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» 17/10/2019 10:37:03 PM Absolutely, runner. So is Exodus 21. Praise be........
» 17/10/2019 10:18:37 PM Absolutely agree, Leigh! My personal Lord and Saviour detests the thought of interracial .....
» 13/10/2018 10:29:55 PM Hasbeen asks: "What I want to know is that if we had a lot of CO2 in the air, making .....
» 11/10/2018 9:08:36 PM That first link should actually be: http://youtu.be/FmH7JUeVQb8?t=5551.....
» 11/10/2018 9:02:52 PM This is the same rubbish Jordan Peterson spouts about everyone being religious, which Matt.....
» 1/07/2018 12:12:03 AM It’s funny you should say that, Hasbeen. <<Evidently he believes that if it is in a.....
» 30/06/2018 11:59:42 PM runner, I thought we sorted this one out a long time ago. Remember, you had to run and du.....
» 30/06/2018 11:38:59 PM That's unfortunate, Not_Now.Soon. <<Through our conversations I've lost trust in yo.....
» 29/06/2018 11:58:09 PM Dear Foxy, Unfortunately, you can expect mhaze to cling to that tidbit for the rest of hi.....
» 29/06/2018 11:44:23 PM Unfortunately, I do, Not_Now.Soon. <<Are you sure that's what you want from me AJ P.....
» 29/06/2018 11:24:35 PM Wow, you’re not very educated, are you ttbn? The ‘socialist’ part of the ‘National Socila.....
» 25/06/2018 12:48:59 AM I do hope it lasts for a very long time, Not_Now.Soon. <<I'm not giving a vow of si.....
» 25/06/2018 12:21:50 AM Not_Now.Soon, You are desperate if you think that you you are going to extract any sense .....
» 24/06/2018 3:14:55 PM Not_Now.Soon, The two are actually related, so some extent. <<A question I'd like .....
» 23/06/2018 3:45:58 AM …Continued <<Please accept my apology for how your taking my side of the conversati.....
» 23/06/2018 3:45:55 AM No, actually, Not_Now.Soon, I did not say that you were rude. <<You've told me that.....
» 23/06/2018 2:42:16 AM We need to bear in mind that there is not a complete silence, Not_Now.Soon. <<…I'd .....
» 23/06/2018 1:13:04 AM Oh, I will just add, Not-Now.Soon, that while raising my point about Yuyutsu and others li.....
» 23/06/2018 12:01:40 AM Nice to see that diver dan’s post was completely removed. To suggest (in response to ttbn’.....
» 22/06/2018 5:41:24 PM Are you sure it’s a clarification, Not_Now.Soon? <<For the sake of clarification.&g.....
» 13/06/2018 1:55:48 AM No, it doesn’t, Not _Now.Soon. <<What you say is clarification I noted as stepping .....
» 13/06/2018 1:33:53 AM You know, Not_Now.Soon, I’ve been giving your sudden switch in attitude some thought, and,.....
» 12/06/2018 5:32:54 PM I'm not distressed, Not_Now.Soon. Just surprised and disappointed. While I'm here, though.....
» 11/06/2018 12:46:58 AM Not_Now.Soon, One other point, before you accuse me of a change in position again. Althou.....
» 10/06/2018 5:54:38 PM What am I missing about it, Not_Now.Soon? <<It's the clarifying aspect that your mi.....
» 8/06/2018 3:39:53 PM That’s good to hear, mhaze. <<I just choose not to [decide what the views of others.....
» 8/06/2018 12:12:16 PM You are free to decide what the views of others are, mhaze, just as you are free to ignore.....
» 8/06/2018 9:17:59 AM ttbn, The point of a hypothetical is really lost on you, isn't it? Why would he? Well, .....
» 7/06/2018 1:29:21 PM Well put, Toni Lavis. As I often point out when freedom of speech and gay wedding cakes a.....
» 6/06/2018 5:00:08 PM Another excellent question; this time from mhaze. <<Imagine there's a Muslim artist.....
» 6/06/2018 1:11:06 PM Joe asks: “should a Muslim baker be allowed to refuse to bake a cake for a same-sex weddin.....
» 6/06/2018 11:44:57 AM Not_Now.Soon, I've conceded ground a few times in the past on OLO. One example can be fou.....
» 6/06/2018 9:51:56 AM Yuyutsu, You're not much of a legal-type person, are you? <<The baker's case occur.....
» 6/06/2018 8:01:02 AM So, in other words, Not_Now.Soon, you learned absolutely nothing from what I said yesterda.....
» 5/06/2018 7:14:39 PM That’s correct, Not_Now.Soon. <<Based on this it sound like full support of what Ra.....
» 5/06/2018 5:08:08 PM Oh, I definitely think you’re right there, Armchair Critic. <<Well I'm not always r.....
» 5/06/2018 3:16:48 PM I disagree with you there, Armchair Critic. <<...if they say ["I effed your mu.....
» 5/06/2018 6:25:56 AM My thoughts exactly, SteeleRedux. Here’s just some of the outrage that feature on OLO at t.....
» 5/06/2018 5:49:20 AM …Continued I have just demonstrated this above, and have done so again more thoroughly be.....
» 5/06/2018 5:49:16 AM You’re still not getting this, Not_Now.Soon. <<But you have been and are defending .....
» 2/06/2018 10:52:03 AM Not_Now.Soon, I’ve never been interested in defending what rache had said beyond what I i.....
» 2/06/2018 10:25:26 AM An amusing shared false memory that I read about when studying the phenomenon of false mem.....
» 31/05/2018 6:59:24 PM Not_Now.Soon, You’re still getting hung up on this idea that I have suggested that Armage.....
» 30/05/2018 9:47:47 PM Philip S, Perhaps I’ve misinterpreted your first post on this thread, but if you think pe.....
» 30/05/2018 6:09:00 PM Perhaps not, Not_Now.Soon. <<For many Christians (myself included), the understandi.....
» 30/05/2018 7:30:51 AM Indeed there is, Not_Now.Soon. <<…there's a huge difference between acknowledging t.....
» 29/05/2018 5:19:26 PM I have never once demanded anything from anyone on OLO, mhaze. <<In a previous thre.....
» 28/05/2018 12:23:01 PM You haven’t attempted to educated me on anything, mhaze. <<I'll admit it gets a bit.....
» 28/05/2018 10:01:03 AM Not_Now.Soon, I’ve known and encountered more Christians than I could ever possibly count.....
» 27/05/2018 4:22:03 PM It’s always disconcerting to have a look at a thread you never even knew existed and see t.....
» 25/05/2018 3:40:12 PM Still a bit pissy about the last thread, are we mhaze? <<There is no question that .....
» 25/05/2018 11:52:53 AM Good questions, ttbn. <<What do people who presume the ability to speak with author.....
» 23/05/2018 5:05:51 PM Gawd! Are you STILL here, mhaze? <<AJP thinks I'm a McCarthyist indicating he hasn'.....
» 19/05/2018 6:51:32 PM How could it be, Graham? <<It certainly wasn't atheism.>> Atheism has nothin.....
» 19/05/2018 8:45:51 AM A final thought, mhaze. When I provided a list of possible motivations as to why you fals.....
» 18/05/2018 9:48:11 PM mhaze, I re-read what I had said earlier about dumb luck to see if your misunderstanding .....
» 18/05/2018 6:58:37 PM That’s not what I suggested, mhaze. <<Yeah, the industrial revolution, the inventio.....
» 17/05/2018 11:16:14 PM Just to expand on why your motives appear suspicious to me, mhaze... The following site d.....
» 17/05/2018 6:18:35 PM Thanks for that, SteeleRedux. Toni Lavis’s point was apt, too. mhaze’s list of questions a.....
» 17/05/2018 1:39:06 PM …Continued I already explained this to you at the time: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.a.....
» 17/05/2018 1:39:03 PM mhaze, I can understand why you would want to pre-emptively bow out now. <<This is.....
» 16/05/2018 7:44:32 PM Graham, I’m disappointed. I gave you enough credit to assume that you had worded that bad.....
» 16/05/2018 2:53:19 PM Wow, we have a link. Nice job, mhaze. And here was my response to that comment explaining.....
» 16/05/2018 9:40:47 AM That’s because you can’t, mhaze. <<… if that's what you need to tell yourself, then.....
» 15/05/2018 10:50:32 PM Bush bunny, Unfortunately for Christianity, the Old Testament can’t just be forgotten or .....
» 15/05/2018 8:19:25 PM mac, Good question. Having had this debate many times over the years, I’ve found myself a.....
» 15/05/2018 4:29:31 PM mhaze, You're using equivocation to commit the fallacy of false equivalence. That's quite.....
» 15/05/2018 9:50:55 AM Oh please, mhaze, tell us all what this religion is that atheists have, won't you? It doe.....
» 14/05/2018 4:42:21 PM Oops. Sorry, Not_Now.Soon. I missed a crucial step in my journey to reason. After realisi.....
» 14/05/2018 8:32:52 AM …Continued <<Unless you really want to see where I'm drawing this conclusion of dou.....
» 14/05/2018 8:32:48 AM …Continued After a while, the curiosity got the better of me and I decided to research th.....
» 14/05/2018 8:32:44 AM Not_Now.Soon, Thanks for the sentiment. Yes, there are all sorts of church attendees and .....
» 13/05/2018 9:34:59 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Yes, of course. I should have figured that that was the observation you.....
» 11/05/2018 8:39:18 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Heh, I know what you mean. I looked the guy up too. To me, the article .....
» 11/05/2018 6:25:00 PM …Continued All I have said (three times now) is that until you can explain why my rationa.....
» 11/05/2018 6:24:57 PM Not_Now.Soon, I’m not sure how you’re being blunt or why you should be asking for forgive.....
» 11/05/2018 3:23:16 PM Wow, it would take pages upon pages of posts to debunk all the misconceptions and falsehoo.....
» 10/05/2018 5:48:40 PM Aidan, The High Court decision didn't change the interpretation of s 44(i), it clarified .....
» 9/05/2018 10:51:04 PM A slight correction, Not_Now.Soon. Technically, your attempts to demonstrate a bias on my.....
» 9/05/2018 9:19:36 PM …Continued Secondly, contrary to your implication, I never said the above because you pre.....
» 9/05/2018 9:19:33 PM That’s precisely how I take it, Not_Now.Soon. <<I hope you do not take this as a pl.....
» 9/05/2018 6:00:02 PM Claims that ineligible MPs should pay back their salary and entitlements are silly. They s.....
» 9/05/2018 2:56:57 PM Bush bunny, Yes, I once made the point to Not_Now.Soon that the calming effect that praye.....
» 9/05/2018 1:37:52 PM Not_Now.Soon, We’ve been discussing the reliability of prayer as evidence for God for a l.....
» 8/05/2018 8:26:19 AM Sorry, Not_Now.Soon, I don’t think I addressed your accusation of excuse-making on my part.....
» 8/05/2018 7:35:44 AM Speaking of our memories being terrible, Not_Now.Soon, did you notice how you incorrectly .....
» 7/05/2018 7:18:08 PM …Continued <<Either I'm madly deranged by a sociological brainwashing religion ...&.....
» 7/05/2018 7:18:05 PM Indeed we have, Not_Now.Soon. <<We've discussed this topic of my experiences at len.....
» 7/05/2018 1:45:29 PM What does, Josephus? <<… it merely supports the theory God created the complex matt.....
» 7/05/2018 12:16:17 PM Interesting comment to Bush bunny, Josephus. You start by saying that you’re not a young-.....
» 7/05/2018 10:21:23 AM …Continued <<I've considered them each one, and questioned both criticisms about Ch.....
» 7/05/2018 10:21:19 AM Not_Now.Soon, I understood what you meant by God being stronger than your doubts, and I s.....
» 30/04/2018 2:45:40 PM Here's a more relevant Google search for you, NathanJ, in case you had a problem with the .....
» 30/04/2018 2:34:13 PM That is some incredibly fallacious thinking there, NathanJ. <<If the matter (like r.....
» 29/04/2018 11:46:43 PM ...Continued <<Local communities must have a more active say in the future of their.....
» 29/04/2018 11:46:34 PM Not just s 51(xxix), NathanJ. <<Firstly, if marriage "needs to be dealt with b.....
» 28/04/2018 11:21:41 PM NathanJ, The point of mine that you quoted was an objective dilemma, not a personal view......
» 28/04/2018 11:24:37 AM There are good arguments for and against abolishing the states. I have no strong opinion e.....
» 27/04/2018 9:50:23 AM My favorite part of this debate is watching the more conservative folk get their knickers .....
» 27/04/2018 9:34:26 AM That’s multiculturalism for you, Toni Lavis. It’s starts with coconut in Anzac biscuits. T.....
» 26/04/2018 9:36:11 PM Thanks for that, Is Mise. I decided against including the list of ingredients because the.....
» 26/04/2018 5:05:59 PM I hear ya there, Joe. <<Rage ? No, not at all. Simply a sense of regret that some p.....
» 26/04/2018 2:59:35 PM Joe, The longer you maintain the rage, the more you prove my point in my last post. It's.....
» 26/04/2018 11:50:43 AM Joe, You appear to have missed my post at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?di.....
» 25/04/2018 8:17:31 PM …Continued <<Prayers are answered though. That much I know.>> I know you bel.....
» 25/04/2018 8:17:27 PM Yes, Not_Now.Soon, I understand that that’s the theology. <<Not all prayers asked a.....
» 25/04/2018 10:41:57 AM Ahhh, it's good to be back on the other side......
» 25/04/2018 10:14:23 AM As nice as it’s been to feel like part of the gang for the last 24 hours, joke’s over. Of.....
» 24/04/2018 9:59:20 PM I have some good news for you, Joe. Despite it being popular amongst you and your PC mate.....
» 24/04/2018 11:44:19 AM Yes, Joe, technically that’s an ad hominem. <<Is that what you mean by an 'ad homin.....
» 24/04/2018 11:03:15 AM I’m still stuck on the fact that, had a celebrity singled out an entire race as being dest.....
» 24/04/2018 10:42:33 AM Joe, If you think that just offending someone could be a logical fallacy, then I’m afraid.....
» 23/04/2018 9:26:00 AM …Continued <<As for your observation on doing instead of praying. I don't see any r.....
» 23/04/2018 9:25:57 AM …Continued <<I know you don't like the idea of answered prayers …>> Firstly,.....
» 23/04/2018 9:25:54 AM Not_Now.Soon, Would it help if I reminded you that nothing you have said is new to me? Yo.....
» 22/04/2018 10:32:19 PM Meh, y’all heathens are arguing over how the deckchairs were arranged while the Titanic wa.....
» 22/04/2018 6:16:15 PM OzSpen, You’re rather lacking in clarifications department there, for someone who suggest.....
» 22/04/2018 11:49:10 AM One other thought, Not_Now.Soon. I can’t help but feel that your new development, regardi.....
» 22/04/2018 10:01:38 AM Not_Now.Soon, I feel the need to respond to some of your post to Bush bunny, because It a.....
» 21/04/2018 7:48:08 PM …Continued <<… my parents were of different religions they both believed in God.&g.....
» 21/04/2018 7:48:01 PM Quite easily, Not_Now.Soon. <<It might not be your intent to judge religious couple.....
» 21/04/2018 6:19:49 PM I think that depends on how one defines “abuse”, Josephus. <<Does Folau demonstrate.....
» 21/04/2018 5:03:42 PM That’s a terrible analogy, Josephus. <<Does a person have a right to have an opinio.....
» 21/04/2018 10:46:58 AM Yes, Josephus. An eternity of nothingness can be a depressing thought. But then, living fo.....
» 20/04/2018 10:20:22 PM Josephus, I’m not going to waste my posts on your ad hominem assumptions of what you thin.....
» 20/04/2018 8:57:17 PM …Continued <<(Reading, math, social skills, culture, and a good work ethic and dete.....
» 20/04/2018 8:57:13 PM …Continued <<He's known for His love, His forgiveness, His justice, and His blessin.....
» 20/04/2018 8:57:10 PM A minor niggle, Not_Now.Soon. <<While your accusing that teaching Christianity is a.....
» 19/04/2018 6:36:39 PM …Continued I think there is also something to be said of teaching a child that it is alri.....
» 19/04/2018 6:36:36 PM That’s encouraging to hear, Not_Now.Soon. <<Though I don't think I would teach a k.....
» 19/04/2018 2:28:51 PM No, OzSpen, they don’t. <<Your words from 16 April amount to a straw man fallacy.&g.....
» 19/04/2018 6:28:03 AM My apologies, Not_Now.Soon. I had read this incorrectly: <<But you know what forget.....
» 18/04/2018 9:12:37 AM Not only that, Not_Now.Soon. <<You don't see anything you've done as moving the goa.....
» 17/04/2018 11:09:06 PM A follow-up point, Not_Now.Soon. Upon re-reading the triple-post I had just submitted, it.....
» 17/04/2018 9:19:40 PM …Continued <<Not abuse, and easy to explain to a child.>> The ease with whic.....
» 17/04/2018 9:19:37 PM …Continued <<… you would force a parent's hand to not teach their children …>>.....
» 17/04/2018 9:19:34 PM Yes, Not_Now.Soon, let’s. <<Let's be honest about the goal posts here shall we?>.....
» 17/04/2018 9:01:46 AM Another point, Not_Now.Soon. <<From my understanding, avoiding Hell is something Go.....
» 17/04/2018 8:42:59 AM I did, Not_Now.Soon, <<Keep reading through that same post.>> I was accounti.....
» 16/04/2018 11:23:14 PM You have not yet demonstrated that, OzSpen. <<If you want to change that sinful dri.....
» 16/04/2018 6:44:00 PM Bush bunny, According to the doctrine of the Trinity, Jesus did get to become God (at lea.....
» 16/04/2018 6:15:11 PM …Continued I know the theology, you don't need to repeat it to me. The problem is not tha.....
» 16/04/2018 6:15:08 PM Not_Now.Soon, In the context of this discussion, my understanding of abuse is simply what.....
» 16/04/2018 10:13:24 AM OzSpen, You don’t get to claim that not loving the god you believe in is wrong or a flaw .....
» 16/04/2018 9:57:16 AM Yuyutsu, On the contrary, this thread has finally got sensible. For example, I can’t beli.....
» 15/04/2018 6:48:24 AM …Continued I already went through the nuances here in my last response to you explaining .....
» 15/04/2018 6:48:19 AM Not_Now.Soon, So, are you saying that you WOULD call child services on parents that exces.....
» 13/04/2018 7:50:25 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for your reply. Your story is a good example of why I’m not always agai.....
» 13/04/2018 12:07:02 AM Bush Bunny, Firstly, my condolences for the fact that you visit your sons’ graves. No par.....
» 12/04/2018 9:22:27 PM …Continued <<You don't call child services to come pick up the kid and remove them .....
» 12/04/2018 9:22:24 PM Not necessarily, Not_Now.Soon. <<If a parent believes something to be true it is no.....
» 12/04/2018 4:06:13 PM It depends on how it’s done, Not_Now.Soon. <<Parents teaching their children their .....
» 12/04/2018 3:35:37 PM Toni Lavis, Freedom of speech is only supposed to go one way. We saw that with the Yassmi.....
» 12/04/2018 10:25:16 AM Big Nana, Because religious belief is presumably the motivation behind Folau’s comment. .....
» 12/04/2018 8:18:14 AM Big Nana, The difference in the reactions between this scenario and your hypothetical sce.....
» 11/04/2018 9:03:44 PM Perhaps more interesting is the question of whether Folau thinks gay people actually deser.....
» 11/04/2018 2:34:35 PM I think Qantas and Rugby Australia need to chill for a moment. According to this idiot, m.....
» 11/04/2018 2:33:12 PM Josephus, No, only a small percentage of people take astrology seriously. <<More p.....
» 6/04/2018 9:03:52 AM Well, it wasn’t a throwaway line, NathanJ. <<Was this well defined as a point, some.....
» 5/04/2018 9:59:40 PM Not_Now.Soon, I made it abundantly clear for a few years there that I support marriage eq.....
» 4/04/2018 6:36:40 PM Albie Manton, It depends on whether something is voiced as a claim or as mere opinion, an.....
» 4/04/2018 4:20:41 PM Toni Lavis, Is there any reason why people who order their steak 'well done' can't instea.....
» 4/04/2018 2:13:24 PM Come to think of it, Not_Now.Soon, who are these people who only criticise the posts of ot.....
» 4/04/2018 12:31:06 PM An interesting challenge, Not_Now.Soon. I hope those to whom your post is directed take up.....
» 18/02/2018 10:19:32 AM That’s true, mhaze. <<Working out the likelihood isn't evidence. Its guess-work bas.....
» 17/02/2018 1:21:11 PM No, it doesn’t, mhaze. <<That only sort of makes sense if there is life elsewhere a.....
» 17/02/2018 11:54:21 AM My apologies, mhaze. My response to this claim of yours sounded a little confused: <&l.....
» 17/02/2018 11:25:54 AM mhaze , That analogy fails for the same reason your dark matter analogy fails. How can y.....
» 16/02/2018 7:40:51 PM mhaze, Since I’m a helpful kinda guy, I’ll show you a really efficient way of highlightin.....
» 16/02/2018 5:53:06 PM …Continued <<… demands that I define 'the deity' …>> Yes, and it was a reaso.....
» 16/02/2018 5:52:56 PM At no point I have claimed that agnosticism is a subset of atheism, mhaze. <<I was .....
» 15/02/2018 8:10:22 PM Suddenly on about: as if I were waffling in a directionless manner. <<Suddenly he'.....
» 14/02/2018 9:18:51 PM Actually, mhaze, I don’t think it was just the “again” that made what I had meant obvious......
» 14/02/2018 5:40:16 PM ...Continued <<"No, again, I never said that. [the reason theism is in decline.....
» 14/02/2018 5:40:13 PM Thanks for the definitions, mhaze. <<(respectively AHD, Webster) (and many others, .....
» 13/02/2018 6:38:45 PM …Continued Yes, there is a spectrum (all the links I have provided thus far acknowledge t.....
» 13/02/2018 6:38:42 PM mhaze, At no point have I asserted that there is only one valid understanding of the word.....
» 12/02/2018 7:03:27 PM …Continued The only difference is that we don’t have labels such as ‘dark-matter-ist’ and.....
» 12/02/2018 7:03:23 PM Oh, welcome back, mhaze. I guess the sophistry required to misconstrue what others say ta.....
» 11/02/2018 10:35:52 AM david f writes: “I think their answers are better than the Christian sickness of wallowing.....
» 9/02/2018 10:18:02 AM mhaze, As you ponder your response to me, I thought I’d provide you with a couple of link.....
» 8/02/2018 4:39:14 PM …Continued I, on the other, accept the label because it is the only way we can rid disbel.....
» 8/02/2018 4:39:10 PM No, it’s not a black and white attitude, mhaze. <<I get that your default attitude .....
» 8/02/2018 10:01:28 AM Not_Now.Soon, While it is indeed arrogant to assert what we all need to be saved from som.....
» 7/02/2018 9:01:28 PM mhaze, Atheism and agnosticism are not mutually exclusive positions, each addresses a dif.....
» 7/02/2018 10:39:15 AM …Continued <<God let them fall. Is that evil?>> Evil of God to them fall? No.....
» 7/02/2018 10:39:13 AM Not_Now.Soon, If we all need your god, then that is a universal human trait, not a trait .....
» 6/02/2018 8:01:54 PM My apologies for the brain fart, mhaze. My answer to this claim didn’t address your new va.....
» 6/02/2018 6:20:39 PM …Continued What’s the difference between something that cannot be defined and something t.....
» 6/02/2018 6:20:36 PM As evidence of what, mhaze? <<As evidence you say I failed to define "the deit.....
» 5/02/2018 6:50:03 PM mhaze, I asked you what exactly you meant by “the deity”, but got no response: “Yes, but.....
» 5/02/2018 11:00:09 AM mhaze, Since you’re having so much difficulty keeping up, I’ll recap the discussion in as.....
» 5/02/2018 10:10:08 AM I see you’re still not willing to specify to what exactly “the deity” refers, mhaze. <.....
» 3/02/2018 5:55:36 PM It's not just my scientific theory theory, Josephus. It's the scientific theory of scienti.....
» 3/02/2018 8:41:15 AM Josephus, They’re not faults so much as they are just poor design. <<I have looked.....
» 2/02/2018 2:18:29 PM Josephus, What makes you think that chemicals or a reproductive process would be necessar.....
» 2/02/2018 1:11:49 PM I found that article by Dalrymple you cited to be rather dishonest, mhaze. Firstly, the s.....
» 2/02/2018 12:03:11 PM mhaze, Yes, but this is where the ambiguity of your language potentially creates confusio.....
» 1/02/2018 10:00:15 AM Not_Now.Soon, If you’re interested in the role Christianity played in the rise of Western.....
» 31/01/2018 11:42:40 PM My apologies, mhaze. I allowed you to bog me down in a useless debate about definitions. .....
» 31/01/2018 9:15:00 PM Toni Lavis writes: “Selective readings of history and post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies .....
» 31/01/2018 7:30:59 PM I know how you 'feel', mhaze. <<Your constant semantic ’discussions’ can be exhaust.....
» 31/01/2018 8:49:11 AM Josephus, The ‘It’s not God, it’s man’s sin’ argument doesn’t get you around the problem .....
» 30/01/2018 5:21:42 PM Oh please, mhaze. Don't keep it to yourself now, will you? <<I can’t imagine how yo.....
» 30/01/2018 1:43:08 PM …Continued I will admit, however, that I did resist noting that the error in your logic h.....
» 30/01/2018 1:43:01 PM It doesn’t matter how the deity sees suffering or evil, mhaze. <<That’s true if you.....
» 30/01/2018 8:13:37 AM You need not fear that your absence went unnoticed, Josephus. It has been really pleasant .....
» 29/01/2018 8:46:15 PM …Continued <<It is not my opinion that God loves you, but the testominy of the bibl.....
» 29/01/2018 8:46:11 PM So now my alleged arrogance is “spiteful”, Not_Now.Soon? <<Were you actually confus.....
» 29/01/2018 9:35:53 AM Oh, would you look at that, mhaze: “How could you know that a god, which has been disprov.....
» 28/01/2018 11:39:44 PM Sorry, mhaze. My answer to one of your mendacious assertions was incorrect. Let's try agai.....
» 28/01/2018 9:57:55 PM mhaze, I already explained that “disproved” is more appropriate than “discredited”. <.....
» 28/01/2018 6:19:14 PM Toni Lavis, Thanks for the link. It looks interesting. I'll be sure to check it out when .....
» 28/01/2018 2:31:40 PM ...Continued <<I would rather move on because it might be needed to show how to lov.....
» 28/01/2018 2:31:36 PM Not_Now.Soon I don’t recall asking for commentary on my alleged arrogance. <<You a.....
» 27/01/2018 10:21:18 AM Oh, mhaze, just in case you try to accuse me of re-framing arguments again… <<I gue.....
» 27/01/2018 9:42:12 AM That’s correct, Not_Now.Soon. Certainly no reliable evidence. <<You just said that .....
» 27/01/2018 12:05:06 AM …Continued <<… [Personal] experience is more then enough to tip any scale to the po.....
» 27/01/2018 12:05:04 AM Not_Now.Soon, So, if I had lost my Christian faith because of a tragic loss, then you wou.....
» 26/01/2018 7:45:52 PM Thanks for that, david f. Well put. -- mhaze, Could you specify to which Christian valu.....
» 26/01/2018 5:05:27 PM ...Continued Secondly, this hardly justifies your very specific accusations. Some of whic.....
» 26/01/2018 5:05:20 PM Nice try, mhaze. <<I say proven/disproven, you say discredited.>> “Disproven.....
» 26/01/2018 10:10:02 AM …Continued But, no, none of my beliefs held up against logic and reason, and from my obse.....
» 26/01/2018 10:09:59 AM Not_Now.Soon, Despite the fact that I have said nothing to suggest anything of the sort, .....
» 25/01/2018 5:41:36 PM Point taken, Cossomby. -- runner, I was quoting, as an authority, what you believe to b.....
» 25/01/2018 2:42:06 PM That depends on which deity you’re referring to, mhaze. <<The deity can neither be .....
» 25/01/2018 12:45:55 PM Jordan Peterson was brilliant in this interview. He remained calm and stuck to the facts t.....
» 25/01/2018 10:34:36 AM Paul1405, I see you know of the infamous Matt Slick and his fallacious transcendental arg.....
» 25/01/2018 9:40:18 AM You mean, “Thanks for allowing yourself to be diverted by my red herring”, Josephus. <.....
» 24/01/2018 8:19:40 PM Josephus, Stop taking every criticism of your belief system as a personal attack on yours.....
» 24/01/2018 1:19:51 PM Josephus, Yes, I’m sure you will. <<I will ignore your ignorance [sic] of Jesus li.....
» 24/01/2018 12:05:08 PM Not_Now.Soon, I’ll be happy to love your Lord with all my heart when He, or one of His fo.....
» 22/01/2018 9:37:51 AM Here in Queensland, anything with codeine is behind the counter, and you have to play a ga.....
» 18/01/2018 6:32:26 PM One point of your points that I didn't address before, Banjo Patterson, was the independen.....
» 18/01/2018 12:12:50 PM …Continued <<The evidence in the cases I cited in my post to Ashbo qualifies as wha.....
» 18/01/2018 11:25:26 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, No, having the judge state the reasons for their decision is an inte.....
» 17/01/2018 7:53:31 PM Sorry, I need to make a correction. The number of people on death row in the US who have b.....
» 17/01/2018 12:09:55 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, Like science, the law does not deal in absolute certainties (‘beyond.....
» 17/01/2018 12:09:52 PM Only if they’re reliable, ALTRAV. <<… You quote articles and laws as if they are go.....
» 16/01/2018 11:42:16 PM ALTRAV, The case against the capital punishment need not be an emotional one. As the link.....
» 16/01/2018 12:37:10 PM Oh please, mhaze, don’t keep us all hanging, will you. Tell us what this supposed error is.....
» 15/01/2018 9:46:49 PM A slight correction, mhaze. <<Irrespective of how diligent you were in your Google .....
» 15/01/2018 2:35:09 PM ...Continued <<Oh I do seem to recall you've fallen for a few "beautiful thing.....
» 15/01/2018 2:34:58 PM How was I mislead, mhaze? <<Irrespective of how diligent you were in your Google re.....
» 14/01/2018 10:43:33 PM Oh, it absolutely is, ALTRAV. <<NO, rape is not by definition assault.>> Ass.....
» 14/01/2018 9:21:25 PM At no point have I suggested that you should, ALTRAV. <<I won't appologise for seei.....
» 14/01/2018 7:07:18 PM ALTRAV, While I agree that a single instance of rape does not justify the death penalty, .....
» 13/01/2018 1:35:51 PM It’s all starting to seem very Idiocracy-esque to me, Foxy. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0.....
» 13/01/2018 12:51:41 PM Of course, those two links to Google searches should be the other way around......
» 13/01/2018 12:40:37 PM ...Continued <<Its rubbish and they know it, even though the followers (no names mi.....
» 13/01/2018 12:40:33 PM My apologies, mhaze. On re-reading your post, it does indeed appear you were merely expre.....
» 10/01/2018 11:11:14 AM ...Continued <<You see your argument is flawed because the system everyone puts so .....
» 10/01/2018 11:10:00 AM Attack” is an emotive way of putting it, ALTRAV. <<… you attack anothers opinions o.....
» 10/01/2018 9:29:40 AM Nice touch there, mhaze. <<Miraculously he 'found' this AFTER I'd pointed it out an.....
» 10/01/2018 12:37:10 AM ALTRAV, That’s rather foolish of you if you’re still going to respond. <<I give yo.....
» 9/01/2018 11:33:17 PM leoj, I don't think the article Foxy linked to was evidence of anything. To me, it was ju.....
» 9/01/2018 9:58:09 PM leoj, Why would I be sceptical of Trump’s narcissism when he has given me absolutely no r.....
» 9/01/2018 10:03:10 AM leoj, Many psychologists are actually biting their tongues when it comes to Trump, becaus.....
» 9/01/2018 12:03:33 AM ALTRAV, I am happy to report that pardons only happen in the US (in the civilised world, .....
» 8/01/2018 10:17:15 PM That Trump has Narcissistic Personality Disorder is not just a possibility, it's a certain.....
» 8/01/2018 5:29:57 PM Sounds like you need to read my last post again a little more carefully, ALTRAV. Nothing y.....
» 8/01/2018 5:25:28 PM Of course you’re not, ALTRAV. <<… I am under no contract to explain to you or anyon.....
» 8/01/2018 5:04:41 PM ALTRAV, I have never known of a “Never to be released” prisoner being released in Austral.....
» 7/01/2018 11:44:58 PM Joe, There is the option of having, “Never to be released”, stamped on their files (the m.....
» 7/01/2018 10:55:14 PM So, we agree on that much, ALTRAV. <<Yes we do want to deny them the same legal pro.....
» 7/01/2018 10:25:38 PM Josephus, That’s a rather specific claim you've made there. <<… Yes voters are cel.....
» 7/01/2018 4:26:35 PM The memes have already starting rolling in thick and fast: http://i.imgur.com/POqvTFD.jpg.....
» 7/01/2018 2:46:46 PM Actually, I should say that the glaring absence of logic is between 2 and 4. Three explain.....
» 7/01/2018 12:42:36 PM runner, Here's a fact check on the US employment figures, the extent to which Trump has i.....
» 7/01/2018 12:13:43 PM Ponder, Yes, I did consider that possibility. However, I have been reading Yuyutsu's post.....
» 7/01/2018 11:21:25 AM That is correct, runner. Hatred certainly is a perception-distorting emotion. Idolatry, to.....
» 7/01/2018 10:16:20 AM It’s a tiresome old line: 1) A makes claims X, Y, and Z. 2) B discredits the claims. 3) A.....
» 7/01/2018 10:04:44 AM Yuyutsu writes: “Yet You, who at present seem to dwell in this body, cannot die and cannot.....
» 7/01/2018 9:57:34 AM No, it didn’t “have to happen”. Bush Jr. was despised by many of his opponents, yet I don.....
» 6/01/2018 10:40:29 PM Not_Now.Soon, What you touch on, for a moment there in your second paragraph, is the prob.....
» 6/01/2018 9:56:34 PM Hi o sung wu, Yes, both medical and social scientists have definitely acquired a far bett.....
» 6/01/2018 8:23:31 PM ALTRAV, There’s no need to get sarcastic. You're just being petulant now. I’m not always .....
» 6/01/2018 1:28:22 PM ALTRAV, I see I'm now going to have to educate you in the Common Law system. I suppose I.....
» 6/01/2018 9:13:39 AM ALTRAV , Of course you think it’s damning. <<… I went back to read your link once .....
» 5/01/2018 11:27:39 PM Josephus, I’m sceptical of a lot of your claims (heck, sometimes you just plain make them.....
» 5/01/2018 8:23:12 PM You may be right there, Josephus. <<That the Woman's Weekly can state gender fluidi.....
» 5/01/2018 8:11:43 PM Maybe not directly, ALTRAV, no. <<I have NEVER made reference to aids in my posts ….....
» 5/01/2018 4:51:56 PM I've only been skimming the discussion about Safe Schools because it's off topic. But it n.....
» 5/01/2018 4:39:28 PM ALTRAV, What do you mean by, "No-one in the YES camp wants to acknowledge Massachuse.....
» 5/01/2018 9:47:09 AM Joe, Yes, it has been understood by criminologists for some time now that Islamic terrori.....
» 3/01/2018 7:38:38 AM Yes, I do, ALTRAV. <<You reject my comments when I don't supply 'proof' …>> .....
» 2/01/2018 10:08:09 PM ALTRAV, That’s a bit rich, coming from someone who has spent their last few posts to me a.....
» 2/01/2018 8:12:44 PM ALTRAV, Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You may understand it better, but th.....
» 2/01/2018 1:56:55 PM ALTRAV, At no point have I assumed a position to dictate anything to anyone. You are maki.....
» 2/01/2018 10:51:50 AM Josephus, Gender theory developed as a framework with which to view the roles of the two .....
» 1/01/2018 11:27:40 PM At no point have I assumed to speak for gay people, ALTRAV. <<… you are the arrogan.....
» 1/01/2018 10:05:07 PM Josephus, Still confused about the difference between sex and gender, I see. <<Hav.....
» 1/01/2018 8:56:36 PM It’s not just my definition, Josephus. It’s THE definition. <<How did psychologists.....
» 1/01/2018 8:56:32 PM Is Mise, An excellent link. Thanks for that. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to have mad.....
» 1/01/2018 5:46:13 PM Is Mise, If there's no hope for release for either inmate, then I don't see what the poin.....
» 1/01/2018 3:41:01 PM ALTRAV, I don't have the time or inclination to educate someone - who is clearly not inte.....
» 31/12/2017 5:01:38 PM No, ALTRAV, I mean since before our ancestors were even human. <<When you say, 'the.....
» 31/12/2017 3:35:16 PM Josephus, While political correctness and embarrassment over the word ‘sex’ have seen ‘se.....
» 31/12/2017 12:28:38 PM That's a fallacious shifting of the burden of proof, Josephus. <<You have no argum.....
» 31/12/2017 11:47:14 AM Well, that was an unfortunate cross-over of posts there, ALTRAV. Right after I explained w.....
» 31/12/2017 11:14:54 AM Josephus, So, apparently unable to respond to anything I said, you instead deflect by swi.....
» 30/12/2017 10:18:43 PM Perhaps they could disallow it in the same way prisoners are not allowed to vote? I have n.....
» 30/12/2017 9:40:17 PM Josephus, You may not hate gay people - there may even be some whom you love - but your d.....
» 29/12/2017 10:14:35 PM By the way, ALTRAV, any time you feel like communicating like a civilised human being with.....
» 29/12/2017 7:40:12 PM As are you, ALTRAV. As are you......
» 29/12/2017 7:23:07 PM Well, I certainly hope I negate everything I rebut, ALTRAV. That WOULD be the hallmark of .....
» 29/12/2017 3:11:06 PM ALTRAV, Since when have I deflected? Deflection is a strange accusation, given that I hav.....
» 29/12/2017 11:26:08 AM ...Continued <<The wrong doing I speak of is the vote for starters …>> I tho.....
» 29/12/2017 11:26:02 AM No, ALTRAV, that's not what I said. <<Well that is what you said? Right?>> .....
» 28/12/2017 11:19:41 PM That's a nice touch, ALTRAV, I like that. <<... don't bother with Paul and his fol.....
» 28/12/2017 10:41:01 PM Interesting, Is Mise. That's not what I got from Josephus’s strange choice of words. <.....
» 28/12/2017 8:13:37 PM Is Mise, No, certainly not entirely. <<Does no one choose a homosexual lifestyle .....
» 28/12/2017 4:37:06 PM Josephus, Homosexuality is a biological sexual reality, so you are still a bigot and a ho.....
» 28/12/2017 11:52:08 AM Yes, ALTRAV, most of the time. <<I do well enough explaining.>> You come up.....
» 27/12/2017 10:12:09 PM ALTRAV, This is an online debating forum. If you say something that is wrong and I rebut .....
» 27/12/2017 3:53:49 PM ALTRAV, Two fallacies in one post. You're not doing too well here. <<Being [gay] i.....
» 25/12/2017 12:23:50 AM No, ALTRAV, it's not funny at all. <<... I don't remember 'arguing' about 116. Funn.....
» 24/12/2017 3:26:59 AM It never ceases to amuse me just how sophisticated the thinking of those Rightists, who wa.....
» 24/12/2017 3:15:39 AM Suddenly lost interest in arguing s 116 of the Constitution, ALTRAV? Funny that......
» 22/12/2017 9:04:34 PM Josephus, Your point about public holidays is why the High Court has typically interprete.....
» 22/12/2017 10:30:34 AM ALTRAV, I have already explained to you why s 116 is not relevant. Your only response was.....
» 22/12/2017 12:47:43 AM So in other words, ALTRAV, you have no idea how same-sex marriage violates s 116 of the Co.....
» 22/12/2017 12:17:47 AM I just thought, ALTRAV, since lawyers apparently have no scruples, how about you approach .....
» 22/12/2017 12:08:01 AM The problem being, ALTRAV, that same-sex marriage doesn't prohibit the free exercise of re.....
» 21/12/2017 10:48:48 PM I have no idea where the double-negative was, ALTRAV. <<I can't argue with double n.....
» 21/12/2017 8:30:20 PM ALTRAV, Section 116 of the Constitution contradicts Josephus’s claim, as you seem to real.....
» 20/12/2017 10:31:49 PM Josephus, Please site the section of the constitution stating that laws must conform to &.....
» 18/12/2017 10:56:12 PM That’s a good question, Is Mise, but probably not for the reason you think it is. <<.....
» 16/12/2017 10:41:09 PM Yuyutsu, When people say "legal", when discussing this topic, they mean "l.....
» 16/12/2017 9:13:52 PM I’m not sure which paragraph you’re referring to, ALTRAV. <<I draw particular atten.....
» 16/12/2017 7:33:10 PM Speak for yourself, ALTRAV. <<To me and others of my persuasion, we 'don't' see a b.....
» 16/12/2017 4:04:14 PM ALTRAV, Are you talking about NAMBLA? Yes, groups like that are disgusting. But comparing.....
» 16/12/2017 1:27:00 PM Josephus, A person as young as 12 is not mentally or emotionally mature enough to give th.....
» 16/12/2017 12:06:29 PM So, Josephus, you think rapists are being unfairly discriminated against and want equality.....
» 13/12/2017 9:28:24 PM Josephus, Yes, I did watch the clip, and at no point does she mention Marxism (or anythin.....
» 13/12/2017 8:57:49 PM ALTRAV, It was more of a piss-take than sarcasm. You’re quite conspiratorially-minded (e......
» 12/12/2017 2:53:25 PM It's aright, ttbn. I've got it. http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2017/12/please-santa-a.....
» 12/12/2017 12:18:22 PM Well, well, well. Looks like someone's getting a little too inquisitive for their own goo.....
» 11/12/2017 4:07:33 PM You can stop being obtuse now, Yuyutsu. It's not clever......
» 9/12/2017 3:38:33 PM Yes, Foxy, if anything good has come from the unnecessary survey, it’s that the opponents .....
» 9/12/2017 2:55:24 PM I'm pleased that my local MP stuck to his word and voted 'yes', despite being against same.....
» 9/12/2017 12:44:47 PM Joe, No, I don’t support “anarchist-fascist tactics of brute force”. The video I linked t.....
» 9/12/2017 11:46:07 AM Joe, It appears you’re now a Milo convert. I’m not sure why you think his arguments are s.....
» 9/12/2017 11:18:32 AM Is Mise, We’ve already been through the alleged miracles at Lordes. (http://forum.onlineo.....
» 7/12/2017 9:50:03 AM I don’t know why that is, Shockadelic. <<Why [are androphilic female-to-male transs.....
» 7/12/2017 1:22:38 AM Shockadelic, If we can agree on this much, then we’re probably wasting each other’s time .....
» 6/12/2017 1:43:39 PM Shockadelic, No, I don’t destroy my own argument. <<… you destroy your argument b.....
» 5/12/2017 8:17:51 PM ttbn, Actually, I would have thought it was people like you who were suffering more from .....
» 5/12/2017 3:19:21 PM Regarding Milo Yiannopoulos and the issue of free speech, I think Matt Dillahunty puts it .....
» 5/12/2017 2:47:57 PM That’s a really dumb analogy, Shockadelic. <<Once upon a time, if someone said they.....
» 5/12/2017 2:01:52 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for the link. It doesn't surprise me that so many big-name conservative.....
» 5/12/2017 1:03:23 PM Well, mhaze, I was wondering how long it would take for someone to happily associate thems.....
» 5/12/2017 11:04:39 AM I think Poe's Law is pertinent where Milo Yiannopoulos is concerned. http://en.wikipedia......
» 5/12/2017 10:40:15 AM I watched a heap of his videos and interviews on his YouTube channel last night, and Cosso.....
» 5/12/2017 10:33:14 AM Is Mise, The fact that it makes no difference why they do what they do suggests that you .....
» 4/12/2017 9:07:05 PM Wow, Is Mise, I can’t believe you just said any of that. Does it make a difference why th.....
» 4/12/2017 7:37:24 PM Well, I’ll answer your question, Is Mise, because I think it’s a very good one. <<I.....
» 4/12/2017 11:36:05 AM That’s right, mhaze. <<Previously you said you looked FORWARD to my discussing it w.....
» 4/12/2017 10:37:39 AM Well, well, well, mhaze. I decided to have a bit of a look for one of these posts which y.....
» 4/12/2017 10:28:32 AM It’s come up quite a few times, mhaze. <<Well when that comes up I'll be happy to a.....
» 3/12/2017 5:09:27 PM mhaze, You’re terrible at sarcasm, but your point is sound enough (which is why I suggest.....
» 3/12/2017 2:04:26 AM Opinionated2, Whether you are ranting or hysterical is irrelevant to what I am saying. Th.....
» 2/12/2017 9:00:41 PM Opinionated2, You are coming across as ranting and hysterical, and it’s not helping your .....
» 2/12/2017 5:35:20 PM Surely you can’t be talking about the Abrahamic god there, Josephus. <<The basic pr.....
» 30/11/2017 11:23:21 PM Opinionated2, So, what religion are you then? <<I am not an Atheist... I just thin.....
» 22/11/2017 7:14:18 AM Big Nana, That sounds like a civil way for same-sex marriage opponents to deal with the s.....
» 20/11/2017 11:07:04 PM I've been hearing this rumour ever since Prince William turned 18. I suspect it is just th.....
» 20/11/2017 5:26:35 PM My sincerest apologies for that, mhaze. <<But there was no asterisk!!>> I ha.....
» 20/11/2017 1:24:15 PM mhaze, Thank you for agreeing with me so emphatically at the start there, while somehow m.....
» 20/11/2017 12:49:25 PM NathanJ, I can see that it's going to be a complete waste of time continuing this. My ar.....
» 20/11/2017 7:00:22 AM NathanJ, You need to read up a bit on jurisprudence. There is the philosophy that a man’s.....
» 19/11/2017 11:13:19 PM No, Is Mise, they wouldn’t. The difference (and I'm sure the law would agree with me here.....
» 19/11/2017 9:33:17 PM NathanJ, I’m not sure what this has to do with my labelling of Yuyutsu’s hypothetical as .....
» 19/11/2017 8:16:20 PM Good question, Leo Lane. <<Why do you think it is safe to assume anything about my .....
» 19/11/2017 6:21:15 PM ttbn, But they're still not the same as marriages. <<Not mentioned because same se.....
» 19/11/2017 4:53:29 PM Thanks, Pis Mise, <<Interesting link(s), PJ; then there is hope for a cure?>>.....
» 19/11/2017 3:10:43 PM mhaze, Sexuality may not be determined by genes alone (and almost certainly not by one ge.....
» 19/11/2017 12:43:37 PM Not_Now.Soon, All creationist arguments appealing to the second law of thermodynamics are.....
» 19/11/2017 11:19:42 AM No response to my alternate scenario then, Yuyutsu? Why am I not surprised? It's always ea.....
» 19/11/2017 8:47:19 AM Yuyutsu, If someone was as sadistic as the customer in your new scenario, the last of my .....
» 19/11/2017 7:26:02 AM Leo Lane, Atheism may be a part of of many philosophies, but it is not a philosophy itsel.....
» 18/11/2017 9:21:48 AM Yes, ALTRAV, I did read you whole response, it was rather disjointed and some of your sent.....
» 18/11/2017 6:12:28 AM Don't worry, ALTRAV, I accept that you are fixated on anal sex. <<Of course I am fi.....
» 17/11/2017 9:43:27 PM ALTRAV writes: "She has all the god given gifts and attributes to pleasure a man no e.....
» 17/11/2017 8:35:12 PM Actually, it doesn't, ALTRAV. <<... [Consummate] means a man and a woman ...>>.....
» 17/11/2017 7:00:48 AM Leo Lane, Atheism is a response to a claim, not a worldview. You apear to be complaining .....
» 15/11/2017 7:49:20 PM ttbn, It doesn’t sound to me like you know what an atheist is, even though you used to be.....
» 15/11/2017 5:58:08 PM Yuyutsu, Once again, you commit the Equivocation fallacy with regards to the definitions .....
» 15/11/2017 3:52:02 PM thinkabit, Personally, I don't think a simple majority is all that should ever be needed......
» 15/11/2017 12:54:11 PM What now? A bill will be introduced and will likely pass both houses. It is simply unthink.....
» 15/11/2017 11:45:16 AM ALTRAV, You sound like a very sick and twisted person. I mean, threatening ‘Yes’ voters w.....
» 14/11/2017 2:05:57 PM Joe, We've been through this five times already. Whether interracial marriages have been .....
» 13/11/2017 11:04:29 PM Yuyutsu, No, The old Mosaic laws of the Old Testament were not just national laws (althou.....
» 13/11/2017 7:54:06 PM Is Mise, Yes, and the Catholic Church is rapidly losing members as a result of its unbend.....
» 13/11/2017 3:13:44 PM rehctub, I have only ever heard or understood the term "marriage equality" to m.....
» 10/11/2017 8:30:14 PM Not_Now.Soon, There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever for a young Earth. I know what e.....
» 10/11/2017 8:29:04 AM Not_Now.Soon, Sorry I haven't replied. I've been a bit too busy lately to give a full res.....
» 7/11/2017 1:46:49 PM That’s one way of putting it, mhaze. <<AJP devotes three lengthy posts trying to ra.....
» 7/11/2017 12:38:37 AM Just for some context, mhaze: ”BS most homosexual choose the lifestyle” (http://forum.onl.....
» 6/11/2017 11:20:33 PM That’s perfectly fine, mhaze. <<I'm writing a 350 word blog post, not something tha.....
» 6/11/2017 11:22:36 AM Joe, Yes, the only gay couple that I know anything about the sexual practices of don’t pr.....
» 6/11/2017 9:42:54 AM Banjo. So, when Joe interprets what you had said as implying that lesbians engage in anal.....
» 5/11/2017 9:28:05 PM I too find Banjo’s claim, that lesbians engage in anal play more than heterosexual women, .....
» 4/11/2017 4:42:32 PM Just for your benefit, mhaze, here's that initial, allegedly-o-so embarrassing discussion .....
» 4/11/2017 3:32:25 PM runner, Whether I believe the Bible, or accept it as authoritative, is irrelevant. The fa.....
» 4/11/2017 2:47:33 PM Found the time and bandwidth to dig yourself in even deeper I see, mhaze. I guess you can'.....
» 4/11/2017 8:46:29 AM Of course you don’t, mhaze. <<I have no intention on wasting any more time or bandw.....
» 2/11/2017 10:11:40 PM mhaze, Since you have such a poor memory, and are apparently incapable of clicking links .....
» 2/11/2017 10:04:50 PM Oh, runner. How you so often forget Matthew 5:21! "... but whosoever shall say, &quo.....
» 2/11/2017 5:17:27 PM Joe, I don't give a frog's fat arse whether the British considered the aborigines to be p.....
» 2/11/2017 3:32:33 PM mhaze, Only it wasn’t an error, and I demonstrated that with a scan of my source which yo.....
» 2/11/2017 3:32:28 PM Shadow Minister, For myself (and many others), the argument for same-sex marriage is fund.....
» 2/11/2017 12:43:59 PM That's cute, mhaze. <<... do you really want to go there after being so badly burne.....
» 2/11/2017 6:56:39 AM Josephus, Ben Shapiro’s argument in that video you linked to was dumb. He relies on the s.....
» 1/11/2017 5:00:22 PM mhaze, A bold return after the porky pies you were caught-out telling a few weeks ago. We.....
» 1/11/2017 7:54:36 AM That’s some really poor reasoning there, Josephus. <<SSM agenda has nothing to do w.....
» 31/10/2017 6:33:36 PM Aidan, Your question is a red herring. But, since you asked, if the benefits of recognisi.....
» 31/10/2017 5:21:45 PM Aidan, Actually, I think it is also about the children. The children of gay couples deser.....
» 31/10/2017 4:58:03 PM Joe, Yes, the belief in gods had a beneficial evolutionary role, but it has mostly outgro.....
» 31/10/2017 1:34:31 PM ttbn, How about you tell us? Because it certainly wasn't your god or Christianity. <.....
» 30/10/2017 5:37:28 PM If homophobia is the reason for a stance against same-sex marriage (and it virtually alway.....
» 29/10/2017 4:49:22 PM …Continued <<… you hold the idea of God existing to a higher standard of scrutiny t.....
» 29/10/2017 4:49:18 PM Not_Now.Soon, I would be fascinated to hear how the teachings of Jesus negate the fact th.....
» 27/10/2017 4:47:02 PM …Continued <<[The existence of evil is] a testament to the powers and authorities t.....
» 27/10/2017 4:46:57 PM Not_Now.Soon, I understand that you believe that your coma experience was the result of a.....
» 26/10/2017 3:37:17 PM Armchair Critic asks: “Did it sound like I was joking?” That can be difficult to tell. h.....
» 25/10/2017 7:20:46 PM …Continued <<With the amount of events chalked up to co-incidence so far, I'd think.....
» 25/10/2017 7:20:43 PM Not_Now.Soon, Regarding your first experience, I spoke only of the MRI because you conced.....
» 25/10/2017 10:42:38 AM ttbn, Yes, Ayn Rand certainly had a point there. The thought that people of different rac.....
» 24/10/2017 10:24:23 PM Big Nana, Your second post addressed to me was actually AlanB, not me. <<Just beca.....
» 24/10/2017 9:57:40 PM …Continued I would also add that it is rather arrogant to assume that the all-powerful cr.....
» 24/10/2017 9:57:37 PM Not_Now.Soon, The results of your MRI might have been highly unusual (unheard of, even), .....
» 24/10/2017 6:01:04 PM I know what you mean, ttbn. <<Ms. Szubanski went on to whinge about wanting the “sa.....
» 24/10/2017 12:52:53 PM Big Nana, Homosexuality is not a denial of science. What a silly thing to say. <<S.....
» 23/10/2017 6:22:36 PM Not_Now.Soon, If an explanation is rational, then is it enough. Period. <<None of .....
» 23/10/2017 9:20:21 AM …Continued <<… but still you reserve an escape of burden through being skeptical.&g.....
» 23/10/2017 9:20:18 AM Correct, Not_Now.Soon. <<In philosophy of logic the burden is placed on the person .....
» 22/10/2017 1:08:01 PM Nicknamenick, You’ve got to be kidding me. Even the most fundamentalist theist concedes t.....
» 22/10/2017 2:55:01 AM Not_Now.Soon, It’s not about being great at debating. Nor is it about mind games. <&l.....
» 21/10/2017 10:54:39 AM …Continued <<This shows a disregard to evidance in general …>> No, it doesn’.....
» 21/10/2017 10:54:35 AM Not_Now.Soon, I’ll happily admit that some of what I say is to trip people up. It is, aft.....
» 20/10/2017 10:48:33 AM Not_Now.Soon, I apologise for the delay in reply. Feel free to ask me as many questions a.....
» 16/10/2017 8:37:29 PM Dear phanto, That was a figure of speech. <<Nobody is outlawing anything.>> .....
» 16/10/2017 7:29:21 PM Dear phanto, The contradictions have always been there, unfortunately. I noted two others.....
» 16/10/2017 4:02:39 PM Dear phanto, I should clarify that when I said, “But still the contradiction remains…”, I.....
» 16/10/2017 2:16:50 PM Dear phanto, <<Futile to you perhaps but not necessarily futile to others who may b.....
» 16/10/2017 1:05:45 PM Dear phanto, I thank you for the clarification. A contradiction still remains, however, a.....
» 16/10/2017 11:53:34 AM Dear phanto, <<What makes you think I am avoiding an explanation? Where is the evid.....
» 16/10/2017 10:22:42 AM Dear phanto, <<But I don’t need to explain [how an objective interpretation of you.....
» 15/10/2017 6:21:24 PM Dear phanto, This may very well be the case. <<But I don’t care what you believe a.....
» 15/10/2017 4:58:03 PM Dear phanto, Not quite, as there were other possibilities that you had overlooked in your.....
» 15/10/2017 4:36:03 PM What do you mean by “ugh”, diver dan? <<Ug….We meet again.>> You’re the one .....
» 15/10/2017 10:59:44 AM Not_Now.Soon, Quoting Scripture is ineffective on anyone who is not lost and in desperate.....
» 15/10/2017 10:43:57 AM Dear phanto, I think we may be closing in on a common theme and problem in your reasoning.....
» 15/10/2017 8:51:55 AM Dear phanto, It is indeed a shame that you will not be explaining how an objective interp.....
» 14/10/2017 11:46:20 PM Armchair Critic, I apologise for being so dismissive of you in my last two posts, but I t.....
» 14/10/2017 6:47:35 PM Armchair Critic, Clearly you don't know what an agnostic is. I explained it at http://for.....
» 14/10/2017 6:39:57 PM Dear phanto, If you doubt the truthfulness of my words, then please state how an objectiv.....
» 14/10/2017 6:31:55 PM Dear phanto, I am pleased to inform you that my post was not a cry for help. I thank you .....
» 14/10/2017 6:11:10 PM Dear phanto, Could you kindly remind me of the time I requested help from from the women .....
» 13/10/2017 11:07:58 PM Of course, I meant my cousins on Facebook, not OLO. Sorry, that must have been confusing......
» 13/10/2017 11:05:15 PM Not_Now.Soon, I’m doing the best I can with the limited words we’re afforded. Rationing p.....
» 12/10/2017 10:30:44 PM Good point, Shadow Minister. <<When you say the anti-vax movement is becoming a dom.....
» 12/10/2017 9:18:10 PM ttbn writes: "There has never been anything in any of runner's posts to suggest that .....
» 12/10/2017 7:19:32 PM Hi Not_Now.Soon. I’m doing well, thank you. Generally speaking, we shouldn’t proclaim som.....
» 12/10/2017 8:05:27 AM Not_Now.Soon, I think it’s sad that you believe that no-one is good. I think there are a .....
