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This is really the heart of the issue. Those who oppose homosexual marriage wish that homosexuality didn't exist, opposing both on the same grounds. This isn't an argument, this is foolishness. This thread isn't a debate, it's a sandbox where a bunch of immature children whine that the world...

You're right, I think. If school wasn't a fascist extension of the state that ammounted to a glorified babysitter then kids couldn't violate rules that didn't exist. If the feral mountain children weren't required to attend they wouldn't cause all the problems they do while there.

I'd like any of the uneducated kiddies who think the planet could stop existing to actually do the tiney bit of homework and invest the slightest effort it takes to google/wikipedia the subject. The Earth is a huge radioactive ball of iron spinning around a star. It would take alot to destroy...

QQ moar nub. If you can't be bothered to articulate a sensible position you shouldn't have a strong opinion on the subject, and in a better world wouldn't be allowed to vote said shallow opinion into law.

THE FOE HAS BEEN ROUTED.

Humans will either be long extinct by that point, or will have long mastered the powers necessary to save the planet from the death of its sun. Or migrated, and not really care.

The Mayans were full of crap.

I take it you are a chaste Christian?

Reliably predictable group dynamics sez UR WREWNG! WREWNG!!!111 Stereotypes are more or less real depending on the value a given group places on individualism. Mexicans, for instance. It makes sense that someone willing to abandon his family for months at a time to work his butt off in America...

I don't think you grasp the philosophical and historical dynamic between theism and atheism. IE, we can't both be right. Mutual exclusivity and all that. More to the point if Christians had not left a trail of death and destruction like a horde of invading demons from the netherworld throughout...

There are indeed plenty of non-violent ways for a teacher to abuse their power.

Be vewwy vewwy cawwfuww. Language has its own limitations that are quickly manifest when discussing abstractions it was not designed to enunciate. There is nothing contradictory, nothing irrational about the scientific theory itself. The words used to talk about it ("when did time begin" for...

You can't know this, hence you are wrong. In fact you're more wrong than any secular philosopher could ever be. A bioethicist could at least potentially be right because he's attempting (allegedly) to articulate a rational philosophy. But what can be said for a fundamentalist who presumes he...

Because celestial mechanics is a different discipline than meteorology. Meteorology is an attempt to reduce a system of mind-boggling complexity - every atom and every force on Earth - into the black-and-white absolute "is it going to rain tomorrow?" Individually we know how these concepts work...

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I should like you to enunciate those "moral values," because I can't think of a single value christianity prescribes that can be rationally defined as moral. Nor any other religion for that matter. The act of faith is contrary to the mental effort required to uncover and apply moral values to...

If the world was going to end tomorrow I'd run around telling people the world isn't going to end tomorrow, because it's not.

Human civilization should probably direct more of its surplus production to survival. I mean, this is just one asteroid, the french vanilla of threats to our existence. Compared to the money spent on things that aren't self-preservation, our ability to save ourselves from disasters is pretty...

I think the basic, important theme of weight control is knowing it can be done, and that it takes a lifestyle change. Sure there's the odd sliver of 1% of the population that has a gigantic tumor or something but as the probability and statistics suggest that is not you. Whoever you are...

Honestly it's up to you. It's your life, your education. You might be able to ace the class by doing nothing, you might barely be able to pass if you go to every lecture, do every assignment, get every bonus point you can. Essentially it's up to you. Your strengths and your choices make your...