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Are you that retarded? How can you even properly double blind for this, unless the thesis is that more prayer works better than less? There are people all around the world praying for "the sick" to get better.

chicks look pretty hot wearing dirty old clothes like they've just come from a life on the streets.

Yeah... they're poor arguments, imo.

A lot of them were also probably racists... the point is we look at their arguments. Also, please note that most of these guys came before "On the origin of species", which certainly made it far easier to be an atheist.

meh once u start speaking of non-personal gods it seems like you could just be speaking of unknown realms of physics.

I find people who argue against the death penalty because locking them up for the rest of their life is a bigger torture to be the strangest beast in this debate. I mean, is torture something we should be promoting? Because surely an even BIGGER torture would be if we systematically abused them...

dey tuk ur gravez

I remember Nelson once saying that 95% of the capabilities of the JSF are in the public arena, but that there's 5% which is classified that makes it so important... Anyone have any suggestions as to what that '5%' may be?

ANY point in history? No... But recently I do think there has been a spike. I think challenges to religious belief, instable times generally inflame people's religious fervor. In the future I see a lot more 'spirituality' and a lot less religion, with people claiming the former is better than...

Sure, there are benefits... Would you want to live a lie if it made you happier?

um... what system are you proposing? World-wide totalitarian dictatorship? The way (at least from my understanding) communist politics would work sort of starts by the election of local union representatives and then moves its way up. I think you're arguing against something that communism...

Fairly interesting discussion on the evolution of the moral consciousness of the left and the right: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html

I'm impressed with Zietgeists posts, hopefully he sticks around to continue to challenge the right on this forum. As for Anarchism, I think for a proper critique we need to move beyond even seeing the state as a necessary evil (i.e. because say we need protection from more oppressive regimes and...

Dress up like a kinky maid and let him spank you.

I did... the answer is maybe? If they only have two options I put it at 55/45 in favour of the kid from blacktown high, the advantage coming from the prospect that his rougher road to success will be respected.

Your example of who would the dean pick? Seriously the truth is that such a situation never occurs and if it did it's just as likely that he would pick the kid from blacktown high who would get in on being from a more disadvantaged area.

No, I think we should have a minimum standard whereby even if you're a total screwup piece of shit that hasn't looked after yourself we'll still look after you. Even if you're personally responsible for your situation, I think society is better off looking after you than not.

There's the utilities allowance. They have plenty enough money to live etc... what they don't have is a comfortable standard of living. I support making the lives of pensioners easier.

Public transport? A small, economical 2nd hand car? I support an increase on the pension because I think it's good to be charitable to those most in need and I think the government runs charity best. But it's about giving them greater luxury, not giving them essential 'basics', which they...

If the pension needs to be raised to a level where I'd find it desirable then we've got a problem. This whole idea that we should legislate what we'd want for ourselves is silly, we don't have the resources to do that.