» 11/10/2017 11:42:52 PM Absolutely spot on, Cossomby. Thanks for that. I, too, tend only to comment on topics tha.....
» 11/10/2017 3:17:11 PM runner, No, there are far too many anti-vaxxers for them to be witnesses to the excruciat.....
» 11/10/2017 2:55:28 PM Shadow Minister, If you can write off the groundswell of anti-vaccine sentiment on the Ri.....
» 11/10/2017 10:08:36 AM diver dan, I don’t think there’s anything particularly blokey about the actual format of .....
» 10/10/2017 9:58:43 PM Yes, Toni Lavis, it's becoming known as "crank magnetism": http://rationalwiki......
» 10/10/2017 8:52:47 PM Thanks for that, leoj. -- Armchair Critic, No, the Washington Post is not good enough f.....
» 10/10/2017 7:38:07 PM What fascinates me the most about this non-debate regarding vaccines, is that it is fast b.....
» 7/10/2017 9:27:21 PM Jayb writes: "All this assumes that there is a God to start with." Precisely! A.....
» 6/10/2017 6:55:54 PM Not_Now.Soon, Yes, we did have a lengthy discussion. However, you were unable to counter .....
» 6/10/2017 3:55:59 PM Not_Now.Soon, What makes you think atheists are missing something and need to “open their.....
» 4/10/2017 12:59:57 PM Oh, okay. Thanks for that, Cossomby. I never realised that even semi-automatics could pres.....
» 4/10/2017 12:16:36 PM Wow! I obviously don't understand what an automatic weapon is then. I always thought an a.....
» 4/10/2017 11:17:56 AM Is Mise, Clearly you haven't seen the footage of the massacre then. <<I doubt that.....
» 1/10/2017 1:04:53 AM Yeah, I'm starting to think these "haters of religion", who want to make religio.....
» 30/09/2017 10:52:45 PM I’d be fascinated to know how I do that, ALTRAV. <<… again you leave yourself open .....
» 30/09/2017 10:08:36 PM ALTRAV, Yes, I can tell a lot by the apparent mood of your comments. There appears to be .....
» 30/09/2017 4:04:04 PM ALTRAV, Again with the anger and hatred? I cannot imagine what has happened to you to mak.....
» 30/09/2017 8:44:27 AM Paul1405, If I were to be brutally honest with myself, then I would admit that I was alwa.....
» 30/09/2017 7:49:38 AM Well, I just received one of these calls and I am incensed. I was going to vote ‘no’, but .....
» 29/09/2017 7:40:13 AM Bernadi’s decision to do the robocalls is a strange move given all the feigned outrage ove.....
» 29/09/2017 7:29:23 AM Armchair Critic, In his book, The Selfish Gene (1976), Richard Dawkins coined the word ‘m.....
» 28/09/2017 7:10:23 PM Of course, the difference being, Shockadelic, that the de facto parents have the option of.....
» 28/09/2017 5:22:56 PM Yes, runner. Yes. That was totally it. <<yeah not nice when people see straight thr.....
» 28/09/2017 3:12:42 PM Is Mise, I’m not sure what to say to that. That would indeed result in reduced societal h.....
» 27/09/2017 8:29:50 PM Sorry, Philip S, but that was nothing like what I had typed up before. I note with intere.....
» 27/09/2017 7:50:58 PM Philips S, So, you don't deserve a considered response either? Thanks for warning me. Any.....
» 27/09/2017 3:48:52 PM Oh... Hi runner. Sorry, I had this lengthy and considered response typed up for Philip S,.....
» 27/09/2017 3:03:40 PM More radical NO voters. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-25/same-sex-marriage-swastika-.....
» 27/09/2017 5:41:32 AM Shockadelic, There’s not much I could add to what Toni Lavis has said. In short, your pla.....
» 26/09/2017 2:37:20 PM Dear phanto, Arrogance is the exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities. &l.....
» 26/09/2017 12:08:19 PM Dear phanto, That has traditionally been one of the premises behind marriage, at least. .....
» 26/09/2017 10:38:17 AM Dear phanto, <<… why would you assume that they would be offensive to me?>> .....
» 26/09/2017 8:09:55 AM Shockadelic, Policing is about more than just responding to crimes. Policing is also abou.....
» 26/09/2017 7:14:42 AM Dear phanto, <<What makes you think you caused me any offence?>> Your statin.....
» 26/09/2017 5:47:09 AM Is Mise, It’s no wonder the Catholic Church doesn’t need thousands of denominations if th.....
» 26/09/2017 5:03:02 AM Graham, What Rusty Catheter said. There is a big difference between de facto relationship.....
» 25/09/2017 6:01:50 PM Dear phanto, I apologise for any offense I may have caused you. <<This is deeply o.....
» 25/09/2017 1:56:58 PM Dear phanto, Thank you for the discussion. I feel we made more ground by maintaining civi.....
» 25/09/2017 1:17:33 PM NathanJ, I’m not entirely sure what the relevance was of the first few paragraphs there, .....
» 25/09/2017 12:58:44 PM Dear phanto, I am not sure how your good self could derive such a question from what I ha.....
» 25/09/2017 11:41:10 AM Dear phanto, The problem with this suggestion of yours is that it removes any element of .....
» 25/09/2017 11:29:27 AM Yes, Big Nana, we do indeed discriminate all the time. But we do this when there is a good.....
» 25/09/2017 9:50:18 AM Dear phanto, I am not sure how else it could be done. <<Why should government righ.....
» 25/09/2017 9:06:04 AM Dear phanto, I was not aware that I had provided much of a definition of ‘de facto’. <.....
» 25/09/2017 8:14:51 AM Dear phanto, Well, it is not always going to be the case that the relationships to which .....
» 25/09/2017 7:07:58 AM Dear phanto, I believe I had provided a reason for this in my last post to you. <<.....
» 25/09/2017 5:40:35 AM For the sake of argument at least, Not_Now.Soon, yes. <<You say you've conceded tha.....
» 24/09/2017 7:15:47 PM Yes, Is Mise, but contraception is not 100% effective. <<... the requirements again.....
» 24/09/2017 11:52:38 AM Is Mise, I have already granted that a foetus has a right to life, but there is still the.....
» 24/09/2017 10:53:33 AM Dear phanto, A good reason as to why the same benefits should not be available to de fact.....
» 24/09/2017 10:39:41 AM Dear ttbn, I am afraid you have never shown good cause to put me in such a loathed catego.....
» 24/09/2017 9:34:39 AM Paul1405, There is no need to read the minds of the past. Readings and debates are docume.....
» 24/09/2017 4:03:13 AM Is Mise, Yes, the unborn human child has the right to use the body it was conceived in, b.....
» 23/09/2017 6:05:42 PM Big Nana, Of course there are women who have abortions because they (and their partners) .....
» 23/09/2017 11:34:41 AM It's really quite simple, Big Nana. <<I don't know how anyone can compare a pregnan.....
» 23/09/2017 9:29:41 AM Dear ttbn, The reason the cases are being put before the High Court is because the intend.....
» 23/09/2017 5:32:34 AM Not_Now.Soon, I don’t think there are any word games being played here. The semantical di.....
» 22/09/2017 7:23:10 PM Dear phanto, Your definition of the word 'fallacy' is correct. At least where logic speci.....
» 22/09/2017 4:43:50 PM Not_Now.Soon, This debate IS about a woman’s reproductive rights. More fundamentally, it .....
» 22/09/2017 2:37:46 PM Dear phanto, An excellent follow up question. I thank you for it. Prima facie, there is n.....
» 22/09/2017 11:16:23 AM Dear phanto, Yes, it was a tit-for-tat of sorts, and I have explained my actions twice no.....
» 22/09/2017 10:32:23 AM Dear phanto, No, it has nothing to do with who the individual is. In no way did I imply t.....
» 22/09/2017 9:22:44 AM Dear phanto, What makes you think I “needed” to point out that incident? That incident oc.....
» 22/09/2017 8:36:21 AM I’m sure we can all find examples of undesirable behaviour to commit the Association falla.....
» 22/09/2017 8:05:26 AM Reliable stuff there, ttbn. Those results are hardly surprising given the demographic of .....
» 20/09/2017 5:07:10 PM Dear phanto, My mockery was most appropriate given the sheer dishonesty of that line, whi.....
» 20/09/2017 3:40:32 PM Actually, I think that one deserves its own meme: http://i.imgur.com/6rJ3EnF.jpg.....
» 20/09/2017 3:13:45 PM Or, Toni Lavis, my favourite one that's become popular of late: "I was going to vote.....
» 20/09/2017 7:10:51 AM Of course, that should be, "Marriage is not a humble request ..." My apologies......
» 20/09/2017 6:53:18 AM Dear phanto, Marriage is not a humble requestion for rights from a leviathan of sorts. Ra.....
» 19/09/2017 6:02:39 PM I would mostly agree with that, Armchair Critic. <<I think the SSM vote is all show.....
» 19/09/2017 2:16:26 PM I would have thought that was rather obvious, SAINTS. <<So what's your point?>&g.....
» 19/09/2017 1:39:42 PM Looks like the panic is really starting to set in. And this from the mob who were so sure .....
» 18/09/2017 8:41:40 PM Why would that be "interesting", SAINTS? <<So no response to my latest po.....
» 18/09/2017 7:02:45 PM Dear phanto, All we can do is take each person as they come. If your positions in debate .....
» 18/09/2017 6:26:48 PM Dear phanto, It is rather unfortunate that you appear to have resorted to accusing others.....
» 18/09/2017 5:09:44 PM Dear phanto, It is most unfortunate that you have declined my request for further informa.....
» 18/09/2017 3:55:27 PM Dear phanto, As I am not aware of any downsides to having the government involved in the .....
» 18/09/2017 3:07:05 PM Dear phanto, I fear you may have presented us with another false dilemma. There is a thir.....
» 17/09/2017 8:58:24 PM Dear Leo Lane, In that case, yes, I am only talking about possibilities. <<We are .....
» 17/09/2017 8:10:32 AM Dear Leo Lane, My sincerest apologies for the typo in your name in my last post. It was m.....
» 16/09/2017 9:19:29 PM Dear Leo Lan, Indeed I do, and indeed I would be appreciative if you could do so, too. &.....
» 15/09/2017 8:53:52 AM Joe, How is the biological sex of the parties fatal to the analogy? How does that negate .....
» 15/09/2017 4:26:05 AM Dear Leo Lane, I am afraid you had not reported the situation accurately, my friend. <.....
» 14/09/2017 2:47:57 PM Actually, Joe, I don’t know it. <<Incredibly weak arguments there, and i think you .....
» 14/09/2017 1:34:11 PM Dear phanto, My sincerest apologies for the clumsy wording. I hope you will forgive me. .....
» 14/09/2017 12:35:34 PM Dear phanto, Your apparent eagerness to engage in communication with me raises my levels .....
» 14/09/2017 11:28:03 AM Yes, leoj, you read that correctly: homophobia. If the gay opponents of same-sex marriage.....
» 14/09/2017 10:21:55 AM Joe, I’m not sure why you have a problem comparing opposition to same-sex marriage with o.....
» 13/09/2017 6:23:06 PM O’ come now, dear phanto. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of jolly banter to lighten the.....
» 13/09/2017 4:51:31 PM Dear phanto, I again appear to have failed in conveying my precise intentions here. Perha.....
» 13/09/2017 7:29:01 AM Dear phanto, That would depend on what one was attempting to change. However, change has .....
» 12/09/2017 11:37:35 AM Dear phanto, I fear there may be some confusion here as to whom my comment was directed. .....
» 12/09/2017 10:07:07 AM Dear phanto, I am apologising because my second-last post ended with the suggestion that .....
» 12/09/2017 8:45:30 AM Sorry, phanto, but I can’t let this gem go unaddressed. <<You have exposed yourself.....
» 12/09/2017 7:20:30 AM At no point have I been evasive, phanto. <<I am no longer going to indulge your “wh.....
» 11/09/2017 8:33:57 AM Sure, phanto. <<Perhaps you could enlighten me ...>> The relevance was that .....
» 11/09/2017 2:58:49 AM I know you didn’t, phanto. <<I didn’t ask you about your patience and perseverance .....
» 11/09/2017 1:10:37 AM Correct, phanto. <<You said that you enjoy discrediting nonsense.>> Others o.....
» 10/09/2017 9:54:21 AM So you’re just going to claim that I’m lying now, phanto? That's desperate. <<No yo.....
» 10/09/2017 8:24:51 AM Because I enjoy it, phanto. <<Why would you bother to discredit nonsense?>> .....
» 9/09/2017 10:45:33 PM Yuyutsu, That’s the Etymological fallacy. <<The recent new use of 'gay' was simila.....
» 9/09/2017 8:09:13 PM No, it doesn’t, Leo Lane. <<Does this mean that when your lies and nonsense don’t w.....
» 8/09/2017 11:50:53 AM Wow, that was a painful wait with OLO deciding to switch to Greenwich mean time for some r.....
» 8/09/2017 2:58:09 AM That’s not a good reason to vote ‘no’, Shockadelic. <<Just as courts sometimes give.....
» 8/09/2017 1:28:41 AM OzSpen, No amount of historical accuracy in the Bible (and there isn't much) can justify .....
» 7/09/2017 11:17:23 PM They don’t count for two reasons, Is Mise. <<What about the status and dignity of h.....
» 7/09/2017 12:40:50 PM Ah, the fallacious ad hominem. It’s always your last resort, isn’t it phanto? <<It .....
» 7/09/2017 11:13:55 AM Good point, phanto. <<A will is not an agreement between two people … This means th.....
» 7/09/2017 10:05:24 AM I know, phanto. <<The laws in regard to wills and contracts apply to everyone …>.....
» 7/09/2017 9:01:53 AM phanto, We’ve been through this many times before. I suggest you go back and re-read some.....
» 6/09/2017 2:39:55 PM It appears you're right, David. http://aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/who-abuses-children .....
» 6/09/2017 12:00:45 PM My thoughts exactly, Foxy. Such talk is not indicative of someone who is willing to engag.....
» 6/09/2017 10:29:21 AM A good article this week on the psychology of anti-vaxxers: http://www.thesaturdaypaper.c.....
» 6/09/2017 10:04:03 AM No, it’s not a matter of numbers at all, Shockadelic. <<So it's a matter of numbers.....
» 5/09/2017 9:23:39 PM I am, SAINTS. <<Is anyone watching this?>> So, if a bunch of ratbags behave .....
» 5/09/2017 5:51:58 PM I have addressed equality many times before on OLO, Shockadelic. I’m sorry you missed it. .....
» 5/09/2017 11:28:15 AM Two major problems with the article: First, the author sets up a strawman (which I don’t .....
» 4/09/2017 6:08:55 PM Dustin, You feel the ‘US law’ line was wearing a bit thin there, did you? Yeah, I don’t b.....
» 4/09/2017 2:48:42 PM That they do, Dustin. <<The words describe different and discreet concepts.>>.....
» 4/09/2017 2:10:58 PM No, I don’t, Cupric Embarrasment. <<If you want to dismiss the concerns of those ag.....
» 4/09/2017 11:49:37 AM I didn’t think you’d be gone very long, Dustin. <<1. You don’t know (or won’t ackno.....
» 4/09/2017 10:02:58 AM Josephus, Do you have a link to this article? -- Suggesting that polygamy or incestuous.....
» 4/09/2017 6:45:12 AM So, in other words, Dustin, you cannot provide an example. <<You know full well tha.....
» 3/09/2017 9:59:15 PM Oh, so you were referring specifically “perverts” that time, Leo Lane? <<Where in t.....
» 3/09/2017 9:45:47 PM Actually, you did, Dustin. <<I didn’t say it was a problem.>> If it is a jus.....
» 3/09/2017 7:18:48 PM NathanJ, On the contrary, an inevitable reduction in the suicide rate within the gay comm.....
» 3/09/2017 6:44:08 PM Not necessarily, Jayb. <<You are admitting that the Left is full of BS & Violence.&.....
» 3/09/2017 3:22:15 PM Dustin, So, you agree that my question needs to be answered first, <<I would have .....
» 3/09/2017 2:07:20 PM Dustin, Before one even gets to that question, one should ask why gay people need to brin.....
» 3/09/2017 12:08:34 PM Actually, Not_Now.Soon, I should note that when we get down to a quantum level, our logic .....
» 3/09/2017 11:40:09 AM I’m mostly happy to leave it there, Not_Now.Soon. However, there are two points which I ca.....
» 3/09/2017 11:34:26 AM Two wrongs don't make a right, Jayb......
» 3/09/2017 10:56:37 AM Jayb, It is unfair to judge an entire group based on what some do. Whether the facts are .....
» 3/09/2017 10:52:08 AM Big Nana, You are oversimplifying what the research says, and overextending it to lesbian.....
» 2/09/2017 10:49:34 AM No, Leo Lane, that was an assertion. <<No, I demolished his nonsense about “equalit.....
» 2/09/2017 8:49:01 AM ...Continued <<He will allow us to pray before answering the prayer in the way He h.....
» 2/09/2017 8:48:57 AM ...Continued <<But the more explanations you need to explain away an experience, th.....
» 2/09/2017 8:48:53 AM Yes, Not_Now.Soon, to some degree. <<When evidance doesn't match up our understandi.....
» 2/09/2017 7:14:05 AM I’ve already noted some reasons why marriage promotes stability, leoj. <<If you rec.....
» 1/09/2017 7:21:26 PM Shockadelic, Why is equality a questionable justification for anything? <<Why aren.....
» 1/09/2017 4:47:31 PM leoj, That you think the fact that relationships need to be actively worked negates my cl.....
» 1/09/2017 11:43:34 AM leoj, There's difference between promoting something and remedying it. Even if marriage d.....
» 1/09/2017 8:52:19 AM Not_Now.Soon, To prevent any possible confusion, I should inform you that Yuyutsu sometim.....
» 1/09/2017 7:15:18 AM Thanks for the link, Big Nana. Two interesting points I noted: firstly, it doesn’t includ.....
» 1/09/2017 6:56:52 AM Nice try, Leo Lane. <<Phillips, did you really mistake my statements of fact for re.....
» 31/08/2017 8:46:40 PM That the ‘murder’ comment could have been referring to the suicide rate within the gay com.....
» 31/08/2017 8:22:50 PM Dear Foxy, Interesting, and here I was thinking that the problem only really lay with mal.....
» 31/08/2017 6:21:16 PM ALTRAV, Are you saying that we’re just going to have to trust you that there was a point .....
» 31/08/2017 12:42:01 PM This side-steps my question, Shockadelic. <<... boys don't wear dresses to school f.....
» 31/08/2017 12:26:02 PM No, Cupric Embarrasment, it doesn’t? <<Does sociology 101 replace microbiology 101?.....
» 31/08/2017 12:01:46 PM Cupric Embarrasment, They can, and are doing so, with the help of a third party. Do I rea.....
» 31/08/2017 11:32:16 AM I didn’t realise that was an assumption held by anyone, Big Nana. <<Firstly, why do.....
» 31/08/2017 10:26:44 AM Yes, it appears that red herrings such as religious freedom and Safe Schools are being app.....
» 31/08/2017 9:18:13 AM Back to name-calling, eh Leo Lane? It's always a sure sign of desperation in you. <<.....
» 31/08/2017 7:13:06 AM ...Continued <<On the one hand I've already explained that pure rational is weaker .....
» 31/08/2017 7:13:02 AM Your conclusions are incorrect, Not_Now.Soon. <<1) that you hold philosophical argu.....
» 30/08/2017 11:17:43 PM ALTRAV, So, you’re just going to dig your heals in and play the wounded deer card? Claim .....
» 30/08/2017 6:32:12 PM mememememememe, Ultimately, where most opponents are concerned, you’re probably right abo.....
» 30/08/2017 4:34:17 PM Well, they are at least in favour of marriage equality, ALTRAV. <<You quoted a stud.....
» 30/08/2017 3:47:03 PM Yeah, what Yuyutsu said. Gay couples are already having children. Same-sex marriage isn't .....
» 30/08/2017 3:35:43 PM Sounds more to me like hyperbole than abuse. Anyone who feels hurt or offended by such an .....
» 30/08/2017 2:18:58 PM Shockadelic, Yes, to varying degrees, readiness may be a useful consideration to factor i.....
» 30/08/2017 9:57:20 AM runner, If you could point to a single lie I've told, I'd be happy to explain myself. *C.....
» 30/08/2017 6:11:31 AM I’m sorry, Not_Now.Soon, but when you brush them off as mere muck, you don’t. <<I u.....
» 30/08/2017 5:48:42 AM Leo Lane, You are yet to demonstrated that it is either baseless or idiotic. <<Phi.....
» 29/08/2017 8:37:34 PM Interesting point about people not even knowing what they're voting for, Toni Lavis. That'.....
» 29/08/2017 5:58:52 PM I haven’t claimed that they don’t, Shockadelic. <<… you do not address *why* these .....
» 29/08/2017 5:18:59 PM Josephus, Two fallacies in one simple statement. You can’t get much more fallacious that .....
» 29/08/2017 4:07:58 PM Joe, Try not to take my descriptions of your arguments as comments on who you are as a pe.....
» 29/08/2017 1:45:00 PM Not_Now.Soon, I’m still not sure you’re understanding the issue. <<He can answer a.....
» 29/08/2017 11:00:10 AM Leo Lane, Perhaps some sound reasoning or evidence would help? <<How many more tim.....
» 29/08/2017 10:42:08 AM Not_Now.Soon, We can come up with many reasons as to why it might be better to abstain fr.....
» 29/08/2017 8:34:42 AM …Continued The most reliable way we can determine what our experiences mean, however, is .....
» 29/08/2017 8:34:38 AM Not_Now.Soon, I’m not sure you’re understanding the paradoxical issues surrounding prayer.....
» 28/08/2017 9:02:55 AM You are yet to demonstrate that gay people are perverts, Leo Lane. <<Right, and [ga.....
» 28/08/2017 7:54:36 AM …Continued <<I give you this swath of a discription so you can order stand how dece.....
» 28/08/2017 7:54:32 AM That’s correct, Not_Now.Soon. <<You've said you've had all the simular experiences .....
» 28/08/2017 7:43:56 AM Not_Now.Soon, They can also inspire a lot of needless feelings of guilt when one gives in.....
» 27/08/2017 11:08:58 PM Not if the alteration you make is dishonest, Leo Lane. <<Yes, so if I want to edit .....
» 27/08/2017 7:02:56 PM Not_Now.Soon, Sexuality is a common facet of humanity which religions often use to inspir.....
» 27/08/2017 3:27:34 PM …Continued Even if you could rule out all the other more rational explanations, though, a.....
» 27/08/2017 3:27:30 PM No, I don’t know what it would take to convince me, Not_Now.Soon. <<You say God wou.....
» 27/08/2017 7:41:40 AM …Continued <<I believe in God, the God.>> This sidesteps my question. Unless.....
» 27/08/2017 7:41:36 AM Not_Now.Soon, Yes, but you’re assuming that it is indeed evidence of a god. <<… i.....
» 26/08/2017 10:27:54 PM That’s a point, Dustin. <<Another way to look at is that, because it’s purely volun.....
» 26/08/2017 9:57:25 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, I’m aware of the immense groundswell and movement around the ‘Yes’ camp. .....
» 26/08/2017 4:35:15 PM Of course, ” is a closing quotation mark. http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%26%231.....
» 26/08/2017 4:22:03 PM I wouldn’t be pinning too much on this vote, Foxy. Certainly not enough to refer to it as .....
» 26/08/2017 4:14:36 PM Leo Lane, Nice attempt at conjuring up alleged instance of hypocrisy on my part. You even.....
» 26/08/2017 8:52:57 AM Oh, I think I know which question you’re referring to now, Leo Lane. <<Reminiscent .....
» 26/08/2017 7:33:01 AM Back to name-calling I see, Leo Lane. <<Reminiscent of when the village idiot accus.....
» 26/08/2017 7:15:21 AM Okay, Not_Now.Soon, I see what you meant now. <<… you complimented me on knowing th.....
» 26/08/2017 6:50:22 AM A couple of clarifications to last night’s late rush-job of a post, Armchair Critic. Firs.....
» 26/08/2017 12:49:29 AM That’s true, Armchair Critic. <<I did address your other argument as well if you go.....
» 25/08/2017 11:20:19 PM Sorry, Armchair Critic. I forgot to address your 'bacon' analogy earlier. I take full resp.....
» 25/08/2017 9:41:47 PM Armchair Critic, I’m sorry I haven’t been taking your word for it that you are willing to.....
» 25/08/2017 8:43:49 PM Belittle another, Not_Now.Soon? <<Don't compliment me while at the same time belitt.....
» 25/08/2017 7:37:01 PM It’s alright, Foxy, the topic of anal sex only just crept back in after Armchair Critic’s .....
» 25/08/2017 7:10:45 PM Once again, Armchair Critic, Safe Schools is a completely separate issue. <<You did.....
» 25/08/2017 9:15:32 AM Yes, it certainly looks like Canavan and the nutcase Roberts are as good as gone. While t.....
» 25/08/2017 7:18:43 AM Not_Now.Soon, Matthew 5:28 was actually one of the verses I had in mind when I mentioned .....
» 25/08/2017 12:12:16 AM Leo Lane, Do you think that if you just keep repeating the words ‘nonsense’ and ‘lies’ th.....
» 24/08/2017 8:26:02 PM leoj, Firstly, I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that it is impossible for paedophil.....
» 24/08/2017 6:13:59 PM Damn, Armchair Critic, it appears our posts crossed over, because I just presented you wit.....
» 24/08/2017 5:57:34 PM Ooo, ooo, can I answer this? runner asks: “would you argue that a [paedophile] being attr.....
» 24/08/2017 5:30:23 PM Armchair Critic, After reading Toni Lavis’s post, I’m no longer sure that my interpretat.....
» 24/08/2017 4:21:00 PM Armchair Critic, Firstly, I have never seen anyone argue 'change for the sake of change'......
» 24/08/2017 2:07:49 PM Actually, Armchair Critic, I’ve been giving your point about protection from legal action .....
» 24/08/2017 8:34:27 AM Not from my observations, ALTRAV. <<[The YES side] only give anecdotal comments abo.....
» 24/08/2017 7:44:22 AM Dustin, The problem is that what you said bore virtually no relevance to what I said. It .....
» 23/08/2017 9:00:04 PM At no point did I claim that they didn’t, Bazz. <<I do not think that there is any .....
» 23/08/2017 6:14:50 PM ttbn writes: “I have to confess to knowing only three homosexuals (they are not particular.....
» 23/08/2017 4:24:26 PM Dustin, I have no idea what the relevance is of any of that to what you had quoted of me......
» 23/08/2017 12:51:44 PM Really, ALTRAV? <<I am not going to respond to your questions because I have done s.....
» 23/08/2017 11:07:09 AM Thanks for sharing your experiences, Not_Now.Soon. Our suspicions were right, I don’t find.....
» 23/08/2017 10:48:45 AM What do you mean by “but”, Armchair Critic? <<Well I won't support the Christian lo.....
» 23/08/2017 9:54:26 AM Not usually, Armchair Critic. <<Do you speak out about Muslims in the street now?&g.....
» 23/08/2017 8:50:44 AM Armchair Critic, You make it sound like there’s some sort of a double-standard there. &l.....
» 23/08/2017 6:33:01 AM ALTRAV, That depends on what you want to convey. <<I have explained myself clearly.....
» 22/08/2017 10:46:28 PM I’m not gay, ALTRAV. <<if I am a 'hateful person' it is because you and your lot ha.....
» 22/08/2017 8:55:42 PM Joe, The idea that people who do not care should vote 'no' is dumb. If there are people w.....
» 22/08/2017 8:35:40 PM Well, I'm still curious as to why same-sex couples aren't eligible to marry, but it appear.....
» 19/08/2017 11:17:12 PM So I take it then, Dustin, that you have no evidence for your claims that I don't understa.....
» 19/08/2017 2:49:24 PM Erm, no, Dustin. <<Here’s your cite again, to remind you: …>> The purpose of.....
» 19/08/2017 2:03:11 PM Dustin, A fat lot of good that would do. <<I’d refer you back to discussions with .....
» 19/08/2017 11:56:31 AM A lot of people, Joe. Why should they not care?.....
» 19/08/2017 12:54:43 AM mhaze, I’m usually happy to leave ‘well enough’ alone. But for over a year now, you have .....
» 18/08/2017 9:28:34 PM Actually, mhaze, on second thoughts, this wasn’t quite right: <<A few months ago yo.....
» 18/08/2017 7:47:47 PM Haha. Nice try, mhaze. <<Previously you told me that the book had several pages of .....
» 17/08/2017 6:07:09 PM Oh, but I did, mhaze. <<… since you're the one making the astounding assertion … it.....
» 17/08/2017 3:31:58 PM No, Dustin. Had I made a mistake, then I wouldn’t have included the link to the philosophi.....
» 17/08/2017 2:47:18 PM I take it you have evidence against this, mhaze. I’m keen to see it. <<… people who.....
» 17/08/2017 1:50:34 PM I was simply covering my bases, Dustin. <<… your reference leads to the onus of pro.....
» 17/08/2017 11:50:44 AM mhaze, I agree with what you say with regards to ratios and sample sizes. However, given .....
» 17/08/2017 11:00:04 AM Thank you for quoting the definition I linked to, Dustin. <<You think equality is a.....
» 17/08/2017 7:46:10 AM No need to apologise, Not_Now.Soon. <<No one usually likes to be psychoanalized …&g.....
» 17/08/2017 7:12:00 AM No, it’s not sophistry, Dustin. <<Sophistry.>> If the movement doesn’t colle.....
» 16/08/2017 7:03:21 PM You probably wouldn’t find a single sociologist who agreed with that, mhaze. <<My g.....
» 16/08/2017 6:05:27 PM The data still matters, mhaze. <<… the data doesn't matter because, in an issue thi.....
» 16/08/2017 2:10:54 PM Who said I’m denying it, Dustin? <<If you don’t accept the parallel issues commonly.....
» 16/08/2017 11:58:54 AM Josephus, What part of ‘marriage is a social construct’ do you not understand? Do you thi.....
» 16/08/2017 10:44:43 AM And that, folks, is why you should never post a comment using your phone. #Autocorrectfai.....
» 16/08/2017 7:55:27 AM Not_Now.Soon, Your parable isn’t relevant to me. I was a Christians for twenty-something .....
» 16/08/2017 7:14:16 AM Dustin, Just because two words have difference definitions, that doesn’t mean that the co.....
» 15/08/2017 10:57:39 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for the link to the article. No surprises there. Yes, 73 studies out of.....
» 15/08/2017 9:06:08 PM Daffy Duck, As a general rule, I avoid engaging with anti-vaxxers. However, I couldn’t he.....
» 15/08/2017 8:24:37 PM ttbn, Depending on what was discussed during the debates in the 1890s, regarding that pro.....
» 15/08/2017 5:06:53 PM What’s wrong with that, mhaze? <<Here we have a paper with a sample size of 44(!) a.....
» 15/08/2017 3:07:54 PM One other point I’d note, regarding this study that has same-sex marriage opponents wettin.....
» 15/08/2017 11:43:18 AM Big Nana, The methodology used by the articles I linked to directly was sound, as far as .....
» 15/08/2017 10:56:32 AM The thing that I find the most amusing about this whole saga is that conservatives, who al.....
» 15/08/2017 9:52:01 AM Armchair Critic, If you put it into practice by not vaccinating your own children, or spr.....
» 15/08/2017 7:25:33 AM Armchair Critic, You’re right. That is very selfish. <<I'm not gay, and I see no b.....
» 14/08/2017 10:07:12 PM OzSpen, None of your so-called evidence is particularly extraordinary. Certainly not extr.....
» 14/08/2017 9:40:33 PM mhaze, It may be a different standard, but for so long as you cannot provide a justificat.....
» 14/08/2017 9:25:15 PM Banjo, Lucky for you, then, you are in a rapidly shrinking minority there - contrary to y.....
» 14/08/2017 8:40:29 PM Welcome, Not_Now.Soon <<... would any evidance for God do?>> I’d prefer reli.....
» 14/08/2017 2:26:39 PM Sorry, mhaze. I misread this part: <<Marriage is a mechanism to facilitate the best.....
» 14/08/2017 2:14:48 PM But not members of the same sex, mhaze. <<I support interracial marriage between a .....
» 14/08/2017 11:08:02 AM Runner, So in other words, you don’t have any evidence. <<... since when were you .....
» 14/08/2017 10:56:07 AM Any god would do, OzSpen. <<Evidence for the Lord God Almighty who created the heav.....
» 14/08/2017 10:14:32 AM Thanks, Amanda Midlam. We need more articles like this on OLO. The anti-vax movement may n.....
» 14/08/2017 8:08:58 AM ttbn, As I mentioned to mhaze in my last two posts to him, the ‘Won't somebody please thi.....
» 14/08/2017 8:04:59 AM So now I'm in denial, OzSpen? <<You appealed to my ignorance in not knowing the mea.....
» 13/08/2017 10:23:14 PM Banjo, Given that a minority share your bigoted and unjustified beliefs, I wouldn't be to.....
» 13/08/2017 8:40:21 PM So you don't even know what the Argument from Ignorance is then, OzSpen? <<This is .....
» 13/08/2017 5:25:10 PM The word ‘suborned’ has negative connotations, mhaze. <<I didn't say it was a bad t.....
» 13/08/2017 3:10:45 PM Interesting paper there, mhaze. Assuming the claims of the papers to which it refers are .....
» 13/08/2017 2:19:50 PM phanto, What makes you think there's any meaningful difference, in this context? <<.....
» 13/08/2017 10:30:45 AM I already did, ttbn. <<Perhaps you would “care to explain” why the priest is wrong?.....
» 13/08/2017 8:58:37 AM Then again, if there was no suggestion that the priest's position gave him an authority on.....
» 13/08/2017 8:40:37 AM Paul1405, In fairness to ttbn, I’m not sure that he was appealing to the priest as an aut.....
» 13/08/2017 4:53:32 AM ttbn, At no point did I rely on personal opinion. I never do. I provided reasoning as to .....
» 12/08/2017 8:43:03 PM Speaking of homosexuality being taken off the DSM, I remember when I first learned of that.....
» 12/08/2017 5:19:26 PM ttbn, The priest you cite is wrong. Firstly, the case has been made. Equal treatment is t.....
» 12/08/2017 1:59:07 PM …Continued <<Here you've used a Red Herring.>> How is asking for an example .....
» 12/08/2017 1:59:02 PM No, I haven’t used any fallacies, OzSpen. <<Again you have used an Appeal to Ridicu.....
» 12/08/2017 10:21:06 AM Oh, one point of clarification, OzSpen. When I said, “They may be eternal.”, in my post a.....
» 12/08/2017 10:02:13 AM Yes, I’ve heard that from creationists many times before, OzSpen. <<Interpretation .....
» 11/08/2017 11:18:42 PM Somehow I didn’t think you’d take up my challenge there, phanto. Why am I not surprised? .....
» 11/08/2017 6:16:18 PM There you go, mhaze. Is Mise has been kind enough to provide us with an example of precis.....
» 11/08/2017 5:48:11 PM mhaze, How is the changing of the definition of the word ‘gay’, and what the rainbow can .....
» 11/08/2017 10:16:44 AM What’s wrong with the term ‘marriage equality’? Is the ABC boss concerned that he’ll make .....
» 10/08/2017 9:26:33 AM On the contrary, OzSpen, the Bible appears to be terribly inaccurate. <<It's superb.....
» 10/08/2017 8:10:44 AM Welcome to the forum, th1b.taylor. I don’t usually welcome new posters to the forum, beca.....
» 9/08/2017 8:11:33 PM Do you have any evidence for this claim, OzSpen? <<<That's not God's view becau.....
» 9/08/2017 5:57:09 PM Certainly, Bazz. <<democracy is more important than someone getting stressed.>&g.....
» 9/08/2017 4:36:18 PM Yes, Bazz, I am. <<Oh really, you are offering that as a reason not to have a plebi.....
» 9/08/2017 2:19:51 PM How is my response devoid of answers, Bazz? <<Your response is as devoid of real an.....
» 9/08/2017 9:03:01 AM Because that’s so much better, isn’t is OzSpen? <<I think that's a bit unkind to st.....
» 9/08/2017 8:26:01 AM Bazz, No, the opposition is not scared of a plebiscite. All polling since 2004 has shown .....
» 9/08/2017 6:32:02 AM Yuyutsu, Or perhaps we could assume that they are simply doing their jobs by defining wor.....
» 8/08/2017 7:51:13 PM Yes, OzSpen, and the meanings of words are determined by how we use them. Words do not hav.....
» 8/08/2017 3:08:57 PM runner, Thanks for the bogus Teleological argument. That one always draw a little snigger.....
» 4/08/2017 12:10:42 PM Yuyutsu, You benefit from the fact that people are forced to get an education. We all do......
» 1/08/2017 7:10:04 PM I’m afraid mikk’s right, JBSH. When you claim there is no god, you saddle yourself with a .....
» 1/08/2017 7:49:43 AM Alan B. I think I know what you meant now. <<Being able to produce labels, with su.....
» 31/07/2017 11:27:38 PM If you say so, Alan B. <<Being able to produce labels, with surnames attached to th.....
» 31/07/2017 10:15:09 PM diver dan, I've been happily arguing against religious apologetics for years now. Why th.....
» 31/07/2017 6:58:03 PM That's known as Hoyle's fallacy, Alan B. <<... given the varied and massive complex.....
» 30/07/2017 9:18:54 PM …Continued <<What is your evidence it doesn't exist when there are quite clear poin.....
» 30/07/2017 9:18:50 PM At no point have I ever demanded irrefutable evidence, diver dan. <<… what a person.....
» 30/07/2017 10:45:53 AM An interesting mish-mash of fragmented thoughts there, diver dan. Yes, I’m pretty much ov.....
» 29/07/2017 9:39:33 AM On the contrary, diver dan, I would have thought that the lack of an apparent need for fan.....
» 27/07/2017 10:59:22 PM There was no suspicion of hostility in my answer, diver dan. <<....I'm not getting .....
» 26/07/2017 9:14:05 PM I suppose, diver dan. <<Firstly, do you believe the ego is directly tied to conscio.....
» 26/07/2017 6:45:10 PM 100%, mhaze. I guess you can't beat that......
» 26/07/2017 5:47:41 PM I would be against four-year terms for the reasons others here have cited. However, fixing.....
» 26/07/2017 11:44:55 AM It’ll be interesting to see what the High Court determines in Canavan’s case. One thing a.....
» 26/07/2017 9:10:54 AM I think I misread a question of yours, diver dan. <<2. Enlarge on your view of ego......
» 25/07/2017 11:34:04 PM Are you suggesting that I have abandoned my moral standards, diver dan? <<So, in yo.....
» 24/07/2017 10:44:14 PM Sure, diver dan. <<I put a stop on this point until you explain your view on ego.&.....
» 24/07/2017 10:32:43 AM No, I haven’t been overruled at all, diver dan. <<I think you've been overruled on .....
» 23/07/2017 10:02:26 PM diver dan, I’m not under the impression that you’re trying to convince me of anything. Al.....
» 23/07/2017 1:58:40 PM Shadow Minister, I definitely agree that the fines are pure revenue raising. The fact tha.....
» 23/07/2017 11:15:15 AM I was just thinking, diver dan. What about split-brain patients who develop two distinct p.....
» 22/07/2017 11:24:18 PM I’m not sure what you mean there, diver dan. <<… the perception of our individual c.....
» 22/07/2017 9:52:02 AM diver dan, I wouldn't describe our fascination with consciousness as “archaic”. It’s stil.....
» 21/07/2017 8:56:15 PM Thanks for the rephrasing there, diver dan. It’s much appreciated. Normally, I would asso.....
» 21/07/2017 1:01:14 PM Oh, I think I see it now, diver dan! If I squint, cock my head to the side, and hold my t.....
» 21/07/2017 9:46:41 AM diver dan, The question was unclear and I explained in great detail why. Despite this, I.....
» 20/07/2017 10:30:13 PM diver dan, I didn’t realise we were all supposed to answer that question, sorry. I figure.....
» 20/07/2017 8:22:07 PM Scott MacInnes, If you are going to use labels which are already understood by other peop.....
» 20/07/2017 12:25:03 PM ALTRAV, runner’s point was that Muslims are evil, that the ABC is biased, that Christians.....
» 20/07/2017 9:48:43 AM Shadow Minister, That's what I thought, too. But the article I linked to suggests otherwi.....
» 20/07/2017 12:07:21 AM An interesting article on the issue: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-new.....
» 19/07/2017 6:20:21 PM Banjo, In Sue v Hill, it was found by the High Court that Heather Hill had to resign imme.....
» 19/07/2017 4:02:52 PM Or s 44(i), even......
» 19/07/2017 4:01:15 PM On second thoughts, the inclusion of s 41(i) of the Constitution may have had nothing to d.....
» 19/07/2017 2:29:13 PM It sounds like you have a traitor in your ranks there, Paul1405! My father has always bar.....
» 19/07/2017 12:29:18 PM Josephus, Are you seriously claiming that the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred because the.....
» 19/07/2017 8:20:19 AM I found the surprise that Scott Ludlum and Larissa Waters expressed, when they realised th.....
» 18/07/2017 9:47:56 PM You’re right there, ALTRAV. <<Unfortunately it does not matter what any one THINKS .....
» 18/07/2017 2:22:32 PM Not very effectively, in my opinion ALTRAV. <<I say again; if one point can be debu.....
» 18/07/2017 12:54:20 PM Here’s a couple of great peer-reviewed articles on belief in the 9/11 conspiracy theories:.....
» 18/07/2017 11:15:06 AM Yes, really, ALTRAV. <<Popular Mechanics? Really?>> Why? What’s wrong with P.....
» 17/07/2017 9:06:56 PM ALTRAV, None of what you are saying is new to anyone. We've heard it all before, and most.....
» 17/07/2017 11:16:45 AM Another TED talk from Michael Shermer, which is probably more relevant to the 9/11 conspir.....
» 17/07/2017 10:44:47 AM Why people believe weird things: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_str.....
» 17/07/2017 7:02:11 AM I’m not sure a circular argument is any better, diver dan. <<this is not the equivo.....
» 16/07/2017 10:45:08 PM At no point have I suggested anything of the sort, diver dan. <<Of course, using th.....
» 16/07/2017 10:22:50 PM These 9/11 conspiracies are absurd. The amount of people who would had to have been in on.....
» 16/07/2017 7:52:29 PM I presume you're referring specifically to traffic fines, Is Mise. The fixed-fine system .....
» 16/07/2017 2:29:09 PM Back to name-calling, are we Leo Lane? <<The village idiot has again demonstrated t.....
» 14/07/2017 5:36:35 PM diver dan, What passes as moral behaviour can also be an “ever-moving yard-stick”. <&.....
» 14/07/2017 2:48:49 PM I already addressed that, phanto. <<And how do we know your 'evidence' is not also .....
» 14/07/2017 2:05:51 PM Yes, phanto. <<Like I said I think you are lying and that is all I need to know.>.....
» 14/07/2017 1:48:31 PM I knew you’d go there, phanto. <<I think you are lying about it being an 'overwhelm.....
» 14/07/2017 12:06:32 PM Thanks, Dr. phanto. I’ll add that one to the list. <<We should add to that your pat.....
» 14/07/2017 10:26:15 AM So, phanto, you thought you’d take advantage of that, did you? <<You have already a.....
» 14/07/2017 9:46:28 AM And exactly how have I ever done that, phanto? <<My first post was to highlight how.....
» 13/07/2017 11:49:27 AM I see you’re being obtuse again, phanto. <<Who said it is defamation?>> When.....
» 13/07/2017 10:30:36 AM Not entirely, phanto. <<Then you have nothing to worry about do you?>> You s.....
» 13/07/2017 9:13:42 AM phanto, Since when have I ever spoke of my personal experience when it was not relevant t.....
» 13/07/2017 8:36:52 AM Sure, Is Mise. That is, if you can provide a definition of “nod off” which we can all agre.....
» 13/07/2017 8:28:42 AM I thought I could remember you once stating that you were a Christian, diver dan: http://.....
» 12/07/2017 3:12:45 PM No need to apologise, Foxy. Even if you didn’t misunderstand what I had said, it’s an easy.....
» 12/07/2017 11:59:18 AM Dear Foxy, Thanks for the sentiment, but my experience as a Christian was actually pretty.....
» 12/07/2017 9:51:24 AM Again, diver dan? When did I do it before? <<Here you go again AJP, criticising the.....
» 12/07/2017 7:31:43 AM Dr. phanto, That's got to be the most specific amateur diagnosis I have ever seen you giv.....
» 11/07/2017 10:47:47 PM Dear Foxy, I don’t remember too clearly what Durkheim’s thoughts on religion were. I do r.....
» 11/07/2017 5:03:26 PM Well, phanto, you obviously weren't talking about Josephus. I've never shown any bitternes.....
» 11/07/2017 3:33:08 PM phanto, How do you know that Paul’s beef with the Catholic Church is merely “bitterness”,.....
» 11/07/2017 9:20:02 AM I can only assume that Barnaby Joyce was talking about charity work - and that he’s Cathol.....
» 11/07/2017 8:20:16 AM So, you’re just going to resort to ad hominem now, diver dan? <<It is impossible to.....
» 10/07/2017 10:56:21 AM …Continued <<There appears to be an anomaly between the census report and the incre.....
» 10/07/2017 10:56:17 AM diver dan, Your clarification of what you are referring to when you speak of the Christia.....
» 9/07/2017 1:04:24 PM Sorry, diver dan, of course that should be: So, you think the liberal arm of the Christia.....
» 9/07/2017 8:37:42 AM diver dan, So, you think the liberal arm of the Christian Church has failed by being a pa.....
» 7/07/2017 10:55:50 AM Okay then, diver dan. Not gay people. Just the concept of homosexuality. <<I'm not .....
» 6/07/2017 6:39:24 PM How have I shuffled the cards, diver dan? <<Now you shuffle cards!>> I had b.....
» 6/07/2017 1:21:46 PM There you go, phanto. There’s an actual example of someone using someone else. In this cas.....
» 6/07/2017 12:34:04 PM diver dan, So your example of evangelicals rising up against liberalism and corruption, w.....
» 6/07/2017 10:41:20 AM diver dan, Yes, well, if you’re going to make a lot of unfounded assertions, they’re goin.....
» 6/07/2017 10:14:47 AM Erm, no, it’s not, phanto. <<Honesty is in the eye of the beholder.>> You’re.....
» 6/07/2017 8:53:10 AM That’s correct, Leo Lane. <<Your position AJP, is that there is inequality before t.....
» 5/07/2017 11:08:29 PM Not without the utmost resistance, diver dan. <<Christianity is a complicated anima.....
» 5/07/2017 10:03:30 PM Actually, phanto, I never thought of it that way. <<Poor little victim you.>>.....
» 5/07/2017 1:55:33 PM Dear Foxy, Don’t feel like you’ve caused anything. No one’s forcing phanto to make strang.....
» 5/07/2017 12:34:56 PM Sells writes: “Simply put, the god that the atheists do not believe in, the supernatural u.....
» 4/07/2017 5:54:07 PM I said, “at first”, phanto. <<So if I wasn’t being obtuse then why did you get invo.....
» 4/07/2017 12:57:31 PM We’ve been through this many, many times before, phanto. <<Same-sex marriage is all.....
» 4/07/2017 12:10:02 PM Well, you weren’t necessarily being obtuse at first, phanto. <<If I am obtuse then .....
» 4/07/2017 10:01:50 AM phanto, Not everyone leaves because they can’t refute what you’ve said. Perhaps Foxy just.....
» 3/07/2017 8:04:50 PM Really, FireballXL5? So, who's sock puppet or reincarnation are you, anyway? The butthurt.....
» 3/07/2017 1:25:40 PM …Continued <<I gave a definition, and showed that homosexuals are perverts.>>.....
» 3/07/2017 1:25:36 PM You’re damn right I do, Leo Lane? <<He says:”, yes, but there is no reason why [mar.....
» 3/07/2017 12:12:28 PM I'm sorry I didn't Google it, NathanJ. The fact remains that "marriage equality&quo.....
» 3/07/2017 9:40:16 AM I’m sure you would, Josephus. <<If one could really tap into the beliefs of those t.....
» 1/07/2017 12:38:44 PM That looks to me like equivocation, Big Nana. <<... homosexuals do not want equalit.....
» 1/07/2017 10:44:25 AM Really, phanto? Every last one of them? <<Homosexuals do not want equality - they w.....
» 30/06/2017 10:00:59 PM Are we, Josephus? <<We are talking about Australia, it was established by an Englis.....
» 30/06/2017 9:18:56 PM Wow. So much rubbish to debunk, so little time. I did note, however, that plantagenet has.....
» 30/06/2017 7:49:05 PM ...Continued <<But since most of your posting relies on it, you keep doing it.>&.....
» 30/06/2017 7:48:59 PM ...Continued The closest you came to justifying this claim, however, was to point out tha.....
» 30/06/2017 7:48:51 PM Not quite, mhaze. <<I say (mis)use, you 'refute' by saying misidentify.>> I .....
» 29/06/2017 6:24:20 PM runner, I thought you’d like that verse, too. However, quoting the Bible is about as eff.....
» 29/06/2017 1:53:47 PM One other niggle, mhaze. <<When science begrudgingly adopts a new understanding bas.....
» 29/06/2017 1:27:44 PM …Continued <<I was just having a little dig at the notion that we 'know' about the .....
» 29/06/2017 1:27:42 PM Yes, mhaze, I’m sure you’re very amused. <<… I don't hate the way you (mis)use the .....
» 29/06/2017 10:47:06 AM Yes, Leo Lane, and it was a reasonable assumption, too, given what rectophobia is. <&l.....
» 29/06/2017 9:07:44 AM leoj, Yes, I’m aware of that. Feel free to use the term ‘atheist’, though. In taking the .....
» 28/06/2017 6:18:25 PM NathanJ, Sure, humans don’t need to know everything, but evidently the pros of striving f.....
» 28/06/2017 5:03:14 PM Still resorting to personal abuse and name-calling, are you Leo Lane? And with that bizarr.....
» 28/06/2017 4:18:38 PM Oh, you’re going to hate me for this, mhaze. << I've often opined that the world wo.....
» 28/06/2017 3:17:04 PM NathanJ, You have presented a false dichotomy. Discovery and personal pleasure are not mu.....
» 28/06/2017 12:54:11 PM ttbn, They didn’t come from Christianity either. <<Democracy, the rule of law and .....
» 28/06/2017 12:11:42 PM You’re a glass-half-empty kinda gal, aren’t you Big Nana? <<It's not only Christian.....
» 28/06/2017 9:20:05 AM Yes, it's very encouraging news indeed. In fact, we can be be sure that the number is eve.....
» 28/06/2017 8:54:44 AM Leo Lane, Are you capable of communicating with anyone without the use of abuse and name .....
» 27/06/2017 5:37:04 PM Dear Foxy, I agree that Abbott plans on a comeback. I also agree that it's unlikely he wi.....
» 27/06/2017 2:58:55 PM You are getting rather nasty there, ttbn. Contrasting Abbot with Turnbull is absolutely r.....
» 26/06/2017 10:15:18 AM Yeah, I doubt Turnbull is the main problem for anyone other than the hard Right. It was o.....
» 25/06/2017 4:06:52 PM diver dan, Okay, so you don't think equality is a valid justification for same-sex marri.....
» 25/06/2017 7:56:29 AM “My waffling again”, diver dan? <<Your waffling again AJPhillips.>> Oh, you .....
» 24/06/2017 2:23:01 PM There is plenty of evidence to suggest that you're wrong, ttbn. I linked to it. <<B.....
» 24/06/2017 1:11:39 PM ttbn, There is no evidence to suggest that any of the factors you list cause autism. htt.....
» 24/06/2017 11:04:28 AM Hasbeen, How am I demonstrating a sense of superiority? All I did was correct your miscon.....
» 24/06/2017 12:50:04 AM Very well said, AussieGeoff. Opponents of marriage equality need to understand that they.....
» 23/06/2017 6:41:22 PM Hasbeen, Children diagnosed with autism are done so by a specialist using a rigorous test.....
» 23/06/2017 5:29:00 PM Paul1405, You probably have a point regarding foreign policy. I'm reluctant to comment in.....
» 23/06/2017 4:48:46 PM Why are we having this discussion again? It has already been shown on the other thread tha.....
» 23/06/2017 1:43:48 PM Not quite, mhaze. <<… in regards to the example I mentioned you're entire point was.....
» 23/06/2017 12:13:00 AM Waleed Aly, who has a son on the autism spectrum, has articulated well what the problem wi.....
» 22/06/2017 6:48:54 PM As a parent of a very gifted high-functioning autistic girl, I mostly agree with Big Nana......
» 22/06/2017 6:21:32 PM You’ve got that right, mhaze. <<oh-oh, AJP is back on his fallacy train.>> A.....
» 22/06/2017 11:52:24 AM John de Meyrick, A nice attempt to find a compromise, but when we’re talking about issues.....
» 21/06/2017 5:38:54 PM We could be very well be stuffed, o sung wu. I did mention a fourth option, though, which.....
» 21/06/2017 2:38:08 PM Aidan, No, Christianity nowadays (as far as I know, at least) does not endorse slavery. S.....
» 21/06/2017 1:52:29 PM Yes, Aidan, I know a lot more about it than most here. I spent nearly half my life studyin.....
» 21/06/2017 1:20:24 PM moonshine, I can understand Paul’s assumption about your religious status. You referred t.....
» 21/06/2017 12:28:37 PM Well, as problematic as Big Nana’s suggestions are, at least she’s offered some. That rare.....
» 20/06/2017 5:12:51 PM So, runner, I highlight an overt display of apparent bias or a double-standard, and instea.....
» 20/06/2017 4:40:02 PM Well, I doubt he’s a raging Lefty, runner. <<… what is more incredible is your arro.....
» 20/06/2017 3:27:48 PM This is incredible. We currently have a discussion thread running, filled with angry right.....
» 16/06/2017 4:23:01 PM At no point did I assert either of those, mhaze. <<Anyone who'll brazenly assert th.....
» 15/06/2017 3:40:36 PM So what was it that I was seeing which wasn’t really there, mhaze? <<… when you sai.....
» 14/06/2017 6:23:49 PM mhaze, Just because I say that Trump is screwed and note that he has committed an impeach.....
» 14/06/2017 4:03:59 PM mhaze, I didn't say Trump's impeachment was in the process. You need to be a bit more car.....
» 13/06/2017 6:21:10 PM Trump's screwed now. It looks like he's committed an impeachable offence by attempting to.....
» 13/06/2017 6:06:20 PM No, phanto, I don’t. <<You want to deny basic human rights to couples simply becaus.....
» 13/06/2017 3:54:27 PM Apparently they do, phanto, and apparently there is. <<No couples then need govern.....
» 13/06/2017 12:02:06 PM There are important symbolic factors too, phanto. <<If marriage is just a glorified.....
» 12/06/2017 8:55:39 PM Not at all, phanto. <<So you would prefer simplification to morality?>> It i.....
» 12/06/2017 7:31:14 PM Good point, phanto, and one which further strengthens my argument. <<So if a couple.....
» 12/06/2017 2:00:16 PM Just for you, Joe, since this topic bores you so much: Equality: The state of being equal.....
» 12/06/2017 1:24:12 PM Dear oh dear, phanto. It would save us both a lot of time if you were to refresh your mem.....
» 12/06/2017 1:00:17 PM moonshine, I hear a lot of people claiming that polls aren't accurate (they're always rig.....
» 12/06/2017 12:11:10 PM Big Nana, The de-facto/civil-unions argument doesn’t work because the laws for these arra.....
» 12/06/2017 11:48:40 AM No, ttbn, the polls indicated that if both May and Turnbull hung on any longer, then they .....
» 12/06/2017 11:33:25 AM phanto, I see we’ve switched back to the marriage-shouldn’t-exist-in-the-first-place angl.....
» 10/06/2017 11:36:03 PM That's a total cop-out, Yuyutsu. <<The way to fix it, is for the state to become co.....
» 10/06/2017 9:14:22 PM No, Jayb, the asylum seekers bit was something you made up in your own mind. I still have .....
» 10/06/2017 8:22:07 PM Jayb, <<No. If the person convicted gets twenty years, that means they serve twenty.....
» 10/06/2017 7:38:53 PM Jayb, Your question is a pretty easy one to answer, and it’s one which shouldn’t require .....
» 10/06/2017 5:56:12 PM I meant, “in my debates with you”, phanto. <<Why should anyone care what keeps you .....
» 10/06/2017 5:30:21 PM Josephus, phanto already tried the ‘de facto’ angle. It was unsuccessful. You see, heter.....
» 10/06/2017 3:40:19 PM Yes, I did, phanto. <<You didn’t answer the question.>> “Because that's the .....
» 10/06/2017 1:42:21 PM Because that's the way they're treated, phanto. <<So why mention in the first place.....
» 9/06/2017 7:23:04 AM Because, phanto, there is no rational reason to suspect it in the first place. <<Ho.....
» 8/06/2017 9:18:54 PM Actually, phanto, I did say your questioning motives was an ad hominem, and it was. It's a.....
» 8/06/2017 8:14:30 PM Nothing, phanto. <<What is wrong with questioning motives ...?>> I didn't sa.....
» 8/06/2017 5:51:32 PM phanto, I referred to your post as ad hominem because, in the absence of a rational argum.....
» 8/06/2017 4:13:38 PM You're not making much sense now, Joe. <<In that case, whaddawe want ? Plebiscite !.....
» 7/06/2017 9:18:05 PM But the cons far outweigh the pros with a plebiscite, Joe, that was one of my points earli.....
» 7/06/2017 8:26:45 PM A plebiscite, Joe? <<No worries: put it to a plebiscite and let the Australian peop.....
