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» 23/03/2010 8:01:43 AM geoff, your patience is remarkable. don, i can respond to your post, but see no need nor .....
» 23/03/2010 7:44:55 AM >> however many others, not only peasants, saw (and suffered from) the new political.....
» 22/03/2010 10:10:34 PM >> Bushbasher, the absolute weakest of excuses is "He made me do it". gr.....
» 22/03/2010 8:12:53 PM "Without religion you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil.....
» 22/03/2010 4:39:16 PM you loons choose today of all days to launch your braindead attacks on obama. your timing .....
» 22/03/2010 10:36:49 AM huh? did somebody call me? obama wasn't and isn't my hero. he has screwed up a lot, most.....
» 22/03/2010 9:23:34 AM >> Notice how GrahamY, CEO of OLO has not answered a single question I or any other .....
» 22/03/2010 8:59:53 AM >> This is because Diane Ravitch ... has done what Time Magazine (March 15, 2010) de.....
» 21/03/2010 2:16:06 AM george, i have no doubt that i'm one of the less favoured atheists for you, but on this th.....
» 20/03/2010 12:54:56 PM graham if this conversation isn't going anywhere it's because you ignore anything which ac.....
» 20/03/2010 11:31:10 AM graham, it is ridiculous to slur current christians with the crusades. but it is not ridic.....
» 20/03/2010 11:24:29 AM >> Marxism is fundamentally built on Atheism. It holds that there is nothing but the.....
» 20/03/2010 8:30:11 AM >> When someone (any one) starts talking about pseudo-science >> you immediate.....
» 19/03/2010 3:04:15 PM >> I think the article is about whether Atheism is a faith or not, The answer is &q.....
» 18/03/2010 10:31:39 PM >> the tendency of some scientists (Sir Mark Oliphant was an early example) to speak.....
» 18/03/2010 6:17:43 PM >> AJP, rules like Godwin's Law and the newly-minted AJ's law seem to just be attemp.....
» 17/03/2010 3:45:04 PM trav, i'll take your questions seriously, though i think they consistently get the wrong e.....
» 17/03/2010 1:48:21 PM >> An atheist on the other hand has taken up an equally strong yet opposite position.....
» 17/03/2010 8:09:26 AM >> One of the things interesting me about this debate is the number of straw men fly.....
» 16/03/2010 11:02:32 PM >> There’s a strong case to be made that it’s the atheists who get too much attentio.....
» 16/03/2010 5:25:40 PM runner, i suppose i have all this bile because i'm a godless atheist. what's your excuse?.....
» 15/03/2010 12:57:53 PM trav: >the fact- an inescapable fact, actually- is that atheists do have faith. in a.....
» 15/03/2010 8:24:59 AM >> I use the word "faith" because it's impossible to conclusively prove th.....
» 5/03/2010 7:51:19 PM it's a figure of speech, and a silly answer. you cannot choose to not make stupid decisi.....
» 4/03/2010 2:05:30 AM >> Why should we gamble the world's future on such, as you say, fallible science? b.....
» 1/03/2010 4:37:19 PM >> Creationists are not in denial of anything. hilarious. they're even in denial o.....
» 25/02/2010 2:38:28 AM "I do not resent science, and don’t ever remember doing so." you do when you be.....
» 24/02/2010 3:44:47 PM we may not "need" R18 games, but we don't "need" barbara biggins eithe.....
» 24/02/2010 3:42:23 PM "Let us see how far and to what extent we can explain the behaviour of the physical a.....
» 26/01/2010 4:45:59 PM pericles, i'm not sure what you would regard as evidence. i would have thought the america.....
» 21/01/2010 1:32:18 PM ah, more obfuscation and oneupmanship. boxgum, please keep your snide intellectual superi.....
» 20/01/2010 11:06:16 PM >> Sells is quite legitimate with his article and you merely carry the baton >&g.....
» 20/01/2010 2:43:34 PM >> Apoplogy accepted not offered. never claimed it was you. heh, heh, heh. >>.....
» 20/01/2010 11:34:25 AM >> Why is it so hard to believe that being skeptical about the size >> and imp.....
» 19/01/2010 1:27:26 PM >> I'm afraid I'm with the majority of commenters on this thread. well, knock me ov.....
» 19/01/2010 1:25:52 PM >> Their assessment has certainly got to mean something. no, their assessment is w.....
» 19/01/2010 10:22:17 AM boxgum, 1) your last sentence makes pretty clear the pointlessness of addressing anything.....
» 19/01/2010 9:26:00 AM >> But what really annoys me about all this is that there is now so much heat and no.....
» 16/01/2010 12:05:07 PM >> As our ‘straw-men’ appear to have faded, not faded, ignored. >> "our.....
» 14/01/2010 4:05:53 PM >>...he also mentions beauty and hope; my strong inference was that some here appear.....
» 13/01/2010 11:39:20 AM chris lewis, you might have a general point, that reason will win out, though there's prob.....
» 12/01/2010 8:00:32 PM >> Many on this forum have made the mistake >> and have taken a walk off the .....
» 11/01/2010 6:39:54 PM relda, your posts have progressed from strained to farcical. as keating would say, you're .....
» 10/01/2010 4:26:40 PM >> Religion they noisily denounce as Rubbish. DonG, if you think that some religio.....
» 10/01/2010 1:45:50 PM jesus. Pong is more meaningful. relda: >> Where have I said you need to be Christi.....
» 9/01/2010 2:58:41 PM boxgum, yes sellick and his pompous band of fans are particularly aggravating. they're har.....
» 8/01/2010 1:13:33 PM crabsy, thanks for the honest attempt. >> Some people do seem to want to escape fro.....
» 8/01/2010 11:37:46 AM relda, this is where and how you are playing dumb. *) you are pretending that there is n.....
» 6/01/2010 10:31:34 PM >> For some reason, and again, you appear to seriously strike a nerve – emanating fr.....
» 5/01/2010 7:08:41 PM DonG, when george pell claims that "of course" prayer can cure cancer, when the .....
» 5/01/2010 5:22:14 PM >> Religion is seen as such an easy target that no effort at all is required to pull.....
» 3/01/2010 11:52:09 AM >> I suggest you read the initial discussion point i suggest you read the post by p.....
» 3/01/2010 1:45:32 AM viking13 1) i'm not answerable for andrew and andrew is not answerable for me. 2) i said.....
» 2/01/2010 11:09:16 PM viking13 has a point, though he has it ass backwards. look at the governments involved. y.....
» 2/01/2010 5:38:04 PM kristin: thanks for your post. i am not able to respond properly now. i may write more t.....
» 1/01/2010 4:05:41 PM get your hand off it. popper would be absolutely disgusted with the denialist garbage bein.....
» 31/12/2009 8:31:57 PM andrew, good article which won't do a bit of good. you'll also notice you've received a (s.....
» 31/12/2009 11:55:00 AM kristin, cj can of course answer for himself. however, i would suggest that in australia t.....
» 28/12/2009 8:06:23 PM >> This is tantamount to saying "I don’t know what I'm talking about but I know.....
» 26/12/2009 8:29:09 PM >> The Islam of today is much more aggressive, militant and plain bloody-minded ... .....
» 25/12/2009 8:31:22 PM >> So quoting accurately selectively >> from the Koran constitutes the ".....
» 25/12/2009 4:23:36 PM "making quotes up, and refusing to recognise ones own baseless, hateful condemnation .....
» 24/12/2009 6:19:54 PM raredog, i think you missed my point. you and andy1 are free to debate climate science, bu.....
» 24/12/2009 6:05:12 PM ugh! stevenlmeyer, i'll make it simpler. all you have to do is look at postings of pond .....
» 24/12/2009 1:26:52 AM >> Educate unenlightened me. What is the correct way of commenting on the Islamic su.....
» 23/12/2009 11:23:59 PM >> Sea Level is NOT rising. you're sure of that? >> The main expert on this.....
» 23/12/2009 3:49:33 PM >> Jefferson has identified a totalitarian direction in environmentalism. no he ha.....
» 23/12/2009 3:24:51 PM >> Don’t blame a few religious loonies. Look at the real threat: Kevin Rudd. right .....
» 23/12/2009 3:13:08 PM >> any science, from whatever source that is not submitted and accepted by the IPCC .....
» 22/12/2009 5:10:43 PM >>Because of this continuing AGW fiasco huh? what exactly are you calling a fiasco.....
» 22/12/2009 3:14:57 PM gee, i'm missing a lot of points today. atman, i agree the author has a point, the point .....
» 22/12/2009 1:55:41 PM atman, it's a valid point, but a pretty minor one in comparison to the truckloads of hyper.....
» 19/12/2009 10:13:46 AM thanks david f. i still disagree, but i think this is quibbling over a minor historical p.....
» 18/12/2009 9:54:07 PM pericles, i agree wholeheartedly with what you're saying. but i have no idea what you're d.....
» 18/12/2009 11:52:06 AM david f, that's a little harsh. the "just another" is still difficult for many p.....
» 16/12/2009 8:59:47 AM where's the beef?.....
» 16/12/2009 8:53:37 AM i recommend that everyone go to the abc website and watch the lateline exchange. >>.....
» 14/12/2009 4:02:44 PM shadow minister, fair enough on the "few generations ago". i missed that. howev.....
» 13/12/2009 10:25:33 AM david, i explained myself. believe what you like. shadow minister, the "elitist&quo.....
» 12/12/2009 9:48:30 AM david, my insults were not really for dilan, but for the thugs who have destroyed australi.....
» 12/12/2009 8:33:37 AM yabby, 1) i'm not an aussie. 2) andrew bostom seems pretty clearly to be anti-islamic, .....
» 11/12/2009 4:41:43 PM for christ's sake yabby. if you're gonna be anti-islam, at least be honest about it. to su.....
» 11/12/2009 3:38:49 PM the only people who have benefited from the corporatisation of australian universities are.....
» 11/12/2009 3:32:28 PM no, atman. in fact the consistency is that plimer made an idiot of himself on both occasio.....
» 10/12/2009 7:40:23 PM i'm with pericles: i think yutic is boaz......
» 7/12/2009 6:04:36 PM "... no respect for the rights of those Australians who enjoy playing the pokies..&qu.....
» 6/12/2009 11:21:01 AM crabsy, thank-you. i accept your apology, and i'll admit my post was strong. i know you're.....
» 5/12/2009 7:19:10 AM crabsy, you're dead wrong. whatever "the tyranny of empiricism" means, and howev.....
» 3/12/2009 5:25:04 PM odo, you might be correct about abbott, but i very much doubt it. first of all, the liber.....
» 1/12/2009 1:39:31 PM odo and c.j., "tolerate" is ambiguous. to not tolerate can mean to oppose, and i.....
» 23/11/2009 6:13:17 PM odo is correct. whether or not the museum is insensitive, whether or not there is now ca.....
» 20/11/2009 1:44:52 PM >> Instead of politely explaining the evidence ... yes, shame on rudd for not just .....
» 19/11/2009 11:52:18 AM >> Western secular humanism ... came to grief in the debacle of Western civilization.....
» 19/11/2009 10:12:46 AM perhaps if terpstra can stop flinging his feces for long enough, he could look up the defi.....
» 14/11/2009 2:58:06 PM the appreciation is only relative. i still prefer banging my toe on a rock. is your misin.....
» 13/11/2009 10:42:04 PM >> Sounds a bit of an exaggeration… but I haven’t done a head count. no it's not, a.....
