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Thread: How long has Humanity been on Planet Earth?
Post: RE: How long has Humanity been on Planet Earth?
| The population of Earth has roughly quadrupled over the last century. Regressing this trend into the past we find that the first two humans must have popped into existence no earlier than 400 CE. The ... |
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Atheism
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Thread: Decline of religion
Post: RE: Decline of religion
| (May 15, 2024 at 12:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I propose that all unused churches be repurposed as therapy centres for child victims of clerical sexual abuse.
Unlikely that the victims would fin... |
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Paleophyte |
News & Activism
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May 15, 2024 at 4:11 pm |
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Thread: Can there be New Ways of Understanding and Practicing Ancient Religious Teachings?
Post: RE: Can there be New Ways of Understanding and Pra...
| Can there be new ways of understanding and practicing ancient superstitions? Certainly, but why would you want to?
If you have a bad idea then simply discard it and find a good idea. Don't try tweaki... |
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Islam
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May 14, 2024 at 3:48 pm |
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Thread: Human Case of H5N1 Bird Flu in Texas
Post: RE: Human Case of H5N1 Bird Flu in Texas
| (April 1, 2024 at 2:19 pm)Nanny Wrote: Cattle rancher tests positive for bird flu. Symptoms are conjunctivitis. Infected cattle appear to have minor illness and "thick discolored milk" :eeeew:
And t... |
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Paleophyte |
Life Sciences
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April 1, 2024 at 7:05 pm |
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Thread: Hello All
Post: RE: Hello All
| I never had to suffer from this particularly nasty facet of religious indoctrination, but one of the best suggestions that I've heard over the years is to make it deliberately ludicrous. The next time... |
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Islam
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March 20, 2024 at 3:50 pm |
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Thread: Do octopi feel remorse for tentacle porn?
Post: RE: Do octopi feel remorse for tentacle porn?
| Since English has no clear plural for octopus I suggest that we create a new one.
In the spirit of this thread I submit "Octopasties". |
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Life Sciences
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March 19, 2024 at 10:32 pm |
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Thread: Do octopi feel remorse for tentacle porn?
Post: RE: Do octopi feel remorse for tentacle porn?
| (March 17, 2024 at 2:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (March 17, 2024 at 1:48 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: "Octopus" isn't Greek, it's English bastardized from the Greek "oktopous". The worst that you can s... |
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Life Sciences
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March 17, 2024 at 3:18 pm |
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Thread: Do fish feel pain?
Post: RE: Do fish feel pain?
| (March 6, 2024 at 12:41 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, like I've said, fish don't have the anatomical machinery that seems to be necessary to feel pain. Sharks and sterlets don't even have nociceptor... |
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Life Sciences
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March 17, 2024 at 2:10 pm |
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Thread: Do octopi feel remorse for tentacle porn?
Post: RE: Do octopi feel remorse for tentacle porn?
| (March 8, 2024 at 2:52 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Plural of "octopus" is not "octopi". Where do people get this nonsense from? "Octopus" is a Greek word (ὀκτώπους), not a Latin one (where plural of "-u... |
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Life Sciences
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March 17, 2024 at 1:48 pm |
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Thread: Lazy Atheism?
Post: RE: Lazy Atheism?
| (March 4, 2024 at 8:00 pm)Jillybean Wrote: I would love to hear more "lazy atheist" arguments based on the the most basic flawed logic of religious beliefs. Prima facie simple arguments. Like do w... |
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Atheism
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March 17, 2024 at 1:24 pm |
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Thread: General seeking knowledge of fasting rituals related to ANY religion
Post: RE: General seeking knowledge of fasting rituals r...
| It's a simple ceremony for people to show off just how devout they are and to reinforce their obedience to the religion. |
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Other Religions
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March 17, 2024 at 12:38 pm |
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Thread: If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off?
Post: RE: If you learned that the god of [insert religio...
| (January 7, 2024 at 9:56 pm)Sicnoo0 Wrote: I'd assume he can't create a married bachelor.
There are a few possible options:
God is bound by the rules of logic and can't create paradoxes. For obviou... |
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Atheism
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February 24, 2024 at 7:44 pm |
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Thread: Euthanasia for Mental Illness
Post: RE: Euthanasia for Mental Illness
| (August 24, 2023 at 5:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Same same. Anyone who can give informed consent should have access to physician assisted suicide. But how reliable is the informed consent of a d... |
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Life Sciences
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September 2, 2023 at 11:53 pm |
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Thread: Satanism seems fun
Post: RE: Satanism seems fun
| (August 19, 2023 at 7:17 pm)MarcusA Wrote: (August 19, 2023 at 7:07 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Satanists don’t worship the Devil, you ignoramus.
Boru
Oh, my mistake, they're good Christian folk.... |
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Atheism
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August 19, 2023 at 7:54 pm |
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Thread: Satanism seems fun
Post: RE: Satanism seems fun
| (August 19, 2023 at 6:37 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (August 19, 2023 at 6:16 pm)MarcusA Wrote: Satanism's motto is: Do unto others as much damage as possible.
No, that's part of my motto along with, "... |
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Atheism
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August 19, 2023 at 7:46 pm |
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Thread: Good exists - a Catholic comments
Post: RE: Good exists - a Catholic comments
| (August 18, 2023 at 5:49 pm)Barry Wrote: (August 18, 2023 at 5:34 pm)no one Wrote: Bullshit!So what’s your explanation for the creation of the world?
Cheers Barry
Well to start the world wasn't c... |
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Paleophyte |
Christianity
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August 19, 2023 at 7:04 pm |
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Thread: Sexual Abuse in Social Context: Clergy and other (Secular) Professionals.
Post: RE: Sexual Abuse in Social Context: Clergy and oth...
| (July 15, 2023 at 2:14 am)Helios Wrote: It's the gays. Never mind the fact you can't the sexuality of a perp from their victim as straight people with a wife and kids can still rape little boys. But... |
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Atheism
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July 15, 2023 at 3:40 pm |
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Thread: Dawkins, Rowling, Sunak et al on Trans Issue and Women's Rights.
Post: RE: Dawkins, Rowling, Sunak et al on Trans Issue a...
| (July 13, 2023 at 11:27 pm)Belacqua Wrote: So I don't know what we'll see in the future. It takes time for these things to shake out. Like it or not, scientists are also human beings and their motiv... |
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Atheism
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July 15, 2023 at 12:50 am |
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Thread: Sexual Abuse in Social Context: Clergy and other (Secular) Professionals.
Post: RE: Sexual Abuse in Social Context: Clergy and oth...
| (July 13, 2023 at 12:31 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: If you disagree, pls explain why with reasons. All child abuse is bad and we condemn it. Yet look at the %ages among Parents, Teachers, other Secular... |
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Atheism
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July 15, 2023 at 12:23 am |
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Thread: British Non-Catholic Historian on Historical Longevity of the Roman Catholic Church.
Post: RE: British Non-Catholic Historian on Historical L...
| (July 12, 2023 at 6:53 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Thoughts?
You're history.
U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time (Gallup 2021)
"Among religious groups, the decline in membershi... |
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Paleophyte |
Atheism
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July 13, 2023 at 11:05 pm |