» 7/06/2017 5:39:20 PM Joe, How was Josephus teasing me? That was a weird thing to say. Both of you seem to be a.....
» 7/06/2017 4:06:23 PM The issue is contemporary, Josephus, not historical. <<Because a person holds a his.....
» 7/06/2017 12:17:39 PM Joe, I don’t nit-pick. To nit-pick is to be excessively concerned with inconsequential de.....
» 7/06/2017 10:34:15 AM Joe, I’m not sure what your point was supposed to be there. I don’t see how you have defe.....
» 6/06/2017 8:32:55 PM That’s true of most groups, runner: Muslims, Christians, criminals, spouses, races, gangs….....
» 6/06/2017 5:35:04 PM runner, I don’t have to be psychic. <<… amazing AJ that you know history before [i.....
» 6/06/2017 3:58:56 PM Not really, Josephus. << This tells customers to embrace the rainbow agenda or take.....
» 6/06/2017 12:52:55 PM Joe, You are yet to demonstrate that any of it is idiocy. The science seems to disagree w.....
» 6/06/2017 12:50:40 PM Where did I say “only”, Joe? <<I think the word "only" gave it away>&g.....
» 6/06/2017 11:53:25 AM Sorry, Joe, but I don't find mental illness and suicide, due to ridicule or having to pret.....
» 6/06/2017 11:42:26 AM Um, Joe. The last supposed straw man wasn’t even a straw man. Remember? <<… why do .....
» 6/06/2017 11:36:04 AM Joe, It sounds to me like you're confusing gender with biological sex. While the two are .....
» 6/06/2017 10:42:53 AM ttbn, Going by your track record, I don’t trust your recollection of what was said at all.....
» 6/06/2017 10:15:21 AM That wouldn't be much of a response, moonshine. <<Well thought through responses = .....
» 6/06/2017 8:40:56 AM And the problem with that is, moonshine? <<In one sentence you say people's hatred .....
» 5/06/2017 6:24:05 PM Good question, phanto, and one I’ve answered many times. <<But how do you know for .....
» 5/06/2017 4:36:12 PM They do to the extent that they are sexual beings, phanto. <<But people do not alwa.....
» 5/06/2017 9:36:33 AM Hasbeen, What SteeleRedux said. I still don’t see how your experience is sufficient reaso.....
» 5/06/2017 8:09:49 AM So now you’re going to fallaciously shift the goalposts, phanto? <<But it is just a.....
» 3/06/2017 9:36:06 PM Like I said, phanto. <<But its not always logical or reasonable to do that …>>.....
» 3/06/2017 8:32:10 PM EmperorJulian, I'm aware of the reasoning behind putting quotation marks around the ‘mode.....
» 3/06/2017 4:39:17 PM Another example of people thinking like that, Joe, is when quotation marks put around the .....
» 3/06/2017 4:30:26 PM Joe, ttbn thinks like that for starters. Apart from that, I've already explained why it w.....
» 3/06/2017 3:36:25 PM There was no apology, Joe. Nor was there a straw man. Some here are arguing that there is.....
» 3/06/2017 3:21:10 PM I see Hasbeen’s still pushing this idea that some bloke driving a boat on the reef is goin.....
» 3/06/2017 3:17:24 PM Sheesh, Joe. I use an all-inclusive "we" (meaning me too), and it's still not go.....
» 3/06/2017 2:37:19 PM Whether Yassmin was lying or not is impossible to know without reading her mind. If someo.....
» 2/06/2017 9:09:25 PM That’s true, phanto. <<Just because they do it does not mean it is logical though d.....
» 2/06/2017 8:52:29 PM Oh, I'd certainly be able to do that for you, phanto. <<All that lovely theory and .....
» 2/06/2017 6:09:27 PM Human sexuality in general, phanto. <<Which sexuality are you talking about?>>.....
» 2/06/2017 4:33:52 PM So now we’re back to the acts, phanto? <<Unless you can show me an example of the .....
» 2/06/2017 1:45:54 PM …Continued <<What else is [sexuality] about?>> Romance and romantic attracti.....
» 2/06/2017 1:14:24 PM That’s interesting, phanto. <<Yes.>> Because, in that very same post, you su.....
» 2/06/2017 10:48:26 AM Josephus, As you’ve been told many times before, marriage is a social construct, not a bi.....
» 1/06/2017 11:18:50 PM That's a non sequitur, phanto. <<... it is not logical to have sex to get what you .....
» 1/06/2017 8:40:03 PM But we covered that too, phanto. <<… just because behaviour exists it does not mean.....
» 1/06/2017 7:00:39 PM I thought you’d like that, phanto. <<How very patronising of you! How do you know w.....
» 1/06/2017 5:27:26 PM phanto, We’ve been through this many times before. Are you sure you want to go through it.....
» 1/06/2017 4:02:47 PM Not quite, Bazz. <<The argument against a plebiscite was that those opposed would a.....
» 1/06/2017 1:45:19 PM Joe, What the cake makers did was NOT legal. That was one difference. Apart from that, it.....
» 1/06/2017 10:06:49 AM I prefer Shady URL myself: http://www.5z8.info/foreign-brides_v0e2tp_how-to-build-a-bomb.....
» 1/06/2017 9:56:29 AM For those questioning public opinion, the polling has shown it to be consistently in favou.....
» 1/06/2017 9:41:32 AM It’s a ridiculous idea on multiple levels. I feel sorry for the staff who, regardless of t.....
» 31/05/2017 4:47:53 PM ttbn, Treaties can exist between the indigenous peoples of a land and the colonisers. The.....
» 31/05/2017 3:38:08 PM Joe (and Banjo), I think Sam Harris provides a useful list of categories by which to sepa.....
» 30/05/2017 3:31:39 PM How do you get that from what I said, Jayb? <<It wasn't that the DG of ASIO that wa.....
» 30/05/2017 12:23:23 PM Albie Manton, At no point have I suggested that linking to non-peer-review material is a .....
» 30/05/2017 12:13:17 PM So, you’re just going to dig your heels in then, ttbn? Is that it? <<As expected, n.....
» 29/05/2017 10:07:31 PM ttbn, I have never mocked you for starting a discussion thread, so whether or not I have .....
» 29/05/2017 5:36:00 PM Philip S, Yes, I was a little concerned about the rate at which Lewis blinked when he ans.....
» 29/05/2017 3:52:42 PM Here’s a link to the article ttbn is referring to, since he is apparently incapable of pos.....
» 29/05/2017 11:57:37 AM ttbn, Oh, I have no doubt that he was. <<Yes. GKC was right.>> The problem .....
» 29/05/2017 8:29:43 AM So now you’re questioning my sanity and judgement, ttbn? Again, without being able to poi.....
» 28/05/2017 7:45:14 PM I'd be more than happy to grow up, ttbn, if you could tell me how I am being immature. &l.....
» 28/05/2017 4:59:54 PM Hardly, ttbn. <<You are my gauge for the validity of my opinions – proof that I'm g.....
» 28/05/2017 12:40:25 PM ttbn, Most of the sources I cite are peer-reviewed, so your attempts to justify ignoring .....
» 26/05/2017 9:44:48 AM Josephus, That video was one big, fat fallacious appeal to emotion. Nothing more. http:/.....
» 26/05/2017 7:34:58 AM Aw, poor Hasbeen. Did you come here to stamp your feet instead after your ‘personal attack.....
» 25/05/2017 5:57:49 PM Very amusing, Hasbeen, coming from someone who's responses rarely extend beyond calling so.....
» 25/05/2017 4:01:55 PM So in other words, runner, you just made it up. I thought so......
» 25/05/2017 12:57:00 PM Really, runner? You're rather short on detail there. Care to expand? Links would be apprec.....
» 25/05/2017 12:11:18 PM runner, There's nothing wrong with discriminating against people who have demonstrated th.....
» 24/05/2017 6:59:05 PM I’m not an academic, Hasbeen, if that’s what you’re saying. But thanks for the compliment......
» 24/05/2017 3:55:35 PM Gawd! Another one of Hasbeen’s trusty anecdotal testimonials. Fully controlled for potenti.....
» 24/05/2017 11:06:58 AM It's interesting that those who would brush the investigation into the Trump campaign's Ru.....
» 24/05/2017 10:10:43 AM ttbn, I’m sorry you interpret reasoned argument as a nasty streak. It’s understandable, t.....
» 24/05/2017 10:00:24 AM Anyway, emotive misinterpretations of what experts say aside, I can understand how the wor.....
» 23/05/2017 11:55:17 PM Only if I can back it up with evidence and/or reason, ttbn. <<Do you really believe.....
» 23/05/2017 10:55:46 PM For anyone wondering what ttbn is actually talking about: http://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/ma.....
» 23/05/2017 5:34:39 PM Big Nana, I have admitted no such thing, and it is dishonest of you to pretend that I hav.....
» 23/05/2017 3:31:46 PM ttbn, It's hardly "childish" to point out the illegal and unconstitutional natu.....
» 23/05/2017 11:22:02 AM Oh, I’ve stated that outright, Big Nana. <<I would have more respect for you if you.....
» 22/05/2017 10:25:14 PM ttbn, There’s ‘doing things differently’, and then there’s being so incompetent that you .....
» 22/05/2017 3:16:42 PM Big Nana, That’s probably because I’ve already provided OBJECTIVE arguments as to why the.....
» 22/05/2017 1:44:54 PM Trump is showing himself to be every bit as dangerously incompetent as his critics said he.....
» 22/05/2017 1:21:20 PM I've already provided reasoning for my claims there, Big Nana. <<... where is your .....
» 22/05/2017 12:11:25 PM For your benefit, Big Nana: Normal: (of a person) free from physical or mental disorders......
» 22/05/2017 11:59:21 AM Sorry, Big Nana. It seems our posts crossed over. <<I sometimes wonder if your misi.....
» 22/05/2017 11:22:20 AM Not so, Big Nana, <<Dismissing something by referring to the slippery slope argumen.....
» 21/05/2017 12:42:21 PM Yes, I do mean ‘equality’, Big Nana. <<AJ, you don't mean equality. Not unless you .....
» 21/05/2017 12:09:10 AM I sometimes think the two-party system (majoritarianism) gets unfairly dumped on. If ther.....
» 20/05/2017 9:32:32 PM Josephus, Yes, those 82,000 deaths a year are all very regrettable, and we need to do wh.....
» 19/05/2017 5:41:14 PM Yuyutsu, This is a non sequitur… <<… but our perception of [reality] is indirect b.....
» 19/05/2017 1:42:41 PM Josephus, I’ve heard quite a bit of apologia attempting to justify why such a hideous tes.....
» 19/05/2017 12:03:41 PM Big Nana, Because the number of same-sex couples wanting to marry is irrelevant. <<.....
» 19/05/2017 11:57:43 AM runner, I think you might need to elaborate on this. <<[Yuyutsu’s fable] actually .....
» 19/05/2017 7:36:53 AM runner, No, I didn’t think there was anything you knew much about. It comes through in yo.....
» 18/05/2017 8:32:32 PM Ah, the Courtier’s Reply fallacy. Thanks for that, runner. <<wow AJ the theologian .....
» 18/05/2017 7:05:11 PM Yuyutsu touches on a point I’ve made a couple of times now, for those anti-abortionists wh.....
» 18/05/2017 3:29:50 PM Yes, Hasbeen, and I'm sure you have plenty of evidence for such a claim, too. I mean beyon.....
» 16/05/2017 5:33:15 PM Sounds like some of you need to brush up on your international law. Terrorists are not (.....
» 15/05/2017 7:11:55 PM I suspected it was anti-abortion propaganda, too, david f. Like the unfounded claims from .....
» 14/05/2017 1:52:48 PM Banjo, I don't have the time to read through an entire thread, sorry. But I do vaguely r.....
» 14/05/2017 1:28:25 PM Of course, that should have been: “You could argue that people should be given the freedo.....
» 14/05/2017 11:57:19 AM Banjo, An abortion costs around $800, requires a couple of days off work, and a couple of.....
» 14/05/2017 8:35:07 AM ttbn and Yuyutsu, Charity could not and never did provide adequate services. http://www......
» 13/05/2017 5:43:56 PM Dear Foxy It’s funny you should ask, because I realised I should have mentioned Bernardi .....
» 13/05/2017 5:31:23 PM ttbn, That’s what they call a fallacious appeal to emotion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.....
» 13/05/2017 4:27:31 PM I, too, am happy for my tax dollars to go to something like the NDIS. I abhor a devil-take.....
» 13/05/2017 3:09:09 PM Sorry, Foxy, you'll have to print it out and mail it to ttbn. Ain't no way you'll get him .....
» 13/05/2017 2:46:43 PM Josephus, After reading the proposed changes (thanks for the link, leoj), I could see how.....
» 12/05/2017 4:28:00 PM Yes, runner. Why, I’m sure you’re just laughing your head off there. <<hilarous AJ .....
» 12/05/2017 3:19:14 PM Why’s that, runner? You’re a bit low on detail there. <<Your secular 'reason'based .....
» 12/05/2017 2:16:31 PM No, no, ttbn. Don’t trouble yourself. I’ve got it… http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/l.....
» 12/05/2017 11:53:10 AM ttbn, Is it really so hard to provide people with links to these things? http://spectato.....
» 11/05/2017 5:59:25 PM Just how exactly has my mind been poisoned, runner? <<well AJ thanks for demonstrat.....
» 11/05/2017 1:39:35 PM There’s some good questions there, leoj. Each one of them so massive that they would justi.....
» 11/05/2017 12:51:30 PM When it comes to homosexuality, runner, that’s debatable. <<These are obvious perve.....
» 11/05/2017 12:02:41 PM Oh, that’s not my slant, runner. <<so you put your slant on it AJ. To compare God's.....
» 11/05/2017 10:37:44 AM chrisgaff1000, I’m not sure what to say to your claims other than they contradict what I’.....
» 11/05/2017 8:49:49 AM Oh, I got an answer. Looks like I over-estimated you, runner. <<quite easy AJ. I ca.....
» 10/05/2017 10:45:24 PM You have a point there, mikk. If the principal smokers of marijuana were affluent older w.....
» 10/05/2017 9:02:54 PM You’ve made a valid point regarding my comment on the contradictory nature of rehabilitati.....
» 10/05/2017 5:15:10 PM Sorry, o sung wu, you were referring mostly to youth crime rates. Yes, from what I know, y.....
» 10/05/2017 4:56:33 PM Right you are, runner. <<say a lie often enough does not make it true AJ>> Y.....
» 10/05/2017 4:39:23 PM o sung wu, While assaults are on the rise, the overall crime rate has been going down sin.....
» 10/05/2017 2:52:22 PM The simple answer to your question, rehctub, is that it doesn’t. <<how does taking .....
» 10/05/2017 11:07:44 AM runner, David’s mention of gay people being born that way was a statement of fact, not ap.....
» 9/05/2017 10:38:43 AM This article reminds me of my faith’s dying days. Only I was still homophobic well after l.....
» 9/05/2017 8:05:33 AM phanto, I have a degree in law and criminology (with criminology being a combination of p.....
» 8/05/2017 8:24:30 PM Not ‘made equal’, phanto, <<[An argument for marriage equality] presumes there are .....
» 8/05/2017 5:32:13 PM Thanks for that, Aidan. runner, What on earth is wrong with you? I never expect you to u.....
» 8/05/2017 12:56:31 PM My apologies, phanto. You weren’t eliminating sexual pleasure as a motivating factor for e.....
» 8/05/2017 11:29:06 AM Oh, alright then, phanto. I’ll respond to your silly, irrelevant points. Your position ag.....
» 8/05/2017 2:11:40 AM I'm quite happy to provide you with that information, phanto. <<Where are the sampl.....
» 7/05/2017 1:11:02 PM It's not just about sex, phanto. <<If we are attracted to one another by the desire.....
» 6/05/2017 6:59:00 PM Please don't play dumb, phanto. <<So why did you offer it in the first place? Why n.....
» 6/05/2017 4:04:38 PM It wasn’t for my own sake, phanto. <<Why did you look it up? Don't you trust your o.....
» 5/05/2017 10:14:01 PM That it does, phanto. <<Sexuality seems to suggest that we are attracted to people .....
» 5/05/2017 8:53:34 PM Wrong, phanto. <<There's no evidence that such a thing exists.>> There is an.....
» 5/05/2017 4:28:04 PM Well, that's got to be the biggest sidestep I've ever come across, phanto. Not to mention .....
» 5/05/2017 4:01:04 PM o sung wu wrote: “One area I thought I might reassure you - These six psychiatrists would .....
» 5/05/2017 3:38:35 PM I always enjoy your emotive choice wording, phanto. <<For all your huffing and puff.....
» 5/05/2017 11:00:46 AM How do you know that, Hasbeen? <<Those same six psychiatrists will at some time cla.....
» 5/05/2017 10:51:21 AM From the article: “… given that the world has continually been experiencing climatic vari.....
» 5/05/2017 8:16:35 AM No, rechtub, she wasn’t let off “simply because she was under the influence of illegal dru.....
» 4/05/2017 10:11:47 PM Just more ad hominems, phanto? <<Only about the motivations of those who abuse the.....
» 4/05/2017 8:45:20 PM I thought you no longer cared about motivations, phanto. <<Once again you have been.....
» 4/05/2017 9:48:15 AM This is the Equivocation fallacy, Josephus. <<As I thought unloved and insecure!>.....
» 3/05/2017 3:24:39 PM Yes, I’m fine with that too, phanto. <<The government is quite specifically committ.....
» 2/05/2017 9:55:58 PM phanto, There is a difference between having A standard, and assigning something to be TH.....
» 2/05/2017 8:53:15 PM De facto couples are not denied anything, phanto. <<Which things would you deny the.....
» 2/05/2017 6:17:08 PM phanto, That depends on what exactly you think should be rightfully theirs without a marr.....
» 2/05/2017 3:14:09 PM ttbn, Polls are usually conducted by phone. I hardly think people are going to be too afr.....
» 2/05/2017 9:21:33 AM That’s an ad hominem fallacy, Josephus. <<One thing I do not take much notice of at.....
» 1/05/2017 4:27:46 PM It’s not just atheists, Josephus. <<… we haven't a clear conclusion except that for.....
» 1/05/2017 11:31:58 AM There is one point of clarification I need to make, with regards to the Euthyphro dilemma,.....
» 1/05/2017 9:25:31 AM …Continued <<In regard to the Euthyphro dilemma … your point can be addressed in th.....
» 1/05/2017 9:25:28 AM grateful, You have just committed all three fallacies all over again. What did you not un.....
» 30/04/2017 9:08:42 AM Thanks for that, Josephus. On thousand years is a long time. Given how badly a game of Ch.....
» 30/04/2017 9:00:48 AM Paul1405, I think the two main sources for Christian hostility towards other gods is the .....
» 29/04/2017 10:40:26 PM …Continued <<Because of our desires being thwarted we presume bad. But in reality t.....
» 29/04/2017 10:40:21 PM I didn’t say sickness was evil either, grateful. <<True, you said sickness is evil:.....
» 29/04/2017 4:09:14 PM grateful, I didn’t say sickness is good. (By the way, my post to Yuyutsu was written in t.....
» 29/04/2017 3:31:53 PM Dear Foxy, I think you’ll really enjoy the book. It was massively eye-opening for me. Th.....
» 29/04/2017 12:45:23 PM I’m not sure about the others, but archaeologists, historians, and most Biblical scholars .....
» 29/04/2017 11:18:02 AM The "revealed word" of God would be a better way of putting it for Christianity......
» 29/04/2017 10:16:09 AM Armchair Critic, If you really are interested in the causes of domestic violence (which a.....
» 29/04/2017 7:43:43 AM Paul1405 wrote: “I recall your claim on the forum some time back that as a gung-ho constab.....
» 29/04/2017 7:03:51 AM I thought we already had this discussion, runner. <<Allah of course derives from th.....
» 28/04/2017 7:25:39 PM I suspect you're right, Toni. http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lester_Wright_Jr/public.....
» 28/04/2017 5:46:28 PM Yuyutsu, Good and evil are labels that we put on human interactions and emotions. There .....
» 28/04/2017 9:14:19 AM Again, Josephus, it was clearly not enough, and Jesus should have known that it wouldn’t b.....
» 28/04/2017 8:02:47 AM Interesting. I’d have thought that Foxy’s link would have elicited some comments in object.....
» 27/04/2017 12:06:19 PM It's like I've pointed out many times before, all those pages, and all those words, and ye.....
» 26/04/2017 3:28:05 PM david f wrote: "Arab mathematicians also dealt with irrational numbers and developed .....
» 26/04/2017 2:58:46 PM My, my, how the tables have turned. I was waiting for something like this after the 18C ke.....
» 26/04/2017 2:30:23 PM Yuyustu, We are natural. Therefore, concepts that we devise are also natural. There is no.....
» 25/04/2017 8:48:23 PM Yeah, I said "and others", too, Josephus. You even quoted me saying that. <&.....
» 25/04/2017 8:28:12 PM No, that’s still not atheism, Josephus. <<Point being there is no one to whom you a.....
» 25/04/2017 8:06:11 PM *Sigh* ... and now the ad hominem. You're really on a roll here tonight, aren't you ttbn?.....
» 25/04/2017 8:03:24 PM Not at all, Josephus. <<There is within atheism the belief that man is the ultimate.....
» 25/04/2017 7:29:14 PM Atheists don't fail to see that, Josephus. <<Atheists have their own bloody history.....
» 25/04/2017 5:55:48 PM Oh gawd, ttbn! <<Don't you people have even a hard copy dictionary in your homes?&g.....
» 25/04/2017 2:11:41 PM Foxy wrote: “I was not promoting this sort of behaviour of condoning it in any way.” And .....
» 25/04/2017 12:35:21 PM ttbn, Thanks for the example of the Moving the Goalposts fallacy (http://en.wikipedia.org.....
» 24/04/2017 11:24:39 PM Yeah, what the spammer said. ^^.....
» 24/04/2017 11:22:53 PM Again, runner? When was I wrong before? <<again wrong AJ.>> You’re jumping a.....
» 24/04/2017 10:45:00 PM No, runner, that’s not analogous in any way to what I said about Darwin’s racism. <<.....
» 24/04/2017 10:17:38 PM Ha! You are Leigh, ttbn. I knew it! http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/user.asp?id=19626 .....
» 24/04/2017 5:59:25 PM Dear Foxy, Like you, I’m reluctant to comment on such a small snippet. But going by what .....
» 24/04/2017 5:02:21 PM runner, Thanks for another example of creationist quote-mining. That one's a classic. Th.....
» 24/04/2017 2:48:08 PM To what extent exactly religion plays in violence and terrorism is extremely complex and w.....
» 24/04/2017 10:47:07 AM There’s nothing wrong with appeals to authority, Hasbeen. <<… links are merely an a.....
» 24/04/2017 7:33:13 AM Yes, ttbn. <<I believe that you honestly think that you are totally right and anyo.....
» 23/04/2017 9:33:06 PM Not quite, ttbn. <<Islam is a political movement, with some religious aspects i.e. .....
» 22/04/2017 11:17:28 AM Oh, I forgot to add, mhaze, that the fact that we have done things a certain way for a lon.....
» 22/04/2017 10:23:59 AM …Continued <<So I make a point about the nature of Marxism and this becomes a falla.....
» 22/04/2017 10:23:55 AM mhaze, Your recollection of the events of that past discussion of ours’ is utterly distor.....
» 21/04/2017 9:56:32 PM Oh, it’s not just my judgement, runner. <<well AJ I trust that your judgement is ju.....
» 21/04/2017 9:33:30 PM runner, Well, I guess by your own definition, you’re not a Christian either. In fact, not.....
» 21/04/2017 8:39:14 PM Ah, the ad hominem. It’s always a last resort for you, isn’t it ttbn? When you’ve got noth.....
» 21/04/2017 5:08:47 PM Joe writes: "If you wanted to actually create ghettoes, I don't think you could do it.....
» 21/04/2017 1:31:28 PM I said nothing about the possibility of a god existing, Shockadelic. I spoke only of the .....
» 21/04/2017 12:35:04 PM Correct, mhaze. <<… we aren't talking about nano-tubes or dark matter or lidar, but.....
» 21/04/2017 10:39:35 AM Thanks for the list, Shockadelic. It gave me a good chuckle. I particularly liked the one .....
» 20/04/2017 6:09:50 PM Firstly, what are we going to do with second-generation immigrants who fail the immigratio.....
» 20/04/2017 3:36:45 PM Yes, mhaze, and sometimes they were just ignorant. <<[Conservatives] simply accept .....
» 20/04/2017 12:49:44 PM I do believe I allowed for such differences, runner. <<Find one muslim in the world.....
» 20/04/2017 11:21:47 AM No, I’m not wrong, runner. The Abrahamic god is one god. What part of “Abrahamic” do you .....
» 20/04/2017 10:54:52 AM “According to the mythical Allah”, ttbn? Allah is no more mythical than your god. In fact,.....
» 20/04/2017 9:21:14 AM It’s interesting that some Christian denominations are against alcohol, given that the all.....
» 20/04/2017 8:30:47 AM Paul1405, I’d agree that fear certainly plays a big part in conservative thought. While n.....
» 19/04/2017 10:27:31 AM Yes, Joe, it appears a compromise has been reached in which the stunning process occurs im.....
» 19/04/2017 9:44:44 AM Joe, I suspect the reason we’re not hearing from the Greens on the Halal slaughter proces.....
» 19/04/2017 7:15:43 AM I checked my pantry, and the only Halal certified product there is vegemite. Kraft sells 2.....
» 19/04/2017 6:51:27 AM You're wasting your time, rollyczar. You forgot to put the link to your website in your si.....
» 17/04/2017 9:24:58 PM Joe, I generally agree with everything you’ve said there. I particularly appreciate the w.....
» 17/04/2017 3:05:11 PM Well, I don't have the statistics, runner, but I'm happy to grant that you're right, becau.....
» 17/04/2017 2:02:28 PM “Deceit”, runner? <<... since your description of Christianity is either based out .....
» 17/04/2017 10:45:13 AM runner, You keep trying to blame priest sexual abuse on homosexuality, however, there is .....
» 17/04/2017 7:43:58 AM Joe, I’m happy to give credit where credit’s due, but you won’t see me do it around here .....
» 16/04/2017 5:18:35 PM A fascinating insight into Catholic thought there, Paul1405. I had never really had anyth.....
» 16/04/2017 2:33:16 PM I wouldn't say "full marks", ttbn. leoj failed to acknowledge that not all belie.....
» 16/04/2017 2:19:53 PM ttbn, And what will common law, the police, and the judiciary do to prevent crime? Or lea.....
» 16/04/2017 1:43:42 PM I am too, leoj. <<I am happy for all to have their own thinking ... As long as no-o.....
» 16/04/2017 11:57:38 AM *Sigh* I’ve done it again, haven’t I Is Mise? I’ve missed your quirky sense of humour, an.....
» 16/04/2017 11:12:09 AM runner, I know what you think is evidence, but I disagree that it’s evidence. It’s not p.....
» 16/04/2017 6:50:23 AM Sorry, Is Mise, but uplifting words are not evidence of anything. The only time to believ.....
» 15/04/2017 6:53:29 PM ttbn, They may have been morals that Christians had, but that were not Christian morals e.....
» 15/04/2017 4:12:17 PM Josephus, I saw nothing in those articles you linked to about the perpetrators being athe.....
» 14/04/2017 9:40:35 PM Hmmm. Now I’m not sure who you are (or have been) talking to, Joe. Anyway, I’m encouraged.....
» 14/04/2017 8:01:44 PM You seem keen to catch me out on a fallacy there, Joe. Good luck with that. I take great .....
» 14/04/2017 6:52:59 PM Is Mise, While Jesus was an immense improvement over Mohammed, I’d stop short of saying t.....
» 14/04/2017 3:06:36 PM Joe, Certain passages in the Bible (that had to be very carefully cherry-picked, mind you.....
» 14/04/2017 2:13:16 PM Yuyutsu, Wow, and here I thought I’d heard all the apologia for slavery in the Bible. &l.....
» 14/04/2017 12:18:07 PM Yuyutsu asks: “Personally, unless in a political context, I understand 'secular' to mean &.....
» 14/04/2017 12:10:11 PM Bazz, I didn't mean to imply that all slaves were black. But the Bible's instructions on .....
» 14/04/2017 11:47:21 AM Toni Lavis, I guess even conservatives have to accept some change on the odd occasion. If.....
» 14/04/2017 11:12:25 AM Joe, The cost of Halal certification is more than negated by the additional sales. For th.....
» 13/04/2017 6:13:06 PM Dear Foxy, Divine or not, Jesus would have been a Jew - by both blood and faith (though o.....
» 13/04/2017 3:39:40 PM Warwick Marsh wrote: “The preamble to the Australian Constitution contains the words, &quo.....
» 13/04/2017 2:32:12 PM Yuyutsu, Milena is a spammer. You’ve just replied to a spammer. They're not going to see .....
» 13/04/2017 12:37:44 PM Gawd, here we go again. Claims that the Western World has Christianity to thank for every.....
» 12/04/2017 7:09:26 PM Yes Zeil, it’s known as the ‘slippery slope’: http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slo.....
» 12/04/2017 3:06:41 PM How do you mean “poisoning the well”, leoj? Are you referring to my suggestions that this.....
» 12/04/2017 1:55:11 PM Thanks for the funny, Foxy. I need that today! -- leoj, The connection between abstinen.....
» 12/04/2017 9:31:38 AM Arguably a bigger transmitter of STDs nowadays is the unprotected sex and anal sex that is.....
» 11/04/2017 4:17:09 PM Hi Zeil, I don't want to risk de-railing the discussion, so I'll link you to an old commen.....
» 11/04/2017 2:57:33 PM I would support voluntary euthanasia, but was staunchly against it when I was a Christian......
» 11/04/2017 10:12:27 AM Great! <<… with Christ, human beings are offered a new identity. This identity is a.....
» 10/04/2017 1:14:36 PM Sorry Joe, but I haven’t committed the Appeal to Novelty fallacy because my arguments for .....
» 10/04/2017 12:50:25 PM Joe, By “fluid concept”, I mean marriage is always changing - in both its social signific.....
» 10/04/2017 11:31:43 AM Joe, Marriage has been a fluid concept in most (probably all) societies concept since its.....
» 10/04/2017 10:48:34 AM Joe, This is where your logic on same-sex marriage falls flat: <<… marriage' is … .....
» 9/04/2017 8:23:35 PM Indeed, you’re not, ttbn. Indeed, you’re not. <<I am not necessarily a bigot just b.....
» 9/04/2017 11:00:14 AM ttbn writes: “Maybe he is just somebody who wanted to be president after all?” http://you.....
» 9/04/2017 9:46:12 AM ttbn writes: “Some of you people on OLO really need to start doing some serious reading in.....
» 8/04/2017 12:50:19 PM Big Nana, At what point have I expressed a desire to avoid facing that? <<… regard.....
» 8/04/2017 7:34:44 AM Well this is turning out to be an interesting discussion after all. A discussion that ini.....
» 7/04/2017 2:51:34 PM I was referring to heterosexual women, Big Nana. <<… the reason I used the word &qu.....
» 7/04/2017 12:12:57 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for that, but the rest of my post wasn’t aimed at you, if that’s what y.....
» 7/04/2017 11:34:31 AM That’s a bit sexist, isn’t it Big Nana? <<Finally, gross as the thought is, there a.....
» 7/04/2017 10:07:58 AM This is all starting to look like a good argument for same-sex marriage. After all, marria.....
» 7/04/2017 6:17:31 AM Thanks for the timely reminder of Alan Turing, Foxy. It’s touching that so many here are .....
» 6/04/2017 11:22:43 AM Joe, Section 18C is concerning racial discrimination. Going by your description, it doesn.....
» 5/04/2017 4:17:30 PM That’s precisely it, Josephus. <<I believe an offense occurs when an individual is .....
» 2/04/2017 9:57:20 AM I take it then, George, that you cannot defend your claim? Maybe another time then? -- H.....
» 2/04/2017 7:57:40 AM George, I am not “nitpicking”. To “nitpick” means to deal with details that are inconsequ.....
» 2/04/2017 5:51:24 AM Dear david f, I probably need to look into the situation a bit more by the sounds of it. .....
» 1/04/2017 4:08:33 PM ttbn, Not a “jot or tittle” of the “law” can be changed either. That goes for both testam.....
» 1/04/2017 1:38:16 PM I think I’d have to disagree with you there slightly, david f. Picketing at funerals is pa.....
» 1/04/2017 12:21:39 PM Dear david f, Thanks for that. Your post was by far the best argument I’ve seen against s.....
» 1/04/2017 11:13:14 AM George, A more appropriate word to describe what I did would be “respond”. By referring t.....
» 31/03/2017 4:49:14 PM Got any evidence for your claims this time, runner? No? Didn't think so. Just more asserti.....
» 31/03/2017 3:54:49 PM ttbn, Islam is a religion by the very definition of the word: “The belief in and worship.....
» 31/03/2017 9:39:37 AM George, It doesn’t matter one iota who insists what. Nor does it matter to what extent co.....
» 31/03/2017 7:28:34 AM mhaze, In what way is Western civilisation in decline, and how exactly does the decline o.....
» 30/03/2017 5:25:38 PM I haven’t read much from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, although I’ve been meaning to. I like Sam Harri.....
» 29/03/2017 6:57:04 PM david f, I disagree that Australia’s defamation laws are unreasonable. I think Australia’.....
» 29/03/2017 4:54:39 PM phanto, If you’re so sure that what I did was predictable, then why do you need to state .....
» 29/03/2017 4:11:43 PM Oh Gawd! Here we go. Have fun with that, LisaM. That's phanto's way of trying to get the l.....
» 29/03/2017 10:44:43 AM Yes, George, I understood your point. <<Sorry, you apparently did not understand my.....
» 29/03/2017 9:08:07 AM Not quite, George. <<This is about as meaningful as saying: “It is true that Mr and.....
» 26/03/2017 2:03:38 PM What do you mean “now”, NathanJ. <<So societies now decide a social construct?>.....
» 26/03/2017 11:28:32 AM That makes no difference to my rebuttal, George. <<The joke is not about the missio.....
» 26/03/2017 9:37:43 AM Amusing joke, George. However, it is not analogous to my statement because the missionary .....
» 26/03/2017 8:08:56 AM Yuyustu, We don’t need there to be ethics in nature. There doesn’t need to be a “particle.....
» 24/03/2017 8:57:28 PM fool on the hill, Your post was one big Courtier’s Reply fallacy - a form of ad hominem (.....
» 24/03/2017 11:25:14 AM Gillard certainly had her faults, but "knifing" Rudd wasn't one of them. Rudd w.....
» 24/03/2017 10:01:56 AM Funny, I follow a lot of the major anti-theist groups on Facebook and I didn’t notice anyt.....
» 24/03/2017 9:06:02 AM That, it's not, Shockadelic. That, it's not. <<11.75 million barrels per day is not.....
» 23/03/2017 1:01:12 PM Sheesh! You guys will engage in all sorts of waffle and mental gymnastics to avoid acknowl.....
» 23/03/2017 10:01:18 AM The Muslim countries not included in Trump's ban list were the ones he has business ties w.....
» 21/03/2017 8:58:44 AM I could imagine a world were eventually none of us have to work because robots do everythi.....
» 19/03/2017 12:32:34 PM Armchair Critic, I did slightly regret what I wrote after I posted it. But the sheer orgy.....
» 18/03/2017 9:49:12 PM calwest, So you’re just going to offer more insults then? Nothing of any real substance, .....
» 18/03/2017 8:54:23 PM So no one else is going to have a go? Go on, tell me what a nasty, nasty person I am. Let .....
» 18/03/2017 3:33:12 PM Calwest, I couldn't care if Leak had barely been dead for an hour. The world is better of.....
» 18/03/2017 10:07:19 AM Calwest, If you have a rational argument against anything I’ve said, then I’d love to hea.....
» 17/03/2017 4:18:32 PM Just as well appealing to nature is a fallacy then, eh runner? <<No changing laws w.....
» 16/03/2017 8:01:12 PM Oh c’mon, Armchair Critic. You’ve always known that leftism was nothing more than one big .....
» 16/03/2017 5:35:11 PM I loves me-self a bit o’ feigned outrage. That’s the second time I’ve seen a righty get a.....
» 16/03/2017 12:54:49 PM Goddamit, Armchair Critic! Why couldn’t you have just kept your big mouth shut, eh? Yeah,.....
» 16/03/2017 9:35:15 AM ttbn, Could you give me an example of a change that has been made or proposed purely for .....
» 16/03/2017 7:45:03 AM Ah yes, Armchair Critic. How times have changed! When I was a budding conspiracy theorist.....
» 15/03/2017 6:14:00 PM You see what I mean, misanthrope? More insults and no reasoning to justify any of them. D.....
» 15/03/2017 5:04:38 PM misanthrope, Foxy did not endorse what I said. What she did was inform me that she was un.....
» 15/03/2017 9:47:01 AM You do that all the time, ttbn. <<Isn't it interesting how Foxy goes quiet when she.....
» 14/03/2017 5:59:14 PM Bazz, As someone who keeps a close eye on the latest BS to come from the anti-vax movemen.....
» 14/03/2017 6:39:15 AM …Continued One thing I am certain of, however, is that it is not an appreciation for evid.....
» 14/03/2017 6:39:12 AM Oh no, SteeleRedux, I wasn’t suggesting that you should tone it down. I’m one of the last .....
» 13/03/2017 10:15:27 PM SteeleRedux wrote: “What self serving rubbish. This was never about being a skeptic, rathe.....
» 13/03/2017 12:45:31 AM Armchair Critic, There’s no need to give me a rundown of the film. I’ve seen it before. I.....
» 12/03/2017 10:37:12 PM Yes, Yes, Armchair Critic. I’ve seen Vaxxed. I downloaded a torrent of it months ago (ain’.....
» 12/03/2017 8:39:17 PM …Continued <<Being forced to allow a doctor to administer to your child something w.....
» 12/03/2017 8:39:12 PM Armchair Critic, Thanks for summarising the angle presented by fake news outlets such as .....
» 1/03/2017 7:13:49 PM You’re taking us in circles now, phanto. <<That does not mean that homosexuals shou.....
» 1/03/2017 1:05:14 PM phanto, If you have a problem with marriage or discrimination towards de facto couples, t.....
» 1/03/2017 12:31:51 PM Correct, mhaze. <<If its human … it has all the rights that go with that. Whatismor.....
» 1/03/2017 7:53:03 AM That’s simple, phanto. I’ve listed some several times before. <<Name one benefit of.....
» 1/03/2017 6:09:59 AM I didn’t think you’d be gone long, LEGO. Not for so long as you think you have an audience.....
» 28/02/2017 10:22:21 PM phanto, Arguing, stating, it doesn’t really matter what it was that you were wanting to .....
» 28/02/2017 3:02:59 PM So I take it then, phanto, that you have no examples of my alleged side-stepping, subject .....
» 28/02/2017 1:27:10 PM mhaze, The unborn child is human from the point of conception. Its DNA is proof of that. .....
» 27/02/2017 10:09:26 PM LEGO, People generally rest their case once it’s been made. <<I rest my case, Mlud.....
» 27/02/2017 9:08:32 PM I figured you had the wrong thread before, phanto. <<... you never give up and you .....
» 27/02/2017 7:59:34 PM You usually are, phanto. <<I’m confused now. You think that the argument in favour .....
» 27/02/2017 7:36:08 PM phanto, It appears you addressed me instead. Of course, if that wasn't a mistake, then f.....
» 27/02/2017 3:20:07 PM I have already, phanto. <<If there is a good reason why the line should be re-drawn.....
» 27/02/2017 10:36:07 AM Well that little stoush between Toni Lavis and phanto was thoroughly enjoyable. It’s nice .....
» 27/02/2017 7:32:40 AM Oh, so is THAT why you were being dishonest, LEGO? <<Finally got you writing paragr.....
» 26/02/2017 11:09:45 PM I’ve gotta say, LEGO, your most recent attempt pin a double standard on me was the most di.....
» 26/02/2017 9:55:43 PM Oh, I know you do, LEGO. <<I sure hope that everybody is reading this, AJ.>> .....
» 26/02/2017 7:33:35 PM Oh please, LEGO, do tell me how you’ve painted me into a corner. Let us all finally see th.....
» 26/02/2017 5:15:17 PM Erm, y-y-y-yeah phanto. Yes. After all your unsuccessful attempts to reveal my “insincerit.....
» 26/02/2017 1:31:54 PM I am not evading anything, Big Nana. Your take on what is at issue is simply wrong. <&.....
» 26/02/2017 7:42:07 AM Y-y-y-yeah, phanto. I might just leave those last two posts of yours ri-i-i-ight there and.....
» 26/02/2017 7:30:54 AM Well you’ve never complained that a link I provided was “vague” before, LEGO. <<I f.....
» 25/02/2017 9:16:21 PM Yes, phanto. <<It does not have to be analogous it just has to be a relationship wh.....
» 25/02/2017 5:20:18 PM I have already addressed your ‘sneery one-liners’ accusation, LEGO. <<You respond t.....
» 25/02/2017 3:31:59 PM Phanto, I don’t care what reason governments have for not allowing polygamy. <<You.....
» 25/02/2017 1:20:55 PM Big nana, It is, if one cannot provide a credible mechanism by which the slippery slope w.....
» 25/02/2017 12:16:02 PM Of course, that should read "RISEN dramatically"......
» 25/02/2017 11:42:27 AM Armchair Critic, What constitutes fake news has nothing to do with the political persuasi.....
» 25/02/2017 8:02:11 AM LEGO, I don’t buy that, because my “sneery” responses always adequately address what you .....
» 25/02/2017 1:08:10 AM Hasbeen, I find it ironic that you tell me to grow up, and then immediately proceed to sl.....
» 24/02/2017 1:25:45 PM Thanks, Foxy. I try to remain fair and avoid biting back, but sometimes an individual's at.....
» 24/02/2017 11:50:48 AM C’mon, phanto. Do I really have to answer that for you? <<On what grounds are gay p.....
» 24/02/2017 11:06:03 AM Dear Foxy, I know who misanthrope is. How could I not? He only ever posts now to attack m.....
» 24/02/2017 10:06:38 AM Now replace “same-sex” with “black” and “gay lobby” with “civil rights movement”, then rea.....
» 24/02/2017 7:38:27 AM …Continued The same can’t be said for Muslims, though. <<Which is odd when you adm.....
» 24/02/2017 7:38:21 AM Jayb, I wasn’t aware that there was an actual program. Can you link me to some informatio.....
» 23/02/2017 10:10:49 PM Ah, quotes! Let’s see if you do any better this time, LEGO. <<But you are God and y.....
» 23/02/2017 8:56:36 PM “Look at me, I is big mean Albania mans.” Haha! Love ya work, mate......
» 23/02/2017 8:37:59 PM Nah. On second thoughts, I think whoever's behind this misanthrope character is having us .....
» 23/02/2017 8:13:49 PM misanthrope, You sound like very angry mans. You is become obsess with me. You hold the g.....
» 23/02/2017 7:54:56 PM Graham, I would agree with that, although it does somewhat clash with Jesus’ stated inten.....
» 23/02/2017 7:22:39 AM Correct, LEGO. <<If I say that Muslims as a group are dangerous, AJ, I am prejudgin.....
» 23/02/2017 12:00:56 AM Jayb, I’m not sure why you would need me to explain my statement to you. There was nothin.....
» 22/02/2017 9:16:30 PM Armchair Critic, I'm encouraged to hear that Google is cutting ad revenue to fake news si.....
» 22/02/2017 7:07:56 AM …Continued <<But somehow, you can "see inside the hearts" of every Nazi a.....
» 22/02/2017 7:07:50 AM I dunno, LEGO. You haven’t done a very good job of it so far. <<You know that when .....
» 21/02/2017 9:00:32 PM You’re really struggling with the whole ‘prejudging’ bit, aren’t you LEGO? <<You ha.....
» 21/02/2017 3:07:10 PM Wow, I thought only runner could pack that much willful ignorance into one post. I was wro.....
» 21/02/2017 9:44:23 AM So in other words, ttbn, you’re just gonna believe whatever you want, and to hell with the.....
» 21/02/2017 6:18:09 AM If you want to consider US military intervention “terrorism”, LEGO. <<Oh, that's c.....
» 20/02/2017 9:14:12 PM Why certainly, LEGO. <<Please define exactly what a "moderate" Muslim is?.....
» 20/02/2017 5:10:30 PM You cannot possibly know what every Muslim believes, LEGO. <<All Muslims take the i.....
» 20/02/2017 11:05:27 AM Most Christians haven’t read the Bible, and the few who have, haven’t read beyond the Gosp.....
» 19/02/2017 4:58:34 PM Yeah, I hear the occasional bit of racial abuse on the train too. It's usually some bogan .....
» 19/02/2017 3:54:50 PM NathanJ, I don’t really care what Mother Teresa was like personally. It was her neglect o.....
» 19/02/2017 3:07:34 PM Is Mise, An ‘answer’ can be a solution or a mere response. I think phanto was referring t.....
» 18/02/2017 10:45:11 PM That or I'm indifferent to it, mhaze. <<Home in on the periphery and ignore the sub.....
» 18/02/2017 8:48:21 PM mhaze, The difference between dark matter and gods is that there is evidence for dark mat.....
» 17/02/2017 12:25:10 PM Hang on, how did we go from, ‘SBS and the ABC focus too much on race and racism’, to, ‘Why.....
» 16/02/2017 9:38:17 PM Graham, I too find the viciousness here disconcerting. However, I don’t think it’s being .....
» 15/02/2017 12:20:08 PM Keep the amateur psychology coming, phanto. This is amusing stuff. <<Whatever I say.....
» 15/02/2017 11:01:09 AM phanto, Well it didn’t take you long to resort to your amateur psychology again, did it? .....
» 14/02/2017 9:47:19 PM Thanks for the clarification, phanto. It’s consistent with your suggestion that I flag you.....
» 14/02/2017 8:57:25 PM Again, phanto, that depends on what you mean by “put up”. <<If you can't find a way.....
» 14/02/2017 7:49:20 PM Why does it have to change something, phanto? <<How does pointing it out change any.....
» 14/02/2017 6:09:08 PM Like what, phanto? << As I have already explained to you the only logical response .....
» 14/02/2017 10:40:22 AM phanto, There is no need for you to tell Foxy that there is no need to tell you what ther.....
» 13/02/2017 8:34:11 AM That was a terrific video. Just fantastic. I didn’t mind it. I mean, I liked it. But Toni’.....
» 12/02/2017 4:28:43 PM Yuyutsu, Perhaps not explicitly, you don’t. <<No one is "under the law" .....
» 12/02/2017 12:21:32 PM You’re wrong on both counts, Armchair Critic. << Person peeing on officers boots = .....
» 11/02/2017 5:31:03 PM Sounds like you’re thinking of mining, runner. <<That is why some Regional cities n.....
» 11/02/2017 4:00:46 PM Good thinking, runner. Now if only those regional centres had jobs, the younger generation.....
» 9/02/2017 6:34:23 AM Arjay, Yes, it turns out that C02 is not the only driver of climate. Who would’ve thought.....
» 7/02/2017 7:31:38 AM LOL. Climategates 1 and 2 turned out to be nothing, so how did we get to 3? You lot are de.....
» 1/02/2017 11:11:02 PM Paranoia about what, phanto?.....
» 1/02/2017 12:49:16 PM At what point did I express a desire to stop you, phanto? <<Either way you are not .....
» 1/02/2017 12:12:23 PM It’s not against the rules, phanto. <<If I am dictating and dictating is so terribl.....
» 1/02/2017 10:54:11 AM Bad question, phanto. That should have been as obvious as the lack of seriousness in anoth.....
» 1/02/2017 8:29:02 AM ...or do agree with, even......
» 1/02/2017 8:22:43 AM Sheesh, phanto! Who died and made you moderator? Certainly not Graham. But since you're b.....
» 31/01/2017 12:32:13 PM plantagenet, The Muslim countries not included in Trump's ban list are the ones he has bu.....
» 30/01/2017 7:58:47 PM Have too, phanto. Brevity. Your argument against brevity relied on the mistaken belief t.....
» 30/01/2017 7:23:47 PM No, phanto. Actually, I didn’t. <<But you already made your point and then you felt.....
» 30/01/2017 6:26:15 PM Because our gets the point across quickly, phanto. <<Why would you need to add 'sho.....
» 30/01/2017 5:23:44 PM Is playing dumb your next tactic, phanto? Given up on the pseudo-psychology, have we? Mayb.....
» 29/01/2017 12:40:40 PM I don’t “need” to phanto. <<Why do you need to tell us what you would do if you cou.....
» 29/01/2017 11:07:53 AM Looks like you’ve already started on your journey to recovery, phanto. <<OK so I ac.....
» 28/01/2017 11:30:30 PM phanto, You're insistence that there is no evidence of wrongdoing on your part is indicat.....
» 28/01/2017 9:15:32 PM Toni Lavis, I know, I know. I have a habit of getting sucked into these childish little b.....
» 28/01/2017 6:08:15 PM o sung wu, You wanting to hijack yet another discussion with your unprovoked personal att.....
» 28/01/2017 3:45:13 PM nicknamenick, LSD has also given us some of the greatest music over the last 50 years. Th.....
» 28/01/2017 3:10:23 PM phanto, Nothing I have said suggests a defensiveness on my behalf. The brevity of your po.....
» 28/01/2017 1:11:05 PM I know, Is Mise. <<no one asked you to [provide evidence]>> I was simply exp.....
» 28/01/2017 11:55:03 AM Is Mise, What I meant is that despite being taught to think for yourself and question eve.....
» 28/01/2017 11:15:47 AM Is Mise, Do you believe everything you hear until someone proves it wrong? <<Until.....
» 28/01/2017 7:27:10 AM phanto, What makes you think I felt a need? <<Why do you need to tell us that you .....
» 27/01/2017 4:20:18 PM Yes, Is Mise. I'd note that the same number of amputees cured by the springs is identical .....
» 27/01/2017 2:24:47 PM ... or, "the system itself", even......
» 27/01/2017 2:18:38 PM NathanJ, No, I will not be taking up any form of Spiritism until some reliable evidence s.....
» 27/01/2017 1:54:10 PM runner, Could you point me to an occasion where I engaged in bullying? Or was that just a.....
» 22/01/2017 9:49:04 AM It's not just the fact that Trump is a bully that is a problem, but the fact that he inspi.....
» 20/01/2017 5:28:24 PM Not always, phanto. <<When you ignore [bullies] it takes away their power. If they .....
» 20/01/2017 7:30:42 AM phanto, You do not have to tell Foxy that she does not have to tell you that she is not g.....
» 16/12/2016 9:37:09 PM SAINTS, That’s a transgender issue. <<If in an instance of emergency (fire, floodi.....
» 16/12/2016 5:26:14 PM T800, You’re the one wasting the time of others. Here we go to the effort of well thought.....
» 16/12/2016 2:26:23 PM minotaur, It’s all good fun. I know I’ll never convince those commenting here, but who kn.....
» 16/12/2016 10:33:19 AM T800, Instead of stubbornly digging your heels in and simply repeating your assertions, h.....
» 14/12/2016 6:39:42 PM Thanks for the amusing reminder, Toni Lavis. Yes, I think it’s high time I walked away......
» 14/12/2016 4:11:46 PM I wasn’t trying to mask anything, o sung wu. <<… again you attempt to mask your obv.....
» 14/12/2016 7:28:48 AM Leo Lane, More insults from a desperate and intolerant person with apparent anger issues......
» 13/12/2016 9:28:05 PM o sung wu, I wouldn’t exactly call it “wisdom”, but thank you all the same. <<And .....
» 13/12/2016 5:19:17 PM Leo Lane, My apologies. I’ve gotten into a habit of skimming your posts because, usually,.....
» 13/12/2016 3:42:31 PM T800, And yet somehow, I don’t need to resort to abuse! <<… you are still losing t.....
» 12/12/2016 10:07:33 PM o sung wu, Why would police need to be poorly educated to prevent any of that? <<W.....
» 12/12/2016 8:17:27 PM T800, Sorry, my last response was inadequate due to word restrictions. I’ll try again. &.....
» 12/12/2016 2:13:06 PM T800, No, I never implied anything of the sort. <<So lets call Cricket Soccer in c.....
» 12/12/2016 8:55:10 AM Leo Lane, Again, asking one to justify one's claim is never "stupid". <<.....
» 11/12/2016 8:15:55 PM ...Continued Police with higher education tend to stress less, and are less likely to nee.....
» 11/12/2016 8:15:48 PM o sung wu That shouldn't come as a surprise to you. <<What ! I really needed to re.....
» 11/12/2016 9:55:09 AM o sung wu, Of course no one seriously thinks they’re always right all of the time. Well, .....
» 11/12/2016 4:41:21 AM grateful, I don’t see how you have made the case that Muhammad’s (torment be upon him) ma.....
» 10/12/2016 10:15:07 AM I have not lied about anything, T800. Let alone admitted to it. <<So you now admit .....
» 10/12/2016 9:04:17 AM Yes, really, T800. <<Really AJ? wasn't it you that said I didn't really have gay fr.....
» 10/12/2016 7:41:14 AM grateful, I’m not too interesting in whether Muhammed (torment be upon him) was a paedoph.....
» 10/12/2016 7:19:41 AM maricus, I don’t see where Leo Lane has provided any such thing. <<It appears Leo .....
» 10/12/2016 7:19:34 AM o sung wu, I don’t know why you would think that theory and practice never meet. They mee.....
» 8/12/2016 12:53:03 PM grateful, I haven’t professed a deep knowledge of anything. But I do know enough about th.....
» 8/12/2016 11:13:10 AM …Continued <<You’re the accuser, so where is your evidence of Ayesha being intermit.....
» 8/12/2016 11:13:05 AM Yes, grateful, I read it. <<You obviously didn’t read the link I gave.>> But.....
» 7/12/2016 9:58:23 AM Continued... <<... or for why thousands of years of tradition of, and the purposes .....
» 7/12/2016 9:58:19 AM That's right, Leo Lane. <<Terms can’t be hijacked, according to AJP.>> Becau.....
» 6/12/2016 8:44:06 PM …Continued <<You can be born male but choose to be female and vice versa.>> .....
» 6/12/2016 8:44:02 PM T800 (which terminator was that?), I like how some of you conservative folk suddenly deve.....
» 6/12/2016 7:46:21 PM ...Continued <<You can explain why you don't like something (so its wrong for you) .....
» 6/12/2016 7:46:17 PM You're right, grateful. I haven't. <<Yet in all your attacks on Christianity have y.....
» 5/12/2016 9:49:18 PM No, Leo Lane, I don’t choose to ignore anything. You simply haven’t justified or elaborate.....
» 5/12/2016 9:34:22 PM grateful, Your argument again is just one big Tu quoque fallacy. And not all paedophiles .....
» 5/12/2016 7:36:03 PM Leo Lane, For someone who is a retired lawyer, you are surprisingly bad at articulating y.....
» 5/12/2016 3:56:19 PM Misanthrope, No, you weren't right. I am married with children. <<I am right you a.....
» 4/12/2016 9:25:51 PM Billyd, You mean when should they be forced to carry the beautiful unborn human child, so.....
» 4/12/2016 8:52:27 PM I didn't think you'd have an answer to that last question of mine, grateful. Best not to t.....
» 4/12/2016 7:38:19 PM Is Mise, I never claimed that the rights of the unborn exceed those of the born. <<.....
» 4/12/2016 4:12:30 PM RitaJ, The “basic rights” you list are trumped by the pregnant woman’s right to not be us.....
» 4/12/2016 3:38:36 PM RitaJ, No one has the right to use someone else’s body for their survival. That's another.....
» 4/12/2016 9:32:31 AM phanto, Here’s a logical argument for marriage: it provides a speedy nationally and inter.....
» 4/12/2016 7:10:47 AM grateful, So you have no evidence that Europeans/Anglos rape more than other ethnicities?.....
» 3/12/2016 3:51:39 PM Leo Lane, No, my hypothetical was perfectly on topic where your reply was concerned becau.....
» 3/12/2016 7:55:46 AM grateful, You haven’t really addressed Jayb’s criticism of Mohammed (torment be upon him).....
» 2/12/2016 10:32:52 PM What a stupid argument, Leo Lane. <<Marriage is between a man and a woman, so “same.....
» 2/12/2016 9:32:38 PM Thanks for yet another example of the Argumentum ad antiquitatem fallacy, Leo Lane. You ho.....
» 2/12/2016 8:43:19 PM The bottom line is that no one has the right to use someone else’s body for their survival.....
» 2/12/2016 9:23:37 AM maricus, This is essentially just the Appeal to Nature fallacy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/.....
» 1/12/2016 1:58:55 PM I’m sure some people do that, Albie Manton. <<What I object to … is the labelling b.....
» 30/11/2016 8:14:55 PM Albie Manton, Thank you for this discussion’s first instance of the Naturalistic fallacy .....
» 29/11/2016 9:16:54 AM maricus, How is the term, ‘same-sex marriage’, illogical? phanto, The answer to your q.....
» 15/11/2016 1:55:14 PM Marxist, Marxist, Marxist. Get a new line, guys. So now we have the fact that the opportu.....
» 14/11/2016 9:54:43 AM ttbn, I wouldn't regard someone who had clocked up nine years of participation on a forum.....
» 14/11/2016 8:00:36 AM Actually, ttbn, you probably do have a point with regards to trade unions and the politica.....
» 14/11/2016 7:42:23 AM ttbn, Once again, with nowhere left to turn, you resort to ad hominem attacks, with a cou.....
» 14/11/2016 7:28:10 AM No, I didn’t imply that, LEGO <<You IMPLIED you were talking about sub species …>.....
» 12/11/2016 10:25:39 PM ttbn, I'm starting to think you don't know what “dimwitted” means. <<You are anot.....
» 12/11/2016 6:23:46 PM I know, LEGO. <<Population Genetics is a SUBFIELD of genetics.>> Read my sec.....
