Recent content by SirYeen

Well I don't know. I'm guessing pagan. Polytheism was common in that region at the time as far as I know.

I think the question you posed is to vague to be able to give a decent answer. What beliefs of what religion ? What parts of religion ? (going to church, ritual, inspiration, ...) What would you consider to be forcing ? I think you have to get more concrete.

Not qualified for a decent response but I can advise A history of God by Karen armstrong. Really helped me. To bad I lost the book half in ._.

No, the simplistic view of society is: All cultures are equal, let's open the borders for every crackpot, the slightest criticism is racism, you can't get any more simplistic than that. You seem to imply there is only one simplistic view of society in this case. Your post smells like straw-man...

Hello there, Recently I made a blog and I'd love to see some criticism. If anybody can refine my ideas it's you guys. Please comment. Thanks ! http://iancailliau.wordpress.com/

Tell me, exactly how many people on this forum would agree with the statement you just posted ?

I read bad science and loved it. Another book that changed the way I thought was On human nature by Edward O. Wilson. It was so made out of win, loved every single part of it, was well written and for some weird reason I think it's relevant here.

To be honest that is a ridiculously simplistic view of society, I cannot possibly believe that this would further our understanding. Which by the way is how we've solved problems for the last few centuries, by understanding them. This is a response to dogmasdemise obviously.

That doesn't explain it by a long shot.

I know this isn't relevant but shitthread is shit. So I'm going to ask it anyway : From an evolutionist perspective how would racism even work ? I mean if I understand this correctly you don't need just genetic diversity. You need to prove that negative traits all line up or line up more in...

Even if you would be right, how the fuck would this be a solution at all ? Ignoring the fact that you'd have to define extremist and it might be messy to forge it into a law (which is another concern you ignore) what would deporting help ? Would they stop being extremist, admit they were wrong...

Well you don't need to prove the existence of god to be a believer I guess, you need to prove that the likelihood of your god existing must be larger than 50% is what I'd say. As it stands however I haven't seen anything that comes close and don't know how you'd do that. I guess that allowing...

Well the inevitable pointlessness that I felt, I realized that the reason I believed was because I wanted to and because god gave everything "sense". However when I saw hitchens argument which didn't even attack the deistic position about the 100 000 years of apathy (I can link if you'd like) I...

I would like to see kittenkoder make a decent reply though. I think it would be interesting. @Shootmymonkey where do you read all this stuff :o Every time I go to this forum I'm like I'm 19 and I know none of this. I'm wasting my life!

I wonder though couldn't god like hitchens said just have picked a different society ? I mean he could have picked ANY society, why not the chinese ? Or is this argument flawed ? I thought it was pretty good, judging on the history courses I got at school. However apparently this is nonsense, so...