» 13/11/2009 9:35:55 AM >> As a claim without force, this ‘God’ does not physically or metaphysically interv.....
» 12/11/2009 8:34:06 AM >> Even if God exists, the catch is, we don’t know if a given fabrication is aligned.....
» 6/11/2009 1:37:05 PM >> However, I do not apologise to you (and Blue Cross and Fractelle) for not becomin.....
» 5/11/2009 9:30:01 AM jeez louise. george, if you don't want to play that's fine. but your nice metaphor is obv.....
» 4/11/2009 9:09:49 AM george: > you simply cannot claim there are fatherless guys walking around<< &g.....
» 3/11/2009 10:55:26 PM Houellebecq, no question that you'll find plenty of inconsistency and unjustified moral su.....
» 3/11/2009 9:12:31 PM george: >> As for “virgin birth” that is part of my religion, not biology a) the V.....
» 2/11/2009 11:21:36 AM goerge and david f., not that it matters, but no, i'm not confusing infinitesimals with i.....
» 2/11/2009 1:22:39 AM george, i know you know your mathematical history, but i think you have the wrong end of t.....
» 1/11/2009 10:24:32 AM george: >> A theist (Christian) who needs to argue that the atheist is immoral, irr.....
» 1/11/2009 9:33:16 AM kees, iraq may not as black and white, well black, as critics suggest. however, if you're .....
» 30/10/2009 1:11:21 PM i'm no fan of Ahmadinejad, or of the repressive iranian state. but western warmongers have.....
» 30/10/2009 1:04:42 PM thanks, col. that was the single most idiotic defence of battery cages, or of pretty much .....
» 30/10/2009 12:20:54 PM george, happy to play the logic games, but i'd say the pertinent question is whether anyth.....
» 29/10/2009 1:49:22 PM george, i'm a fan of wikipedia, but the quoted definition of religious knowledge is noneth.....
» 28/10/2009 10:35:22 PM huh! god stole my post. maybe sellick is right! squeers, i know you're not making stuff u.....
» 26/10/2009 9:25:50 PM squeers: are you *really* interested in the trinitarian debate? don't you sense that it's.....
» 25/10/2009 11:08:44 AM squeers, you're latest posts are a bit scattered. *) first, i don't mean it to be a ".....
» 25/10/2009 10:58:01 AM george and blue cross: i consider to compare my silly musings to the sense of a dog is a.....
» 25/10/2009 10:23:17 AM cevilia, thanks very much for your posts. i don't have time to look carefully at this, but.....
» 24/10/2009 10:52:08 AM squeers: >> Who says Dawkins is “inventing his own targets"? either you or ea.....
» 24/10/2009 8:31:23 AM celivia, i know the author wants to do "something different". but i also know th.....
» 23/10/2009 4:09:44 PM yeah, yeah you guys don't like dawkins. good for you. but: 1) to claim dawkins is simply .....
» 22/10/2009 6:21:11 PM gotta agree with the author. i mean, just consider the brilliance of the u.s. system. how .....
» 22/10/2009 1:49:14 PM george and reida, thanks. i think my questions and your responses to my questions make the.....
» 21/10/2009 4:32:10 PM reida, can you give examples of dawkins' crass mistakes?.....
» 21/10/2009 8:52:18 AM george: 1) i agree entirely that one can adopt a religious-faith attitude without actuall.....
» 21/10/2009 8:25:15 AM >> To Greg Barns, E.Sykes, Bruce Haigh, CJ Morgan and next. huh. no bushbasher. obv.....
» 20/10/2009 4:23:14 PM it's amazing how many people on this thread are yelling that they're being forcibly shut u.....
» 20/10/2009 9:04:58 AM fractelle, i'm not sure graham's silly whack at me is really ad hominem. it's just very sp.....
» 20/10/2009 8:53:49 AM george, re the myths, fair enough. if it was simply a little lesson in logic, sure. re .....
» 20/10/2009 5:58:02 AM george, >>When I say Shakespeare wrote tragedies, Hamlet and Macbeth wrote he, I a.....
» 19/10/2009 1:47:17 PM >> "If it ain't broke don't fix it" might well apply here. it is most de.....
» 16/10/2009 2:25:57 PM >> that unbelievers scoff at the primitive notions of the creation stories and releg.....
» 15/10/2009 8:12:47 PM >> The point is that scientific hypothesis is not all that reliable or accurate. i .....
» 15/10/2009 8:07:19 PM >> So any one who raises concerns about this issue is dog-whistling eh? yep, pretty.....
» 15/10/2009 10:55:10 AM >> It's disappointing to find Ruddock ... trying to widen his appeal to widen his .....
» 13/10/2009 3:32:19 PM >> thousands of scientists with legitimate concerns about the science; yeah? thousa.....
» 13/10/2009 2:48:50 PM graham, others may fall for your bait and switch, but i won't. everything i say stands, an.....
» 13/10/2009 9:45:12 AM >> In response to Bush Basher I should point out that the Wegman Committee was appoi.....
» 10/10/2009 1:04:02 PM >> After you've done that please check out the Wegman Inquiry into the Hockey Stick .....
» 29/09/2009 10:50:58 AM graham: 1) no question there was a flaming element, and yes you would have every right to.....
» 29/09/2009 9:51:17 AM graham, >> Bushbasher, I guess if you don't have the information or the skills to b.....
» 27/09/2009 9:27:24 AM >>Bushbasher, if you don't understand the science enough to argue about it, then you.....
» 26/09/2009 9:05:11 PM >>You could also question the instability caused by children having to spend their l.....
» 26/09/2009 6:09:25 PM >>I thought for a while that OLO had been colonised by climate sceptics it most def.....
» 16/09/2009 10:57:04 AM i think the article is a parody. i dearly hope so......
» 15/09/2009 4:44:07 PM sellick, a few points: i) "true christian theology" is for christians to fight .....
» 14/09/2009 10:34:18 PM richard dawkins in the wall street journal: Now, there is a certain class of sophisticate.....
» 10/09/2009 4:12:10 PM trav, 1) baker's article was on dawkin's view of science, not religion. as to why baker .....
» 6/09/2009 9:57:36 AM blairbar: 1) your first post seemed to defend bush against charges of being an awful pres.....
» 5/09/2009 8:21:14 PM blairbar, now you're just being silly. 1) you were the one trumpeting american democracy.....
» 5/09/2009 11:20:36 AM "God has no gender, he is not like a man or a woman. ... He is not a body, not a pers.....
» 4/09/2009 5:05:08 PM "However, the picture-perfect science that Dawkins portrays ... " where does da.....
» 4/09/2009 4:52:12 PM "Was the American electorate the worst electorate in history?" quite possibly......
» 27/08/2009 7:13:19 PM fractelle, the topic for you may be men accessing porn, but that is not bray's topic. of c.....
» 26/08/2009 5:58:49 PM fractelle, i certainly wouldn't characterise you or your question as feminazi, though give.....
» 26/08/2009 5:27:21 PM excellent article. and i don't think it's simply an issue of good TV versus bad TV, though.....
» 25/08/2009 10:33:23 AM you want to defend the goodness of the u.s., and you begin by quoting john foster dulles??.....
» 25/08/2009 10:20:49 AM isabelberners: i'm sorry but i'm too busy to go fishing with google, and it's not my job.....
» 24/08/2009 9:53:57 PM R0bert, you take posters here to task for not dealing with the author's point: "I wa.....
» 24/08/2009 9:37:42 PM george, i think on the substance we largely agree, though i'm not sure if you are discussi.....
» 24/08/2009 8:50:56 AM george, the author's motivations don't seem that mysterious to me: he's attacking what he .....
» 23/08/2009 7:39:54 PM george, yes you're attempting to distinguish morals from politics. but it would be more co.....
» 22/08/2009 12:09:44 PM george, you seem to be suggesting that the catholic church is somehow divorced from politi.....
» 22/08/2009 11:10:41 AM george, i take your posts seriously. but honestly, i don't know what you're on about. we'.....
» 21/08/2009 5:36:55 AM reida, the thing is that sellicks' arrogant attacks are repeated and irritating, but meani.....
» 20/08/2009 4:11:23 PM TR, i'm not sure who you are including with the word "rationalist" but your clai.....
» 19/08/2009 10:44:04 PM rhian, it's off your main point but i'd be careful. >>The conflict between science .....
» 18/08/2009 11:50:54 PM the great thing about sells threads is that you can be absent for days, and the discussion.....
» 16/08/2009 1:21:44 AM crabsy, *) firesnake et al can respond if they wish. but i would suggest that some of thi.....
» 15/08/2009 10:48:35 PM george: obviously, i can appreciate the whitman quote. but sorry, i found your quoting c.....
» 14/08/2009 6:25:57 PM >> they constantly assure me that I am on the right track and that the trolls who in.....
» 14/08/2009 5:39:53 PM peter, does it bother you that the only person who seems to write in support is a bitter-m.....
» 14/08/2009 10:54:27 AM for gods sake, what a pathetic whine. i agree that the rudd government is pretty horrible......
» 13/08/2009 10:30:31 PM cornflower, with all due respect to barwick, i doubt his statement has much to do with the.....
» 13/08/2009 11:24:26 AM >> Police have every right to be treated decently yes >> Fact is, abuse a co.....
» 13/08/2009 10:46:32 AM cheryl, there is absolutely nothing "clever" about the melbourne model. it is th.....
» 10/08/2009 7:37:11 PM sigh! blairbar, what you wrote is "In a democracy the majority decide." you se.....
» 10/08/2009 2:54:24 PM god, what a charming thread. (suze, thanks). glorfindel, you claim you didn't attack cice.....
» 10/08/2009 2:40:10 PM blairbar, if that's not begging the question i don't know what is. you're simply on the ro.....
» 9/08/2009 7:38:15 PM glorfindel, i would like to say i'm sorry if you're offended. but i'm not. i just don't ca.....
» 9/08/2009 3:30:09 PM blairbar, if you don't want condescending lectures, then try not to present truisms as sol.....
» 9/08/2009 12:07:49 PM radical christians kill, moderates make excuses and blame others......
» 9/08/2009 12:06:26 PM blairbar, there is a hell of a lot more to democracy and human rights than "the major.....
» 8/08/2009 12:12:43 PM hmm. so "respect is a two-way street" apparently means only that cicek must resp.....
» 6/08/2009 8:07:38 PM c.j. very well said, twice. runner: >> Just because some have calloused hearts doe.....
» 6/08/2009 9:31:30 AM i assume the commenters here are just as outraged at certain christian chemists refusing c.....
» 1/08/2009 12:03:41 AM bones, what you have written is quite reasonable. i don't agree with it all, but it is a r.....
» 31/07/2009 8:05:20 AM palmer quotes the UN Declaration, that "freedom of religion ... should be fully respe.....
» 30/07/2009 12:40:01 PM i pretty much agree with cj morgan and sjf, though wondering if sancho has a point. no que.....
» 29/07/2009 10:47:39 AM dan, you were debating? (what about mander and Captain Preachy? were they debating too?) .....
» 23/07/2009 6:04:50 PM keith, *) nothing i wrote comes close to warranting your over the top reaction. *) i wa.....
» 23/07/2009 5:35:12 PM dan, don't be ridiculous. i know that's hard for you, but do please try. i didn't call ma.....
» 21/07/2009 7:04:15 PM keith, grow up. oggy may well know better than me: i never claimed otherwise. but his havi.....