» 12/11/2016 5:55:50 PM ttbn, What an unpleasant person you are. <<You are the most ignorant windbag infe.....
» 12/11/2016 10:37:55 AM Oh, I should also mention that Hitler favoured individualism over collectivism, segregatio.....
» 12/11/2016 10:27:44 AM Armchair Critic, So you found one instance of an untrue claim and some non-specific vanda.....
» 12/11/2016 8:37:03 AM Shocking video. I'm still waiting to see if someone starts a discussion on the apparent s.....
» 12/11/2016 7:23:44 AM Actually, LEGO, I will note that population genetics is slightly different to the notion o.....
» 12/11/2016 6:29:13 AM Once again, LEGO, you fail to account for the differences in the heritability of, and the .....
» 11/11/2016 9:14:38 PM Once again for the slow, LEGO. <<Does that mean that you agree that behaviour is a .....
» 11/11/2016 9:25:21 AM Some additional thoughts, LEGO. Do you remember how I’ve always noted in the past that th.....
» 11/11/2016 6:39:12 AM Yes, you did, LEGO. <<Did I? When asked by me " Exactly what do you mean by &.....
» 10/11/2016 4:53:41 PM Nice dodge there, LEGO. <<I am using genetics in the way that any person who comple.....
» 10/11/2016 7:12:22 AM Still no contradiction, LEGO. <<You admit that behaviour is a product of nature (ge.....
» 9/11/2016 7:32:41 AM Some additional thoughts, LEGO. I should point out that it’s unrealistic of you to fill y.....
» 9/11/2016 6:27:31 AM Still not a contradiction, LEGO. <<You recognise the principle that behaviour is a .....
» 8/11/2016 7:08:15 PM Dearie me, LEGO. That’s gotta be embarrassing. <<That should keep AJ busy for a whi.....
» 8/11/2016 4:40:02 PM What do mean "again", LEGO? <<There you go again, AJ. You first agree tha.....
» 8/11/2016 8:05:17 AM I’ve been wondering the same thing. I’m not sure that the Liberals are silly enough to re.....
» 8/11/2016 7:31:54 AM LEGO, Given that you’re the only one here who has committed a fallacy (eleven of them, to.....
» 7/11/2016 1:53:05 PM …Continued For example, one could ensure that a child grew up to be angry, and someone wh.....
» 7/11/2016 1:53:01 PM LEGO, It hadn’t even been 48 hours since your last post and you were already doing the vi.....
» 3/11/2016 8:31:01 AM …Continued <<Now comes every excuse …>> “Excuse”. Ding! <<God knows w.....
» 3/11/2016 8:30:57 AM Yes, LEGO, let’s. <<Let's examine your replies on genetics, race, and crime, AJ.>.....
» 2/11/2016 4:44:09 PM …Continued <<You want me to do all the work and explain everything …>> Again.....
» 2/11/2016 4:14:56 PM misanthrope, I don’t think you even know what LEGO and I are discussing. I think you’ve j.....
» 2/11/2016 8:08:57 AM ...Continued <<After I have filled in each category with a dozen quotes, I can begi.....
» 2/11/2016 8:08:52 AM Is Mise, Sorry about all this. Even I feel sorry for the poor old Adler now and and I don.....
» 1/11/2016 4:43:54 PM Actually, LEGO, I did once take issue with your use of the word “major” in that last one t.....
» 1/11/2016 3:56:22 PM Still not having it two ways, LEGO. <<If you concede that low IQ is a factor in cri.....
» 1/11/2016 7:33:03 AM …Continued <<… then you demand that I prove that you are wrong.>> “Demand”. .....
» 1/11/2016 7:32:59 AM Just not when you make untrue claims then, eh LEGO? <<Naah, got heaps of quotes.>.....
» 30/10/2016 3:26:46 PM Still lean on the quotes I see, LEGO. <<You claimed that IQ testing of races was no.....
» 30/10/2016 12:32:36 PM LEGO, Sorry I haven’t been sitting at my computer clicking refresh every five minutes, bu.....
» 28/10/2016 8:02:48 PM LEGO, In my experience, “Complete waffle” is what people say when they don't have a good .....
» 28/10/2016 10:26:43 AM The author writes: “I also wonder what the attitude of the PC brigade would be, if an Isla.....
» 28/10/2016 7:47:35 AM …Continued Then there's this again: “Firstly, you haven’t controlled for environmental f.....
» 28/10/2016 7:47:31 AM That's known as the false dichotomy, LEGO. <<Either ethnic crime is very bad, it is.....
» 27/10/2016 10:38:44 AM Some additional thoughts, LEGO. <<… but I have noted previously that you seem to en.....
» 27/10/2016 6:52:13 AM It appears that several commenters here have failed to realise that the author wasn’t maki.....
» 27/10/2016 6:30:55 AM …Continued <<"Low IQ's." You finally got it right.>> Finally? No, .....
» 27/10/2016 6:30:50 AM That’s the thing, LEGO, I have and I don’t see where they claim that “all” perception of e.....
» 26/10/2016 8:46:35 AM LEGO, In the quote you provided, the “proposition” that I said I could vouch for was that.....
» 25/10/2016 7:12:09 PM LEGO, When did I refuse to concede that ethnic crime is "very bad"? Where have.....
» 23/10/2016 9:32:14 PM “Yooooooo Hooooo!, [LEGO]. Where arrrrrrrre Youuuuuuuu? Damn. That is the seventh time [.....
» 21/10/2016 11:11:49 PM …Continued <<But I suppose you realised that you have made a complete fool of yours.....
» 21/10/2016 11:11:43 PM Yes, I do, LEGO. <<You claimed that I have no evidence of your dishonesty.>> .....
» 19/10/2016 3:11:42 AM ...Continued But I was being generous. We can be quite certain that they genetics mean no.....
» 19/10/2016 3:11:37 AM And you have no evidence of that at all, LEGO. <<Since you persist in debating dish.....
» 18/10/2016 6:49:44 AM No, I haven’t conceded that, LEGO. <<Even AJ concedes that [prison populations have.....
» 17/10/2016 7:16:56 PM Oh but I already have, LEGO. <<I know that you are too frightened to submit a reaso.....
» 17/10/2016 6:48:30 AM …Continued <<There were the usual hot button "links" which nobody bothers.....
» 17/10/2016 6:47:37 AM No, LEGO, you confuse correlation with causation. <<What I have is a very strong, c.....
» 16/10/2016 3:31:21 PM What, you don’t think Trump fits that description too, runner? <<Well I suppose, A.....
» 16/10/2016 12:22:37 PM I’ve already countered this, LEGO. <<The Leftist establishment uses racist argument.....
» 16/10/2016 12:02:25 PM Regardless of Hilary Clinton’s flaws, there are three things that make the choice between .....
» 16/10/2016 10:15:24 AM ttbn, A sneaky, cowardly attack there: << TL, like AJ, is just a bored troll who l.....
» 16/10/2016 9:07:05 AM LEGO, It doesn’t matter what the crime rate is with “blacks” (you still haven’t defined “.....
» 14/10/2016 7:23:27 AM Nothing to say in response, LEGO? I’m not surprised. Although, I'm sure that won’t stop yo.....
» 13/10/2016 3:06:05 PM ttbn, The, "If they really believed they had majority support ... ", argument i.....
» 13/10/2016 9:30:11 AM ttbn, At no point have I suggested that you are. <<Since when was I obliged to ans.....
» 13/10/2016 8:10:21 AM …Continued <<You have criticised the obvious connection between low intelligence an.....
» 13/10/2016 8:10:17 AM I apologise for my tardy responses, LEGO. I’ve been frightfully busy in the last week or s.....
» 13/10/2016 7:42:32 AM That's the way, ttbn. When you have no answers, just dig your heels in and repeat the same.....
» 12/10/2016 6:52:59 PM No, ttbn, the plebiscite was an attempt to drag the issue out and possibly prevent same-se.....
» 10/10/2016 9:36:32 AM Armchair Critic, Trump didn't just say some "unfavorable things", he outed hims.....
» 9/10/2016 4:25:17 PM I was sceptical at first, but yes, I now think it’s well and truly over for Trump. Even if.....
» 7/10/2016 3:23:28 PM Some more fun and games while I was waiting for the narcissistic ‘victory dance’ that unfo.....
» 7/10/2016 12:36:20 PM No, LEGO, I’m not making any mistakes. <<The mistake you made, was dismissing an ea.....
» 2/10/2016 6:30:12 PM Not by itself, it doesn't LEGO. <<Correlation does not always denote causation. But.....
» 2/10/2016 7:44:06 AM LEGO, Your problem is that you think that correlation proves causation. It doesn't. You n.....
» 1/10/2016 5:49:06 PM Because correlation doesn't necessitate causation, LEGO. <<... US prisoners have be.....
» 1/10/2016 1:12:51 PM LEGO, I could see how anything beyond oversimplifications and a black and white view of t.....
» 30/09/2016 11:08:14 AM LEGO, Thanks for a fine example of the problem with your reasoning. <<… AJ Phillip.....
» 28/09/2016 7:23:14 PM I often tell religious people that reality is so much more interesting than their mystical.....
» 28/09/2016 6:43:36 PM Oh boy, LEGO. You really are slow. <<I have no intention of debating with you until.....
» 28/09/2016 8:24:13 AM Okay, LEGO, but that doesn’t mean I was "wrong" (let alone “again”). <<My.....
» 27/09/2016 10:07:48 PM You seem to be cooling mighty fast on Trump there, Armchair Critic. That's encouraging. Th.....
» 27/09/2016 12:58:57 PM Well, I think this about sums up the debate: http://goo.gl/eQhOj2.....
» 26/09/2016 12:26:51 PM From my observations, it appears that religious groups or individuals, particularly creati.....
» 25/09/2016 12:18:28 PM An interesting change position there, LEGO. <<If the Australian aborigines had had.....
» 23/09/2016 8:28:33 AM By the way, NathanJ, attempting to shame people out of providing lengthy responses, or usi.....
» 23/09/2016 8:01:22 AM Yuyutsu, Religion is a broad enough concept for those who want to commit the most heinous.....
» 23/09/2016 7:16:00 AM …Continued <<It's no different than all forms of other social media … If I place so.....
» 23/09/2016 7:15:56 AM NathanJ, So are you saying, then, that you have also used the different topic of this thr.....
» 22/09/2016 10:13:38 PM NathanJ, I thought that was rather bizarre of you to paraphrase a previous post of mine l.....
» 22/09/2016 8:04:03 PM Toni Lavis, Point taken. I try to live by that advice, but there is something about LEGO’.....
» 22/09/2016 5:06:48 PM Toni Lavis and mhaze, Where are you guys when I’m trying to tell LEGO the same thing? (h.....
» 22/09/2016 2:56:44 PM mhaze, Given that the Right side of politics has most of the religious, the study really .....
» 22/09/2016 12:56:10 PM Yeah right, LEGO. Good luck in finding an example of that. <<… your standard debati.....
» 21/09/2016 8:48:45 PM Rojama, I never meant to imply there was anything complicated about those biblical verses.....
» 21/09/2016 5:41:38 PM mhaze, Okay, so I should have said that it didn't appear that you knew WHY IQ scores were.....
» 21/09/2016 3:11:25 PM Cute, LEGO. <<I presumed that the reason I have not heard a peep from you for month.....
» 21/09/2016 2:53:26 PM mhaze, I’m well aware of the problems with IQ scores. Apparently you're not, however. I’.....
» 21/09/2016 12:47:18 PM LEGO, So what’s the difference between people who are on the Left and Right, and those wh.....
» 20/09/2016 9:53:52 AM Joe, You certainly weren't one of the ones I had in mind when I spoke of vile and horrid .....
» 20/09/2016 7:25:25 AM o sung wu, It’s very admirable of you (and unheard of on OLO) to engage in a bit of self-.....
» 19/09/2016 7:18:20 PM Yes, Islam is a problem. Unless we can convince Muslims that their religion is nonsense, o.....
» 19/09/2016 12:14:04 PM ... said another atheist, in a splendid display of self-loathing......
» 14/09/2016 9:06:23 AM Sheesh! Now there’s a conspiracy theory about me trying to convert. Perhaps I’m employed b.....
» 14/09/2016 12:59:42 AM Lefty One, Rest assured, I don't think I can convince you of anything. Not on this topic,.....
» 13/09/2016 10:58:58 PM It’s like I said before, Lefty One. <<Same as before you tell me to go looking on t.....
» 13/09/2016 9:13:48 PM …Continued Like a climate change denier, you have staked-out your position in advance and.....
» 13/09/2016 9:13:42 PM There’s probably two reasons for that, Lefty One. <<Ok so let’s assume you are righ.....
» 13/09/2016 4:59:09 PM Lefty One, At the speed they were doing, the engines would have penetrated the buildings .....
» 13/09/2016 10:43:27 AM Armchair Critic, The first plane was going 790 km/h, and the second was going 950 km/h. H.....
» 13/09/2016 7:53:56 AM Armchair Critic, Yes, Lefty One’s quick switch from zero-to-heated-debate in the space of.....
» 12/09/2016 10:18:50 PM What about the ping pong ball, Lefty One? <<Perhaps you have a think about how an a.....
» 12/09/2016 8:26:27 PM That’s right, Lefty One. Just one of many. <<So you have posted one of a number of .....
» 12/09/2016 6:10:41 PM The 9/11 conspiracies have long been debunked: http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a.....
» 9/09/2016 1:31:06 PM It's terrible, isn't it Armchair Critic? And to think she's the only one who stands in the.....
» 9/09/2016 8:22:57 AM It’s not just Kim Jong Un, the Ku Klux Klan, and Christian fundamentalists anymore. Trump .....
» 8/09/2016 4:46:20 PM Luckily the poll results boasting of a boost for Trump have turned out to be misleading: .....
» 8/09/2016 7:09:49 AM Here’s a racist version of the above three posts: A couple of good things that come out o.....
» 8/09/2016 12:14:06 AM I think your assessment is pretty spot on, DreamOn. NathanJ seems like a very nice person......
» 7/09/2016 5:28:14 PM nicknamenick, Well? Don’t leave us all in suspense. <<But Australian Defence and C.....
» 7/09/2016 3:21:52 PM nicknamenick, This this the last time I’ll answer silly questions. There rest will be ign.....
» 7/09/2016 1:17:48 PM nicknamenick, What? Do your insinuations sound ridiculous when I say them outright? Why i.....
» 7/09/2016 6:50:35 AM Yes, nicknamenick. That’s exactly right. <<So if no-vaccination parents abuse kids,.....
» 7/09/2016 5:28:22 AM …Continued <<Why? A lot of your comments) don't use words like passion for example,.....
» 7/09/2016 5:28:17 AM nicknamenick, Whenever possible, I try to give others the benefit of the doubt and grant .....
» 6/09/2016 9:02:50 PM Josephus, Would you rather I attack your premise? <<Again atheists merely attack t.....
» 6/09/2016 7:09:18 PM nicknamenick, The military is a necessary institution for which the existence of is not r.....
» 6/09/2016 5:22:43 PM nicknamenick, Child sex abuse is not systemic within law societies, or amongst accounting.....
» 6/09/2016 12:29:28 PM …Continued “But AJ”, I hear you say, “that’s so one-sided. What about all the good charit.....
» 6/09/2016 12:29:23 PM NathanJ, There are a number of problems with this claim. <<When atheists try to pr.....
» 5/09/2016 6:38:01 PM Profound, nicknamenick. Very profound. Was that Chopra? http://wisdomofchopra.com.....
» 5/09/2016 4:38:15 PM Since we're quoting. Here are some more inspiring quotes from well-known atheists: ".....
» 4/09/2016 9:23:40 PM The fact that conflicts have been started by atheists is no more significant than the fact.....
» 4/09/2016 11:05:34 AM NathanJ, What do you think it means to accept something as a fact? <<But that doe.....
» 3/09/2016 2:03:16 PM Well, the OED disagrees with both of you, NathanJ. Atheism: “disbelief or lack of belief .....
» 3/09/2016 1:09:24 PM NathanJ, Atheism isn’t a belief system. Without getting into all the implicit/explicit, w.....
» 1/09/2016 10:31:43 AM Phanto, So why is it, then, that you think you can attribute all sorts of feelings and mo.....
» 31/08/2016 7:14:21 PM Joe, If in the unlikely event that the ’no’ vote wins, it would probably just be brought .....
» 31/08/2016 5:14:12 PM phanto, Well, it looks like you dipped out on that one then. <<… it would expose y.....
» 31/08/2016 2:40:01 PM Joe, What do you mean by “exactly”? <<Exactly ! Thank you.>> You were the o.....
» 31/08/2016 2:39:57 PM phanto, Here we go against with the silly questions. <<What does it matter if they.....
» 31/08/2016 1:58:17 PM Um, o sung wu, most people wouldn’t admit to trying to engage in character assassination. .....
» 31/08/2016 1:48:29 PM Phanto, While you’re pondering your next response to me, I have a question for you. <.....
» 31/08/2016 12:12:49 PM phanto, Well that's a really bizarre set of questions you have there for me. <<Why.....
» 30/08/2016 10:26:41 PM o sung wu, Yes, I’m aware that you don’t like me. You remind me often enough. I don’t hav.....
» 30/08/2016 8:04:16 PM o sung wu, The snide remarks are really unbecoming. I don’t know where wisdom comes into .....
» 30/08/2016 5:31:13 PM phanto, Not “even”, “only”. <<You say that a person who disagrees with same-sex ma.....
» 30/08/2016 4:56:00 PM I was just trying to be conciliatory, phanto. <<Who's "we". Have you been.....
» 30/08/2016 4:40:16 PM mhaze, It’s true that I’ve made up my mind (but it took a very long time to get to the po.....
» 30/08/2016 3:00:48 PM Joe, My analogy allowed for this, contrasting only the problems with both scenarios. <.....
» 30/08/2016 12:07:31 PM Joe, I’ve already explained to you why the legal statuses of the two, past and present, a.....
» 30/08/2016 10:21:08 AM mhaze, Distressing or not, there is no evidence for that. <<…children raised in non.....
» 30/08/2016 7:59:28 AM Jayb, It's the egg: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2072932 http://www.stat......
» 29/08/2016 10:29:31 PM It seems some of us here are having a strangely difficult time understanding why appealing.....
» 29/08/2016 9:03:24 PM Is Mise, If you have to ask that question, then you haven't been paying attention. <&.....
» 29/08/2016 7:54:00 PM o sung wu, I'm trying to keep this civil but your tone is slowly worsening and you are cr.....
» 29/08/2016 5:39:54 PM phanto, Yes, Im sure what I say feels very aggressive to you. We all feel attacked when d.....
» 29/08/2016 4:44:29 PM o sung wu, That’s not the way it sounded in your first post. <<I’m not speaking of.....
» 27/08/2016 9:33:59 PM o sung wu, Thanks for getting back on topic. I must say, though, your questions are very .....
» 27/08/2016 6:36:29 PM “Aggressive”? That’s cute, phanto. <<Your aggressive behaviour here is much more re.....
» 27/08/2016 5:03:49 PM phanto, I knew it wouldn’t take long for you to start with the amateur psychology again. .....
» 27/08/2016 11:59:49 AM Speaking of imbeciles. runner, Yes, but that’s not TRADITIONAL marriage! That’s only the.....
» 26/08/2016 9:33:13 PM I know what you mean, Is Mise. Even so-called “conservatives” nowadays believe in this myt.....
» 26/08/2016 5:19:50 PM o sung wu, I think you'll find that my “levels of superiority” are directly proportionate.....
» 26/08/2016 8:25:42 AM phanto, The point in me pretending to mistake you for having defended me was to highlight.....
» 25/08/2016 10:52:12 PM o sung wu, That’s a very presumptuous and bigoted attempt at an insult. <<...prote.....
» 25/08/2016 5:57:54 PM Jayb, I was referring to all our discussions. Note that o sung wu said, “… never have and.....
» 25/08/2016 2:54:59 PM onthebeach, What are these downsides and costs to same-sex marriage that you speak of? &.....
» 24/08/2016 11:42:04 PM Can you give an example of that, o sung wu? <<...if you ignore him he'll go away a.....
» 24/08/2016 10:09:23 PM o sung wu, When did I say I was giving this forum a miss? <<I thought you'd given .....
» 24/08/2016 5:55:22 PM o sung wu, <<Homosexual behaviour, notwithstanding how you cut it, is basically sod.....
» 24/08/2016 2:44:29 PM Thanks for the false dichotomy, Mr. Thompson. <<Either they retreat from their call.....
» 21/08/2016 8:52:30 PM Joe, I recognise that they are legal and always have been in Australia. <<I'm cert.....
» 21/08/2016 8:13:47 PM No, Joe, you don’t have to care any more. <<But I don't have to care, any more than.....
» 21/08/2016 2:40:25 PM phanto, You were right! I’ve been trying a bit of meditation and yoga to assist in my att.....
» 21/08/2016 8:39:58 AM phanto? Are you still there? It… it’s just that I’m feeling a bit insecure about my belief.....
» 20/08/2016 6:53:25 AM You’re very slow to learn, aren’t you, phano? <<OK I have made an assertion and pro.....
» 19/08/2016 6:37:29 PM More amateur psychology, phanto? <<If you do not [examine your conscience] then you.....
» 19/08/2016 9:16:14 AM DreamOn, Thanks for talking the time to actually read the papers I link to. I wish my opp.....
» 18/08/2016 7:55:22 PM There is no “normal” response, phanto. <<The normal response [to an accusation of n.....
» 17/08/2016 9:04:43 PM So now you’re an amateur English scholar, phanto? <<When someone keeps going on and.....
» 17/08/2016 6:45:14 PM phanto, The stupid questions and amateur psychology are boring. Get another act. <<.....
» 17/08/2016 4:24:48 PM Joe, At no point have I said or even implied that it is up to you to find another word. .....
» 17/08/2016 11:28:32 AM Joe, So it’s that there is/was nothing “anomalous” about interracial marriage specificall.....
» 16/08/2016 8:39:36 PM Joe, Legal status is not the be-all and end-all of what determines anomalousness. <&l.....
» 16/08/2016 5:58:29 PM It is if it answers your question, phanto. <<Stating the word equality is not an ar.....
» 16/08/2016 4:13:11 PM The fact that it resulted in a misunderstanding of what I was saying, phanto. <<Wha.....
» 16/08/2016 11:18:20 AM Joe, Yes, you’re interpreting what I said incorrectly. <<Maybe I'm reading this wr.....
» 15/08/2016 8:34:24 PM Joe, So is it because same-sex marriage would be going from not-legal to legal then? Is t.....
» 15/08/2016 5:46:45 PM Joe, Why would a new word for same-sex marriage be necessary? I've seen this proposed man.....
» 15/08/2016 7:36:14 AM Yes it does, phanto. <<Variety has no end in itself.>> Boredom prevention. .....
» 14/08/2016 8:09:41 AM Phanto, It sounds like you need to read a little more carefully <<All I can see ar.....
» 13/08/2016 8:49:56 PM phanto, You are still yet to demonstrate that heterosexual vaginal sex is objectively the.....
» 13/08/2016 7:33:45 PM phanto, You still have not yet justified this claim. <<Behaviour which can never l.....
» 13/08/2016 7:59:12 AM DreamOn, I don’t remember what cultures/legal systems outlawed incest with that in mind, .....
» 12/08/2016 4:38:16 PM DreamOn, It’s been a while since I studied evolutionary psychology, and what I did study .....
» 12/08/2016 3:11:27 PM phanto, You have not yet justified any of your claims. To dig your heels in now and simpl.....
» 12/08/2016 9:49:48 AM phanto, So it appears that my interpretation was the right one then. <<No I am not.....
» 12/08/2016 7:35:01 AM Phanto, I think your use of the word ‘best’ is confusing everyone. Yuyutsu has one interp.....
» 11/08/2016 2:47:57 PM ttbn, I don’t “merely” provide “online references” either (you say that is if they lose t.....
» 11/08/2016 12:34:23 PM Banjo Paterson, Good luck in getting ttbn to elaborate much on or justify that claim. I t.....
» 10/08/2016 6:26:07 PM Plantagenet, There's no contradiction between exhibitionist behaviour and an expressed wi.....
» 10/08/2016 3:16:12 PM Interactive, That may be so. <<There is very little intolerance of homosexuality i.....
» 10/08/2016 1:43:43 PM Yes, Interactive, sexual orientation certainly is a risk factor for psychiatric disorders,.....
» 10/08/2016 12:32:28 PM Interative, That doesn’t mean there’s no genetic factor. <<When tested, homosexual.....
» 5/08/2016 11:27:22 PM You’d think so, wouldn’t you RationalRazor. <<Ah ha. I've got you.>> But, as.....
» 3/08/2016 5:05:42 PM phanto, I agree that access to children could be a factor. I alluded to this earlier. But.....
» 3/08/2016 3:45:11 PM Hasbeen, I do see Western democracy as superior in a lot of respects, but that doesn’t me.....
» 3/08/2016 3:40:28 PM Okay, Toni Lavis. I’ll withdraw that comment. Although, for the reasons I mention above, a.....
» 3/08/2016 2:20:33 PM RationalRazor, Yuyutsu will happily speak about his god as though it exists, while simult.....
» 3/08/2016 2:05:21 PM ttbn, You do “need” to do those things I mentioned if you want your arguments to be taken.....
» 3/08/2016 9:16:41 AM ttbn, Just because all those other categories of people have child sex abusers, that does.....
» 3/08/2016 2:45:35 AM What exactly do you mean by “based on”, ttbn? <<The Western world is based on Chris.....
» 2/08/2016 8:01:56 PM It’s just as well you don’t have to, ttbn. <<I would stake my life on most Catholic.....
» 2/08/2016 5:01:08 PM What principles would they be, Hasbeen? <<...they did quite easily convince me that.....
» 2/08/2016 1:04:20 PM ttbn, That’s not enough information to determine if someone is a “loser”. <<Anyone.....
» 2/08/2016 9:48:41 AM A good take down of the absurd attempts to broaden the definition of religion to such an e.....
» 1/08/2016 4:52:09 PM Yuyutsu, We already sorted all this out at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?d.....
» 29/07/2016 9:38:48 AM Sorry George, I should clarify. You only made that slip up in definitions in your first me.....
» 29/07/2016 9:32:27 AM George, Just a slight correction. Anti-theism is the belief that religion is harmful and .....
» 28/07/2016 9:08:11 PM ttbn, The link between adverse childhood experiences and offending has been well establis.....
» 28/07/2016 10:13:03 AM That may be true, George. <<I know, some people call ANY education - totalitarian o.....
» 23/07/2016 1:18:49 AM George, You are welcome to continue trying to understand me. Indeed you are a rare breed .....
» 23/07/2016 12:16:21 AM Damn, ttbn. Looks like we crossed over with posts there. I never suggested for a second t.....
» 23/07/2016 12:06:36 AM ttbn, Yes, in Russell's days, there were no telescopes that could disprove his teapot lik.....
» 22/07/2016 11:19:33 PM Yes, George, that’s why I labelled your insistence that I am mistaken as fallacious. <.....
» 22/07/2016 10:52:31 PM ttbn, I do hope you take my belief, that the Pink Unicorn created everything last Thursda.....
» 22/07/2016 8:18:54 AM George, You need to understand that more can be said and communicated than what is spoken.....
» 21/07/2016 10:39:38 PM ttbn, Here you go again with this assumption of yours that non-belief equates to an indif.....
» 21/07/2016 5:13:27 PM OzSpen, I read the article by that Andy Bannister, but I don't see how it proves that ath.....
» 21/07/2016 1:15:51 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, It seems pointless for us continue much further when neither of us h.....
» 21/07/2016 1:15:47 AM Dear david f, All good points. Drug use is an example of an illegal activity that even th.....
» 20/07/2016 10:08:52 PM George, I haven’t claimed that I know better than the people at Oxford. I have, however, .....
» 20/07/2016 12:22:37 PM Some additional thoughts, George. If the third definition you listed were considered to b.....
» 20/07/2016 9:24:49 AM Yes, George, I understand that. <<No, it is the [definition] that was missing in Su.....
» 20/07/2016 4:29:34 AM George, I take it the third definition (which is the third for a reason) was the one you .....
» 20/07/2016 3:26:24 AM …Continued I suppose, if Pinker doesn’t address those less-direct forms of violence you m.....
» 20/07/2016 3:26:13 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, Naturally there’s not always going to be a consensus amongst crimino.....
» 19/07/2016 9:32:10 PM Of course, that should be "holy book". But since I'm wasting a post, here's a v.....
» 19/07/2016 9:17:43 PM Is Mise, Why does it have to be the New Testament? Sure, God took anger management classe.....
» 19/07/2016 5:05:09 PM ttbn, Who are all these people who appear to think they suddenly know all about religion?.....
» 19/07/2016 10:02:57 AM Banjo Paterson, I have a degree in criminology and I can assure you that’s not the case. .....
» 19/07/2016 9:34:53 AM An interesting comment, Mr gear. <<An overt rationalist such as Hugh Harris could b.....
» 15/07/2016 8:24:45 PM Hi Banjo Paterson, Although it’s hard to gauge precisely to what extent, violence on the .....
» 15/07/2016 11:14:46 AM I realise this discussion is now dead, but I read the following last night and can’t help .....
» 14/07/2016 8:37:13 PM Yuyutsu, You have committed the fallacy of equivocation again (http://en.wikipedia.org/wi.....
» 9/07/2016 5:23:54 PM One wouldn't think so given my discussions with you, phanto. <<You have not actuall.....
» 8/07/2016 11:20:47 PM What kind of a stupid question is that to ask me, phanto? <<Can you give me an exam.....
» 8/07/2016 9:55:36 PM Hasbeen, What is the evidence that the polls are unreliable? There are plenty of reasons.....
» 8/07/2016 8:38:34 PM Actually, phanto, I’ve mostly been talking about the former. <<You are not just tal.....
» 8/07/2016 5:06:23 PM Hmmm... apparently not. mhaze, In what ways did the nuclear family act as the bedrock of.....
» 8/07/2016 5:02:48 PM Well, let's see if phanto gets it when a second person cites equality as a benefit, instea.....
» 8/07/2016 10:49:39 AM ttbn, Atheism and agnosticism address different questions. They’re not mutually exclusive.....
» 7/07/2016 1:18:41 PM That’s right, Dan. <<From what I understand, your persepctive is that one must star.....
» 3/07/2016 1:10:20 AM Yuyutsu, What an absolute crock of an argument. But thank you for providing us with a fif.....
» 3/07/2016 12:20:54 AM That's an interesting question, phanto, and one for another thread. <<The governmen.....
» 2/07/2016 10:29:56 PM Well, you got off to a good start there at least, phanto. <<OK let us focus on the .....
» 2/07/2016 10:17:15 PM Don’t put yourself down like that, grateful. <<If I can change for the better and b.....
» 2/07/2016 4:07:25 PM Is what part and parcel of Australian culture, grateful? <<So it's just part and pa.....
» 2/07/2016 10:07:47 AM JoM, I know you’ve given me facts (assuming they're even correct), but I've already expla.....
» 1/07/2016 11:03:47 PM Yes, grateful, “succinct and powerful”. And yet, funnily enough, neither you nor Dan are a.....
» 1/07/2016 9:13:04 PM mhaze, I should also add that if it’s really about the children (as it so often is with t.....
» 1/07/2016 5:24:21 PM mhaze, The nuclear family may have been around for hundreds of years, but it was only the.....
» 1/07/2016 2:58:18 PM Because, phanto, I believe that bigotry must be fought at all opportunities. <<So i.....
» 1/07/2016 1:43:58 PM phanto, Until someone can provide a valid argument against change, then yes, that’s what .....
» 1/07/2016 12:22:36 PM Ah yes! Thank you Jay of Melbourne. You reminded me of a third more socially acceptable wa.....
» 1/07/2016 11:48:01 AM grateful, Why do you feel the need to defame those who discredit your arguments? At least.....
» 1/07/2016 10:04:01 AM Another point, phanto. I don’t buy the other popular, more socially acceptable, argument .....
» 1/07/2016 9:42:03 AM I never suggested that it did, phanto. <<Just because the government is in the marr.....
» 1/07/2016 9:20:10 AM Dan, An interesting reworking of the old, "Sitting in a church doesn't make you a Ch.....
» 30/06/2016 9:02:45 PM Dan, I just wanted to address the following point of yours, specifically, because I remem.....
» 30/06/2016 8:57:50 PM Hasbeen, I’d doubt there’s much truth to your suspicions. Either way, what’s good for one.....
» 30/06/2016 5:40:51 PM ‘What is the government doing in the marriage business anyway?’ is a red herring. For so l.....
» 30/06/2016 2:02:27 PM So basically, Dan, your argument boils down to, ‘Something becomes right if God says it’s .....
» 29/06/2016 8:30:59 PM Grateful, It is quite audacious of you to dig your heels in like that and continue down .....
» 29/06/2016 5:47:00 PM Oh, I almost forgot my favourite example, grateful. Granted it was included in with the a.....
» 29/06/2016 10:28:55 AM grateful, When someone is gracious enough to give you the benefit of the doubt and thereb.....
» 28/06/2016 10:21:00 PM grateful, I’m not sure why you would bother to tell me that on this particular occasion t.....
» 28/06/2016 12:11:15 PM rehctub, I'm certainly no economist, but those more qualified in this area don't seem to .....
» 28/06/2016 12:03:37 PM Well I’m glad your boycott of me only lasted one-and-a-half hours, grateful. Welcome back......
» 28/06/2016 11:52:45 AM Kirby483, Negative gearing was all good and well once upon a time, but when it starts to .....
» 28/06/2016 11:09:56 AM Thanks for the response, grateful. I was under the impression that our relationship had at.....
» 28/06/2016 10:07:11 AM ttbn is right. Tax payers should not be subsidising the attempts of others to enrich thems.....
» 28/06/2016 9:47:16 AM *Sigh* Sometimes it’s hard to not be offended by being deliberately ignored and spoken to.....
» 27/06/2016 8:07:04 PM Dear david f, Interesting stuff. I never realised that such a desire (that being that the.....
» 27/06/2016 8:27:37 AM Yuyutsu writes: "Meanwhile, you are nearly 91 years old. I wish you enduring health, .....
» 26/06/2016 10:46:30 PM Thank you, Grateful, for linking us to a fallacy-filled discussion from an intellectual li.....
» 26/06/2016 7:20:53 PM Yuyutsu, That may very well be the case. <<...science is not equipped to understan.....
» 25/06/2016 12:29:44 PM grateful, I don’t understand what was supposed to be so profound about your quote or the .....
» 24/06/2016 12:12:56 AM Grateful, How do you know the laws of nature (whichever one's you're referring to there) .....
» 23/06/2016 12:39:59 PM Yes, johnheininger, “the real world”. <<It's time you joined the real world! Dennet.....
» 23/06/2016 12:19:40 AM johnheininger, Dan Dennett rejects the notion of scientism as a straw man, and I agree wi.....
» 22/06/2016 6:49:58 PM grateful, That quote of Batten’s is special pleading. It’s fallacious, sorry. (http://en......
» 22/06/2016 12:29:47 PM …Continued <<If the materialist explanation of origins is shown to be inadequate, t.....
» 22/06/2016 12:29:42 PM grateful, I failed to mention earlier that, aside from being factually incorrect, Flew’s .....
» 21/06/2016 10:27:29 AM George, Your language analogy doesn’t wash, I’m afraid. You are not speaking a different .....
» 20/06/2016 10:51:59 PM Yuyutsu, You still haven’t mentioned when you had the privilege of seeing this Schroder c.....
» 20/06/2016 7:45:15 PM Well I'm glad to see that your foot-stamping only lasted around ten minutes, grateful. Wel.....
» 20/06/2016 6:46:07 PM As I explained earlier, grateful, my criticisms of others only ever follow a discrediting .....
» 20/06/2016 10:51:13 AM grateful, Since I have some posts up my sleeve, I figure I might try to nip this in the b.....
» 19/06/2016 5:16:59 PM And straight off the bat, grateful, you start with the ad hominem fallacy. <<The an.....
» 19/06/2016 4:07:31 AM grateful, Oh dear! You’re not resorting to the fine-tuning argument now, are you? And po.....
» 18/06/2016 7:56:17 PM grateful, I have presented arguments against the reasoning and arguments of those with wh.....
» 18/06/2016 3:47:50 PM George, I’m not sure why my question was silly. Up until that point there appeared to be .....
» 18/06/2016 2:55:40 PM For the same reason I referred to Bucaille as a "character", grateful. <<.....
» 17/06/2016 12:14:07 PM This article is sounds like one big fallacious appeal to consequences (http://en.wikipedia.....
» 16/06/2016 9:00:40 PM grateful, This Schroeder character appears to claim that God is the nothingness outside s.....
» 16/06/2016 6:18:05 AM Dan, Just to clarify. The reason I say that your arguments actually strengthen my point, .....
» 15/06/2016 11:15:27 AM By the way, grateful, I have not stated a hypothesis that god does not exist. <<…ju.....
» 15/06/2016 9:24:10 AM Dan, Whether or not your god ultimately judges people for believing in him is immaterial......
» 15/06/2016 9:24:04 AM No, I think it was pretty clear the first time, grateful. <<you need to elaborate.&.....
» 14/06/2016 7:35:42 PM The discussion between Dan and Yuyutsu is interesting to watch. The dynamics of the intera.....
» 14/06/2016 6:53:52 AM As someone who lost their Christian beliefs because they couldn’t reconcile them with scie.....
» 13/06/2016 10:34:00 AM Dan, Jayb’s dismissive attitude towards creationist claims is reasonable given that creat.....
» 13/06/2016 10:33:56 AM grateful, Default positions are not something that we arrive at individually. The default.....
» 12/06/2016 1:09:21 PM Dan. Yes, I also pointed out that if Hell is a consequence of not believing in this god, .....
» 11/06/2016 11:46:01 PM Hi Joe, I’ve seen the figures, but have never bothered to check if they take inflation in.....
» 11/06/2016 2:43:00 PM Sorry, grateful. In response to: “...two atheists have responded but neither has committe.....
» 10/06/2016 10:25:27 PM grateful, Default positions don't change. If you use reasoning to arrive at a different p.....
» 10/06/2016 4:39:53 PM I wish I was as confident as you, suseonline. I’m not sure what to think anymore. Every st.....
» 10/06/2016 9:41:26 AM Armchair Critic, By, “he demonstrates no understanding whatsoever of social issues”, I me.....
» 9/06/2016 10:25:50 PM grateful, How can it be that you understand what the null hypothesis is, yet simultaneous.....
» 9/06/2016 2:27:52 PM Armchair Critic, None of the grievances you list are news to anyone. Australians are beco.....
» 9/06/2016 8:35:27 AM It’s not just that no-one knows where Trump stands on anything, it’s that so many of his p.....
» 8/06/2016 5:18:39 PM ttbn, Nobody actually knows what Trump believes. That's his biggest problem. <<The.....
» 8/06/2016 4:01:27 PM Thanks Yuyutsu. I'll take your passive-aggressive silence, apparent in the timing of your.....
» 8/06/2016 1:27:20 PM Yuyustu, What do you mean then, when you say "truth"? <<[Science] is use.....
» 7/06/2016 12:56:59 PM I'm curious. Which military is it that enlists women to battle? Or is Yuyutsu's references.....
» 7/06/2016 11:03:24 AM A-a-a-and the right-wing swoop in for some damage control after an unfortunate ally shoots.....
» 7/06/2016 10:34:40 AM Perhaps the definition of 'commit' would help. 1. Perpetrate or carry out (a mistake, cri.....
» 6/06/2016 7:34:12 PM Oh, I should have pointed out, too, that whether or not Nye and Ham are "similarly co.....
» 6/06/2016 7:20:27 PM What’s with the “supposed”, Dan? <<From my view, it seems that both Ham (the suppos.....
» 6/06/2016 10:43:37 AM david f writes: “Of course what Dan S de Merengue presumably means: "Be steadfast in .....
» 5/06/2016 3:18:09 PM I had noted that, grateful. <<Firstly, you've simply ignored the point that the arg.....
» 5/06/2016 12:26:16 PM grateful, If you agree that neither religion or free will are evidence of each other, the.....
» 5/06/2016 10:44:11 AM I don't see how I could make it much clearer, grateful. You said: "With free will t.....
» 4/06/2016 10:49:07 PM Well, grateful? Don't keep us all waiting in suspense. <<The evidence for [why fre.....
» 4/06/2016 12:20:08 PM Sorry, grateful, I should have said, “That’s not very good evidence then”, in response to .....
» 4/06/2016 9:25:56 AM …Continued Moreover, I have no strong position on the question of free will. Again, it ma.....
» 4/06/2016 9:25:51 AM For me? All the time, grateful. I love learning new things. <<Since when was scienc.....
» 3/06/2016 1:55:22 PM There is something painfully ironic about a person complaining about the existence of a co.....
» 3/06/2016 8:15:26 AM Toni Lavis, It just goes to show how many people this quote is being attributed to. I do.....
» 2/06/2016 11:11:43 PM What would you say in response to my rebuttals then, Dan? <<I think you've expresse.....
» 2/06/2016 10:25:37 PM Josephus, Is this Gordon also a Greek Orthodox Priest that goes by the name of Belmore? .....
» 2/06/2016 6:20:06 PM That wasn’t necessarily an excuse to not read scriptures, grateful. <<I agree [that.....
» 2/06/2016 10:00:17 AM Yuyutsu, This video discussing AGW appears to pre-date Thatcher's Prime-Ministership by q.....
» 1/06/2016 10:16:11 AM I’m sure you believe this, Dan. I once did too. <<[God] has made himself known to m.....
» 31/05/2016 9:43:57 PM I’ve gotta say, grateful, your tone has taken a sudden and unexpected turn for the worse. .....
» 30/05/2016 10:59:53 PM grateful, I think I’ve sufficiently demonstrated (especially now with the help of Dan) th.....
» 30/05/2016 2:56:27 PM You sound quite pessimistic, sonofgloin. Why would you doubt it? I don't think even polit.....
» 30/05/2016 2:32:43 PM I didn't think it would be all that surprising, Dan. <<I'm surprised you've made th.....
» 30/05/2016 1:25:35 PM Dear david f, I'm not sure how a god could be both all-knowing and stupid at once. Do you.....
» 29/05/2016 6:20:07 PM Well, Dan, just about anything would be better than ancient texts written in languages tha.....
» 29/05/2016 6:11:54 PM As should any thread even remotely related to Christianity, Josephus. <<This thread.....
» 29/05/2016 5:45:37 PM sonofgloin, If that's all you got from the comic I linked to then you may have missed the.....
» 29/05/2016 2:29:01 PM Yes, English is my mother tongue, nicknamenick. I was going to ask you the same question. .....
» 29/05/2016 1:17:07 PM What bad men, nicknamenick? <<The bad men were voted in by people who are as good a.....
» 29/05/2016 12:20:09 PM Suseonline, One of the beauties of the preferential voting system is that you can't waste.....
» 29/05/2016 10:29:02 AM Why thank you, nicknamenick. <<Good thinking AJ.>> That was what I was refer.....
» 29/05/2016 8:43:40 AM grateful, Whether or not reading the Qur'an is my choice was not the point I was making, .....
» 29/05/2016 12:05:35 AM Like I said before though, grateful, are the inaccuracies in the Qur'an evidence that it's.....
» 28/05/2016 10:58:09 PM Do I, Josephus? <<AJ Philips, believes believes the reality of the world is evil…&.....
» 28/05/2016 8:54:10 PM Yes, nicknamenick, I repeated that. <<You repeated "warning me".>> .....
» 28/05/2016 7:47:38 PM Why is that, nicknamenick? <<...you do have a nerve saying God is the ultimate caus.....
» 28/05/2016 5:19:51 PM nicknamenick, Your thoughts are very fragmented, aren't they? None of that made much sens.....
» 28/05/2016 1:17:27 PM Yes, "warning me", nicknamenick. The video explains how your god only cares (or.....
» 28/05/2016 12:42:17 PM nicknamenick, That response doesn't absolve you of the glaring oversight in your logic th.....
» 28/05/2016 12:15:57 PM nicknamenick, The weather bureau don't control the whether, and the fact that they forese.....
» 28/05/2016 10:18:25 AM Josephus, You fail to differentiate between proximal and ultimate causes. <<Much o.....
» 27/05/2016 7:27:50 PM grateful, Those verses are pretty vague and wishy-washy. They sound like they might mean .....
» 27/05/2016 9:42:23 AM ...Continued <<I think Don could have spent more time explaining why such an altern.....
» 27/05/2016 9:42:18 AM I had already explained why, Dan. <<I fail to see why you accuse Don of dishonesty .....
» 26/05/2016 3:48:15 PM How long do you want to keep going in circles, grateful? <<No, it should be impossi.....
» 26/05/2016 12:16:00 AM grateful, I am fully aware of these apologetics you're using. I used to use some of them .....
» 25/05/2016 8:56:09 PM grateful, The main point, that you're still desperately trying not to understand, is that.....
» 25/05/2016 3:15:31 PM Because, grateful, that would be a contradiction. <<…why can we not simply say God .....
» 24/05/2016 6:02:53 PM Unfortunately, grateful, you still haven’t managed to address a single thing I’ve said. T.....
» 24/05/2016 10:44:57 AM Okay then, grateful. I should have said that “the ability to make those choices” is meanin.....
» 23/05/2016 8:41:44 PM But getting back to your main point, grateful. <<To exercise free will we need an e.....
» 23/05/2016 3:53:57 PM It doesn’t sound like he got himself a very good mental health professional (Psychologist?.....
» 23/05/2016 11:36:38 AM …Continued Tu Quoque: This fallacy was the entire article. In his article, Batten is esse.....
» 23/05/2016 11:36:33 AM Why, I’ve already explained a few, Dan. <<..I don't think you've explained how anyt.....
» 20/05/2016 11:19:40 PM Not quite, Dan. <<Yes, on one hand you were claiming Don Batten 'made stuff up'. On.....
» 20/05/2016 9:07:51 PM Dan, I was under the impression that you thought my sixth point was directly aimed at Bat.....
» 20/05/2016 7:18:01 PM Of course, that should be "caveat", not "qualifier". But since I'm wa.....
» 20/05/2016 7:04:48 PM To be honest, Dan. I’ve only ever heard that from yourself. <<It's sometimes though.....
» 19/05/2016 4:33:51 PM The Schrödinger's Immigrant: The one who lazes around on benefits while simultaneously ste.....
» 19/05/2016 2:30:26 PM Grateful, There was a lot of non sequiturs there. Possibly too many to address in 350 wor.....
» 19/05/2016 1:13:22 PM Dan, While you ponder your response to my question, I’d just like to add to the dissimila.....
» 18/05/2016 10:17:38 AM Dan, There seems to be more innuendo in your comments to me on this thread than anything .....
» 17/05/2016 6:34:40 PM Yep, this whole Duncan saga has been one big nation-wide example of why the ad hominem is .....
» 17/05/2016 8:40:48 AM There are several rational explanations for spiritual experiences. For the hyper-religious.....
» 16/05/2016 11:48:22 AM Yes, Dan. I’ve mentioned this to you several times over the years. <<You say you we.....
» 15/05/2016 1:36:11 PM Not you too, phanto? It was bad enough that onthebeach, couldn’t leave without stamping i.....
» 15/05/2016 9:16:53 AM Yuyutsu, There is a difference between temporarily withholding information from someone .....
» 14/05/2016 10:38:40 PM *Sigh* So now you’re down to pure ad hominem, onthebeach? <<If your last post and .....
» 14/05/2016 9:12:49 PM “The” problem, onthebeach? <<It is the uses YOU and others put on those soft 'findi.....
» 14/05/2016 3:54:12 PM onthebeach, You’re taking great pains to concoct a supposed weakness in the study. Unfort.....
» 14/05/2016 1:32:21 PM phanto, You didn’t read a word I said before, did you? <<Two weeks later they dis.....
» 13/05/2016 4:56:56 PM I'm not sure what you're getting at, Dan. I can see why the implications of staking out a.....
» 13/05/2016 3:34:31 PM Close enough, Dan. <<[Staking out a position in advance] would imply adherence or c.....
» 13/05/2016 2:49:57 PM onthebeach, I have looked at the data and see no major flaws, and I don’t have the word c.....
» 13/05/2016 1:12:06 PM I already explained the logic to you, phanto. <<What kind of logic is that?>>.....
» 13/05/2016 11:09:30 AM I didn't just describe hypocrisy, phanto. <<We all know what hypocrisy is but you h.....
» 13/05/2016 10:28:18 AM On the contrary, onthebeach, I know a lot about statistics and how to apply different stat.....
» 13/05/2016 9:06:36 AM That's close, Dan <<From what you're saying, it seems that time is the magic ingred.....
» 12/05/2016 2:46:11 PM I didn’t actually want to, phanto. <<If your motivation is a good one then you woul.....
» 12/05/2016 1:01:27 PM onthebeach, So you have nothing with which to rebut the study then, I take it? <<T.....
» 12/05/2016 10:40:29 AM onthebeach, Don’t put words (or implications) in my mouth. I didn’t say that those links .....
» 12/05/2016 9:29:37 AM That is correct, Dan. <<You're saying that scepticism is an integral part of the sc.....
» 12/05/2016 8:07:57 AM The hysteria surrounding Safe Schools is becoming hilarious. First, we have teachers dra.....
» 11/05/2016 9:23:00 AM Dan, It sounds like you’re conflating scepticism with denialism. <<But aren't sce.....
» 10/05/2016 4:10:02 PM What say I, Jayb? Well, Mr. HiFi, I say that you are mostly correct. The main point you h.....
» 10/05/2016 2:12:45 PM It's interesting that you say this, Bazz <<What is being proposed by the crazies is.....
» 10/05/2016 12:52:54 PM Yuyutsu, Again, that's still not rational. You're committing two fallacies here. <<.....
» 10/05/2016 12:35:27 PM Yes, Bazz. I mentioned that earlier. But it’s not the leaders in the trans-sex movement. .....
» 10/05/2016 11:00:08 AM Dear david f, We’re probably going to start splitting hairs here, but to say that belief .....
» 10/05/2016 8:47:37 AM Yuyutsu, That’s not a rational reason to believe something. <<In other words, my a.....
» 9/05/2016 10:17:34 AM So obsessed with sex and sexuality. Where's all the talk of adultery? Jesus never mentione.....
» 8/05/2016 11:04:46 PM Dan, I thought that might be a possibility. <<Don Batten first published this arti.....
» 8/05/2016 9:39:00 PM Leo, When I first read your response, I thought to myself, "Did he not check a sing.....
» 8/05/2016 4:44:45 PM …Continued 2. None. Because I don’t know about any of the models in any great detail. Tw.....
» 8/05/2016 4:44:38 PM Thanks, Leo. That was a lot better. First off, I’m certainly no climate expert. I do, how.....
» 8/05/2016 12:13:31 AM …Continued <<The big bang attempts to explain the beginning of the universe. Howeve.....
» 8/05/2016 12:13:24 AM …Continued <<However, do they have a rational, logical basis for this belief?>&g.....
» 8/05/2016 12:13:16 AM A take down of Batten’s article. <<Atheists often promote themselves as intelligent.....
» 7/05/2016 10:56:02 PM That’s Carl Sagan you’re thinking of there, Dan. <<I've heard it said from atheists.....
» 7/05/2016 9:01:33 PM Like I said, Leo, all you have is fallacies, aggression, abuse, and one big conspiracy the.....
» 7/05/2016 11:28:50 AM Apparently you do “give a stuff”, Leo. Else why would you refuse to use it? But trying t.....
» 6/05/2016 2:10:15 PM You just can't let it go, can you Leo? Even as someone who appears to think that if they .....
» 6/05/2016 1:08:55 PM Speaking of Drumpf, if you install the Google Chrome extension, Drumpfinator, (which chang.....
» 6/05/2016 12:18:11 PM There’s got to be a lesson in this for politicians. I’m not entirely sure what that is yet.....
» 5/05/2016 9:54:18 PM The budget reminded me of this classic meme: http://memedad.com/meme/872138.....
» 5/05/2016 4:59:07 PM Now we're reading minds to keep up the lies and deceit. The one who has earned himself the.....
» 5/05/2016 2:54:54 PM Leo, I only said, "...you cannot provide a link to this alleged claim of mine. Just .....
» 5/05/2016 1:49:46 PM This article is one big God of the Gaps fallacy. Leo Lane has helped to keep this fallacy .....
» 5/05/2016 1:20:36 PM Ah more name-calling, Leo? You really have nothing, do you? You do resort to the ad homin.....
» 5/05/2016 12:47:01 PM Rhian, I'm a bit surprised to see someone like yourself raising the fine tuning argument .....
» 2/05/2016 12:29:48 AM All very well, Lucuferace. <<If you can't afford what you want in your city, AJP, c.....
» 2/05/2016 12:17:03 AM I was waiting for you to nitpick over jurisdiction, Leo. All states have their statute and.....
» 30/04/2016 11:21:17 PM Leo, I note that you still have not quoted where I said what you had alleged what I had .....
» 30/04/2016 11:04:41 PM Oh, I agree with you SteeleRedux. I didn’t mean to imply that Leo doesn’t actually believe.....
» 30/04/2016 10:49:41 PM rehctub, Your argument assumes that if people didn’t spend in the way that you have descr.....
» 29/04/2016 11:19:09 PM Where exactly did I say that, Leo? <<His answer was that I had asked a “dishonest q.....
» 29/04/2016 7:34:50 PM Wedge politics or not, onthebeach, the social implications of creating a permanent, interg.....
» 29/04/2016 4:57:11 PM Thanks for saving me the effort, ant. Leo, you are one angry and abusive little man, aren.....
» 29/04/2016 4:40:14 PM Luciferase, The argument that “mum's and dads [can] have a flutter without forming a com.....
» 14/04/2016 2:06:26 PM Not even going to bother reading this article. Why would I when the headlining quote for i.....
» 31/03/2016 4:23:26 PM Apparently phanto doesn't know about any of the research either. <<There is no evid.....
» 13/02/2016 7:55:07 PM sonofglioin, I know that’s what you said to runner… <<AJ, what I said to Runner was.....
» 13/02/2016 6:48:47 PM …Continued <<That included refusing to state your position prior to debate, in orde.....
» 13/02/2016 6:48:34 PM Not quite, LEGO. <<Which IMPLIES that you do not agree when it comes to intelligenc.....
» 13/02/2016 10:47:23 AM sonofgloin, I also don’t respect runner’s views. They’re rubbish and based on nothing but.....
» 12/02/2016 11:02:09 PM A part of me thinks, "Oh gawd, not this sweaty pig as our deputy PM." But then.....
» 12/02/2016 8:27:30 PM I have had a change of heart, LEGO. I've decided to count your claim, that I said that int.....
» 12/02/2016 3:29:40 AM ...Continued <<I was not aware until recently that you had me targeted.>> Wh.....
» 12/02/2016 3:29:35 AM I know, LEGO. <<I am a racist, and I say that the different human races have differ.....
» 11/02/2016 8:21:15 PM …Continued <<Saying that "Creationists have 19th century views" is a ster.....
» 11/02/2016 8:21:10 PM No, that wouldn’t be the Equivocation fallacy, LEGO. <<Or claim that racism was wro.....
» 10/02/2016 9:32:09 AM Continued... By the way, your insinuation there constitutes another five lies. No, no. Do.....
» 10/02/2016 9:32:05 AM LEGO, Your first two paragraphs were the equivocation fallacy again. The problem with th.....
» 9/02/2016 6:23:21 AM No, LEGO. <<If you form a judgement of a group people with "good reason" .....
» 8/02/2016 9:57:51 AM …Continued <<Not "rationalise" why you may transgress, and then scream th.....
» 8/02/2016 9:57:46 AM It’s easy for you to say, LEGO. <<I think it is just wonderful that you have spat t.....
» 7/02/2016 9:54:16 AM Sorry, Joe. You're a unique and interesting character and very knowledgeable when it comes.....
» 7/02/2016 8:48:59 AM Well, it's taken me a while, but I've finally found the instances of bullying (or ganging .....
» 7/02/2016 7:13:36 AM Really, Joe? Keith Windschuttle? And here I was starting to warm to you as a potential au.....
» 7/02/2016 6:11:57 AM LEGO, I was once chastised by three people at once on OLO for pointing out that what some.....
» 6/02/2016 3:39:39 PM Err, no, LEGO. <<Then you and your PC friends had better ... say that it is OK to .....
» 6/02/2016 5:10:25 AM LEGO, It all depends on if your claims are based on experience and reason. <<How c.....
» 5/02/2016 10:23:17 PM I agree, Hasbeen. Marriage was once about trading daughters for livestock and forming all.....
» 5/02/2016 6:28:33 PM No, I’m not, LEGO. <<Regardless of whether any religion is an immediate threat, or .....
» 5/02/2016 10:56:05 AM LEGO, You’re a slow learner. <<You just stereotyped and prejudged all religions as.....
» 4/02/2016 9:47:26 PM …Continued <<No4 must be about the freaks.>> It happens all the time in the.....
» 4/02/2016 9:47:21 PM Of course I’ve heard of the KISS rule, ttbn. But there’s a difference between keeping it s.....
» 4/02/2016 5:55:52 PM More personal attacks, ttbn? Well, I MUST have been wrong all along then! <<Sadly, .....
» 4/02/2016 10:54:28 AM That’s right, Cobber. Secularism has dragged Christianity and Judaism kicking and screamin.....
» 3/02/2016 6:40:44 PM runner, If I can provoke such a long response as that from an inarticulate, semi-literate.....
» 3/02/2016 3:40:45 PM Yeah right, ttbn. <<Christianity and the other religions are harmless at worst...&g.....
» 1/02/2016 10:36:17 AM LEGO, Thanks for that. I guess that’ll have to do for now. I find it a bit odd that this .....
» 31/01/2016 2:46:38 PM Joe, I apologise for not being able to make a more thoughtful contribution but as I said .....
» 31/01/2016 8:14:32 AM I'm not sure why there is confusion as to what a bogan is. Some of it seems deliberate. T.....
