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Re: You probably won't get pregnant if the rape is legitimat
This is why I fear the US may be on the brink of becoming an IQ20 theocracy, seriously can people be this stupid?!
A thought experiment here, but given that I know nothing of economics I'll need you guys to tell me the restusts, but how about this:
Replace the gold standard with backing the money of the world economy by peered reviewed scientific papers published that year, scientific papers require effort...
well he used a mathematical "equation" to prove his point but i can do the same here goes:
Pascal's premise (all probability the same)
1) believe in god, and god exists = good outcome (1)
2) believe in god, and no god exists = who cares (0)
3) athiest and no god = bad outcome (-1)
4) athiest and...
Well I'm not even sure if it would destroy all of human civilisation, I mean, most of latin america, africa and the middle to far east (so the stas, ect) wouldn't be nuked (why would they?) so all of those places should not suffer mass devastation and be fine, right?
Maybe radioactive dust might...
well not really, nature has proven to be very resilient to radiation, there was whole ecosystems growing in Chenoble only a decade afterwards, though humans not so much...
I keep coming up into arguments with my friends that say that an all out nuclear war would be the end of the world a great deal of it coming from the nuclear winter. My position is that the nuclear winter caused from an all out nuclear war would be no worse than super-volcanic eruption. My side...
hypothetically speaking, what would one need in terms of qualification, paperwork, ect, to set up a school in the US?
and how would that change if it was specifically a secular school?
anyone know?
yea i know what you mean, i had a similar experience not so long ago, sad thing was that the priest chose some very poor choice of words, songs and prayers for the funeral, trying to make it into a conversion session rather than what the funeral should have been: a celebration of the person that...
:cry: its sad to see so many ignorant, bigoted people have no respect, remorse or ettiquite to hold their dam tongues let alone help people in need
what can one say other than "that isn't how good people act"
well how about C6H12O6 +6O2--->6CO2 +6H2O, organic compound going to inorganic! (i don't think CO2 is generally considered an organic compound, neither is elemental carbon for that matter)