Comment Re:And why should they care? (Score 2, Funny) 441
How dare you! My mother was a saint!
Got them to spell out my name with their ant trails. Wife wasn't as impressed as you might imagine.
That was your mistake, you should have got the ants to spell out your wife's name
Women love that romantic stuff!
How do we know that you are not just agreeing with Rycross to trick people into thinking you are a good lawyer when in fact you are not? And which goblet has the iocane powder?
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect!
First the seize ships off the coast of Somalia, and then it's on to giving people who want books the names of other people who have them...
You forgot:
3) ???
4) Profit!
That is an interesting position. How did God decide that humanity had turned away from Him? Given that (approximately) 5 billion of the 6 billion people on Earth believe in some sort of God, it seems strange for God to abandon humanity completely. Isn't that like judging the whole of the population by it's worst (or stupidest!) members?
Even granting that assumption, it still doesn't explain why so many children are killed by natural disasters, surely they haven't turned away from God (yet), right? God removes his protection from the entire planet because some of the population didn't worship him in the correct way? Sounds a bit petty to me!
As is always the way with the classical, Old-Testament God, the more you hear about His actions, the less you feel like He is deserving of worship!
I think I understand your reasoning here, but I don't really understand how floods, earthquakes and cyclones are 'the consequences of people's actions'. I can agree that human failings (murder, rape and possibly diseases) are consequences of our own innately destructive nature and God does not interfere with these types of actions (for the reasons you stated above).
What I don't really understand is how humans are expected to 'solve' the problems of natural disasters. Do you agree that such 'Acts of God' are directly caused by God? If not, surely there is no reason for an all-loving God to let these things happen since they are not caused by the failings of humans, right?
I rather enjoy debates along religious lines, and I perfectly recognise that you can be both rational and religious. However, I am biased by my secular upbringing to be very skeptical about God in general and organised religions in particular.
Or maybe we should hold people responsible for their actions, not God, whether or not you believe in him.
So we should hold people accountable for their actions? Should we not hold God to the same standard? What about Natural Disasters, otherwise known as 'Acts of God'? Just looking at the top 10 natural disasters on that list, it gives a total of just about 6 million people killed by 'Acts of God', were they *all* sinners who deserved to die? How about the babies and small children who were killed in floods, earthquakes and cyclones? I don't really see how an all-loving God could just sit by and allow these things to happen, but if you can, then great! Just don't expect me to play along.
And yet we have the common practice of "mooning" - (I can't believe there's a wikipedia page for this).
There's a wikipedia page for Everything
The effect might be far worse than 9/11.....
As bad as 9/11 times 1000?
A rectenna is much cheaper per m^2 than a solar cell.
Rectenna? Is that an antenna situated up your...
Never mind, I don't want to know!
Windows 7.0 Hitler Edition.
I can't believe you didn't include the obligatory Hitler link
But "Attopilot"? They missed an opportunity for something much funnier...
No, he's just a really, really, really tiny pilot!
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