» 21/07/2009 5:06:48 PM grey, why do you give so much credit to the judaic faiths? they were all-powerful for thou.....
» 21/07/2009 5:02:35 PM ridiculous article, for the reasons everyone is pointing out. by the way, it's news to m.....
» 21/07/2009 10:41:21 AM squeers, that's a really depressing story. not sure i'd do the same in your situation, but.....
» 21/07/2009 10:22:47 AM i smell a fair amount of devil's advocacy in this thread. baker's (feyerabend's) point th.....
» 20/07/2009 12:13:50 PM pericles, of course you're right. i don't for a minute expect Captain Preachy to actually .....
» 20/07/2009 9:55:31 AM my mistake. forget the leeches. bring back the exorcisms......
» 20/07/2009 8:57:50 AM yep. forget the penicillin, bring back the leeches......
» 18/07/2009 4:05:49 PM sells: *) please point out how the posts in response to mander are "irrational".....
» 17/07/2009 9:20:22 PM what yabby said......
» 17/07/2009 8:59:58 AM thoroughly dishonest. mander should stop serving up straw men, and should address the real.....
» 13/07/2009 6:48:24 PM i have mixed feelings about league tables. but i don't appreciate lectures from someone wh.....
» 13/07/2009 6:42:53 PM for those interested in this issue, i strongly recommend "lockhart's lament": h.....
» 5/07/2009 8:05:25 PM ah, the heritage foundation. fine dispenser of hairy-chested lunacy......
» 3/07/2009 1:00:53 AM velocidex, it is absurd to suggest that the catholic church has lost its moral authority. .....
» 22/06/2009 12:31:04 AM boxgum, your joke is genuinely funny. your sermon is genuinely ridiculous......
» 19/06/2009 11:06:46 PM it's good to see this revolting little creep is getting the response he deserves......
» 18/06/2009 11:50:01 PM protagoras, i assume you're referring to my post. needless to say, i wasn't really defend.....
» 18/06/2009 9:56:37 AM why all this heat on fielding? of course he's allowed to consider whatever evidence he wis.....
» 16/06/2009 2:06:11 PM oh for god's sake. who on earth cares? if a bunch of people tell me it's snowing and i don.....
» 15/06/2009 2:35:49 AM >> Creationists are involved in some novel research. You could read about that in th.....
» 8/06/2009 12:04:34 PM trav, you're right, i'm not giving you any credit. why should i? i asked you sincere que.....
» 7/06/2009 6:36:33 PM dan, the circularity of your logic is a thing of beauty......
» 7/06/2009 6:34:03 PM trav, believe it or not, my questions to you were sincere. i honestly wasn't expecting you.....
» 6/06/2009 1:48:01 PM trav, thanks for the link to that blogpost. in brief: the post links to a survey on sam h.....
» 5/06/2009 8:03:33 PM oliver, i was pretty sure i knew what you intended. but i was hoping "stratching".....
» 5/06/2009 12:04:18 PM i don't know what stratching sells means, but it sounds like fun. may i try?.....
» 4/06/2009 8:52:37 AM "How does anyone account for reasoning such as this, under a naturalistic framework o.....
» 4/06/2009 8:34:47 AM you said of evolution: "The problem is that the evidence just isn’t there." thi.....
» 2/06/2009 8:28:09 PM trav, i pretty much agree with you that whether dawkins is an atheist or not is pretty muc.....
» 2/06/2009 12:07:11 PM trav, oliver, sancho: can't we all just get along and beat up on sellick? trav, you are o.....
» 1/06/2009 1:19:37 PM "Sells here has once again demonstrated the intolerance of the church for any other v.....
» 31/05/2009 7:08:02 PM "Sells' contributions are if anything challenging to both the faithful of Jesus Chris.....
» 31/05/2009 10:19:46 AM "You are free to call yourself a monkey, if you choose. If I thought you were a monke.....
» 31/05/2009 2:42:07 AM "it is faith and it does not demean others who take other paths." maybe so. but.....
» 30/05/2009 2:16:07 PM "When I asked are we trusting the musings of a brute monkey, .." dan, you don't.....
» 28/05/2009 7:49:12 AM "Sells uses the language of Scripture and its analogous imagery. And it is blunt and .....
» 26/05/2009 6:58:49 PM "What do I mean by ‘basis for reason’? I am asking how we can be confident that our t.....
» 25/05/2009 4:44:58 PM fractelle: "Sells do you have even the faintest inkling of why so many HUMAN BEINGS .....
» 25/05/2009 4:34:45 PM "OK, look through Christianity's history, then look through the history of Godless re.....
» 24/05/2009 1:29:02 PM huh. so "leviathan" and "behemoth" makes the bible a work of paleontol.....
» 24/05/2009 3:31:22 AM trav, "There have been something like 13,000 terrorist attacks taken out in the name.....
» 23/05/2009 11:08:04 AM trav, "I repeat, your impoverished and bizarre strawman carictature .. By using an a.....
» 22/05/2009 2:01:05 PM what fractelle said pericles said......
» 20/05/2009 10:09:15 AM clownfish, i think you're right. but the concerns go well beyond the fact that plimer lost.....
» 18/05/2009 9:51:15 AM pericles, kenny and protagorus and sir vivor and q&a can respond if they wish. though i .....
» 17/05/2009 10:06:02 PM pericles, please tell me you're joking......
» 15/05/2009 11:20:14 PM good god. experts may have agendas, but so do ignoramuses. i would suggest that people rea.....
» 12/05/2009 9:29:13 AM yep, you guessed correctly......
» 7/05/2009 7:03:53 PM keith, if you think there was anything remotely honest about keelty's conduct with regard .....
» 7/05/2009 10:24:07 AM TRTL, good luck. you'll need it......
» 7/05/2009 10:22:18 AM stephen keim is being way too kind. "mistakes and failures of judgment" doesn't .....
» 4/05/2009 8:56:20 PM "Very soon who we have really been worshipping all this time will be revealed for eve.....
» 4/05/2009 5:01:26 AM i liked kenny's version much better than bromund's. it had the same veracity and intellect.....
» 2/05/2009 3:06:31 PM "Anybody who uses a term like "negro" in this day and age and doesn't know .....
» 30/04/2009 2:12:55 PM thanks, wing. if you were an immigration lawyer then you can probably also confirm how muc.....
» 29/04/2009 8:41:18 AM reida, 1) insult or not? not "meant"? maybe pericles was overstating it, but yo.....
» 28/04/2009 9:12:20 PM reida, 1) obviously your tone wasn't insulting, but i think pericles is correct. you wer.....
» 28/04/2009 8:40:22 PM wing ah ling, where do you get your 12%? in case it wasn't clear, i was talking about asy.....
» 28/04/2009 4:06:38 PM yabby, sure. sorry to intrude on an insider dig. i'd still prefer a little more heart in y.....
» 28/04/2009 12:04:37 AM oh for god's sake. dan, don't be so obtuse. you made universal statements about what &quo.....
» 27/04/2009 3:04:03 PM yabby, to have a heart is not to give up on reason, but it is to recognize that there are .....
» 27/04/2009 2:06:34 PM reida, i can make little sense of your first paragraph. to the extent that i can make sens.....
» 27/04/2009 1:21:18 PM reida, no evolutionary biologists that i know of claim the "random emergence" of.....
» 27/04/2009 12:36:42 PM but dan, i thought we'd just decided my christian friends weren't christian after all, deg.....
» 26/04/2009 7:44:13 PM "No Christian believes Jesus to be an ordinary person." "Christians believ.....
» 26/04/2009 12:05:10 PM "socialist obama". sheesh. no, keith, there's nothing wrong with protesting ag.....
» 26/04/2009 11:14:18 AM trav, it is hardly fractelle's burden to "put forward a full explanation" of 200.....
» 22/04/2009 7:19:25 PM chris and phil, i'm sorry but i don't have time right now to respond in detail. (phil, yes.....
» 22/04/2009 11:34:13 AM "At the centre of the ontology of the person is the community, indeed we cannot speak.....
» 22/04/2009 11:29:47 AM "In the end, Australia’s parliamentary system, though not perfect, holds its own with.....
» 20/04/2009 11:54:49 AM go north, and turn right......
» 19/04/2009 3:49:50 AM george, you're putting the academic cart before the horse. before suggesting someone need.....
» 18/04/2009 11:35:02 PM >> belief overall is not in decline as Dye alleges. yes, you keep saying this. &g.....
» 18/04/2009 11:52:36 AM george, thanks for your reply. re the 54%, i agree the question is ambiguous. i searched.....
» 17/04/2009 9:26:38 AM >>because they have a different understanding of the terms “God“, “existence”, “evid.....
» 17/04/2009 9:26:32 AM dan, that's a "no" then? i don't for a minute think christianity in australia .....
» 16/04/2009 3:25:16 PM dan, do you have any evidence that christian belief in australia is as prevalent or as str.....
» 15/04/2009 10:53:49 AM mac (and maybe trav), i would have thought it was up to christians to say what it means to.....
» 12/04/2009 8:30:08 PM >> Christian principles infuse our society and they are a force for good. They make .....
» 10/04/2009 6:35:35 PM packman, >> comments to Christians about being in the league of believers in ‘fairi.....
» 9/04/2009 10:38:43 AM clownfish beat me to it. graham, this is not anti-christian. this is not about you. your b.....
» 8/04/2009 10:34:03 AM sellick, you only pretend to be a gentleman. manners do not equal respect. you do not have.....
» 7/04/2009 11:51:50 PM romany, i respect (and use myself) the rushing-to-class defense. i think partially you exp.....
» 7/04/2009 11:29:15 PM cupcake, you're the gift of humor which keeps on giving. you suggest that i should only t.....
» 7/04/2009 11:37:38 AM >> even on this forum, protesting that rights carry responsibilities and that social.....
» 6/04/2009 1:08:22 PM >> More spending means more taxes, eventually. the crisis is now. >> One mor.....
» 6/04/2009 12:21:56 PM in glorfindel's case, i think it's a pretty explicit acknowledgment. i certainly disagre.....
» 6/04/2009 8:10:44 AM >> I don't deal in allegations against you or others... heh, heh! funny one, cupcak.....
» 5/04/2009 1:53:05 PM i agree with kenny and fester: i simply can't see the point of this article. R0bert may be.....
» 3/04/2009 2:22:16 PM pericles and fractelle nailed it. >> I do scan the comments for something meaty to .....
» 1/04/2009 6:11:56 PM >> It is understandable that those who approach the question with an a priori dislik.....
» 1/04/2009 11:26:11 AM "context", huh? the popes remarks weren't "controversial": they were s.....
» 30/03/2009 11:36:40 AM >> Bushbasher. What is the point of your post? Sellick, what is the point of your .....
» 30/03/2009 9:19:52 AM >> Readers must understand that I use the term “liberal” not in the usual sense ... .....
» 30/03/2009 1:18:58 AM yeah, dan. whatever......
» 28/03/2009 10:50:16 PM rubberneck, i agree fully with your condemnation with the history of australians' lethargy.....
» 28/03/2009 11:39:58 AM >> Their religious vilification laws were unworkable and only succeeded in making th.....
» 24/03/2009 9:52:14 AM yes, cupcake, trying harder would be worthwhile. maybe a little extra homework on reading .....
» 24/03/2009 9:34:12 AM “there is a balance to be struck between the freedom to practice a religion and not pushin.....
» 23/03/2009 2:06:28 PM three cheers for wikileaks. >> The greatest concern of the blacklist being leaked i.....