» 30/01/2016 2:07:06 PM Joe, I only came here to dispute one point, and so far I don’t think I’ve received a sati.....
» 30/01/2016 8:36:00 AM Joe, You start talking about exemption certificates and then add in a throwaway line abou.....
» 29/01/2016 11:17:29 AM Oh sorry, Joe. Unless there was a typo there, it appears you were actually asking if I wou.....
» 29/01/2016 10:37:28 AM Joe, Now you just sound like you’re trying to obfuscate. Some examples of cultural dispos.....
» 29/01/2016 9:55:03 AM Thanks for that, Joe. I didn't mean to imply that the higher estimates were more reliable,.....
» 29/01/2016 8:23:23 AM LEGO, I find it difficult to believe that the 250,000-300,000 estimate was the figure tha.....
» 28/01/2016 10:09:03 AM Joe, I don’t know if or how so many indigenous Australians survived drought. My indigenou.....
» 28/01/2016 7:21:28 AM Joe, I might have missed it, but I don’t see where either link has quoted Radcliffe-Brown.....
» 27/01/2016 8:58:39 PM Well I don't know where you get your information from either, Joe. http://www.abs.gov.au/.....
» 27/01/2016 7:42:04 PM I hate to nitpick, LEGO, but most estimates of the indigenous population at the time of wh.....
» 26/01/2016 2:35:32 PM ...Continued <<Why would same-sex couples need this or even want it? Why does it ma.....
» 26/01/2016 2:35:23 PM phanto, There may be some with sinister intentions (I'd doubt there are any - sounds mor.....
» 25/01/2016 10:41:27 PM runner, I see a lot of reasons being given for indigenous crime, but I see no-one saying .....
» 25/01/2016 10:07:26 PM runner, Care to give an example of "regressives [sic] want[ing] to excuse dv with ab.....
» 25/01/2016 9:32:51 PM runner provides us with a good example of why it is damn near impossible to have a rationa.....
» 25/01/2016 6:52:08 PM Here’s what you said, sonofgloin… <<Well the academy either sat down and decided to.....
» 25/01/2016 10:54:56 AM sonofgloin, What you have offered is a false dichotomy. Racism can be direct or indirect......
» 24/01/2016 11:47:19 PM Hi Max Atkinson, Thanks for the kind words. They're truly humbling. It's great to see an.....
» 24/01/2016 2:45:55 PM Jayb, No, anal sex has been legal for a while now. phanto, Why should you or I care wha.....
» 24/01/2016 11:41:47 AM Dustin, The nay-sayers do need to “lift a finger” if they don’t want same-sex marriage le.....
» 23/01/2016 11:11:08 PM Dustin, Discrimination doesn’t need to be established in a court of law to exist. <&l.....
» 23/01/2016 1:54:58 PM o sung wu, I'm pretty sure a senior lecturer in veterinary pathology and a principal scie.....
» 23/01/2016 11:20:06 AM Um, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but zoologists and veterinarians have said the th.....
» 22/01/2016 6:30:09 PM david f writes: "[Trump] will be clever enough to convince the wage classes that he i.....
» 20/01/2016 9:50:38 AM Oh, this just in... http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/19/sarah-palin-endorses-d.....
» 20/01/2016 9:26:44 AM What seems to have largely escaped Australia's attention is just how much of a total loon .....
» 18/01/2016 10:12:20 AM Years ago, I looked into veganism because it seemed like an ethical way to live. I read so.....
» 17/01/2016 4:15:49 PM That would be a strange figure of speech, phanto. I don’t think it was. After all, if you .....
» 17/01/2016 3:45:26 PM Well I know you don't really mean that nasty bit of name calling, phanto. <<...the.....
» 16/01/2016 1:27:58 AM George writes: "Thomas Aquinas, arguably the greatest theologian in the Catholic trad.....
» 15/01/2016 6:19:23 PM I have no idea why you do what you do, phanto. <<You seem to have an idea why I do .....
» 15/01/2016 11:24:23 AM Seriously, phanto. The amateur psychoanalyses are becoming really tiresome. You have no id.....
» 14/01/2016 9:28:57 AM Oh, I didn't even realise I got a response. Thanks to Argronomist, Toni Lavis and Shadow M.....
» 13/01/2016 4:46:58 PM Just to drive the point home, LEGO, here’s the main point of mine that brought your entire.....
» 12/01/2016 6:51:31 PM Really, LEGO? <<184 posts in, and you have reinforced my opinion that no amount of .....
» 12/01/2016 7:14:44 AM Nice move, LEGO. When you’ve lost an argument, emphasise style over substance. <<Yo.....
» 11/01/2016 8:35:28 PM …Continued <You can criticise whether a judgement made previously is the correct one t.....
» 11/01/2016 8:35:23 PM TLDR: LEGO's wrong again. I figured a more dumbed-down version would be easier for you to.....
» 11/01/2016 11:53:55 AM After re-reading my clarification for you, LEGO, I still don’t think you’re going understa.....
» 11/01/2016 7:10:18 AM No, that’s not it at all, LEGO. <<You will never write out exactly what your positi.....
» 10/01/2016 8:14:56 PM Yes, LEGO, and I pointed out the dishonesty of that in my last post. <<For 40 post.....
» 10/01/2016 10:09:46 AM You don’t understand what constitutes a reason argument, LEGO. <<It has only taken .....
» 9/01/2016 11:39:08 PM …Continued You can’t win with people like this. Nothing will ever be good enough. They co.....
» 9/01/2016 11:39:04 PM Well of course you would, Armchair Critic. <<But I reject your premise of 'crankmag.....
» 9/01/2016 9:14:38 PM LEGO, You've been switching between 'group membership' and 'group association'. No, I don.....
» 9/01/2016 2:18:48 PM I answered your question twice in my last post, LEGO. What’s wrong with you? <<If y.....
» 9/01/2016 11:51:42 AM Yes, LEGO. The only one here who has not yet committed a fallacy or had to ask his opponen.....
» 9/01/2016 1:05:38 AM As a scientific sceptic, I have been watching this debate closely for some years now and t.....
» 8/01/2016 5:13:50 PM I don't think you really mean that, LEGO. Not one of your arguments has stood even the wea.....
» 8/01/2016 11:22:16 AM ...Continued <<And I have another vague one on judging groups of people,>> N.....
» 8/01/2016 11:21:32 AM I wouldn't worry about this discussion "dropping off", LEGO. There are plenty of.....
» 7/01/2016 6:29:17 AM Continued…. Your posts consisting of full paragraphs are not clever posts that are well r.....
» 7/01/2016 3:45:44 AM No, LEGO. <<You seem to think that unless I can convince you that you are wrong, I .....
» 6/01/2016 8:19:44 PM Oh, I know what you were suggesting now, LEGO… <<We had a PC commissioner like you .....
» 6/01/2016 6:16:37 PM LEGO, We can be here for the next two months or we can be here for the next two years. It.....
» 6/01/2016 6:26:44 AM No, that’s not what stereotyping is, LEGO. <<Perhaps your stereotype of what ".....
» 5/01/2016 6:24:31 PM That in itself does not constitute ‘heckling’, LEGO. <<You have yet to write a comp.....
» 5/01/2016 6:00:45 AM LEGO, The longer we’re here for, the more I get to copy and paste old comments of mine th.....
» 4/01/2016 7:00:14 PM Sorry, LEGO. I'm not sure what the point of that last post was. Nor do I know what it mean.....
» 4/01/2016 11:56:50 AM Yes, LEGO. The only one here who hasn’t yet had to resort to fallacies is “squirming”. Yo.....
» 3/01/2016 9:06:07 PM Oh, I don’t think so, LEGO. <<There is no one here but you and me, AJ.>> I h.....
» 3/01/2016 1:13:07 PM Keep obfuscating, LEGO. Perhaps you’ll confuse your audience and “impartial observers” eno.....
» 3/01/2016 9:02:21 AM Once again, LEGO, please do try to keep up. <<That is a generalisation about ".....
» 2/01/2016 8:08:32 PM Sorry, LEGO. I misread this… <<Your excuse was, to claim that when you classified m.....
» 2/01/2016 6:58:32 PM Please keep up with the discussion, LEGO. <<Wow, everybody stereotypes. It only too.....
» 2/01/2016 1:09:17 PM LEGO, Either you’re really, really slow, or you’re skimming my posts again. <<Huma.....
» 2/01/2016 6:09:16 AM Yes, LEGO, I’m “losing” this argument. *Snigger* <<The two reasons why you are losi.....
» 1/01/2016 6:40:38 PM Not always, LEGO. <<But everybody [stereotypes] to think.>> There are many o.....
» 1/01/2016 12:27:28 PM Poor LEGO. Academia is once again conspiring against you. This time, with the use of dicti.....
» 31/12/2015 10:09:29 PM LEGO, <<I am faced with somebody who claims that stereotyping is wrong because it &.....
» 31/12/2015 12:29:58 PM No, I haven’t pre-judged you, LEGO. <<You have just negatively prejudged me by impl.....
» 31/12/2015 8:23:13 AM You’re just like a creationist, LEGO. Understandable given you’re old, debunked 19th centu.....
» 30/12/2015 11:37:12 PM LEGO, Since this is apparently so difficult for you, let me do a breakdown of where you’r.....
» 30/12/2015 5:43:14 PM LEGO, Well, you think you know more about criminology than criminologists. I guess it sho.....
» 30/12/2015 11:49:59 AM LEGO, <<Not if they are rednecks, according to your stereotype.>> Incorrect......
» 30/12/2015 6:45:16 AM LEGO, Sounds like you’re panicking and growing evermore desperate now. <<You are s.....
» 29/12/2015 9:45:45 PM LEGO, <<You have gone from saying "generalisations are always wrong", to .....
» 29/12/2015 4:31:11 PM LEGO, This gets easier and easier the more I’m simply able to respond by quoting myself. .....
» 29/12/2015 10:49:00 AM LEGO, I see your next angle of approach is concepts, and confusing them with stereotypes......
» 27/12/2015 8:53:41 AM LEGO, The reason you keep trying different angles is not because I’m having troubles comp.....
» 26/12/2015 9:15:00 PM LEGO, It’s fascinating to watch you attempt a different angle each time you post. Yesterd.....
» 26/12/2015 12:38:06 PM …Continued <<Yet you "accept" the Oxford definition, even though it is a .....
» 26/12/2015 12:38:00 PM Joe, I realise it must hurt to witness the drubbing of a person with whom you are politic.....
» 25/12/2015 2:35:31 PM ...Continued <<Look, AJ. It is as obvious as the nose on your face that you know I .....
» 25/12/2015 2:35:22 PM Sorry I don't sit at my computer clicking refresh every five minutes, LEGO. In case you ha.....
» 24/12/2015 2:28:34 PM nicknamenick, I haven't said anything about rape and religion. You've lost me completely.....
» 24/12/2015 1:25:53 PM nicknamenick, You're confusing me with someone else. I never mentioned Scandinavia or Jap.....
» 24/12/2015 10:01:39 AM Thanks for that, Yuyutsu. That last response of yours was a perfect example of the Reducti.....
» 24/12/2015 8:41:11 AM It’s no problem, LEGO. <<Thank you for implying that stereotyping is "common p.....
» 23/12/2015 10:56:40 PM nicknamenick, I was referring to your response to me: “As WWI did not end all wars so mo.....
» 23/12/2015 6:45:02 PM LEGO, I already addressed your first paragraph when I pointed out your fallacious appeal .....
» 23/12/2015 5:30:55 PM Oh, I'd better clarify further, before you get too excited again, LEGO, that I'm referring.....
» 23/12/2015 12:35:38 PM Hey Jayb, since when have I ever sued anyone or defended a terrorist? And what would it ha.....
» 23/12/2015 10:54:07 AM C’mon LEGO. Let’s not pretend I wasn’t referring to talking about groups of people. <&.....
» 22/12/2015 7:23:06 PM Hahahaha, LEGO! You missed the point of the paradox, you fool! Hahaha! Seriously though. .....
» 22/12/2015 3:57:56 PM LEGO, Generalisations are always wrong. And your defence in your last post to me, that st.....
» 22/12/2015 12:38:56 PM I knew it was only a matter of time before someone would pull the Argument from Extremes f.....
» 22/12/2015 12:08:51 PM runner, Atheism and agnosticism are not mutually exclusive. Joe, This is a good questio.....
» 16/12/2015 10:10:51 PM Thanks for asking, LEGO. <<...where have you been?>> I’ve been posting here .....
» 16/12/2015 1:22:54 AM LEGO, Jesus was not a pacifist: "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to .....
» 15/12/2015 8:46:50 PM JKJ, What is this 'Appeal to Absent Authority' you're always on about? It sounds made up .....
» 14/12/2015 6:56:12 PM Thanks for that, Toni Lavis. I didn't think the dictionary definition would contain such a.....
» 14/12/2015 11:04:19 AM I know, Is MIse. <<A human child, like all the offspring of mammals, is totally dep.....
» 13/12/2015 12:04:48 AM As cautious as I am about giving my fully-fledged support to Anonymous, they at least seem.....
» 12/12/2015 11:35:28 AM I'd say at the moment of conception, mhaze. <<Just decide at what point a healthy e.....
» 10/12/2015 10:31:22 PM Sorry about the harsh tone in that last post, Is Mise, but I get really irritated when my .....
» 10/12/2015 10:10:30 PM So you WERE referring to me and my allegedly "weird theories" then, Is Mise. So.....
» 10/12/2015 3:31:09 PM Babette's still at it, perpetuating this lie that Planned Parenthood are selling baby part.....
» 9/12/2015 7:05:52 PM Clearly you weren't talking about me there, Is Mise. It should be apparent to even you by .....
» 9/12/2015 8:33:05 AM iamarightwingconspiracytheorist, That's the Shifting of the Burden of Proof fallacy you'v.....
» 8/12/2015 9:41:49 PM No. No games being played here, Is Mise. My point with regards to abortion has simply been.....
» 8/12/2015 5:46:51 PM imarightwingconspiracytheorist, What is your evidence that the ABS has been fudging figur.....
» 8/12/2015 5:20:15 PM Sorry Josephus, but I thought your “bling faith” was a typo meant to read “blind faith”. T.....
» 8/12/2015 3:38:34 PM So what you're saying, imarightwingconspiracytheorist, is that the reasoning behind your r.....
» 8/12/2015 9:07:07 AM Josephus, I think I have adequately differentiated between the victims of terrorist acts .....
» 8/12/2015 12:25:45 AM Is Mise, You must really be getting desperate if you’re now playing irrelevant semantical.....
» 7/12/2015 11:09:21 PM Is Mise, For the second time, I’m not missing the point. <<You miss the point, acc.....
» 7/12/2015 12:16:42 AM I just thought too, Is Mise, your point about the State apparently agreeing with you is fa.....
» 6/12/2015 11:45:47 PM Josephus, There is a difference between bombing a combatant enemy and executing one’s own.....
» 6/12/2015 12:13:57 AM Is Mise, I just remembered that you’re also all for the death penalty! As someone what w.....
» 5/12/2015 11:22:46 AM Speaking of the suitability of Bible stories for children, it never ceases to amaze me tha.....
» 5/12/2015 10:28:43 AM Is Mise, No I never said that. <<However in your book the fetus is not a person th.....
» 5/12/2015 10:28:38 AM Josephus, Of course there are differences between abortions and caesarians. You seem to h.....
» 3/12/2015 11:52:46 PM Okay Is Mise, so I overstated my case. Slightly. My main contention is - and if you check.....
» 2/12/2015 10:02:38 PM Well hasn’t this thread taken a turn since I was last here? Is Mise, Yes, there are many.....
» 30/11/2015 11:00:54 PM Actually, my claim about those forming charitable institutions in the name of a lack of be.....
» 30/11/2015 10:53:30 PM Thanks Is Mise. I was waiting for a response like yours. People like that would probably .....
» 30/11/2015 9:31:48 PM Josephus, This is a false dichotomy. <<I'd rather mix with people of faith than wi.....
» 25/11/2015 9:22:10 AM Ha ha, I didn’t even notice that, Toni Lavis. There’s been so much talk about what a you-.....
» 24/11/2015 5:08:28 PM Here's one from the New Testament, Outrider. Jesus cursing the Jews for not killing disobe.....
» 23/11/2015 10:40:50 PM Oh, I forgot to mention the divisiveness of Jesus demanding that people place him over the.....
» 23/11/2015 10:18:49 PM ttbn, So you have nothing to say in response then? Still going to keep us all in the dark.....
» 23/11/2015 2:55:51 PM ...Continued <<If you are reliant on technical gadgets, you can still find things .....
» 23/11/2015 2:55:46 PM Something that constitutes a non sequitur, ttbn, that’s what. <<What did I say abou.....
» 22/11/2015 11:19:22 AM On the contrary, ttbn, myself and others have done it a few times. <<You haven't be.....
» 21/11/2015 5:50:30 PM No sorry, Aiden. http://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=U.....
» 21/11/2015 4:45:28 PM mhaze, The only difference is that one can have faith without religion, while you cannot .....
» 21/11/2015 11:28:26 AM ttbn, Are you ever able to argue anything without resorting to ad hominem? You attack tho.....
» 21/11/2015 12:14:44 AM elcalebo, Firstly, I have not said that there is no need for redemption. Whether or not w.....
» 20/11/2015 10:34:30 PM runner, Oh please, do tell us all what the other side of the story is that I'm apparently.....
» 20/11/2015 1:45:19 AM Two points, elcalebo. Firstly, nothing I’ve said is out-of-line with the Christian doctri.....
» 20/11/2015 12:31:00 AM ttbn, Here you go again. I’m sorry, but Christianity is not much of a “basis” to live by .....
» 17/11/2015 1:32:01 AM LEGO, So in other words, you invented the quote. Or you seriously twisted it before posti.....
» 8/11/2015 12:28:06 AM I think, for the safety of society, this guy needs to stay behind bars at least until he's.....
» 7/11/2015 1:07:51 AM LEGO, Could you link me to the article that you have taken your AIC quote from please? I'.....
» 5/11/2015 11:54:31 AM Iamdelusional, Firstly, The Simpsons isn’t a kids show, it’s a family show geared towards.....
» 4/11/2015 3:12:36 PM Oh this is great stuff, Iamacentristmoderate. Great stuff! I’d love to see what your char.....
» 2/11/2015 8:35:38 AM Iameitheralefietrollingoruttlerydelusional, When you can keep up with a discussion and no.....
» 1/11/2015 9:41:44 PM Iamarightwingnutjob, I can't decide if you're thoroughly delusional or just a Lefie troll.....
» 1/11/2015 1:43:55 AM Sorry, ontthebeach. But there has been no switching of the burden of proof fallacy on my b.....
» 31/10/2015 11:16:11 PM Ah yes, suseonline. I forgot that it was about the sisterhood. I forgot because I usually .....
» 31/10/2015 4:23:04 PM “Refusal” eh, onthebeach? <<Usually it is the uses that you and other activists mak.....
» 31/10/2015 12:41:18 PM Not quite, ttbn. <<So emotions, beliefs, nature and being human count as nothing ag.....
» 30/10/2015 2:11:08 PM I could probably count the number of people who are influential to me on one hand and davi.....
» 30/10/2015 12:44:13 PM onthebeach, There are weaknesses in every social science study and data-gathering method......
» 29/10/2015 10:00:03 PM Iamarightwingextremist, That’s the Argument from Authority fallacy… <<The link i p.....
» 29/10/2015 8:14:58 PM And indeed you have no obligation to, ttbn. <<I feel no obligation to to "just.....
» 29/10/2015 6:22:20 PM It says nothing about me whatsoever, ttbn. <<My open post was addressed to idiots. .....
» 29/10/2015 12:30:35 PM ttbn, Unless you can provide a rational explanation as to why allowing homosexual couples.....
» 17/10/2015 12:16:47 AM Toni Lavis, I enjoyed to Narnia books as a child. C.S. Lewis has a lot of talent in the f.....
» 17/10/2015 12:06:07 AM runner, I'm not going to sit here and waste posts on short 'n' sharp responses to a perso.....
» 16/10/2015 10:42:20 PM I'd be quite happy to go up against C.S. Lewis in a battle of wits, runner. The guy was an.....
» 16/10/2015 10:13:33 PM Nice try with C.S. Lewis's 'Lier, Lunatic or Lord' fallacy there, runner. But the silly no.....
» 16/10/2015 5:36:44 PM Oh no! I've been exposed!.....
» 16/10/2015 10:44:11 AM Joe, Yes, I did acknowledge earlier that the New Testament is slightly better. But it’s s.....
» 15/10/2015 1:04:10 PM Is Mise, I'd like to know the verse(s) you're referring to. Either way, that's a clear co.....
» 15/10/2015 11:03:26 AM Is Mise, I thought you were hinting at what I had addressed in my comment that I linked t.....
» 15/10/2015 8:51:19 AM Josephus, You need to read what I said in my link to Is Mise again, or be more specific a.....
» 14/10/2015 11:40:56 PM I don't think I've seen any criticism of Islam or the Koran on this thread today that coul.....
» 11/09/2015 9:14:21 PM phanto, Why o’ why do I need to keep re-quoting you? <<You seem rather confused ab.....
» 11/09/2015 5:22:26 PM phanto, I can quit with the links if you’d prefer, but they save time and are handy for t.....
» 11/09/2015 4:07:09 PM phanto, We had just finished briefly discussing the argumentum ad populum fallacy (http:/.....
» 9/09/2015 3:36:37 PM Sells, If you believe that the Bible is not a document on morality, then you would be in .....
» 9/09/2015 12:10:08 PM The issue of slavery is perhaps the easiest moral question that humanity has ever faced, a.....
» 7/09/2015 4:33:01 PM Phanto, You really need to quit with the amateur psychoanalysis. You’re not good at it. .....
» 6/09/2015 9:58:55 PM Phanto, Your concern for my motives is starting to look bizarre. <<We are all igno.....
» 6/09/2015 4:52:48 PM Maybe they are, Phanto. <<OK but how can you tell what people really believe just b.....
» 6/09/2015 2:41:58 PM Phanto, C’mon, do I really have to explain that? <<So what were you saying?>>.....
» 6/09/2015 1:03:10 PM Is Mise, Clearly I was talking about Australia. What people in other countries think is o.....
» 5/09/2015 9:52:12 PM Not according to the polls over the last ten years, Is Mise......
» 4/09/2015 8:32:00 PM Is Mise, Thank you for that one last demonstration of the Appeal to Nature fallacy involv.....
» 4/09/2015 3:55:15 PM Well this thread’s going well so far. This article, with its invalid equating of same-sex .....
» 4/09/2015 3:13:05 PM Sorry, Shockadelic. I’ve been extremely busy this week. <<You are making "swee.....
» 28/08/2015 6:58:31 PM I know you would, Shockadelic. <<Er, yes I would.>> That’s why I said “would.....
» 28/08/2015 6:58:26 PM Chris C, I don’t think anyone has claimed that a definition alone made them second-class .....
» 27/08/2015 8:05:18 PM Shockadelic, <<Or maybe it's giving the hive a great big whack!>> Maybe. Tha.....
» 27/08/2015 5:03:51 PM I was referring to your post before that one, Shockadelic. <<I was responding to Fo.....
» 27/08/2015 2:12:32 PM *Sigh* Phanto, It’s a pity so many discussions have to come to this... <<If you t.....
» 27/08/2015 8:09:41 AM So does Mr Gerrit, Shockadelic. <<[One poster] Has a name.>> But you still f.....
» 26/08/2015 9:11:45 PM Continued... <<People can behave however they like so long as it does not impinge o.....
» 26/08/2015 9:11:40 PM Phanto, So now homosexuality may not be “reasonable” because we don’t know if it even exi.....
» 25/08/2015 3:15:22 PM Phanto, You may have to explain precisely what you mean by “reasonable”. Accoding to the .....
» 25/08/2015 1:41:58 PM Shockadelic, <<If you love both sexes (born that way!), you may want to marry both….....
» 25/08/2015 11:14:24 AM So you’re conflating with bisexuality with polygamy then, Shockadelic? <<You can on.....
» 25/08/2015 9:39:12 AM Read what I said again, Chris C. <<If “words don’t have meanings”, then your respon.....
» 25/08/2015 8:25:37 AM I hear ya, rehctub. <<Channel ten Foxy because before they started to broadcast the.....
» 25/08/2015 12:29:36 AM Shockadelic, Just how exactly do you think marriage could cater for bisexuals beyond allo.....
» 24/08/2015 10:48:39 AM Chris C, Words don’t have meaning. Words have usage and we attribute meaning to them. No-.....
» 24/08/2015 12:07:01 AM I'm very serious about the subject, diver dan. <<you cannot be taken seriously on t.....
» 23/08/2015 5:26:45 PM diver dan, When arguing against same-sex marriage, the hygiene/disease argument doesn’t w.....
» 23/08/2015 1:46:27 PM Phanto, <<Who said anything about homosexual behaviour being either good or bad?>.....
» 23/08/2015 11:52:12 AM Phanto, You are committing the Appeal to Nature fallacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.....
» 14/08/2015 10:47:46 AM They were my thoughts too, david f. As someone who was once an evangelical (protestant) Ch.....
» 10/08/2015 8:13:12 AM …Continued Clearly you didn’t even read it given this next claim... <<All you are .....
» 10/08/2015 8:13:00 AM …Continued <<I expect you to read The 2001 US Surgeon general's report…>> Yo.....
» 10/08/2015 8:12:45 AM LEGO, I have already told you that I’ll be busy for the next couple of months. <<I.....
» 6/08/2015 8:13:48 AM …Continued I’ve simply argued against with your assertion that crime is on the rise, and.....
» 6/08/2015 8:13:39 AM LEGO, There IS actually a statistically significant decline. <<The only thing wh.....
» 4/08/2015 8:23:30 AM …Continued <<According to the NSW BCS&R fact sheet, "shoot with intent" .....
» 4/08/2015 8:23:18 AM Welcome back, LEGO. Unfortunately, I fear that your return from lies and misrepresentation.....
» 3/08/2015 12:57:08 PM …Continued <<…you have not submitted any evidence to support your IMPLICATION that .....
» 3/08/2015 12:57:01 PM LEGO, No, actually. I spent the last half of my address to you dealing specifically with.....
» 2/08/2015 9:19:43 PM Perhaps you should have answered them the first time around then, LEGO. <<...I don'.....
» 2/08/2015 12:42:16 PM …Continued << I think that this is why you are so determined to get at me, and no b.....
» 2/08/2015 12:42:11 PM LEGO, It’s not that you’re dishonest because you don’t quote others. <<…if I do no.....
» 31/07/2015 5:15:55 PM onthebeach, Relax. o sung wu simply asked me for an opinion not based on any reasoning, s.....
» 31/07/2015 4:16:03 PM JP, Would I be right in assuming that you’re discussing the purely theoretical here? The .....
» 31/07/2015 1:58:41 PM Brilliant video there, wmTrevor. It's essentially and extremely detailed look at the Euthy.....
» 31/07/2015 8:35:03 AM LEGO, So now I'm just a heckler? Convenient, isn't it? You avoid quoting others at all co.....
» 30/07/2015 9:57:46 PM LEGO, You’ve used the “sneery one-liners” argument before (http://forum.onlineopinion.com.....
» 30/07/2015 9:52:23 PM Well, I tried to, JP. <<...I am sure there are plenty of atheists here who will set.....
» 30/07/2015 1:25:58 PM ...Continued <<I see that you are up to your old tricks of never plainly stating an.....
» 30/07/2015 1:25:51 PM LEGO, There's a heck of a lot of mere speculation that you offer up there as evidence. .....
» 29/07/2015 9:27:43 PM ...Continued <<...which measured the rise of violent crime in Australia for over 10.....
» 29/07/2015 9:27:36 PM onthebeach, All valid questions, I'm just not that passionate about the topic, sorry. I .....
» 29/07/2015 11:02:19 AM …Continued Which brings me to yet another problem with her data: the fact that Australia .....
» 29/07/2015 11:02:12 AM Yes, LEGO. Given that I’m actually qualified in this stuff - making you appear foolish eve.....
» 28/07/2015 10:20:24 PM You can count me in there too, JP. <<...both you and davidf seem quite ready to acc.....
» 28/07/2015 9:54:49 AM Oh, LEGO. You presume too much. <<Here in Australia...>> Despite his nom de .....
» 20/07/2015 10:40:50 PM Silly me, LEGO. Here even I was thinking I had ignored a dumb question of yours. <<.....
» 20/07/2015 9:38:41 AM ...Continued <<The doublethink mindsets of trendy lefties is best displayed by your.....
» 20/07/2015 9:38:37 AM Wrong yet again, LEGO (do you ever get anything right?). <<If you support the clima.....
» 19/07/2015 6:25:16 PM Since I have several posts up my sleeve and we’re listing reasons for our positions, here .....
» 19/07/2015 9:13:18 AM LEGO, You do if that’s what you’re claiming. <<I don't need to prove that too many.....
» 18/07/2015 11:21:58 AM LEGO, I'm not going to get suckered into your red herring generalisation regarding allege.....
» 18/07/2015 8:52:40 AM So now you’re just going to repeat yourself, LEGO? Take every failed argument, role them u.....
» 17/07/2015 6:26:06 AM Sorry, LEGO. I misread this bit... <<You claimed that Flannery never said that the .....
» 17/07/2015 5:37:53 AM No, I didn't, LEGO. <<You claimed that Flannery never said that the dams would fill.....
» 16/07/2015 8:46:05 PM Err, no, LEGO. I didn’t say it was dishonest to quote someone verbatim. Nor was that what .....
» 16/07/2015 11:29:43 AM Hey Hasbeen. How about you actually give an example of what one of these straws are that I.....
» 15/07/2015 9:51:41 PM ...Continued <<And sorry to burst your bubble, but Flannery did predict that the pl.....
» 15/07/2015 9:45:25 PM ConservativeHippie, If convincing yourself that I can prove black is white is how you exp.....
» 15/07/2015 2:32:14 PM Oh, I think I see what you’ve been talking about, LEGO. Suddenly social media is abuzz wit.....
» 15/07/2015 9:19:26 AM Once again, LEGO, I didn’t just ask for any quote. <<You asked for a Tim Flannery q.....
» 14/07/2015 9:50:55 PM No, not just any quote, LEGO. <<You want a quote from Tim Flannery?>> So I’m.....
» 14/07/2015 8:51:12 AM Of course, that should be "caricatures", not "characterisations"......
» 14/07/2015 8:43:14 AM Let’s not pretend I need Googling lessons, LEGO. <<Just scroll "Google", .....
» 14/07/2015 12:31:32 AM Still waiting for that quote, LEGO. <<Tim Flannery is notorious in the media for hi.....
» 13/07/2015 11:58:39 AM LEGO, 1. Yes, I know what the quote is that you’re referring to. I just want to see you .....
» 12/07/2015 11:38:59 PM <<They fudged the figures to "hide" the fact that the steady rise in tempe.....
» 12/07/2015 11:38:50 PM SteeleRedux, I thought it was also cute of LEGO to compare the acceptance of AGW with the.....
» 12/07/2015 4:40:35 PM ConservativeHippie, Those links don’t bail LEGO out from my first question to him. Your f.....
» 12/07/2015 11:51:09 AM LEGO, Could you point me to something supporting your claim that Tim Flannery said ".....
» 4/07/2015 12:46:16 AM ...Continued At the risk of stereotyping, did you notice the guys in the film tended to b.....
» 4/07/2015 12:46:11 AM Jay of Melbourne, I haven't asked any gay people how they became that way, but knowing ma.....
» 3/07/2015 8:32:31 PM ConservativeHippie, I'm sceptical of claims in proportion to how extraordinary they are a.....
» 2/07/2015 9:35:25 PM Craig Minns, I’ve seen many people on OLO say they’re going to leave (heck, I tell myself.....
» 2/07/2015 4:37:45 PM ConservativeHippie, I never said that you claimed to have had a mystical experience, and .....
» 1/07/2015 10:05:39 PM Craig Minns, I definitely think that you're committing the Shifting of the Burden of Pro.....
» 1/07/2015 7:46:32 PM ConservativeHippie, You've missed my point entirely. <<...the conclusion I draw fr.....
» 1/07/2015 2:06:03 PM What tactics, onthebeach? And how are they betrayed?.....
» 1/07/2015 12:18:30 PM ConservativeHippie, I think it’s more likely that a simple confirmation bias is at work. .....
» 1/07/2015 8:39:17 AM onthebeach, I was waiting to see how long it would take you to pull the conspiratorially-.....
» 30/06/2015 9:18:06 AM onthebeach, Far from "recommending" the study, I only made a passing mention of.....
» 29/06/2015 11:02:25 PM onthebeach, Yes, self-selection and self-reporting can be a big problem, but sometimes th.....
» 29/06/2015 10:03:44 AM Is Mise, What penny has dropped? So do you not consider adoptive patents to be real paren.....
» 29/06/2015 3:17:00 AM onthebeach, Again, the snippet you've provided only seems to be talking about one study. .....
» 28/06/2015 7:02:38 PM onthebeach, The limitations of the research would depend on the individual study. The Goo.....
» 27/06/2015 2:22:17 PM Is Mise, You appear to have missed a lot of the discussion that has gone on in this threa.....
» 27/06/2015 1:39:45 PM Foxy, You have my sympathies regarding this recent discovery that you hold a conservative.....
» 26/06/2015 9:09:34 PM Foxy, As I mentioned earlier, the sexes of parents don't seem to make any difference. The.....
» 25/06/2015 10:10:59 PM Josephus, Either you’ve forgotten a lot since the course you did in the early 60s, or the.....
» 25/06/2015 12:11:54 PM Josephus, That's a little rich given that you are yet to explain how your lone argument i.....
» 24/06/2015 11:45:06 PM Like I said earlier, Josephus, rational discussion with you on this topic is not possible......
» 24/06/2015 10:32:04 AM ttbn, Thank you for once again demonstrating that your entire rebuttal has been nothing m.....
» 24/06/2015 8:03:35 AM Toni Lavis, The whole toilet training bit is an old discredited Freudian idea. I used to .....
» 24/06/2015 12:13:21 AM Would somebody tell Josephus that human sexuality and biology are a little more complicate.....
» 23/06/2015 11:05:28 PM Sorry, o sung wu. I've been trying to get back to you, but it's been a bit like this on th.....
» 23/06/2015 10:03:08 PM I don’t see how this renders me slow, ttbn. <<I meant that YOU/YOUR PERSONALITY cam.....
» 23/06/2015 8:11:49 PM ttbn, Still misrepresenting what I say, I see. <<AJ Philips comes up with: I am ma.....
» 23/06/2015 1:13:05 PM ttbn, That's some pretty blatant misinterpretation there. <<Good on you AJ Philip.....
» 23/06/2015 10:45:14 AM Not just you, ttbn. <<Are you 'ughing' me? The practice and courtsey around here is.....
» 23/06/2015 9:55:02 AM Would I, Josephus? <<With people like you AJ you would be telling the teenagers, tr.....
» 23/06/2015 8:46:24 AM Jay of Melbourne, Where are you getting this 95% figure from? I’ve utilised my own link a.....
» 22/06/2015 11:50:22 PM Ugh. It really would be a good idea if we all at least skimmed the posts of everyone else .....
» 22/06/2015 12:29:16 PM Is Mise, The recent rise in gay bashings in Melbourne is being carried out by the same gr.....
» 22/06/2015 11:47:06 AM The data on this is a still a bit vague and incomplete, but the studies so far suggest tha.....
» 21/06/2015 9:37:35 PM Oh please, Is Mise ... <<Perhaps the notion of equating the sexually intimate relat.....
» 21/06/2015 9:37:26 PM Jay of Melbourne, So your reasoning as to why same-sex marriage can only be a pseudo-marr.....
» 21/06/2015 7:28:55 PM It is a recognised logical fallacy, Toni Lavis. The Appeal to Tradition: http://en.wikiped.....
» 21/06/2015 4:44:06 PM Jay of Melbourne, Just because "the Yes campaign are calling for something completel.....
» 21/06/2015 2:44:05 PM Is Mise, I specifically referred to all the discussions on OLO on this topic. Either way,.....
» 21/06/2015 12:07:27 PM Jay of Melbourne, Toni Lavis’s questions echo my next ones. So I’d be interested to see w.....
» 20/06/2015 3:41:02 PM o sung wu, There's a lot of people on OLO that I don't like, but I'm not rude enough to t.....
» 20/06/2015 1:26:24 PM Jay of Melbourne, What exactly do you mean when you say "... not everyone should be.....
» 20/06/2015 2:28:22 AM o sung wu, If my last humble request to you didn’t do anything to pacify you in my attemp.....
» 19/06/2015 9:27:58 PM rehctub, <<...the opportunity is not the real issue here, it's the equality they se.....
» 18/06/2015 5:53:28 PM Phanto, Yes, cases of discrimination are civil cases covered by civil law (as opposed to .....
» 18/06/2015 12:50:16 PM mil.observer, I tend to clown about when the arguments I’m dealing with do not deserve to.....
» 17/06/2015 3:17:14 PM Yep, it certainly did, mil.observer. <<Wow AJP, that put me back in my box!>>.....
» 17/06/2015 2:10:35 PM Phanto, Civil law works based on a 'balance of probabilities' (as opposed to the requirem.....
» 17/06/2015 12:29:36 PM No-one needed to, Banjo. <<Three replies to my post objecting to the use of the wor.....
» 17/06/2015 9:04:00 AM Oh, it's definitely a red herring, Toni Lavis. Once it was about 'racial purity', now it's.....
» 16/06/2015 6:05:31 AM Yuyutsu, They're some pretty broad generalisations there. Most of the gays I know are ver.....
» 15/06/2015 12:32:34 AM Ooo.... ooo.... Can I answer this one? <<Had a law been legislated stating that you.....
» 14/06/2015 11:48:03 PM o sung wu, It appears that your rebuttal to Adrian's response largely consists of the, &q.....
» 14/06/2015 5:39:45 PM Ooo... I wanna have a go at this one. <<It is those who push for change who must op.....
» 14/06/2015 4:07:07 PM Sorry, I don't think I read this quite right... <<Liberals and progressives constan.....
» 14/06/2015 3:58:14 PM I'm not sure what all the high-fiving is about. Jay of Melbourne doesn't appear to me to h.....
» 12/06/2015 8:56:22 PM Suseonline, I suspect Is Mise is just being obtuse now. You’re right. Jesus was God. He .....
» 12/06/2015 8:45:47 PM Bazz, No actually, you didn’t. <<Ooaahhh, seems I touched a sore point with AJ Phi.....
» 12/06/2015 2:18:19 PM Er, wrong, onthebeach. (There goes that annoying Chris Rea song in my head again.) <&l.....
» 12/06/2015 9:00:22 AM o sung wu, The Slippery Slope fallacy was the assumption that marrying animals would be n.....
» 11/06/2015 2:42:21 PM Well, that's the Slippery Slope fallacy checked off. Now, if we could just have the Appeal.....
» 11/06/2015 11:58:20 AM Yuyutsu, How does one objectively determine what is "true religiosity" and what.....
» 11/06/2015 10:00:20 AM Oh, the horror, Paul1405! And what of the children? Are they rich? Are they poor? Are they.....
» 11/06/2015 8:51:07 AM I know where you're coming from, rehctub. I have had similar concerns about interracial co.....
» 7/06/2015 1:30:47 AM Actually, Leo Lane, you didn't even ask about this... <<...no explanation as to why.....
» 6/06/2015 11:13:07 PM ...Continued Common topics in this category include the antivaccine movement, opposition .....
» 6/06/2015 11:13:00 PM ...Continued Here’s what an actual sceptic has to say about denialism in general: “The d.....
» 6/06/2015 11:12:49 PM So you WERE going to return eventually, Leo Lane. That's a relief. It just goes to show ho.....
» 6/06/2015 12:07:44 PM I know what you mean, hasbeen. Similar sentiments were expressed regarding interracial mar.....
» 5/06/2015 7:39:25 PM Let’s see how many Slippery Slope and Appeal to Nature fallacies we can rack up in one Com.....
» 5/06/2015 8:23:13 AM Yuyutsu, <<...since we already did it once (when or around the time we were born), .....
» 4/06/2015 10:57:02 AM It's funny how these discussions evolve. The Comments section of David van Gend's last art.....
» 3/06/2015 12:14:12 AM EmperorJulian, I’m not sure why you find the idea of well-funded, university-educated hij.....
» 2/06/2015 6:51:19 PM Not quite, EmperorJulian. <<Presumably a “9/11 truther” is someone who purports to .....
» 2/06/2015 2:09:58 PM Oh, I read that wrong. It is you, EmperorJulian, who is the 9/11 truther; criticising Mic.....
» 2/06/2015 12:31:33 PM Emperor Julian, Michael Shermer isn't a 9/11 truther. He wouldn't be a reputable sceptic .....
» 1/06/2015 9:52:16 AM Leo Lane, <<There is evidence of you undergoing an addle-brained state there,...>.....
» 29/05/2015 11:22:04 PM I know what you meant, runner. But do you have any evidence for this clarified assertion o.....
» 29/05/2015 11:12:53 PM runner, Do you have any evidence that you could link me to proving that most of these chi.....
» 29/05/2015 10:44:09 PM Okay then, Leo Lane. So we weren’t talking at cross purposes as I suspected we were before.....
» 29/05/2015 7:53:35 PM Leo Lane, Of course it is self-evident and unquestionable (i.e. axiomatic) that a marriag.....
» 29/05/2015 2:40:59 PM Leo Lane, It doesn’t sound like you know who you’re talking to or when. <<I asked .....
» 29/05/2015 12:00:31 AM Leo Lane, I can assure you that it’s not me who’s being forgetful here. <<Your wor.....
» 28/05/2015 10:38:26 PM Leo Lane, It seems you’re getting Toni Lavis and I mixed up a bit… <<Toni demonstr.....
» 28/05/2015 12:32:10 AM You’re not too bright yourself, Leo Lane. <<What reasoning do you think is required.....
» 27/05/2015 4:53:49 PM Leo Lane, You still haven’t provided anything much in the way of reasoning. First, you a.....
» 27/05/2015 1:52:55 PM Josephus, From its origins as a form of trade and a method of forming alliances between f.....
» 26/05/2015 5:52:46 PM Is Mise, So then what Christian denominations do you consider to not be following the cor.....
» 26/05/2015 10:42:37 AM Is Mise, Secularism has tempered Christianity to a point where its adherants no longer fo.....
» 25/05/2015 8:37:47 PM That’s close, o sung wu. <<…there appears to be significant evidence suggesting chi.....
» 25/05/2015 7:00:20 PM Every time this topic comes up on OLO, I read through the comments looking to finally see .....
» 13/05/2015 10:13:59 PM Jayb, I have no idea what it is you’re on about in your first two paragraphs, but it look.....
» 13/05/2015 8:04:14 PM White collar crime actually has greater social and economic costs than street crime, but p.....
» 13/05/2015 7:27:57 PM …Continued Either way, this isn’t an excuse for forming ignorant opinions, it would just .....
» 13/05/2015 7:27:51 PM Jayb, That had nothing to do with the death penalty. <<Yes I do. When my 2nd wife .....
» 8/05/2015 11:31:16 AM Is Mise, <<The discussion was what capital punishment achieves...>> Well, it.....
» 8/05/2015 9:10:16 AM Is Mise, Really, this is just becoming embarrassing to watch. <<…if I ask people i.....
» 7/05/2015 10:43:55 PM ...Continued <<The Judiciary know this & are in at the fat end of the table. When t.....
» 7/05/2015 10:43:49 PM Jayb, <<What list of Social & Justice Problems?>> I already gave a quick run.....
» 7/05/2015 5:57:30 PM Is Mise, <<Professor Charles Lund Black among others stated that the deterrent effe.....
» 7/05/2015 2:38:29 PM Is Mise, I have already mentioned some methods of measuring the deterrent effect of the d.....
» 7/05/2015 12:44:09 PM Is Mise, That’s close enough. Depending on an infinite combination of factors, the death .....
» 7/05/2015 12:44:04 PM Dear SteeleRedux, I’m not sure how I’ve given you the impression that I believe that the .....
» 6/05/2015 1:39:18 PM Is Mise, <<I didn't give any precise numbers because there is no way of knowing the.....
» 6/05/2015 1:39:14 PM Am I just taking to myself here? I bet no-one would park illegally if the penalty for it .....
» 6/05/2015 11:15:35 AM ...Continued Nine out of ten criminologists (and that number is slowly shrinking) don't t.....
» 6/05/2015 11:15:29 AM Is Mise, As I said to you earlier, knowing the exact number is not necessary and expectin.....
» 5/05/2015 10:54:46 PM Jayb, <<But the Death Penalty does get rid of Societies rubbish permanently.>>.....
» 5/05/2015 1:59:34 PM So now you’re engaging in hysterics, runner? <<Oh AJ its just my imagination that .....
» 5/05/2015 1:13:45 PM You really don’t have anything, do you runner? <<actually AJ it is the regressives .....
» 5/05/2015 12:30:03 PM Thanks for that, runner. That’s a good demonstration of what I meant by basing what is “ob.....
» 5/05/2015 11:34:58 AM runner, What is “obvious” and “common sense” to you is only obvious and common sense beca.....
» 5/05/2015 11:06:53 AM In other words. runner, you're just going to believe what you want to believe and ignore a.....
» 4/05/2015 9:42:30 PM I've avoided getting too involved in this discussion because there's nothing I could say t.....
» 4/05/2015 8:43:27 AM Is Mise, There are a ton of ways to measure the deterrent effect that the death penalty h.....
» 11/04/2015 4:47:13 PM The amusing irony is that Christian fundamentalists are the biggest consumers of porn. I s.....
» 3/04/2015 1:16:38 AM George, I think you’re being deliberately obtuse. When I quoted the Oxford dictionary's d.....
» 2/04/2015 1:06:11 PM George, The fact that I used so many words to rebut your claim does not necessarily prove.....
» 2/04/2015 12:38:29 AM Dan and George, As I said earlier, we can ditch the word "indoctrinate" and it.....
» 1/04/2015 6:25:03 PM Craig Minns, I accept Webster’s as an authoritative source. Nothing I said should have su.....
» 1/04/2015 4:50:29 PM Craig Minns, The oxford dictionary says something very different: teach (a person or gro.....
» 1/04/2015 11:50:25 AM Craig Minns, I think that any sort of indoctrination is immoral because to indoctrinate m.....
» 9/03/2015 12:19:15 PM ...Continued <<...your belief that the reason why black men are very disproportiona.....
» 9/03/2015 12:19:09 PM Sorry, LEGO. I was going to wait for your next post, but my response already got too big. .....
» 8/03/2015 7:39:52 PM ...Continued Some of us are actually capable of having more than one reason for holding a.....
» 8/03/2015 7:39:46 PM Is Mise, The primary reason LEGO cannot see the difference between enemy combatants and c.....
» 8/03/2015 12:15:58 PM Back to your old dishonest tactics, LEGO? That didn’t take long this time. <<You ag.....
» 7/03/2015 8:29:35 PM LEGO, When comparing a $50 fine to, say, 20 years in prison - yes. <<Most people c.....
» 7/03/2015 12:38:23 PM ...Continued Killing them would probably then horrify the more enlightened and civilised .....
» 7/03/2015 12:38:17 PM LEGO, Your "proof" that capital punishment serves as more of a deterrent than L.....
» 5/03/2015 6:29:05 PM Every time the death penalty is discussed on OLO, someone raises the notion of absolute ce.....
» 5/03/2015 5:06:39 PM Yes LEGO, that's right. It's a new thread. That means you can repeat all the claims I disc.....
» 5/03/2015 7:28:31 AM Yuyutsu, I certainly hope you weren’t referring to me there. <<If, as claimed by a.....
» 4/03/2015 8:08:07 AM We have already discussed this at great length, Yuyutsu. Religion has no such prerequisite.....
» 25/02/2015 7:29:18 PM …Continued From what most victims report, the highest sense of restitution comes from the.....
» 25/02/2015 7:29:12 PM Sheesh, o sung wu, that’s a mighty big topic! I think the current sentencing rationales a.....
» 25/02/2015 1:51:07 PM o sung wu, I’m not sure if you’re being snide by asking where I am, when I’m “needed”. If.....
» 23/02/2015 1:13:34 PM Sorry, Craig Minns. I should have said (as I have said many times before in previous discu.....
» 22/02/2015 9:30:50 PM Craig Minns, My view certainly is sceptical rather than dogmatic. If it were dogmatic, t.....
» 21/02/2015 8:02:20 AM LEGO, I’ve already explained the Watson saga. The US National Association of Coloured Peo.....
» 20/02/2015 7:35:32 PM My apologies, LEGO. Your 3 does answer my 4. Looks like you may have been telling the trut.....
» 20/02/2015 7:28:23 PM LEGO, If your excuses were true, then your 3 would answer my 4 (since I skipped 3), and y.....
» 20/02/2015 11:05:00 AM LEGO, You were free to add the 3 back in, or continue to leave it out. I did not switch r.....
» 20/02/2015 10:51:11 AM Craig Minns, I’m afraid I can’t just leave it there. I still reserve the right to defend .....
» 19/02/2015 1:56:36 PM Craig Minns, We are not at cross purposes and here’s why: You claim(ed) that scientists .....
» 19/02/2015 12:15:18 PM Craig Minns, I’m happy to go other places, but not because you want to duck and weave and.....
» 19/02/2015 11:02:40 AM Craig Minns, It looks like we’re about to come full circle now. I’ve already addressed ev.....
» 19/02/2015 10:13:20 AM ...Continued 5. Whether or not your emotive arguments were effective is entirely subjecti.....
» 19/02/2015 10:13:14 AM LEGO, You’ve stuffed up the numbering system Craig started. Probably to throw myself and .....
» 18/02/2015 1:39:14 PM ...Continued 4. Lighter sentences for the one who dobs works too, and no-one dies that wa.....
» 18/02/2015 1:39:03 PM LEGO, We can still reduce them without execution. <<Drug abuse can no more be &quo.....
» 18/02/2015 11:36:04 AM Thanks a lot for the words of support, Poirot. Whether or not that’s what they were meant .....
» 18/02/2015 10:12:06 AM Yes George, I remember that agreement. <<...namely that one of the differences betw.....
» 18/02/2015 8:15:22 AM Correct, SteeleRedux. The electing of judges in America has proven to be a complete disas.....
» 17/02/2015 9:51:31 PM No sorry, George. That wouldn’t be accurate either because non-literalists generally aren.....
» 17/02/2015 1:27:57 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for the link, but I'm aware of all that. My response was a cheeky way o.....
» 17/02/2015 11:50:09 AM Dear Foxy, Please spare a thought too for those who were deemed to be 'not ready for rele.....
» 17/02/2015 11:04:08 AM George, I’m afraid, through either loose wording or a misunderstanding of Dawkins’ positi.....
» 16/02/2015 4:31:56 PM That incomplete sentence was supposed to read: "We can even see this in how those wh.....
» 16/02/2015 3:53:26 PM Craig Minns, But you haven’t been talking about beliefs in general. <<I say religi.....
» 16/02/2015 1:15:31 PM David f is right. Dawkins’ attitude is different too. After Darwin, it was, “What a pity .....
» 13/02/2015 1:20:47 PM Craig Minns, It sounds like you’re changing tack. You’ve been saying (and I agreed) that .....
» 12/02/2015 7:57:10 PM Craig Minns, I think I'm going to have to drag you back a bit because - as had happened i.....
» 12/02/2015 4:00:07 PM Now you’ve got me confused, Craig Minns. <<… science simply doesn't address issues .....
» 12/02/2015 2:56:30 PM Craig Minns, I think you might have missed my point. <<I used the word "hijac.....
» 12/02/2015 1:12:34 PM Craig Minns, I think your use of the word “hijacked” here incorrectly implies that there .....
» 11/02/2015 11:25:17 PM Yeah, I don’t see Abbott’s long list of academic achievements as anything that special. Fr.....
» 11/02/2015 1:15:13 AM Foxy, Apologies for not heeding your sensible advice, but I feel I need to defend myself .....
» 10/02/2015 9:10:00 PM That's the way, Hasbeen. When you have nothing left, just continue with the insults. You .....
» 10/02/2015 6:17:34 PM ...Continued I don’t think you could even state how the ideal cop scores in the various a.....
» 10/02/2015 6:17:31 PM Wow, o sung wu! I don’t think I’ve ever been spoken to like that in all my life. <<.....
» 10/02/2015 2:56:30 PM o sung wu, I don’t buy this picture you paint of a giant chasm between practice and theor.....
» 10/02/2015 12:50:04 PM ...Continued You just sit back comfortably in your world of white male privilege and assu.....
» 10/02/2015 12:49:59 PM Hasbeen, If you have to resort to name calling, then you have well and truly lost the arg.....
» 10/02/2015 1:11:49 AM ...Continued Everything you have attributed to “academic policing” is purely in your own .....
» 10/02/2015 1:11:41 AM Hasbeen, Our worldviews and biases may be impossible to eliminate completely, but there a.....
» 9/02/2015 3:54:28 PM So you think it’s just about keeping the bad guys safe, Hasbeen? <<We need to get b.....
» 7/02/2015 8:47:33 AM Very well put, david f. I see nothing in onthebeach's last response that contradicts anyt.....
» 6/02/2015 10:27:27 PM david f’s post highlights two additional points that I don't think were meant to be highli.....
» 6/02/2015 2:10:14 PM When it comes to higher taxes and wealth re-distribution, I wouldn’t be talking about fair.....
» 6/02/2015 11:30:53 AM Sheesh, things have really changed since I went to a religious school then! We had two 40.....
» 4/02/2015 10:51:19 AM Hasbeen, in his usual ignorance of criminal justice matters, has highlighted a point that .....
» 30/01/2015 2:23:00 PM ...Continued I’m sure there were many other psychological reasons that I was never aware.....
» 30/01/2015 2:22:53 PM ...Continued <<...just as the various "explanations" of quantum behaviour.....
» 30/01/2015 2:22:50 PM Craig Minns, I would disagree that we are talking at cross purposes. <<I have no s.....
» 29/01/2015 12:57:24 PM ...Continued <<This has much in common with the way in which QM places the observer.....
» 29/01/2015 12:57:16 PM Craig Minns, I am quite happy to have a discussion too. However, if I see an error on you.....
» 28/01/2015 1:55:24 PM …Continued Now you’re suggesting that one can do things “in the name of” QM, just as thin.....
» 28/01/2015 1:55:15 PM I’m sorry, Craig Minns, but I don’t think they are. <<… what I "seem" to .....
» 28/01/2015 9:21:19 AM Poirot, I agree that Abbott’s as good as gone. And in addition to losing the highground t.....
» 27/01/2015 10:36:26 PM ...Continued <<I have expalined why that is essentially a poor approach and is not .....
» 27/01/2015 10:36:17 PM Craig Minns, I've heard analogies using the weirdness of QM to shoehorn the possibility o.....
» 27/01/2015 4:59:01 PM …Continued <<Scientists have faith too; the scientific method is to accept an hypot.....
» 27/01/2015 4:58:54 PM Craig Minns, I don’t see how theists using inductive reasoning to justify their beliefs i.....
» 27/01/2015 10:40:36 AM Until this little episode, I was sure the Coalition would stick it out with Abbott - gaffe.....
» 24/01/2015 12:13:00 AM I just realised I misread something you said earlier, Jayb. <<Back to the 16th Cent.....
» 23/01/2015 11:13:01 PM You're stalling, Jayb. <<Exactly right & neither does anyone else outside a small c.....
» 23/01/2015 10:15:30 PM But how could you assume they were out-of-date, Jayb? <<I don't know how you use th.....
» 23/01/2015 6:19:16 PM Jayb, You've quoted yourself there and then responded to that instead. If you want to duc.....
» 23/01/2015 3:42:08 PM So you’ve got nothing then, Jayb? I figured that’d be the case. Worse still, you’re not e.....
» 23/01/2015 2:39:23 PM Further confirmation that you have no idea of what sociology is, Jayb, <<Pure Quack.....
» 22/01/2015 8:02:00 PM Oh, this has got to be some sort of a joke. No-one’s this stupid. Surely!.....
» 22/01/2015 6:19:24 PM Yes, Jayb. <<I wasn't being funny. I wanted to know if you were the person that got.....
» 22/01/2015 2:20:03 PM Yes, Yes Jayb. Very funny. <<No word from AJ yet, Ay.>> Are you the same guy.....
» 22/01/2015 12:58:39 PM Oh boy, Jayb! <<Come on AJ, answer the question. did you or didn't you.>> Di.....
» 22/01/2015 10:26:14 AM Jayb, I was going to reply to your question by pointing out how immature and brainless it.....
» 21/01/2015 11:28:10 PM o sung wu, After posting my last comment, I later suspected that you had to have been mak.....
» 21/01/2015 6:09:24 PM o sung wu, As a former cop who has implied - on multiple occasions - that I couldn't poss.....
» 16/01/2015 12:00:54 PM Josephus, The notion of sin rests on the assumption that a god exists. So until the the e.....
» 10/01/2015 11:19:25 AM George, Yes, on second thoughts your main point didn’t really hinge on the idea that thos.....
» 10/01/2015 8:37:28 AM George, I think your premise is flawed. I don’t think either of those statements are nece.....
» 9/01/2015 1:33:05 PM I don’t think I would turn to religion in such a situation for several reasons: 1) How co.....
» 5/01/2015 8:29:30 PM I should probably clarify, too, that when I said, "There is some published evidence *.....
» 5/01/2015 3:31:39 PM I used to see a chiropractor for persistent headaches and the adjustments seemed to work. .....
» 3/01/2015 11:23:08 AM ...Continued Innocent or sinister, something more than a distaste for pseudohistory drive.....
» 3/01/2015 11:23:02 AM TimONeill, <<If you knew me, you'd understand that it's hilarious.>> Perhaps.....
» 2/01/2015 12:38:36 PM Why is suggesting that you could be some far-Right Nationalist so funny? You’ve said nothi.....
