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The Atheist Experience: Pascals Wager
Yet they are still betting and fishing money from the poor and gullible around the table, pretending they are sitting on a royal flush, and, because of this neat, unwritten (except in scripture) rule they've established, no one is even supposed to call them out, its taboo, and when we do it anyway, of course our hands are better, We've been shuffling and dealing new hands for 2000 years since they got the hand they're stuck with. Its like we're cheating. And when we do turn over our cards, who wouldnt look smug?
Sam Harris: What happens if you really follow the bible
Exactly, it helps to provide the explanation, or the context, if you have to.
Take for example something that frequently IS taken out of context (by creationists) Darwin, this bit being one of their favourites:
To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
This quote IS taken out of its context, but it would be insufficient of someone defending Darwin or Darwinism to simply yell "OUT OF CONTEXT!!!" unless we explain how. The above quote is the start of a chapter where Darwin actually EXPLAINS how the eye could have evolved. In context, the quote is merely a set-up, written to draw the reader in, only to explain how the un-intuitive is actually the case.
By contrast, take Sam Harris mention of slavery, there isnt a single chapter or verse in the entire bible that condemns slavery. In a book that is looked as a superb moral guide by billions of people, how is that "taking things COMPLETELY out of context"? Is there a way to hold the bible, perhaps at a certain angle, so that when you read it it clearly condemns the practice of slavery?
Why Homosexuality Should Be Banned
Then allow me to say a d--k up one's a-s is nothing to celebrate.
Tolerance.
Thats the wierdest post I've seen in a long time. Anyway, because of support from people like you, You've been fucked up the ass for 8 years straight now, and that may be a teeny bit too long, even for a treehugging communist gay person.
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Sam Harris: What happens if you really follow the bible
How exactly? I was responding to sniper007's claim that :
[Sam Harris] fails to realize that the only reason he can even determine that it is -allegedly- wrong to stone certain individuals because of the Bible's commandment, "Thou shalt not kill."
My point was that according to this absurd logic, no one prior to God's handing out the ten commandments (At Mount Sinai, to the Jews) could know that it was wrong to kill and steal, because God hadn't actually told anyone yet. In the second sentence I ask how other animals, who cant read stone tablets or bibles, can still avoid being murderers and thieves, and even express kindness and fellowship towards others.
Fred_Chopin
http://www.videosift.com/video/Richard-Dawkins-QA-at-UC-Berkeley-March-08
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Wasn't there a questions session?
Sam Harris: What happens if you really follow the bible
He fails to realize that the only reason he can even determine that it is -allegedly- wrong to stone certain individuals because of the Bible's commandment, "Thou shalt not kill."
You just fail.
Your above statement displays an ignorance, arrogance and outright stupidity that quite frankly sickens me, and I'm not quite sure if I should laugh or cry, or bang my head against sharp objects.
How did the jews get to Mount Sinai in the first place? Where they, along with every other hominid and animal, for 3.5 billion years under the impression that murder and thieving was all OK? How come animals ever express kindness and fellowship to their kin, and even other kin?
You've got alot left to explain, and, more importantly, a lot left to read. Try picking up some books on morality, evolution, consciousness and human society. Not to mention a bit of history and general knowledge.
Richard Dawkins lecture at UC Berkeley (March 08)
Wasn't there a questions session?
Yes, there was, but its not online just yet. I'll post it once it becomes available
razz (Member Profile)
just check the contents of our posts
My post:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Genius-Of-Charles-Darwin-by-Richard-Dawkins-Part-1-1
Your post:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Part-2-Richard-Dawkins-NEW-DOCUMENTARY-on-Charles-Darwin
Since this is your first post, and its a GREAT post
Welcome to VideoSift, I'm sorry I get all picky at our first meeting
In reply to this comment by razz:
You didnt beat me to it my friend, you uploaded the first series, I uploaded the 2nd...they're two completely different episodes
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Shit= Møkk or dritt (not considered nasty, and not really swearing in Norwegian)
Piss= Piss
Cunt= Fitte
Fuck= Knulle or Pule (considered naughty, but not used in swearing)
Cocksucker= Kukksuger
motherfucker= no actual word for this..
Tits= Pupper or mugger
Hell= Helvete(this is a common swearword, it sort-of evens it out for Shit, which again, isnt really swearing in norwegian)
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Part 2 Richard Dawkins NEW DOCUMENTARY on Charles Darwin
Episode 1
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The Genius Of Charles Darwin, by Richard Dawkins (Part 2)