» 22/03/2009 9:15:10 PM alan, thanks for your straight-forward answers. i'm surprised, and appreciative. i have so.....
» 21/03/2009 11:26:35 PM ah, cupcake. 1) you're still presuming to know my lifestyle choices. you don't. 2) you .....
» 21/03/2009 12:35:26 PM alan: >>My point in raising those questions was to clarify Meg’s understanding of h.....
» 19/03/2009 5:36:01 PM alan a, it's your church and your god. i really don't care. (that is, i don't care until s.....
» 19/03/2009 10:41:01 AM of course george pell also whines about people criticizing his deranged religious message......
» 18/03/2009 8:10:13 PM meg, you're a treasure. alan, i apologize for contributing to the derailment of your thre.....
» 18/03/2009 3:04:57 AM meg1, of course you were never obliged to answer any of my questions. yes, you might have .....
» 17/03/2009 10:52:39 AM enough for me. as i said, i don't think we're disagreeing strongly on anything. there's no.....
» 16/03/2009 8:33:57 PM ah, savage pencil you still can't resist starting with a little bit of point scoring. stil.....
» 16/03/2009 6:59:18 PM >> the more naturally attuned market forces god. people still toss off cheap nonsen.....
» 16/03/2009 3:32:59 PM yet again. runner, i agree that something being legal doesn't make it moral. but similarl.....
» 16/03/2009 11:00:15 AM richie10, i assume your post was directed to O2......
» 15/03/2009 11:21:33 AM >> Does the priest really get Catholics to say "Our Fathers" and "Hai.....
» 14/03/2009 11:44:21 PM >>To understand right-from-wrong, it's necessary to grasp the WHY, bushbasher! I'd i.....
» 14/03/2009 12:23:59 AM >> the principles of the organisation are sound otkonoko, to me the principles of .....
» 13/03/2009 2:51:43 PM meg1: >>I wonder if you understand the concept of right-and-wrong and the consequen.....
» 12/03/2009 1:26:50 AM meg1, 1) what is "normal sexuality"? is oral sex normal or perverse? 2) what d.....
» 12/03/2009 1:24:37 AM dear pencil, sorry for the misnaming. honest, and odd, mistake. you want me to stand 100%.....
» 11/03/2009 9:27:19 PM >> People with tendencies to homosexuality don't have to act on those tendencies, an.....
» 11/03/2009 9:22:52 PM richie 10, thanks for at least giving it a go. by comparison, dennie doesn't seem to have .....
» 10/03/2009 11:24:33 PM savage garden, i stand semi-corrected on referring to saeed as a representative of muslims.....
» 10/03/2009 7:37:18 PM "nixon" and "honorable": not often you get those words in the same sen.....
» 10/03/2009 5:56:19 PM >> I can't offer a solution to Father Kennedy's problem, but it seems to me that St......
» 10/03/2009 5:49:59 PM >>There would not be a Christian or Catholic Church in Australia that is not >&g.....
» 10/03/2009 4:34:53 PM savage pencil, i don't believe there's an australian muslim community any more than there'.....
» 9/03/2009 9:55:30 PM foxydude, i was just having a bit of fun with the mathematical ratios. but i do agree wit.....
» 9/03/2009 2:31:30 PM so, with the old testament we're allowed to be vengeful 26/37 of the time, but with the ne.....
» 9/03/2009 2:18:55 PM sancho, it is not that criticism of israel is necessarily anti-semitism. the argument is t.....
» 8/03/2009 5:05:27 PM a fetus is not a child. saying it doesn't make it so. cherry-picking your favourite dictio.....
» 7/03/2009 3:21:50 PM denny, abortion is a tough issue, but "unborn children" is a contradiction in te.....
» 6/03/2009 2:34:09 PM the thing which annoys me about people called Leigh is the way they always cavalierly use .....
» 3/03/2009 11:26:14 PM toohey oughta look up the definition of "authoritarian"......
» 25/02/2009 9:48:18 PM forget it, mil. life's too short to attempt to reason with guys like you......
» 25/02/2009 8:23:43 AM references, mil. last chance......
» 25/02/2009 1:02:39 AM fine, george. i'll accept a draw. you have more relevant fish to fry......
» 24/02/2009 3:12:34 PM mil: >> "The case against Newton is clear-cut and not denied, although it took.....
» 24/02/2009 7:20:34 AM george, my answer to your question was not "yes": it was "i don't give a da.....
» 23/02/2009 3:16:27 PM romany, i wouldn't know what to do with an ally. i'll definitely watch my step! reida, th.....
» 23/02/2009 2:36:44 PM mil, do you have a reference for the hoaxiness of newton's career? i don't mean the alchem.....
» 22/02/2009 11:55:21 AM yeah, i guess all that calculus and gravity stuff wasn't great shakes......
» 22/02/2009 11:08:36 AM <<bushbasher, Is this the language you would like Catholics, including Bathersby, to.....
» 22/02/2009 10:34:20 AM newton wasn't a "genuine scholar"?.....
» 22/02/2009 2:21:30 AM you guys have the wrong end of the stick. this isn't about contracts. this isn't about ken.....
» 21/02/2009 8:46:04 AM from bathersby's letter to Kennedy from 22 august: "A Bhuddist statue in a Catholic .....
» 20/02/2009 1:41:57 PM if the catholic church wants to change their structure, in order to survive, that's their .....
» 17/02/2009 8:12:02 PM otokonoko, i sort of agree. i didn't much like the article, though i appreciated the senti.....
» 17/02/2009 7:56:49 PM " George's academic prowess". if there's any evidence whatsoever that bush got .....
» 17/02/2009 7:14:26 AM david f, neither you nor george have a snowflake's chance in hell of convincing runner. of.....
» 16/02/2009 6:00:12 PM sancho, it is fair. i agree that bush's role was to be a front for the true psychopaths. b.....
» 16/02/2009 1:18:07 PM waterboy: <<The tone of your last post was somewhat strident and not really in keep.....
» 16/02/2009 9:50:42 AM <<the possibility he is not the one-dimensional twit of popular wisdom.>> zer.....
» 15/02/2009 7:07:37 PM i have a new theory. i think runner is the missing link......
» 15/02/2009 7:06:20 PM meredith, mil-observer is an absolute pro at reading people's minds. you don't get to decl.....
» 15/02/2009 12:51:13 AM waterboy: <<Its not merely a question of vocabulary. God is the appropriate word fo.....
» 14/02/2009 10:09:20 AM crabsy, no worries. with all the heat, it's hard to tell what to engage in. that's my crit.....
» 13/02/2009 11:33:47 AM <<The internet is a medium. That is all. It does not have a nature. >> the me.....
» 12/02/2009 10:17:14 AM waterboy, good post. i would have preferred you used "spirituality" rather than .....
» 11/02/2009 11:31:05 AM <<Anyway, give the Church and all those young people a good bashing if it makes you .....
» 10/02/2009 8:49:18 PM pericles, i guess it comes down to a matter of degree. how religious does a religious scho.....
» 9/02/2009 6:55:56 PM pericles, indeed i'm against any government funding for any independent school. but, even .....
» 9/02/2009 1:32:41 PM <<Also, to unilaterally decide that schools funded by religious groups should not qu.....
» 7/02/2009 3:46:09 PM <<Your insistence of evidence ignores the bible. >> evidence of what? <&l.....
» 5/02/2009 5:47:34 PM a loathsome event staged by a loathsome group, led in australia by a loathsome, sanctimoni.....
» 4/02/2009 11:56:50 PM george, i wasn't in any way implying that your beliefs amount to a cartoon christianity. m.....
» 4/02/2009 2:12:06 PM boxgum, i'm honestly not sure what you're getting at with that post. your quotes seem no .....
» 3/02/2009 11:14:53 PM george, mostly i think we're disagreeing on matters of decorum. i do also think there is.....
» 2/02/2009 2:28:19 PM george: <<One cannot defend one‘s world view, or just point of view, without attrib.....
» 2/02/2009 1:35:45 AM hoo boy! where to begin ... m-l: 1) you quote one or more guys charging fraud. i have .....
» 2/02/2009 12:50:02 AM crabsy, accidentally or otherwise, i think you've located the solid ground. you paraphrase.....
» 1/02/2009 2:16:31 PM bugsy, please try to keep up: as i pointed out earlier, it's a magic envelope. mil-observ.....
» 1/02/2009 9:51:26 AM dear george, might you be playing a little devil's advocate here? "Let me repeat: ar.....
» 31/01/2009 11:33:20 PM mil-observer, if you so, so little enjoy to state the irony (?), it might be best to wait .....
» 31/01/2009 11:04:19 PM "Some of the atheists in this thread have been upset because they have interpreted me.....
» 31/01/2009 1:31:30 PM mil-observer, your quotes are neither here nor there, twice-over. first, your quotes do n.....
» 31/01/2009 9:04:11 AM george, re dawkins i have no particular argument with you. i know what you're trying to te.....
» 30/01/2009 7:01:33 PM "So it is with global warming. Other methods of evaluating the risks, like reviewing .....
» 30/01/2009 6:44:27 PM Peter the Believer, I congratulate you. someone suggested your post was gutter stuff, but .....
» 30/01/2009 2:55:01 AM george, you suggest that dawkins' sense of atheism is "positive". i'm not really.....
» 29/01/2009 12:35:16 PM i wonder if even prasser believes the crap he writes......
» 29/01/2009 10:38:52 AM hmm. i do wonder if sellick has a day job, but i didn't mind this article so much. his pla.....
» 23/01/2009 1:23:44 PM perhaps one way to stop people thinking it's just the name is to stop whining about the na.....
» 15/01/2009 12:50:12 AM hear, hear......
» 14/01/2009 10:56:59 PM collette, i had no particular problem with the pope's speech. i found it silly, but in the.....
» 14/01/2009 2:18:19 PM "What the church rejects is the genital expression of homosexuality.....So that's wha.....
» 12/01/2009 7:11:35 PM gibo, i think what a bunch us can't understand is some people's preoccupation with OTHER p.....
» 10/01/2009 5:30:12 PM poly-boaz, i ask again: 1) why is your desire to re-criminalize homosexuality different i.....
» 9/01/2009 4:44:02 PM trav, the beating up of the catholic church is becoming (somewhat) a more regular occurren.....
» 9/01/2009 3:51:26 PM i agree with tommy and crabsy. on a quick read, i found the pope's speech mighty weird (as.....
» 4/01/2009 9:16:05 PM my favourite was the bit about how the crusades were such a great idea......
» 4/01/2009 8:31:05 PM faustino, sells may not be knocking science. perhaps just damning it with non-existent pra.....
» 4/01/2009 10:24:43 AM foxy, i have little respect or trust for anybody who uses the word "zionist" in .....
» 3/01/2009 11:17:59 AM dear OUG, this may sound strange coming from a guy who seldom uses the shift key, but for.....
» 3/01/2009 11:11:07 AM hi romany, thanks for the details. i'm not knowledgeable on this stuff and i do really ap.....
» 2/01/2009 2:51:27 PM hi again, romany i forgot before to thank you for your first "interruption", an.....
» 2/01/2009 2:24:57 PM examinator, if you want to change the tone, you might address mebda's clear and specific c.....
» 2/01/2009 12:47:12 PM hi romany, i did a quick wikipedia to check on "middle ages", but take your wor.....
» 2/01/2009 10:47:13 AM "Virtually all historians of science, including Crombie, Lindberg, Grant, Jaki, Golds.....
