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  1. It Aint Necessarily So

    Is there any psychic powers that you don't want?

    Moving or bending spoons.
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    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    No, It wasn't. I made my comment, you replied unresponsively, and I repeated it. It had nothing to do with your argument. YOU introduced that word. I don't see how it's even possible to make the mistake you made. You took a five-word, simple, declarative sentence - "Your education is your...
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    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    If selection pressure favored human descendants with progressively more gill-like breathing apparati, then a strain of humans would likely develop gills. That's what the theory predicts. But it might be the case that nothing could generate that selection pressure. Mammals that have returned to...
  4. It Aint Necessarily So

    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    We have a similar saying in English: Never try to peach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your timer and it annoys the pig. Reality is a contest. It's a game with rules. Your job is to discover the rules and navigate the game as optimally as possible. Your education is YOUR responsibility, not...
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    Word of wisdom in Non-Abrahamic Faiths

    Comedic answers: Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. Wherever you go, there you are. Don't sweat the petty stuff or pet the sweaty stuff. Never mock a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets miffed, he's a mile away and barefoot.
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    Will There Be War Or Peace?

    People don't share fossil fuels. They sell them. As they become scarcer and less accessible, alternate forms of power will become more prevalent, but you asked to imagine that that didn't happen. If not, yes, there'd be war. Isn't that why the Japanese entered WWII?: "Japan's expansion into...
  7. It Aint Necessarily So

    A Little Bit About Me

    Born August 1954 to a couple of atheists who divorced when I was 4 yo. I have a simian crease (<5%), am left-handed (10%), have type AB+ blood (4%), skipped two years of grade school (<1%) and had an 800 on my math SAT (<1%) US Army 1972-75 (computer programmer) Decade-long journey into then out...
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    Word of wisdom in Non-Abrahamic Faiths

    These are humanist principles, but they're seen elsewhere: Learn all you can (through experience, training, and formal education). Moderate desire. Be good for goodness sake, which mostly means be kind and just without expectation of reward. Have integrity, which mostly means be honest and...
  9. It Aint Necessarily So

    Call it . . .

    This is a frequent trope from you, so I'll assume that you're thinking of your own situation and standard of living, which you wish were better. Let me remind you that government is more about providing opportunity than directly improving that standard of living. Government can support supply...
  10. It Aint Necessarily So

    Call it . . .

    Harris in a landslide. She takes 6 or 7 of the 7 swing states. There may well be a state or two not thought in play for Harris that goes her way. The blue states total 232 electoral votes, and the seven toss-up another 93, so I'm going with Harris 325 or so, Trump about 213. I see Trump's...
  11. It Aint Necessarily So

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Yes, I know, but it wasn't a conclusion. It was an unjustified premise. There are no known forces, objects, or processes that aren't natural. They're using a different definition of fish, which includes all descendants of fish - a definition not used outside of technical discussions. It's not...
  12. It Aint Necessarily So

    Harris pulls ahead of Trump in Iowa in the 11th hour

    Of course you would. Your mind has been grievance-oriented listening exclusively to and being imprinted by Trump and rightwing indoctrination media. You view life in terms of what you don't like about it and how it cheats you, like the Grinch. Liberals had a different reaction, didn't they, and...
  13. It Aint Necessarily So

    And The Border Is Secure??????

  14. It Aint Necessarily So

    Harris pulls ahead of Trump in Iowa in the 11th hour

    But she was. Biden dropped out after the primaries, and Harris was hand-picked by Harris to take the torch. You didn't see any prominent Democrats object, but you did see a huge groundswell of support for her candidacy from its inception. Since primary votes were no longer a thing to decide...
  15. It Aint Necessarily So

    How about we defund UNRWA ?

    I mean that people should think rationally and strategically if they care about outcomes following their choices. They are best served by thinking, "When I choose course of action A1, it predictably leads to result R1. When I choose course of action A2, it predictably leads to result R2. I...
  16. It Aint Necessarily So

    Harris pulls ahead of Trump in Iowa in the 11th hour

    I agree. The reaction is not limited to seeing a hat or any other symbol that says Trump. If one identifies themselves (I'm still not used to using plural pronouns other than you to mean a single person, but I'll go with the flow there) as a Trump supporter, I have a negative reaction about them...
  17. It Aint Necessarily So

    Questions that evolutionists and billions of years proponents cannot answer but disprove their theories.

    I disagree. For starters, it shows how cheap life is to that deity. How many stories do you need to teach you that God hates disobedience. You've also got the Garden story and the tower of Babel story. What these three stories have in common is that they all attempt to explain the world the...
  18. It Aint Necessarily So

    Women: What happens in the voting booth, stays in the voting booth

    LOL. You don't want to be sleeping with the fishes now, do you? Telling your wife how to vote is a matter of authoritarianism. If you agree that husbands have that right, then it is you who is dictatorial. They do. I've heard it first-hand. Not your call. You just have one vote on what...
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Correct. And congratulations. It looks like you acquired a few related facts. We don't say that humans are fish, but rather, descendants of fish. They are in the same clade - vertebrates, as well as all clades that vertebrates belong to such as animals and eukaryotes Both being vertebrates...
  20. It Aint Necessarily So

    How about we defund UNRWA ?

    While many Westerners have condemned the Israelis in the news and on this thread, I haven't seen a single Muslim on this thread (or in the news either for that matter) make any effort to see things from the Israeli perspective, even to explain why they think it invalid or inappropriate for...
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