» 1/01/2015 9:49:48 PM TimONeill, If you really are an atheist with no emotional investment, then why can't we j.....
» 1/01/2015 9:49:41 PM The Mad Rabbi, My comment was a side note, hence why it appeared at the end of my post an.....
» 31/12/2014 2:38:52 PM I would hate to see you upset then, TimONeill. <<Anger? I'm perfectly calm thanks.&.....
» 31/12/2014 1:01:03 PM So much anger, TimONeill. Perhaps you should heed my advice at the end of my last post? I.....
» 30/12/2014 7:25:08 PM The problem isn’t that there are no “early” sources; it’s that there are no contemporary o.....
» 19/12/2014 7:09:26 PM ...Continued I'll also point out, too, that your question is unrelated to any topic that .....
» 19/12/2014 7:09:09 PM ...Continued As for your question, no, I don't know the answer to that. It would probably.....
» 19/12/2014 7:08:58 PM o sung wu, The fact that you have so few answers to my claims and questions is no indicat.....
» 11/12/2014 7:28:56 PM This is all the Internet I'll have for a week or two, so it'll be a while before I respond.....
» 8/12/2014 9:48:08 PM o sung wu, There was no derision, remember? That was your own misinterpretation. We alrea.....
» 8/12/2014 7:03:44 PM Hasbeen, What crimes are important to the general public is another issue and something y.....
» 8/12/2014 11:35:06 AM ConservativeHippy, Obviously I meant to say that only swiftness and certainty have an eff.....
» 3/12/2014 5:24:38 PM Hasbeen, There are a ton of practical tests. Perhaps the biggest and broadest is the fact.....
» 3/12/2014 3:15:10 PM By the way, Hasbeen, no I don’t have an answer. If I did, then I’d have myself a Nobel pri.....
» 3/12/2014 2:59:45 PM Hasbeen, Take what you want from what I’ve said. That’s how it is. The death penalty, how.....
» 3/12/2014 2:59:38 PM o sung wu, Yes, I also demonstrated that runner didn’t know what he was talking about. I .....
» 3/12/2014 1:12:05 PM Misanthrope, Clearly you haven’t understood a word of what I’ve actually said. I have no.....
» 3/12/2014 12:00:02 PM Rhrosty, Your hypothetical scenario is invalid. A small child needing a kidney transplan.....
» 3/12/2014 10:12:50 AM To take a clumsy statement of Dawkins’, foolishly made via a medium that only allows 140 c.....
» 3/12/2014 7:37:43 AM That's strange. I would have thought my question warranted a response given that the title.....
» 2/12/2014 6:17:04 PM runner, As usual, you haven't got a clue what you're talking about. Prisoners (I say &quo.....
» 2/12/2014 4:44:19 PM Interesting to read your perspective, o sung wu. My only question would be (with the ratio.....
» 24/11/2014 10:48:22 PM Squeers, Explicit atheism is a cultural phenomenon, yes. So is agnosticism, for that matt.....
» 24/11/2014 1:14:49 PM Yuyutsu, If you have something to say to me, then it’s polite to just say it to me; the o.....
» 24/11/2014 11:28:57 AM Squeers, I would agree that what you’ve said has been pretty clear and speaks for itself......
» 22/11/2014 12:35:43 AM Squeers, I’ll have a proper read of what you’ve referred me to and respond in more detail.....
» 21/11/2014 10:27:19 AM Squeers, Those words words you’ve attributed to Dennett don’t appear to be his at all. A .....
» 21/11/2014 1:09:52 AM Squeers, I think you need to clarify what type of atheism you’re talking about here befor.....
» 20/11/2014 12:28:00 PM Conservative Hippie, <<How do you know for certain that awareness resides in the br.....
» 20/11/2014 11:29:19 AM Squeers, Obviously what you'd said immediately before my quote of yours was the reasoning.....
» 19/11/2014 11:01:22 PM Squeers, I actually thought deeper about your response than I’ve thought about others’ in.....
» 19/11/2014 7:28:17 PM I've just thought, Squeers; regarding the postmodernist nonsense you've used to obscure th.....
» 18/11/2014 9:19:23 PM ...continued Atheism only has the context you apply to it for those who feel attacked by .....
» 18/11/2014 9:19:03 PM Squeers, You seem to be appealing to an inability to reach absolute certainty in order to.....
» 17/11/2014 10:26:53 PM o sung wu, My disposition, in the posts that I’ve addressed to you, have been more cautio.....
» 17/11/2014 7:03:28 PM o sung wu, We're not taking counter-terrorism measures here, just an alleged change in re.....
» 17/11/2014 4:47:59 PM Squeers, To say that rationalism places “faith” in human reason is misleading, because fa.....
» 17/11/2014 3:55:39 PM o sung wu, There is a broad range jobs in police, courts or corrections that a degree in .....
» 17/11/2014 9:23:58 AM Hi o sung wu, I’m nearing completion of a degree in criminology, but if that’s not author.....
» 15/11/2014 11:52:00 PM Thank you onthebeach, Another one who doesn't understand what community policing is and/o.....
» 15/11/2014 10:20:55 PM Hasbeen , No, I’m not an academic, but I’ve studied policing and have briefly worked with.....
» 15/11/2014 7:58:16 AM Bazz, It's not just about knowing where the crooks are and my post should have made that .....
» 14/11/2014 11:32:56 PM Dear o sung wu, Without the AIC, the government nor police services around the country, w.....
» 14/11/2014 8:56:19 PM …Continued <<...had they either believed that the religious process exists OR respe.....
» 14/11/2014 8:56:12 PM …Continued Either way, this doesn't make your list of possibilities any more reliable. Th.....
» 14/11/2014 8:56:07 PM Dear Yuyutsu, <<Even if the world could be divided that way, it would make no real .....
» 13/11/2014 1:44:16 PM …Continued If I say that I travelled back in time, then you would assess that by contrast.....
» 13/11/2014 11:19:15 AM …Continued Oh no, if you’re trying to wriggle out of your burden of proof, then it’s a pa.....
» 13/11/2014 11:19:09 AM Dear Yuyutsu, <<I lost the thread long ago...>> You only have to go back 2-3.....
» 12/11/2014 10:30:19 PM …Continued I have made no such threats. I only said that what I am saying now is in defen.....
» 12/11/2014 10:30:09 PM Dear Yuyutsu, <<…it would take me too long and use up too many words.>> Let’.....
» 12/11/2014 6:46:12 PM ...Continued You probably wouldn’t be in the position you’re in now if you did. <<.....
» 12/11/2014 6:46:04 PM Dear Yuyutsu, <<You asked me a question, so I answered. I had absolutely no other i.....
» 12/11/2014 1:44:08 PM ...Continued <<At the time of having a direct glimpse of myself, I know (I don't me.....
» 12/11/2014 1:44:00 PM Dear Yuyutsu, <<If going through their minds, then both experience not the same, bu.....
» 12/11/2014 9:46:13 AM By the way, Yuyutsu, that was the equivocation fallacy again. Demonstrate: 1. clearly sho.....
» 11/11/2014 10:14:16 PM ...Continued <<A hidden assumption here that we are rational beings, perhaps? or th.....
» 11/11/2014 10:14:10 PM Dear Yuyutsu, <<Here I suspect an axiomatic assertion that the mind is sometimes ab.....
» 11/11/2014 8:03:20 AM Just a point that I think got a bit lost in all that, Yuyutsu. I let you distract from my.....
» 11/11/2014 12:49:51 AM ...Continued <<How possibly could such a blame be "already-agreed-upon".......
» 11/11/2014 12:49:47 AM ...Continued <<Wow, both axioms are about existence, which indicates that you find .....
» 11/11/2014 12:49:40 AM Dear Yuyutsu, Thanks for answering the first half of my question which, in the context of.....
» 9/11/2014 10:05:34 AM Sorry, Yuyutsu, I don't think I answered this adequately... <<If no one (and no gro.....
» 9/11/2014 2:25:13 AM ...Continued <<What if I claimed for example that 'atheism' means "falling in .....
» 9/11/2014 2:25:06 AM ...Continued The second is justified because, whatever it is here that is doing the think.....
» 9/11/2014 2:24:59 AM Dear Yuyutsu, <<That's not why I'm here and you know it.>> No, I obviously I.....
» 7/11/2014 6:28:28 PM ...Continued <<Big deal - nobody's assumptions are supported anyway, everyone adopt.....
» 7/11/2014 6:28:20 PM Dear Yuyutsu, <<The whole idea about "a burden of proof" is yours, not mi.....
» 7/11/2014 9:43:50 AM By the way, Yuyutsu. I find it ironic that you continuously claim that you are not playing.....
» 7/11/2014 8:12:44 AM ...Continued Absolutely. And not even if they play this "game of epistemology" .....
» 7/11/2014 8:12:40 AM Dear Yuyutsu, <<So you assume that if you claim this enough times then it will beco.....
» 7/11/2014 12:20:07 AM ...Continued Not in that instance. You do do it with your semantic games, though (i.e. “B.....
» 7/11/2014 12:20:03 AM Dear Yuyutsu, <<So many cross-referenced Wikipedia pages, so many references, so mu.....
» 6/11/2014 10:04:48 AM It think it's too difficult to call. This is a government that won purely by virtue of no.....
» 6/11/2014 8:51:04 AM ...Continued <<If you consider what I say a waste of breath, then I wonder why you .....
» 6/11/2014 8:50:59 AM Dear Yuyutsu, Bad analogy... <<...yet it has stringent and restrictive rules and h.....
» 5/11/2014 11:02:15 AM ...Continued [“opinion” above, not “option”] <<...members of this forum propose to.....
» 5/11/2014 7:02:42 AM Dear Yuyutsu, I knew you’d go there... <<This is the first time I hear about this......
» 4/11/2014 11:38:54 PM Wrong link: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=religion.....
» 4/11/2014 11:37:28 PM ...Continued <<When I'm asked about something I know, I answer what I know.>>.....
» 4/11/2014 11:37:23 PM Dear Yuyutsu, <<Arbitrary indeed - you could just as well tell me that I have the b.....
» 4/11/2014 5:05:30 PM Oh, I just thought. You might have been referring to the burden of proof (and not rational.....
» 4/11/2014 4:42:17 PM ...Continued But that doesn’t mean we get to make stuff up. And it certainly doesn’t mean.....
» 4/11/2014 4:42:14 PM Dear Yuyutsu, <<First it means that whatever claims I made at the time, were not in.....
» 4/11/2014 10:49:40 AM Time for my daily clarification and afterthought again, sorry, Yuyutsu. The point I was, .....
» 3/11/2014 5:11:00 PM …Continued <<...as well as a strawman: even if this was a reliable technique of rat.....
» 3/11/2014 5:10:54 PM Dear Yuyutsu, This is not an honest representation of the events... <<...you did a.....
» 3/11/2014 10:54:56 AM Okay, so Yuyutsu DOES believe in an afterlife, he/she just thinks that it should be avoide.....
» 3/11/2014 8:34:43 AM Both good points, Joe. However, Yuyutsu doesn't believe in an afterlife, and believes that.....
» 3/11/2014 2:38:33 AM Sorry, Yuyutsu. We should probably just accept that these afterthoughts are gonna keep hap.....
» 3/11/2014 12:33:58 AM ...Continued It’s ironic, isn’t it, that you can claim that an evil act such suicide bomb.....
» 3/11/2014 12:33:53 AM Dear Yuyutsu, <<I make true claims, not objective claims…>> Let’s see what t.....
» 1/11/2014 12:10:57 AM Dear david f, I largely acknowledge much of what you have said. However, there is also th.....
» 31/10/2014 10:58:24 AM Another afterthought, Yuyutsu (sorry, I'm making a habit of these)... If the process of c.....
» 31/10/2014 10:27:09 AM ...Continued <<I can prove that this intellectual-property is ours: vast amounts of.....
» 31/10/2014 10:27:03 AM Dear Yuyutsu, All these posts and still no headway. Your confidence is tipping over into .....
» 30/10/2014 9:57:48 PM I suspect there's a lot of cultural bias in the belief that an historical Jesus existed. M.....
» 30/10/2014 7:27:23 PM ...Continued <<Whether or not you respect that process and whether or not you belie.....
» 30/10/2014 7:27:17 PM Dear Yuyutsu, <<I do not need to prove what the religious process is because it's i.....
» 30/10/2014 3:05:41 PM Just to clarify something that wasn't entirely clear there, Yuyutsu... In the context of .....
» 30/10/2014 1:34:00 AM ...Continued <<Yes, I might have been a fool for even mentioning God - I should hav.....
» 30/10/2014 1:33:53 AM Dear Yuyutsu, I’m not asking you to prove that you are not something, so you're Soviet an.....
» 29/10/2014 9:16:15 AM ...Continued <<You would be right to claim that we are not being rational ... but a.....
» 29/10/2014 9:16:08 AM Dear Yuyutsu, I know this is what you believe. <<Actually, God isn't a layer; eve.....
» 28/10/2014 8:34:07 PM Before you say it, Yuyutsu, I know you don't think God is an additional layer to everythin.....
» 28/10/2014 8:25:16 PM Dear Yuyutsu, Regarding your alternate explanation as to why your method of coming closer.....
» 27/10/2014 10:01:52 AM ...Continued Again, I know you’ve said that this stuff is subjective by nature and outsid.....
» 27/10/2014 10:01:47 AM Dear Yuyutsu, <<Indeed they don't!>> Okay, but you need to demonstrate this......
» 24/10/2014 6:53:26 PM Dear Yuyutsu, I’m happy to accept your ‘car’ analogy. It somewhat highlights why the Etym.....
» 24/10/2014 10:47:05 AM ...Continued <<... it matters not to this discussion, because ultimately we are not.....
» 24/10/2014 10:46:59 AM Dear Yuyutsu, <<According to Wikipedia, "The etymological fallacy is a genetic.....
» 23/10/2014 11:47:36 PM Yuyutsu, I feel a bit silly responding so late, but I hinted that I would, and want to ma.....
» 15/10/2014 2:55:15 PM I should probably also point out, BP, that you are switching back and forth between labell.....
» 15/10/2014 11:13:37 AM ...Continued You even said earlier that, “[c]oncepts can prove erroneous and be replaced .....
» 15/10/2014 11:13:32 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, <<However I am averse to identity because I see it as inversel.....
» 14/10/2014 8:15:01 PM Sorry to bombard you with a third post, BP, but I need to nip this in the bud and l have a.....
» 14/10/2014 11:12:34 AM ...Continued <<However, I see no reason why I should change [my label] or that it s.....
» 14/10/2014 11:12:28 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, It appears we have now come full circle. I think you know what I’m t.....
» 13/10/2014 11:31:38 AM ...Continued At the same time, though, I think you may be getting a little too hung up on.....
» 13/10/2014 11:31:33 AM Jayb, There are many areas of the real world where sociological studies are used: politic.....
» 10/10/2014 12:55:47 PM …Continued <<I guess the “logical” answer to [how it is possible to simultaneously .....
» 10/10/2014 12:55:42 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, It’s not that you’re not capable of understanding this. I think it’s.....
» 10/10/2014 12:55:37 PM Dear Foxy, Fair enough. I thought you might have been trying to add some context to what .....
» 10/10/2014 6:31:24 AM Although the randomness and copied-and pasted look of Foxy’s latest posts have left me scr.....
» 9/10/2014 10:16:57 AM Actually, Banjo Paterson, I’ll make this easier by going back to the start and asking you .....
» 9/10/2014 9:35:34 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, It seems that you are still not understanding what logical absolutes.....
» 8/10/2014 9:10:51 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, <<This would appear to mean that you consider that for somethi.....
» 8/10/2014 10:51:13 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, So long as there is one person who believes in a god or gods, then a.....
» 7/10/2014 2:59:58 PM Ooops... '6' and 'sixers' should read '5' and 'fivers'. I merged a couple because I didn'.....
» 7/10/2014 2:44:50 PM Interesting, May May. I can’t recall encountering an agnostic who was very antitheist. In .....
» 7/10/2014 10:23:14 AM Banjo Paterson, Theism and atheism are logical absolutes; you’re either one or you’re the.....
» 6/10/2014 12:50:44 PM ConservativeHippie, They’re some strange questions given that I already provided two link.....
» 5/10/2014 12:58:07 AM May May and Suseonline have raised a good point regarding the undue privilege religion sti.....
» 5/10/2014 12:31:49 AM ConservativeHippie, There are no excuses for vile comments, and I certainly agree with yo.....
» 4/10/2014 12:15:53 AM …Continued <<Common sense: if someone who considers themselves "religious".....
» 4/10/2014 12:15:45 AM …Continued <<I'm trying to protect religion, not my credibility.>> Once agai.....
» 4/10/2014 12:15:38 AM Thanks Yuyutsu. For the first time in four years I feel like we’re getting somewhere, and .....
» 2/10/2014 8:09:05 AM May May, Yuyutsu isn't actually being as dishonest as it at first appears. He’s just spea.....
» 1/10/2014 9:41:40 PM …Continued <<So long as there is at least one religious person alive, it is therefo.....
» 1/10/2014 9:41:21 PM Okay then, Yuyutsu. I’ll try explaining it another way. <<I already explained that .....
» 1/10/2014 5:16:07 PM Actually Yuyutsu, there’s something I should probably add to the following to strengthen m.....
» 1/10/2014 3:29:10 PM …Continued <<What modernism does is to attach a completely new meaning to an old wo.....
» 1/10/2014 3:29:07 PM Thanks Yuyustu, <<I take back the "dishonest" part: you are not acting di.....
» 30/09/2014 8:56:52 PM Foetuses have a right to live, but they don’t have a right to live at the expense of someo.....
» 30/09/2014 2:08:58 PM …Continued <<However, for someone who does not believe the very existence of religi.....
» 30/09/2014 2:08:52 PM I understand this, Yuyustu. <<I am using 'religion' in its original meaning: 're-li.....
» 29/09/2014 9:42:02 PM …Continued <<This is where we disagree: religion is universal, but is adjusted to c.....
» 29/09/2014 9:41:58 PM Yuyutsu, How do you know I’ve had no experience of what you describe? <<Sorry, but.....
» 29/09/2014 5:49:52 PM Yuyutsu, I take it you mean ‘your particular idea of what religion is’, here: <<Pe.....
» 29/09/2014 2:54:17 PM Regarding the Koran, I've read and studied the Bible, so I have no motivation to read any .....
» 26/09/2014 11:23:09 PM Hi Grateful, Thanks for taking the time to consider our responses. I will have to wait to.....
» 24/09/2014 9:33:06 PM Grateful, Clearly you do not understand evolution. Not surprising given that you reject i.....
» 13/09/2014 9:53:01 PM o sung wu, Regarding “pathetically inadequate and feeble penalties”, multiple studies hav.....
» 8/09/2014 11:27:32 AM People will switch back and forth between two contradictory positions with the greatest of.....
» 13/08/2014 11:00:42 AM Prof. Brind, What do you expect to be done if a link between abortion and breast cancer c.....
» 13/08/2014 1:07:15 AM George, What you are effectively suggesting is that, in the case of religious beliefs at .....
» 12/08/2014 3:04:49 PM From the article: “With literally millions of women bound to get breast cancer because of .....
» 10/08/2014 11:41:15 PM No, you hadn’t suggested those web pages JP. You didn’t really get the chance to because I.....
» 10/08/2014 8:46:06 PM JP, Since you seem up to discussing this topic once again - a topic we’ve covered many ti.....
» 27/05/2014 9:35:25 PM Phanto, I see your points. LEGO, <<...my entire argument is based upon science and.....
» 27/05/2014 5:09:21 PM In defence of Rob, he is an Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Studies, so it is h.....
» 27/05/2014 10:33:17 AM …Continued Thirdly, most of the studies fail to take account of the type of media (cartoo.....
» 27/05/2014 10:33:12 AM LEGO, Your entire argument regarding violent media is based on a false premise... <&l.....
» 26/05/2014 5:27:03 PM You’ve gone mighty quite there, LEGO. Was the position that I stated not the one you were.....
» 26/05/2014 3:47:58 PM These new cars must be an auto electrician's dream. My main concern with all the new bell.....
» 16/05/2014 2:55:29 PM Whoever suggested that, JP? <<the fact that some professing theists have done thing.....
» 16/05/2014 1:11:15 PM Yeah, but whose definition of “good”, JP? <<...theism generally holds that there is.....
» 16/05/2014 6:44:43 AM Oh, but I already did, LEGO. <<State your position or pick up your ball and go home.....
» 15/05/2014 10:49:36 PM …Continued <<I know you are against racism, the question is why?>> Because i.....
» 15/05/2014 10:49:29 PM And you have no idea how pleased I am that will still not explain what you mean by "r.....
» 15/05/2014 6:12:10 AM Ah, LEGO. You are swerving all over the place like a madman. Up until recently, you were .....
» 14/05/2014 10:49:34 PM Oh, I don't think you would be, LEGO... <<<I will be happy to define racism for .....
» 14/05/2014 6:54:31 AM Amazing, LEGO. I go to the effort of asking you to define "racism" (you would al.....
» 13/05/2014 11:10:58 PM ...Continued And all to divert attention from the fact that your entire position rests on.....
» 13/05/2014 11:10:47 PM Yuyutsu, Thanks for the link, and nicely put. However, by "right", I think LEGO.....
» 13/05/2014 5:23:42 AM So once again, LEGO, have resorted to the "sneers one-liner" defence, with claim.....
» 12/05/2014 9:35:42 PM ...Continued <<The head of the Human Genome Project, Nobel Prize winner, and co fou.....
» 12/05/2014 9:35:30 PM Shockadelic, <<Aren't chimpanzees only 2% different to us?>> The gene expres.....
» 11/05/2014 10:11:51 PM …Continued <<…if races differ in physical appearances and physical attributes, then.....
» 11/05/2014 10:11:47 PM LEGO, You can continue to ask me the same questions using different wording for the rest .....
» 11/05/2014 2:32:12 PM Forget evasiveness, LEGO. You can't even be honest even when you do try to address what I .....
» 11/05/2014 10:14:55 AM Still as evasive as ever, LEGO. <<A "debate" is a civilised discussion be.....
» 10/05/2014 9:13:41 PM …Continued You twisted my words to fit a certain worldview you needed from me; misquoted .....
» 10/05/2014 9:12:41 PM What utter rubbish, LEGO. <<...I realised that you had no intention of debating at .....
» 9/05/2014 4:43:13 PM NathanJ, Which part of which link did this contradict? <<I was just reading your l.....
» 9/05/2014 3:28:59 PM Whether or not food labelled as organic is actually organic is a side issue. There is no e.....
» 9/05/2014 10:50:27 AM NathanJ asks: "If you were asked to directly drink chemicals sprayed onto our fruits .....
» 8/05/2014 9:28:20 PM Saltpetre, I never mentioned any frequency with which abuse occurs in either situation. .....
» 8/05/2014 11:07:11 AM Shocakdelic, This is true if your objective was simply to present your point of view… &l.....
» 8/05/2014 11:07:07 AM Saltpetre, <<There is one common denominator however, and that is that child rearin.....
» 7/05/2014 8:55:01 PM …Continued <<And your point is?>> That your analogy was invalid. You would h.....
» 7/05/2014 8:54:57 PM Shockadelic, I think I'm starting to understand why you appear to quote people out-of-con.....
» 7/05/2014 10:38:11 AM On re-reading my response, Shockadelic, I think I owe you an apology for misrepresenting s.....
» 6/05/2014 10:48:43 PM Shockadelic, <<If that were true, it'd be difficult to tell a Tibetan from a Zulu.&.....
» 6/05/2014 12:34:22 PM LEGO, If you’re up for another round, then fine. Your last attempt (http://forum.onlineop.....
» 6/05/2014 12:34:19 PM Shockadelic, <<Gay marriage has existed in so few places for so little time, there .....
» 3/05/2014 11:41:49 PM And Shockadelic, my irrelevant friend... <<Immoral or distasteful? Make your your m.....
» 3/05/2014 11:41:41 PM runner, Evolution actually disproves such a ridiculous suggestion. But thanks for demonst.....
» 2/05/2014 9:27:21 PM Saltpetre, Eich's freedom of speech was not effected. I would acknowledge, however, that .....
» 2/05/2014 6:24:08 PM Ah Shockadelic. As per usually you have missed the point. <<...and would all those .....
» 2/05/2014 11:00:55 AM The article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/04/11/did-mozilla-ceo-brendan-eich-d.....
» 10/04/2014 10:08:57 AM George, Thanks for the apology and the concession. Though I would have preferred that you.....
» 10/04/2014 7:39:00 AM You will have to elaborate for me, George. <<I think you have correctly spelled out.....
» 9/04/2014 11:11:24 PM George, I don't understand how you could have possibly interpreted what I had said in suc.....
» 9/04/2014 11:43:44 AM OUG, Your ability to derive meanings from what others say, and even what they do not say,.....
» 9/04/2014 10:07:57 AM I think I can help you out here, George. <<I am trying to imagine what reaction I w.....
» 28/03/2014 10:16:44 PM Wow, OUG. You're further gone than I thought - and I'm not referring to your creationist b.....
» 28/03/2014 11:55:25 AM Fine, OUG. So you don’t believe the whole pig-ape-hybrid bit (I suspected you didn’t). Tha.....
» 27/03/2014 11:33:41 PM OUG, I don’t really understand what you’re getting at in your first post. It seems to be .....
» 27/03/2014 8:15:06 PM OUG, All the jawbone discovery means is that one species/breed of whale evolved over 4 mi.....
» 27/03/2014 5:12:48 PM OUG, The only rebuttals you seem to be able to make are the Argument from Incredulity fal.....
» 26/03/2014 8:53:17 PM OUG, I'm pretty sure I've answered all your questions. Those that I've dismissed were dis.....
» 26/03/2014 7:23:14 PM Well that's strange. Now that I try the first link on a computer, I'm no long told that it.....
» 26/03/2014 5:19:58 PM Looks like creationists have pulled their 'DMCA claim' trick once again (funny how heavily.....
» 26/03/2014 5:11:50 PM OUG, I'm not jumping around from thread to thread chasing your replies as you breach mult.....
» 25/03/2014 5:21:25 PM You're not fairing too well here, are you OUG. <<eleven../Wonderful words..THAT has.....
» 25/03/2014 2:42:19 PM OUG, I’ve always said that the more accurate my comments are the less readable yours beco.....
» 25/03/2014 10:46:23 AM Still avoiding my questions, OUG? Still very sparse on the evidence front too, I see. Att.....
» 24/03/2014 4:12:31 PM So you learned absolutely nothing from the video then, OUG? I didn’t think you would. No a.....
» 24/03/2014 11:28:18 AM I think you’re just dodging the questions I put to you, OUG. <<AJ..PLEASE//lets foc.....
» 22/03/2014 10:34:17 PM OUG, Whale evolution is one of the most accurately recorded examples of evolution we have.....
» 19/03/2014 3:20:08 PM But if God were limitless, Yuyutsu, then it should be possible to define Him in positive t.....
» 18/03/2014 2:51:19 PM Yuyutsu, To insist that God cannot be defined in positive terms is also to imply that God.....
» 14/03/2014 10:31:49 PM Trav, Santa Clause is not something that you can just put in a test tube and test for, an.....
» 20/02/2014 1:48:19 PM George, <<Yes, [both positions are equally valid default positions] but not because.....
» 18/02/2014 1:22:57 PM …Continued There is, in fact, only one default position because we all start with no assu.....
» 18/02/2014 1:22:53 PM George, You may have alluded to this, but I don’t think you said it explicitly… <<.....
» 17/02/2014 6:45:09 PM I understood what you meant, George. <<I reacted to three of your statements hoping.....
» 16/02/2014 11:56:56 PM …Continued The lines may be blurry sometimes, but they’re not arbitrary. Now let’s apply.....
» 16/02/2014 11:56:51 PM Okay then, Trav. I’m happy to go with everything you’ve said in your first paragraph becau.....
» 16/02/2014 4:44:07 PM …Continued <<Why did God make Himself “known” to others but not to me? Why do other.....
» 16/02/2014 4:44:03 PM George, While the problem of what we can and cannot know is an interesting one, it is irr.....
» 15/02/2014 1:54:47 PM Oh well, Trav. If you’re just speaking from your own personal definition of what a fundame.....
» 14/02/2014 10:12:35 AM …Continued No matter which way you frame it, ‘faith’ is a term used when we can’t know so.....
» 14/02/2014 10:12:31 AM Trav, Thanks for your correction at the end there. However, we are now back to where we s.....
» 12/02/2014 10:00:52 PM ...Continued About what exactly? I'm not sure we're on the same page anymore (this is a g.....
» 12/02/2014 10:00:46 PM I don't think it's that we "know of different of fundamentalists", Trav. <&l.....
» 11/02/2014 1:53:03 AM Actually, Trav, after seeing a post from George and then re-reading my post, I should prob.....
» 11/02/2014 1:04:15 AM Trav, I’m not interested in how some Christians talk, in this case. <<Plenty of Ch.....
» 9/02/2014 4:34:32 PM I wasn’t talking about Dawkins, Trav. <<There was no “Clumsy” attribution - I’ve re.....
» 6/02/2014 3:33:14 PM Trav, Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, though, it doesn’t explain your sugges.....
» 6/02/2014 2:46:31 PM Trav, This does nothing to set you apart from creationists (or represent what Dawkins thi.....
» 31/01/2014 3:59:56 PM Interesting link, Rhian. But did you look at the Greens voters? Arguably much smarter than.....
» 20/01/2014 10:00:30 AM For someone who was allegedly taken out-of-context, you sure aren’t in much of a hurry to .....
» 19/01/2014 4:01:58 PM You sound very confused, LEGO. A classic symptom of being flustered. <<AJ, is not o.....
» 19/01/2014 10:47:10 AM Yes, whoops indeed, LEGO. Thanks for confirming my suspicion that you just skim my posts .....
» 18/01/2014 10:26:16 PM ...Continued I recognise that and have never denied it. I will happily go on record now s.....
» 18/01/2014 10:26:07 PM LEGO, I don't think there's much point in continuing. There are three main problems here......
» 18/01/2014 7:16:17 AM …Continued I had said: “Two factors help shape our mentality - nature and nurture - and t.....
» 18/01/2014 7:16:04 AM Outrage, LEGO? I'm just having fun now. <<Drop the feigned outrage and injured inno.....
» 17/01/2014 3:42:39 PM More ad hominems. Boring. <<Gone back to cutting up my posts and replying with snee.....
» 17/01/2014 12:58:45 PM Trav, A simple Google search reveals the answer to your first question: http://en.wikiped.....
» 17/01/2014 10:17:54 AM On the contrary, LEGO, it is only you who is engaging in subterfuge, and your last post is.....
» 17/01/2014 4:16:05 AM ...Continued Could you please state what you think my premise was? Could you also link me.....
» 17/01/2014 4:15:53 AM What was that you were saying about moral outrage, LEGO? <<With one exception, ever.....
» 16/01/2014 12:18:07 PM Keep digging, LEGO. <<Now, I have found that I can win any debate with my egalitari.....
» 16/01/2014 9:38:26 AM Sigh... More ad hominem attacks. At least I would point to exactly why I would make the ac.....
» 16/01/2014 12:31:28 AM ...Continued It frustrates you so much that I don't make the broad generalisations and as.....
» 16/01/2014 12:31:15 AM This just gets better and better as we go, LEGO. Not only do you not deny your arguments' .....
» 15/01/2014 12:11:19 AM …Continued <<Feel free to submit any scientific research which proves that the race.....
» 15/01/2014 12:11:11 AM …Continued Thirdly, I said “MORE OF a social construct” not “only”. Finally, an “ideology.....
» 15/01/2014 12:11:03 AM …Continued You still haven’t answered this because you know that there’s no conceivable r.....
» 15/01/2014 12:10:56 AM Interesting response, LEGO. Not only do you not deny that you need me to have a rigid ideo.....
» 14/01/2014 12:01:15 AM ...Continued <<My premise is, that nature (genetics) provides the underlying person.....
» 14/01/2014 12:01:02 AM Sorry, LEGO, but if you are being dishonest or displaying a lack of comprehension, then it.....
» 14/01/2014 12:00:34 AM ...Continued Well, I've already alluded to my ideological position, which is that the tim.....
» 12/01/2014 11:28:29 PM …Continued <<Lastly, you Claim that the very disproportionate differences in crimin.....
» 12/01/2014 11:28:21 PM ...Continued <<Your position appears to be, that the concept that race is genetical.....
» 12/01/2014 11:28:11 PM Once again, LEGO, you have utterly failed, and it's all your own doing. <<First, I .....
» 9/01/2014 2:22:26 PM …Continued If you lack the sophistication to follow ideas that go beyond simple black and.....
» 9/01/2014 2:22:18 PM …Continued Secondly, I have made no demands of you whatsoever, and I have not asked that .....
» 9/01/2014 2:22:09 PM …Continued <<...you have twice now been caught contradicting yourself.>> Bot.....
» 9/01/2014 2:22:01 PM It’s alright, LEGO. You can drop the act now. I suspected you weren’t really leaving anywa.....
» 8/01/2014 2:10:13 PM ...Continued All you have at this point is a hunch, based on generalisations and oversimp.....
» 8/01/2014 2:10:05 PM ...Continued Despite the fact that we already have socioeconomic, nutritional and cultura.....
» 8/01/2014 2:09:59 PM ...Continued My remarks that you’re referring to were in relation to entire groups. And I.....
» 8/01/2014 2:09:49 PM This has been fascinating to watch, LEGO. You've always presented yourself as an intellige.....
» 7/01/2014 1:43:28 PM ...Continued And we can't accurately compare that to every other country because reportin.....
» 7/01/2014 1:43:21 PM ...Continued <<Therefore your premise, that numerous sub species of humans must all.....
» 7/01/2014 1:43:14 PM ...Continued Yet you insist that the vague and highly generalised similarities that we se.....
» 7/01/2014 1:43:05 PM LEGO, I thought we had already established that it was you who didn't understand evolutio.....
» 6/01/2014 1:27:23 PM …Continued <<As being intimidated by your claim that you have all the facts…>>.....
» 6/01/2014 1:27:16 PM …Continued Nor do different classes gas or lock those with undesirable traits away and pr.....
» 6/01/2014 1:27:09 PM ...Continued To add to all this, our mobility and the conquering that often accompanied i.....
» 6/01/2014 1:27:04 PM I’ve got to say, LEGO: one thing that I do admire about you is the fight in you. It doesn’.....
» 5/01/2014 12:58:54 PM ...Continued You've merely confused the two because you realise that your new 'evolution.....
» 5/01/2014 12:58:47 PM ...Continued Thanks for letting me know which paper it was that you were referring to. I'.....
» 5/01/2014 12:58:36 PM ...Continued I have already answered all this and countered it all in previous posts. O.....
» 5/01/2014 12:58:27 PM LEGO, The term "breed" is used in reference to varieties of domesticated animal.....
» 4/01/2014 12:34:46 PM ...Continued On top of that, the fact that they're all so closely socially connected, in .....
» 4/01/2014 12:34:29 PM ...Continued As a response to this, you then claim that there is some grand Leftwing cons.....
» 4/01/2014 12:29:55 PM Erm... No, LEGO. I didn't claim that. <<First you claimed that genetics affects our.....
» 3/01/2014 12:15:51 PM …Continued It is in reference to majorities and minorities. So your point regarding the U.....
» 3/01/2014 12:15:45 PM …Continued As for the other book you mentioned, I apologise for skimming over that in my .....
» 3/01/2014 12:15:41 PM The second time, LEGO? <<That is the second time Mr Phillips have locked horns with.....
» 29/12/2013 12:07:41 AM ...Continued Yeah, I already addressed this. Wording it differently isn't going to change.....
» 29/12/2013 12:07:32 AM LEGO, Descriptive terms such as the ones you mention can still be useful in describing on.....
» 28/12/2013 4:15:20 PM …Continued I like how you skim over these points, too, by proffering the fact that the e.....
» 28/12/2013 4:15:17 PM LEGO, Your 19th century ideas of race have long been debunked. “Race” is now known to be .....
» 28/12/2013 12:53:38 PM Yuyutsu & Danielle, Sorry about the delay in reply. I was just going to let this go (give.....
» 22/12/2013 12:04:02 AM …Continued Yes, but that doesn’t really negate what I said. What I’d also add, too, is t.....
» 22/12/2013 12:03:52 AM …Continued Take Christianity, for example: its notion of original sin is deeply immoral, .....
» 22/12/2013 12:03:36 AM George, I guess we'll just have to write this one off as a bizarre co-incidence then. &l.....
» 21/12/2013 1:35:38 AM George, That was an unfair smear. <<...let me assure you that it is precisely beca.....
» 20/12/2013 9:38:41 PM …Continued Oh, come now. You had no troubles picking out the less pertinent and indirect .....
» 20/12/2013 9:38:36 PM Not at all, Yuyutsu. <<So one cannot win: if I write as much as my quota allows, th.....
» 20/12/2013 5:13:47 PM That’s not good enough, Yuyutsu. <<Sorry I couldn't address all your points properl.....
» 20/12/2013 12:33:23 AM Thank for your response Yututsu. It was an interesting read and when you have evidence for.....
» 19/12/2013 9:18:07 PM Danielle, Directly or indirectly, religious belief always effects others and damages soci.....
» 19/12/2013 5:08:57 PM Danielle, <<However, if they didn't do it in the name of god, they would be doing i.....
» 19/12/2013 5:08:54 PM Yuyutsu, So are you saying that anyone who can eliminate their mind and ego (whatever tha.....
» 18/12/2013 1:27:17 PM OUG, Please don’t quote me out-of-context. There were two very important conditions in th.....
» 18/12/2013 12:09:35 PM Yuyutsu, The part of your post that I was addressing was not asking any questions. <.....
» 18/12/2013 8:22:00 AM Yuyutsu, I don’t know if you’ve been reading my comments on this thread (your comments to.....
» 17/12/2013 11:11:14 PM I think slight correction is due, grateful. In reading your question, "How do you tr.....
» 17/12/2013 11:53:14 AM …Continued <<…lets consider what you mean when you say the “main reason" for y.....
» 17/12/2013 11:53:06 AM grateful, If we’re going to have a productive discussion, then you’re really going to hav.....
» 16/12/2013 10:51:35 PM SPQR & Onjab, Thanks for the kind words. I'm humbled by them. grateful, <<On the .....
» 16/12/2013 11:51:51 AM …Continued <<I guess what you are saying is that: 'I don't believe in God in part b.....
» 16/12/2013 11:51:46 AM grateful, You appear to be in desperate search for some wriggle room. <<Before res.....
» 15/12/2013 2:54:20 PM Wow. Really, grateful? <<I not sure what to make of your statement that I'm "p.....
» 14/12/2013 7:02:48 PM …Continued <<How does an atheist interpret what is good and what is evil?>> .....
» 14/12/2013 7:02:44 PM Grateful, 'Context' is an old apologetic pulled by Christians too, and it doesn't work. .....
» 13/12/2013 10:00:07 AM OUG, There was far more earnestness in my response to you than there was 'clowning around.....
» 12/12/2013 8:51:46 PM OUG, Your response to me made no sense whatsoever; such little sense, in fact, that the o.....
» 12/12/2013 3:14:19 PM It doesn’t matter what you believe, Grateful. <<In Islam we believe…>> Only .....
» 27/11/2013 10:37:35 PM Shockadelic, <<…you overlook that the reasons the woman wants the abortion are &quo.....
» 27/11/2013 10:37:31 PM Yuyutsu, I figured this was the case… <<Unlike yourself, I believe that spiritual .....
» 27/11/2013 12:58:13 PM Yuyutsu, I'm not sure why any of this matters to you if existence is only and illusion. .....
» 27/11/2013 10:51:56 AM From the article: “Providing patients with a list of providers might seem like a reasonabl.....
» 25/11/2013 8:15:51 PM JF Aus, You don’t get to throw up a red herring, demand that someone answer it, then thin.....
» 25/11/2013 3:47:03 PM Sorry JF Aus, but I don't need evidence for AGW to know that confusing meteorology with cl.....
» 23/11/2013 10:48:59 PM Gee, JF Aus, that's a good question! But because I'm sure you're not one to throw out a r.....
» 23/11/2013 9:18:39 PM LEGO wrote: “The climate scientists predicted on Thursday that Sydney would be fine and su.....
» 16/10/2013 10:34:35 AM I wouldn’t be so quick to write-off science’s ability to determine the existence or not of.....
» 7/10/2013 3:01:11 PM George, I understand that you would never say this or that about others. <<I never.....
» 4/10/2013 4:51:17 PM George, <<No. My exchange of opinions - with e.g. david f or Banjo Patterson - conc.....
» 3/10/2013 4:45:51 PM …Continued <<Unfortunately, I cannot take away your belief that I myself do not un.....
» 3/10/2013 4:45:48 PM George, I’m not sure why this has to be about me wanting something. <<…I don’t kno.....
» 2/10/2013 12:29:42 PM …Continued This is a well-known tactic of the ‘sophisticated’ theist. PZ Myer’s has coine.....
» 2/10/2013 12:29:36 PM George, I know you didn’t claim that the Christian god doesn’t communicate with us. My re.....
» 1/10/2013 11:26:13 AM George, The Christian god is a god who has an important message for us all and wants to s.....
» 23/08/2013 12:07:11 AM JP, Saying exactly the same thing you said before using different words doesn’t negate th.....
» 22/08/2013 6:54:11 PM JP, If your source of morality is so objective, then tell me: by what method or mechanism.....
» 22/08/2013 4:14:45 PM But JP, I’ve already discredited everything you just said in our previous discussions. A n.....
» 22/08/2013 2:01:07 PM Trav, There is no “message of atheism” to begin with, so there is nowhere further to go -.....
» 22/08/2013 12:53:31 PM According the Christian theology, rampant pregnancy and abortion is a good thing. Souls, t.....
» 22/08/2013 12:03:03 PM …Continued <<…if they are theists they are afraid “what of if God did NOT exist aft.....
» 22/08/2013 12:03:00 PM George, <<I agreed with david f that the Abraham/Isaac story was not suitable for c.....
» 21/08/2013 12:40:55 PM George, Your post to david f reminds me of the hypnotic bait and switch tactic. In your .....
» 13/08/2013 6:14:49 AM Antiseptic, It would be clear to anyone who has been reading that you had muffed it big t.....
» 12/08/2013 9:55:20 AM Antiseptic, <<I find your whole approach to be aggressive…>> I’m sorry, but .....
» 11/08/2013 7:39:21 PM ...Continued <<I haven't actually put any model forth.>> Yes, you have: &quo.....
» 11/08/2013 7:39:12 PM Antiseptic, I wasn't saying your arguments have been strong, and I think you know that. .....
» 11/08/2013 2:17:45 AM ...Continued Correct, because they never assume that the person they are trying to do rig.....
» 11/08/2013 2:17:24 AM Antiseptic, I suspected this was the case: <<I'm not trying to build a case, I'm t.....
» 10/08/2013 6:38:39 PM ...Continued You would also need to either retract the carrot-and-stick moral framework t.....
» 10/08/2013 6:38:29 PM Antiseptic, Do I "care to have a go"? Heck, I was hoping you'd ask! I've alread.....
» 9/08/2013 8:23:40 PM Sorry, Antiseptic, I read the link again and still don't know what you're referring to. &.....
» 9/08/2013 12:27:04 PM Yes, Antiseptic, I read it all. <<…read the link. I don't have time to rephrase it.....
» 9/08/2013 10:41:08 AM Antiseptic, Just how young are we talking here? <<...children aren't up to complex.....
» 8/08/2013 4:34:17 PM Antiseptic, Why would you favour that? <<My point was simply that religion and esp.....
» 6/08/2013 3:53:32 PM runner, It is completely absurd to suggest that anyone could do anything in the name of t.....
» 6/08/2013 10:12:04 AM Antiseptic, The vast majority of what I said to Poirot was not in reference to you. It wa.....
» 5/08/2013 10:15:50 AM …Continued This is how provocativeness can be productive: if enough of us have the courag.....
» 5/08/2013 10:15:46 AM Poirot, I figured you felt that way. I've had a read through the thread again and given w.....
» 4/08/2013 11:04:42 PM George, Your apparent unwillingness to retract what I have clearly shown to be a false ac.....
» 4/08/2013 10:54:09 AM George, So it's just about debating standards then? <<...without interference of .....
» 4/08/2013 8:33:14 AM Antiseptic, You have not hurt my feelings and I have said nothing to indicate anything o.....
» 4/08/2013 6:26:37 AM Antiseptic, Looks like my suspicions were right then. <<...my question was whether.....
» 3/08/2013 4:51:44 PM Not at all, OUG. <<what must be clear is aj's claiming to..'have had'..experiences......
» 3/08/2013 9:54:50 AM Antiseptic, Seriously, enough with the strawmen already. <<No I didn't describe my.....
» 2/08/2013 8:48:08 PM Fair enough, Antiseptic. <<On the subject of the "supernatural", I have s.....
» 2/08/2013 5:21:22 PM Antiseptic, <<I'm afraid you're just concatenating complexity.>> How so? &l.....
» 2/08/2013 8:21:35 AM Antiseptic, I suspect you've had relatively little experience with theists. <<I th.....
» 1/08/2013 5:08:18 PM Richard Shumack, My debunking claim may have been an overstatement, but the fact remains .....
» 1/08/2013 10:57:17 AM Richard Shumack, <<Iron chariots? Sorry, I'm talking serious philosophy here.>&g.....
» 1/08/2013 10:26:04 AM Richard Shumack, <<First, I'm not sure which of Craig's arguments you think have be.....
» 1/08/2013 8:13:17 AM Debating Craig is always a mistake. William Lane Craig is a professional debater, so he do.....
» 31/07/2013 7:45:39 AM George, <<Well, I don’t see why I should feel guilty about mentioning quantum physi.....
» 30/07/2013 3:30:17 PM George, It is well know (particularly amongst those interested in counter-apologetics) th.....
» 29/07/2013 2:53:36 PM George, This is a perfect example of what I was referring to regarding theists using the .....
» 20/07/2013 12:07:58 PM George, I thought we had dealt with all this the last time. You bring out the a priori as.....
» 19/07/2013 4:29:40 PM Hi Rhian, I didn’t mean to suggest that God’s message would be found in quantum mechanics.....
» 19/07/2013 11:36:10 AM As soon as I saw the title of the article, I could tell quantum physics was going to be me.....
» 14/06/2013 5:13:31 PM ...Continued Regardless of our preferences or personal life experiences, the one with the.....
» 14/06/2013 5:13:27 PM George, Perhaps I should have mentioned theists there too. <<When I spoke of “naiv.....
» 13/06/2013 2:12:52 PM ...Continued You’ve said once before that religious belief need not be irrational (presum.....
» 13/06/2013 2:12:47 PM George, Thanks for the instructions. I’m not very familiar with amazon.com and I glossed .....
» 11/06/2013 12:41:13 PM ...Continued Science and criminal justice systems rely on this. A defence lawyer doesn’t .....
» 11/06/2013 12:41:01 PM Thanks for your thoughts, Yuyutsu. Unfortunately, though, I think we disagree on too many .....
» 10/06/2013 12:07:23 PM ...Continued But I’m not sure why you’re still talking about condescension and snobbery t.....
» 10/06/2013 12:07:19 PM George, I don’t remember an occasion where we went around in circles. We often reach a po.....
» 8/06/2013 2:46:02 PM ...Continued I would also, again, express my confusion as to why you are often under the .....
» 8/06/2013 2:45:59 PM Banjo Paterson, Thanks for the link. I think I remember that discussion. George, You’ve.....
» 7/06/2013 1:44:11 PM ...Continued <<On the other hand, “with good reason”, as I understand it, is rather.....
» 7/06/2013 1:44:07 PM George, <<This is like a Christian zealot defining atheism as “a wish to end in hel.....
» 6/06/2013 12:43:11 PM George, Sorry, I thought it would be safe to assume you remembered my definition given th.....
» 5/06/2013 10:49:02 AM George, Thanks for that definition of faith. The definition that I use (and the one that .....
» 4/06/2013 9:40:11 AM rational-debate, There was nothing amazing about that post of mine that I linked to. <.....
» 3/06/2013 7:12:31 PM rational-debate, <<I ... generally find it sad that most [atheists] are so angry.&.....
» 23/05/2013 9:26:07 AM What makes something poisonous is the dosage. Anything, in high enough dosages, is poisono.....
» 1/05/2013 3:43:43 PM I’d be interested to know how anti-abortionists suggest we police a ban on abortion. No-on.....
» 25/04/2013 8:31:34 PM JP, You've had your arguments on this topic (your only topic, apparently - I can only ima.....
» 19/04/2013 4:56:30 PM A good summary of this sort tinfoil-hattery can be found at http://www.skepdic.com/fluorid.....
» 8/04/2013 2:39:38 PM Dan, Schweitzer et al. did not find blood cells, hemoglobin or soft tissue as you keep cl.....
» 24/03/2013 3:25:21 PM mhaze, To ensure that we really nip this in the bud once and for all, let's take a more i.....
» 23/03/2013 7:02:34 PM ...Continued I then link you to my post from months ago (in which I had pointed out that .....
» 23/03/2013 7:01:23 PM mhaze, <<I can't help it if you want to jump into the middle of a conversation and .....
» 22/03/2013 8:07:59 PM mhaze, <<I wasn't suggesting that all atheists think theists are unevolved, unthink.....
» 22/03/2013 1:19:34 PM …Continued My suspicions - on any given topic - may not be “logical” (or based on logic, .....
» 22/03/2013 1:19:29 PM mhaze, <<Where I'm saying [atheists] are wrong is their view that believers unthink.....
» 21/03/2013 11:13:31 AM Pericles wrote: “You would be fabulous on the jury at a murder trial. "I wasn't there.....
» 11/03/2013 3:47:34 PM Dan S de Merengue asks: “…is there anyone who makes a case that the earth is 4 billion yea.....
» 1/03/2013 4:57:58 PM …Continued <<Even radiometric dating methods themselves are a form of philosophical.....
» 1/03/2013 4:56:07 PM Dan, <<It's more than possible to make accurate predictions with a theory that's a .....
» 28/02/2013 11:28:00 AM Dan, <<"The answer is assumed even before the question is asked." Sounds .....
» 7/02/2013 4:23:22 PM Dan S de Merengue wrote: “It would help if quotes were appropriated to the right person, a.....
» 31/01/2013 3:38:47 PM …Continued <<Neither am I going to contradict you: as there is no point in telling .....
» 31/01/2013 3:38:43 PM George, You’re developing a tone of anger in your responses and I’m not sure why. <&l.....
» 30/01/2013 1:36:52 PM …Continued This is how theology differs to theoretical physics and metaphysics, and it’s .....
» 30/01/2013 1:36:49 PM George, Sorry about the delay in reply but the weather hasn't been the best here in Austr.....
» 24/01/2013 6:51:07 PM ...Continued What you've said above goes against this somewhat, though... <<…as Pa.....
» 24/01/2013 6:51:00 PM George, I’m sorry if you feel that I get too personal. I don’t see anything wrong with wh.....
» 24/01/2013 1:42:45 PM aga, <<Sure we are not descended from two first parents? Heard of genetics or Mitoc.....
» 21/01/2013 4:49:18 PM …Continued A god would understand how it is that they needed to communicate with us whate.....
» 21/01/2013 4:49:12 PM …Continued But respecting the views of those who disagree with an assertion of such monum.....
» 21/01/2013 4:49:05 PM George, I apologise in advance for the length of this response, but there is just so much.....
» 18/01/2013 2:29:40 PM …Continued Rather than getting personal, however, I was merely seizing the opportunity to.....
» 18/01/2013 2:29:34 PM George, <<Had I reacted inappropriately to david f’s post, he would have told me, a.....
» 17/01/2013 2:34:41 PM …Continued There was a bit of the usual scratching around trying to reconcile such an abh.....
» 17/01/2013 2:34:37 PM George, There was nothing ambiguous about any of my post and yet most of your reply was i.....
» 16/01/2013 9:03:12 PM Josephus, Well, they don't *prove* anything as such... <<I read them they did not .....
» 16/01/2013 6:52:07 PM No, Josephus... <<So you are telling me that committed Christians are most responsi.....
» 16/01/2013 8:01:50 AM Josephus, <<From my obsevations youth in the West have generally lost their way and.....
» 15/01/2013 10:08:07 AM …Continued <<This we have in common and I think this is more important than the oth.....
» 15/01/2013 10:08:02 AM George, When quoting someone, it would be prudent to quote them in the order of what they.....
» 9/01/2013 4:19:47 PM …Continued <<The universe is a big place and 13 billion years is a while, countless.....
» 9/01/2013 4:19:43 PM SoG, This is getting repetitive, but at least some onlookers or genuine fence-sitters may.....
» 9/01/2013 12:10:57 PM SoG, This has become surreal. Not only are you completely incapable of comprehending what.....
» 8/01/2013 9:26:35 PM Just an after thought, SoG. Going back to the burden of proof for a moment... On both a p.....
» 8/01/2013 8:36:22 PM ...Continued And as i have also explained before, given the vast array of explanations we.....
» 8/01/2013 8:36:13 PM SoG, Boy, oh boy. I thought we'd already settled this. Or the fact that you had to dodge .....
» 8/01/2013 3:49:44 PM Oh boy, mhaze. You really did come late to this thread... <<And no particular concl.....
» 7/01/2013 9:30:38 PM mhaze writes: "Just as a thought exercise I'll just put this out. Every time democrac.....
» 7/01/2013 10:50:02 AM Josephus, I’m not sure where I’ve said, or how I’ve implied, that you accept everything r.....
» 6/01/2013 10:50:29 AM No, no, Josephus. Not "define", but "entitle"... <<Since Stephe.....
» 4/01/2013 10:00:09 AM Josephus, So does this go for gravity too? <<FACT: God is not defined by science a.....
» 3/01/2013 1:40:51 PM Oh boy, mhaze. I can’t believe I missed this… <<Merely asserting that something isn.....
» 3/01/2013 12:36:38 PM …Continued Worse still, self-proclaimed agnostics/fence-sitters/etc. attack atheists far .....
» 3/01/2013 12:36:34 PM mhaze, My last post was a bit vague, so I’m not entirely sure if we’re on the same track .....
» 30/12/2012 7:08:45 PM Sorry mhaze (and washed), but it appears you've bother missed where I discredited that lin.....
» 24/12/2012 10:31:09 PM Poirot's probably right. Either that or it was an OLO email alert saying that David had po.....
» 23/12/2012 4:30:58 PM SoG writes: "Your [David's] position is not as steadfast with the inclusion of the wo.....
» 23/12/2012 3:23:53 PM SoG, <<...all the reference books I have use the term nonbeliever when describing t.....
» 22/12/2012 11:40:29 PM I might add though, SoG, that I'm quite happy to include some theists into the Rationalist.....
» 22/12/2012 11:08:00 PM SoG, If you really are a fence-sitter, then I don't understand why it's so hard for you t.....
» 22/12/2012 10:11:50 AM SoG, You still don't understand the burden of proof, despite having had it explained to y.....
» 22/12/2012 1:31:58 AM ...Continued Not to mention the past horrors of the dark ages, witch burnings, the inquis.....
» 22/12/2012 1:31:50 AM Religious charity is often brought up as a means of defending religion, trying to negate t.....
» 21/12/2012 1:34:28 PM Shockadelic, Running out of arguments does not give you the right to start throwing aroun.....
» 21/12/2012 1:34:22 PM Dear Lexi, We arrive at the truth by basing reasoned arguments on logical absolutes. That.....
» 20/12/2012 4:25:01 PM Lexi, I’ve explained all this many times. Once even to yourself (http://forum.onlineopini.....
» 20/12/2012 3:24:04 PM Sorry SoG, I misread this… <<You know about as much as I and all the scientists of .....
» 20/12/2012 2:57:03 PM SoG, There’s no outrage here. I’m simply pointing out the flaws and fallacies in your way.....
» 20/12/2012 2:48:38 PM Shockadelic, I’m sorry to hear that the Witnesses hurt you. However, I’ve never suggested.....
» 19/12/2012 9:37:00 PM Shockadelic, Sorry, I didn't mean to cut so deep with the whole Joho bit. But you have to.....
» 19/12/2012 9:32:30 PM SoG, So long as you remain completely incapable of thinking outside a paradigm of absolut.....
» 19/12/2012 8:53:39 AM Shockadelic, What an odd bit of criticism to come from someone who grew up in a Jehovah's.....
» 19/12/2012 12:29:40 AM SoG, You could save us both a lot of time here if you'd only stop tap dancing around the .....
» 18/12/2012 6:40:31 PM I might add, SoG, that it's quite a stretch for you to claim the position of a "think.....
» 18/12/2012 6:15:24 PM SoG writes: "The thinking man adopts the consideration that physics is not all there .....
» 18/12/2012 7:49:28 AM SoG, You clearly don't understand the concept of the burden of proof. It is theists who.....
» 27/11/2012 3:38:37 PM RevDek, Anyone who claims to base their faith on academic grounds is simply being dishone.....
» 5/09/2012 8:46:27 PM Hasbeen writes: "...if you have forced me to pay for a public health system, don't ex.....
» 30/04/2012 11:09:28 PM david f, Thanks for bringing some perspective to this thread (something that has been sor.....
» 29/04/2012 10:41:36 PM No, I actually wasn’t, Grim. <<Putting words into Einstein's mouth, AJ?>> An.....
» 29/04/2012 8:15:36 PM Poirot, It depends what exactly you mean by this... <<If you're saying that, had E.....
» 29/04/2012 5:27:23 PM George wrote: “You might be right, but that does not change what Einstein actually said/wr.....
» 27/04/2012 4:25:00 PM Thanks Tony Lavis. I'm aware of that. That being the case, however, theists would be more.....
» 27/04/2012 10:50:17 AM Actually, there’s good reason to doubt that Einstein even said any of that. George’s quot.....
» 26/04/2012 1:54:29 PM Yeah, runner. Whatever. Social Darwinism has nothing to do with evolution and actually go.....