» 2/01/2009 8:36:08 AM webby, did judaism/christianity historically contribute to the development of science and .....
» 31/12/2008 8:31:36 PM http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/victor_zammit_the_latest_kook_in_my_collection.....
» 30/12/2008 12:47:48 PM adamd, you can point out the nature of scientific belief all you like, but it won't alter .....
» 29/12/2008 6:06:45 PM CJ, from your posts i take it poly-boaz has a habit of simply disappearing when perhaps co.....
» 29/12/2008 6:03:14 PM yabby, i'm surprised but pleased that you still have the patience to respond to such obtus.....
» 29/12/2008 3:02:59 PM there goes the neighborhood......
» 28/12/2008 2:47:43 PM worst president in the last 50 years? why stop there? it's not a question of whether he's .....
» 28/12/2008 1:50:53 PM poly-boaz, i'm genuinely astonished by your answers. and appalled. i wasn't trying to do a.....
» 27/12/2008 12:19:34 PM poly-boaz, oral sex need not be "foreplay". it needn't have anything to do with .....
» 26/12/2008 10:54:26 AM poly-boaz, do you also regard oral sex between heterosexuals as 'abnormal/un-natural/devia.....
» 25/12/2008 4:37:25 PM "but the Bible does not condemn people based on any of these things. It is homosexual.....
» 24/12/2008 6:38:59 PM "personal abuse"? there's something very odd about your posts, keith. you string.....
» 24/12/2008 5:50:11 PM not exactly the friendliest or most inviting of christmas sermons. but it is christmas. i'.....
» 23/12/2008 2:07:22 PM keep digging, keith: there's gotta be a pony in there somewhere......
» 22/12/2008 5:40:47 PM "Well if you'd read what I'd originally asserted, and it certainly wasn't that George.....
» 22/12/2008 4:17:27 PM "Who can argue with more university graduates?" i can. it's exactly this kind .....
» 22/12/2008 8:53:59 AM jesus wept......
» 21/12/2008 4:42:55 PM keith: a) also supplying drugs and condoms does not preclude that bush is pushing his mor.....
» 20/12/2008 5:53:03 PM keith, here is wikipedia on abstinence-only and pepfar: "... the plan committed the.....
» 20/12/2008 11:58:33 AM no, the article is not "in large part about trad". it is extremely remotely abou.....
» 20/12/2008 3:07:35 AM dear meredith, 1) i not only didn't "technically" call anyone names, i didn't .....
» 20/12/2008 2:23:03 AM yeah, i'm kinda curious to see keith's reply to the abstinence thing as well. but i won't .....
» 19/12/2008 12:34:04 PM is "Moran" spelled correctly? i'm pretty sure there's supposed to be two O's......
» 18/12/2008 7:35:31 PM dear meredith, 1) i didn't call anyone names. but now i will. 2) i am not excusing anyon.....
» 18/12/2008 5:31:03 PM gee, the gang's all here. and what a charming gang they are. pericles nailed it in one......
» 17/12/2008 12:42:42 PM keith: 1) aids relief to africa is the one point upon which i will agree, bush's one grea.....
» 16/12/2008 6:00:12 PM i find the sheer heartless of people like boaz-carp and jayb astonishing and deeply depres.....
» 16/12/2008 1:57:27 PM j s mill, i'm sorry but i think "rant" is the only reasonable response to 8 year.....
» 16/12/2008 8:52:35 AM what sancho said......
» 16/12/2008 1:08:58 AM it's important to have a strong opposition. but i'd rather do without. all those liberal w.....
» 12/12/2008 8:49:51 AM boaz, let's not and say we did. i have no interest in fueling your nonsense. shall we giv.....
» 11/12/2008 8:53:36 AM "Fess up Pericles.. you are trying deliberately to misrepresent me in the most scurri.....
» 9/12/2008 1:29:54 PM "Islam is an ideology threatening the non-Muslims' liberal democratic principle of se.....
» 8/12/2008 10:44:09 PM pericles, i'll take the blame for your soaked keyboard: as i'm sure you're aware, i had si.....
» 8/12/2008 10:06:58 PM well spotted, bennie. this one was a no-brainer, and muehlenberg still managed to trip ove.....
» 8/12/2008 11:16:13 AM banjo, i agree. i wasn't trying to be cute. i'm no fan of trad, and i'm no fan of cultural.....
» 7/12/2008 9:40:59 AM gee. i suggest maybe we actually should discuss the islamic women's report that no one can.....
» 6/12/2008 11:53:27 AM froggie, i'm sure katieo is just thrilled with your last sentence. i don't see any apolog.....
» 6/12/2008 9:05:39 AM 'But when you say “What counts is”..... that's a subjective approach which is simply repor.....
» 6/12/2008 8:46:13 AM three cheers for david f. dickie, no animal abuse is trivial to the animal, and not to m.....
» 4/12/2008 10:08:27 PM 1) "then your time would be better spent discussing corporatisation of meat productio.....
» 3/12/2008 10:46:12 AM chandralekha, 1) it is not that the "think of the children" argument doesn't in.....
» 2/12/2008 10:32:16 PM boaz, you're ample dog whether or not you have a bone. bennie has answered you very well.....
» 2/12/2008 8:28:09 PM dickie, 1) you don't have god on your side because you're defending your rights, and nei.....
» 2/12/2008 10:39:03 AM dickie, your response is absurd. 1) i don't believe there is "public moral indiffer.....
» 1/12/2008 11:20:44 PM katieo, i don't see anyone applauding keysar, most definitely not me. and thank-you for at.....
» 1/12/2008 2:59:40 PM boaz, you polycarping cretin: 1) of course religious texts and the lives of religious fig.....
» 1/12/2008 12:48:05 AM "In the meantime, I still think we need to halt the rampant proliferation of any porn.....
» 1/12/2008 12:27:09 AM so, "the reality of the Church" is at heart "the People of God here, firmly.....
» 30/11/2008 8:37:08 PM polycarp. "How is it not rational to base one's understanding of Islam on the teachin.....
» 29/11/2008 2:28:30 PM forgive me, polycarp. i meant "christian" fanatics. I forgot my quotes. as did y.....
» 28/11/2008 4:01:13 PM keysar does himself no favours with this article, but he seldom does. but there's always p.....
» 26/11/2008 12:29:58 PM GP, i don't get annoyed at people with religious beliefs. i get annoyed at arrogant tools .....
» 26/11/2008 10:14:28 AM excellent, touching article......
» 25/11/2008 1:54:31 PM no, theology is not a science, any more than astrology is or numerology is. sellick can wr.....
» 16/11/2008 6:57:18 PM yes, benjam1n, you have correctly noted that loewenstein is an idiot, and a pretty slimy a.....
» 14/11/2008 4:07:49 PM i'm not sure there's too much to worry about. conroy's plan should buckle under the weight.....
» 13/11/2008 9:22:44 AM huh? i'm lost. is this whole article meant to be satirical? i'm no fan of mccain, but is.....
» 13/11/2008 8:39:25 AM "However most Christians I know are quite fond of democracy and the concepts of secul.....
» 11/11/2008 12:05:35 PM kactuz, are you really asking such questions in good faith? is anything i write going to m.....
» 10/11/2008 8:53:33 AM kactuz, bushbasher here. i doubt that bushbred is willing to enter your filthy pigsty. 1).....
» 9/11/2008 10:36:40 PM horus, kactuz's challenge is fair but absurdly trivial. if you and kactuz cannot find musl.....
» 8/11/2008 5:09:06 PM bushbred, i admire your gentle manner in response to these idiots. (i admire it but i can'.....
» 8/11/2008 8:30:02 AM hilarious. boaz disowns the crusades at the very same time that he's trying to start a new.....
» 7/11/2008 11:47:37 AM boaz, you can be so goddam obtuse it defies belief. you're like the guy in barton fink: yo.....
» 7/11/2008 11:34:46 AM yep, for an article about whining, it is incredibly whiny......
» 6/11/2008 8:58:28 PM romany, you're probably right (give or take replacing hawking by dawkins). a more interes.....
» 6/11/2008 3:14:20 PM "we are not dealing with normal people". yep, mr right, you said it. nothing nor.....
» 6/11/2008 3:07:40 PM what bennie said......
» 4/11/2008 1:32:12 PM polycarp, i actually think there's some truth to what you say. it would be a hell of a lot.....
» 3/11/2008 5:52:05 PM waterboy and pericles, terrific posts. boazy-polycarpy, i appreciate your attempt to expl.....
» 3/11/2008 12:54:36 AM cute. yep, horus, there's some lovely people in the world. and if i'd claimed some univers.....
» 2/11/2008 4:51:11 PM hmm. i guess it was them muslims that done burned all them witches......
» 2/11/2008 4:46:59 PM mccain is not nearly as bad as he pretends to be, and obama is not as good as i wish. but.....
» 1/11/2008 9:28:32 AM polycarp, plenty of people have addressed the pseudo-substance of sellick's previous tho.....
» 31/10/2008 1:37:00 PM nice to see sellick's sleazy drivel getting the bollocking it so richly deserves......
» 27/10/2008 11:10:13 PM CJ is being way too nice. Cook is either a liar or an idiot......
» 26/10/2008 10:35:33 PM not sure what it tells us about barns, but polycarp's irrelevant slagging tells us polycar.....
» 6/10/2008 7:09:02 PM belief in god may not be childish, but i don't see how the article provides any support fo.....
» 23/09/2008 11:22:32 AM a sleazy misreading of cannold's piece. but i appreciate sellick's response. in the past.....
» 8/09/2008 1:54:46 PM yes, i think he does. it's sleight of hand, with one hand and no sleight......
» 6/09/2008 12:53:35 PM peter: 1) "My target is the ultra rationalist that must see a reason for everything......
» 5/09/2008 9:15:58 AM sellick, i have some sympathy with you and other christians, when "christian" is.....
» 3/09/2008 8:30:58 PM dan, forgive me? that was unbelievably brash of me? suggesting that man is not at the cent.....
» 3/09/2008 9:41:31 AM fractelle, very very good question. why only the christian story, indeed. george, in fac.....
» 2/09/2008 12:49:54 PM george, you say that the issue is not one of compatibility but of tolerance. i would agree.....
» 31/08/2008 10:07:57 AM keith, i have imagination too. and i haven't settled anything in the manner being suggeste.....
» 30/08/2008 10:08:13 AM sellick, you're still being insulting. just because i respect scientific truth, just becau.....
» 29/08/2008 9:19:43 AM dear peter, 1) the problem with non-Copernican religious cosmology is that it, figurative.....
» 17/08/2008 9:59:34 AM you gotta admire the way this torture-loving fascist can take 500 years of legal principle.....
» 17/08/2008 9:54:01 AM hmm. is it worth defending myself? no, but what the hell? 1) i 'm anonymous: so what? 2).....
» 15/07/2008 5:54:44 PM my god. GP really believes this crap. he really believes christians are aspiring to an obj.....
» 11/07/2008 6:00:53 PM GP, what makes me so cross is a) your relentless pushing of god as an objective source o.....
» 10/07/2008 6:53:26 PM GP, i will try to be polite, but you're making it tough. 1) i, like anyone, obviously hav.....
» 9/07/2008 3:58:09 PM grey, "nature" has no concern for good or bad, but conscious humans obviously do.....
» 9/07/2008 12:40:33 AM GP, are you kidding? of course the article is promoting religion. read the last paragraph!.....
