Posts by giovanni tiso
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Yep, Ron Paul is a Truther from way back.
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What they mean by "constitutional" is a brisque walk followed by a nap.
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absence of proof is not proof of absence
Sure, then again personally if I said I was agnostic I'd be lying, because I honestly do not believe that if there's any thiing in the universe that comes close to fitting a definition of any god of ours, we could in any way apprehend it. I get that it's a belief, but I don't find it incoherent or entirely unsubstantiated.
I also don't proselitise for atheism. Mostly because it's pointless.
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Couple of Woody Allen quotes, to lighten the mood:
"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
"I'm an Atheist, my wife's agnostic. We had huge fights over which religion not to bring our kids up in"
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Generalizations like this take us little distance along the road to understanding, it's not the religion/ the political party/ the sales company that is at fault, as much as it is that this or the other person who wants to alter another's belief system/ political leanings/ patio in a forceful and unwelcome manner is a
dick.
Best use of the carriage return that I've seen outside of the works of ee cummings. I take my hat off to you.
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This Sunday we'll all be able to behold the extraordinary spectacle of a self-avowed secular society shuffling off en masse at dawn to chosen sacred places (some of which will have temples built thereon), where priests will lead them in religious chants and arcane ritual as modern New Zealand engages in it's own peculiar form of ancestor worship.
Are you talking about ANZAC day now?
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Yeah, what Emma said. For crying out loud.
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GASP! Poison Pen Reviews Were Mine, confesses historian Orlando Figes
So nice of him to implicate the wife first... bless. And they say gallantry is dead.
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(In saying that, I'd definitely count myself a "tragic", but hey, no offense taken.)
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What does it mean when it gets wider? Wider public interest, or a few tragics compulsively checking back?
It can mean that more people are involved in the conversation. If 30 of them are checking whenever a new comments is posted, you can get to that ratio without a very high number of lurkers.