraction or the adultery that gained you your life partner) that ship has sailed, and you may as well go nuts.
May as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb, you mean?
(Not literally. At least not in the North Island.)
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Like, once you're married you should get down to the baby-making thing but outside marriage you should practice caution?
I think it's more "once you're married you should get down to the baby-making thing but outside marriage you will BURN IN HELL, SINNERS!!!!"
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So, what do you do when one kid says "condoms are not allowed by my religion..."
Personally? I'd say "Then it's a bloody stupid religion".
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Just wondering: some of the questions (such as Q7) would have a bearing on any decision between MMP with a theshold and without. Did you consider them as options for this tool?
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Hard News: 2011: The Year Of What?, in reply to Russell Brown,
“slumbering, not dormant”
Which is an etymologically confusing distinction.
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today, Gadaffi is gone
Is he? The best summary I've seen so far (from @ChasLicc) is "BREAKING: Gaddafi captured for ninth time today, after being killed six times."
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to bmk,
This removes golf from being a sport which is an added bonus.
I refuse to participate in any sport that cannot be conducted while holding a Martini.
This removes golf from being a sport which is an added bonus.
Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns. - National Lampoon
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Looks like I was busy for 13 minutes.