» 8/07/2008 4:01:46 PM i'm an atheist, but this article leaves me queasy. the author is just a little too pleased.....
» 8/07/2008 2:31:52 PM a few of the christians who post at OLO, i enjoy engaging with. many frustrate me, most be.....
» 7/07/2008 7:50:44 PM oh no, david, of course not. you're not hung up on homosexuality at all. what you've writt.....
» 7/07/2008 6:28:18 PM grey, don't be silly. plenty of people are engaging with preston's arguments, just like th.....
» 7/07/2008 2:06:43 PM hamlet, i'm not going to fight with you. even on your own terms, i don't understand the po.....
» 7/07/2008 2:05:25 PM anybody know why preston keeps writing this same nonsense again and again and again?.....
» 6/07/2008 7:33:14 PM hamlet, i'm not sure of the purpose of your last post. questioning the labels and the catg.....
» 6/07/2008 12:45:50 AM rhian, you said it exactly, much better than me. david palmer, "homosexual lifestyle.....
» 3/07/2008 11:58:46 AM what Bronwyn said CJ said. and jpw2040, you needn't apologize too profusely: the bias is .....
» 3/07/2008 1:19:39 AM hamlet and runner. of course i am not willing to accept biblical definitions, or biblical .....
» 2/07/2008 1:46:05 PM hamlet, thank-you. a few comments. 1) it is reasonable to believe that jesus supported ce.....
» 2/07/2008 1:43:54 PM clive hamilton is absolutely correct. i'd just say that OLO has not been captured by clima.....
» 1/07/2008 3:35:51 PM for once, i'm pleased to read a post by runner. he wishes to distinguish levitical law wit.....
» 24/06/2008 4:24:36 PM it's reassuring to see this moral and logical tripe get the reception it deserves......
» 24/06/2008 12:48:44 PM what pericles said......
» 8/06/2008 2:40:59 AM ginx, that's fine. that's your choice. i'm sorry to be predictable, and thus boring. (i .....
» 8/06/2008 12:58:33 AM Ginx, i think the raiding of the galleries, all to the drumbeat of a crusading media, can .....
» 7/06/2008 7:17:49 PM mil, i've tried to treat your posts fairly. i'm sorry if you feel otherwise. but i regard .....
» 7/06/2008 1:01:14 PM mil-oberserver, 1) you address your post to me, but refer to all manner of posters from g.....
» 6/06/2008 3:19:31 PM bronwyn, thanks tons for the link. lev, o.k. NOW the idiotic henson game is over. mil-ob.....
» 6/06/2008 11:38:35 AM i think it is wonderful that hetty wrote this. it is such a poor and dishonest summary of .....
» 6/06/2008 12:50:05 AM gees, steel, that was pretty harsh. not that i agree with much in bronwyn's posts. but i w.....
» 5/06/2008 12:19:23 PM mil-observer, thanks for your reply. i'll think more, but a few comments. 1) i agree that.....
» 4/06/2008 11:36:08 PM mil-observer, sorry but i just don't see it. i read the article again, and i just don't se.....
» 4/06/2008 7:01:03 PM pericles, contrition noted. in fact i agree, that "crucial to their sense of identi.....
» 3/06/2008 10:54:43 PM bronwyn, it's an aggressively worded shot, but i'm not sure it's a cheap shot. if the guy.....
» 3/06/2008 12:42:05 PM yes, pericles, you're right. you are being impolite. and superior. nice article. it was .....
» 3/06/2008 12:34:37 PM well, there go the harry potter movies. and the children of narnia movie. and nicky webste.....
» 2/06/2008 5:14:45 AM katiO, as it happens, i disagree with pretty much everything in your final posts. but this.....
» 1/06/2008 3:11:33 PM GZ, 1) what you call a strawman has nothing to do with distinguishing (A) from (B). it is.....
» 31/05/2008 5:42:06 PM GZ, do i have "a touch of presumptuousness, self-conceit and arrogance". more th.....
» 31/05/2008 11:44:37 AM katieO, i've had time to get the article you're referring to, so now i know what you're on.....
» 30/05/2008 3:28:04 AM well, that was a productive little exchange. i must try it again sometime. yes, GZ, game .....
» 29/05/2008 6:06:42 PM GZ, you may have good reasons for attacking islam, but that doesn't mean that the way you .....
» 29/05/2008 1:54:58 AM GZ, that is true. you don't HAVE to attack other religions for similarly implausible belie.....
» 28/05/2008 5:31:56 PM GZ, what's your point? that some religions are allowed implausible beliefs, but others are.....
» 20/05/2008 10:20:04 PM nice post, bennie. dan, it's not clear to which posts you're referring. i think, like a .....
» 20/05/2008 4:50:07 PM hi michael2, i think all of us left have either decided the original article was pretty bo.....
» 20/05/2008 4:37:33 PM shall we also see ariel writing on bush? or does playing loose with the truth to start war.....
» 19/05/2008 9:34:18 PM o.k. goodthief. i meant no offense. i wasn't trying to put beliefs into your mouth. but n.....
» 19/05/2008 1:40:41 PM well i don't want to make it a new age huggy thing, but i've also very much appreciated th.....
» 18/05/2008 7:11:29 PM foolish me, thinking i was going to get out of here so easily. graham, i'm not sure i acc.....
» 18/05/2008 5:10:46 PM hi bennie, i'm sorry but i'm going to have to agree with you again! i agree that kellow i.....
» 18/05/2008 4:45:29 PM sigh! don, "disgust" describes my reaction, it is not abuse. ditto not giving a .....
» 18/05/2008 11:39:03 AM boaz and greenfield, you're missing my point. when it comes to comparing your books, i don.....
» 18/05/2008 don, i can see nothing abusive or ad hominem in my post. if you do not see why i think lif.....
» 17/05/2008 6:28:42 PM hi bennie, i think we're agreeing. but i wouldn't phrase it that the parrot-farm science w.....
» 17/05/2008 1:35:42 PM rstuart, brilliant posts. thank-you. don, i have attempted a couple of times to read you.....
» 17/05/2008 1:07:05 PM yes, graham, you are right. the books give some sense of the boundaries, and obviously a s.....
» 16/05/2008 10:31:14 PM of course, you religious guys are free to argue over the value of your books - implicitly .....
» 16/05/2008 8:42:36 PM arjay, you are right, that scientists do not have a monopoly on wisdom. in particular, whe.....
» 16/05/2008 4:39:41 PM i have an honest question. kellow is arguing that we should be careful of modern scientif.....
» 16/05/2008 1:46:46 AM hi goodthief, yes i think we largely agree: for moral pondering, evolution is a red herrin.....
» 15/05/2008 11:40:14 PM "This site exists to challenge beliefs and explore ideas. When there is a debate to b.....
» 15/05/2008 1:49:41 PM williams isn't bullying, he's ridiculing. and rather than ridiculing aitkin, he's ridiculi.....
» 15/05/2008 2:08:30 AM katieO, fair enough. i don't want to distract from the main point of my post, so let's cha.....
» 14/05/2008 2:01:33 PM paul l, you address your last post to me. 1) you refer to "christian haters". .....
» 14/05/2008 1:01:25 PM goodthief, welcome back. i welcome your contributions, but, as before, i think you're miss.....
» 13/05/2008 4:12:05 PM very well said, GP. evolution may inspire non-biologists into any manner of tenuous analog.....
» 13/05/2008 3:52:51 PM oh, so sorry, boazy. you weren't defending torture PER SE. my mistake. stevenlmeyer, kact.....
» 13/05/2008 2:40:34 PM paul L, i save such language for ideologically inspired threats to academic freedom. is th.....
» 13/05/2008 9:49:57 AM a chilling campaign, courtesy of chillingly nasty and dishonest political creeps......
» 13/05/2008 2:19:18 AM ah yes, the holier than thou christians come to preach. it would be more convincing if one.....
» 12/05/2008 12:22:28 PM excellent posts, Morgan and meyer. i would suggest that at times howling down someone effe.....
» 11/05/2008 7:21:05 PM well said, bennie. in fact, the true "enemies of western civilisation" are psych.....
» 11/05/2008 12:02:55 AM spender is happy to wax lyrical about hypothetical bogeyman stories, but spends not a word.....
» 10/05/2008 12:06:04 AM TRTL, brilliant posts......
» 9/05/2008 4:57:39 PM i'm no fan of keysar trad, but reading the hysterical responses to his article, i might ch.....
» 9/05/2008 3:38:09 PM Candide, you ask who is credible on AGW or generally on science, or how to determine this?.....
» 8/05/2008 2:49:47 PM don aitkin, you write: "If the science were absolutely clearcut, we wouldn't be havi.....
» 8/05/2008 1:07:26 PM anti-green you're missing the point of the article. brook is not making a scientific argum.....
» 7/05/2008 11:52:03 PM boaz, a word of advice: if you actually include some facts or evidence or argument, you're.....
» 4/05/2008 10:19:49 PM paulr, you raise an important point, but it has nothing to do with religion versus secular.....
» 3/05/2008 6:54:52 PM paulr, do you now see my point? of course you are right, that taking one sentence out of l.....
» 3/05/2008 1:44:43 AM I'm with boaz. i mean, if the text is clear, the text is clear. for example: "If a m.....
» 2/05/2008 2:36:41 PM boaz, is christianity diverse? if so, then what permits christianity a diversity impossibl.....
» 20/04/2008 2:50:07 AM mark lawson: scientist extraordinaire......
» 14/04/2008 4:19:54 PM "It’s difficult to be sceptical about Kevin Rudd's summit of Australia's "best a.....
» 11/04/2008 8:46:41 PM Sellick beings: "Anti-dogmatism is that movement in the Protestant churches that woul.....
» 11/04/2008 10:55:59 AM it's just so cute when children play "scientist"......
» 10/04/2008 10:45:48 PM george i'm happy with metaphors and models, as long as they are illustrative. i have no pr.....
» 10/04/2008 7:38:51 PM oh, for heaven's sake. religious dogma as analogous to mathematics? mathematicians, both p.....
» 3/04/2008 6:59:42 PM one need not be a cretin in order to make cretinous claims......
» 2/04/2008 10:31:01 PM i guess the price of having OLO run by liberals is having to tolerate articles from these .....
» 28/03/2008 4:06:04 PM astonishing article. i can accept the poverty of the arguments: olo publishes all manner o.....
» 28/03/2008 12:20:05 AM sorry, centra! that was presumptuous of me to assume you were a chinese national. (ps: i'.....
» 27/03/2008 10:13:42 AM centra, i won't insert myself into your fight with boaz over the chinese government. i wil.....
» 26/03/2008 12:59:49 PM Centra, perhaps it is the language barrier, but i've had trouble understanding your posts,.....
» 25/03/2008 12:07:52 AM TRTL, this critic's opinion is that the author's statistics are entirely irrelevant. if Ch.....
» 23/03/2008 2:53:07 AM once again, nonsense. lo's article is not about the current conflict: it is about how wond.....
» 22/03/2008 2:06:04 AM nonsense. lo's arguments may have some truth behind them, and in fact i think some of them.....
» 21/03/2008 11:31:54 AM one of the most disgusting articles i've read on olo. the man is a dishonest stooge......
» 17/03/2008 9:16:39 PM hi goodthief, i agree the thread seems dried up. so, i'll make this my last post here, an.....
» 16/03/2008 6:26:15 PM goodthief, you suggest that value/respect is objective, but i don't know how to think of i.....
