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It doesn't work. First of all it makes working under that boss horrible. It makes work suck, it kills the joy of it, it's horrible to do to people. And it doesn't make economic sense. Jerks at work are an economic liability for a corporation that costs the company money on a daily basis. The...

No one is testing your "faith." You're just embarked on an exercise in making yourself believe something that isn't true, in the vain hope that you will someday "win" by killing the nagging doubt that you will cease to exist upon death. The only devils are the human beings who cut a bloody...

Good and evil exist. Said the atheist. I don't need god to define it. And I don't need useless children telling me "other people have different opinions" as if that somehow proves good and evil aren't real. I wonder if that type of person has ever been in a school, ever been in a classroom full...

so it is Ok for as long as it turns you on, but if hey do it for their own pleasure is wrong? It has already been disproved. Nature has shown its way, and whether your prejudices accept it or not, it will not change. what is normal? Who gets to define what normal is?

Well of course it's a personal issue. God is either your personal savior or a confession of personal weakness. I like the miracles of science better, because they, y'know, exist. If you're not too caught up on your beliefs being true then yeah, maybe religion is for you.

I don't like religious fundamentalism. If we had some different, strange religion, that demanded it's adherents run about cutting off the heads of nonbelievers, we should ask them to stop. Asking the men to stop subjugating their women is less extreme but thematically the same.

For the record, planets aren't moving away from each other due to universe expansion. Galaxies and the groups they comprise, yes. But the motions of planets are more governed by the loss of mass of the primary they orbit, and/or the gravitational intrusion of other stars that pass nearby. "What...

There's a life-cycle for intelligent people afflicted with the blight of Christianity. They grow up, get brainwashed, go off to college, and drop fundamentalism like a hot potatoe. Some still cling to a Newtonian deism, but most just drop theism entirely. They study geology and find it...

Free will is an evolutionary mechanism to help creatures with large brains and consciousness to have some way of dealing with the barrage of conflicting instincts that have accrued after billions of years of evolution. As for god, he's a phantom, an intellectual error and personal weakness.

Faith is not a basis for real life decisions. If a man is a coward and doesn't want to confront the inevitability of oblivion then belief in god is a handy shelter. It even has a potential benefit for those weak fools who can't stand the idea of real death: they don't run around frightened and...

Violence determines who can fight the best, not who was right. As such it's an efficient political tool, but not a scientific or intellectual one. Those societies that have prized the human mind have always walked a fine line between intellectual accomplishments and the blood-and-iron strategems...

Epistemologically an abstract concept has infinite concrete representations. Is this a stereotype? Maybe. What about the kind of people who listen to a kind of music? Psychologically it's true, you can tell a great deal about a person from their music choices. Is this stereotyping? I think your...

Homosexual sex is fine. In animal populations it's nature's way of regulating overpopulation, but this says nothing about the individual's right to sexual pleasure and romantic love. Those are rights. Any attempt to subvert them is wrong as a disgusting violation of one of the deepest needs of...

Americans are by universal accolade ugly. No they don't always get the answer right. Ask a professional historian if any US foreign policy was ever a success and they'll hemm and haw for awhile before saying how the Cuban embargo was a success because America was successful in keeping Cuba in...

The problem is that these parents shouldn't be allowed to breed in the first place. Any ape so unevolved they have to teach their children that violence is the only way to solve their problems should not pollute humanity with whatever is wrong with their genome. Even if the kids were violent in...

Whenever I hear people suggest the atomic bombs should not have been dropped I can't but feel they are misguided. My first car was built in Hiroshima! Nagasaki too is a working, functional city. Nuclear fallout for those cities was no big deal. The type of world-freezing nuclear fallout...

Um, yeah. Hitler was a bad guy. He was the rarest kind of evil that actually ran around wearing black uniforms with great big signs on them that said "EVIL LOL." If you can't accept that Hitler was evil there's something mighty wrong with you. There should be no debate about this. Hitler and...

I got a welcome PM saying that my sig was too big :p I read the sig rules and resized it, I think it's better now. :D

Your avatar is more affectionate than mine :]

oh hlo there, I'm new too. What's a raid?