» 26/04/2012 11:33:11 AM david f wrote: "The fact is that Hitler behaved as many Christians behaved before him.....
» 24/04/2012 4:28:02 PM Atheism can leave questions that may never be answered; Religion has answers that may nev.....
» 6/04/2012 11:49:54 PM It seems that theists on this forum think some sort of reset switch is flicked once a new .....
» 31/03/2012 2:58:26 PM Squeers, I was going to wait for your next post before I responded but I’m never going to.....
» 30/03/2012 2:00:31 PM …Continued <<You attempted to dismiss critics of scientific fundamentalism en passa.....
» 30/03/2012 2:00:20 PM We’re getting somewhere here now, Squeers. <<I prefer the subheadings I’ve mentione.....
» 29/03/2012 3:34:45 PM …Continued <<I don’t propose excluding science…>> I didn’t mean to suggest y.....
» 29/03/2012 3:34:37 PM Yuyutsu, I guess the difference between you and I then, is that I care about the truth of.....
» 28/03/2012 9:10:53 PM ...Continued <<You refuse to consider criticism of your world view so you contemptu.....
» 28/03/2012 9:10:46 PM Squeers, I’m not sure how you read my post as “cranky”. I thought it sounded quite cool, .....
» 28/03/2012 3:21:20 PM Squeers, The term “scientism” is a caricature strawman invented and used (predominantly) .....
» 27/03/2012 11:33:48 PM Yuyutsu, You exaggerate, distort and twist the facts to paint a caricature of Humanism th.....
» 27/03/2012 4:13:32 PM Josephus, You need to look up the definition of “religion”. I know of no Humanists who th.....
» 27/03/2012 12:33:24 PM Yuyutsu, Either you don't have a clue what humanism actually is or you are simply project.....
» 12/03/2012 2:44:31 PM Well, if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS. <<Admit a God .....
» 10/03/2012 12:53:16 AM Oh, runner. I’ve already answered that fallacious, God-of-the-Gaps question so many times .....
» 3/03/2012 12:39:39 AM Anti-abortionists (I refuse to refer to them as “Pro-lifers” since they are overwhelmingly.....
» 2/03/2012 6:14:54 PM Yes, JP, ultimately - when the universe suffers a heat death or collapses back in on its s.....
» 29/02/2012 4:06:01 PM The term “Darwinist” is used by creationists to make evolution sound like an ideology and .....
» 20/02/2012 11:06:56 PM individual, That's amusing coming from someone whose arguments didn't hold......
» 19/02/2012 1:00:50 AM divine_msn, Thanks for that last reply. That was a lot better. I’d love to keep this disc.....
» 17/02/2012 12:49:23 AM Hasbeen, I’ve studied a very, very small amount of psychology, but I’m certainly far from.....
» 16/02/2012 10:10:01 PM ...Continued As with rape, murder, paedophilia, etc. I think it’s largely that we’re more.....
» 16/02/2012 10:09:57 PM Individual (and divine_msn), From my observations, it’s not a lack of corporal punishment.....
» 16/02/2012 5:19:47 PM When we smack children, we teach them that the way to get someone smaller than us to compl.....
» 14/02/2012 3:08:34 PM That doesn’t answer my question, runner. But it’s a nice little set-up you’ve got going th.....
» 14/02/2012 1:39:54 PM I like this “Adamic Nature” theory of runner’s. To proffer it as evidence for God and Bibl.....
» 13/02/2012 8:50:46 PM Trav, You’re welcome. I’m just disappointed that I didn’t make it clear in the first plac.....
» 11/02/2012 6:09:52 PM Oh, one point I missed, sorry... <<No, this doesn’t logically follow – there can be.....
» 11/02/2012 5:39:37 PM David Palmer, You don't need to remind me of the events surrounding the use of the term &.....
» 11/02/2012 1:14:51 PM Trav, There was nothing wrong with my actions. I simply called you to account for what I .....
» 10/02/2012 2:39:01 PM David Palmer, “Sky Daddy” was actually in your quote. I didn’t use that term at all. So p.....
» 10/02/2012 2:38:56 PM Trav, You really are a nasty piece of work, aren’t you. All you can do is throw stones wi.....
» 10/02/2012 9:17:51 AM Individual, My point, there, was that society is not bound by dictionary definitions; def.....
» 10/02/2012 1:10:20 AM David Palmer, Considering you and your God still have it all to prove, this is a pretty b.....
» 18/01/2012 1:22:06 PM StG wrote: “I couldn't POSSIBLY do the prophecies justice in the space and time we have in.....
» 10/01/2012 3:01:18 PM Thanks david f. This is paining (and surprising) me too. I never got around to mentioning.....
» 10/01/2012 10:14:12 AM Ah Grim, I’m sorry if you felt like I was slapping you in the face with the olive branch......
» 9/01/2012 9:51:01 PM ...Continued It's absurd, in my mind, to assume that Sagan and Einstein would still be so.....
» 9/01/2012 9:50:55 PM Grim, Thanks for the conciliatory tone in that last response. <<I have yet to fin.....
» 9/01/2012 12:35:05 AM Grim, In regards to “...one can be an Agnostic without being an Atheist”, what I should h.....
» 8/01/2012 12:33:39 PM Luciferase, There is nothing about the “atheist-agnostic” position that could warrant to .....
» 8/01/2012 12:33:36 PM Grim, Why do you need to resort to emotive language like “dogma”? Like I said, if you don.....
» 8/01/2012 1:27:19 AM Dear david f, I too would regard myself as a naturalist and for exactly the same reasons .....
» 8/01/2012 12:26:40 AM Luciferase, You schema is wrong in so many ways, I can only conclude that it’s what you’v.....
» 7/01/2012 11:34:18 AM Grim, You start off by claiming that I have endorsed the point you’ve been making, then y.....
» 6/01/2012 10:09:46 PM With all due respect, Grim, your quotes and definitions make for such slim-pickings that t.....
» 5/01/2012 1:16:08 PM Grim, Thanks for the bizarre reply, but if you go back and re-read my posts, you’ll see t.....
» 5/01/2012 6:37:05 AM Again Luciferase, these dichotomies are not my inventions and I have demonstrated that to .....
» 4/01/2012 2:43:25 PM Luciferase, I'm not playing a "game" here and as you can see from my last respo.....
» 4/01/2012 2:43:14 PM Grim (and Luciferase), If I’m sounding confused, then by all means, tell me. People need .....
» 4/01/2012 12:30:29 AM Luciferase, Yes, there is a difference between “knowing” and “believing to a high degree .....
» 3/01/2012 4:26:51 PM Sorry Luciferase, but I haven’t a clue what relevance most of that has to do with what I’v.....
» 3/01/2012 2:32:31 PM Luciferase, Atheism and agnosticism are not mutually exclusive and as I alluded to when I.....
» 3/01/2012 1:11:06 PM You have it all arse-about, Luciferase. You don't appear to understand the philosophic bu.....
» 30/12/2011 10:48:40 PM Well, there doesn’t seem to be anything new in that study. I thought we already knew all t.....
» 29/12/2011 9:30:07 PM Oh, I forgot to mention those who would welcome the "end times" and purposefully.....
» 29/12/2011 8:29:22 PM Lexi, I couldn’t agree more that we need to live and let live. That’s my ethos too. But a.....
» 29/12/2011 6:41:44 PM And, and, and, we know that Mithras was pure myth, whereas Jesus was a REAL man. Why else .....
» 28/12/2011 8:54:10 AM Yes Trav, and had you actually read my responses to your comments on that thread, you woul.....
» 27/12/2011 11:47:28 PM Oh, I definitely agree with this, Trav... <<The real question isn't whether Jesus e.....
» 21/12/2011 4:12:15 PM Sorry runner, but atheism doesn’t have a set of tenets and nor is it a claim to truth, so .....
» 21/12/2011 2:46:22 PM Gee, I get tired of this dopey of line of thought… <<Had they been still alive, wou.....
» 17/12/2011 11:51:55 AM It is a pity, isn't it, Raycom. This God of yours knew what it would take to convince Hi.....
» 16/12/2011 11:09:45 PM Fair enough, Mr Holden... <<...my submission was just an idea.>> I take back.....
» 15/12/2011 6:22:23 PM What am I waving my “puny fist” at, runner? The grotesque monster of the Christian Bible .....
» 15/12/2011 10:23:55 AM I thought we had already gone over this in that other thread, Graham… <<I get a bit.....
» 1/12/2011 12:44:30 PM David, I know what you mean. If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance… I realise I’ll ne.....
» 30/11/2011 7:43:26 PM OUG, I’m not reading the other website anymore so don’t bother posting there. From what I.....
» 30/11/2011 4:39:14 PM Yes, OUG… <<i said minour variations within the genus level egsist [thus clearly di.....
» 30/11/2011 11:24:13 AM Yes, OUG, it certainly does… <<you gone silent for now..as has the professing stezz.....
» 28/11/2011 1:35:17 PM OUG, I never said I refused to look at your link. I read it all. In fact, that’s exactly .....
» 28/11/2011 11:21:44 AM OUG, Thanks for the offer to take this to a different forum, but I’m not enthusiastic abo.....
» 27/11/2011 11:09:39 AM OUG, Every line of your posts confirms that you have not studied evolution in the slighte.....
» 25/11/2011 4:30:53 PM OUG, This frequent claim of yours, that you’ve studied evolution in depth, is either a li.....
» 25/11/2011 2:30:57 PM One facet to this that the media hasn’t yet mentioned is the threat from the member of the.....
» 17/11/2011 10:39:13 PM How did I know you were going to say that, Yuyutsu? <<Reasoning is that there is no.....
» 16/11/2011 2:35:11 PM Crabsy, Don’t worry, I have never thought that you were out to convert (you just don’t ha.....
» 15/11/2011 12:53:02 PM What rational basis do I have for my claims that your version of God is new, Yuyutsu? I s.....
» 11/11/2011 9:48:30 PM Yuyutsu, Knowledge may be a subset of belief, but there is still a difference and until y.....
» 11/11/2011 5:51:26 PM Crabsy, Basically... what Pericles said. Although I will add that you seem to be attempt.....
» 10/11/2011 9:00:21 PM I’m afraid all we’re seeing here from Yuyutsu and Crabsy is pure wordplay - nothing more. .....
» 2/11/2011 12:38:05 PM It’s just as well you add the “given our current knowledge” bit a little later, Trav. Give.....
» 1/11/2011 8:26:17 PM I’d like to thank Trav for bringing that debate to our attention and would encourage anyon.....
» 28/10/2011 8:59:50 AM Ah Dan. Boy do I have a new-found respect for you after the events of this thread! <&l.....
» 27/10/2011 4:45:45 PM Graham, It’s a pity you didn’t bother to continue watching the video… <<…the howle.....
» 26/10/2011 12:36:43 PM Sorry Trav, but I have not yet once had to resort to throwing stones and I challenge you t.....
» 24/10/2011 9:56:30 AM Trav, It took me a while to figure out what you meant by having my cake and eating it too.....
» 23/10/2011 8:38:25 PM Trav, Speaking of equivocation fallacy, your response to Shadow Minister contained one wi.....
» 23/10/2011 4:10:35 PM Trav, It's amazing that you still find it in yourself to defend the Kalam Cosmological Ar.....
» 22/10/2011 11:06:30 AM Anamele, It would do you a great service to learn what a religion actually is. <<I.....
» 21/10/2011 3:12:05 PM Graham, Since, as I was typing up my last response, you so vindictively insinuated that I.....
» 21/10/2011 1:12:12 PM …Continued Why? The video already demonstrated why Craig was wrong with the fallacy of eq.....
» 21/10/2011 1:12:05 PM Martin Ibn Warriq, Okay, so what were the highlights for you in the discussion? How do yo.....
» 20/10/2011 4:46:03 PM The problem with formal debates is that they are a poor format for constructive discussion.....
» 20/10/2011 10:50:30 AM No Graham, it’s actually not. <<I think it is your guy who is running the deception.....
» 20/10/2011 9:55:19 AM Um, Graham. <<…so perhaps you [McReal] could give us an example of how he has mani.....
» 19/10/2011 3:14:14 PM If Ms Kirk - or anyone else here for that matter - is wondering why William Lane Craig is .....
» 22/09/2011 8:08:44 PM Lexi, As someone who enjoyed reading The God Delusion, I would strongly recommend you rea.....
» 8/09/2011 5:30:50 PM That’s it. I can’t keep quite anymore. Sorry, but to gloss-over the indoctrination into s.....
» 15/08/2011 1:43:33 PM Philo, Whether these children were neglected street kids or from church families is entir.....
» 15/08/2011 11:55:15 AM I liked the second last paragraph of your last post, Philo. It’s a good example of why the.....
» 15/08/2011 11:06:15 AM This McCarthyist idea that if you don’t believe in a deity, then you must necessarily be a.....
» 22/07/2011 5:21:01 PM Col, Winston Churchill never said that, despite the fact that the quote is often attribut.....
» 14/07/2011 11:50:49 PM Actually, one other point I forgot to make... I don't think any of you theists realise ju.....
» 14/07/2011 11:31:55 PM Thank you rstuart for that link. It’s provided a refreshing bit of reality to this otherwi.....
» 8/06/2011 11:54:47 PM You’ve got that right, Trav... <<Quoting one small sentence from someone whilst pay.....
» 8/06/2011 10:42:24 PM Nice job, Trav. Since the “We’re just not understanding each other” looked a bit silly, y.....
» 8/06/2011 2:43:18 PM Hi Saltpetre, If, as you were saying before, you’re starting to lose track of where we’re.....
» 7/06/2011 10:38:46 PM ...Continued Ah, so now you’ve broadened the scope of your argument to assist it. Before .....
» 7/06/2011 10:38:38 PM ...Continued In the context of what I’ve just said, do you see the problem with your usag.....
» 7/06/2011 10:38:33 PM Sounds like you’re getting a little snippy there, Trav... <<...it’s eager of you to.....
» 6/06/2011 2:54:36 PM …Continued And you have a better understanding than I do? What are your qualifications he.....
» 6/06/2011 2:54:31 PM Sorry Trav. To my disappointment, I had misread the second sentence here (I read the secon.....
» 5/06/2011 11:45:56 AM ...Continued The more we learn, the more creative and obscure the sophistry becomes to ma.....
» 5/06/2011 11:45:52 AM ...Continued <<I’ve answered these specific points [about external factors causing .....
» 5/06/2011 11:45:43 AM Trav, I find 20 spare minutes for an additional comment two days later and suddenly I mus.....
» 3/06/2011 7:10:31 PM Trav, Before you post again, I want to revisit this for a moment... <<[The fact th.....
» 2/06/2011 12:12:27 AM ...Continued <<Regarding naturalism and authority... my point was that people DOGMA.....
» 2/06/2011 12:11:56 AM Trav, Every time I see that you’ve posted again, I think to myself, “Now what on Earth co.....
» 31/05/2011 9:45:25 PM Oh blow it. I was going to make this clarification after it was pointed out in order to r.....
» 31/05/2011 12:59:39 PM Delay much, Shockadelic? One organ being symmetrical wouldn’t save DNA. The only reason t.....
» 31/05/2011 12:02:40 PM …Continued <<So, in your opinion my arguments have fallen down? Well, that’s comple.....
» 31/05/2011 12:02:21 PM Yeah, sorry, Trav, you goofed. I argued that applied reasoning based on logical absolutes.....
» 29/05/2011 9:17:54 PM ...Continued For it to count as evidence for something you would need to gauge it alongsi.....
» 29/05/2011 9:17:51 PM Ammonite, I’m truly humbled by your kind words. Thanks. My patience for OLO debating has .....
» 28/05/2011 9:07:38 PM ...Continued <<Yet, it’s atheist countries who have the biggest militaries, and it’.....
» 28/05/2011 9:07:34 PM ...Continued I like how you used the term “bang on” as if what I said was irrelevant to t.....
» 28/05/2011 9:07:30 PM Trav, I don’t see much point in continuing further here. While there are points I don’t m.....
» 27/05/2011 5:01:32 PM I come from a Protestant background so I’m no expert on the Lumen Gentium but that was pre.....
» 27/05/2011 3:44:57 PM …Continued But if you’re trying to go down the “Hitler was an atheist” path, then don’t b.....
» 27/05/2011 3:44:48 PM …Continued I don’t see why you think one must always lead to the other. You go from, “Onl.....
» 27/05/2011 3:44:35 PM Trav, Sorry I frustrated you but after trying to figure out how Saltpetre got to some of .....
» 26/05/2011 3:11:29 PM …Continued <<Regarding your views on evidence for God, a couple of questions: What .....
» 26/05/2011 3:11:25 PM Trav, I’m really not enthusiastic about covering ground we’ve already covered many times .....
» 26/05/2011 3:11:21 PM …Continued But since you reject every “foundation” I provided (without any foundation iro.....
» 26/05/2011 3:11:10 PM Yuyutsu, As much as I don’t buy a lot of what you say, no-one can accuse you of not being.....
» 26/05/2011 6:54:23 AM Here Dan. Here’s a link I once gave you that explains it all. Perhaps you could read it th.....
» 26/05/2011 12:30:06 AM Dan, I had already given you plenty of examples in the past of “information” (that delibe.....
» 25/05/2011 1:25:54 PM Thanks Grim. Yuyutsu, Most religious people do still make claims regarding the supernatu.....
» 24/05/2011 2:29:07 PM …Continued But at the end of the day, I consider all this to be fairly meaningless anyway.....
» 24/05/2011 2:29:04 PM Trav, If you take one of the motivations/excuses for war and terrorism out of the equatio.....
» 24/05/2011 10:51:37 AM Actually, suzieonline may have a point about the ingrained indoctrination. I’ve been thin.....
» 23/05/2011 6:21:18 PM Oh, okay, Pericles. That would explain pelican’s response then. In that case, I would agr.....
» 23/05/2011 1:43:39 PM Well Trav, it’s easy to see why you don’t think we’re understanding each other… <<I.....
» 23/05/2011 12:30:36 PM No, no, no, pelican. The guilt can very much be a male thing too when religion is involve.....
» 22/05/2011 10:49:58 AM Actually, Shockadelic, one other point I’ve just thought of after considering the interest.....
» 22/05/2011 7:41:42 AM Oh, alright then, Shockadelic. You got us. <<I note no atheist has bothered to answ.....
» 22/05/2011 6:10:32 AM Oh Trav! You pull this one every time I drag you out of your comfort zone and make you th.....
» 20/05/2011 11:08:33 PM A brilliant response as usual, Pericles. And a timely one too considering I haven’t found.....
» 20/05/2011 12:40:15 PM Trav, If there’s anything I can say about your apparent need to find flaws in my argument.....
» 19/05/2011 10:58:21 PM Trav, I didn’t need to acknowledge limitations of reason (in unison with evidence, of cou.....
» 19/05/2011 9:45:25 PM WmTrevor, Thanks for your kind words. Your answer to my question is pretty much what I wa.....
» 19/05/2011 12:32:14 PM …Continued <<Inventors, Engineers and Scientists do not sit around awaiting 'eviden.....
» 19/05/2011 12:32:08 PM weareunique, Thanks for your reply. Again, you have given me a lot to respond to. <&l.....
» 18/05/2011 11:45:19 AM As someone with a lot of firsthand experience with the Christian church and its theology, .....
» 18/05/2011 9:31:44 AM Sandpiper, If the Bible was the word of a god, then it would be so amazing and beyond wha.....
» 17/05/2011 3:07:58 PM I definitely see what you mean, pelican… <<Does that make me a secret Christian.>.....
» 17/05/2011 11:12:01 AM My sentiments exactly, Tombee. <<But please don't fiddle with its meaning in order .....
» 17/05/2011 9:29:33 AM Yes, good point Philo. It just goes to show that religious belief is based on fear and not.....
» 16/05/2011 12:57:32 PM Jimmy Jones, I don’t know that I’m comfortable with the “expert” label when talking about.....
» 14/05/2011 10:50:25 PM Ugh! I meant to say, “It gets better”. But while I’m here, I may as well point out to an.....
» 14/05/2011 10:31:52 PM There’s been some interesting points made about the ridiculousness of the Noah’s ark story.....
» 11/05/2011 1:18:18 PM …Continued I’m sorry, Peter, but the more I read the comments of OLO’s “sceptics” now, th.....
» 11/05/2011 1:18:13 PM …Continued I suspect, at this point, you’d be tempted to say, “Well, I don’t find any of .....
» 11/05/2011 1:18:08 PM …Continued Or would you accept the science if nobody was saying it was going to be catast.....
» 11/05/2011 1:18:02 PM …Continued I don’t necessarily think I can, especially with a rapidly growing and unsusta.....
» 11/05/2011 1:17:56 PM Peter Hume, Sorry about the delay in reply, but aside from being busy, I have spent a lot.....
» 9/05/2011 12:10:40 PM AJ fell silent because AJ was very busy over the weekend and AJ is not enthusiastic about .....
» 6/05/2011 11:52:46 PM Peter Hume, <<...you are only proving ... seeking data to confirm rather than to di.....
» 6/05/2011 10:12:05 PM Thank you Peter Hume and Jefferson for addressing me and not the points I raised, in your .....
» 6/05/2011 10:51:32 AM In fairness to the “sceptics”, one thing I should point out is that there is a small minor.....
» 6/05/2011 2:01:15 AM ...Continued I might get into one of these debates on OLO about AWG one day but for now, .....
» 6/05/2011 2:01:09 AM I’m in the same boat as stevenlmeyer. I accept AWG but don’t want a carbon tax as I don’t.....
» 5/05/2011 7:21:56 AM Agreed Squeers. Along with some short and sharp rapid-fire responses on this thread that o.....
» 4/05/2011 9:37:54 PM Notice a theist needs to fly a plane into a building or blow themselves up to be regarde.....
» 29/04/2011 9:07:16 AM Ah yes, the 'No True Scotsman' fallacy......
» 27/04/2011 7:09:40 PM mjpb, I AM referring to Lemaître’s version of the big bang. Your problem here is that you.....
» 27/04/2011 5:26:07 PM Sorry, more importantly, I meant to say that your claim that you “didn’t have enough faith.....
» 27/04/2011 4:58:27 PM mjpb, The big bang theory does not say that matter was created at the moment of the expan.....
» 6/04/2011 4:17:13 PM There’s one point I’d add to this: “But if you accept as I do that it is possible for som.....
» 30/03/2011 4:14:41 PM Yes, it’s as I’ve said before, Newton, Galileo, et al only ever relied on natural methodol.....
» 30/03/2011 2:42:24 PM I completely agree with Pericles here. All too often, we have Christians taking advantage.....
» 10/03/2011 7:26:38 PM Erm... viking13, had you read the sentence before the one you responded to, you’d see that.....
» 10/03/2011 4:53:38 PM Sorry, that contributed nothing to the discussion, but it was in reading this line that it.....
» 10/03/2011 4:33:44 PM Well, let me be the first to say... Welcome back, redneck! (http://forum.onlineopinion.co.....
» 5/03/2011 8:00:17 AM He says with veins bulging from his forehead. Thank you for demonstrating my point, St Ge.....
» 4/03/2011 11:30:51 PM mjpb, I’ll see you on another thread. Dan, I owe you some thanks. For the first time i.....
» 4/03/2011 10:55:20 PM Pelican, Thanks for your response. I agree with everything you've said albeit with the t.....
» 4/03/2011 3:36:23 PM And this is exactly why I don’t want to continue. All that waffle and yet my points still.....
» 3/03/2011 4:40:32 PM Sorry mjpb, but I'm really not interested anymore. The fact that you at least tried is en.....
» 3/03/2011 4:25:11 PM Jewely, I think the biggest problem here is that we’re only reading text and not seeing e.....
» 3/03/2011 2:35:47 PM Pelican, My point about divisiveness, etc goes for virtually all Christians of all stripe.....
» 3/03/2011 2:35:42 PM Jewely, I found your take on my comment odd considering my comments align with suzeonline.....
» 2/03/2011 9:17:50 PM We should no sooner want white supremacists fostering or adopting children if we know ther.....
» 24/02/2011 4:37:08 PM Pericles, Thanks for your supportive comments (and Squeers for that matter). Coming from .....
» 21/02/2011 2:08:41 PM I’m starting to feel like I’m back at school now. First, during the lunch break, mjpb run.....
» 21/02/2011 10:47:35 AM Dan, <<Is anyone else reading this? I know George is because has given a link recom.....
» 20/02/2011 4:38:23 PM ...Continued I note too that you always use the words “react to” instead of “respond to” .....
» 20/02/2011 4:38:19 PM Joe, That’s an interesting point. I’d never thought about it that way. If we consider Bud.....
» 20/02/2011 12:55:18 AM ...Continued <<...you demonstrated that you were apparently one of [the many atheis.....
» 20/02/2011 12:55:13 AM George, I’m not sure why you’re bothering to point out the fact that you said “many” and .....
» 18/02/2011 3:55:53 PM ...Continued Because atheism is not a philosophy, it is not a belief system, it is not a .....
» 18/02/2011 3:55:48 PM Rhian, If you’re not sure about the correlation ozandy speaks of, then you need only util.....
» 17/02/2011 3:06:44 PM ...Continued You continue your antics, seemingly oblivious to their transparency, then yo.....
» 17/02/2011 3:06:38 PM These things tend to happen at the most inconvenient of times, do they not, mjpb? Of cours.....
» 16/02/2011 11:57:37 PM No response, mjpb? Not even a retraction? It comes as no surprise to me that your six-day.....
» 14/02/2011 11:19:58 PM ...Continued This is also yet another reason as to why atheism is the default position - .....
» 14/02/2011 11:19:54 PM ...Continued You introduce the topic of Roman law to bolster your position (http://forum......
» 14/02/2011 11:19:50 PM mjpb, Do you have any idea of just how tautological it is to express surprise in being ab.....
» 14/02/2011 11:13:07 AM ...Continued Now that I’ve covered those, I should also point out that to imply that my l.....
» 14/02/2011 11:13:03 AM ...Continued <<They provide widely accessible signs that point to God, yet they are.....
» 14/02/2011 11:12:58 AM Trav, It’s a pity you won’t be sticking around; with your arguments going the way they ar.....
» 13/02/2011 12:53:35 AM Trav, There’s absolutely no need to apologise. I offend people all the time on OLO. Even .....
» 12/02/2011 12:01:59 PM ...Continued And you have the audacity to wonder how I could possibly consider the belief.....
» 12/02/2011 12:01:55 PM Just some additional thoughts, mjpb. Firstly, your claim that you were responding in a ma.....
» 11/02/2011 9:19:11 PM ...Continued But in general and on the whole, it is theism that is making the original cl.....
» 11/02/2011 9:19:06 PM I see we have some unfinished business, mjpb. I’m actually glad you’ve raised these points.....
» 11/02/2011 3:50:28 PM mjpb, Twice now I have explained to you that the fine tuning argument is fallacious and w.....
» 11/02/2011 7:42:58 AM Good question, Grim. It's not really even a god if it experiences such petty human emotio.....
» 10/02/2011 3:39:00 PM It doesn’t matter which formulation is being considered there, mjpb. The ‘fine tuning’ ar.....
» 10/02/2011 12:48:51 PM One other point I should make, mjpb. Your claims that: -there is such a thing as a ".....
» 10/02/2011 12:04:29 PM 14. It may be worth noting, also, that the some of the constants specified not not require.....
» 10/02/2011 12:04:22 PM ...Continued 12. The argument also seems to call into question the omnipotence of the cre.....
» 10/02/2011 12:04:14 PM ...Continued 8. The initial premise of the argument is that in order for life to exist, t.....
» 10/02/2011 12:04:09 PM ...Continued 4. Another flaw with this argument is that it assumes our universe is finely.....
» 10/02/2011 12:04:04 PM mjpb, Here’s just a few points for you to ponder in regards to the fallacious and invalid.....
» 10/02/2011 9:33:08 AM Lexi, mjpb hasn't gone to any length to justify his faith and nor have I been harassing h.....
» 8/02/2011 4:52:11 PM mjpb, I’m happy to wait until tomorrow so that you can finish posting, but please, tone i.....
» 8/02/2011 4:20:51 PM ...Continued I’m sorry that I didn’t have the posting allowance to go into detail as to w.....
» 8/02/2011 4:20:45 PM Trav, I too thought this was going fine until your last post where you descend in to a na.....
» 8/02/2011 4:20:41 PM Squeers, Thanks for your kind words, I’m humbled by them. Thanks too for the link, fascin.....
» 7/02/2011 4:10:20 PM ...Continued Christianity, for example, is like a virus in that it uses sex (something th.....
» 7/02/2011 4:10:14 PM ...Continued That being said, nothing has ever made more sense in a theistic framework - .....
» 7/02/2011 4:10:08 PM ...Continued The documents (from decades after his life mind you) do not accurately date .....
» 7/02/2011 4:10:01 PM Crabsy, Obviously I wasn’t referring to that version of ‘truth’. I was talking about ‘tru.....
» 4/02/2011 3:01:18 PM Oh, I just realised I missed a bit... <<In fact for our type of life form the Earth.....
» 4/02/2011 1:28:43 PM SoG, Your claimed search for answers would look a lot more genuine and sincere if you did.....
» 4/02/2011 10:50:02 AM Nearly another three weeks gone by, mjpb. Since your lack of replies have been few and fa.....
» 3/02/2011 10:45:31 PM ...Continued <<I understand this but I believe that further clarity is brought to t.....
» 3/02/2011 10:45:27 PM ...Continued For starters, you haven’t yet come up with a rational reason for believing i.....
» 3/02/2011 10:45:21 PM ...Continued <<The solid historical evidences for Jesus Christ.>> You’ve go.....
» 3/02/2011 10:45:15 PM Crabsy, It sounds like you’re referring to something along the lines of ‘religious truth’.....
» 31/01/2011 3:42:06 PM Crabsy, You are simply attacking strawman after strawman. You wrongly attribute “Scienti.....
» 31/01/2011 1:18:18 AM It’s not like you at all to be so emotive in your posts, Crabsy. <<You, Foyle, AFA-.....
» 30/01/2011 9:36:20 PM ...Continued Well, if you want to play that game, studies show that the more educated peo.....
» 30/01/2011 9:36:16 PM Trav, I noticed you dodged a question of David’s, so I’ll ask what I think David was gett.....
» 28/01/2011 1:05:08 PM ...Continued <<I cannot find an interpretation other than the one I addressed - tha.....
» 28/01/2011 1:05:03 PM Otokonoko, I’ve been giving this some more thought and it’s possible that I’m being a lit.....
» 28/01/2011 1:04:59 PM Well, SoG, we’ve now done a full circle here and you seem absolutely determined to not und.....
» 27/01/2011 10:09:00 AM Philo, I don’t doubt that many Christians were responsible for the abolition of slavery, .....
» 27/01/2011 9:19:18 AM Boaz, I understand that you’re coming from the “Divine Revelation” angle. But revelation .....
» 27/01/2011 8:23:53 AM Philo, Thanks for the insult; responses like this often indicate a bullseye. But your ad .....
» 26/01/2011 11:08:45 PM Otokonoko, Unfortunately your response to me amounts to little more than preaching withou.....
» 26/01/2011 11:08:41 PM ...Continued - Wasting the one and only life that you can KNOW you’re going to have, worr.....
» 26/01/2011 11:08:36 PM SoG, Yes, I find the word limit is frustrating (although I still think it’s a good thing).....
» 25/01/2011 12:04:40 PM ...Continued If a god existed then, being all-powerful and all-knowing, they would have f.....
» 25/01/2011 12:04:36 PM ...Continued <<When you hit rock bottom and society has ostracized and imprisoned y.....
» 25/01/2011 12:04:32 PM That’s an extremely narrow way of looking at it SoG... <<AJ the single factor contr.....
» 24/01/2011 7:56:06 PM SoG, You’re really stretching a long bow there. <<Since the demise of Christianity.....
» 21/01/2011 10:09:44 PM ...Continued As for my positive thoughts, the first one that comes to mind is that, of al.....
» 21/01/2011 10:09:40 PM Sorry about the delay in reply, Philo. Illness and the floods (I live very close to the Br.....
» 21/01/2011 9:45:04 PM ...Continued By “races”, he simply meant “variations”. “The Origin of Species” barely eve.....
» 21/01/2011 9:45:00 PM Boaz, What’s all this talk about theistic ethics versus “Darwinian/evolution based ethics.....
» 7/01/2011 12:05:51 AM Ah, yes Philo. I’ve heard them all before: god is energy, god is nature, god is love, god .....
» 6/01/2011 2:48:45 PM Philo, I realise believers don’t think god can be found by looking for something physical.....
» 6/01/2011 11:09:24 AM ...Continued In all fairness to mjpb though, his insistence that he came to faith through.....
» 6/01/2011 11:09:15 AM Philo, Unless by “enemy” you simply mean “opponent”, mjpb isn’t my enemy. I don’t think I.....
» 5/01/2011 12:48:38 PM mjpb, The thread is about to close yet again and still no evidence even after seven month.....
» 24/12/2010 10:13:26 PM ...Continued Which gets bandied around so often that Einstein was later compelled to expl.....
» 24/12/2010 10:13:22 PM Pericles, thank you. Philip Tang, My comment about the ancient Egyptians was regurgitate.....
» 23/12/2010 5:00:28 PM ...Continued We have cities that had been destroyed and created in his wake and one even .....
» 23/12/2010 5:00:23 PM ...Continued Most of the time, yes, because they mistakenly assume that an historical Jes.....
» 23/12/2010 5:00:17 PM You're really overstating your case here, AndrewFindon. <<...[The hearsay accounts].....
» 22/12/2010 4:24:44 PM ...Continued Besides which, how else could we possibly account for the rapid spread of th.....
» 22/12/2010 4:24:39 PM This bow your drawing gets longer and longer, AndrewFindon. <<Actually, [hearsay ac.....
» 22/12/2010 4:15:26 PM Crabsy, Yes, I acknowledge the other definitions of faith and I would agree that most of .....
» 21/12/2010 5:08:51 PM Crabsy, Faith is simply a term applied to beliefs that we have no good reason for believi.....
» 21/12/2010 12:15:17 PM Touché, Pericles. Touché. AndrewFinden, No, the accounts are not unreliable because the.....
» 20/12/2010 4:51:20 PM I’m curious about this, Boxgum... <<Catholic Tradition places faith and reason as s.....
» 20/12/2010 9:46:45 AM ...Continued But given the fact that most of the accounts of Jesus were of a supernatural.....
» 20/12/2010 9:46:42 AM Rhian, Most of what McReal has said just about sums it up for me. In regards to Dawkins t.....
» 18/12/2010 11:05:56 AM L.B.Loveday asks: “...who, apart from the author, would seriously question that Christ did.....
» 17/12/2010 10:08:35 PM It's what they believed the winter solstice to be in ancient times, Proxy. The ancient Eg.....
» 17/12/2010 5:23:50 PM My, my, Philip. You creationists become such vicious creatures when cornered. Jesus would .....
» 17/12/2010 1:17:08 PM Apologists can be so frustrating sometimes. Especially when they’re not even one of these .....
» 16/12/2010 8:04:21 PM I’m well aware of that, Philip. But your assertion was that the big bang proves the exist.....
» 16/12/2010 5:55:33 PM Philip Tang, Speaking of dishonesty, did you notice the YouTube clip you linked to didn’t.....
» 16/12/2010 3:18:31 PM Phillip Tang, Do you understand what “fallacy” means? <<The significance of the bi.....
» 16/12/2010 3:18:27 PM ...Continued <<-In the language of science, there is indeed no distinction between.....
» 16/12/2010 3:18:23 PM Yuyutsu, If you believe that what’s in the heart counts for more than what’s in the mind,.....
» 16/12/2010 1:50:42 PM Yes mjpb, I’ll keep it open if you show some interest in continuing. But lets be realisti.....
» 15/12/2010 8:50:01 PM That's fascinating, TBC. I'm not sure you're insecure enough to be a god though. I just c.....
» 15/12/2010 6:34:29 PM ...Continued Anyway, to be fair to myself and others, and in the interests of useful disc.....
» 15/12/2010 6:34:24 PM Two can play at that game, Yuyutsu... <<I love God...>> Ah, but to love god .....
» 15/12/2010 6:34:17 PM Philip Tang, Your analogy doesn’t work because atheists haven’t assumed a silly story lik.....
» 15/12/2010 10:48:19 AM I don’t think calling for the destruction of religion is very helpful, and a ‘movement’ of.....
» 14/12/2010 11:35:21 AM FALSEHOODSNOW78, Atheism isn’t a worldview, so how could Christians know more about it th.....
» 13/12/2010 12:05:04 PM ...Continued <<Perhaps these also turn out to be powerful intellectual tools even i.....
» 13/12/2010 12:05:00 PM Priscillian, Thanks for you kind words, but I don’t feel like I deserve them. I can be su.....
» 10/12/2010 3:12:21 PM ...Continued Being a person who cares about the truth of my beliefs, I go with the latter.....
» 10/12/2010 3:12:17 PM That’s a big question, Waterboy! The way you’ve worded your question by adding “about li.....
» 9/12/2010 11:47:14 PM ...Continued As for your Professor William Provine quote, none of that conflicts with wha.....
» 9/12/2010 11:47:10 PM Well, JP. You started out on this thread with hyperbolic comments like, “it is going to be.....
» 9/12/2010 11:45:32 AM George, Good point. In the context of this discussion (and, hopefully, what you were sayi.....
» 8/12/2010 9:42:17 PM George, Thanks for that. Your description of a higher moral authority as an “extra” is s.....
» 8/12/2010 4:34:56 PM ...Continued <<Again I ask you, why is your opinion, as one human being, any more v.....
» 8/12/2010 4:34:51 PM I’m not sure how else it can be explained to you, JP. This is obviously one of the fundame.....
» 7/12/2010 7:49:38 PM You must be skimming our posts, JP. I already answered your same sex marriage question, an.....
» 7/12/2010 3:22:12 PM mjpb, Although the thread’s still a while from closing, this will be the last time I atte.....
» 7/12/2010 1:09:54 PM ...Continued It’s about balancing an individual’s wellbeing with that of their community’.....
» 7/12/2010 1:09:48 PM I assume most of that was addressed to me, JP. <<...the single point I am making is.....
» 7/12/2010 11:09:54 AM Wrong, JP... <<One belief is as valid as another because they are both constructs b.....
» 6/12/2010 12:53:28 PM ...Continued <<There is clearly a malfunction or misconfiguration in the mind of a .....
» 6/12/2010 12:53:23 PM Boaz, Thanks for reminding me why I don’t usually enter the discussions on this topic. .....
» 5/12/2010 7:13:44 PM ...Continued Speaking of birthrights though, I would think that the most fundamentally im.....
» 5/12/2010 7:13:40 PM Proxy, <<What's the difference between that and the ick factor hard-wired into our .....
» 5/12/2010 12:01:18 PM Boaz, <<And I feel like jumping up on your kitchen table with a HUGE sign which say.....
» 4/12/2010 9:10:12 PM Yes Proxy... <<Two homosexual incestuous brothers could not possibly bear children .....
» 4/12/2010 8:22:08 PM Sorry Proxy, but once again, I already discredited your absurd comparisons at http://forum.....
» 4/12/2010 9:20:47 AM It’s very basic, vanna. If bodily fluids don’t mix the chance of infection is reduced. &l.....
» 3/12/2010 2:12:39 PM That’s spot on, Priscillian... <<I bet you that your attitude to religion was not c.....
» 2/12/2010 4:01:33 PM Priscillian, I must be reading my posts very differently to others if you feel I’m not ad.....
» 2/12/2010 2:07:56 PM Show me where I said, or even implied anything like that, runner......
» 2/12/2010 2:05:22 PM ...Continued <<I shall keep on reading them - and hopefully learn more about these .....
» 2/12/2010 2:05:16 PM George, <<Thank you too, for another exposé of your “passion for truth and reason” .....
» 2/12/2010 1:36:12 PM Speaking of selective/fudged data. Here’s an amusing case in the US of a church doing a p.....
» 2/12/2010 10:06:55 AM Sorry Dan, but your '0.5% growth rate' point has already been debunked at http://www.talko.....
» 2/12/2010 9:20:41 AM And yet very slow to thank R0bert for correcting the even more glaring colossal mathematic.....
» 1/12/2010 2:40:00 PM I was smacked as a child to a fairly late age and I don’t remember gaining any respect for.....
» 1/12/2010 1:44:43 PM ...Continued But unlike theists (and going back to my point about theism and atheism not .....
» 1/12/2010 1:44:35 PM George, Think of it as a compliment... <<I don’t seem to be able to harvest some f.....
» 1/12/2010 1:44:25 PM You sound very confused, Daviy. Metaphysics is just the philosophical study of being and .....
» 30/11/2010 1:37:10 PM ...Continued <<...the difference is that runner has never become personal by expres.....
» 30/11/2010 1:37:05 PM ...Continued <<...although I agree it does not constitute an “objective demonstrati.....
» 30/11/2010 1:36:59 PM George, <<I did not make any such comparison [between theists and atheists].>>.....
» 29/11/2010 10:47:29 PM George, It’s pretty unfair to compare atheists who have naive understandings of scripture.....
» 25/11/2010 7:35:29 AM Keith, <<The churches would likely rename marriage as Christian Marriage and homose.....
» 24/11/2010 1:09:02 PM ...Continued <<shep bred sheep...pigeons breed pigeons...bacteria breed bacteria[vi.....
» 24/11/2010 1:08:57 PM I can’t believe I’m about to do this. OUG, <<aj...will check-out the link in time&.....
» 24/11/2010 10:31:44 AM Philo, <<Those that prefer to explain the universe by one single process - evolutio.....
» 23/11/2010 11:59:20 AM ...Contined <<For example the idea that earthworms have a primitive form of conscio.....
» 23/11/2010 11:59:14 AM mjpb, I’ve just realised that I missed perhaps the most important part of your last respo.....
» 22/11/2010 2:06:57 PM Secular ethics are superior to religious ethics in all ways but one - religious ethics are.....
» 21/11/2010 1:58:16 PM Proxy wrote: “There is no logical or moral basis for the claim that homosexuals in Austral.....
» 18/11/2010 12:33:14 PM ...Continued <<I rather attribute it to a pagan culture that failed to follow Chris.....
» 18/11/2010 12:33:08 PM Ah, but Philo, the two are not mutually exclusive. <<Unfortunately your life will n.....
» 16/11/2010 4:39:59 PM ...Continued Unfortunately some of these people lose their family and friends in the proc.....
» 16/11/2010 4:39:53 PM Philo, <<You have the same sir name as myself so it interest me that you are so dia.....
» 16/11/2010 9:45:48 AM I thought I heard that metaphorical wall going up and figured it must have been coming fro.....
» 15/11/2010 5:57:04 PM Sorry about all this posting, mjpb, but I just realised I missed an important point in you.....
» 15/11/2010 4:00:15 PM Sorry, mjpb. That should actually read... “So how does someone hold on to something their.....
» 15/11/2010 12:47:55 PM ...Continued You make less and less sense as we go, mjpb, and now you’re panicking becaus.....
» 15/11/2010 12:47:49 PM mjpb, There’s a few points I’d like to make that I didn’t make in my last ‘banged-out’ re.....
» 12/11/2010 3:39:38 PM ...Continued Anyway, I’m getting quite sick of talking about Maher, and yes, I realise yo.....
» 12/11/2010 3:39:33 PM ...Continued <<[Atheists] are evading the need to defend their weak argument by try.....
» 12/11/2010 3:39:26 PM ...Continued <<Why do you think the term "secular fundamentalist" now get.....
» 12/11/2010 3:39:20 PM ...Continued Of course, you can claim that the circumstances are - at no fault of your ow.....
» 12/11/2010 3:39:12 PM ...Continued So far you have failed to do this. Mere assertions don’t cut it I’m afraid. .....
» 12/11/2010 3:39:04 PM Oh dear, mjpb. This is getting painful to watch. <<I noticed your (Philo’s) comment.....
» 11/11/2010 9:57:15 PM Another thought... If a woman aborts a foetus that was going to grow into an adult that w.....
» 11/11/2010 5:03:56 PM mjpb, It doesn't matter that your other posts in other threads don’t require continuation.....
» 11/11/2010 12:45:01 PM Boaz, The question you pose: "If gay marriage is legalized, what is to stop MANY OTH.....
» 11/11/2010 9:56:00 AM Actually, Riz has me thinking now... Abortion is actually the greatest gift one can provi.....
» 11/11/2010 9:30:25 AM Very ambiguous, Philo, <<The human spirit needs security, identity, love and peace,.....
» 10/11/2010 10:40:32 AM Philo, I’ve been through the lack of reliable evidence for Jesus a few times recently (yo.....
» 9/11/2010 3:48:42 PM Philo, We can’t even know if Jesus actually existed and here you are purporting to know w.....
» 9/11/2010 10:46:40 AM Proxy wrote: “Religion, like atheism, has nothing to do with it. I embrace neither ideolog.....
» 8/11/2010 8:09:14 PM You’ve gotta be kidding me, Philo. <<Christ came to remove the superstitious belief.....
» 8/11/2010 3:03:03 PM Sorry Philo. The term “faith” is applied to beliefs that seek protection from criticism si.....
» 2/11/2010 10:39:43 PM Well mjpb, it’s been 20 days since the last post and the thread’s about to close. You‘ve .....
» 29/10/2010 3:18:23 PM Boaz, If a god did exist, then Baker would have every right to be angry with it, since a .....
» 27/10/2010 10:43:09 AM I’d like to know what Boaz and runner and co would suggest other than secularism. If it’s.....
» 26/10/2010 3:30:10 PM vanna, I’m not surprised you are unable to answer to my questions. I realised quite early.....
» 26/10/2010 11:07:16 AM ...Continued <<I would think that the attempt to remove religion from education is .....
» 26/10/2010 11:07:09 AM vanna, What amuses me about your comments on threads that discuss religion, is that you s.....
» 25/10/2010 6:47:07 PM vanna, Criticising something does not constitute discrimination. So I’m not sure what you.....
» 25/10/2010 3:28:56 PM That’d probably be the ocean, vanna. <<When you are out in the middle of the ocean,.....
» 25/10/2010 10:55:42 AM Yes, of course, McReal. I got so caught up in responding to this notion that religion is .....
» 25/10/2010 10:34:51 AM You certainly have a rosy view of religion, vanna. You make the desire to believe in some.....
» 5/10/2010 12:56:13 PM As someone who has a lot of experience with alcoholism through family and friends (most of.....
» 3/10/2010 4:23:35 PM ...Continued <<I certainly do not claim to know - or even to make condescending com.....
» 3/10/2010 4:23:30 PM ...Continued <<Actually Dawkins claimed more than that, not just psychological abus.....
» 3/10/2010 4:23:26 PM Sorry George. Again I really want to leave well enough alone, but you’ve asked yet another.....
» 1/10/2010 9:06:12 PM ...Continued <<I promise not to take Dawkins' name in vain any more in posts addres.....
» 1/10/2010 9:06:07 PM George, <<I wonder how would you react if I said (assuming you have a child): ".....
» 29/09/2010 11:01:50 PM ...Continued You should feel pleased that what you have to say can get someone’s mental j.....
» 29/09/2010 11:01:46 PM George, I like our discussions. So I really try hard to leave well enough alone when you .....
» 29/09/2010 4:57:19 PM Let’s be honest here though, mjpb. There are no facts, are there? And this explains the le.....
» 29/09/2010 4:12:17 PM Actually mjpb, after giving it some thought, I’m starting to think that I may have gone a .....
» 28/09/2010 3:46:23 PM ...Continued The speech was brilliant and it is nothing short of admirable that Dawkins i.....
» 28/09/2010 3:46:16 PM ...Continued Being fondled by the priest simply left the impression (from the mind of a 7.....
» 28/09/2010 3:46:04 PM ...Continued <<... claiming that this is how Catholic educatioin is being offered T.....
» 28/09/2010 3:45:59 PM George, <<Do you really want to claim that the 1.147 billion (Roman) Catholics in t.....
» 28/09/2010 3:05:38 PM ...Continued <<Dismissing most of the history of philosophy, the thinking documente.....
» 28/09/2010 3:05:30 PM ...Continued <<This indirectly appears to address some big issues. It appears to be.....
» 28/09/2010 3:05:26 PM ...Continued <<My guess is that you have adopted an evasive maneuver but your uncri.....
» 28/09/2010 3:05:18 PM mjpb, <<So appearing like a genuine mistake makes it more ingenious and more likely.....
» 27/09/2010 4:39:37 PM Crabsy wrote: “”Exist” and “insist” derived from the classical Latin “sistere” = to cause .....
» 27/09/2010 3:43:00 PM George, When you say “religious education”, what you’re actually referring to is - in eve.....
» 27/09/2010 1:05:27 PM ...Continued As for your Maher quotes, I have no idea what you’re intention is in quoting.....
» 27/09/2010 1:05:24 PM mjpb, <<Yep I said reasoning instead of facts but the mistake hardly looks sinister.....
» 23/09/2010 4:29:51 PM Philo, <<Do you have a vision of a character to which you; and you would hope your .....
» 22/09/2010 1:43:19 PM Philo, <<Do believe in a code of acceptable behaviour you teach your children and d.....
» 21/09/2010 3:47:07 PM Arguing over whether Hitler was a Christian or an atheist is pointless. If he was a Chris.....
» 20/09/2010 8:33:04 PM And only a few posts after Poirot’s valid point, Arjay comes in with a misconception that .....
» 14/09/2010 10:34:05 PM ...Continued They were not contemporary accounts written at the time. McReal made a goo.....
» 14/09/2010 10:34:00 PM ...Continued My analogy described how Christianity actually does what your analogy is des.....
» 14/09/2010 10:33:54 PM ...Continued <<The evidence is clear - that you and I get up out of bed in the morn.....
» 14/09/2010 10:33:46 PM Ink blot, <<For a Christian, there is only one God ... who is not out to punish, bu.....
» 13/09/2010 10:29:03 PM ...Continued Therefore, god had already determined what we were going to do in advance. .....
» 13/09/2010 10:29:00 PM ink blot, You’re probably right about the chip on my shoulder. I have a chip on my should.....
» 13/09/2010 10:16:15 PM ...Continued The first three of Aquinas’s “five” proofs are nothing more than God-of-the-.....
» 13/09/2010 10:16:10 PM ink blot, With all due respect, I haven’t seen you present an argument that hasn’t been d.....
» 12/09/2010 10:27:48 PM ...Continued <<...all teachers have their 'dogmas' as earlier stated. As we are all.....
» 12/09/2010 10:27:42 PM ...Continued <<I think that if an honest look at the history of philosophy was taug.....
» 12/09/2010 10:27:36 PM ...Continued <<Religious-based ethics is often based itelf on time-tested philosoph.....
» 12/09/2010 10:27:30 PM ink blot, <<Religion offers so much and indeed, the great majority of the populatio.....
» 12/09/2010 6:26:48 PM George, <<At the risk of repeating myself, one cannot reproduce, say, the world of .....
» 8/09/2010 10:31:57 PM Boaz, Since I’m sure that you would never be condescending enough to imply that the meani.....
» 8/09/2010 10:09:03 PM ...Continued My new-found respect for the truth and awareness of its importance in our be.....
» 8/09/2010 10:08:58 PM Dear David, Sorry about the reply and thanks for your comment in regards to my logic and .....
» 4/09/2010 12:31:41 AM ...Continued By convincing themselves that they will only see god if they believe he will.....
» 4/09/2010 12:31:34 AM ...Continued <<You [Oliver] seem to be under the impression that creationists don’t.....
» 4/09/2010 12:31:27 AM Thanks OUG. << oh...aj...the full/quote..explains itself>> That was exactly .....
» 3/09/2010 9:50:26 AM Speaking of quotes, I'd be curious as to what the Christians here have to say about the fa.....
» 2/09/2010 2:49:07 PM ...Continued <<But taking that evidence [that the big bang was triggered by god] to.....
» 2/09/2010 2:49:01 PM ...Continued There’s the resulting affect these beliefs have had up until now (in conjunc.....
» 2/09/2010 2:48:51 PM ...Continued <<The problem is that you seem to be adopting Dawkins unrealistic defi.....
» 2/09/2010 2:48:42 PM mjpb, I certainly hope you weren’t waiting until the ‘Having been started’ setting on the.....
» 1/09/2010 9:42:46 AM Did I mention the disingenuousness? <<But so that we can clear the air and move on,.....
» 31/08/2010 10:47:24 PM Although I probably wouldn't word it quite so harshly, I can certainly understand where Ru.....
» 31/08/2010 10:47:05 PM I like this manipulative tactic Dan employs occasionally in order to make someone feel as .....
» 13/08/2010 12:00:39 AM Hi George, Thanks for the reply! I’m glad too that you considered what I had to say, and.....
» 12/08/2010 1:13:29 AM George, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. But in regards to the paragraph I was spe.....
» 10/08/2010 10:13:03 AM ...Continued <<...some atheists are, and will remain, naive in their rejection of r.....
» 10/08/2010 10:12:54 AM ...Continued Just imagine what it was like for me having to pull myself out of my comfort.....
» 10/08/2010 10:12:46 AM Mr George, I had a conciliatory post all ready to go since I felt a little bad about clea.....
» 8/08/2010 10:11:55 PM Sorry, that first post was supposed to be last......
» 8/08/2010 10:10:36 PM ...Continued Incidentally, what on Earth about what I said could possibly be, in any way,.....
» 8/08/2010 10:10:33 PM George, <<Very few people think the Bible is reliable as a science, or even history.....
» 8/08/2010 10:10:25 PM ...Continued <<There are books and books written by various Christians, including t.....
» 7/08/2010 11:59:29 AM ...Continued <<I do not remember calling “theological hair-splitting” a syllogism t.....
» 7/08/2010 11:59:21 AM ...Continued So when Christians present this as evidence for Jesus, what they’re essentia.....
» 7/08/2010 11:59:14 AM Hi Oliver, <<Unlike AJ, I can "conceive" of a historical Jesus historical.....
» 5/08/2010 10:36:05 PM ...Continued So, to understand you as best as I think I can, what I’d really like to know.....
» 5/08/2010 10:35:46 PM George, I understand that you were repeatedly trying to say that. I picked up on it the f.....
» 5/08/2010 10:35:16 PM Dear Severin, I remember reading that you’ve had health issues, but I didn’t remember tha.....
» 4/08/2010 5:08:54 PM ...Continued It doesn’t take a genius to spot the gaping hole in which an incredible leap.....
» 4/08/2010 5:08:49 PM suzeonline, I think I once said that if I could make just one person re-think their posit.....
» 4/08/2010 5:08:33 PM Severin, Thank you very much for your kind words. I try to make my arguments as clear and.....
» 3/08/2010 4:10:05 PM George, <<I can see your [Oliver’s] arguments that tilt the scales in favour of the.....
» 3/08/2010 4:09:53 PM ...Continued For example, I’m happy to acknowledge the difference between George’s undefi.....
» 3/08/2010 4:09:41 PM ...Continued Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the.....
» 3/08/2010 4:09:30 PM WAU, I’d like to apologise in advance for posting so much in one hit, but you’ve asked so.....
» 2/08/2010 4:07:47 PM Actually, in regards to the paragraph david f was responding to... <<...there is no.....
» 2/08/2010 3:38:41 PM ...Continued <<What is also confusing is the inability of many languages to disting.....
» 2/08/2010 3:38:34 PM I think you’re blurring the line between two different kinds of beliefs here, George. <.....
» 29/07/2010 12:06:59 PM SoG, <<I never proffered any defined arguments to whether there is a god or not.>.....
» 28/07/2010 9:12:46 PM SoG, <<…the logic of the physics we employ with Occam’s is only valid to 13 billion.....
» 28/07/2010 5:03:03 PM Ahhh! So R0bert's the intelligence behind the new theory of Intelligent Falling!.....
» 28/07/2010 11:02:13 AM ...Continued Most of the world’s religions exist/ed because primitive people chose 2 over.....
» 28/07/2010 11:02:08 AM SoG, <<The science behind determining that use the same constants that apply to all.....
» 27/07/2010 10:42:21 AM ...Continued The failure of some, like your good self, to understand this very basic poin.....
» 27/07/2010 10:42:11 AM Thanks for the link, Severin! I really enjoy reading that kind of stuff. Some brilliant ar.....
» 26/07/2010 3:05:14 PM ...Continued <<I probably was one of those people who didn’t believe because they j.....
» 26/07/2010 3:05:09 PM ...Continued I suspect you don’t actually know what these facts are yet. Anyway, that th.....
» 26/07/2010 3:04:53 PM mjpb, You’ve spoken a lot about not being able to accept non-belief and religious belief .....
» 23/07/2010 5:02:58 PM TBC, As for your puzzlement in regards to what the rewards are, speaking from my personal.....
» 23/07/2010 3:55:49 PM Ah, no problem TBC. My finding of old posts is just a combination of a sharp memory along.....
» 23/07/2010 2:20:59 PM How is non-belief “untenable”, mjpb? <<Personally as a former atheist my strong poi.....
» 22/07/2010 11:55:13 AM mjpb wrote: “Beats me too as does the relevance of those opinions. I thought you were disc.....
» 21/07/2010 9:27:44 AM StG, A troll is someone who jumps in and posts inflammatory responses on a forum purely f.....
» 19/07/2010 2:34:04 PM Dan Asks: “Can I ask someone who supports this letter: is the word ‘secular’ in the Austra.....
» 9/07/2010 10:49:25 AM Dan, <<Bugsy, that’s not what I said. I said most of the fossils give testimony to .....
» 7/07/2010 9:13:42 AM Sorry for the delay in response, George. My Computer died. <<So I will not apologis.....
» 29/06/2010 8:09:56 PM George, Thanks for letting me know where you got the definition from. On reflection, it w.....
» 28/06/2010 9:14:21 PM ...Continued <<This is universally OK for everyday facts, and e.g. for centuries in.....
» 28/06/2010 9:14:16 PM George, <<Let me hasten to add, that I am aware that this paragraph does not make s.....