» 14/03/2008 9:22:39 AM goodthief, sorry for the confusion. i thought i had pre-declared when i wrote early on tha.....
» 14/03/2008 2:06:52 AM csteele, that was a lovely, human post......
» 13/03/2008 8:39:11 AM oh dan, dan, dan, you're such a cutey. yes, of course you can talk about gaps in the foss.....
» 12/03/2008 10:25:09 AM goodthief, good luck. i'll hold my fire, but from boaz's post, i can discern no common gro.....
» 11/03/2008 8:31:44 PM goodthief, i very much agree with your starting point. in fact the ability to agree upon t.....
» 11/03/2008 12:05:21 AM martin, the article you linked argues (correctly, if boringly) that shouts of "theocr.....
» 10/03/2008 4:30:52 PM goodthief, if you have evidence that "evolutionsts are not really capable of being hu.....
» 9/03/2008 6:50:01 PM What Ginx said!.....
» 8/03/2008 8:33:39 PM "These gaps are clear evidence in the fossil record for distinctly separate categorie.....
» 8/03/2008 11:56:02 AM it's not sexist. it's a joke with truth behind it. it's very feisty and very funny......
» 7/03/2008 2:13:37 PM nothing like seeing a torture advocate advance an argument by reference to justice kirby......
» 6/03/2008 5:47:34 PM gecko, it's the anonymous bushbasher (not bushwacker) here. i agree that the anonymity on.....
» 3/03/2008 1:08:34 PM it is not mathematically unsound to claim that men will want more sex than women, only tha.....
» 28/02/2008 8:35:21 PM free will is not a puzzle once you accept consciousness. how can a mechanical universe giv.....
» 27/02/2008 10:56:12 AM "zionist" is only used three times. this nasty hack is becoming more restrained......
» 26/02/2008 10:16:56 AM common sense should be backed by evidence, of which the author and her supportive posters .....
» 25/02/2008 1:27:09 PM it seems to me i was right: the argument amounts to "I think, therefore God is"......
» 25/02/2008 9:44:50 AM it all sounds a little naive. a reference to the "medical journal" in question w.....
» 22/02/2008 10:21:05 PM so, boaz, just to be clear: you're claiming that there is a "basis" for the mora.....
» 21/02/2008 4:08:31 PM thanks to people above for some great posts. In particular, thank-you bboy for nailing pre.....
» 20/02/2008 2:24:46 PM different thread, same nonsense. "We’re urged to accept scientism: the belief that t.....
» 20/02/2008 9:12:49 AM yep. straw man describes it exactly. i know no atheist who claims any of these questions a.....
» 19/02/2008 5:48:39 PM i think martin has framed the single dumbest proof of the existence of god. as for why hi.....
» 19/02/2008 12:55:17 PM a poorly written, unfleshed and self-serving document. i'm not sure who will pay the $4 bi.....
» 18/02/2008 4:50:40 AM wow! a couple hundred scientists subscribe to creation theory? i'm impressed! http://www......
» 15/02/2008 2:01:29 PM yabby, obviously philip doesn't know the first thing about anything except appealing to au.....
» 14/02/2008 12:24:33 PM Martin, it is in fact you who are astonishingly arrogant. and ignorant. atheism does not a.....
» 12/02/2008 6:21:17 PM the fact that he can't resist using the codeword "zionist" says it all. lowenste.....
» 4/02/2008 2:29:58 PM goodthief, your non-reply is ridiculous. it is true that you are questioning the notion of.....
» 3/02/2008 4:22:09 PM goodthief, please argue with others over the claims and implications of evolution. to rais.....
» 3/02/2008 11:09:58 AM hello again, goodthief. i've read some of the evolutionary arguments for altruism, and to .....
» 30/01/2008 9:23:36 PM pretty pointless article. first, as everybody else is pointing out, the quality of the app.....
» 28/01/2008 9:09:58 PM goodthief, i think that's enough for now. not out of grumpiness - i've appreciated the dis.....
» 28/01/2008 3:43:10 PM goodthief, i think it's obvious we're not getting anywhere. you jump on my use of the word.....
» 27/01/2008 8:11:58 PM goodthief, i have no wish to attack your christian beliefs. but again you've really not of.....
» 26/01/2008 10:42:24 PM goodthief, i appreciate the spirit in which you've written here. but i have to say, it is .....
» 26/01/2008 9:51:50 AM it seems fitting that the "last word on haneef" should be a vacuous paranoid ran.....
» 22/01/2008 1:43:15 PM hi goodthief. you write "i have no reason to believe in the flying spaghetti monster&.....
» 21/01/2008 10:09:23 PM goodthief, i'm honestly not sure what the alternative is to empiricism. i'm happy to agree.....
» 21/01/2008 7:53:02 AM goodthief, can you give examples of the kind of fundamentalist empiricism you suggest some.....
» 19/01/2008 9:00:57 AM there's something very strange about bowden's article. i'll agree there's a nasty edge to .....
» 7/01/2008 2:14:13 AM dan no one said "only a theory", and i wasn't claiming anyone had. that's why i.....
» 6/01/2008 12:13:26 PM george, yes obviously one can be holier-than-thou without a god, and it certainly exists, .....
» 5/01/2008 11:35:28 PM jesus. once again with the sophistic doubting. dan, evolution is a fact, in the common sen.....
» 4/01/2008 7:55:01 PM george, i think any disagreement between us pretty much at the nitpicking level. but a few.....
» 2/01/2008 9:01:19 PM dan, i don't respect your method of arguing, and i won't pretend to. am i impressed by the.....
» 2/01/2008 10:58:15 AM hi, george. yes i'm happy to qualify what i said, that introducing a god cannot be part of.....
» 1/01/2008 2:02:41 PM ah, shockadelic, at least your posts are fun! "The fact of evolution doesn't negate .....
» 1/01/2008 10:15:58 AM dan, i said above i wouldn't try to convince you of anything, and i said why. but perhaps .....
» 30/12/2007 3:38:37 PM dan, you answered my question, in a happily and deliberately ignorant manner. it was at th.....
» 30/12/2007 11:09:40 AM sam said, yes there is plenty which is not understood about evolution (see reida above). b.....
» 29/12/2007 4:51:15 PM damn those secular progressives! if only the religious regressives were in control. oh, wh.....
» 29/12/2007 10:21:16 AM not much point in arguing the subtleties of science with someone who attacks the idea of s.....
» 28/12/2007 8:59:27 PM i just love getting these lessons in morality from Torture Man......
» 28/12/2007 9:15:52 AM shockadelic, reida, i rest my case. dan's not interested in truth. he's only interested in.....
» 28/12/2007 1:08:25 AM shockadelic, i for one have no trouble with valuing myth. but i think you have the wrong e.....
» 26/12/2007 11:36:52 PM dan, now you're just talking vacuous nonsense. evolution is an unchallengeable myth no mor.....
» 25/12/2007 9:49:25 AM reida, i take your point, that the concepts used in science do not have the same type of r.....
» 24/12/2007 9:50:56 AM being anti-israel does not imply being anti-semitic. but does anybody here really deny tha.....
» 24/12/2007 9:43:14 AM what's the moral dilemma? you and your colleagues disapprove of right-wing art pieces? wel.....
» 24/12/2007 8:56:42 AM holy cow. reida, the sun example was dan's, and his example was dumb. you say my criticism.....
» 24/12/2007 12:51:56 AM dan, you may not be able to prove the existence of the noonday sun, but if you don't put o.....
» 21/12/2007 12:34:01 PM i guess it's too much to hope that these nasty, obtuse, thoroughly stupid articles will ev.....
» 20/12/2007 1:09:10 PM way to go, mark. keep it up. the more you try to sell howard's dickensian poison, the long.....
» 30/11/2007 9:18:16 PM No. Find another patsy......
» 30/11/2007 4:59:41 PM blix isn't the topic, even prima facie. the topic is "appeasement", and even tha.....
» 29/11/2007 4:38:47 PM i have no interest in defending blix. but i also have no interest in engaging with ariel's.....
» 29/11/2007 10:07:46 AM an unbelievably dishonest and obtuse article. i'm no fan of blix, but that doesn't mean i .....
» 22/11/2007 10:28:27 AM I agree that Rudd has said nothing of interest on education. But I can see no way that he .....
» 22/11/2007 9:41:46 AM I agree that the computer business is a stunt. But perhaps these smug liberal hacks would .....
» 6/11/2007 11:38:57 PM People aren't having babies because of the lousy public schools? Is there any evidence for.....
» 5/11/2007 12:45:24 PM What a nasty bit of work. One would respond to the content, but there isn't any. Not onl.....
» 28/10/2007 8:29:03 AM keep up the scare campaign, guys. it's working wonders for you. webby, since you're posti.....
» 25/10/2007 4:52:25 PM that's cute. lectures on principle by a guy who advocates torture......
» 22/10/2007 5:21:41 PM webby, your marriage of sanctimony, superstition and bloodlust is truly stunning. can you .....
» 18/10/2007 4:12:28 AM webby, make your choice: is jesus's suggestion that destroyers of faith are be drowned to .....
» 17/10/2007 11:01:50 PM there is nothing quite as absurd or as disgusting as a purported christian arguing the leg.....
» 16/10/2007 10:35:59 PM Capital punishment is barbaric. To refuse to state this for political reasons is psychopat.....
» 13/10/2007 2:33:32 AM so, today we have the report on the deportation of a man to new zealand, despite his havin.....
» 8/10/2007 8:58:12 PM no, banjo. irfan is using one example to introduce and highlight the history of the howard.....
» 8/10/2007 1:02:37 PM gee, banjo. you think this is a one-off? you can't think of any other divisive nastiness w.....
» 3/10/2007 7:40:54 PM Danielle, I agree entirely with you in supporting Columbia's and Bollinger's stance. It is.....
» 3/10/2007 11:26:34 AM coach, i like jesus. i like him because i never hear from him the kind of hate speech in w.....
» 2/10/2007 5:16:35 PM ah, coach, isn't life easy with god on your side? no doubts, no need to reason, no need to.....
» 1/10/2007 12:19:20 PM thanks, coach. it's good to know there's a "context" for the "biblical atro.....
» 30/09/2007 5:31:09 PM bushbred, please don't leave us yet. i enjoy your posts. Paul L, there's no point in resp.....
» 29/09/2007 3:15:37 PM here you go, coach. 11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the on.....
» 29/09/2007 2:19:44 PM coach, should i cherry-pick from the bible, to "prove" how evil christianity is?.....
» 27/09/2007 10:08:41 PM Paul L, you say iran is attacking the U.S. every day. using your standard of "attacki.....
» 27/09/2007 2:30:28 PM great speech, though the idea of an american sermonising on iran's lack of human rights is.....
» 25/09/2007 12:30:55 PM well said, Paul L. Boaz, once again: people are perfectly capable of living meaningful a.....
» 20/09/2007 1:41:51 PM timberjack, it's not about your facts, it's about your carefully selected appeal to author.....
» 18/09/2007 9:42:06 PM gee, timberjack. any other scientists in the news you might like to quote re gunns? did yo.....
» 17/09/2007 5:58:29 PM good god. it's obvious ashbarry is simply a company hack. does anybody honestly believe he.....
» 12/09/2007 10:01:02 AM Howard's "capacity to best connect to working australians" is summed up by Workc.....
» 9/09/2007 6:10:36 PM west, i don't think aqvarivs represents anything except aqvarivs. as for the messages of.....
» 7/09/2007 9:17:57 PM aqvarivs, where did i express my morality was pure? where did i express any moral view wha.....
» 7/09/2007 3:48:09 AM aqvarivs, i have absolutely no fear of moral considerations for you, or for your ewe, or f.....
» 6/09/2007 9:23:43 AM oh, knock it off. i'm not denying anyone their democratic rights. i'm not suggesting chris.....
» 6/09/2007 1:01:15 AM "christian ethics". the arrogance and sanctimoniousness of these people is beyon.....
» 5/09/2007 4:23:08 PM i was referring to mcmahon. it escapes me why online opinion gives so much space to this v.....
» 5/09/2007 4:46:04 AM nice to have ashbarry contributing, given goebbels wasn't available......
» 5/09/2007 4:45:49 AM good god. will this boring, pompous, self-satisfied woman ever stop posting her liberal cr.....
» 13/08/2007 6:50:30 PM Religiously inspired twaddle. "unborn child" is begging the question, and David .....
» 6/08/2007 7:10:46 PM aqvarivs, it is true that you didn't refer to "civil rights groups". You referre.....
» 6/08/2007 12:24:25 PM So, aqvarivs, on the one hand, I criticise your claim and then summarise your claim as &qu.....
» 5/08/2007 4:36:34 PM aqvarivs, what is the point of that abusive and presumptuous post? you don't want to addre.....
» 3/08/2007 8:11:39 AM "people like bushbasher"? people like me are suggesting a "right-wing consp.....
» 1/08/2007 5:40:38 PM mickijo, you can refer to Bali and the drug smuggler cases all you want, but unless you te.....
» 1/08/2007 4:28:31 PM aqvarivs, are you seriously accusing the civil rights groups of embarking upon the "U.....
» 24/07/2007 9:25:53 AM real, your faith in your government is very sweet......
» 24/07/2007 9:20:45 AM Yet again on climate change from this sleazy, know-nothing moron. What on Earth are the OO.....
» 23/07/2007 9:57:05 PM 1. Your last sentence says it all. You totally missed the point. 2. Good God, that's a we.....
» 23/07/2007 8:28:18 PM Oh, what the Hell. I'll bite. runner, what is the "clear evidence" that people.....
» 23/07/2007 1:03:32 PM Authoritarian feminist crap. Evidence? Nah, we don't need that. Correlation equals causati.....
» 23/07/2007 12:44:45 AM Paul L, 1. True, but clearly one of the chilling aspects of the early Haneef days was the.....
» 22/07/2007 4:26:51 PM Hamlet, suspicion equals guilt? Thanks for presenting the thick-and-fascist case so clearl.....
» 22/07/2007 12:00:25 AM Krustyburger, I'm not claiming Ruddock made Haneef up, and I'm not criticising anyone for .....
» 21/07/2007 1:19:28 PM Gee, Paul L. Please do wave your academic qualifications around like a penis. See if I'm i.....
» 20/07/2007 2:51:58 PM Gee, it's so quiet. runner, no comment from you? Leigh, you think believing that cops sh.....
» 20/07/2007 8:55:00 AM Hello? Defenders of Ruddock and the AFP? Are you there? Hello? Is anyone home? Hello?.....
» 19/07/2007 1:32:35 PM We don't know that Haneef has nothing to do with terrorism. What we do know is that all th.....
» 18/07/2007 8:05:36 PM Good on the barrister. This is a political showtrial, making political counter-tactics per.....
» 18/07/2007 7:38:38 AM This is facism, pure and simple. Anybody who can't see this is either themselves a fascist.....
» 15/07/2007 9:55:34 PM Pathetic and pointless article about a pathetic and pointless documentary......
» 13/07/2007 3:57:58 PM runner, given that you call evolution a pseudoscience, you clearly have no concept of what.....
» 13/07/2007 2:55:05 AM Yeah, and the flak that intelligent designer twits get indicates they're right. And the fl.....
» 25/06/2007 11:32:06 PM APR, if you have significant evidence of a Christian God, then please share it. I know of .....
» 24/06/2007 10:58:11 PM Philo, 1) Even though I directly addressed what you wrote, you chose to entirely ignore t.....
» 24/06/2007 5:58:15 PM Philo, do you want to attempt to address the point, or are you happy simply whining about .....
» 23/06/2007 10:47:06 PM runner, you just make up complete crap. You say "secular humanist" as if you hav.....
» 23/06/2007 5:35:57 PM Jesus, Philo. No one is accusing Queensland Christians of being the Spanish Inquisition, s.....
» 22/06/2007 8:48:13 PM Well, this is boring. Only two RI defenders, and neither with any argument of substance to.....
» 22/06/2007 12:25:11 PM I really like the Christian way of arguing: if you can't address the point, just make stuf.....
» 13/06/2007 3:13:31 PM Any similarity between Pell and Jesus is mighty hard to spot......
» 13/06/2007 1:47:21 PM I don't mind the Catholic Church being political. I mind the Catholic Church being superst.....
» 12/06/2007 6:39:12 PM john kosci, don't be absurd. No one is attacking Pell's freedom to speak. runner, i don't.....
» 12/06/2007 2:11:56 AM runner, i was making a point of logic: that the unquestioning following of authority by it.....
» 11/06/2007 10:39:46 AM It is impossible to get your moral rules from an unquestioned authority, whether it's a pa.....
» 10/06/2007 4:44:11 PM father of night, if you think the argument about abortion is that simple then you're a foo.....
» 10/06/2007 12:12:28 AM So we all agree: the problem isn't that Pell is outspoken, the problem is that he's a fund.....
» 9/06/2007 1:15:18 PM Francis, what point could you possibly want to make with a "precise definition of sci.....
» 8/06/2007 9:40:23 AM Pell has every right to talk about the moral codes of his church. We have every right to r.....
» 4/06/2007 4:52:12 PM Frankly, it seems to me most of the posters here are agreeing on most of the issues. In br.....
» 1/06/2007 10:07:02 AM Billy C, you may be right or wrong, but I think the point is that you're arguing the right.....
» 1/06/2007 9:23:33 AM "Debate" has nothing to do with accepting each other's "choices". It h.....
» 18/05/2007 9:18:38 AM As long as Rudd is not Howard, or one of his psychopathic mates, I don't care who he is......
» 8/05/2007 3:46:02 PM The harm principle and the offense principle. If you're going to argue the harm principle,.....
» 8/05/2007 9:36:13 AM Straw man. One doesn't have to "speak in favour" of reprehensible speech in orde.....
» 3/05/2007 6:38:30 PM Dear Sam said, Joe Hockey a "tool"? I couldn't have said it better myself......
» 2/05/2007 3:49:21 PM None of the posters have addressed the "issue", because the issue doesn't exist......
» 2/05/2007 9:32:14 AM Obvious and pathetic scaremongering from a business lackey......
» 28/04/2007 6:50:36 PM Liz, I'm not sure we disagree enough to warrant much further discussion. I obviously don't.....
» 27/04/2007 10:32:51 AM Liz, we basically agree. Teachers are the easy whipping-boys of clueless eco-creeps such a.....
» 26/04/2007 11:34:47 PM Liz, Generally, I think education faculties are much more concerned with faddish, second .....
» 26/04/2007 8:48:28 AM Peformance pay is a red herring. There is nothing wrong with performance pay, but it will.....
» 25/04/2007 10:39:43 AM What I don't understand is what Tristan is still doing in the ALP. Yeah, you preferentiall.....
» 15/04/2007 7:31:20 PM australia's media healthy? yeah, right. australia is a bunch of sheep led by the most blat.....
» 8/04/2007 12:18:12 AM now THAT i enjoyed reading!.....
» 6/04/2007 2:01:57 AM runner, i don't fundamentally disagree with what you wrote, but i think it pretty much bol.....
» 5/04/2007 5:03:50 PM dear runner, how kind of you to keep rumpleman company. perhaps you would care to answer .....
» 4/04/2007 11:40:08 PM Rumpleman, who is my team? why am i on the left? you're simply using "left" as.....
» 4/04/2007 4:50:53 PM it's not a question of whether muehlenberg is a proper academic, it's a question of whethe.....
» 4/04/2007 7:23:42 AM The realisation that a psychopath like Mirko is teaching law is very, very depressing......
» 3/04/2007 10:15:54 PM For God's sake, when will you guys accept it: this is not about Hicks and it is not the &q.....
» 3/04/2007 3:46:09 PM i'm used to reading venomous and dishonest posts from those who hate david hicks (which is.....
» 18/03/2007 10:54:57 AM As do others, I get hugely frustrated and angry with Israel's bloody own-foot shooting, an.....
» 18/03/2007 10:16:51 AM "102 000 Cubans killed by Castro"? Pull the other one......
» 11/03/2007 2:27:04 PM Dear EDADA, I'm not quite sure why "Islamic terrorists" (my expression) is offe.....
» 10/03/2007 10:47:39 AM So it is not a war on terror, but we are at war with the Islamic terrorists? I'm sorry, bu.....
» 9/03/2007 3:00:41 PM Dear Sniggid: 1) My writing name is obviously irrelevant to the discussion of morals. The.....
» 9/03/2007 10:20:14 AM Mr. James, I don't buy your argument (really claim) that there is a war, and I might addre.....
» 8/03/2007 10:54:06 AM I declare War on Authoritarianism. Now I'll lock some people up until the War is over. But.....
» 8/03/2007 9:31:53 AM Complete twaddle. There is no war......
» 4/03/2007 5:34:04 PM Um, well I didn't claim Hicks was tortured, and I didn't call the Americans barbarians for.....
» 4/03/2007 3:10:35 PM You don't like my emotive langauge? Big fat hairy deal. This gives you an exuse to avoid d.....
» 4/03/2007 9:55:18 AM "I do not think you will find a single secular law, in any nation state, that cannot .....
» 3/03/2007 5:24:32 PM Meaningless response, carefully avoiding actually addressing any real issue raised. For .....
» 3/03/2007 2:33:21 PM 70% of schizophrenics breathe air, perhaps more......
» 3/03/2007 2:14:13 PM "David Hicks is much better off going through an American Military Tribunal than any .....
» 1/03/2007 3:33:46 PM Dear Whispering Ted and mylakhrion, I suggest you give up. Some people understand notions .....
» 1/03/2007 3:23:52 AM Three more cheers for mylakhrion......
» 28/02/2007 9:09:07 AM "The very fact that [Hicks] has been held as long as he has may be that he has some i.....
» 27/02/2007 2:31:45 PM Three cheers for mylakhrion......
» 27/02/2007 8:46:12 AM I don't see any reason why the criminal courts cannot be used for a charge of "attemp.....
» 26/02/2007 11:02:59 PM Trashing the left, whatever "the left" is supposed to mean, is not an argument f.....
» 26/02/2007 12:41:53 AM This is ridiculous. People can form their opinions of Hicks's guilt or innocence all they .....
» 24/02/2007 6:08:54 PM So, the arguments for the Iraq war seem to be: (a) Hussein was a nasty man; (b) we need oi.....
» 24/02/2007 4:14:25 PM "An honest look at the totality of the situation". And what exactly does that ha.....
» 24/02/2007 1:02:00 PM What a pointless argument. The U.S. doesn't give a damn about the rule of law or the rules.....
» 22/02/2007 11:41:08 PM I just love these people who argue against calls for a fair (and speedy) trial with diatri.....
» 15/02/2007 8:40:26 AM Dawkins does not dismiss all mystical thought as insanity: he argues that, for instance, t.....
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