» 27/06/2010 4:57:07 PM Dan wrote: “How many times did Jesus turn water into wine? Once, I believe. Who else could.....
» 21/06/2010 9:51:19 PM ...Continued As a side note though, if divine revelation HAD created any real knowledge .....
» 21/06/2010 9:51:14 PM mjpb, <<You seem to be referring to blind faith.>> Faith IS blind. We’d call.....
» 21/06/2010 9:11:19 AM To add to what David f has said in regards to religion providing (or more accurately: asse.....
» 18/06/2010 9:53:08 PM Yes grateful, and in case you missed it, my rebuttal can be found at http://forum.onlineop.....
» 18/06/2010 9:46:16 PM Sorry mjpb, I need to clarify/expand on a couple of points... <<Atheists are makin.....
» 18/06/2010 9:33:16 PM mjpb, Firstly, let’s be clear here that we are talking about “faith” in the religious sen.....
» 18/06/2010 9:33:10 PM ...Continued Finally, criticizing a religion by pointing out nasties in their holy books .....
» 18/06/2010 9:33:04 PM What an eventful day! I’m not even sure where to start. Okay firstly, I’m a bit puzzled a.....
» 18/06/2010 1:43:28 PM Whoa, whoa, whoa! Before we get too excited, I need to make some clarifications here, but.....
» 17/06/2010 11:54:04 PM ...Continued <<If so.. and such values were embraced by say ...Grateful... would it.....
» 17/06/2010 11:53:59 PM Hi Boaz, I’m curious as to why you’ve specifically asked for my comments here. If it’s be.....
» 17/06/2010 6:38:29 PM mjpb, <<There is a difference in having a faith in God and having so much faith you.....
» 17/06/2010 8:42:06 AM Actually Otokonoko, don’t worry about my request in regards to prescience and predestinati.....
» 17/06/2010 12:18:44 AM Otokonoko, <<AJ, your discrediting of a belief system you know "inside-out&quo.....
» 16/06/2010 11:36:19 PM Severin, Thanks for the re-affirming post! It’s always helpful - not to mention greatly .....
» 16/06/2010 10:56:50 PM The best definition I’ve heard for “fundamentalist” in today’s world is the strict adheren.....
» 15/06/2010 11:39:35 PM ...Continued <<In this life, you have a total free choice. Do what ever you wish, y.....
» 15/06/2010 11:39:30 PM I feel it’s important that I provide a little more in-depth background to your claims to p.....
» 15/06/2010 9:51:18 PM Even if this were true... <<To think..[Pericles] can do all that just to try to dam.....
» 9/06/2010 8:37:37 AM But Dan, we had already sorted out the falsifiability issue... http://forum.onlineopinion......
» 5/06/2010 1:20:14 AM Ah Boaz, Ignoring the fact that the atrocities of the 20th century were not done in the n.....
» 4/06/2010 4:04:48 PM I had been racking my brain as to what this “similar scientific method” was, and then I re.....
» 3/06/2010 8:37:22 PM Unfortunately for Dan, we’d already sorted out the vestigial organ issue: http://forum.onl.....
» 2/06/2010 9:02:09 PM Well, it appears that “react” in, “If this means you do not wish me to react again to your.....
» 1/06/2010 4:45:32 PM Dear Philo, I apologise for the over-sight. It was careless of me, and as a follower of o.....
» 1/06/2010 1:51:56 PM Actually mjpb, if you scroll up a bit, you’ll see that I’ve already addressed George’s pos.....
» 1/06/2010 12:47:41 PM Since there has been some difficulty for some in understanding the significance of the fac.....
» 1/06/2010 12:10:19 PM George, <<Perhaps more relevant would be to say that it suffices for the simple vie.....
» 31/05/2010 11:23:26 PM One other point I forgot to mention is that there is a difference between ‘anti-religious’.....
» 31/05/2010 10:30:10 PM George, <<I think technically this is called passive atheism...>> At least n.....
» 27/05/2010 2:17:35 PM Belly asks: "Would humanity rebuild a different set of rules to live by, what would t.....
» 26/05/2010 3:27:27 PM ...Continued <<...one may well and truly discard naturalism yet not entertain theis.....
» 26/05/2010 3:27:20 PM Trav, <<I simply said they do provide evidence which can be taken to point towards .....
» 25/05/2010 4:48:53 PM Foxy’s right. It’s impossible to get the flu from the injections although the shot doesn’t.....
» 25/05/2010 12:13:19 PM Since some here are having difficulty distinguishing between creationism and ID, I thought.....
» 24/05/2010 11:33:41 PM ...Continued <<You claim that “anything that manifests in reality is measureable, d.....
» 24/05/2010 11:33:34 PM ...Continued When trying to understand something, we compare it to, and make use of thing.....
» 24/05/2010 11:33:28 PM Trav, There are no semantical games going on here. I know exactly what I’m talking about......
» 23/05/2010 6:50:27 PM Notice Vanna insists on saying, “the theory of evolution” rather than simply saying “evolu.....
» 23/05/2010 9:49:03 AM Vanna, Now CJ’s pointing out the ways in which you do not understand evolution. I had ev.....
» 22/05/2010 12:57:45 PM ...Continued “God is beyond our understanding” is usually just another way of saying, “I .....
» 22/05/2010 12:57:40 PM Trav, Don’t worry about it. I’m quite comfortable with being labelled “arrogant” on the t.....
» 21/05/2010 2:40:16 PM ...Continued Are you starting to see now what I mean by “ignorance”? Here are some more e.....
» 21/05/2010 2:40:04 PM Still dodging my questions, Vanna? No matter, we’ll press on. I wouldn’t dream of holding .....
» 20/05/2010 10:27:02 PM Wow! So now McReal hurling abuse?! This just keeps getting better. Vanna, <<So cel.....
» 20/05/2010 5:28:03 PM Vanna, <<Roots and leaves are formed from cells. They don’t just happen.>> W.....
» 20/05/2010 12:52:48 PM ...Continued The salad in a sandwich no longer has the root systems and earth required t.....
» 20/05/2010 12:52:43 PM I hear you, Oliver. I think it’s a testament to the fact that creationists simply don’t w.....
» 19/05/2010 7:45:35 PM Vanna, Can I take your lack of response to me as an admission that evolution has failed n.....
» 19/05/2010 4:50:05 PM Foxy, I’m not sure that Proxy is Boaz, but with the two dot ellipses, the spaces either s.....
» 19/05/2010 2:46:44 PM ...Continued <<Evolution theory also has a little difficulty in explaining why an o.....
» 19/05/2010 1:27:42 PM Oh, so it IS you, BOAZ_David. Welcome back!.....
» 19/05/2010 10:25:14 AM Precisely, CJ. Vanna, I’m starting to wonder what on Earth you think punctuated equilibr.....
» 18/05/2010 10:35:21 PM Trav, <<I'm actually willing and able to admit that, scientifically, I'm not capabl.....
» 18/05/2010 7:22:07 PM Vanna, <<A theory is not a fact.>> A scientific theory can most certainly be.....
» 18/05/2010 2:40:25 PM Vanna, Scientists don’t use the term ‘theory’ the same way we do, and I think you need to.....
» 14/05/2010 4:35:09 PM mhaze, <<Maybe the intelligent designer intelligently designed us to be flawed?>.....
» 2/05/2010 11:30:38 PM Sorry Squeers. 95% of the frustration I expressed at the start of my last post was directe.....
» 2/05/2010 8:37:12 PM Am I being ambiguous or something? Can someone please tell me what about my posts is so d.....
» 2/05/2010 2:45:23 PM Back to reality... I’ve been thinking more about this misconception out there that atheis.....
» 2/05/2010 2:44:57 PM Ah, Runner. Why is it that whenever I read one of your posts, I imagine a person hunched o.....
» 1/05/2010 9:56:04 PM TBC, Thanks. I really appreciate the thought. I enjoy your posts too. You maintain some s.....
» 1/05/2010 4:39:48 PM Proxy, You make the classic mistake of not realising that theism and atheism deal with be.....
» 1/05/2010 1:41:25 PM Ah Proxy, I’ve dealt with this many times before. Had you read the Wikipedia article more.....
» 1/05/2010 1:01:31 PM Proxy. <<You're part of the problem.>> Wrong. You yourself are a part of a.....
» 30/04/2010 8:49:57 PM Glen, I’ll take your comment as a compliment. Speaking of indoctrination though, have yo.....
» 30/04/2010 4:30:35 PM Grateful, <<...no more presumption that atheists agree upon a set of principles or .....
» 30/04/2010 12:12:56 PM Grateful, You’ve missed TBC’s point. <<What do athiests teach about guarding ones .....
» 25/04/2010 9:57:01 PM Childhood indoctrination ranges anywhere from ‘inappropriate’ in its most mild form, to ‘f.....
» 25/04/2010 12:42:25 AM Grateful, <<I don’t see how you can say you KNOW the claims of Islam are wrong...&g.....
» 22/04/2010 3:36:21 PM George, Why do you insist on misinterpreting me? <<If this means you do not wish .....
» 22/04/2010 3:36:16 PM ...Continued <<I'm sure if you found a passage in the the Qur’aan that stated the S.....
» 22/04/2010 3:36:10 PM Grateful, There are two points that discredit your arguments on this thread... Firstly, .....
» 21/04/2010 3:15:54 PM ...Continued <<Here we have a claim which can be put to the test. If the claim can .....
» 21/04/2010 3:15:46 PM ...Continued But we’ve progressed from there, so I’m not sure what the above is if not an.....
» 21/04/2010 3:15:39 PM George, <<...since I do not see exchange of opinions on this OLO as a debating comp.....
» 20/04/2010 1:34:12 PM Sorry, George. I misread this part... <<Another fact is that no kind of reasoning c.....
» 20/04/2010 12:12:10 PM ...Continued Faith is a state-of-mind, but it is also the conclusion as it essentially me.....
» 20/04/2010 12:12:04 PM George, I think a lot of what you’ve responded to me with, was described very accurately .....
» 19/04/2010 10:41:46 PM Hey, OUG. Have you ever heard of the neat little service they provide at http://tinyurl.co.....
» 19/04/2010 12:44:00 PM George, <<There are many Christian, theist, atheist etc world-views (one of them Je.....
» 19/04/2010 8:14:56 AM George, <<I never claimed that theism or atheism on their own were world-views.>.....
» 18/04/2010 4:01:55 PM George. <<The fact that every Sunday, and especially at Easter, preachers reassure .....
» 17/04/2010 1:41:24 PM ...Continued <<On your preferred theory of abiogenesis involving clay, this is what.....
» 17/04/2010 1:41:18 PM Severin, Very well said! I was trying to put together a response for the excuses made fo.....
» 16/04/2010 7:45:43 PM Martin N, There may have been a stage in your life where you didn’t have a religious beli.....
» 16/04/2010 7:45:38 PM JP, When scientists say “nothing” in this respect, they don’t necessarily mean “nothing” .....
» 16/04/2010 1:09:54 PM JP, Your entire contention is one big strawman. Considering no one believes what you have.....
» 15/04/2010 12:08:01 PM Yes, Gorufus, most of us are agnostics. Agnosticism is to knowledge as atheism and theism.....
» 14/04/2010 7:38:13 AM Sorry Richie. That should read: “Our closest relative - the creature that we share the mo.....
» 13/04/2010 11:35:59 PM Runner, How could the National Geographic be a “propaganda tool” when scientists rejected.....
» 13/04/2010 2:14:51 PM To anyone who may have thought that I was being a bit too harsh in this thread, I hope som.....
» 11/04/2010 4:23:07 PM TRTL, <<...I don't think the many, many creationists out there can simply be explai.....
» 11/04/2010 4:19:40 PM Philo, Thanks for the very ambiguous response there. I noticed you still couldn’t say tha.....
» 10/04/2010 4:56:31 PM ...Continued <<In an interview done by Bern Stein with Dawkins in the film "Ex.....
» 10/04/2010 4:56:26 PM Philo, I would appreciate if you would inform me where exactly you stand with all this, b.....
» 9/04/2010 8:45:09 PM Philo, <<The fact a humanoid type creature was found does not prove it was actually.....
» 9/04/2010 8:44:45 PM Severin, Thanks for the laugh you gave me with that last comment. The whole office I work.....
» 9/04/2010 3:06:32 PM Philo, <<Darwin never understood the complexity of the single cell and assumed that.....
» 9/04/2010 2:51:03 PM ...Continued This Reverend refers to Creationism as a “thinking disorder” and gives a goo.....
» 9/04/2010 2:50:57 PM The fact that such an invalid and misleading term as “missing link” is still around just g.....
» 8/04/2010 4:31:42 PM Dan, Could you please give an example of some data that atheists have conveniently relaxe.....
» 6/04/2010 1:15:03 PM Hmmm, so here we have a poster who acts as though they’re not a Christian, but is anti-abo.....
» 6/04/2010 1:03:32 PM Sells, <<I agree with most of what is said in this article and was dismayed at the .....
» 1/04/2010 1:24:39 PM Cornflower, <<So according to you the moderate mainstream of Christianity should fi.....
» 1/04/2010 1:21:13 PM Dan, I believe I’ve discredited this a number of times now... << If the same perso.....
» 1/04/2010 12:39:08 PM Cornflower, I am not tarring everyone with the same brush. All I’m saying is that I’m not.....
» 1/04/2010 8:04:49 AM Thanks, OUG. The one thing I do appreciate about your posts is that they act like a gauge.....
» 31/03/2010 9:46:35 PM Thanks for sharing that, Foxy. I don’t want to be the Grinch here, but there just seemed t.....
» 31/03/2010 4:53:48 PM Yes, that's a good way of putting it, Foxy... <<Each of us has to find our own way .....
» 31/03/2010 3:46:14 PM Oh gawd, here we go! I long for the day when a rational point can be made and it isn’t me.....
» 31/03/2010 2:36:30 PM Yeah, I know what you mean, Pericles. I thought of the fact that it wouldn’t matter becaus.....
» 31/03/2010 12:02:19 PM It’s all very well and good to speak of hope in some sort of afterlife, and a little part .....
» 30/03/2010 10:12:52 PM I’d have to agree. The resurrection myth doesn’t “rile” me either, but it certainly does .....
» 30/03/2010 12:09:26 PM Dan, <<...I’ve found atheists to be rather selective when applying these skills or .....
» 30/03/2010 10:57:47 AM That should read... "While you were gone, JP, myself and others already sorted this .....
» 30/03/2010 10:54:58 AM Sorry, Dan. While you were gone, you JP, myself and others already sorted this out at http.....
» 26/03/2010 2:15:03 PM ...Continued As I’ve said before, religion is in a league of its own and therefore, it is.....
» 26/03/2010 2:14:55 PM George, Thanks for sharing your experiences. None of it comes as much of a surprise thoug.....
» 25/03/2010 11:59:03 AM ...Continued May I remind you of a little conversation we had a while back... Me: “But I.....
» 25/03/2010 11:58:55 AM Graham, <<On the basis of the discussion here thus far I'd suggest that most Atheis.....
» 24/03/2010 12:10:10 PM ...Continued No, the communist regimes of the 20th century did what they did in the name .....
» 24/03/2010 12:10:01 PM I think one of the main reasons there’s some confusion in the Theist camp here, is because.....
» 23/03/2010 10:02:21 PM Crabsy, One could argue that you’re still a Theist. Either way, an Atheist can simply be .....
» 23/03/2010 3:14:36 PM Pelican, It’s been about 17 years since I stopped going to church, so perhaps things are .....
» 23/03/2010 1:06:00 PM I agree with Steven. Joel, welcome aboard. Daviy, <<Since when has religion had a.....
» 23/03/2010 11:16:31 AM ...Continued Same old assertion, again, backed with no examples or reasoning. I refer bac.....
» 23/03/2010 11:16:21 AM George, Since you have so much more knowledge and experience than us armchair experts (an.....
» 20/03/2010 8:58:16 PM Actually Graham, there is one other major - and probably the most important - distinction .....
» 20/03/2010 5:04:54 PM ...Continued Given all of my points above, I think I can have it both ways. But I’m happy.....
» 20/03/2010 5:04:48 PM Dear Graham, There is one important point here that you are missing: Atheists are not the.....
» 19/03/2010 11:56:22 AM ...Continued It matters not what the adherents do, but why they do it. There have been m.....
» 19/03/2010 11:56:14 AM Thanks Bushbasher. Graham, The reason for the ‘law’ joke, was because Marxism is totally.....
» 18/03/2010 11:56:18 AM ...Continued But what of the large percentage of religious people in prisons? Religion o.....
» 18/03/2010 11:56:06 AM …Continued These guys are pretty light-weight philosophers if li’l ol’ me can spot the fl.....
» 18/03/2010 11:55:55 AM I’m gonna start a new law and call it “AJ’s Law”: "As an online discussion about rel.....
» 17/03/2010 2:26:29 AM Wow, Daviy! Such a fiery outburst for such a trivial point. One has to wonder what your is.....
» 17/03/2010 2:26:09 AM ...Continued Considering most Atheists have shown themselves to not let mainstream religi.....
» 17/03/2010 2:26:01 AM ...Continued But I hope you’ve got that off your chest now, because that strawman took a .....
» 17/03/2010 2:25:54 AM A strawman argument, coupled with the ‘Argument from Authority’ fallacy. A nice start to y.....
» 16/03/2010 1:45:47 AM ...Continued <<Have you contemplated why that would be?>> Did I mention emot.....
» 16/03/2010 1:45:42 AM ...Continued Perhaps you could fill me in. What’s this “good historical evidence” for Jes.....
» 16/03/2010 1:45:35 AM Trav, Your posts read like someone who has just finished reading Lee Stobels’ fallacious .....
» 16/03/2010 1:11:45 AM George, Juts to be clear, if you're referring to my comment at http://forum.onlineopinion.....
» 15/03/2010 9:57:29 PM ...Continued <<May I add that I appreciate the sincere words about your personal “c.....
» 15/03/2010 9:57:22 PM ...Continued <<I find it strange (if not condescending) to assume that ALL people w.....
» 15/03/2010 9:57:16 PM George, It seems to me as though you’re poking and prodding, and stretching my arguments .....
» 15/03/2010 2:00:44 PM Actually, the difference between and Atheism and Agnosticism is that Atheism deals with be.....
» 14/03/2010 9:29:51 AM Sorry George, I read this part wrong.... <<Do you mean to say - this coming after y.....
» 14/03/2010 2:18:11 AM ...Continued <<Do you mean to say - this coming after you refer to Dawkins and Exam.....
» 14/03/2010 2:18:02 AM ...Continued “I think in a democratic society you cannot stop people from “perpetuating t.....
» 14/03/2010 2:17:55 AM ...Continued <<Do you think all those listed for instance in http://en.wikipedia.or.....
» 14/03/2010 2:17:47 AM George, <<There were blasphemies, if that is what you mean by no-go zones that prot.....
» 13/03/2010 12:41:16 AM ...Continued The sad thing is though, that if the parents don’t get in early enough, the .....
» 13/03/2010 12:41:06 AM George, <<Thank you for the link to the TV programs featuring Dawkins in Australia .....
» 12/03/2010 12:32:01 AM ...Continued Now to your new post to me... It’s quite late at the moment and the articl.....
» 12/03/2010 12:31:56 AM George, I whacked my last response to you together very quickly while I was at work so I’.....
» 11/03/2010 1:31:50 PM Examinator, Could you please explain what you mean by “the principals” and “the human rea.....
» 11/03/2010 1:31:39 PM ...Continued <<I certainly did not label any child Marxist or Christian; there are .....
» 11/03/2010 1:31:32 PM George, <<I agree that “dismiss” rather than “eliminate” would have been a better w.....
» 11/03/2010 1:47:55 AM George, I never said anything about eliminating religion or religious people. Your Marxis.....
» 10/03/2010 10:41:50 PM You could be right TBC. Examinator was using many different ways to say what I interpreted.....
» 10/03/2010 9:12:06 PM I’ve been stewing for days over what I should say in response, but after giving it some th.....
» 10/03/2010 8:54:52 PM ...Continued <<Dawkins and ilk assume that if you're Christian one MUST see Christi.....
» 10/03/2010 8:54:47 PM Examinator, I realise you are “decidedly secular” in your personal views, which makes you.....
» 10/03/2010 11:14:46 AM Examinator, I haven’t read this entire thread, so forgive me if I’ve missed something her.....
» 7/03/2010 8:01:34 PM ...Continued But why do you keep rattling on about Darwin? Darwin is pretty much irreleva.....
» 7/03/2010 8:01:26 PM ...Continued I don’t think any credible scientist should debate people who are on par wit.....
» 7/03/2010 8:01:19 PM Dan, I realise the dodging and weaving may be a good mechanism for denying to yourself th.....
» 3/03/2010 11:21:28 PM Mr/Ms Unique, I was taking about an alternate reality, not the reality we know today. Ha.....
» 3/03/2010 9:52:43 PM So JP gets frustrated at arguing this without mentioning God or religion so then her creat.....
» 3/03/2010 5:42:32 PM Oh, silly me, JP. I didn’t realise you were so neutral... <<...I have made no refer.....
» 3/03/2010 9:02:46 AM Dan, It’s interesting how you often wait until we need to switch the “Show discussions for.....
» 3/03/2010 8:13:31 AM JP, There’s a few points you need to remember. Firstly, anyone who does good and is kind.....
» 1/03/2010 1:54:16 PM ...Continued <<That is why the leading creationist scientists in Australia have sta.....
» 1/03/2010 1:54:10 PM Dan, Thanks for your response. It was a classic example of the insinuation and sleight-of.....
» 28/02/2010 1:11:22 PM ...Continued This here jaw of mine ain't made of glass, it's reinforced with evidence and.....
» 28/02/2010 1:11:16 PM Dan, I’m making a conscious effort to not get too smart-alecky. I ask that you do the sam.....
» 27/02/2010 1:15:09 PM ...Continued But I asked that you point me to something that contradicts evolution, and t.....
» 27/02/2010 1:15:01 PM Dan, It would be most helpful to the discussion if you could stop dodging and weaving. I’.....
» 27/02/2010 1:10:50 PM Dan, It’s been pointed out to you that you argue with insinuation so that others have to .....
» 25/02/2010 12:42:21 PM Dan, <<You [Grim] say that I seem like a man who has invested all his faith in one .....
» 25/02/2010 12:40:50 PM ...Continued As I’ve said before, those people only ever relied on natural methodology an.....
» 25/02/2010 12:40:41 PM Dan, <<Zimmerman associates [fundamentalism] with being ‘narrow’. This I don’t acce.....
» 24/02/2010 4:43:51 PM Heavy on the claims, and light on the detail, Dan. <<Did I give up on Darwin’s basi.....
» 24/02/2010 1:01:09 AM Dan, I remember back when I was a fundamentalist believer, I used to pretend to not have .....
» 22/02/2010 7:42:16 PM ...Continued And since when did the term “fundamentalist” become derogatory? You said you.....
» 22/02/2010 7:42:11 PM Severin, Thanks for your kind words. To be honest, I really enjoy debating the topic - i.....
» 20/02/2010 11:36:06 PM ...Continued Even if you could though, it would be irrelevant as it is the entire body of.....
» 20/02/2010 11:36:01 PM Runner, You still didn’t answer my question. And thanks for the mined quotes; they’re a c.....
» 19/02/2010 8:15:41 PM ...Continued <<At the end of the day, I’m sure we’ll end up agreeing that just one .....
» 19/02/2010 8:15:37 PM Thanks for your response, Dan. <<What don’t you want taught in schools?>> I .....
» 18/02/2010 2:15:02 PM Dan, <<The fact is that there are thousands of credentialed scientists (of differen.....
» 17/02/2010 5:27:59 PM ...Continued <<People highlighted [the passages from Darwin’s ‘Descent of Man’], no.....
» 17/02/2010 5:27:44 PM Okay then, Dan. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. But I find it too difficult to bel.....
» 13/02/2010 4:39:31 AM ...Continued Oh and then there’s the Richard Lewontin quote that we mentioned a year or s.....
» 13/02/2010 4:39:25 AM Blue Cross, That’s absolutely shocking. I live in Queensland, and when my children are ol.....
» 7/02/2010 7:09:11 PM ...Continued >>It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, .....
» 7/02/2010 7:09:05 PM Dan, <<From what I’ve heard, Carl Wieland’s formal qualifications are in medicine a.....
» 6/02/2010 11:30:14 AM ...Continued <<So we concentrate on the observable facts before us, and allow for a.....
» 6/02/2010 11:30:05 AM Dan, Thanks for your response, but you’ve conveniently skimmed over my point about the sc.....
» 4/02/2010 2:30:01 PM Good to see you back, Dan. <<You [Pericles] say let the geologists decide. Yes, but.....
» 17/10/2009 3:11:32 AM Grim, Sorry for the delay in reply, but from what I’ve learned in the last couple of week.....
» 10/10/2009 9:44:49 PM Dan, Obviously you’re not going to answer my question, so I’ll save it for another time. .....
» 9/10/2009 9:42:46 PM ...Continued <<We’re not going to resolve them here, especially the creation evolut.....
» 9/10/2009 9:42:41 PM Please calm down, Dan. You’re starting to frighten me a little. You’re honesty or person.....
» 8/10/2009 9:31:30 PM Dan, I don’t think it’s very fair of you to put George on the spot like that; as if to co.....
» 8/10/2009 12:49:17 AM After giving it some thought, I’ll admit that my definition of evolution was far too narro.....
» 7/10/2009 7:36:51 PM George, “Pareidolia” was the word I was trying to think of in my last response to you reg.....
» 7/10/2009 7:36:04 PM Dan, Correct me if I’m wrong, but it appears to me like you’ve quoted that line of mine i.....
» 6/10/2009 6:52:43 PM ...Continued <<So much so, that it is akin to a slander campaign.>> No, slan.....
» 6/10/2009 6:52:37 PM George, <<...there are no rational reasons (binding for everybody, like reasoning i.....
» 5/10/2009 6:13:23 PM George, Yes, you did read too much into what I said. I was only stating my opinion of how.....
» 5/10/2009 6:06:30 PM Dan, <<I think you need to be more judicious in referencing your List of Logical Fa.....
» 5/10/2009 6:04:37 PM George, Thanks for such a thoughtful response. I think one of the main reasons we disagr.....
» 4/10/2009 1:57:49 PM Examinator, You do understand that I’m only talking about Human evolution, don’t you? Bec.....
» 3/10/2009 8:27:11 PM Examinator, <<I did say LIKE Thermodynamics 1>> And I did say “the 1st law o.....
» 3/10/2009 7:11:00 PM Examinator, I think you’re mistaking ‘energy’ for ‘evolution’. Evolution is not a form of.....
» 3/10/2009 3:51:47 PM Examinator, <<It seems one more nail in the Religious Fundamentalist 'intelligent d.....
» 3/10/2009 3:18:09 PM I thought that too, but assumed I must've been mistaken......
» 3/10/2009 2:36:31 PM George, <<I am not an educator, I only know [answering children with: “It doesn’t m.....
» 3/10/2009 1:24:46 PM ...Continued Firstly, because it’s unhelpful to discussion; and secondly, because a ratio.....
» 3/10/2009 1:24:40 PM George, I’m not sure I’d go as far as to say that my understanding (or use) of the word ‘.....
» 1/10/2009 8:47:31 PM George, Thanks for your response, but I disagree entirely. We don’t need to have ever cr.....
» 1/10/2009 9:50:41 AM Dan, <<I mention [von Braun] as one preeminent scientist of the 20th Century, first.....
» 30/09/2009 11:52:29 PM George, <<“Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not mor.....
» 30/09/2009 11:52:23 PM What the fundamentalist Christians such as Runner need to remember here, is that the Bible.....
» 29/09/2009 4:02:49 PM ...Continued They included the omitted lines above, but cut the following lines out of th.....
» 29/09/2009 4:01:45 PM George, Thanks for the clarification, and yes, I understood that the part in brackets was.....
» 28/09/2009 10:58:22 PM Grim, I don’t think ‘Secular’, ‘Agnostic’ and ‘Atheist’ are slippery to define at all. I.....
» 28/09/2009 3:41:40 PM ...Continued <<While you claim the debate was settled ‘long ago’ (when exactly?)........
» 28/09/2009 3:40:57 PM George, Sorry, I should have said that I “had a problem with your premise”. I thought it .....
» 27/09/2009 6:12:27 PM Grim wrote: “I am confident secularism and agnosticism if not atheism will win out.” I’m .....
» 27/09/2009 3:25:28 PM Continued... Nothing I say will stop him responding, believe me. But to his credit, there.....
» 27/09/2009 3:25:23 PM Thanks for your responses. But if you guys consider me to be “abusive”, then we have a di.....
» 25/09/2009 2:19:44 AM …Continued My comment that Davidf quoted was not abusive. Harsh? Yes, but appropriately s.....
» 25/09/2009 2:19:37 AM Grim, Davidf & Relda, Not one of you could address me directly, and that in itself is rud.....
» 24/09/2009 8:39:22 PM George, There’s no need to apologise, and yes, I specifically had a problem with the word.....
» 24/09/2009 2:17:41 AM ...Continued But from orbital rates of binary stars and supernova extinction rates, we c.....
» 24/09/2009 2:17:34 AM Dan, <<All of us think within the confines of our worldview and scientists within a.....
» 23/09/2009 11:54:06 PM George, <<If you do not like mjpb’s rewording of Whitehead‘s observation that “Fait.....
» 23/09/2009 2:31:43 PM mjpb, << A stronger way (intended to piss off secular fundamentalists) might be tha.....
» 23/09/2009 11:36:11 AM Runner, <<The fact that we are born into sin makes it inevitable.>> Speakin.....
» 22/09/2009 10:26:13 PM ...Continued <<Your little bit of candy that you insist on sucking here on earth is.....
» 22/09/2009 10:26:08 PM Runner, <<No doubt your spiritual father helps you feel at ease with your self righ.....
» 22/09/2009 1:13:57 AM ...Continued Jesus loves the little zygotes all the zygotes of the world. Jesus loves the.....
» 22/09/2009 1:13:51 AM Philo wrote: “[humility] means caring for a weaker person, of esteeming others achievement.....
» 18/09/2009 1:14:24 PM Jon J wrote: “The assumption that all children born to believers become and remain believe.....
» 17/09/2009 11:52:21 PM Oh, Dan... One other point that I wasn’t able to fit into my initial response... <<.....
» 17/09/2009 9:18:35 PM Dan, I’ve been giving the following paragraph some more thought… << So when I ment.....
» 17/09/2009 1:25:35 PM George, Thank you very much for that. I appreciate it not only because you’d put so much.....
» 17/09/2009 11:07:55 AM Constance, <<AJ, the western world has basically developed under much Christian inf.....
» 16/09/2009 1:18:59 PM ...Continued <<So when I mention the names of some of the countless scientists who .....
» 16/09/2009 1:18:51 PM Dan, <<you’re a little out of step with most evolutionists who prefer to pretend th.....
» 15/09/2009 10:21:03 PM Constance, <<...the Koran seems to be full of inconsistencies>> Ever read th.....
» 15/09/2009 9:58:38 AM George, <<There is a difference between proving something, and offering an argument.....
» 15/09/2009 12:35:43 AM George wrote: “However, even without reading the book I am pretty sure he [Hart] does not .....
» 14/09/2009 11:09:43 PM Continued... <<However, one cannot have a civil conversation with someone who think.....
» 14/09/2009 11:09:38 PM Oliver, Thanks for your kinds words. With my ‘up front’, ‘no nonsense’ and sometimes hars.....
» 12/09/2009 12:27:39 AM Actually Dan, there’s one thing I’ve noticed about http://www.creation.com that had always.....
» 11/09/2009 7:13:56 PM Sorry, Dan, I need to make a correction. It appears that http://creationontheweb.com now .....
» 10/09/2009 12:11:47 PM ...Continued <<Other summations require some form of theoretical reasoning or enter.....
» 10/09/2009 12:11:41 PM Dan, <<I’ve not heard of any tree that is clearly older than 6000 years.>> .....
» 6/09/2009 1:38:24 AM ...Continued <<...those who want to find flaw in order to bolster a rival belief i......
» 6/09/2009 1:38:18 AM Examinator, <<I was NOT agreeing in any way with “Intelligent design” (sic)...>&.....
» 5/09/2009 1:12:11 AM ...Continued He doesn’t pretend to try to give a deeper meaning to the lives of those who.....
» 5/09/2009 1:12:05 AM From the article: <<In recent books and programs he [Dawkins] argues that resurgent.....
» 4/09/2009 10:35:56 PM ...Continued We can all be irrational and live in denial when emotions overtake us, no ma.....
» 4/09/2009 10:35:51 PM Dan, <<I clicked on your links to past discussions from last year. I don’t really s.....
» 2/09/2009 9:42:43 PM ...Continued But congratulations on being the only coherent Creationist on OLO! Anyway, .....
» 2/09/2009 9:42:39 PM Dan, <<More striking is to ask how quick his critics might be to throw an accusatio.....
» 1/09/2009 8:47:08 PM ...Continued How were coral reefs hundreds of meters thick and miles long preserved intac.....
» 1/09/2009 8:47:01 PM Dan, <<...Adam quickly got off on the wrong foot...>> By eating fruit. Somet.....
» 25/08/2009 10:04:53 PM ...Continued The interviews with people such as Richard Dawkins and PZ Meyers were clever.....
» 25/08/2009 10:04:39 PM Dan, Thank you for your interest in my take on Expelled, and yes, I have seen it. My fi.....
» 23/08/2009 10:19:42 PM Dan, << You [Rhian] contend that science has shown that the miraculous events in th.....
» 22/08/2009 2:50:23 AM ...Continued <<You forgot to mention while citing the "religious atrocities,&q.....
» 22/08/2009 2:50:17 AM I can't bite my tongue any longer. In regards to Foxy’s posts on this thread... <<.....
» 21/11/2008 11:13:20 PM Horus: Born of a virgin on December 25th. Three kings followed a star in the East to find .....
» 21/11/2008 11:13:03 PM ...Continued In fact, complex organic molecules can form in space and this has been obser.....
» 21/11/2008 11:12:53 PM Oliver, Yes, I've read about that. Today's Creationists are modern versions of those who .....
» 20/11/2008 9:25:08 PM Runner, <<Their are many Astronomers who believe in Creation.>> Not really. .....
» 20/11/2008 9:25:03 PM Poly, Check out the link R0bert provided and you will see what he means by: "There i.....
» 19/11/2008 9:01:15 PM Poly, Thank you for reading the articles I linked to. That would have to be a first (for .....
» 19/11/2008 9:00:56 PM Runner, It’s ludicrous cry "conspiracy", when you believe that evolution is one.....
» 19/11/2008 2:17:25 PM OK Poly. If you're wanting to talk probabilies, then read the following links. They expla.....
» 19/11/2008 1:17:37 PM Some very spot on posts from Pelican, Bugsy, Pericles, Yabby and others. Poly, <<1.....
» 18/11/2008 5:21:29 PM Runner, <<funny how evolutionist can writes libraries of books but still can't come.....
» 18/11/2008 4:24:31 PM Polyboaz, As Yabby suggested, you should learn a thing or two before you continue to make.....
» 12/11/2008 3:29:58 PM "This naivete really is startling for a grown adult." Runner's an ADULT?!.....
» 11/11/2008 5:16:50 PM Runner, If Secularism promoted and encouraged divorce, or even made it compulsory, then y.....
» 7/11/2008 10:13:48 PM An excellent post from R0bert! I've been meaning to raise the exact same point. Unfortuna.....
» 7/11/2008 10:22:06 AM David Nicholls wrote: "The argument that fundamentalism is at fault no longer hold tr.....
» 15/09/2008 2:33:27 PM ...Continued If Hitler was trying to replicate/control evolution, and used the phrase “th.....
» 15/09/2008 2:32:52 PM You just don’t give up, do you, Dan? Earlier, Davidf said “...you [Dan] don’t withdraw yo.....
» 10/09/2008 9:12:30 AM …Continued <<…the classic drop the ball, fumble on the evolutionists’ part was when.....
» 10/09/2008 9:12:17 AM Dan, <<I don’t accept that evolution is occurring. >> Then how do you explai.....
» 9/09/2008 11:36:13 AM CARP_Poly has raised an important issue here. It’s a pity it was just a stalking horse for.....
» 7/09/2008 6:26:31 PM One additional point I should make (extending on what Davidf said), is that many Theists w.....
» 7/09/2008 11:39:58 AM Interesting link, Relda. I can relate to it a lot of that having gone to a Christian high.....
» 5/09/2008 9:50:09 PM ...Continued <<If our model is good, then it will produce useful scientific results.....
» 5/09/2008 9:49:56 PM Dan, You still couldn't respond to anything I said in my last response to you. <<.....
» 4/09/2008 2:24:17 PM ...Continued <<He is a reputable scientist with the ability more than most to think.....
» 4/09/2008 2:24:08 PM Ronnie, I can't believe I missed the satire in the 'Creationist sticker' bit! Don't I fee.....
» 3/09/2008 8:54:49 PM On second thoughts, I don't really have the energy to repeat everything that I've already .....
» 3/09/2008 2:03:49 PM Oooops... I meant "Infinately as complex as God". And to clarify... "...v.....
» 3/09/2008 12:35:13 PM Interesting site, Ronnie, What struck me in Rudd’s response was this... “If you were to .....
» 2/09/2008 12:22:46 PM ...Continued Also, the millions of intervening years are not just “alleged”. We have irre.....
» 2/09/2008 12:22:35 PM You’re panicking now, Dan, and it’s starting to show. All you’ve done is repeat the same .....
» 31/08/2008 9:47:18 AM ...Continued <<...why should I be bothered responding when a half descent response .....
» 31/08/2008 9:46:57 AM Interesting response, Dan. You've resorted to reducing this debate to mere opinions; misr.....
» 29/08/2008 10:35:04 PM ...Continued What point are you trying to get at here, Dan? That Creationism should be ta.....
» 29/08/2008 10:35:00 PM Dan, For someone who claims that chemistry disproves abiogenesis, you seem very evasive o.....
» 28/08/2008 10:27:12 PM ...Continued <<...or just something else you’ve made up in your head?>> Some.....
» 28/08/2008 10:27:07 PM Dan, This is becoming painful to watch. You're scrounging around looking for any old arg.....
» 27/08/2008 9:37:19 PM ...Continued Correlation does not imply causation, Runner, and you've been told this many.....
» 27/08/2008 9:37:11 PM Runner, I think Dan's struggling here enough without your input. <<Where is my evi.....
» 26/08/2008 9:22:55 PM ...Continued <<...there would be room for discussing the evolutionary point of view.....
» 26/08/2008 9:22:48 PM Thanks Sancho, you've saved me the effort. Apologies for my line-by-line rebuttals though.....
» 25/08/2008 10:34:46 PM ...Continued In fact some of the most influential people throughout modern history were b.....
» 25/08/2008 10:34:39 PM ...Continued The drugs worked a treat! While on the medication, I was getting straight A.....
» 25/08/2008 10:34:30 PM There seems to be a lot of speculation going on in this thread, by a lot of people who hav.....
» 24/08/2008 11:42:04 PM ...Continued Try giving one reason (that I've not yet falsified) why evolution is a relig.....
» 24/08/2008 11:41:51 PM Sancho, I can relate to that. I used to be a Creationist myself... Until I reached the a.....
» 23/08/2008 11:39:06 PM ...Continued So, Dan, it's rather silly of you to pretend that I'm just inventing the con.....
» 23/08/2008 11:38:59 PM Dan, There's one more line in your last post to me that deserves more attention... <&.....
» 22/08/2008 8:26:56 PM ...Continued Your response to me is a little strange. <<So why should anyone expec.....
» 22/08/2008 8:26:10 PM Dan, <<...if you perceive all evidence within the framework or paradigm of evolutio.....
» 19/08/2008 11:43:57 PM Dan, I think I need to expand on what I said about Information Theory and the Second Law .....
» 18/08/2008 7:18:18 PM ...Continued <<Materialists will probably argue against the first line.>> An.....
» 18/08/2008 7:18:07 PM Dan, It's just plain silly to say that my claims of dishonesty are “personal attacks” whe.....
» 16/08/2008 10:52:53 PM ...Continued All you're doing here is trying to create a sense that there's some sort of .....
» 16/08/2008 10:52:48 PM Dan, <<So Runner doesn’t use a lot of words. He still gives his opinion. This time .....
» 15/08/2008 10:29:06 PM ...Continued <<You say real scientists don’t debate creationists at risk of legitim.....
» 15/08/2008 10:29:00 PM Dan, Forget about confuting, you weren't even able to refute any of my arguments in that .....
» 14/08/2008 10:01:59 PM Thanks HarryG. Relda, <<Sadly, it is really quite childish to create confusion bet.....
» 14/08/2008 10:54:51 AM Runner, Instead of making your usual snard little inconsequential remarks, how about you .....
» 13/08/2008 10:23:15 AM ...Continued There are many other ways to falsify evolution, such as: - Finding fossils .....
» 13/08/2008 10:23:05 AM Dan, Not one of the points you've made on this thread so far is in anyway accurate. <.....
» 24/07/2008 9:29:12 PM I was just thinking, Dan... If we're going to start 'quote mining', then I have a quote fo.....
» 21/07/2008 10:18:52 PM ...Continued <<...who points out that E Coli were already able to metabolise citrat.....
» 21/07/2008 10:18:42 PM Dan, <<I don’t see why you should accuse me of lies simply for voicing an opinion.&.....
» 18/07/2008 7:32:12 PM ...Continued For example, Creationists like to point to Hitler and claim that Hitler was .....
» 18/07/2008 7:31:06 PM Dan, Before I continue, I want to make it very clear to you that in no way do I view you .....
» 10/07/2008 10:11:15 PM Grey, I just love it when Theists reveal how dishonest and/or simple-minded they can be.......
» 9/07/2008 10:20:55 PM ...Continued Also, to claim that you are a “seeker of truth” is simply laughable consider.....
» 9/07/2008 10:20:45 PM ...Continued from yesterday <<With even those like AJ giving reasons for fossil rar.....
» 8/07/2008 9:13:41 PM ...Continued But since you evidentially don't know much about biological science, you're.....
» 8/07/2008 9:13:29 PM Dan, With all due respect, your cognitive skills are simply appalling. <<So where .....
» 30/06/2008 12:31:59 AM ...Continued Some more blatant examples of lying can be seen all through your posts. My f.....
» 30/06/2008 12:31:36 AM rstuart, I hope you're in this for the long-haul! It's been said before that debating Dan.....
» 28/06/2008 9:36:54 PM ...Continued <<The overall picture of the fossil record is not a lot different to t.....
» 28/06/2008 9:36:37 PM Dan, I don't have any formal scientific qualifications. But you don't need to be a scient.....
» 22/06/2008 1:55:55 PM ...Continued <<Batten did not say that the E Coli was about to turn into a crocodil.....
» 22/06/2008 1:55:37 PM Dan, <<Your phrase, “lazy logic that can be applied to anything” is well applicable.....
» 18/06/2008 9:55:52 PM ...Continued <<...its [abiogenesis's] non-occurrence is well attested.>> Not.....
» 18/06/2008 9:54:07 PM Dan, I acknowledge that you personally have never said “God Must've done it” (I was refer.....
» 15/06/2008 12:53:44 PM ...Continued <<The intermediatory linking fossil evidence is still missing, despite.....
» 15/06/2008 12:53:28 PM Dan, <<You say our thoughts are not the brain’s random chemical impulses, without s.....
» 12/06/2008 8:17:40 PM ...Continued No, God had endowed them with the ability to evolve quickly. It appears tha.....
» 12/06/2008 8:17:09 PM Dan, <<This brings us to the question of the nature of mind and logic. If our thoug.....
» 2/06/2008 12:09:09 AM Continued... <<As for the age of the earth...>> Wrong, wrong and wrong again.....
» 2/06/2008 12:08:52 AM Dan, <<If evolution means that all living things have descended from a common ances.....
» 25/05/2008 10:19:22 PM Thanks for the compliment, Fractelle. Ever since I decided to scrutinise Creationism, rat.....
» 23/05/2008 11:12:11 PM ...Continued So again, why would God be so deceitful that he would pack our DNA with jun.....
» 23/05/2008 11:11:58 PM I have to concur with both Vanilla and CJ. Like CJ, I was going to let it slide (since I .....
» 7/03/2008 11:45:59 PM Ooops... The second last line of the first of my last two posts should have read: "T.....
» 7/03/2008 11:39:21 PM ...Continued You didn't even bother to look at the links I posted before, did you? None .....
» 7/03/2008 11:38:27 PM Philo, <<“Atheist believe Christians are ignorant and intellectually backward. This.....
» 3/03/2008 10:53:26 PM ...Continued <<His belief is atheism...>> The problem with the way you say t.....
» 3/03/2008 10:52:40 PM Dan, <<I can tell you about one in particular who has strong religious leanings. Hi.....
» 3/03/2008 7:43:09 PM ...Continued <<You should go take a long hard look at yourself and work out a way t.....
» 3/03/2008 7:42:58 PM Kroy, <<Why does God have to heal Amputees? He's not their slave, he doesn't have t.....
» 3/03/2008 5:35:13 PM Interesting that the Christians on this thread have skipped over the very important point .....
» 2/03/2008 10:00:42 PM ...Continued But yes, I've been around for a while now and I've been on both sides of the.....
» 2/03/2008 9:59:43 PM Dan, <<This contention is countered very easily by pointing out the many scientists.....
» 28/02/2008 12:20:55 PM ...Continued <<However, the term may be somewhat appropriate in regard to their str.....
» 28/02/2008 12:20:47 PM Dan, <<If I’m being accused of clever debating tactics, thanks for the compliment.&.....
» 28/02/2008 9:02:17 AM Philip Tang, <<Go tell it to the Pakistanis, Burmese monks, Sudan refugees, Iraqis,.....
» 22/02/2008 9:49:03 PM 4.65 billion years ago, God gets bored of sitting around and doing nothing for eternity, s.....
» 22/02/2008 9:48:01 PM Dan, Yet another example of my point (that you're pretending not to have yet undertood in.....
» 22/02/2008 7:20:39 PM Hi Lev, Yes, I'm aware of Hitler's divine reasoning for his atrocities. But most Theists.....
» 21/02/2008 7:49:59 PM ...Continued <<Your complaint about debate trickery is unfounded...>> Wrong!.....
» 21/02/2008 7:47:59 PM Dan, <<You’ve been talking about ‘your point’ for a while now, but I honestly don’t.....
» 18/02/2008 10:46:20 PM ...Continued Atheists are independent thinkers; not bound by the absolutist, rigid doctri.....
» 18/02/2008 10:40:15 PM Philip Tang, <<AJ's fire and brimston muddled thinking is leading nowhere. Let's ma.....
» 17/02/2008 9:36:32 PM Thanks for saving me effort of responding, Lev. Philip Tang, Had you bothered to check t.....
» 16/02/2008 10:30:45 PM ...Continued There is overwhelmingly strong evidence that supports evolution – more than .....
» 16/02/2008 10:30:35 PM Dan, This is becoming pointless. I'm just repeating myself now, and you can't bring anyth.....
» 12/02/2008 7:49:48 AM Sorry, just wanted to bob my head in for a moment because R0bert said something that reall.....
» 11/02/2008 12:02:26 PM Dan, You've lost every other one of your arguments, so here you are now, going back to yo.....
» 10/02/2008 11:30:43 AM ...Continued Some rebuttals to the links I provided would be a good start. <<I sti.....
» 10/02/2008 11:30:33 AM George, <<You cannot conduct laboratory experiments of the kind “what happens if I .....
» 9/02/2008 12:50:49 AM ...Continued Scientists generally appreciate being questioned, as they are passionate abo.....
» 9/02/2008 12:50:41 AM Runner, <<You know as well as I do that their are many scientist who believe in a y.....
» 7/02/2008 11:16:13 PM Runner, You're mistakingly assuming that a belief in God, automatically means that Christ.....
» 7/02/2008 3:56:46 PM Plerdsus, ”Needless to say”? Did you check to see who removed it? What was the reason th.....
» 6/02/2008 11:03:46 PM Runner, <<Out of the millions of fossils found not one backs the theory.>> W.....
» 6/02/2008 9:54:26 PM ...Continued <<Luke’s [statement] is admissible in a law court if you can get hold .....
» 6/02/2008 9:54:08 PM Philip Tang, To add to what Lev has said: <<This assertion can’t be proven>>.....
» 5/02/2008 11:22:17 PM George, <<However, it is an interpretation of western history, you might or might n.....
» 5/02/2008 9:37:12 PM Goodthief, I view God as a less logical explanation for more reasons than I can possibly .....
» 5/02/2008 8:03:01 AM Dan, I'm going to have you pre-empt you on an argument that I know you're going to come b.....
» 4/02/2008 10:11:33 PM Goodthief, <<Yes some theists are playing defence when they support separation of C.....
» 4/02/2008 5:28:56 PM Goodthief, <<I was focused on O’Donnell’s assertion that evolution can explain mora.....
» 4/02/2008 7:20:58 AM ...Continued <<If you want to find those with unshakable beliefs, have a look at th.....
» 4/02/2008 7:20:51 AM Dan, <<After another four posts of fervent support for evolution, your concluding c.....
» 3/02/2008 11:12:33 PM Goodthief, You're reading too much into what I said. A style of rebuttal often used when .....
» 3/02/2008 4:26:04 PM Goodthief, <<“Need to” isn’t any more useful than “want to”.>> Yes it is. Be.....
» 3/02/2008 1:49:25 PM Boaz, I'm amazed that you keep pushing this line that morality comes from God or the Bibl.....
» 3/02/2008 1:05:47 AM Arjay, Morality has improved over time despite religion. For example, how do Christians n.....
» 2/02/2008 10:54:15 PM Apis, <<Yes, AJ Philips, but they don't get held up as paragons of virtue.>> .....
» 2/02/2008 12:45:50 AM Apis said: "Yes, Kelly. Ever heard of Bill Gates' unethical dealings?" Yes, Api.....
» 1/02/2008 11:24:15 PM Arjay, <<It is about the survival of the species and homosexuality won't do it. >.....
» 1/02/2008 10:47:24 PM ...Continued Especially not with the undying passion that Creationists do. So my main po.....
» 1/02/2008 10:47:11 PM George, I'd have to say, conversing with you is certainly is a thought-provoking experien.....
» 31/01/2008 10:24:29 PM ...Continued Would you keep your own child alive to be subjected to an eternity of tormen.....
» 31/01/2008 10:24:13 PM George, Good points about the capitalisation. But personally, I've also known of it to be.....
» 29/01/2008 9:40:18 PM George, << I think compatibility and correctness are two very different things…>.....
» 29/01/2008 9:31:45 PM Davidf, <<The statement is problematical. It equates two different concepts...>&.....
» 29/01/2008 7:51:02 AM Josh, I’ll be interested in your response to Stickman. I have always wondered why Creatio.....
» 28/01/2008 5:32:27 PM ...Continued The fact that religion can provide comfort and purpose, doesn't necessarily .....
» 28/01/2008 5:27:41 PM Davidf, I agree with, and am aware of what you've written in your last post. You'll get y.....
» 27/01/2008 12:21:26 AM Goodthief, <<I wouldn't have thought that evolution is the point.>> Evolutio.....
» 27/01/2008 12:10:51 AM Davidf, The quote from your post (http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=67.....
» 26/01/2008 10:58:27 PM Goodthief, I apologise if it sounded like I was putting words in your mouth. That wasn't .....
» 26/01/2008 9:56:44 PM Goodthief, <<Science is not the only pathway for curiosity.>> No, but it's t.....
» 25/01/2008 11:52:37 PM ...Continued So then, what do you think they had before Darwin? If evolution is dis-prov.....
» 25/01/2008 11:49:46 PM Dan, <<I don’t suppose you are meaning that it is okay for atheists to start wars a.....
» 23/01/2008 10:30:41 PM Goodtheif, <<I don’t believe in God because of gaps in scientific knowledge. I simp.....
» 22/01/2008 8:36:02 PM Goodthief, <<Dawkins is also less annoyed with deism, but he still regards this non.....
» 22/01/2008 6:22:48 PM Runner, You are taking the same feeble approach that Creationists take on the topic of th.....
» 21/01/2008 10:08:19 PM Very well said Lev and Col. As for this Adele Horin character, if that's the standard of .....
» 21/01/2008 11:38:35 AM Philo, <<Please identify for me what Government or Party policy writer in Australia.....
» 21/01/2008 8:05:35 AM You don’t give-up do you, Philo? <<The whole proposal is absolute bigoted nonsence......
» 19/01/2008 11:11:13 PM Waterboy, <<Fundamentalists are those who attempt to restore the religious forms an.....
» 19/01/2008 4:53:34 PM Oliver, The post you're quoting there was someone else, on an entirely different thread, .....
» 19/01/2008 3:22:56 PM Runner, <<I don't think that their is any doubt that the more secular a nation beco.....
» 18/01/2008 11:53:14 PM Wow Runner! I bet you raced onto OLO to announce that one. So how many times has sex edu.....
» 18/01/2008 9:02:27 PM Oliver, Too be honest, I'm not sure what you're getting at in that last post. I don't see.....
» 18/01/2008 7:41:29 PM ...Continued <<An evolutionist will also never change his view, ever, as they are c.....
» 18/01/2008 7:41:04 PM Dan, <<I reject the term fundamentalist as meaning someone who wants to start a war.....
» 17/01/2008 11:47:10 PM Oliver <<Relatedly, one does not have to be an atheist to critise the many, many fa.....
» 17/01/2008 10:27:57 PM Oliver, <<I think the kernel of David's atheist position is that the Christian's ha.....
» 16/01/2008 10:13:20 PM Oh dear! How ironic that an article that mentions “rationality” so much, shows absolutely .....
» 16/01/2008 9:05:59 AM Philo, <<From the opening premise of this debate the atheists felt that injustice w.....
» 16/01/2008 9:04:39 AM Runner, <<I would of thought that it is obvious that when people deny truth that th.....
» 15/01/2008 6:30:51 PM Boaz, I'd have to agree with Wizofaus. It may take a few hundred years, but unless our sc.....
» 13/01/2008 4:22:30 PM George, I partially agree with you, but I can sense that we are both going to start nit-p.....
» 12/01/2008 3:57:49 PM Sam, <<...meaning man/women claiming to be certain and without doubt on an issue .....
» 12/01/2008 10:20:38 AM George, <<Similarly, it is legitimate to build your world view on the metaphysical .....
» 10/01/2008 11:10:21 PM …Continued But a Creationist will only ever accept the science that fits their beliefs be.....
» 10/01/2008 11:02:29 PM Dan, Thanks for your reply. I appreciated the tone you used that time. The only thing th.....
» 7/01/2008 7:36:52 AM ...Continued <<If you can point out which pieces of evidence I’ve glossed over>&.....
» 7/01/2008 7:30:58 AM Dan, You're a master of tricky wording... But it won't work. <<And you are right i.....
» 6/01/2008 9:13:49 PM ...Continued I could suggest that we don't believe what Theists want us to believe becaus.....
» 6/01/2008 9:10:49 PM Philo, <<Is this because of their limited view of reality?>> In saying this.....
» 6/01/2008 3:44:15 AM (Cont'd) Dan, what you've quoted from my last post, only half illustrated the point I wan.....
» 6/01/2008 3:17:36 AM Dan, I'll get to your response soon, but first... I have only just read through your pos.....
» 5/01/2008 1:33:39 AM Philip, My whole point, was that you had twisted Dawkins' words to mean something entirel.....
» 4/01/2008 1:47:12 PM I meant: Not even Richard Dawkins claims the non-existence of a God with 100% certainty......
» 4/01/2008 1:44:55 PM Easy Times, Despite how it may sound, I don't know of anyone that claims with 100% certai.....
» 4/01/2008 11:38:13 AM Phillip Tang, Dawkins said that IF you could've been there, then you would have seen the .....
» 4/01/2008 10:11:25 AM Philo, In regards to environmental issues, it's not me you should be quoting Bible verses.....
» 4/01/2008 10:03:51 AM Thanks Opininonated2 (and David Nicholls), I really hesitated in posting that because I d.....
» 3/01/2008 12:11:05 AM ...Continued 2) Constantly worrying about what might happen to me in the after life when .....
» 3/01/2008 12:10:26 AM BOAZ_David, As someone who has a reverse conversion story to yours (i.e. Christian to Ath.....
» 31/12/2007 9:06:54 AM Horus, Sancho and others have already answered your questions for me. Most of what I woul.....
» 30/12/2007 1:03:11 AM Arjay, <<If the torture of a few, will save hundreds of lives who are honest faithf.....
» 29/12/2007 10:54:47 PM Yes, Cowboy Joe. The secular progressives wouldn't be so quick to condemn torture if they .....
» 28/12/2007 2:47:34 PM Well said Sancho, grputland and Rhian. I find Mirko's obsessive compulsion to advocate to.....
» 20/12/2007 10:57:13 PM The article shows a lot of ignorance and naïvety about human nature. <<...free mark.....
» 20/12/2007 8:26:46 PM I agree with R0bert in regards the whole "shoot to kill" issue. Despite what we.....
» 15/12/2007 9:54:44 AM Horus, <<Labor is a coalition in everything but name.>> It depends what you .....
» 14/12/2007 7:44:42 PM Let's hope the Liberals "don't get it" for a long time. That way, they can sit i.....
» 14/12/2007 5:29:33 PM Keith, Your post reeks of sour grapes and your tone is like that of a child stamping his .....
» 12/12/2007 10:06:59 PM Mungo MacCallum, I believe, has painted an accurate picture of how the last term would hav.....
» 12/12/2007 8:17:52 PM Sorry, wrong link. I meant http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/user.asp?id=6302&show=history.....
» 12/12/2007 7:37:01 PM BOAZ_David, In regards to your link, I remember Pericles pointing out to you not so long .....
» 12/12/2007 7:29:08 PM DEMOS, I too am dismayed at the blatant erosion of democracy we've witnessed in America a.....
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